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VOL. XXXIV.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. d, JULY 24, 1912.
NO. 50.
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 AH
Parts of World.
Southern.
Bruce A. Hodges, a railway mail
ilerk, was instantly killed and sev
eral others seriously injured when
the New York and Memphis train
No. 25 was wrecked on the Southern
railway five miles south of Bristol,
Tenn. The cause of the wreck is
not known. The tender of the engine
left the rails on a reverse curve and
although the tender turned over, it
did not go down the bank, while the
mail car, combination baggage and
colored car and two day coaches went
down the 25-foot embankment.
Henry East, a notorious white crim
inal who was serving eighteen months
for burglary committeed at Florence,
Ala., escaped from a Louisville and
Nashville train at Cooper's Station,
Ala., while in charge of the state
agent en route to the state peniteni
ary from the coal mines. The train
was moving at a rapid rate of speed.
Three months ago East jumped from
a moving train while being taken
from Birmingham to Wetumpka, but
was recaptured. Bloodhounds are on
his trail.
Bob Harris, a crazy negro, on a
rampage at Tampa, killed 3 persons,
wounded two others, one of whom
was white, and himself was slain by
policemen after a siege in which gas
oline was used to burn him out of a
house. He was insane from drugs.
He first went to the house of a wom
an and killed her and a man he found
there. He then went to another house
and fired on a woman with a baby.
The former was slain. On his way
out he shot another negress, Virginia
Simpkins, who is expected to die, and
a white policeman named -Riggs.
When he made a dash for liberty he
was shot and killed.
Two white men and four negroes
were killed in an explosion in the
mines of the Gayton Coal company,
15 miles from Richmond, Va. The
men were at work when the explosion
occurred, and it is supposed that the
premature setting off of a "shot' or
charge of blasting powder was the
cause. None of the men working
near enough to the explosion to know
its cause escaped.
General.
The army worm is playing havoc
frith the cotton crop in the lowlands,
especially on the Georgia side of the
Chattahoochee river, and the farmers
ire busy with paris green and arse
aate of lead in an effort to cut short
its ravages. The army worm was dis
covered to be at work, and they have
:aken time by the forelock. The low
iands have been the first to suffer
sn account of the swamp conditions
Df the fields that has resulted from
:he continued rains. As yet the hilly
country is free from the caterpillar, it
s reported.
John W. Wade, Sr., who became a
"esident of Atlanta, Ga., when he
brought here two of the first locomo
tives ever used in this state, and who
it one time was engineer of the fam
dus old "Texas," which played so dra
matic a part in the Civil war, died
in Atlanta in the 88th year of his
life.
Herman Rosenthal, the proprietor
of a New York City gambling house,
whose sensational charges that the
police were guilty of grafting and
oppression were to be investigated,
svas shot down and killed in front of
:he Hotel Metropole by five men who
escaped in a big gray automobile. Ro
senthal was murdered only a few
lours before he was to appear in the
lome of District Attorney Whitman
n an attempt to substantiate his
charge that the police were grafting
in gambling houses.
Hubert Latham, the Anglo-French
iviator, was killed last month by a
"ild buffalo while hunting in the
rench Congo. The governor general.
if French-Equatorial Africa, in tele
graphing the news to the minister
the. colonies, says Latham was out
'ith a number of natives in the forest
vhen he shot and wounded a buffalo,
'hich immediately charged him and
rored and trampled him to death.
The market for live boll weevils
closed with a total stock of 475,000
ngs bought since June 29 at 5 cents
er hundred. The insects were cap
ered in Adams county. It is said most
if the bugs are not genuine.
Cuba is now freed of scourge sus
picion. The plague suspect at Havana
ias "proved a negative."
Counterfeiting apparatus and one
prisoner, George Spafford, were cap
ered by United States officers in the
electrical shop . on Dauphine street,
hree blocks from Canal, New Or
gans. No coin was found, but molds
25 and 50-cent pieces were found.
The freight steamer G. J. Grammer
"as sunk in a collision with the
reighter Northern Queen, just north
if Port Huron, Mich. The boat sank
n 26 feet of water. The crew was
iken off in small boats.
Russia is considering a gigantic
iian to connect by canal the Volga
iver and the Black sea.
IN
Prize fight moving pictures became
a thing of the past in the United
States when the house passed a sen
ate bill prohibiting the transportation
of such moving picture films between
the various states and territories or
from foreign countries. Heavy fines
for violation of the proposed law are
fixed by the bill. Southern members
of congress were especially interested
in the proposed law because of the
race feeling stirred up by the exhibi
tion of the Jeffries-Johnson moving
pictures in their section of the coun
try. The signature is impending of a
pact establishing a defensive alliance
between Russia and Japan. This mo
mentous development would seem to
be connected with the approaching
trip to Russia of the Japanese states
man, Prince Katsura, but his visit is
a mere coincidence. The actual agree
ment was fully concluded and will
be signed for Japan by Baron Motono,
the Japanese ambassador to Russia,
who was .its negotiator and prime
mover.
Twenty lives were reported lost in
a cloudburst that wiped out the small
town of Seven Troughs, Nev. From
Lovelock, near Seven Troughs, came
word that seven persons are known
to be dead, and that the hotel at
Mazuma had been turned upside
down by the rush of waters. Com
munication by wire was badly crip
pled, and the roads were so furrow
ed that automobiles were obliged to
make wide detours. A mile of track
of the Nevada and California railroad,
a branch of the Southern Pacific, was
washed out between Mino and Keeler.
A compromise has been effected in
New York City between the steamship
lines and the cotton shippers in the
dispute over the refusal of the steam
ship companies to issue ocean bills
of lading for cotton shipments after
September 1 unless the railroads de
livered the cotton thoroughly covered
and entirely free from all evidence of
damage. The demand of the steam
ship lines was virtually for better bal
ing of cotton because of damage they
were often forced to pay for cotton
they said was damaged before it was
received for shipment. The cotton
shippers met this demand with the
statement that it would be impracti
cable and unnecessary to cover the
sides of bales.
Wliingrton.
Severe criticism of government
methods of erecting public buildings
is contained in the reports of the
house committee on expenditures in
public buildings submitted to the
house. The committee points out ex
travagance and waste and possibili
ties of fraud in public expenditures
after making it clear its investiga
tions were made with no desire to
discover any scandal in the public
service. The committee makes the
recommendation that government
buildings be standardized.
The full details of the parcels post
provision have finally been agreed up
on by the senate committee on post
office and post-rpads, settling this
long and heated controversy over this
subject. The compromise agreement
is based on the zone system. The
plan is a departure from the estab
lished system of a uniform rate of
postage regardless of distance trav
eled, for the rate is increased as the
distance the package must be trans
ported is increased. The highest rate
on domestic parcels, however, will
not exceed the international postal
rate of 12 cents a pound of $1.32 for
a 11-pound package which is the limit.
The still small voice of conscience,
pleading with Americans who in vari
ous ways had defrauded the United
States government brought to the Fed
eral treasury during the fiscal year
of 1912 just closed a total of $6,514.
This amount came from several hun
dred people, the identity of all un
known, and makes an aggregate of
$431,801, thus paid into the treasury.
As the money is received it is imme
diately turned into the general fund
Postmaster General Frank M. Hitch
cock told the senate committee ..in
vestigating the campaign contribu
tions of 1904 and 1908 that the rec
ords of the fund used in President
Taft's election ,as filed in Albany, N.
Y., were absolutely correct, and that ;
he could not supplement these re
ports by testimony. Mr. Hitchcock
said the total collected through va
rious agencies in 1908 was $1,655,
518.87. Of this amount $620,150 was
collected in various states and han
dled by the local state committees.
The national house of representa
tives unanimously passed the Sulzer
bill creating , a department of labor.
This, bill creates the tenth seat in
the president's cabinet. It establishes
th denartment of labor and changes
the present department of commerce
and labor to the department ot com
Ttiprne. A secretary of labor, three as
sistant secretaries, a solicitor, a chief
clerk, a disbursing clerk and other
minor employees are provided. The
commissioner general of immigration,
the commissioner of labor and several
nthpr hi eh officials now in the depart
ment of commerce and labor are shift- j
ed over to the new department.
Sweeping reductions in express
rates averaging in general, approxi
mately 15 per cent.; drastic reforms
in regulations and practices, and com
prehensive changes in the methods
of operation, are prescribed in a re
port made public by the interstate
commerce commission .of its investi
gation Into the business of the thir
teen great express companies of the
United States. The inquiry was the
most extensive, and in wealth of in
finite detail, probably the most thor
ough ever prosecuted by the com
mission. It-has been in progress for
nearly three years.
SIMMONS' WORK IN
APPROPRIATIONS
NORTH CAROLINA WILL GET
NEARLY EVERYTHING THAT
WAS ASKED FOR.
WORKED HARD FOR STATE
Carried Larger Amounts Through In
Spite of the Opposition From His
Fellow Conferees Regard His Suc
cess as a Great Victory.
Raleigh. A special from Washing
ton states that North Carolina is to
get nearly all of the appropriations
orginally carried in the rivers and
harbors bill by Senator Simmons. This
is the result secured by Senator Sim
mons, minority conferee of the Sen
ate, in the action taken by the con
ference committee. Senator Sim
mons says there are now only two
items upon which an agreement has
not been reached, and that he hoped
for an agreement on these in the next
few days.
In this matter the House conferees
made a determined fight on the items
in the bill covered by the amend
ments of Senator Simmons , but
agreement was finally reached, at the
amendments he had offered being re
tained. By these amendments Senator Sim
mons obtained $300,000 cash for the
Cape Fear river below Wilmington,
$40,000 cash to begin work on the
harbor of refuge at Cape Lookout;
$100,000 cash for putting into imme
diate use the Albemarle and Chesa
peake canal, this canal to be pur
chased by the government. The orig
inal amendment as to this canal, of
fered by Senator Simmons, was for
the building of a dredge, but he was
able to exchange this for the $100,000
cash for immediate improvement of
the canals, and he expresses himself
as greatly pleased with this, as the
canal is somewhat dilapidated and
needs immediate attention. Besides
these his' amendments for surveys
w.ere all retained without a change.
As a result of the agreement made,
Senator Simmons gets $700,000 for
use at once for the Cape Fear, for
Cape Lookout harbor, and the Albe
marle and Chesapeake canal. His
friends regard the success he met
with as a big victory.
Halifax Farmers' Union Meet.
At a largely attended meeting of
the Halifax County Farmers' Union,
held at Halifax, the union in execu
tive session went on record in the
form of resolutions against section 8
of the postoffice appropriation bill
now pending in Congress. The reso
lution declares that this section,
which has to do with the establish
ment of a parcels post, is not what
the people want and have been asking
for. Moreover, it is provided that
copies of the resolutions be sent to
the North Carolina representatives in
both branches of Congress with re
quest to act against the measure.
Memorial Meeting of Wake Bar.
A memorial meeting of the Wake
county bar was held in the court
house at Raleigh to offer resolutions
of esteem and respect to the late
Gov. Chas. B. Aycock and Hon. R. H.
Battle. The resolutions were 'drawn
by a committee appointed for the
purpose by the bar soon after the two
deaths.
Take No Action On Bridge Question.
The members of the board of
Mecklenburg county commissioners
met at Cornelius in conference with
the members of the board of Lincoln
county in regard to the building of a
bridge over the Catawba three miles
from Cornelius, connecting Mecklen
burg with 'a rich section of Lincoln
Agitation has been in progress in re
gard . to such a movement for some
w.hile, but the first step was taken
at this meeting. No action, however,
will be taken until the situation has
been looked into by both boards.
A Near-Wreck At Edgemont.
What might have been a serious
wreck was narrowly averted by the
presence of mind of Engineer Fen
nel at Edgemont. Just as passenger
train No. 101 of the Carolina and
North-Western was nearing Edge
mont and rounding a sharp curve the
engineer caught sight' of a large tree
in the act of falling across the track
and at once threw cn the emergency
brakes but was too close to stop be
fore running into the tree. The en-
gine crashed into it hut not wffh
force enough to do much damage.
Four Tragedies In Four Days.
Charlie Lovett, a negro, was shot
and killed by Frai-k McPherson, also
colored, about six miles west of Fay
etteville. The killing which resulted
from a quarrel over a dog, completes
the list of four . tragedies enacted in
this county in four days. McPherson
has not yet been taken. Charles
Mainor, a ninteen-year-old negro op
erative in one of the Ashley silk
mills, has been arrested in connection
with the death of the negro, Pierce
Freeman, who was found dead on a
railroad track.
LAND FOR APPALACHIAN PARK
8,000 Acre Transfer to Be Made of
Preserve in McDowell County in
the Near Future.
Washington. In the near future
the government will pay to North
Carolinians about $55,200 for .8,000
acres of land in McDowell county for
the Appalachian Park under the
Weeks law. This will be the first
cash to pass hands in North Carolina
for lands under that measure. The
price an acre agreed upon is $6.90.
The titles have been cleared and all
that remains to be done is" to fix defi
nitely the number' of acres included
in the purchase.
The 8,000 acre tract lies on Curtis
and other headwater streams of the
Catawba river in McDowell county,
near Old Fort. The land was pur
chased from the Burke-McDowell
Company, Manly McDowell, W. C.
Ervin and others of Morganton, nego
tiating the deal. Mr. Ervin is here
closing the trade and preparing to
turn over the land.
It has taken months to clear the
titles to the land of the company but
it will require much more time to
clear the titles of other North Caro
lina lands contracted for .under the
Weeks bill.
Government experts here claim that
they have never had a "more difficult
task to get good titles. New Eng
land conditions are different, and bet
ter progress has been made.
Immediately upon the transfer of
the McDowell land, the government
will assume charge and take steps
to prevent the outbreak of fires and
to protect the property generally.
Interest In Progress of Railroad.
The people of North Carolina feel
a genuine interest in the progress of
the Norfolk Southern, and they will
be gratified that President Lamb
states that the affairs of that road
are in satisfactory condition and that
the extensive additions to and im
provemens in the road are to be
pushed. The linking up of the Ral
eigh, Charlotte and Southern Rail
road, a division of the Norfolk
Southern, is a matter of deep inter
est, for this will mean the opening
up of a splendid section of the state.
The management of the road shows
a progressive spirit, and its relations
with the people are on the most
pleasant terms. In Raleigh the link
ing up of the system is being accom
plished speedily, the work being done
here being an index of the progressive
spirit of the road. That construction
of important links is being pushed
gives proof that business methods are
being used. North Carolina is find
ing in the road a valuable factor in
the deevlopment of the state.
Mail Clerk Must Answer To Charge.
W. H. Baird, former mail clerk be
tween Asheville and Spartanburg, whe
was under charge of robbing the mails
and would have been tried during the
1908 term of Federal court, had he
not jumped his bond, was captured in
Texas, according to advices received
by the local postal authorities. He
will be brought back here and will
be tried at the next term of the Uni
ted States district court. The of
fence, which Baird is charged, is said
to have been committed in 1908.
while he was acting as mail clerk,
and the evidence is alleged to have
been furnished by secret service
men, who claimed that they caught
up with him by means of marked
bills placed in letters.
Confederate Veterans' Reunion.
Major General Julian S. Carr, North
Carolina Division, United Confederate
Veterans, through his adjutant gen
eral and chief of staff, Maj. H. A
London, of Pittsboro, has issued gen
eral orders No. 48 as follows: "Para
graph 1. The annual reunion of the
North Carolina Division of the Uni
ted Confederate Veterans will be held
at Winston-Salem on the 7th and 8th
of August, 1912, those dates having
been designated by our hosts for
their convenience, and a cordial in
vitation is extended by them to all
the Confederate veterans in this
state to attend. All who were so for
tunate as to be present at the reunion
held four years ago in the Twin City
will no doubt be pleased to enjoy that
pleasure again.
Session Has Been Satisfactory.
The firs month of the two months'
session at the State Normal and In
dustrial College has closed. In -point
of number in attendance and" charac
ter, of work done the session has thus
far been very satisfactory. About 200
earnest ' teachers have been enrolled.
They have shown almost without ex
ception a deep interest in every
phase of the work offered. One of
the most attractive and beneficial
features offered and that which has
proven most helpful to the teachers
is the demonstration work.
Institutes For Mecklenburg.
Preparations have been made for
holding the regular farmers insti
tutes in Mecklenburg county this
summer at the following places and
dates: Huntersville, August 10; Pine
vllle, August 12; Dixie, August 13;
Matthews, August 13. The institutes
at Huntersville, Pineville and Dixie
will be conducted by Dr. W. G. Christ
man, state veterinarian; Mr. Hen
dricks, of Davie county; Mrs. Sue V.
Hollowell and Miss Hudgins, the twe
latter conducting the women's institutes.
WILL CALL MEETING
CHAIRMAN WEBB ANSWERS GOV
ERNOR KITCHIN'S LETTER
REGARDING MATTER.
WILL FIX AN EARLY DATE
The Chairman Thinks That the Demo
cratic Meeting Should Not Be Held
- Until After the Advisory Committee
Has Been Appointed.
Asheville. Hon. Charles A. Webb,
chairman of the state Democratic
executive committee, answered the
letter from Governor Kitchin calling
on him as chairman o fthe committee
to call the committee together as
soon as possible for the purpose of
giving a plain and definite construc
tion of the words "Democratic
ticket."
Mr. Webb calls the attention of
Governor Kitchin to the construction
placed upon the words at the recent
meeting of the Democratic commit
tee by J. W. Bailey, E. L. Travis, A.
D. Watts, Walter Clark and others
who in effect, agreed upon an inter
pretation of the ords. Mr. Webb
calls attention to the fact that when
it appeared that there was little if
any disagreement among these gen
tlemen as to the meaning of these
words Mr. Bailey offered a resolution
that the words, "Democratic ticket,"
mean national, congressional, legisla
tive, state and county ticket. Mr.
Watts also offered an amendment
that it was also the sense of the com
mittee that any elector who in the
regular election of November 5, 1912.
voted for any Republican should not
be premitted to vote in the senator
ial primary.
Mr. Webb also announces his in
tention of fixing an early date for the
meeting of the committee but that
he thinks it should not be held until
after the appointment of the advisory
committee. He says he is anxious to
have the meeting of the state com
mittee with the advisory committee
in August preferably after the state
Republican convention and the na
tional Roosevelt convention.
Tar River Gives Up The Dead.
Greenville. At last the efforts of
the searchers who had been constant
ly at their task for nearly forty hours
extending through two nights and a
day, have been rewarded and Tar
river has yielded up the bodies of the
three boys held beneath its murky
waters for several days. The body of
Robert Hardee the 12-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Hardee, of Green
ville, was the first recovered. It came
to the surface near the scene of the
drowning. The bodies of Theodore
Tucker, aged eighteen .and Elbert
Tucker, aged twelve, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. S. D. Tucker, w.ere found a few
hours later by gas boats that were
patrolling up and down the river.
No Progressive Party For This State
Charlotte. The political wiseacres
in this neck of the woods have doped
it out according to statute law that
the third termer's progressive party
will have no representation on the
state board of elections, nor cn the
county board of election, nor by the
judges or clerks at the various voting
places. The statute, cited is an act
of the North Carolina legislature
specifying that a party within the
meaning of the act of the legislature
dealing with elections held within
the starte shall mean "every political
party or organization whose candi
date for governor received as many
as 50,000 votes in the election.
Governor Wilson Unable To Accept.
Raleigh. Replying to Governor
Kitchin, who joined in the invitaions
by the Wilson Democratic c,lub of
Asheville, to Governor Woodrow Wil
son and Governor Marshall to come
to Asheville for jthe ratification jubl:
lee, to be held there, Governor Wilson
regrets that it will be impossible for
him to accept, and Governor Marshall
says he will visit Asheville if his du
ties and the wishes of the national
committee will admit of such a trip.
Work For Good Roads Association.
Charlotte. Should the legislature
make an appropriation to aid coun
ties in engineering work in cases
where such work is demanded by the
county's needs? This question Is
one that is receiving - considerable
thought from persons interested in
better roads and will be considered
very seriously by the North' Carolina
Goods Roads Association at its con
vention in this city August 1 and 2. At
that time a bill providing for this
will be submitted, prior to its being
submitted to the general assembly.
Bright Prospects For Crops,
Scotland Neck. A prominent farm
er of this section states that there is
the brightest prospect for one of the
biggest corn crops throughout this
section ever seen, and' unless there
occurred some unexpected disaster the
majority of the farmers would make
an abundance of corn. This gentle
man said this w.ould apply largely to
the other crops. He said there was
considerable grass growing in many
places, caused by so much rain, yet
with a few days of sunshine this
could be easily overcome.
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Have Been Gotten Together With
Care By the Editor.
Washington, D. C. Lexington was
designated a postal savings deposi
tory of the second class, the designa
tion to become effective August 15.
Raleighj If the statement of J. B.
Umphries, a young white man of
Eagle Rock, is true, one of the bold
est robberies ever committed in this
section occurred when Umphries was
held up at the point of a pistol and
relieVed of $27 in cash.
Monroe. The -county - Republican
convention met here, elected J. J. Par
ker chairman of the convention, Hen
ry Baucom secretary, and adopted a
platform for use in the coming cam
paign. The convention then adjourned
to meet August 10. V
Wilson. Near Elm City, B. J. Sharp
had the misfortune to lose a valuable
barn of tobacco by fire. All of the
men residing in the neighborhood
were at the polls, and before assist
ance could arrive the "weed" and
barn had gone up in smoke.
Pittsboro. The Chatham county
teachers' institute for white teachers
is being conducted in the graded
school auditorium by Prof. R. W. Al
len of Sanford, assisted by Mrs D. L.
Ellis of Biltmore. The attendance is
unusually large, there being between
50 and 60 white teachers and over 30
colored teachers.
Raleigh. Notice of the commuting
of the sentence of William Munn, oi
Cumberland county, who has been in
prison since' August, 1903, and of the
pardon of Frail Durham, who in the
fall of 1905 was sentenced to fourteen
years in the state's prison for murder
in the second degree, was made pub
lic by Gov. Kitchin.
Raleigh. There has been an ex
change of courts between Judge M.
H. Justice, who will conduct the
Union county court, beginning August
19th, for two weeks, and Judge R. B.
Peebles, who will preside at Louis
burg, Franklin county, for one week
beginning August 19th, and at Nash
ville, Nash county, for the week be
ginning August 26th.
Roxboro. The town having recent
ly sold an issue of bonds amounting
to $22,500 for street improvement is
having its main street graded and
paved with bituminous macadam, ce
ment curb and , gutter and cement
sidewalks. The sidewalks are laid at
the expense of the property owners
while the town pays for the road way
and curb" and gutter.
Raleigh. There have been 353 new
automobiles licensed by the secretary
of state for North Carolina owners
during the first 15 days of July, the
value of the machines licensed each
day of the half month averaging over
$20,000 per day. This record is twice
that of the record of the half of July,
1911, and is far ahead of all previous
records in the state. 1
Charlotte. Are the Piedmont &
Northern Lines, the great system of
trolley roads which the Duke interests
are holding throughout Piedmont Car
olina with Charlotte the center to be
the nucleus of a still greater system
that will be extended north into Vir
ginia and south into Georgia, some
what after the fashion of the great
trolley systems of the Middle West?
Raleigh. Judge Ferguson in supe
rior court dismissed the case of W. E.
Stinson in his suit against the Wake
county commissioners in which Stin
son was suing for $800 salary which
he claimed to be due because . fhe
commissioners removed him he alleg
ed without cause and elected his suc
cessor as supervisor of roads. Stin
son's counsel gave notice of an ap
peal to the supreme court.
Raleigh. The people of Raleigh
are anticipating with particular pleas
ure a lecture that is to be delivered
here by Dr. David Starr Jordan of
Leland Stanford University, Cali
fornia. He comes in the interest -of
the great world peace crusade that is
under way.
Statesville. Nearly every farmer
who comes to town has something to
say about crop conditions. The con
tinued showers throughout this sec
tion are having a fine effect on eorn,
the principal crop, and it is the opin
ion that this year's "bumper" crop
w,ill surpass all former "bumpers."
Statesville. The Iredell Blues, the
local military company, consisting of
3 officers and 45 men left for More
head City, where they will go ,into
camp with other companies at Fort
Glenn. The company is E, First
North Carolina Regiment, national
guard. 1
Charlotte. Charlotte improvement
bonds in the sum of $665,000 have
been bought at premium by a local
banking concern within the past year
and now this company gives notice
that it will be prepared to take over
a fresh issue on the first of August,
paying contract price. ,
Charlotte. Charlotte is in the ter
ror of an epidemic of housebreakings,
no less than a dozen having occurred
in different parts of the city within
the past week. One house was hon
ored with three separate visits by the
thieves.'
Charlotte. The North Carolina Lu
theran Sunday school workers are
preparing for their annual summer
institute. These assemblies have been
very pleasant and profitable occasions
and the one to be held this year prom
ises to be no exception to the rule. It
will be held at Lenoir College, Hickory
July 29th to August 2nd.
MORE ARRESTS IN
- ROSENTHAL CASE
THE POLICE HAUL IN PARTIES
WHO MAY THROW LIGHT ON
BECKER'S. CONNECTION.
THE OFFICERS ARE RETICENT
Jack Sullivan is Said to Have Been
With "Bald Jack Rose" on the Night
of the Murder. Becker Has Not
Been Arrested.
New York. Louis "Bridgie" Web
ber, keeper of an up-town resort, and
Sam Paul, head of the "Sam Paul As
sociation," at the outing of which
threats were made to "get" Herman
Rosenthal, the gambler, were arrested
on the charge of suspicion of homi
cide in connection with the killing o?
Rosenthal.
Jack Sullivan, alleged go-between
between Police Lieutenant . Charles
Becker and "Bald Jack" Rose, the lat
ter already under arrest, was taken in
custody as a material witness.
The arrests were the result of the
activities of Deputy Police Commis
sioner Dougherty who has assumed
active charge, of the police hunt for
the murderers of Rosenthal. More
arrests are expected at any moment,
the commissioner asserted but as to
the nature of these arrests he would
say nothing. ,
When plied with questions as to
the real significance of the last ar
rests the commissioner was reticent.
This much he said definitely:
"Webber and Paul are not charged
with being in the 'murder car' at the
time the fatal shots were fired," nor
are the men who actually did the
shooting, in custody; the arrests do
not clear up the case, by a jug full,
although the police have made ma
terial progress in solving the prob
lem which has busied the police de
partment and the district attorney's
office for a week."
Whether the evidence that has been
obtained leads toward Lieutenant
Becker, charged by Rosenthal with
exacting tribute from New York
gamblers. Commissioner Dougherty
declined flatly to discuss. t
Several Hurt In Auto Wreck.
'New York. Five persons were in
jured, two so seriously they may die,
when an automobile speeding fifty
miles an hour at Cedarhurst, Long
Island, with three men and two women
passengers, struck square against a
tree, turning turtle and flattened in
a wreck. AH the occupants were
hurled to the ground. One of the
most seriously Injured is an unidenti
fied woman, about 24 years of age,
who was richly attired and wore dia
monds of a Value estimated at $2,500
or more! Her skull and jaw were
fractured, and she is believed to be
internally injured. None of the otn
ers would reveal her name.
Five Italians Killed on Ship.
New York. Details of the accident
reported by wireless on the Italian
steamship Principe di Piemonte, in
which five of the crew were killed,
were learned when the vessel arrlv
ed.here from Naples.' A branch steam
pipe burst, filling the fire room and
engine room on the port side with a
great volume of steam. Five men
were rescued from the scalding steam
and carried , to the ship's hospital.
Although every attention was given
them, they wereso badly injured that
they, died within an hour.
No Hope For. Japan's Emperor. -
Tokio. A day of suspense closed
with a bulletin from the Imperial bed
side that practicaly excluded hope
for the recovery of Mutsuhito, Em
peror of Japan. The four physicians
in consultation at the palace announc
ed that his majesty's symptoms were
discouraging. The Emperor had
"been unable to sleep and was delir
ious. His heart actian was weak, hla
pulse 82 and- his respiration 34. The
Emperor's subjects and foreigners
who have lived under his rule ar
united in their anxiety.
People Filched of Many Millions.
Washington. One hundred and
twenty million dollars was filched
from the American people during the
last fiscal year by , swindlers who'
operated largely through the United
States mails, according to a report to
Postmaster General "Hitchcock. Of
those who are alleged to have oper
ated the fraudulent schemes, 1,06
were arrested by postoffice inspectors.
They included persons in all walks
of life, merchants and mechanics,
politicians and, professional men,
paupers and ' millionaires.
Midshipman From Texas Killed.
Minneapolis, Minn.-rWilliam I,.
Bullock of Corsicana, Tex., a midship
man of six weeks standing at the na
val -academy, was killed by falling
from the top of the mainmast of the
"Hartford" to the deck, a distance, of
about a' hundred feet. His neck wa3
briken and he died Instantly. Bui
Jock had' just accomplished a feat
which , tradition demands of a new
midshipman, the climbing of the
mainmast of the "Hartford" and
the transfixing of his cap on the spike
which adorns the top.