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FITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C, OCTOBER 9, 1912.
NO. 9.
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JBRIEF NEWS NOTES
4
i the Busy I
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
W0RLD S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complex Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
Two were killed and three others
subtly injured by the derailment at
jitchen's siding of the Southern rail-
iray passenger train No. 43, en route
from w asmngxon to .auttiii.ii. .nuuc ui
the passengers were hurt. The en
gine and the mail and express cars
turned over, but the coaches and Pull
man sleepers did not leave the track.
Estados Candos, a Spanish store
keeper, was shot to death in front of
his place of business by a mysterious
negro, believed to be the assassin who
has already committed deadly assault
on seven women, two of whom were
white and both of whom were killed
by shots fired through a window.
Candos was sitting in front of his
store at the time he was fired upon.
Viola Denford, the white woman who
iras shot, died at a hospistal. Tam
pa, Fla., is all excitement over these
homicides.
I The extra session of the Florida
II wdaturo artimimprl sifter twn (lavs'
actual time consumed, all bills relat
ing to Jacksonville passing both
houses without debate. The ses
sion's principal work was the pass
ing of a bill giving Jacksonville the
right to bond to the sum of one and
a half million dollars for the purpose
of buying, equipping and maintaining
municipally-owned docks. The entire
expense of the session was borne by
the Jacksonville board of trade.
The South Carolina Democratic ex
ecutive committee, at its session in
Columbia, declared Cole L. Blease,
the incumbent, the Democratic nomi
nee for governor. On the face of the
revised returned Blease had a major
ity of 3,000. ,
la response to a general strike or-
ier issued at Augusta, Ga., the con
ductors and trainmen of the Georgia
railroad are on a strike. Three hun-
men are affected. The strike or
der has been generally obeyed.
Complaint by a convict at Sing
Sing prison, New York, that $1,300
which he had stolen had strangely
disappeared when it came into the
hands of the police, is being inves
tigated. The convict charges that
Lieut. Charles Becker was on desk
duty at the police station at the time
of his arrest.
Two Pullman sleeping cars, four
day coaches and two express cars
hroke away from a rapidly moving
Louisville and Nashville train near
Elkmont, Ala., plunging down an em
bankment, then caught fire and burn-.
ed, but every passenger escaped death
and less than a score received minor
injuries. An express messenger who
was caught in the wreckage of his
car was cremated. The flames spread
so rapidly that occupants of the sleep
ing cars were compelled to flee in
their night clothing, and abandon all
their baggage.
deneraL
William Sulzer, Representative in
Jcongress from Xew York City, was
fciominated for governor of the state
jof New York by the Democratic state
tonvention. it was the seventh time
be had been a candidate for this
omination. His nomination came on
he fourth balolt.when Governor Dix's
pame was withdrawn after it became
trident that he had no chance.
Two hundred and five men are re
ported killed in a battle in which
pout one thousand rebels' and Feder-
pis participated at Aura Pass, not far
rom Monctova, Mexico, according to
Ports reaching Eagle Pass; Texas.
iven Federal officers' are reported
pled. The rebels retreated when re-
M'orcements came up for the Fed
erals. " .
Jose Balado, a Spaniard,' was killed
f ci Juan Ramallero and Jesus Marti-
Pez were fatally wounded in what is
fcUDDflKprl tr haVP hoon miltinv nn
aboard the steamship Brunswick. A
US. with a United States marshal,
rv&s surnmnnfiri hv wireless as the
runswick lay off Fort Dade. The
lead man, the two wounded and one
r-soner were turned over to the mar-
P- Captain Avery of the Bruns-
F'ck formally charged the men with
putinous conduct.
Gunboat" Smith of California
pocked out Jim Savage of Orange,
J-. in the third round of a sched
uled ten-round bout at Madison
quare Garden, New York City. The
lockout hiow was a right upper.
Alfred y. Quiee. brother of ex-
re'Jt- Gov. Quigg of New York, has
"M'u wun larceny 01 $zo,uuu.
e American TJnarl fnnPTosc at At.
."UVt XVWii,. J ill,
? ,.City' x J-' with the declaration
at "more had been accomplished
road improvement during the past
decades than had been done for
J'J0 years previous."
because the landlord of his flat re
ei to turn on the steam heat, Ar-
L" enh down town in Chicago and
c'n m the LaSniio
lotion """uou
Three brothers, Alfred, Fred and
Harry Graves will be bangod at Hali
fax on January 15 for the murder of
Kenneth Lea, near Fort Williams, in
June. The brothers started a quar
rel with Lea, and one of them struck
him with the butt of a p'stol, which
was discharged, mortally wounding
Lea.
The British submarine B 2 was run
down by the Hamburg-American liner
Amerika at Dover. It sank, drown
ing fifteen of the crew. The liner
Amerika appears to have cut the
submarine completely in halves. This
is the sixth disaster to British sub
marines, each of them involving the
loss of from 11 to 15 lives.
Four masked men held up the Kan
sas City Southern passenger train No.
4, northbound, three and a half miles
north of Peteau, Okla., ransacked the
mail, blew the safe in the express
car and escaped into the wood-covered
hills that skirt the railroad at
that point. Their, work done, the
robbers ordered the trainmen to "go
ahead," commanding them not to look
behind, and disappeared into the
woods.
Governor Garranza of the state of
Coahuila, Mexico, is autHority for the
report received .here that 200 rebels
were routed near Santa Elena by
Federals who captured seventy horses
and all equipment. Santa Elena is
near San Bias. Further reports of
the San Bias battle are that 135 reb
els and 35 Federals were killed and
18 Federals wounded. A Federal forca
is en route to Sabinas and a second
detachment is bound for Cuatro Cien
agas to fight rebels.
The 3,500 employees of the Neva
da Consolidated Mining company of
Ely are on a strike. They demand
an increase of wages and other con
cessions. Last week the Nevada Con
solidated Mining company offered the
miners an increase of 25 cents a day,
but refused to treat with a commit
tee from the union.
A joint demand upon China for
immediate payment of arrears on the
Boxer indemnity, about $50,000,000,
has been proposed by Russia to the
other five interested powers. It is
not denied that this movement is in
tended as a sharp and forceful re
buke to the .Chinese government for
contracting loans with independent
bankers in disregard of the warnings
of the powers, and after rejecting the
proposed international loan. No of
ficial intimation has been given as to
what will be the attitude of the Unit
ed States, or of the other powers.
When the city tax books of New
York City were opened to the public,
it was shown that real and personal
property assessable for 1913 totals in
value slightly more than $7,640,000,
000, a net increase of nearly tw hun
dred million dollars over figures for
the present year.
Balkan difficulties have developed
with alarming rapidity to a point
where only a spark is needed to set
the whole of southeastern Europe
aflame. . Three Balkan states Bulga
ria, Servia and Greece by common
consent, have ordered simultaneous
mobilization of their armies and are
making every preparation for imme
diate hostilities.
Washington.
The Mexican government is making
no secret of the fact that it is now
negotiating with the rebel, Zepata,
for peace, according to reports to the
state department in Washington.
"Out of some 1,500,000 deaths an
nually In the United States, at least
630,000 are preventable," declared
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale university,
in his address before the fourth na
tional conservation congress in In
dianapolis, Ind. E. E. Rittenhouse of
New York said: "There is not an ade
quately financed health department in
the United States."
Determined to prevent interference
in Central America by extending pro
tection to foreigners, as well as to
Americans in Nicaragua, and at the
suggestion of the Nicaraguan govern
ment, Rear Admiral Southerland pro
poses to use his marines to drive the
rebels out of their fortified position
on Barranos hill if they persist in
obstructing free communication be
tween Barrancas and Manague. This
step has been decided upon as a re
sult of the request "of the British min
ister at Managua. '
Frederick A. Cleveland, chairman
of the economy efficiency commis
sion, in a statement, outlines the plan
that will be followed in submitting
to congress a budget of public esti
mates' and expenditures, declared that
"by ten years of continuous persist
ent effort, the government could re
duce its' running expenses nearly
$300,000,000 a year.
The explosion of the forward end
of the port turbine, together with the
steam chest, on the torpedo bbat de
stroyer Walker, off Brenton's Reef
lightship, instantly killed Lieut. Don
ald P. Morrison of Washington, D. C,
the chief engineer, and wounded eight
others. The explosion came just as
the Walker started on a full speed
contest in company with other de
stroyers 'of the third group.
Whether American or British me
chanics will make nearly $1,000,000N
worth of armor piercing shells for the
United States navy next year, prob
ably will depend upon a decision by
the- attorney general as to the appli
cability of the eight-hour law to the
contracts for the shells. An English
firm bid lowest for the contracts, but
the American company, which offered
the next lowest price, now claims
that the, bid was made with the un
derstanding that its establishment
would have to be placed on an eight
hour basis. Otherwise it will make a
big reduction in its figures. j
THE INDICTMENT OE
CONVICT HANDLERS
OF WAKE COUNTY CONVICT
CAMP RETURNED BY THE
GRAND JURY.
THOSE OF THE NIPPER CAMP
Those Who Were Indicted Are Super
intendent Wiggs, J. N. Nipper and
James Johnson. There is Much
Interest Being Shown in Case.
Raleigh. W. L. Wiggs, road super
intendent of Wake county; J. M. Nip
per, superintendent of , the Nipper
camp, and James Johnson, guard,
were indicted by the Wake county
grand jjury and will appear before the
court in January to answer the
charges brought against them by the
jury.
The grand jury made a report to
the court severely condemning the
Nipper camp, and Judge Ferguson de
clined to allow the jury to go without
further investigation. In the follow
ing investigation the body found facts
enough in its mind to proceed and re
turned a bill against Wiggs for failure
to provide clothing, proper sleeping
quarters and incidental things. It
charged him with not having made
sanitary arrangements.
J. M. Nipper and James Johnson
are charged with whipping the white
prisoner, Dan Gallagher, and Mr. Nip
per is indicted with failure to provide
food, clothing and the like. These
cases will not be heard at this term.
Mr. Wiggs was seen and said that
the indictments came as a great sur
prise to him. He s indicted merely
as the head of "the system. He de
clares that the small quarters, against
which so much objection was urged
was necessary a short period on ac
count of being unable to get to big
ger house across a reek over which
there was no bridge. He does not
think there has been a time when the
prisoners were not well-fed and can
not remember any occurrence in
which the clothing was noticeably dis
graceful. All the men feel deeply the situa
tion and are greatly worried over it.
Mr. Wiggs says, in defense of the
charge of flogging Gallagher, that he
was an Irishman who would not talk
and failed to indicate his feelings if it
was one of illness.
Politics in Henderson County.
In the largest and most enthusiastic
county Democratic convention ever
held, the Democrats named a strong
ticket and are now in fine shape to
fight the enemy. The ticket named is
as follows: For sheriff J. W. Car
son, chief of police of Hendersonville.
For representative J. P. Patton. For
registrar of deeds C. S. Corpening.
For county commissioners R. K.
Stepp, W. B. Maxwell and J. P. Max
well. For tax collector C. V. Shep
herd, renominated. For county sur
veyor George W. Lyde. For county
coroner Dr. Guy E. Dixon.
Socialist Ticket In Rowan.
A full legislative and county ticket
has been put out by the Socialist par
ty in Rowan and includes the follow
ing nominees. For Congress, eighth
district, Walter H. Jenkins of Row
an; state senate, E. P. Deal of Spen
cer; legislature, Thomas H. Stewart
and H. C. Buck of Spencer; trial Jus
tice Rowan county court, John Riden
hour, Salisbury; foi sheriff, W. C.
Crowell; county treasurer, C W. Mc
Carn, register od deeds, C. M. Jen
kins; township tax collector, J. B. Don
evant; for county commissioners, G.
W. Davis, Cicero Ridenhour, C. E.
Kneeburg, J. F. McCarn, Sr., and A.
L. Cousins.
Approve of Fire Observance Day.
Insurance Commissioner Young says
he has received many letters from
every section of the state expressing
hearty approval of fire observance
day. October 9, and he feels confident
of amkingthe day a success.
Runaway Box Car Wrecks Bridge.
Forty feet of the Piedmont Toll
bridge on the Rowan side was torn
down as a result of a runaway box
car, which broke loose on a switch.
The car dashed against a row of
"bad order" cars on a dead track,
driving them . into the bridge at the
end of the line. The wooden portion
was demolished, the gates torn down
and traffic on the National Highway
stopped for 24 hours. The Southern
wrecking crew pulled the cars out,
and a bridge gang set to work at once
to replace the highway bridge.
Has Admitted Shooting Conductor.
Jack Holmes, a negro who shot and
'tilled Archie B. Morgan, for several
years conductor on the Norfolk and
Western railroad yard at Winston-Salem
confessed that he did the shoot
ing, after being confronted with the
pistol which did the fatal work and
the hat and coat worn by Holmes.
Mack Tyson, colored,-who was with
Holmes admitted that Jack killed
Morgan. Both allege that the white
man was endeavoring to shoot Holmes
when the latter wrenched the pistol
from his biiifcia and fired.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR
Automobiles One of the Features
Big Event This Year to Have Many
Attractive Features.
Raleighj Thirty-four automobiles,
the finest makes sold in the state,
have entered for- the state fair, begin
ning October 14 and running through
the 19th.
These come from Raleigh, Char
lotte, Henderson, Louisburg and
Rocky Mount. These go into compe
tition for prizes and no one feature
will be more interesting. This was
the latest development and from now
until the " fair is formally opened,
there will be something' ' daily new
and interesting.
In nearly every department, there
is a 50 per cent improvement over
all predecessors. Last year's exhibi
tion far surpassed anything Lefore un
dertaken. It was not such a radical
and sweeping betterment, however.
This year, encouraged by the success
of the last, the management will pre
sent the greatest attractions, the
largest number of horses and the most
magnificent prizes offered at any
North Carolina exposition.
In tobacco alone, the fair is giving
$350. This is likewise a newly an
nounced feature. Three hundred and
fifty dollars is to go to the tobacco
raisers of the state is an unknown
prize. It will stimulate the interest
in the tobacco test farm which is
a new agricultural feature for . the
department of state.
Plans have been announced for the
decoration of a large number of auto
mobiles advertising fhe business of
men and set off with attractive slo
gans. An expert decorator is here
now from New York. If the agree
ment is completed, there will be seventy-five
or more of these in the pa
rade. Representing what the state has
done in education, the department has
arranged for an exhibit and the Uni
ted States government will have some
of its machinery for roadbuilding on
exhibition. These will be accompa
nied by lecturers who know how to
tell it.
Politics in Moore County.
Dissesions political amongst the
Republicans of Moore county are be
ginning to make themselves evident.
The friends of Mr. H. F. Seawell, who
was a Roosevelt nominee for the
judgeship which Taft defaulted to
Judge Connor, rather dominated in
the late county convention, and put
out a Progressive ticket. Still, there
is a sprinkling of Taft men in the
neighborhood. A small gathering of
the latter met in the court house at
Carthage and selected a county chair
man. It is said that they also intend
to put out a ticket. The Democrats
are united on the question of the
county and state tickets, but there is
a bit of muddle in regard to the sena
torial situation.
Political Situation In Duplin.
The Bull Moosers of Duplin held
their convention at Kenansville. It
was the same old gang of Republicans
under a new name. They endorsed
Teddy, ignored T?,ft and nominated a
full county tickec with J. J. Best for
the legislature, who is at present re
siding in Franklin county as principal
of the Youngsville high school. The
postmatsers were conspicuous for
their absence, although it is said they
are for Teddy. And Bull Moosers of
the first water, J. B. Winders, post
master at Warsaw, Taft's appointee,
was elected chairman of the Progres
sive party at Warsaw Township, and
H. J. Faison, one time Democrat, next
Populist, then Republican and at
present Bull Mooser, was made chair
rxfan of the county.
Warrant For City of Fayetteville.
A warrant citing the City of Fay
etteville to answer in the United
States court for the Eastern District
of .North Carolina at Raleigh on the
fourth Monday in November, as de
fendant in an action instituted by F.
I. .McGuire of Norfolk was served on
the mayor of that city by a United
States deputy marshal. . The action is
!or recovery of. $1,649,68,. due for pav
ing laid there by McGuire which bal
ance the municipal officials refused to
pay owing to the claim that the pav
ing is not according to specifications.
United Upon Progressive Nominees.
The Republican campaign commit
tee, with which was left the power to
name candidates" for the two places
-n the supreme court bench, has uni
fed upon the Progressive nominees,
Judge W. S. O'Robinson of Wayne,
and-T. T. Hicks of Henderson. These
two have agreed to run as "Fused"
candidates. At Republiean headquar
ters it is said that the agreement up
on these two gentlemen is a result of
a general desire on the part of the
rank and file to get together on all
matters possible:
Takes Up Freight Rate Matter.
The state corporation commission
has taken up the matter of alleged
discriminatory freight rates to this
state, with the interstate commerce
commission and has requested a con
ference between the members of the
state commission and the national
commission at which time the state
commission has suggested that Mana
ger W. S. Creighton of the Charlotte
Shipper and Manufactxirers Associa
tion be present. Manager Creighton
has been urging the state (jommissior
to take this action for some time.
: i : : ZZIZZIZZZZZIZZ.
MIES HIS REPORT
UNIVERSITY FACULTY'S HAZING
INVESTIGATIONS LAID BE
FORE COMMITTEE.
THE CASE REFERRED BACK
The Synopsis of the Circumstances
Whjch Led to the Expulsion and
Suspension of the Students. Presi
dent F. P. Venable's Report.
Raleigh. After hearing the report
of . President Venable, and listening
to the defense of D. L. McWhorter,
a suspended junior, the executive
committee of the University of North
Carolina declined to go behind the
faculty's probe in the matter of haz
ing last spring and this fall and refer
red such matters back to the faculty.
President Venable made a lengthy re
port in which he said that the faculty,-
in investigations of hazing incident
to the Rand affair, had learned that
sophomores of the previous year had
been guilty and these had, so far as
was possible, been punished by sus
pension. Hazing began at the university this
fall even before registration day. The
first Monday night of opening week
some sophomores made , freshmen
dance. This was followed Tuesday
and Wednesday nights, and on Thurs
day night, the night Rand fell from
the - barrel, three distinct incidents
occurred. Freshmen were made to
dance, Dr. Venable said, but in the
investigation it was shown that no
sophomores laid violent hands on the
freshmen.
Seniors and other upper classmen
interferred, and in one instance, a
sophomore drove a crowd from his
room.. Only 15 men, as far as could
be learned, had been guilty of hazing.
University men and others in Ral
eigh, it is said, do not approve of the
faculty's action in going after last
year's alleged hazers, believing it too
farfetched. Those men suspended or
expelled have been given the privilege
of appealing to the faculty.
After the coroner's inquest and the
meeting of the executive committee
of the trustees the faculty made as
thorough an investigation as possible
not merely of the Rand hazing, but
of all hazing this session and of the
hazing last spring..
.Get Lots of Corn Liquor.
Rockingham. Sheriff Homer D.
Baldwin got wind of a wagon loaded
with corn liquor passing through Rich
mond county. The sheriff and his de
puties were soon on the spot where
the wagon had camped for the night
between Hoffman and Hamlet, about
two miles from the latter place. The
wagon was found in charge of a white
man and a negro, both of whom were
asleep. The vehicle and its contents,
some 200 gallons of the wet "goods in
barrels, were brought into Rocking
ham, and the white man and negro
placed in jail. The wagon was being
drawn through the country from Dan
ville, Va., and the liquor was billed to
T. D. Green, Lancaster, S. C.
Duke Democratic Club.
Duke. There was called a mas
meeting of the voters of Duke and
Duke township to be held in the au
ditorium for the purpose of forming
a Duke Democratic club. The re
sult was most encouraging. A
large number of enthusiastic Demo
crats met and completed the organiza
tion by electing L. E. Stancil as pres
ident and E. E. Thomas secretary and
treasurer. Several committees were
appointed each with a specific work
to do. Mr. Thomas announced that
he was ready to receive contributions
for the campaign fund and a liberal
amount was donated.
Patents For North Carolinians.
Washington. Messrs. Davis & Da
vis, patent attorneys, report the grant
of the following patents to North Car
olina ciitzens: S. J. Dixon, Littleton,
extensible windpw screen;.. J. L. Mil
ler, Goldsbbro, sweet potato vine clip
per; Y. M. Westmoreland, Greens
boro, automatic fire-alarm;; W. E.
Wine, Washington, N. C, ladder two
patents.
Pitt Democrats Elect Chairman.
Greenville. At a meeting, of th
Democratic Executive Committee of
Pitt county, C. C. Pierce was "elected
chairman to succeed F. C. Harding,
who was recently named for presi
dential elector for the first district.
Cleveland Contributes $102.50.
Shelby. Through the efforts of Col
J. T. Gardner, chairman of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of the
county, $102.50 has been subscribed
to the Wilson-Marshall campaign
!und.
Webb Hasn't Enough Men.
Raleigh. Chairman Webb said that
he could not get speakers to talk to
the voters in many sections of the
state, because the prominent leaders
are fighting for one of the three can
didates for Senator. Chairman Webb
says that he has received 36 calls for
Speakers in one day, and that he did
aot have the goods. In one of the
districts 16 speakers are busy for
their favorites for Senator, and in one
district the presidential elector has
resigned so that he can get into the
senatorial fight.
FROM THE TAR HEEL STATE
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Have Been Gotten Together With
Care By the Editor.
Zebulon. All records were broken
several days ago in the sale of tobac
co at Zebulon, all houses being filled
from wall to wall, and the Planters
conducted a second break. Thousands
of pounds are being marketed daily. -
Wake Forest. Rather than answer
for the offense of having stolen a suit
of clothes from a negro pressing club,
in Wake Forest, Frank Wyche, a
young negro man about 24 years of
age, resisted arrest by'offlcer bearing
a warrant, and as a result was killed.
Winston-Salem. Archie Morgan,
aged 30, yard conductor for the Nor
folk & Western, waj shot and killed
here by an unknownw negro. During
an altercation with two negroes one
of them seized Morgan's pistol and
killed him.
Raleigh. The work of putting up
the transmission lines of the Caro
lina Light and Power Company from
Raleigh to Goldsboro, a distance of
forty-five miles, has been completed
and within the next few days the cur
rent will be turned on.
Littleton. Governor Kitchin poke
here in the interest of his candidacy
for the senate. ' The governor was in
excellent condition and held the un
divided interest of his audience for
two hours and twenty- minutes, speak
ing to a crowd conservatively esti
mated at 400.
i
Salisbury. Clarence Trollinger,
who has been held without bail on
account of injuries he inflicted upon
Charlie Woodrum during an affray at
the Southern hotel, was ordered re
leased on $2,500 bond. Woodrum's
condition shows improvement and he
will likely recover.
Raleigh. The solicitor of this dis
trict, Herbert ' E. Norris, gave notice
of appeal and Ridenbark was hecom
mitted . pending the passing of the
supreme court on the point. Judge
Ferguson held that the defendant is
sane now. It is said that this ques
tion has never -been presented in
North Carolina and the case will be
watched with Interest.
Washington Reports coming to
Washington from the Aurora section
of the county state that B?H. Thomp
son, during the past several days has
caught two large black bears on his
farm near Aurora. It seems that the
bears had been stealing his corn and
he set steel traps for them. One
weighed 20 pounds and the other 160
pounds.
Wayesville. While digging sand
under an overhanging bank several
days ago. John Sorrells, an employe
of R. N. Barbour was caught under
a cave-in and completely overwhelm
ed by the mass of fallen earth. Heroic
efforts were put forth by those near
him to dig away the earth and he
was gotten out in about five minutes.
He was so badly crushed, however,
and suffocated that he died in a very
short time.
Dunn. Mr. W. K.' Allen, of Wil
mington has been appointed engineer
for Stewart's Creek Drainage Dis
trict, situated just across Cape Fear
river from Dunn, and is making the
permanent survey of the district.
There are about 8,000 acres of land
in the territory which will be drain
ed, and as it is near town and unusu
ally fine farm land it will add greatly
to the material prosperity of the
county.
Hendersonville. As the senatorial
primary contest draws nearer, inter
est in the race daily increases In this
section. The speech made in Hender
son by Judge . Walter Clark is being
freely distributed throughout this
section, 3,000 copies having been
printed for distribution. On the day
of the speaking a Clark club was
organized here and the members are
busying themselves for the senatorial
aspirant. . .
Asheville. There has been concern
, expressed in this section as to the
disposition of the bumper fruit crop
at good prices. There are so many
apples that there has been some fear
that they could not be disposed of ad
vantageously. Speaking of this ques
tion a 'day or two ago, a prominent
fruit man said that the fruit growers
need have no fear of not getting
good prices for their apples, if they
will "grow the kinds of apples that the
people like.
Wadesboro. Lester Horne, a fifteen-year-old
boy, fell from a scaly
bark tree near Peachland and was
killed instantly. He was alone but
the body was found in a short time.
He fell a distance of fifty feet and
his skull was fractured.
Winston-Salem. The revenue de
rived from the sale of tobacco stamps
at the United States internal revenue
office here for the month of Septem
ber aggregated $393,016.40 which
means that a total of 4,912,670 pounds
of manufactured tobacco were ship
ped last month by Winston-Salem
tobacco manufacturers. t
High Point.-i-The new $20,000 Elks
home is to be built at once. The
plans - have . been finished, contract
signed and excavation will begin in
the near future.
Hendersonville. Judge Walter
Clark spoke here recently in advocacy
of his candidacy for the United States
senate. He had a court house nearly
filled with the voters of Vance, who
were anxious to hear Judge Clark on
the issues of the campaign and espe
cially to hear him define his position
and express his opinion of those who
are in the race for the United States
senate.
NINE KILLED IN
UOI
II E CRASH
GOING AT TERRIFIC SPEED . CAR
BREAKS RAILING OF BRIDGE
FALLING 75 FEET.
THE MACHINE WAS SMASHED
A Wealthy Young Man Was Taking a
Party of Friends Home After an
. Evening Spent in Rioting List of
the Dead Given.
Philadelphia. Nine young men lost
their lives when an automobile in
which they were joy riding crashed
through the railing on the side of the
new Twenty-third Street Boulevard at
Master street and fell into a coal yard
75 feet below. The machine, a big
touring car, turned turtle in the de
scent and v the occupants were found
crushed and mangled in the hood of
the machine. 'The body of the car
was smashed to splinters.
The dead are: Robert A, Boyd, 27
years old; Gordon H. Miller, 21; Wil
liam M. Lawrence, 25; Edgar M.
Shaw, 19; Thomas Nevin, 18; Daniel
J. Wilkes, 25; Jesse Holmes, 23.; Er
nest Schofield, 27; Robert Geisel, 22,
all were from Philadelphia.
Edgar M. Shaw, 19 years old, a son
of James Shaw, a lumber merchant,
who owned the car, was taking a party
of his friends home after an evening
spent in various cafes and saloons.
Nine young men were in the machine
and six others were m a smaller auto
mobile when the party came at ter
rific speed down Thirty-third street.
In turning to avoid the smaller auto
mobile which was in the lead Charles
I. Spayd, who was driving an auto
mobile, collided with the rear wheel
of the Shaw machine.
The heavily loaded car swerved and
crashed through the iron railing of
the bridge. When those in the other
machine had made their way to the
coal yard, only one occupant of the
ill-fated car showed any. sign of life
and he died shortly after at the hos
pital. The others were all pronounced
dead when the institution was reach
ed. Operators Must Have License.
Washingtqn. Four hundred wire
less equipped American ships, nearly
one hundred commercial wireless
stations, many more stations con
nected with colleges, schools and ex
perimental laboratories and several
thousand amateur wireless, stations
are affected by the regulations pro
mulgated by acting Secretary Cable
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor to enforce the radio-communication
beginning December 13. The
act establishes a complete Federal
control system over radio-communication
and requires licensing of all wire
less operators working across state
lines or in communication with ships
at sea.
Mexican Rebels Slaughter.
' Mexico City. Word was brought
into Holuca, southwest of here, of the
almost total annihilation of a detach
ment of rural guards and a number of
women and children in a fight with
Zapatista" rebels near Sultepec. The
sole survivors of the rurales and their
party three men and a woman
staggered into .Toluca. They said the
detachment of sixty rurales with a
number of women and children was
stationed on a hill near Sultepec and
was surprised by the rebels while
feeding their horses.
Falls 2,200 Feet an& Lives.
Washington. Falling in an aero
plane from more than 2,200 feet in
the air and escaping with only a few
scratches v was the remarkable expe
rience of William Kabitzke, a profes
sional aviator for the Wright Com
pany, at the army aviation school at
College Park, Md. Kabitzke was at
tempting to complete a 2-hour engine
endurance test and had flown 34 min
utes when the engine suddenly stop
ped and the aeroplane started a rapid
descent.
Americans and Nicarauguans Clash.
Washington. In a gallant assault,
American marines and bluejackets
drove the Nicarauguan revolutionary
leader, General Zeledon, and his
forces from Coyotepe and Barrancas
Hills, near Masaya, but in the action
four privates of the United States Ma
Tine Corps were killed and a number
were wounded. The victory of the
Americans opened the way for the
Nicaraguan government troops to as
sault the town of Masaya, which they
took from the revolutionists and the
starving inhabitants were relieved.
Hope of Avoiding War Abandoned.
Constantinople. In spite of the dip
lomatic efforts to maintain peace,
prospects in this direction are dimin
ishing so rapidly that there is practi
cally r6 hope here that war with
the Balkan States will be avoided un
less at the last moment the powers
agree upon armed Intervention. The
Porte is resolved not to listen to pro
posals of reform from any quarter
or to entertain an idea of reducing its
forces until he Balkan States de
mobolize and abandon their present
policy.