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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C.. JULY 3, 1912.
NO. 47.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR TIE 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.
' Old Bill' Miner, bandit and train
rdber, serving a twenty-year sen
tence in the Georgia penitentiary, has
made good his threat of a few months
ago when he declared that he would
again gain his freedom. The guards
at the prison farm in Milledgeville
have discovered that Miner left with
two others a few days ago.
Gen. Evaris Estonez, head of the
negro revolt in Cuba, has been killed,
together with more than one hun
dred of his followers in a battle with
the Federals under Lieutenant de La
Torro, at Virginia Balaca, near Micar
asongo. J. M. Jamison, part owner of the
Stonewall hotel of Charlotte, N. C,
was instantly killed and Mrs. W. M.
Bagwell and seven-year-old son Jof
Hamlet were seriously injured on a
grade crossing near Newell, seven
miles north or Charlotte. Their auto
mobile was struck and demolished ,by
a northbound Southern railway train.
Mrs. Jamison and two children escap
ed injur-. The automobile stalled
on the railroad track and Mr. Jami
son was attempting to rescue the
women and children.
Two persons were killed and three
seriously hurt in a fire that attacked
a second floor dormitory of a busi
ness building in Louisville, Ky. One
of the victims was a homeless wom
an. The evening before the accident
shf appealed at the dormitory for
shelter. It was given. Her charred
body was found in the kitchen of the
turned apartment. Like the others
she had been overcome by smoke,
and before firemen found her she was
burned to death. She had given her
name as Lula Day.
One man is dead and an unidenti
fied woman is dying at a hospital in
Louisville, Ky., as the result of a a
small fire in a rooming house. Three
ether people were seriously .injured
and two of them may die. The dead
man is Cromie Van North, a chauf
feur, Charles Rogers, a newspaper
man, was burned from his waist
down, and was removed from the
building in an unconscious condition.
An unidentified man is still uncon
scious at the hospital. Frank Dunn
jumped from a second-story window.
General.
Samuel Gompers and Frank Morri
son of the American Federation of
Labor recently sentenced to one year
and nine months in jail, respectfully,
for contempt of court, have filed an
appeal from Justice Wright's decision
and given bail.
Thomas Do'wling, a policeman of
Philadelphia, was killed by Herbert
Johnson, 18 years old, who was about
to be arrested. The shooting occur-
Ired in a pawnshop, where Johnson
was trying to pawn jewelry which the
police say had been stolen. The po
liceman had been called to the place
by the broker, and was shot as he
entered the door. Johnson was pur
sued for blocks by a crowd before he
was overpowered. "
An Italian, employed in the rail
road yards at Tarrytown, N. Y., is
convinced that an elephant has no
sense of humor and no appreciation
of practical jokes. The Italian es
sayed to entertain a number of his
friends by feeding an elephant in a
freight car a pint or so of black pep
per. The elephant sneezed, and, be
ing enraged, grabbed the Italian, with
his trunk and threw him 50 feet away
onto a car of coal.
An innovation in woman's suffrage
tactics developed in New York City
hen an automobile filled with wom
en drew up in the heart of Chinatown
and one of its occupants, who wore
an Oriental robe, addressed 200 Chi
nese on a street corner in their na
tive language. There were volleys of
Chinese cheers when the speaker,
who was introduced as "Mrs. Jean
"White," reminded her auditors that
women in China had a vote now and
urged that the men' of their race in
this country do what they could to
get a like privilege for American
women.
Official fienires of the recent biv:''
acceptance trials of the battle
ship Arkansas have been received from
members of the trial board. All fig
ures were better than the contract
requirements.
Prof. Herchel Parker of Columbia
university has climbed Mt. McKinley,
hitherto unsealed by a white man.
The interstate commerce commis
sion announced that it tentatively had
approved the revised national car de
murrage . rules recently adopted by
the American Railway association.
This action is important to shippers
f all sections.
Field Marshal Sir, George Stuart
v'hite, governor of Chelsea hospital,
i-ondon's home for aged soldiers, and
one of the most distinguished soldiers
in the British army, died in his seven
ty seventh year.
IN
Nellie Bly," ja private life Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Seaman, one Lime noted
traveler and a newspaper woman and
now owner of the bankrupt Ironclad
Manufacturing company of Brooklyn,
has been sentenced to pay a fine of
$3,000 and to spend twenty days in
jail for contempt of court.
The testimony of Adolph Hagan,
in the suit for alimony brought by
his, at Morristown, N. J., that he had
spent $725 on beer in a period of 227
days, furnished material for some en
ergetic figuring on the part of those
who were present in the court room.
The trustees of the American med
icine gold medal have awarded the
medal for 1912 to Col. William C. Gor
gas as the "American physician who
has performed the most conspicuous
and noteworthy service in the domain
of medicine in the past year." The
award is in recognition of the man
ner in which he and his staff rid the
isthmus of Panama of the fevers and
kindred diseases prevalent there.
Rather than pay a $5 fine, which
he believed unjust, Frank Kinnaman,
a young man of Washington, D. C,
is on his way to Europe.
The sale of the Boston Evening
Traveler, one of the oldest newspa
pers in Massachusetts, to the Boston
Herald, has been announced.
President Gomez conferred with the
judges of the "corrections courts of
Cuba with the object of formulating
complaints against the editors of the
newspapers La Lucha, La Frenza and
El Dia, Havana journals. Two of the
editors are In the United States be
yond the jurisdiction of the court,
and the editor of El Dia is under pro
tection of congressional immunity.
Captain Gulick, commanding the
United States marines at El Cobre,
Cuba, reports that his whole compa- .
ny is on guard every night and con-
stantly exchanging shots with the in-
surgents. The marines have en- '
trenched outposts mounting automat
ic guns. A bomb was exploded near
the American outpost of El Cobre
mines, but did no damage. v.
Waiters and other hotel employees
of New York City declared their long-drawn-out
strike off and are prepar
ed, they announced, to return to work.
They held a meeting and listened
to reports submitted by a delegation 1
of eighty of their number which had
been appointed to make a canvass' of
the leading hotels affected by the
strike. This report was, that the con
ditions were favorable for the men
resuming work. The vote to end the
strike was almost unanimous on the
part of 2.800 employees present. The
strike was called about a month ago.
The American bycyclists attached
to the Olympic team made SO miles in ;
practice at Antwerp. The Marathon
competitors, with the exception of
Michael Ryan, Irish-American Athlet
ic Club, who is suffering from an
injured ankle, ran for two hours at
a sharp pace. Other members of the
team indulged in practice work morn
ing and afternoon. Already half the
men are in form and the others are
rounding out nicely. At the water
polo game between Brussels and Ant
werp the American swimmers and di
vers gave an exhibition and in turn
were given an enthusiastic reception.
The aims and ambitions of 500,000
club women of this country who are
striving to aid the moral and social
uplift of women and children espe
cially, were represented in San Fran
cisco, Cal., where Mrs. Philip N.
Moore of St. Louis called the eleventh
biennial convention of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, to or
der. The plan of reorganization
known as the Pennsylvania plan, pro
viding for "upper and lower" houses
in the convention, was considered,
but the council determined against
its adoption.
Two hundred convicts in the Arizo
na state penitentiary at Florence have
organized themselves into a "law and
order league," the constitution of
which sets forth the belief of the
members in "God, prison reform and
Governor Hunt," and names as the
purpose of the league the promotion
of better morals and the abolishment
of crime. The membership includes
36 per cent, of the prisoners.
Washington.
Increases in both exports and im
ports are- shown by a statement of
the foreign commerce of the United
States for the month of May made
public by the commerce and labor
departmen's bureau of statistics.
President Taft has sent a message
to congress, pointing out the anoma
lous situation whereby the machin
ery of the Federal government must
continue in direct violation of law,
making officials liable to fine and im
prisonment, unless steps are imme
diately taken to provide funds for the
next fiscal year. The president ap
pealed for the passage of a resolution
extending the necessary appropria
tionstion of the current fiscal year
for a temporary period to tide over
the emergency caused by the failure
of the regular and deficiency appro
priations bill to pass. It 'is unlawful
for any official to create a deficiency
or to accept the services of any one
gratuitously.
President Taft went to chnrrb Sun
day and spent the remainder of the
day reading and replying to the del
uge of messages received at the white
house congratulating him upon his
nomination at Chicago. They came
from everywhere. With the assist
ance of secretaries Mr. Taft got well
through the pile by night. The presi
dent attended All Souls Unitarian
church, where he always worships in
Washington. The pastor's text was
"Be Ye Rich in Good Works." "To
help and inspire others that is the
real joy of living," said the clergy
man in conclusion.
THE TAR HEELS AT
THE CONVENTION
MAJORITY OF NORTH CAROLINA
DELGEATS STOOD FOR PARK
ER ON TEST VOTE.
WAS A GREAT GATHERING
All Kinds of People There To Swell
The Crowd and Add Joy To The
Occasion Not Many Women From
North State.
Raleigh. A special from Baltimore
states that the North Carolina delega
tion supported Judge Parker against
Colonel Bryan by a vote of 15 to 9,
Chairman Glenn casting the vote.
The North Carolinians voted as fol
lows for Bryan: Glenn, Justice, Hale,
Newland, Hammer, L. L. Smith, Cox,
White, Ramsey, Graham, Bryant,
Hanes, McKinnon, O. L. Clark, Rob
inson, Mclver, Young.
For . Parker: Dortch, Dow.d, Mc
Lean, Lamb, Aydlett, Harding, Finch,
W. G. Clark, Ranson, O'Berry, Hill,
Howard, Daniels, Abell, Hastings,
Underwood, McQueen, Bailey, Blair,
Doughton, Clement, Brenizer, Roberts,
Ervin, Mills, Weaver, Lovill and
Dillard.
J. S. Carr end A. S. Rascoe were
not present.
The consensus of opinion among
the North Carolina delegates seemed
to be that Mr. Brayn made a mistake
in starting the fight on Parker. There
was no special significance in the re
sult of the contest waged by Bryan,
as it affects the fortunes of any of
the candidates. North Carolina was
for Wilson, but opposed to Bryan and
did not care to slap Judge Parker
without cause.
"I think the convention was one of
the greatest ever held in this coun
try," said former Governor Glenn,
discussing the situation.
North Carolina was well represent
ed at the convention. In addition to
the 48 delegates there were many in
teresting people. Senators Simmons
and Overman were among the visit
ing statesmen. There w.ere very few
women among the Tarheel visitors.
Politics In Union County.
The Democratic primaries for the
nomination of a legislative and coun
ty ticket will be held throughout the
county July 20. There are just 35
"patriots" willing to serve the dear
people as per their announcements.
Union is entitled to two representa
tives in the lower house of the legis
lature and for this position there are
5 active candidates as follows: J. D.
Bundy, W. A. Eubanks, W. G. Long,
H. L. Price and John C. Sikes. Union,
together with Anson, Stanly and Dav
idson, compose the twenty-fourth sen
atorial district and as Union and
Stanly had the senators two years ago
in the persons of R. W. Lemmond
and D. N. Bennett, Anson and David
son will name the men this year.
Crops Good in Halifax County.
Inquiries among those who have
been in town from the surrounding
rural districts elicited the information
that crop prospects are exceedingly
promising. The recent very cool
weather did Pome damage but the far
mers say that this damage will be
practically overcome with plenty of
sunshine. In a few days many of the
farmers will begin to "lay-by" corn
of which it is said there will be a fine
yield if indications mean anything.
State Licenses for Automobiles.
In the department of state there are
several clerks busy issuing the renew
al licenses for automobiles, the re
newal tax being one dollar. There
are about 4,500 automobiles in the
state for which the renewal licenses
must be secured by June 30 or the li
cense will be cancelled and the owners
will be required to take out entirely
new ones at $5.
Dunn. The Dunn military company
will go to Morehead City July 3 for a
two weeks' encampment. Capt. J. L.
Hines will have charge of the soldier
boys.
The Postmasters Association.
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina Postmasters' Association
will be held the latter part of August
or first part of September at Wrights
ville Beach. The association is com
posed of the first, second and third
clas-i postmasters of the state. The
fourth class postmaster will also meet
at the same time. The meetings are
of a business nature and many matters
of interest are to be discussed. Gen
erally the postmasters make recom
mendations on subjects pertinent to
the improvement of the service.
Old Man Found Dead In Road. 1
Rev. W. A. Myers, an aged and well
known Baptist minister of Wilkes
county, was found dead in the road
near his home in the New Castle
community. Mr. Myers has been very
feeble for some time and it is pre
sumed that he suffered a fatal at
tack of heart disease. He was 81
years of age and leaves a number of
children. He was weil known in the
northern section of this county, where
he often conducted religious services.
The funeral and interment was at
Zion church in this county.
FINISH CONFERENCE HOME
The Young People Meet in $125,000
Building Near Black Mountain
Three Bodies Use It.
Charlotte. F. C. Abbott returned
from the annual meeting of the Blue
Ridge Association which was held at
Black Mountain several days ago. This
association chartered by the state, is
composed of representatives from the
Young Men's Christian Association,
the Young Women's Christian Associ
ation and the Young People's Mission
ary Education Movement of the South
representatives of these several asso
ciations comprising the executive
committee of the Blue Ridge Associa
tion. The property of the association .is
located about three miles from Black
Mountain station in the opposite di
rection from Montreat, and comprises
nearly 1,000 acres of land extending
from the foot hills back to the very
crest of the Blue Ridge mountains,
the highest altitude being about 4,
000 feet.
The association has just completed
a most beautiful and commodious
building to accommodate the annual
conferences of the three associations
the total cost of the property running
to about $125,000. The annual con
ferences for 1912 for the two first
named bodies have just been con
cluded with a total attendance of be
tween 700 and 800 students from the
various colleges of the South, and of
othor representatives from the asso
ciations. The conference of the
Young People's Education Movement
has just opened. This will be fol
lowed on July 5 to 19, by the con
ferences of the secretaries and oth
er representative workers in the
Southern Young Men's Christian As
sociations. The present officers of the associa
tion recently elected are: C. A. Row
land, Athens, Ga., president; Dr. E.
M. Poteat, of Furman University,
vice president; F. C. Abbott, of Char
lotte, secretary and treasurer.
For A Tobacco Test Farm.
A special committee appointed by
the state board of agriculture is out
now inspecting several sites that are
offered for the proposed tobacco test
farm to be located somewhere in the
bright tobacco belt of Piedmont Caro
lina. They visited Durham and Ox
ford sections to inspect sites sug
gested and will also go to Greensboro
and to points in Forsyth and Rockingham-
before they settle the ques
tion' of the location for the proposed
farm, which it is intended shall make
tests and demonstrations in tobacco
culture for the benefit of the tobacco
growers of the state. In the commit
tee making the inspections are Com
missioner Graham, Dr. B. W. Kilgore,
director of state farms; I. H. Kerney,
Franklin ton; William Bledsoe, Gates;
A. T. McCallum, Red Springs, and R.
W. Scott of Haw, River, representing
the state board of agriculture.
Working on Good Roads Meet.
State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt
of Chapel Hill is an exceedingly busy
man with the coming meeting of the
North Carolina Good Roads Conven
tion to be held in Charlotte the first
two days of August. Secretary Cor
with and several others are trying to
get special inducements from the rail
roads and other concerns to attract
the people from all over the state.
Many People Die of Old Age.
More people have died of old age
in LaGrange, the second town in size
in Lenoir county, from old age than
from any other cause in the past six
months, is the proud boast of its citi
zens. That place claims the honor of
embracing more centenarians and oc
togenarians in its population than
any other community of 1,250 or 1,500
souls in North Carolina.
Severely Shocked by Lightning.
During a severe electrical etorm
near Piedmont Springs the dwelling
of Mat Robertson, near Piedmont
Springs Hotel, was struck and almost
demolished. There were 17 people
in the house and several were severe
ly shocked, but only one seriously in
jurel. Ogburn Nelson, who had gath
ered at the Robertson home with a
number of other young people of the
neighborhood, was shocked about the
shoulder and the Injury extended
down the side, severely burning one
of his feet.
Name of Railroad Is Changed.
The name of the Piedmont railroad
running from Thomasville to Denton;
a distance of twenty miles, has been
changed and in the future will be
known as the Carolina and Yadkin
River railroad. Mr. Bird S. Coler, of
New York, is president, and Mr.
Thomas J. Jerome, of Salisbury, vice
president of the new railroad. It is
understood that there will be a num
ber of changes made in the present
roadbed, cutting out a number ,of
curves, and reducing grades and re
laying the road with 70-pound rails.
Interesting Event in Mecklenburg.
An interesting and significant event
in Mecklenburg county will be a can
ning demonstration to be held in con
junction with a meeting of the Farm
ers' Union of the county with the De
rita local union on Friday, July 5.
There are five girls' tomato clubs in
Mecklenburg now and the members
of these clubs and others that are
being or may be organized will be
the special participants in the canning
demonstration, which will be conduct
ed by Mrs. McKImmon of the state
department of agriculture.
WORK OF FRIDAY
A BIT T
INDICATIONS POINT TO DEAD.
LOCK WHICH MAY LAST FOR
MANY DAYS.
CLARK AND WILSON IN LEAD
Harmon Drops From 127 Down to 29
Votes Underwood Is Holding His
Own in Contest To Be a Fight to
the Finish.
Baltimore. A monotonous succes
sion of roll calls brought no nomina
tion in the Democratic convention late
Friday night when the sweltering
delegates were still .answering the
droning voice of the reading clerk.
The results of the roll calls upvtJ
the ninth were discouragingly simi
lar. None of the leading candidates
made any material gains or losses.
There was no change of more than 6
votes in the totals up to that time.
The steady gain of the Wilson vote
had culminated with a count of 354 on
the sixth ballot. On the seventh Wil
son lost 1 1-2 votes.
Bryan, Kern, Ollie James and May
or Gaynor of New York each receiv
ed one or two votes in the course of
the balloting. Harmon lost slowly
but steadily from his 148 of the first
ballot. Underwood gained a trifle.
The leaders of the various factions
hurried about the hall. The air was
full of rumors of "deals" and "trades."
-A shift that would throw a deciding
vote to one' candidate or another was
looked for on every ballot by some of
the delegates while others expected
an all-night session.
The long predicted "break" in the
New York delegation came on the
tenth ballot when Leader Murphy an
nounced 81 of the 90 -votes from that
state for Clark. He got no further
when a great demonstration broke out
among the Speaker's delegates and
friends.
While it was in progress there
were several fistcuffs on the floor.
Those who claimed to be in the con
fidence of the New York delegates
predicted there would be a switch
away from Clark on subsequent bal
lots. Murphy later announced that the
New York delegation showed 81 for
Clark, 8 for Wilson and 1 for Under
wood, but under the unit rule gave
all its 90 votes to Clark.
The result of the balloting was as
follows:
First Ballot. Sulzer, New York 2;
Clark, 440 1-2; Wilson 324; Under
wood, 117 1-2; Harmon 148; Marshall
31; Baldwin 22; necessary 726; ab
sent 2; Bryan 1.
Second Ballot Clark 446 1-2; Wil
son 339 3-4; Underwood 111 1-4; Har
mon 141; Marshall 31; Baldwin 14;
Sulzer 2; Bryan 2; not voting half.
Third Ballot. Clark 441; Wilson
345; Underwood 114 1-2; Harmon
140 1-2; Marshall 31; Baldwin 14; Bry
an 1; Kern 1.
Fourth Ballot. Clark 443; Wilson
349 1-2; Underwood 112; Harmon
136 1-2; Marshall 31; Baldwin 14;
Kern 2.
Fifth Ballot Clark 443; Wilson
351; Underwood 119 1-2; Harmon
141 1-2; Marshall 31; Kern 2.
Sixth Ballot. Clark 445; Wilson
ZM; Underwood 121; Harmon 135;
Marshall 31; Kern 1; Bryan 1; total
1,083.
Seventh Ballot. Clark 449 1-2; Wil
son 352 1-2; Underwood 123 1-2; Har
mon 129 1-2; Marshall 31; Kern 1;
Bryan 1; total 1,088. -
Eighth Ballot. Clark 448 1-2; Wil
son 351 1-2; Underwood 123; Harmon
130; Gaynor 1; Marshall 31; Bryan 1;
James 1; Kern 1; total 1,088.
Ninth, Ballot! On the nineth ballot
the leaders stood: Clark 452; Wilson
351 1-2.
Twelfth Ballot. Clark, 549; Wilson
354; Underwood, 123; Harmon, 29;
Marshall, 30; Kern, 1; Bryan, 1; not
voting 2 1-2.
Bryan Is Storm Center.
Baltimore. Mr. Bryan was tne
storm center of the remarkable fight
in the convention Friday night, precip
itated by him at the opening of the
evening session and continuing nearly
three. hours. There was much specu
lation as to what his purpose was
when, he rose almost immediately
after the fall of the gavel and asked
immediate consideration of a resolu
tion which would have thrown Thom
as F. Rfan of the Virginia, delegation
and August -Belmont of the New York
ielegation out of the convention.
Large Crowd Again Attends.
Convention Hall.: The convention
hall again became a center of anima
tion toward 3 o'clock Friday in expec
tation of the decisive struggle ahead.
Quito a number of delegates were
early in place despite their strenuous
labors of Thursday night. The gal
leries began to brim with a buttering
mass of humanity, promising a record
crowd. The sultry weather brought
out many women in pretty white
gowns, their fluttering fans adding to
the color and animation of the vast
encircling galleries.
WAS
ME
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Short Paragraphs of State News That
- Have Been Gotten Together WlthN
Care By The Editor.
Spencer. The foundation :is being
laid for the new round house to be
erected in Spencer by the Southern
Railway Company. The structure
will have a concrete foundation and
will contain, it is said, 27 stalls for
locomotives. When completed it will
perhaps be the best equipped round
house in the South.
Asheville. The Buncombe, county
board of education held a meeting for
the purpose of considering a successor
to Superintendent of Schools A, C.
Reynolds, who recently resigned to
accept the principalship of the Cul
lowhee Normal and Industrial Insti
tute at Cullowhee. There were ten
applications for the position, but no
one was elected.
Spencer. Prof. M. L. Barnes, super
intendent of the Spencer graded
school, has just completed taking a
census for school 'purposes in Spen
cer. It is found that there are 520
persons of school age in town, making
a nice gain over the figures of a year
ago. The Spencer schools will open
the first Monday in September for a
full nine months' term.
Morehead City. Some of the larg
est catches of Spanish mackerel ever
made in the history of Morehead City
were made several days ago. Capt
John E. Lewis made a record catch
of 1,297 Spanish mackerel and 97 cero.
Capt. John Day made a catch of some
over 1,000. Other parties too numer
ous to name made catches averaging
from 200 to 600.
Raleigh. Go. Kitchin ordered a
special term of court for Pitt county,
to begin at Greenville July . Judge
Garland Sevier Ferguson, of Waynes
ville, has been designated to preside,
and the term is devoted to the trial
of criminal cases entirely. The docket
in that county had become consider
ably congested and some important
cases are to be tried.
Waynesville. After deliberating
for two weeks in almost daily meet
ings, with five or six different prelim
inary plans before them, the board
of aldermen have accepted the plans
for the new graded school building,
prepared by J. M. McMichal of Char
lotte. Mr. McMichal was here several
days ago and left blue prints of his
drawings with the board and they
have been accepted unanimously.
Lenoir. The little four-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mil
ler, who live a few miles southwest
of town, died from the effects of a
scald received by falling into a bucket
of boiling water. The little one was
playing about the yard where the
family washing was being done and
stumbled backward and wasdown in
the pail of hot water before any one
realized the fatal accident.
Durham. Along with the proposal
to add $1,000,000 to the endowment
fund of Trinity College about which
much has recently been published
goes a movement to establish in con
nection with Trinity a great college
for women. The movement was start
ed in the rooms' of the Commercial
Club, when the executive committee
invited President Few to lay the mat
ter before them. The plans were gone
over and met the approval of all.
Kinston. The twentieth addition
to the. family of W. H. Heath, a farm
er of Carr's township, Greene county,
is announced. Mr. Heath is a well-to-do
farmer, of middle age, and Mrs.
Heath is some younger than her hus
band. The numerous (members of
the Heath household are of all ages
and sizes, and comprise one of the
happiest families in the section. Sev
eral are grown, and all of them ro
bust and healthy.
Salisbury. "I am over from the old
country and deposited in the United
States treasury at Philadelphia $9,000
in 1795 I am wounded and about to
die. Whoever finds this can collect
the money. H. A. Harkey." An old
piece of flat copper plate found on
the farm of J. S. Hall, in Rowan coun
ty, contains the above inscription. It
was shown Senator Lee S. Overman,
now in Salisbury, who will investigate
the records at Washington, and ii
found to be genuine an effort will be
made to collect the money.
Gastonia. Oh! yes, the people of
Gastonia are going to celebrate on
the Fourth of July. The city is en
tirely up to it's slogan, "Gastonia is
a busy town."
Wilmington. Countless rumors are
current here to the effect that the
Norfolk Southern Railway is pre
paring to enter Wilmington. One or
more surveying parties have been at
work in the northeastern section of
the county for the past several weeks
and it is said that members of the
parties have stated in answer to in
quiries that they w.ere surveying for
a railroad project.
Raleigh. George Swann, the Red
Springs murderer, is to be taken soon
from the penitentiary, where he has
been held for safe-keeping, to Robe
son county to stand trial for the mur
der of Superintendent George C. Gib
son, of the oil mill there.
Durham. The new fire station,
which makes the third for Duham,
will, be completed by the builders in
the near future, and a little after the
first of July will be turned over to
the city through the fire commission
ers. ' The building is a brick struc
ture of two stories and is located on
East Main street.
LITTLE HOPE OF All
EARLY SOLUTION
OF THE BIG DEADLOCK AT THE
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CON
VENTION. FIGHT MAY LAST FOR DAYS
Wilson People Propose to Stand Firm
Underwood Forces Unwilling to
Yield and Will Keep Their Man In
. the Race to the End.
Baltimore. Hope of nomination
Mi the twenty-seventh ballot for Pres
ident was practically abandoned by
Democratic leaders Sunday night.
When the national convention ad
journed for Sunday it was believed
that some solution of the long dead
lock would result , from conferences
between the champions of the three
leading candidates, but it developed
that the time hal not arrived for the
withdrawal of either Speaker Clark,
Governor Wilson or Representative
Underwood. It was not expected that
the first ballot Monday would differ
materially from the twenty-sixth.
Campaign managers possible might
have reached some agreement if in
terested in the deadlock had not been
dwarfed by the personal controversy
developed between William J. Bryan,
and Speaker Clark. The visit of Mr.
Clark to Baltimore overshadowed
everything else.
Party leaders generally took the po
sition, notwithstanding the Missou
rian's impassioned denial of Mr.
Bryan's imputation that he was be
holden to Morgan, Belmont and Ryan,
that he would be unable to regain the
votes he had lost. At the same time
many of them thought that sympa
thy for Mr. Clark and the inevitable
linking of Bryan and Wilson In the
minds of delegates, by reason of the
New Jersey candidate having been
the beneficiary of the votes turned
away from Mr. Clark by the Nebras
kan's phillipic, had injured the chance
of , Wilson's nomination.
If Clark and Wilson fall on the
next two or three ballots it was pre
dieted that there would be a turn to ,
Representative Underwood, who had
held his normal vote from first to last.
The following is the result of Satur
day's balloting:
Thirteenth Ballot. Clark 554; Wil
son 356 1-2 ;y Underwood 115 1-2; Har
mon 29; Marshall 30; Foss 2; Bryan 1.
Fourteenth Ballot. Clark 550; Wil
son 362; Underwood 113; Harmon 29;
Marshall 30; Bryan 2; Kern 2.
Fifteenth Ballot. Clark 552; Wilson
362 1-2; Underwood 110 1-2; Harmon
29; Marshall 30; Bryan 2; Kern 2.
Sixteenth Ballot. Clark 551 ; Wilson
362 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; Harmoa
29; Marshall 30; Bryan 1; Kern 2.
Seventeenth Ballot Clark 545! Wil
son 362 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; Har
mon 29; Marshall 30; Kern 4 1-2;
Bryan 1.
Eighteenth Ballot.-;iark 535; Wil
son 361; Underwood 125; Harmon 29;
Marshall 30; Kern 3 1-2; Bryan 1.
Nineteenth Ballot Clark 532; Wil
son 358; Underwood 130; Harmon 29;
Marshall 30; Kern 1; Bryan 7.
Twentieth Ballot Clark 512; WI1
son 388 1-2; Underwood 121 1-2; Har
mon 29; Marshall 30; Kern 1;' Bryan
1; Foss 2; James 3.
Twenty-First Ballot Clark 508;
Wilson 395 1-2; Underwood 118 1-2;
Harmon 29; Marshall 30; Kern 1;
Foss 5.
t Twenty-Second Ballot. Clark 500 1-2
Wilson 396 1-2; Underwood 115; Mar
shall 30; Foss 43; Bryan 1; Kern 1.
Twenty-Third Ballot. Clark 497 1-2;
Wilson 399; Underwood 114 1-2; Mar
shall 30; Foss 45; Bryan 1; Gaynor 1
Twenty-Fourth Ballot Clark 496;
Wilson 402 1-2; Underw.ood 115 12;
Foss 43; Marshall 30; Bryan 1.
Twenty-Fifth Ballot Clark 469;
Wilson 405; Underwood 108; Foss 43;
Marshall 30; Harmon 29; Bryan 1;
James 3.
Twenty-Sixth Ballot Clark 463 1-2;
Wilson 407; Underwood 112 1-2; Har
mon 29; Marshall 30; Bryan 1; Fosa
43; absent 1 1-2; total 1,088.
Several Big Breaks Are Expected.
Baltimore. Denial was made Sun
day night of a report that the Illinois
delegation, which has been for Speakei
Clark throughout would go to Wilson
on the first ballot Monday.
It was reported also that the Indian
delegation, which had been held intacl
for Governor Marshall would split
Several delegates said this might oc
cur as the delegation was not bound
by the unit rule. The Iowa delegation
also was reported as preparing to
swing to some candidate other than
Clark.
Candidates Rest on Their Oars.
Washington. "There is no change
in the situation that I can see," said
Speaker Clark. "It is exactly as it
was when the convention adjourned
Saturday night. I went over to Balti
more to see some of my friends be
cause it was more convenient for me
to go to see them than for them to
come to see me. I have no Intention
of going to Baltimore again. "My
friends tell me that this is the time
for me to stay In the race," said Rep
resentative Oscar W. Underwood of
Alabama.