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VOL. XXXIV.
PITTSBOrJO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C., MAY 22, 1912.
NO. 41.
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OR 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
Parts of World.
Southern.
Floyd Allen, first of the Hillsvllle
mountaineers tried for the Carroll
county court house murders, was ad
judged guilty at Wytheville, Va. He
will pay the penalty in the electric
chair at Richmond. Floyd Allen was
charged specifically at this time with
the murder of Commonwealth's Attor
ney William M. Foster, prosecutor in
the Carorl lcounty court, at Hillsville,
last March, when trial of Allen cul
minated in the killing of five persons.
Two masked bandits boarded the
New Orleans Limited on the New Or
leans and Northeastern, eight miles
south of Hattiesburg, Miss., dyna
mited the safe in the express car and
escaped. The robbers did not molest
the passengers. One trainman- re
ceived severe injuries as he lay bound
near the safe when the dynamite blew
it to pieces. Officials of the Wells
Fargo Express company admitted
that the train robbers secured at least
$35,000.
In a state convention marked by
bitter attacks upon President Taft,
North Carolina's four delegates at
and four alternates to the Chicago
Republican convention were instruct
ed to vote for Theodore Roosevelt,
"first, last and all the time," so long
as his name is before the convention.
There was no test of strength upon
the subject of presidential endorse
ment, the Taft forces yielding to the
Roosevelt leaders at the start.
After voting to send the stale's IS
delegates to the Baltimore convention
uninstructed, the South Carolina Dem
ocratic state convention adopted a
resolution endorsing Woodrow Wil
son for president. It was remarkable
for its brevity: "Resolved, That this
convention endorse . Woodrow Wil
son."
Protesting vigorously against exces
sive reclamations which Bremen cot
ton merchants made upon cotton ship
ped from Savannah, the Savannah,
Ga., cotton exchange has taken the
matter up with the cotton exchange
of the German capital. Shippers of
cotton from this, port to Bremen this
season have been forced to pay enor
mous reclamation, so large that all
who have been affected on this side
have appealed to the Savannah cotton
exchange to protest against the sys
tem. The entire delegation from Tennes
see to the Democratic national con
vention will go uninstructed. The state
convention, which selected all the
delegates, first adopted resolutions
against instructing the delegates, and
then named eight delegates and eight
alternates from the state-at-large, who
had been agreed upon by the cam
paign managers of Clark, Wilson, Har
mon and Underwood. The twenty
district delegates were chosen by the
convention.
The jury in the case of Walter D.
Sutherland, former cashier of the Cit
izens' National bank of Clintwood,
Va., who has been on trial at Abing
ton. Va., returned a verdict of guilty,
and Judge Henry C. McDowell sen
tenced the prisoner to six years in
the Atlanta penitentiary. In passing
sentence Judge McDowell stated that
he could not give the prisoner less
than five years, and that he added
on one year for the falsehoods which
he had sworn in the case.
General.
Accused of being engaged in a ca
reer of burgalry, which eventually led
to murder at the same time that he
was conducting a series of open-air
evangelistic meetings, Francis West
ley .Muehlfeld is under indictment
in New York City for murder. "King
of the New York Auto Bandits," is
the characterization of the prisoner
by Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty, in alleging the remarka
ble case of dual personality. Muehl
feld is charged with the murder of
Patrick Burns, a saloon keeper.
The first New Mexico state Dem
ocratic convention elected eight del
egates to the national convention,
with instruction to vote for Clark as
Jong as he is before the convention.
Kay Wheeler, amateur aviator, was
killed and Peter Glasser, a companion,
probably was fatally injured when
their machine struck a telegraph pole
at- St. Louis. Wheeler and Glasser
were thrown 30 feet.
Aviator Ralph McMillen was seri
ously injured during an exhibition
flight at Perry, Iowa.
Victor Louis Mason, an American,
at one time private secretary to the
American secretary of war, Gen. R.
A. Alger, was killed while making a
flight at Brooklands, England, with
fhe English aviator, E. V. Fisher.
Fisher also was killed.
"Canada for Canadian workmen."
This is the cry of Canadian Northern
trainmen in regard to the operation
f trains of the Canadian Northern
from Winnipeg to Emerson by Amer
ican train crews.
Salmon made into a salad has caus
ed the illness of all the members of
company a, at Fort Adams, R. I.
IN
The public playgrounds, in the
opinion of Miss Jane Addams, is the
greatest agency so far brought forth
for the improvement of the city boy.
She says: "One of the most noticea
ble results has been the decided de
crease 'in the number of defendants
brought before the juvenile courts.
Boys now spend their leisure time in
healthful exercise at the playgrounds
instead of getting into mischief in
the streets."
Declarations that Sir Cosmo and
Lady Duff-Gordon, who were two of
the five passengers in a partly filled
lifeboat, ha dprotested against re
turning to the scene of the Titanic
wreck to attempt the rescue of un
fortunate passengers strugling in the
water, were reviewed by the British
inquiry board. An audience of fash
ionably dressed women heard the
proceedings, and the Gordons, with
their legal advisers, paid close atten
tion to the testimony.
The women of California have no
right to serve on trial" juries, accord
ing to the opinion of Attorney Gene
ral Webb. The attorney general holds
the amendment to the state constitu
tion granting the elective franchise
to women dealth with their political
rights and duties alone. The ruling
was given in answer to a request from
the board of supervisors, who wanted
to place a woman on the panel of trial
jurors recently drawn.
Dogs have become as necessary to
the comulete afternoon toilet of the
women of Paris as pannier drapery
or the upright decorating of hats. The
most chic conception is to have a dog
to match each color of costume worn.
The most extravagant deveolpment of
the new style is to be seen at Ciro's,
the ne wrestaurant which has become
the center of fashion. In lunching at
the new restaurant nine out of ten
women carry dogs to the tables. The
Pekingese variety seem to be the fa
vorites. The Michigan state Democratic con
vention voted to send an uninstructed
delegation of thirty members to the
national convention at Baltimore.
Clarence S. Darrow, chief counsel
for the McNamara brothers in the dy
namiting case and a widely known
criminal lawyer, was placed on trial
under an indictment charging him
with having attempted to bribe a ju
ror in the "dynamiting trial" at Los
Angeles, Cal. Darrow said he was in
nocent of any wrongdoing. Prosecu
tor Fredericks said: "The evidence
against Darrow is as strong as it wa3
against the McNamaras."
Christian X was proclaimed king of
Denmark from the balcony of the pal
ace oin Copenhagen before a huge con
course of people who had gathered in
the square in front of the royal resi
dence. In his brief speech he paid a
tribute to his father and pointed out
the difficulties of succeeding such a
ruler, concluding: "May God give me
strength rightly to rule my dear old
country and may it live forever."
Dr. Ben Reitman, known as the
"king of tramps," who has traveled
for some years with Emma Goldman,
the Anarchist, was kidnaped from the
U. S. Grant Hotel at San Diego, Cal.,
taken to LaPesquimitas ranch twenty
miles north, forced to kiss the Ameri
can flag and then tarred and feather,
ed. After he had been tarred and
feathered Reitman was driven north
ward. King Frederick VIII of Denmark
died at the Hamburger Hof Hotel in
Hamburg, Germany. Christian Fred
erick was proclaimed king of Den
mark as Frederick VIII on 'January
30, 1906, after the death of Christian
IX. King Frederick VIII was born
at Copenhagen June 3, 1846. He was
as popular with the people
Washington.
Charles D. Hilles, President Taft's
secretary, gave out a statement at the
white house in Washingon concerning
the delay of the prosecution of the
International Harvester company dur
ing Roosevelt's administration in 1907.
The statement says "that President
Roosevelt compelled his attorney gen
eral to discontinue the Harvester
prosecution in the fall of 1907, eigh
teen months prior to the colonel's re
tirement from office."
That in many prohibition states
the authorities make little effort to
enforce the law against the manufac
ture of liquor, and that the United
States revenue laws need a general
revision to capably cover changed
conditions, was stated by Royal S.
Cabell, commissioner of internal rev
enue. Of the 2,471 illicit stills un
earthed last year he said 901 were
in Georgia, 420 in North Carolina, 249
in Alabama, 375 in South Carolina
and 300 in Tennessee, Oklahoma and
Virginia.
Plans for expediting legislation to
allow congress to adjourn prior to
the national political conventions of
leaders of both house and senate.
The house leaders outlined a pro
gram1 that they believe would con
clude the business of the house by
June 15-v The senate leaders reached
no definite conclusion. On the house
said it was agreed that the Panama
canal administration bill should be
disposed of immediately following the
passage of the anti-injunction bill.
Judge Robert W. Archbald's de
fense, in part at least, to the charges
against him in the house, which will
decide if impeachment proceedings
shall be brought, was indicted. What
appeared to have been a deliberate
trap set to catch the jurist in an em
barrassing transaction was revealed.
It was alleged that W. P. Boland of
Scranton, Pa., purposely had Edward
J. Williams, the principal witness
against the judge, solicit Archbald to
enter the. Katydid culm bank option
transaction with the Erie railroad,
while the cases were pending in the
court
BUILD MANY MILES
OF NEW HIGHWAY
ALF MILLION DOLLAR BOND
ISSUE HAS BEEN AUTHORIZED
BY COMMISSIONERS.
FAVORS THE SANDCLAY TYPE
Rockingham County To Be Surveyed
Inton Quadrants Each Will Receive
Proportionate Share of Expenditure.
Commission To Be Established.
Raleigh. A special from Went
worth states that six hundred miles of
good roads is the aim of the com
missioners of Rockingham county
who have ordered a -popular election
to be held June 13 for the purpose of
voting on an issue of $500,000 bonds.
To lift the proposed improvement en
tirely above the plane of factional
fights it has been ordered that a
highway commission be established,
composed of two representatives of
the eleven townships. To prevent
the intermingling of petty politics, it
has been agreed that this commission
shall consist of one Democrat and
one Republican from each of the
townships in the county. And fur
ther, to popularize the movement, it
has been decreed that two lines be
run through the county, bisecting each
other as near the center as possible,
and in the event that the bond issue
carries, each quarter so laid out will
receive its proportionate part of the
total expenditure. These steps which
have been taken are regarded as es
sential, not only in the interest of giv
ing every part of the county its
shara of the improvement, but to pla
cate some present political passions
that have arisen within late years
and which, unfortunately, have tend
ed towards disruption in many mat
ters that were undertaken for the
good of the county.
Rockingham is a large county and
its people are cosmopolitan. Those in
the west differ from those in the
seat. The county is made up of
many Republicans as well as promi
nent Democrats. Its citizens have en
gaged in many political struggles and
gone through many factional fights.
Those who undertook this great sys
tem of road-building relizes that
the proposition must be removed at
once and as far as possible from the
sphere of the political and must be
regarded purely, as for the good of
all the people.
Hookworm Campaign In North State.
Thirty-eight counties have now
made provision to have the dispen
sary campaign for free examination
and free treatment of hookworm dis
ease. Four counties that have just
made appropriation are Wilson, Cataw
ba, Burke and Caldwell. The coun
ties of Durin, Greene. Nash, Wilson
and Wake now have the dispensaries
in progress and large numbers of peo
ple are taking advantage of the op
portunity for free treatment. Every
county in a line with and east of
Wake, except ten, has provided for
the dispensaries.
North Carolina New Enterprises.
The Wilmington Stamp Printing Co.
filed an amendment to the char
ter of the corporation increasing the
capital to $50,000. There are charters
issued for the Fuel, Ice & Storage
Co., Burlington, capital authorized
$25,000 and subscribed $2,200. The
Robeson Tobacco Warehouse Com
pany of Fairmount, capital authorized
$20,000 and subscribed $4,200.
Political Situation In Iredell.
Never before have the Democratic
voters of Iredell county seemed so
vitally concerned in a political issue
and never has there been so much
"politicing" as just now. The stir is
on account of the movement to put
county officers on salaries. A mass
meeting favoring this reform nomina
ted ex-Lieutenant Governor Turner
for the senate and Messrs. S. Fron
tis and T. H. Williams for the house.
The old nominees are Messrs. A. D.
Watts for the sanate and H. P. Grier
and Thomas Hall for the house.
Sheriff Captures Auto Bandits.
Six hundred Gastonia people were
at the Southern Railway station when
the sheriff of Gaston county brought
from Kings Mountain the two young
T.-Mte auto bandits whom he captured
in a restaurant there after an excit
ing chase. Great excitement has pre
vailed In the town since a telephone
message was received from Frank
Robinson at Lowell to the Gastonia
officers to look out for a stolen auto
mobile. A few minutes later the au
tomobile dashed through Gastonia at
the rate of thirty-five miles an hour.
Republican Convention of Carteret
The Morehead faction ofthe Car
teret county Republicans met with
representatives from 19 eut of the 24
precincts in the county, and endorsed
the work of State Chairman Morf
head, instructing its delegation to thf
state convention to vote for Mr. More
head's re-election as long as ballotin?
continued. The delegation goes to th
Raleigh convention uninstructed as to
candidates for the presidency. Reso
lutions adopted fail to endorse Presi
dent Taft, but endorsed the record oi
the Republican party.
NORTH STATE IS FOR TEDDY
Stormy Convention Denounces Presi
dent Taft and Instructs For Roose
velt. Colonel Sure of 23.
Raleigh, In a state convention,
marked by bitter attacks upon Presi
dent Taft, North Caroina's four dele
gates at large and four alternates to
the Chicago Republican convention
were instructed to vote for Theodore
Roosevelt, "first, last and all the
time" as long as his name is before
the convention.
A declaration in favor of Roosevelt
by Issac Meekins, one of the unin
structed district delegates from the
First district, makes certain for
Roosevelt 23 of the state's 24 votes In
the Chicago convention. Wheeler
Martin, the other uninstructed dele
gate from the First district, was not
bound by the state convention's ac
tion. The delegates at large are: Df:
Cyrus Thompson, Jacksonville; Thos.
E. Owen, Clinton, Richmond Pearson,
Asheville;- Zeb V. Walser, Washing
ton. The alternates are: Thomas S.
Cheek, Camden county; H. C. Cavi
ness, Wilkes county; S. O. McGuire,
Surry county; George Pritchard, Mar
shall county.
A resolution presented by Richmond
Pearson, former minister to Persia,
and a Roosevelt leader in the state,
adopted amid great enthusiasm in the
convention, declared President Taft
withdrew ten North Carolina postof
fice appointments from the senate
March 17 for the apparent purpose
of awarding them "to the factional
leader who shall deliver the largest
number of delegates for Mr. Taft."
"President Taft has underestimated
the pride and self-respect of the Re
publicans of North Carolina," the res
olution continued, "in supposing that
we would participate in a political
auction whose object is to make mer
chandise of men. We unhesitatingly
repudiate, resent and rebuke the
whole proceedings and all parties
thereto." '
Two More Indictments Returned.
Charging them with the alleged mur
der of Myrtle Hawkins the Hender
son grand jury returned indictments
agianst Nora Britt and Lizzie Shaft.
The bill containing a new count, four
in all, included five other persons
heretofore irdicted in the case. It
charges first degree murder against
the two women named above, George
Bradley and Abner McCall, McCall's
wife and Boney Bradley are charged
with being accesories to the murder
before the fact and Dan McCall with
being accessory to murder after the
fact. The new count in the indict
ment charges all with conspiracy.
The Shaft and Britt women, who were
out on bond were arrested and will
not .be admitted to bail. Solicitor
Johnson states that new evidence
was brought out before grand jury.
On Child Labor Law of The State.
At a conference of the North Caro
lina Child Labor Committee and a
number of the cotton manufacturers
of the state, it was agreed to compro
mise differences as to what changes
the 1913 Legislature should be asked
to make in the labor law and seek
changes only that shall prohibit wo
men and girls and children under 16
from working at night, to provide effi
cient non-political factory Inspection
and leave the age limit as at present
at 13 years of age for day labor. Man
ufacturers participating in the con
ference were: W. A. Erwin, D. Y.
Cooper, Caesar Cone, W. Entwistle.
R. L. Steele, Frank Borden, W. H.
Williamson and W. B. Cole. Repre
senting the committee were: C. H
Poe, Bishop Robert Strange, Bishop
Cheshire, J. S. Carr, Jr., Dr. J. L.
Foust, . C. Brooks, Dr. Ed Sterne and
W. H. Swift.
Unveiling of Mclver Statue.
The career of Dr. Charles Duncan
Mclver and the great uplift he gave
the cause of education in this state
received splendid tribute at the hands
of Dr. C. Alphonso Smith of the Uni
versity of Virginia. The occasion
was the unveiling of the bronze statue
of Dr. Mclver in Capitol square. Dr.
Smith sketched the career of Dr. Mc
lver through his early efforts as a
teacher' and his institute campaigns
from 1889 to 1902 that resulted in the
establishment of the State Normal and
Industrial College on a fitting basis.
Missionary Society Closes Session.
The eleventh annual session of the
Woman's Home Missionary Society of
the Western North Carolina Confer
ence at Monroe came to a close after
the most successful meeting that has
been held during its existence. The
attendance was larger and more inter
est manifested and the accomplish
ments greater. It may be the last
session of the home society to be
held, and with this in view , the next
place of meeting and new officers for
the succeeding term were not taken
up.
Sentenced To Electric Chair.
Greenville county made its first con
tribution to the electric chair when
a jury in the court of general sessions
convicted one Morris of murder in
the first degree, five other negroes
who were indicted jointly with Mor
ris being acquitted. Morris shot and
killed another negro at a colored
i frolic. The row began in the dance
hall and continued into the street.,
where the negro was shot down. A
physician who reached the woundec'
negro's side received from him a state
ment that Morris was his slayer.
BAD TRAIN WRECK
THREE KILLED AND SIX INJURED
ASHEVILLE TRAIN HITS
SPLIT SWITCH.
THE INJURED AT HICKORY
Accident Happened Near Connelly
Springs Had Not One of Cars Been
Made of Steel Loss of Life Would
v
Have Been Greater.
Hickory Westbound passenger
train No. 11 running from Salisbury
to Asheville was wrecked at Connelly
Springs 12 miles west of Hickory.
The train was running at its usual
fast speed, 40 miles an hour, and as it
was rounding the curve at the Con
nelly Springs yard, a switch split just
as the engine and baggage and mail
cars had passed. The second class
car left the track, and broke loose
from those in front, jammed into a
freight engine standing on the sid
ing and knocked the freight engineer
who was on the ground beside his
engine, under the same, severing his
body in two and mutilating him al
most beyond recognition.
Two of the colored occupants of
the car were killed, a negro woman
and child. These were buried in a
mass of debris several feet deep.
Other' occupants of the car were se
riously Injured.
The baggage car was completely
demolished, and the baggage master
injured so that it is feared that he
will die.
All the trunks, etc., in the car
were destroyed. After breaking loose
the engine, baggage and mail cars
ran for several hundred yards and
left the track, but were not overturn
ed. The pullman and observation cars
remained on the track. The two first
class day coaches were filled with
passengers and were derailed, but the
only damage done was the shaking up
and bruising of several of the pas
sengers. To Thin Fruit Off The Trees.
Raleigh. Commissioner of agricul
ture W. A. Graham says that if there
is no further injury to the fruit crops
by frost or other developments it will
be of the highest importance ta take
steps to thin the fruit off, the trees to
prevent injury to the trees by the
weight of the yield that will so injure
the trees as to prevent full crops
again for several years. He says this
matter of thinning the fruit is of the
greatest importance as improving the
present crop of fruit and as saving
the trees in such condition that they
will be in" shape to yield to the fullest
extent next season as well if given
such another chance by the weather
conditions.
Forty Candidates in Rowan County.
Salisbury The time limit for can
didates to enter the Democratic race
for county offices expired with
one entry for sheriff, three for
register of deeds, two for county treas
urer, six for township tax collector,
one for county judge, three for county
solicitor, seventeen for county com
missioners, two for 'surveyor, four for
the Legislature and one for the Sen
ate. This makes forty candidates in
Rowan. The candidates include A. H.
Boyden for the state senate; W. D.
Pethel, P. S. Carlton, Walter Murphy,
and T. D. Brown for the house of rep
resentatives, and for sheriff, J. H. Mo
Kenzie.
Being Pushed Toward Sunburst.
Canton. The Pigeon River Railroad
is being pushed toward Sunburst. The
private car of the president of the
company was brought to Canton and
the hope is expressed that trains will
be running to the end of the line by
September. This will open 17 miles
of the river valley, the richest lands
and' finest timber in all of the moun
tains. Asheville. Walter J. Holland, who
was charged with killing J. M. Ed
wards here last summer, submitted
to being guilty of manslaughter be
fore Judge Long and received a nine
months sentence on the roads.
Politics In Rowan County.
Salisbury. The first political gun
of the season was fired in Rowan
county when, Hon. W. B. Bankhead
of Alabama, spoke in the interest of
the candidacy of Oscar W. Underwood
for the nomination for president. So
far tut little interest has been taken
in public meetings, though politics has
waxed warm in a quiet way. One of
the issues in local politics will be the
salary basis for county officers. A
number of leading business men favor
the new plan and are agitating the
salary system.
Agricultural Train For This State.
Wilmington. The Agricultural and
Immigration Department of the At
lantic Coast Line announced the latter
part of July an agricultural train
will be run over the entire system
in North Carolina and stops will be
made at every county seat, town and
in some counties two stops will be
made. The equipment will be furn
ished" by the A. & M. College, Raleigh,
and there will be A. & M. and gov
ernment experts on the trains. Mr 1.
O. Schaub of A. & M. was here con
ferrisg with the Cost Line .officials.
LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Have Been Gotten Together With
Care By the Editor.
Raleigh. In an opinion written by
Chief Justice Clark the Supreme Court
finds no error in the action of the
Burke county superior court in the
case of J. M. Smith against the Mor
ganton Ice Company.
Rocky Point. A negro man, name
unknown, murdered his wife at Bur
gaw. She was shot through the body
five times. The murderer was caught
afterwards while attempting to fire
on an officer.
Raleigh. Negro Republicans of this
state held a state convention here and
named four delegates-at-large, whom
they claim will be sent to the Chicago
convention. Two were instructed for
Taft and two for Roosevelt.
. Jackson. The ''Matt Ransom''
Camp of Confederate Veterans held
their annual reunion at this place and
they were served with a fine dinner
by the ladies of the Harry Burgwyn
Chapter of the Daughters of the Con
federacy. Taylorsville. The heavy rain and
electrical storm that passed over this
section recently did considerable dam
age to crops and bridges. In the
:western part of the county the best
bridges were washed away. The wa
ter courses were the highest that have
"been known for year3.
Greensboro. Mr. S. E. Williams, in
charge of the Woodrow Wilson cam
paign for the state, says that he has
recently been In New York and knows
whereof he speaks; that the question
for North Carolina to settle is: Shall
it be Wilson or Clark? From what he
heard he is persuaded that it Is no
longer the field against Wilson, that
Harmon and Underwood are practical
ly out of the running.
Greensboro. Greensboro was chos
en over Raleigh as the place for the
future location of the executive offices
of the North Carolina Sunday Schoo1
Association. The decision was made
by the members of the state execu
tve committee, who held a long ses
sion, following a luncheon tendered
in the banquet room the Y. M. C. A
Chairman N. B. Broughton, of Ral
eigh, presided over the deliberations.
Raleigh. J. Elwood Cox and J. A.
Long of the state building commission,
were here going over the quarter-of-a-million-dollar
administration build
ing now in process of construction
and declare they find the progress and
the character of the work satisfac
tory. The commission has allowed the
contractors a three months' extension
of time so that it will not be com
pleted until April 1 instead of Janu
ary 1, 1913.
Wilmington. The strawberry sea
son in eastern North Carolina is fast
drawing to a close and it is thought
that within another week shipments
will have stopped altogether. The
season's crop has been only fairly re
munerative to the truckers, for a good
portion of the season the prices were
decidedly off, due in two instances to
rains in New York, thef principal mar
ket, and to the fact that the Virginia
berries are being placed on the mar
ket. Middlesex. Pursuant to a call is
sued by Mr. E. T. Lewis, manager of
the Aycock Memorial Association for
Dry Wells township, Nash county, a
meeting of prominent citizens was
held in the bank hall for the purpose
of organizing and electing officers.
The meeting was most enthusiastic
and the following officers and commit
tee were named: E. T. Lewis, mana
ger; W. K. Ballentine, secretary and
treasurer; H. B. High, H. J. Morris,
T. W. Bartholomew, E. M. Tilghman,
Dr. P. B. Cone, L. N. Land, commit
tee. Greensboro. The Fifth District Re
publican convention in session here
adopted resolutions instructing its dis
trict delegates to the national conven
tion to vote for Roosevelt for presi
dent as long as his name was before
the Chicago convention.
Fayetteville. The Cumbreland
county Democratic executive commit
tee met here and appointed registrars
and poll-holders for the congressional
primaries to be held June 18, be
tween Congressman H. L. Godwin and
N. A. Sinclair. The committee en
dorsed the candidacy of John G. Shaw
for lieutenant governor.
Lumberton.i Pursuant to call of
Chairman G. B. McLeod, the county
Democratic executive committee met
here and appointed pollholders and
registrars to conduct the congressional
primary to be held June 18.
Concord. By a vote of 4 to 2 the
city aldermen decided to repeal the,
ordinance against the drug stores of
the city handling liquor. A tax of
$100 was levied on drug stores which
handle it. Alderman Barrier, who op
posed the motion, moved that the reve
nue derived from this source be used
to employ detectives to see that the
law was enforced.
Washington. Postoffices at Mur
phy, Raeford, Roxboro and Spencer
have been designated as postal sav
ings banks. The order goes into ef
fect June 10.
Wilmington. With a large attend
ance of members from this city and
other points in the state the annual
meeting of the Colonial Dames of
North Carolina was held at Or
ton Plantation, the beautiful summer
home of Mrs. James Sprunt, the retir
ing president. Following the reading
of the different reports, some of which
were very interesting, the election oi
officers followed.
ASKS TAFT TO MAKE
A CLEAJJREAST
PERKINS ' WANTS PUBLIC TO
KNOW WHY WICKERSHAM
SUIT WAS HELD UP.
MAKES ANSWER TO HILLES
The Trust Magnate Believes That Taft
and His Managers Should Come
Clean With the Whole AffairThe
Statement is Given Below.
New York. Publication of all cor
respondence relating to the prosecu
tion of the International Harvester
Company was suggested by George W.
Perkins, the New York financier who,
upon his return to New York, issued
a reply to the statement given out at
the White House by Charles D. Hilles,
secretary to the President. The state
ment reads:
"I have read Mr. Hilles' version of
the Harvester matter and fail to find
anything in it that in the remotest de
gree answers my letter of April 29 last,
to Chairman McKinley. If Mr. Taft
and his managers had at any time
meant to be fair and square and frank
with the public in this matter, they
would have complied with the Senate's
recent request and published in full all
that has taken place In regard to the
Harvester Company during the Taft
administration, especially during the
last twelve or eighteen months.
"The public is being deluded daily
with the Taft version of how Mr.
Roosevelt held up Mr. Bonaparte's suit
against the Harvester Company and
why; but great care is being taken,
to keep from the public all knowledge'
as to whether or net Mr. Taft held up
Mr. WIckersham's suit against the
Harvester Company and why. Full
publicity regarding the whole affair
would enable' the public to form its
own judgment and reach its own con
clusion. It would also show what Mr.
Hilles regards as proper favors for a
private secretary to a President seek
ing renomination, to ask from the offi
cers of a corporation threatened with
prosecution by the telf-same Presi
dent. Town of Melville is Inundated.
Baton Rouge, La. The town of Mel
ville, threatened since the present flood
began, was inundated when the levee
on the west bank of the Atchafalaya
river 16 miles north, broke. Captain
Logan, in charge of the United States
rescue corps dispatched the steamship
Minnetonka with a barge to Melville
to bring away those inhabitants who
desired to leave together with their
live stock and household goods. Lieu
tenant Edwards was ordered to Ope
lousas to assist Captain Bennett.
Taft Denounces Roosevelt.
Cincinnati. In a most bitter and
scathing denunctiation of Colonel
Roosevelt, President Taft declared
that, "the certainty of his defeat for
the Republican nomination must be
a source of profound congratulation to
all patriotic citizens," declared that
his predecessor in the White House
would wreck the Republican party, if
he is not chosen by the Republican
national convention, and compared Mr.
Roosevelt to Louis the. Fourteenth of
France, who said, "the State, I am it."
Hour of Death Draws Near.
Boston. "I have made my peace
with God; I am resigned to my fate.
I wish now to go to my death as soon
as possible, the quicker the better."
The words spoken by Clarence C. V.
T. Richeson to Rev. Herbert H. John
son, his spiritual adviser, expressed
the mental condition of the condemn
ed man, whose tenure of life is now
measured only by hours.
Man Badly Beaten and Robbed.
Baltimore. Beaten into unconscious
ness, robbed of his watch and money
and probably escaping with his life"
only through the mercy of one cf his
two assailants, Dr. George B. Rey
nolds, chief of police surgeon of this
city, was the victim of an attack on
the street while returning home from
a professional call.
Large Fire Does Much Damage.
Houston, Tex. Fire destroyed about
$700,000 worth of property before It
was brought under control. The
losses are: Stores Furniture Store,
destroyed; Mason building almost to
tally destroyed; Goggans Music Store,
badly damaged; C. L. and Theodore
Bearing building, damaged; Texas
Company building, damaged; Levy
building, damaged; Temple building,
almost totally destroyed; Heyers drug
store, destroyed; Dodge hotel, badly
damaged; Capital hotel, slightly dam
aged. No lives lost.
Body of King Frederick Lies In State.
Copenhagen. The coffin containing
the body of the late King Frederick
VIII has been placed on a high cata
falpue of gold and white in Christian
borg chapel and here it will lie in'
state until the funeral May 24. The
catafalque is surrounded by silver
candelabra, the historical silver lions
from Roseberg castle and the orders
of the dead monarch. The royal stan
dard covers the coffin, while on the
floor and about the room have been
arranged hundreds of wreaths sent in
by every class.