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VOL. XXXIV
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. MAY l 1912.
NO. 40.
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BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR TIE BUST
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
New Orleans withstood the sever
est rainstorm in her history. All of
the lower half of Louisiana was af
fected, and thousands of the people
who live behind the already terribly
strained levees that hold back the
Mississippi's flood waters were pan
icky. The wind ranged from 27 miles
an hour at New Orleans to 40 miles at
Baton Rouge, and at many points
along the river it swept the waves
of the swollen stream over the levees.
The Mississippi river at New Orleans
was banked up by the high winds, and
rose eight inches in two hours, forc
ing the waters over the levees at
several points.
Gen. Bennett H. Young of Louis
ville, Ky., commander of the Army of
Tennessee, was elected commander-in-chief
of the United Confederate Vet
erans, succeeding Acting Commander-in-Chief
Gen. C. Irvine Walker of
Charleston, S. C. The names of Gen
eral Walker and Gen.W. K. Van Zandt
of Texas were both presented, but
they withdrew and the election of
General Young was made unanimous
by a rising vote. Gen. Irvine C.
Walker was unanimously elected hon
orary commander-in chief.
The choosing of Chattanooga, Tenn.,
as the convention city for 1913. the
unanimous, enthusiastic acceptance of
the invitation of General Trimble,
commander-in-chief of the G. A. R.,
to merge the blue and the gray at
Gettysburg in July to heal all remain
ing sores of the long internecine
strife of the sixties, the crowning of
Miss Mary Scandrett of Macon as
queen of the 1912 reunion before 20.
000 people on Coleman's hill, and a
Georgia sun melting mellowly over
the city all day, featured the third
day of the twenty-second annual re
uion of the Confederate veterans in
Macon, Ga.
The destitution and distress that
follows in the path of crevasses had
a practical demonstration when
the steamer Whitman with 750 refu
gees from the McCrea section of
Pointe Coupee parish, landed at Mel
ville, La. These unfortunates were
picked up along the levee where they
had been for three days without shel
ter, and an almost continuous rain
had prevented the cooking of the ra
tions which had been given them.
Many, howevxer, refused to be taken
away.
The defense of Floyd Allen, first
of the Hillsville, Va., courthouse as
sassins to face the bar, got well into
its case and began swearing witness
es to support the theory that the first
shooting came from the court officials
on March 14, when the Aliens rode
into t0wn and shot Judge Massie,
Prorecutor Foster, Sheriff Webb, a ju
ror and a bystander. Two of these
witnesses were .iurors who sat in Al
len's trial, to which the court house
murders came as a shocking climax.
General.
Nine persons, including three wom
en and two children, were killed and
56 persons injured when the first sec
tion of the "Van Zandt Confederate
Veterans' Special" of eleven cars, en
route from Texas to the. annual re
union at Macon, Ga., was wrecked on
a trestle, one mile south of Easta
buchie, Miss., on the New Orleans and
Northeastern railroad. Though sev
eral hundred Confederate veterans
were aboard the train, not one was
numbered among the dead. Several
of the veterans were injured, though
none fatally.
A drenching downpour of rain,
which continued intermittently dur
ing the day, did -not dampen the ar
dor nor allay the enthusiasm in the
twenty-second annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans at Ma
con, Ga. The convention of the Unit
ed Sons of Confederate Veterans was
concluded with the election of J. P.
Northfield of Memphis, Tenn., com
mander-in-chief to succeed Walter G.
Pritchard of Charleston, S. C. It
was also decided to change the name
of the organization to Sons of Confed
erate Veterans.
Worn out by grief over his father's
death and his efforts to cheer his
youthful stepmother, young Vincent
Astor, now head of the family in
America, has turned to his "real
mother," rMs. Ava Astor, for solace.
Senator Clapp of Minnesota heads
the subcommittee which will investi
gate the campaign contributions.
The bureau of fisheries, confident
that the diamond back terrapin can
he cultivated in the United States for
commercial purposes and placed with
in the means of everybody, wants an
appropriation from congress to pay a
terrapin culturist.
In an address before the Society of
Anthropology at Chicago, Charles
Frederick Adams of New York declar
ed there will be no real democracy
until women are granted equal rights
at the ballot box.
All Americans at Mazatlan, Mexico,
are safe and conditions are reported
MAN
A graphic picture of the scenes that
accompanied the sinking of the White
Star liner Titanic giving a new view
point to a tale already told many
times, was painted for the British
government's court of inquiry which
is investigating the great sea horror.
Frank H. Morris, a baker of the lost
ship, told how foreign steerage pas
sengers were prevented from rushing
the lifeboats, how sixteen persons
were saved from a collapsible boat
as it was sinking and how the life
boat in which he was rescued passed
among hundreds of human beings
floating in the water in its path, while
only three of them cried out for help.
An attack of William J. Bryan,
stating that "his attitude in this pre
convention campaign be accounted for
only on the hypothesis that he hopes
to be again nominated at the Balti
more convention," was given out at
Washington, D. C, by the Harmon na
tional headquarters. The statement
calls upon "the Democrats of the
country to give candor to the real
situation." it declares that a suc
cessful Democratic candidate must
carry Northern states, as well as
those that Bryan carried in his last
campaign.
After adopting resolutions favoring
the entire Progressive movement the
Kansas Republican convention nam
ed four delegates at large to the na
tional convention and instructed them
for Colonel Roosevelt. The Taft
strength in the convention was 104,
the Roosevelt strength 790.
Apparently beaten in their efforts
to tie up Chicago newspapers officers
of the Webb Pressmen's union, ac
cording to a statement issued by the
publishers, have started a movement
for a nation-wide strike of newspaper
pressmen. This and charges by the
publishers that the pressmen were
using misleading statements in ef
forts to gain sympathy were the prin
cipal developments in the situation.
The publishers said they expected
normal conditions to prevail before
the end of the week.
In the same hall where the regular
Republican organization of Pennsyl
vania was overthrown . last week, the
regular Democratic state organization
was swept out of power by the "reor
ganization" faction of the party. The
victory of the new men in control of
the party's machinery was complete,
and no resistance was made by the
regulars after the vote on permanent
chairman of the. state convention
showed that the "reorganizers" had
control of the convention.
What probably was the iceberg
which was struck by the Titanic was
reported by Captain Wicke of the Ger
man tank steamer Clio. The captain
says that on April 25, in latitude 41.25
north, longitude 48.43 west, he saw
an iceberg about 130 feet high, one
end of which was broken as if in a
collision. The mass of ice was sur
rounded by steamer saloon fittings,
deck chairs, cushions and innumera
ble pieces of wreckage.
The Washington state Democratic
convention voted to indorse Champ
Clark as its candidate for president.
The vote stood: Clark 455, Wilson 106,
Bryan 135 1-2, Harmon 1 1-2. An at
tempt was made to stampede the con
vention for Bryan, but it was unsuc
cessful. The platform adopted advo
cated presidential preference prima
ries, the initiative, referendum and
recall and publicity of campaign con
tributions before the election. The
convention adopted a resolution felic
itating the state on the extension of
suffrage to women.
Six hundred rebels were killed and
the remainder of a force of 1,500 were
sent scurrying to Cuatro Ciengas,
Mexico, during a fight with 400 Fed
erals under Colonel Pablo Gonzales,
according to the reports received
from the field of action. The Fed
eral loss is not given. The number
of dead, considering the force of the
government, is considered remarka
ble. The battle took place between
Cuatro Cienegas and Monclova. It
was the second engagement within
four days.
Wshincrton.
President Taft took a step toward
revision of the patent laws, which
! have remained unchanged since 1870.
He sent a message to congress asking
' for legislation to authorize him to ap
point a commission to investigate the
patent laws and repjort .what changes
were necessary to make them fit mod
ern conditions. The president gave
reasons to show the need for the
change. He enumerated five reasons
which demanded the revision of the
law.
Charges against Judge Robert W.
Archbald of the commerce court were
1 unfolded before the house committee
on judiciary which is to determine
if impeachment proceedings shall be
brought against the jurist. How
Judge Archbald, in partnership with
Edward J. Williams, a Scranton coal
dealer, while deliberating as a judge
on the "lighterage cases" to which
the Erie railroad was a party, is al
leged to have negotiated an option
from that railroad for 42,000 tons of
culm dump property to be sold at a
$12,000 profit, was related to the com
mittee by Williams himself.
President Taft sent to congress a
message approving the plan of the
commission of economy and efficien
cy to retire all government employees
at the age of 70 years on annuities
equal to half-salary with a maximum
limit of $600. The plan provides that
employees entering the service shall
make annual contributions to provide
a retirement fund. The commission
estimates that the plan would cost
the government $227,000 a year dur
ing the next twenty years and that
the saving during the succeeding six
teen years would equalize it.
MUST ATTEND THE
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THIS ORDER TO THE TEACHERS
BY THE COUNTY BOARD OF
EDUCATION.
TWO WEEKS TERM AT A. & M.
Several Schools in the State Will Con
duct Summer Terms Teachers
Who Attend Entire Session Will be
Allowed an Increase In Salary.
Raleigh. By order of the county
Board of Education of Wake county j
and with the consent of the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
and of the authorities of the A. and
M. College, the two week's May
School of that institution has been
adopted as the regular Biennial Coun
ty Teachers Institute for Wake
county: Provided, that any person or
persons who wish to teach in the pub
lic schools of Wake upon some regu
lar county teachers' institute or sum
mer school, approved by the Wake
County Board of Education, for atten
dance upon the A. and M. May School
The A. and M. School begins May
14th.
The State Normai and Industria
College, of Greensboro, will conduct
a two week's Institute. This wort
will be in charge of expert teachers
and superintendents. The Board of
Education heartily recommends this
institute to such Wake county teach
ers as cannot attend some summer
schools of longer duration.
Several schools in the state will
conduct summer terms. The Univer
slty of North Carolina, the State Nor
mal and Industrial College, and the
East Carolina Teachers Training
School have submitted their courser
of study for approval by the Boarc1
of Education. Teachers wishing tc
attend other summer sessions are re
quested to submit announcements of
courses of study for approval.
Primary teachers who attend the
entire session of the above-named
summer schools and of such otherF
as may hereafter be approved will
be allowed an increase of thirty-fi-dollars,
or seven dollars per month
for a term of five months in their,
next year's salaries, and grammar
grade teachers and principals will be
given an increase of fifteen dollars or
three dollars per month.
Man Been Missing Several Days.
James McCulloch, white, is missing
from Wilmington. When last seen
he was dozing on the stern of r
launch bound for Southport. He was
alone at his place on the launch, and
his absence was discovered about 1C
miles south of this city. Whether he
went to sleep, fell overboard and he
was drowned, is a question. It, how
ever, is probabljr the truth. There
is a possibility that he swam ashore
but this is not probable. It is thf
general opinion that he was drowned
Special Tax Elections to Be Held.
The county board of education has
approved the calling of special rax
elections in two townships of this
county. In district No. 3, Barringer
township, a special tax of fifteen
cents on the hundred and forty-five
on the poll will be held June 22. A
similar election will be held in district
No. 2. Coddle Creek township, June
8. The board decided to help in thf
building of a new school house in
what is known as the county line
district.
Reconvene County Convention.
Col. J. C. L. Harris has sent out
the call for the reconvening of the
Republican county convention of Wake
May 18th at 1 o'clock in the after
noon. The action is taken upon find
ing that there is a law that seems
to make obligatory the holding of the
Republican primary. This would
set the date for June 1 and the Re
publicans want to be regular. Before
that time the state and congressional
conventions will have met and set
tled the right of the Harris conven
tion to convene.
Hookworm Dispensary In Wilson.
Drs. R. W. Covington and G. F.
Leonard, in charge of the work, at
tended by a committee of Wilson
physicians, appeared before the board
of county commissioners at their
regular monthly meeting and urged
the adoption of hookworm dispensar
ies in Wilson county under the aus
pices of the Rockefeller Commission,
who have charge of the fund donated
by Mr. John Rockefeller for this
purpose. Dr. ' Covington stated that
it Is one of the most beneficial move
ments that has yet been made.
State School for the Feeble-Minded.. .
With the impressive ceremonies of
the Masonic order, the cornerstone of
the first building of the North Caro
lina Shhool for the Feeble-Minded
was laid at Kinston. The ceremonies
were conducted by Grand Master W.
B. McCoy, of Wilmington, and other
officers of th Grand Lodge of Ma
sons and Iocs lodges. A mixed qvr
tet rendered several selections and in
strumental Djusic was furnished by
the Second Infantry band. Concluding
the Masonic ceremonies, Grand Mast
er McCoy d&ivered an address.
SUMMER
SCHOO
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FOR CRAVEN COUNTY FAIR
Mr. Williams of New Bern is Boosting
the Project. He Has Made Many
Visits in County.
Raleigh Mr. J. Leon Williams, rei
resenting the Eastern Carolina Fai
Association as secretary, was here
from a long junket in which he had
visited the fair grounds of seevral
states.
Mr. Williams had been to Brock
ton, Massachusetts, the Trenton Tri
State fair grounds of New Jersey, the
Allentown fair of Pennsylvania, the
Mecklenburg fair and ended his trip
In Raleigh with Col. Jos. E. Pogue.
He brought back blue prints and pic
tures of those associations visited and
will have something upon which to
work.
The New Bern fair will be held in
October. , This is the plan now and
there doesn't appear to be anything
in the way of making it one of the
greatest things of its kind ever at
tempted by any county association.
It has plenty of money as a starter
and the Craven county folks expect to
make it every bit and grain as good
as the Mecklenburg or Greensboro
demonstration.
From the pick of all the grou.ds
visited, the Craven people will get
their plans. Mr. Williams will de
vote a good part of his time between
now and October towards getting
everything in readiness and work will
soon start on the development of the
grounds.
Though Mr. Williams found Meck-
'enburg in a rather bad way, the ex
perience of the county in the fair
business was worth a great deal. It
always did things worth while and
had a great exhibition. New Bern has
an advantage hardly vouchsafed to
Charlotte. That city had a dozen
rivals near the Queen City, while New
Bern has a great territory without
actual opposition in the fair line.
Mr. Williams is remembered well
by Trinity boys as the 1907 red-head
ed leader of the Trinity Glee Club
Interest in Southeastern States.
Never before has there been such
widespread interest in the South
eastern States as is now being mani
fested throughout the North and
West. The resources and opportun
ities of the entire section are better
known than ever before and the
agents of the Land and Industrial
Department of the Southern Railway
Company are meeting with encour
aging success in the solictation of
farm settlers and tho establishment
of new industries.
The growing interest of the peo
ple of other sections in the advan
tages of the Southeastern States Is
summed up in the following para
graph from a recent report of the
Western Agent of the Southern Rail
way Land and Industrial Depart
ment: "The work of this office reveals the
continued and growing interest on
the part of residents of the North
and West in the Southeast, and its
opportunities in agriculture and the
various lines of business, and our
territory was never before so well
and favorably known in the sections
in which we are soliciting new busi
ness, or had as active inquiry con
cerning its resource, advantages and
possibilities. We are anticipating an
active spring and summer business."
North Carolina New Enterprises.
Charters were issued for two new
corporations as follows: The Pied
mont Hardwood Company, Statesville:
capital $100,000 authorized and $10,
000 subscribed by B. R. Thurman, A.
J. Saley and others. The Como Auto
mobile Supply Company, Charlotte,
capital $50,000 authorized and $10,00C
subscribed by Morehead Jones, C
C. Coddington, Mrs. Maggie M. Jones,
and Mrs. Marjorie L. Coddington.
First Real Steps For County Fair.
The first real steps toward the es
tablishment of a county fair in Meek
Ineburg this fall is being taken In
the advertising for bids for the con
struction of a race track on the prop
erty of the Charlotte Fair Association
west of Charlotte, near Lakewood
Park. The advertisement for bids
recites that fact that the contract will
include the removal of some 25,000
cubic yards of earth and that plans
and specifications can now be seep
at the office of Mr. C. A. Spratt.
Special Schol Tax Election.
At its regular session the Wafce
county board of education recom
mended to the board of commission
ers a special school tax election for
the village of Wake Forest. It will
be recalled that an election was call
ed for this district on the first Mon
day in April. On account of certain
technicalities the election was called
off and a new one ordered. The peo
ple of the classic town of Wake For
est are to be congratulated upon
their determination to have first-clasa
school facilities for their children.
Judges For Special Election.
The county commissioners have
appointed G. G. McCain, registrar and
L. W. McDonald judges to hold an
election for special school tax In
district No. 5 for the negroes on the
line between 13uford and Jackson
townships. As it was agreed that
the whites should not be taxed for
the colored race, the negroes have
not been taxed, and this is the only
negro district that has applied for
the special tax. It is believed there
will be many more and it is commen
dable, showing the progressive spirit.
BANKING REFORMS
ROF. LAUGHLIN OF CHICAGO TO
BE HEARD IN NUMBER OF CAR
OLINA CITIES.
ANNOUNCED BY JETT LAUCK
rhe Dates For Professor Laughlin Are
Given Below Cities in Which He
Will Speak Have Branches of the
National Citizens' League.
Raleigh. A special from Washing
ton states that a series of addresses
in North Carolina cities- by Prof. J.
LaurenceLaughlin of the University
Df Chicago, under the auspices of the
commercial bodies in those localities,
das been arranged. These addresses
will be on the subject of banking and
Durrency reform, with especial refer
mce to the peculiar needs of the South
ern states for reforms of this charac
ter. The announcement is made by
VV. Jett Lauck, special representative
In the South of the National Citizens'
League for the Promotion of a Sound
Banking System, who has his head- ,
quarters in Washington.
The following dates for Professoi
Laughlin are announced:
May 11, Chapel Hill, at the Univer
sity of North Carolina.
May 13, Raleigh, under auspices ol
the Raleigh chamber of commerce.
May 15, Winston-Salem, under aus
pices of the Winston-Salem chamber
of commerce.
In practically all of these cities lo
cal branches of the National Citizens
League have been in existence foi
several weeks, each with an organiza
tion of its own having for its purpose
the stimulation of a greater active in
terest on the part of business mei
and bankers in the question of a non
national banking and currency lawi
partisan and scientific reform of the
national banking and currency laws tc
meet the demand for a more elastic
currency.
True Bill Against Wes Brewer.
Asheville. At a session of the su
perior court the grand jury found i
true bill against Wes Brewer, alias
John Huff, who has been held her
for the past several months undei
suspicion that he shot and killed Pa
trolman McConnell last summer, neai
Biltmore, after the officer had plaeec
him under arrest for stealing a cow
Until recently the prosecution wai
in considerable doubt as to whethei
the negro, held here as Wes Brewer
alias John Huff, alias Will Brewer
alias Charlie Hill, alias Jack John
son, had ever been in this state prioi
'to his bringing here under arrest
Since the preliminary hearing th
attorneys have made a thorough in
vestigation and it is now stated tha
the prosecution has traced the move
ments of the negro continuoslj :
from January 11, 1911, to and includ
ing the time of the killing and aftei
the killing to his capture on the Sa
vannah river, 20 miles below Augusta
Education In North Carolina.
Washington. The achievements o
the fight for education in North Caro
lina iri the past decade is graphicall:
indicated in a statement given ou ;
from the Department of the Census :
which shows that the percentage o '-
illiteracy in the state has been re
duced from 28.7 per cent in 1900, t
18.5 per cent in 1910 In 1900, ou
of a population of 1,346,734, 386,25;
were illiterate, the report treating at
illiterate all persons who can no1
writ regardless of their ability tc
read. In 1910 out of a population o:
1,573,595, only 291,497 were illiterate
North State Lands Bei in Country
Greensboro. Maurice Egan, Unitec"
States minister to Denmark, declared
in conversation that with the propel
scientific development of the natura'
resources of the soil in 50 years NortI
Carolina should be the greatest ii
the United States. He said his ad
vice to the young man who wished t
guarantee to his children and grand
children large wealth is to buy NortI
Carolina land at the prevailing krv
prices; that from what he knows o:
the soil he is satisfied it is to be
come very valuable.
Decided On Quick Campaign.
Raleigh George C. Royall of Golds
boro, who heads the committee foi
raising a fund for the bronze statue
and educational memorial to Charles
B. Aycock, conferred with other mem
bers of the committee here and de
termined upon a quick campaign foi
raising the $50,000 that is required tc
assure the statue and educationa'
memorial contemplated. The cam
paign is to assume whirlwind propor
tions, May 17, 18 and 20. When the
getting of contributions will be press
ed in every county of the state.
Two Get Conditional Pardons.
Raleigh. Oscar Boone and Sam
Hayes, both of Cleveland county
were given a conditional pardon by
Gov. Kitchin. These men were con
victed on April 2, 1912, for the crime
of larceny and sentenced to terms oi
four months on the roads. The rea
son for the pardons are: "Upon the
recommendation of the recorder, who
tried these cases, the justice of the
peace who bound prisoners over, and
the prosecuting witness , I pardon
prisoners on condition that they re
main of good behavior."
FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Have Been Gotten Together With
Care By the Editor.
Hendersonville.-r-Governor Kitchii
made his sixth speech here in his sen
atorial campaign for the United States
Senate, to about five hundred people
He spoke in the opera house and
was handsomely introduced by Mr.
Kittrell, a prominent lawyer of Hen
derson, "'
Asheville. W. S. Rice, of Madison
county, was here and brought? infor
mation of the t probable fatal shoot
ing of Baxter Shelton by Champ
Briggs at Laurel, in Madison county
It 1b stated that the trouble origina
ted over politics, but which one was
the Roosevelt adherent is not learn
ed i Both men are locally" prominent
Salisbury. The salary system for
all county officers is being agitated
in Rowan county by a number of
leading Democrats, while the Repub
lican county convention declared em
phatically for the plan. ...For some
months it has been argued that if
the Democrats fail to take the meas
ure into their platform the Republi
cans will do so in order to gain more
strength.
Windsor. Mr. A. S. Rascoe, chair
man of the district, announces that
by order of the executive committer
the Democratic Congressional con
vention for the Second District, is
called to meet in Rocky Mount on
Tuesday, the fourth day of June, al
half past one o'clock for the purpose
of nominating a candidate for Con
gress and for the consideration of the
usual, business.
Asheville. At Boonford, Mitchell
county Arthur Hall a deputy sherif;
attempted to arrest DeWitt Huntei
for whom he had a warrant when
Hunter resisted and was shot by the
officer and killed. Both men were
prominent locally, Hall being a mer
chant and the dead man who war
scarcely 20 years old being the sor
of one of the leading citizens of that
county.
Chapel Hill Caldwell Hall, the
new medical building, was dedicated
in Gerrard hall with appropriate ex
ercises. Dr. R. H. Lewis, chairman
of the building committee, presented
it to the university, declaring its fa
cilities for laboratory work to be un
surpassed in the South. Presidenl
Venable, in responding, gave a his
tory of the medical school, now in itf
twenty-first year.
Monroe. The election for the Is
sue of $30,000 in bonds for putting in
a sewerage system in Monroe wag
carried by. a vote of 223 for with
only 25 against. It was feared thai
this issue would fail. Those favoring
the sewerage proposition rallied tc
the cause and therefore Monroe wlli
have an up-to-date sewerage system
in a few weeks, which adds material
ly to her already progressive spirit.
Greenville. Officers have been on
the job again in the stock law fence
depredations in this county and cap
tured two men right in the act oi
destroying fences. The two mer
(father and son) were brought here
to jail. They gave bond for appear
ance at a preliminary trial and were
released. When the trial was called
before a magistrate a jury was asked
for and the case was continued until
later.
Thomasville. There has been
some talk of having an amendmenl
to the town's charter made at the
next legislature, providing that the
term of office for the town officials be
for two years instead of one year ae
at present to a large majority of the
citizens it is thought this would be
for the best interests of the town ar
it will give the officers longer and
naturally more and better experience
besides will save the trouble and
worry of an election every year.
Kinston. Frank Vaues, a well
known farmer, who lived near Cas
well, four 'miles east of Kinston, was
drowned in Southwest creek and his
body recovered by a searching party
who had missed him from his home.
Raleigh. Convicted of implication
in the noted Whltted murder case
Craven county, and sentenced to ter
years each in the penitentiary, Bur
well Casey and his wife, Mrs. Lola
Casey, were delivered to the state'r
prison authorities to begin the ser
vice of the sentence. They were
brought from Craven by M. C. Wil
liams, deputy sheriff of Craven. ,
Asheville. At a meeting of the
board of trustees of the Weaverville
College the matter of enlarging the
college building was thoroughly dis
cussed and it was finally decided to
issue $15,000 in bonds, for this pur
pose. Rutherfordton. A Simmons club
was organized here with something
over 125 members enrolled. The
weather was very inclement and kept
the usual large attendance of coun
try people at home. The friends of
Senator Simmons claim that he will
carry this county almost solid in the
senatorial primary.
Fayetteville. The Republicans of
the Sixth congressional district met
here and elected two delegates to the
national convention at Chicago in
structed to vote for Theodore Roose
velt "as long as his name might be
before the convention."
Hendersonvllle. The re-opened
Myrtle Hawkns case, the most sen
sational in the history of this coun
ty, will te given a re-opening in the
near future, upon the newly discov
ered evidence which caused the ar
rest and confinement of the two wo
men now in jail as the ground-work
for the nw line of prosecution.
LINES OF BATTLE
IN
FROM NOW UNTIL MAY 21 FOUR
CANDIDATES WILL TOUR THE
8TATE.
BRYAN IS BEING TRAILED
The Lesser Lights Will Appear In tha
Buckeye State in the Interest of the
Various Seekers After the Presi
dencyWho They-Are.
Columbus, O. From now until the
dawn of the primary election May 21M
there is scarcely a cross roads station
in this state so unimportant numer
ically that it does not expect to enter
tain at least one presidential possl
billty. Four seekers after the nomina
tion for the presidency, President
Taft, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Gover
nar Harmon and Senator LaFollette
will tour the state while lesser lights.
United States Senators, Cabinet Mem
bers and department heads, are figur
ing on campaigning and speaking at
points where limited train facilities
and the inability "of the candidates to
be in more than one place at one time
will prevent the appearance of the
presidential possibilities.
It will be a hard time for the train
dispatchers. President Taft will be
gin has campaign at Marietta and
make more than a doien Important
speeches during each day. Colonel
Roosevelt will begin his speaking at
Bellaire. Colonel Roosevelt's itiner
ary will take him over practically tha
same points where the President spoke
the preceding day. Altogether Col
onel Roosevelt will make more than
sixty speeches during the time he is
hers. The more important night
speeches will be made at Canton, Day
ton, Columbus and Cleveland.
Governor Harmon will begin hit
speech-making trip at Wooster. He
will cover many of the points lately
visited by Colonel Bryan in his anti
Harmon trip and has announced that
he will speak on the charges made by
the Nebraskan that friends of the Gor
ernor sought unduly to influence Bry
an-pledged delegates in 1908.
Charles W. Morse Coming Home.
Bath, Me. Friends and old chums
of Charles W. Morse, lately pardoned
from the Atlanta penitentiary by Presi
ident Taft ,are arranging to give him
a big welcome when he returns from
Europe to this, his former home, about
the last of this month. Morse is re
ported to be in the best of health, ap
parently all traces of the disease,
about which he said, when in Atlanta,
would kill him in ten days unless
given his freedom, has disappeared,
and is said to be as chipper as when
he was known to be worth millions
and the head of the ice trust.
Pay Tribute to Congressman Gordon.
Washington. The house met to eu
logize the late Representative George
W. Gordon of Tennessee. Chief in
terest centered in the tribute paid to
the late Tennessee Congressman by
Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood of Ohio. Dur
ing the civil war General Gordon
fought on the Confederate side, and
at the battle of Franklin was captured
by General Sherwood, who in later
years became his warm friend.
Train Wreck Near Norfolk.
Norfolk, Va. Norfolk Southern train
known as the "Newbern Flyer" waa
wrecked half a mile south of Hickory
Ground while en route to Norfolk.
Twenty people were slightly hurt.
The wreck was caused by the rear
truck on the mail coach leaving the
rails, causing the three rear coachea
to turn over. The track was torn up
for a hundred yards.
Two Officers Assassinated.
Gainesville, Fla. Marshal Charlea
White of Archer, Fla., were decoyed
to a lonely spot near there and assas
sinated. J. S. Manning, another dep
uty, feigned death, and escaped after
being wounded. He shot one of the
murderers, capturing him and his
three sons, who are now in jail.
Probe Into Archibald Charges.
Washington. The investigation in
to charges against Judge Robert W.
Archibald, of the commerce court, by
the judiciary committee, will be pro
longed. The committee determined ta
summon many more witnesses. The
inquiry has developed circumstance
not mentioned in the original charges.
Certain documents have been turned
over to the committee since the At
torney General delivered the papers in
his possession. These facts have
caused the committee to determine to
probe deeply.
President Signed Pension Bill.
Washington. President Taft signed
the increased pension bill, passed by
the House and Senate. The measure
was signed and became a law just be
fore midnight. A committee including
Senators McCumber and Burnham and
Representatives Sherwood, the author
of the original bill, Adair, Russell and:
Carly S. Anderson, was awaiting the
arrival of the President when he
reached the White House after return
ing from Princeton. He affixed his
signature to the bill In the presence,
of the committee.
DAW