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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBOttO. CHATHAM COUNTY, N: C., NOVEMBER 27. 1912.
NO. 16.
PITH OF THE .
WEEK'S NEWS
Latest Telegraphic and Cable
Intelligence Epitomized.
OLD WORLD AND THE NEW
Political Pot Is Bubbling Furiously
News About Wars That Are Rag
ing and Rumors About Wars
to Come.
Washington
President Taft is through with his
last annual message to Congress.
Attorney-General Wickersham said
he halted the Grand Jury inquiry into
the Grand Trunk deal so as not to
grant immunity to J. P. Morgan or
any others concerned.
In simultaneous raids the Post Of
fice authorities caused the arrest of
173 persons in seventy-two cities on
charges of misusing the mails for the
promotion of race suicide.'
Steps were taken for the criminal
prosecution of the officers and direc
tors of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company for con
spiracy to monopolize traffic in New
England.
Personal
The report of the marriage of Ray
mond Belmont, second son of August
Belmont, to Ethel Loraine, a show
girl, was established a true by the
discovery of the marriage license in
Jersey City a"nd the minister who mar
ried them.
Miss Gladys Lindstedt of Green
wich, Conn., and Winthrop C. Beards
ley of Auburn, N. J., each twenty-one,
who met as invalids last winter at
Saranac, were married at Stamford,
then drove back to the bride's home
to tell her parents.
Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York,
wealthiest woman in America, cele
brated her 77th birthday by attending
strictly to business.
Charles William Short, Jr., of Bos
ton and Countess Camilla Hoyos of
Austria, were married in London.
Sporting
It is said that a rule to prohibit the
pitcher from purposely walking a.
heavy hitter in order to bring a weak
er hitter to the platter will be passed
by the national baseball rules com
mittee. The frequency of field goals this
year has started the suggestion that
the football has been equipped with a
cork centre.
Willie Hoppe again won the 18.2
balk line billiard championship of the
world in the ballroom at the Hotel
Astor, New York, when he defeated
Ora Morningstar of Pittsburgh.
Johnny Evers, the new manager of
the Chicago Cubs, has traded Tom
Downey, the utility infielder, formerly
with Cincinnati and Philadelphia, to
the Sacramento club, of the Pacific
Coast League.
General
Peter Goelet Gerry spent $4,958 to
be elected to Congress from the sec
ond Rhode Island district. His wife
contributed $S00.
A northwest gale tied up navigation
In Lake Superior and more than 100
vessels anchored under White Fish
Point, near Sault Ste. Marie.
Sidna Allen, leader of the Allen
clan, which murdered five persons in
Hillsville, Va., was sentenced to 15
J'ears in the penitentiary.
The axe murderer, who has killed
nearly 60 persons in Louisiana and
Texas, murdered a family of negroes,
near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Miss Gussie Dater, of Suffern, N. Y.,
was burned to death when her clothes
caught fire from a pile of burning
leaves. .
The police of Chicago and Hot
Springs, Ark., have "move on" orders
for the four informers in the Rosen
thal case.
John R. Fanshawe, for many years
secretary of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Co., died at his home near Phila
delphia. The Carnegie Corporation of New
York announced that it would offer
future ex-Presidents of the United
States and their widows, unmarried,
pensions of $25,000 a year.
The Appellate Division of the Su
preme Court decided that the New
York City speed laws have precedence
over the state laws. The state laws
allow 30 miles an hour, while -the
city allows eight miles in its limits
find 15 miles on the suburbs.
According to the expense accounts
filed in Connecticut, the Republicans
spent $30,000 losing, while the Demo
crats carried the state for the first
time in 20 years, and spent only $12,-
coo.
George H. Sumner, aged 73, post
master of Hill, N. H., died of heart
failure while running his auto near
that town. The machine was wreck
ed, severely bruising one of the pas
tenders. With only one small county incom
plete Wilson has carried Idaho with
1,100 votes more than Taft. Roose
velt ran third, 7,400 behind Taft.
Governor Iann of Virginia has
granted a. stay of execution until
kec. 13 to Floyd Allen and his son
Claude, convicted of the murder of
Judge Massie at Hillsville, Va. The
stay was unexpected.
The graves of more than 28,000 Con
federate soldiers who died in the
North during the Civil War, have been
located and marked.
President Taft has approved the de?
sign for a gold medal awarded by
Congress to Captain Rostron of the
rescue ship Carpathia.
Charger, former President McKln
ley's favorite riding horse, became en
tangled in a wire fence on a farm in
Strasburg, Ohio, and was strangled.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh has awarded a silver medal to
Herman Victor of Omaha, Neb., for
rescuing two children from the Mis
souri River, Dec. 27, 1904.
William Little, president of the
West Side Savings Bank of Columbus,
Ohio, committed suicide by hanging.
Ha was suffering from a nervous
breakdown.
The new Baptist bible has just been
issued in New York. The style has
been modernized. Jonah's whales
have become a "great fish" and Hell
the "underworld."
Marshal Henkel at Newburgh, N. Y.,
seized 1,200 cans of tomatoes which
in violation of the pure food laws.
H. H. Hart of Oakland, Cal., bought
an auto for $4,500. It soon ran up an
upkeep bill of $2,000. He dropped it
Into the bay from a ferryboat.
J. Pierpont Morgan has presented
to the Congressional Library a book
containing the autograph of the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independ
ence. Hunting accidents in the West have
exceeded all records. In Wisconsin
alone, 12 hunters have been killed and
10 seriously injured. Michigan reports
many more casualties.
Jack Rose, Bridgie Weber, Harry
Vallon and Sam Schepps, the inform
ers against Lieut Becker and the gun
men in the Rosenthal murder, were
released from prison in New York.
A'"coon:' hunting band, 150 strong,
headed by United States Senator W.
J. Stone, paraded the. main street in
Moberly, Mo., then left for Milton
where a big three days hunt was held.
Alden Soulte, aged 22, is dead in
Winsted, Conn., as a result of a gun
shot wound in the left groin, received
while hunting with a friend, Laurence
Carter. The latter was not arrested.
The interior of the St. Jean Baptiste
Church in Lowell, Mass., was destroy
ed by fire. A priest and 20 firemen
were overcome by smoke. The dam
age is estimated at $100,000.
The flight of Anthony Janus from
Omaha to New Orleans came to a
sudden halt at St. Louis when his
aeroplane was destroyed by an ex
plosion. Janus was unhurt.
The election of the Rev. Dr. C. B.
Silver of Topeka, Kan., as Episcopal
Bishop of Kansas was disapproved by
the convention of the Episcopal dio
cese of Albany because he is a di
vorced man.
Althose Prince, arrested for the
murder of Frank Bentley, cheese man
ufacturer of Warsaw, N. Y., whose
mutilated body was found under a pile
of earth, confessed to the crime. He
said that Bentley was too attentive to
Mrs. Prince.
District-Attorney Wesley C. Dudley
of Erie County, N. Y., and Chief of Po
lice Gilson of Lackawanna went to
Toms River, N. J., to see J. Frank
Hickey, under indictment for the mur
der of little Joseph Josephs more than
a year ago.
The body of Sergeant Thomas P.
Conniff, who died mysteriously in the
Pasig River in the Philippines, was
shipped from Manila to his relatives
in Worcester, Mass. Conniff waa
formerly a famous middle distance
champion runner.
J. Frank Hickey, an inmate of the
Keswick Colony of Mercy, a home
for inebriates near Whitings, N. J.,
was arrested on the charge of being
the murderer of Joseph Josephs, the
boy who was killed recently at Lacka
wanna, a suburb of Buffalo.
Foreign
The ducal title with its annual pen
sion of $6,000 was " conferred on the
family of Premier Canalejas, who was
assassinated in Madrid, Nov. 12.
More than sixty lives were lost in
a hurricane which did extensive dam
age to the western part of the island
of Jamaica.
The royal Siamese navy is building
two dreadnaughts, which will compare
favorably with the United States bat
tie ship New York.
The American cruisers Montana
and Tennessee arrived at Gibraltai
and proceeded to Constantinople a?
soon as they-had taken on a supply oi
coal.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild ol
Vienna arid Miss Clarice Sebag-Monte-fiore
of London were married in th
fatter city, thus joining the twe
wealthiest Jewish . families in th
world. . . .
A painting picked up in Monterey,
Cal., for $15 was sold to "air" EnglisI
Museum for $20,000. The painting is
by the famous Danish artist, Hugh V
PedeTSon."
A Berlin newspaper declares thai
the Czarevitch is suffering from tu
berculosis of the hip joint and hemo
phila. If this is correct there is nc
hope for complete recovery.
A flier on the Canadian Pacific col
lided with a carload of Chinamen at s
siding at Bush Lake, Sask., and 18 o:
the Orientals were hurt.
Believers in the practice of euthana
sia will help M. Beguery, the French
man, who yielded to the importuni
ties of his wife, suffering from an in
curable disease and shot her ti
death. .
A son was born to the Archdukt
Charles Francis Joseph and the Arch
duchess Sita. of the house of Haps
burg -at R'eichenau, Austria-Hungary.
The Archduke Charles is second ii
line of succession to the throne. ,
EIGHT TRAINMEN
KILLED
THREE OTHERS WERE VERY
BADLY INJURED IN A SEA
BOARD SMASH-UP.
FAST TRAINS MEET HEAD-ON
No. 84 and No. 81 Come Together
Near Norlina. No Passengers Hurt
Cause of Wreck Thought to Be
s
Misreading of Orders.
No.ina. lht trainmen were ki'i
ed and three badly injured near here
several days ago when two Seaboard
Air Line through passenger trains
running between New York ad Jack
sonville, Fla., collided head-on. Both
locomotives and three passenger cars
were demolished. Further deaths and
injuries were prevented by the fact
that there were no passengers in the
coaches demolished.
The dead: Will A. Faison, engineer,
Raleigh; Chas. A. Beckham, engineer,
Raleigh; Richard Gray, negro fireman
Raleigh; James Ruffian, negro fire
man, Raleigh; Thomas Rogan, negro
porter, Richmond, Va.; J. R. Rountree
express messenger, Jacksonville, Fla.;
O. J. Priddy, express messenger, off
duty, Boy kin, Va.; Henry King, dead
heading. The injured: Mr. Bryant, baggage
matter, badly burned about body and
face; Mr. Brown, baggagemaster,
badly bruised; Willis Pope, negro por
ter, scalded about the head and neck.
The wreck occurred seven miles
north of here, just as train No. 81,
southbound, was coming out of a long
curve, in a deep fill. Both trains were
running at full speed and the engi
neer of neither could have seen the
approach of the other for more than
a minute before the crash.
The wreckage did not catch fire
and there was no panic among the
passengers. There was suffering
among the passengers on account of
the cold. The cause of the wreck is
as yet unknown but it is believed to
have resulted from a misreading of
orders.
Progressive Bills For Legislature.
..It is understood that there are al
ready in process of preparation a num
ber'of bills to be introduced in the
approaching legislature and cam
paigns being planned for their en
actment into law that will give the
1913 session a distinctly progressive
atmosphere, at least, as to meaures
proposed, if not bills actually passed.
A distinct advance in anti-trust legis
lation is being hinted at, a com
plete revision of the state election
law, a general primary law for all
parties, blanket commission form of
government and initiative and refer
endum laws for cities to be option
ally adopted, the application of the
Torrens system of land titles and a
variety of other departures. ,
North Carolina New Enterprises.
The Salisbury Bank and Trust Com
pany, chartered at $100,000 and paid
up to $25,000, took out papers of in
corporation with Thomas J. Jerome,
C. L. Reams, R. L. Reams and W. E.
McWhorter as incorporators. This
makes the fifth bank for Salisbury.
The Independent Publishing Company
was given a charter to do a general
publishing business in Greenville.
The authorized capital is $25,000 and
paid up to $2,000. The incorporators
are S. T. Hooker, J. F. Brinkley, W.
L. Rice and D. T. Spain.
To Celebrate Knapp Memorial Day.
The Knapp sMemorial Day will be
observed throughout the South on
Wednesday, November 27. This day
is the one which many of the rural
schools throughout the country will
hold appropriate exercises and a
great amount of good is expected to
be done towards stimulating interest
in the Boys' Corn Clubs and the Girls'
Tomato Canning Clubs, of which Dr.
Knapp was a great backer and was
the founder of the work.
Mecklenburg Drainage Commission.
r There wili be a meeting of the
Mecklenburg drainage commission at
the county court house at 11 o'clock
November 29. At this gathering of
the men who have the state authority
to assess property for benefits derived
to certain lands from the drainage
work that has been done in this coun
ty, all complaints from ow.ners of the
property adjoining the drained dis
tricts will t'e heard. Assessments
have been nmde on about 200 proper
ty owners on both sides of Little Sug
ar Creek.
Duplin Count Teachers Meet.
The recent meeting of the Duplin
county teachers' association was one
of the most interesting and enthusi
astic ever held in this county, the
attendance was large, nearly eighty
five per cent of all teachers being
present. Professor Spence, of War
saw, was chosen president, and Mr.
M. H. Wootea, vice president and
secretary. An elaborate and exceed
ingly well planned program, covering
two . days, was arranged for the coun
ty commencement in the spring. This
was a big day for the teachers.
IN WRECK
GOVERNOR PARDONED TWO
States Executive Gives His Reason
For Ordering Release of Two
Convicts. Reasons Given.
Raleigh. Governor Kitchin gave
pardons to a pair of convicts, one of
the executive's clemencies going to a
pellagrous man and the other given
in response to a petition signed by
the trial judges and the solicitor.
Governor Kitchin gives each con
ditional freedom. They must be law
abiding and of good behavior. He
gives a skeletonized history of the1
case and says.
Walter Way, New Hanover county,
July term ,1910. Crime, manslaugh
ter. Sentence, five years in the state
prison.
"On the recommendation of the
trial judge, the solicitor and many
other prominent citizens, I pardon
prisoner on condition that he remain
law-abiding and of good behavior."
Wess Bass, Randolph county, March,
1912. Crime, iarcey. Sentence, three
years on roads.
"This prisoner has developed pel
lagra and the county physician at
tending him does not think he can live
much longer and recommends his
pardon. On the recommendation of
said physician and the chairman oi
the county commissioners, where he
is serving his sentence, and of the
clerk of the superio rcourt where he
was convicted,, as well as the recom
mendation of the solicitor, I pardon
prisoner on condition that he remain
law-abiding and of good behavior."
Fish Industry of the State.
A very important convention to
North Carolina will be held at Wash
ington on Wednesday, December 4, in
the interest of the fishing industry of
the state. This convention is called
by the North Carolina Fisheries' As
sociation in connection with its an
nual meeting. One of the main fea
tures of the convention will be rec
ommendations to the general assem
bly of 1913 in regard to fish legisla
tion. It is hoped that all fishermen
and oystermen who are interested in
the development and perpetuation of
the fishing industries of the state as
well as all other citizens of the state
who would like to see the conserva
tion of this great natural resource
will make it a point to attend, or at
least have some representative from
his section attend the convention and
take part in its deliberations.
Indict Rockingham's Commissioners.
The entire board of commissioners
of Rockingham county has been in
dicted for failure to carry out the rec
ommendations of the grand jury and
upon instruction of Judge O. H. Allen.
It seems that in Rockingham, the
county commissioners have several
times ignored the recommendations of
the grand jury, and that in July last
this body specifically ordered the
building of a new county home, re
porting that the present structure
was a "disgrace to a civilized com
munity! The commissioners, it is
said, paid no heed to the order, with
the result that Judge Allen ordered
Solicitor Graves to draw present
ments against every member of the
board.
Wreck on Atlantic Coast Line.
Extra Atlantic Coast Line pay train
No. 38, southbound, ran into the rear
of freight No. 801 near this place,
in Bertie county, killing Harrison Bry
ant, porter on the pay train and se
riously injuring Engineer Weathers of
the same train. John Samuels, the
fireman, is missing, and his body is
believed to be buried beneath the
wreckage, which locked traffic. The'
pay train was in charge of Conductor
R. L. Cobb, who escaped unhurt. The
freight engine was coupled to a car
and the injured engineer was rushed
to the hospital at Rocky Mount.
Charged With Murder of McConneH.
John Tuff, about the sixth negro of
this name arrested for the murder of
Patrolman McConneH, was brought
in from Atlanta by officers and lodged
in jai lat Asheville. There are now
twp negroes of this name, each charg
ed with the muMer of Patrolman Mc
ConneH, in the Buncombe county jail.
Meeting of Truck and Fruit Growers.
The directors of the East Carolina
Truck and Fruit Growers' Association
met in Wilmington and set on foot
definite plans for carrying into effect
the instructions of the general meet
ing held here during the late sum
mer, that this important agricultural
industry be taken under the wing of
the state board of agriculture to the
end that the interest of the Carolina
grower may be fully protected. ' The
president was authorized to appoint a
legislative committee to take the mat
ter actively in hand.
Election Will be Contested. '
No information has been handed out
regarding the decision of the Republi
cans as to the contesting the recent
election until just now, when one of
the leading Republicans of the coun
ty said that as a result of the investi
gations made by Attorneys Bynum and
Strudwick, of Greensboro, the election
would be contested "without doubt
and, in addition, there would be sev
eral prosecutions against Democrats
who, he stated, had been guilty of un
lawful conduct in connection with the
elptirti in this oftnnttr
HOME FOR W D WS
OF STATE CONFEDEARTE VETER.
ANS IS ASKED FOR IT WILL
COST $10,000.
$5,000 a YEAR IS ASKED FOR
By Committee From the State 'Organ
ization of Daughters, Three Legisla
tors and Two Senators Who Are
Pushing This Work Forward.
Rocky Mqunt. In joint session the
committee from ,the state Organization
of the Daughters of the Confederacy
and the three state legislators and
two senators that composed a com
mittee from the last general assembly
met in a called meeting in the par
lors of the Saymore club. Following
this joint meeting the committee of
law makers went into an executive ses
sion, lasting more than an hour. Their
decision s summed up m the follow
ing recommendation that will be re
ported to the next general assembly:
"Recommended that the general as-
sembly build a home for the depend
ent widows of the Confederate sol
diers and all other worthy dependent
women of the Confederacy, and that
at least $10,000 be appropriated for
the purpose and $5,000 annually for
the maintenance of the home, and that
the location of said home be selected
by a committee appointed for that
purpose. After due deliberation, and
after a thorough investigation in com
pliance with the above recommenda
tion we herewith submit the follow
ing bill."
This motion prevailed by a vote of
three to one. The bill referred to is
to be drawn by Chairman of the Com
mittee T. T. Thome, and provides for
ten incorporators, five lady members
of advisory board, and the appoint
ment by the governor of five trustees.
The women who represent the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy are Mrs. Mar
shal Williams, the state president of
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, of Faison, Mrs. Hunter Smith
of Fayetteville, and Mrs. M. O. Win
stead of this city. The committee
from the state senate is represented
by T. T. Thome, chairman, of this
city; A. D. McGill, of Fayetteville;
John Spainhour, of Morganton, and
M. Leslie Davis, of Beaufort.
-- -Road Repairing in Guilford.
Greensboro. County Road Superin
tendent J. A. Davidson has determin
ed to start a general repair move
ment with a view to preserving the
macadam roads of Guilford, more than
125 miles of which has been laid in
the county during the past ten years.
In many places the macadam is in
bad shape and practically everywhere
that it has been down five years it is
In need of repair. Superintendent Da
vidson now proposes to put the entire
convict force on repair work, going
over all the macadam.
Agricultural Man For Iredell.
Statesville. A step forward, which
has been taken by Iredell county,
gives her a county commissioner of
agriculture, who will give his whole
time to instructing the farmers of,
the county in modern methods of ag
riculture and the advancement of
farming interests. The crop im
provement committee, of Chicago, has
given $1,000 for this purpose, the coun
ty has given a similar amount and
the national department of agricul
ture has given $700.
The Farmer and The Fair.
Raleigh. The state and county fair
Is an educational institution where in
struction is picked up by observation,
demonstration and comparison "of pro
ducts. There is no question that the
fair is unequalled as a place for get
ting progressive farmers together and
permitting them to compare notes on
their several lines of progress and act
ivity during the year. The real pur
pose of the fair is the education of
the farmer and his family in the fun
damental principles of, the production
of high yields of good quality at the
least cost. The battle for the prizes
should be one of ideals and individual
judgments rather than the quantities
and displays.
Much Cotton Unpicked In Hoke.
Raeford. Although cotton picking
is futher advanced than at this date
last year, there are several hundred
bales unpicked on the farms of Hoke
county. .
Tree Bears Two Crops In One Year
Lenoir. John.T. Spencer, who lives
a little over a mile east of town, has a
June apple tree on his place that pro
duced two crops of well matured ap
ples this" year. June apples in No
vember is the unusual record of this
tree.
Medical Association Meet.
New Bern. The Seaboard Medical
association, an ogranization composed
of about one hundred of the leading
physicians in North Carolina and Vir
ginia, will meet in this city on Decem
ber 3. The last meeting was held in
Virginia and at that time the Craven
County Medical board extended them
an invitation to come to; New. Bern
and it was accepted. During the meet
ing a mimber of public addresses will
be made by some of the doctors and
also an illustrated lecture on the
health of the community.
NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Have Been Condensed For the
People of the State.
Raleigh. Raleigh is to have a tem
perance convention in January. It is
becoming the favorite convention city
and its people are proud to welcome
all who come particularly those who
gather to promote the moral welfare.
Davidson. Dr. W. S. Rankin, sec
retary of the North Carolina State
Board of Health, lectured here in
Shearer Hall under the auspices of
the Civic Club. His subject waa
"Community Health."
Graham. The Methodist Episcopal
church, South, at Graham, was en
tirely destroyed ,by fire. The value
of the property is estimated at $4,000.
There was an insurance of $1,500. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
Asheville. Two Asheville men, Governor-elect
Locke Craig and James H.
Caine, editor of the Citizen have
been elected to deliver memorial ad
dresses on Elks memorial Sunday
next month. Governor Craig will de
liver the address at High Point, and
Mr. Caine has been asked to deliver
the addres sat Salisbury. Both hate
accepted the invitation.
Charlotte. In order that the In
structors in the county schools may
be largely represented at the North
Carolina Teachers' Assembly Novem
ber 27-30 in Greensbro, the county
board of education has made not only
Thursday but F riday a holiday and ia
making a special effort to induce the
teachers to attenl. In the city schools
also there will be two holidays.
Wilmington. Already there are
two avowed candidates in the field for
the Wilmington postmastership Mr.
IL McL. Green, the retiring county
treasurer and Mr, J. B. Mercer, a shoe
dealer. Both have issued statements
declaring that they will seek the ap
pointment. Just when President Wil
son will have a chance of naming a
postmaster for Wilmington is proble
matical. Greensboro. The 87th annual con
ference of the Christian Church of
North Carolina and Virginia went on
record through adoption of its cc
mittee's report on reform as opposed
to immodesty in dress, gambling in
social and other relations, cigarettes,
etc. The adoption of the committee re
port, submitted by Rev. C. C. Pell,
ras the most Interesting event of the
day. .
Greensboro. In the carrying out of
efforts to expand and exploit the lo
cal tobacco and country grain and pro
duce market, the merchants of the
city have just announced the names
of farmers in this and adjoining coun
ties to whom prizes will be awarded
because of special sales made during
the month of October. More than 50
farmers will receive honors of a sub
stantial nature.
High Point Samuel Pierce, a young
man, aged about 18 years, and employ
ed at the Southern Chair Company,
was almost instantly crushed to death
when the elevator dropped upon him,
caused by the tearing of the wire ca
ble from which it was suspended. It
was not known at first, that the un
fortunate young man was caught
when the eleyator fell, and he lived
only a few minutes after the accident.
Wilmington. The still warm body
of an unknown negro man was found
lying beside the railroad tracks just
north of the city, with his throat cut
from ear to ear, by the section mas
ter in passing on his hand car. The
negro evidently was murdered, but
as yet the police have no clue,
though it is believed that he was kill
ed following an all-night game of
cards in the woods nearby. The coro
ner is investigating.
Durham. According to reports that
were sent out from the state agricul
tural department several days ago,
there were 712,469 pounds of tobacco
sold on the local tobacco market dur
ing the month of October. However,
an investigation of the local ware
house books show that the amount
as reported was only about half of
the real amount, the last account be
ing 1,407,506. Just how the report was
so badly split cannot be accounted
for unless some of the warehouse re
ports had not reached the depart
ment until after the statement was
given out.
King. Mr. Cicero Boles, who resides
three miles east of here, had his resi
dence and practically everything in it
destroyed by fire recently. His loss
was about $1,500 with no' Insurance.
The fire , started from -ah'"' upstairs
room. : - ' .
Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City has
its most youthful blind tiger in jail,
awaiting trial for dispensing booze.
He is John Lowry, Jr., a youth about
18 years old. He is an old offender,
too, and a pretty slick one, too, hav
ing plied his vocation for a number of
years, and has never been caught be
fore. Linville Falls. The old question of
whether cur dogs or sheep are most
profitable to raise is again agitating
the mountain section. Sheep men have
been coming in here for several years
looking for cheap mountain lands for
sheep pasture.''.:
Salisbury. Already preparations
are in making for receiving the
North Carolina Press, convention
when it meets in this city December
11th and 12th. Mr. M. C. Quinn, is
chairman of the convention commit
tee, and no pains will be spared to
give the editors the time, of their
lives in Salisbury,
WINTER
IS
AT
IN LESS THAN A WEEK CONGRESS
WILL RECONVENE UNDER RE
PUBLICAN CONTROL.
ARE PLANNING FOR WORK
Energetic Efforts Will be Made in
Both Houses to Amend Sherman
Anti-Trust Law. Other Work That
Will Be Done Also.
. Washington. Congress will recon
vene in less than a wtek for the last
short session of Republican control
in National legislation. Comparative
few Senators and Representatives
have reached Washington but discus
sion has been active during the last
week among those early on the scene
over plans for the winter's work and
prospects for the special tariff session
next spring when all branches of the
government pass into the hands of the
Democrats.
While the vexing question of the
tariff is not scheduled for considera
tion this winter, the three months of
the short session will be crowded
with legislative work. In addition to
the annual, grist of appropriation bills,
Congress will be forced to dispose of
a quantity of general and special leg
islative matter left pending with the
adjournment of the long session ia
August.
During . the early part of the ses
sion the house will be busy shaping
appropriation bills while the Senate
is disposing of the impeachment trial
of Judge Robert W. Archibold of. the
Commerce Court, set to begin Decem
ber 3.
Several important measures will be
pushed for early action in the Senate,
among them the resolution of Senator
Works of California to limit the Pres
ident to a single six-year term; the
Sheppard-Kenyon bill prohibiting the
shipment of liquor into prohibition
states, and the vocational education
bill of Senator Page of Vermont. The
bill of Senator Borah creating a De
partment of Labor is also scheduled
for early consideration.
Medals of Honor to Men of Courage.
Washington. Five men "of distin
guished courage among men of cour
age," as Mr. Taft called them receiv
ed formal acknowledgement for their
bravery in the White House when the
President presented them with med
als of honor awarded for exceptional
service on the battlefield. Four of
them were young cavalry officers, the
other an enlisted man, a sergeant. The
men honored were: Capt. Archie
Miller, quartermaster's department;
Capt. Julien, De Gaujot, first cavalry;
First Lieut. Arthur H. Wilson, sixth
cavalry; Second Lieut. John T. Ken
nedy, Fifth cavalry, and Sergeant Jo
seph Henderson, Sixth cavalry.
New Complication Has Arisen.
Washington. Indications that a
hew complication has arisen along the
Mexican border were contained in a
report of the war department. Two
troopers of the Thirteenth cavalry are
alleged to have crossed the border anid
ridden into San Ignacio where they
engaged in a fight and wounded three
Mexicans, one of whom may die. The
Americans were turned over to the
Mexican civil authorities and are held
in the Jaurez jail. - .
Earthquake Kills 200 People.
Mexico City. The bodies of 200 per
sons killed In the earthquake recently
have been recovered from the ruins of
the little town of Acambay in the
northern! part of the state of Mexico.
Delayed reports from other towns and
villages indicate that the loss of life
is greater than at first supposed.
Distributing Food to Refugees.
Salonki. The American mission Is
distributing food to the 8,000 Moham
medan refugees here. Smallpox has
broken out among the Greeks and a
quarantine has been, declared against
Constantinople.
Comprehensive Retrospect.
Washington. A comprehensive re
trospect of the 16 years' regime of
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will be
embodied in the annual report of the
department of agriculture. The growth
of the department during that period
will be dwelt upon which will show
that when Secretary Wilson assumed
office the annual appropriation, exclus
sive of agricultural college funds, was
approximately $1,000,000, while the
current year appropriation, including
about $750,000 for agricultural colleges
aggregates $23,000,000.
Gompers Re-elected President A. F. L.
Rochester, N. Y. Samuel Gompers
was re-elected president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor over Max
Hayes of the International Typograph
ical Union. The vote was: Gompers,
11,974; Hayes, 5,074. It was the first
time in 10 years that there had been
opposition to Mr. Gompers, who has
been re-elected annually since 1895.
All other officers were re-elected. The
oonvenition defeated the United Mine
Worker's resolution calling future
elections by a referendum vote of the
federation's two million members.
NEAR
HAND