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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY,,N .C, APRIL 30, 1913 a
NO. 38.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
HE Busy
IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From All
Parts of World.
Southern.
Freedom came to Mrs. Carrie Scot!
Appelbaum when the jury had been
out but 36 minutes before clearing
her of the crime of murdering Jerome
A. Appelbaum, her husband. With the
verdict of acquittal came a collapse
that stopped her as she was shaking
hands with the jurors and sent hci
to the Baptist Tabernacle infirmary
for a complete rest from the terrific
strain of two months in the Atlanta,
Ga., jail and three days in the crowd
ed courtroom.
"Night breaks to morning, when w
have such men as have ' spoken to
night," said Mrs. Anna Russell Cole,
founder of the Southern Sociological
Congress, after the first meeting ol
that body in the Wesley Memorial
church, Atlanta, Ga., surrounded by
hundreds of members of the congress.
Convictions and sentences of twenty
years each were secured by the state
of Georgia against the four men whom
it is alleged broke into the Lumpkin
County Bank on February 14, and were
frightened off just after they explod
ed the safe.
While a bundle, of 2x4 timber was
Tjeing olwered into the shaft of the
Sterling Coal company at Independ
ence, a sharp-pointed stake slipped
from the bundle and impaled Watt
awarence of Newburg, W. Va., whe
-was at work in the shaft 185 feet be
low. The stake struck Lawrence in
the right side of the abdomen, pass
ing through to the thigh.
A swarm of bees created a panic on
Cherry street between Second and
Third street, Macon, and for more
than an hour people on that popular
thoroughfare were kept dodging. A
number of people were stung. The
Tees weres cattered over an entire
"block until a negro man began tap
ping on a water main and then they
swarmed under an automobile. The
negro decided that he would like to
lave them for his own use and very
promptly secured a dry goods box and
in a few minutes had the entire swarm
safely housed.
The first serious break in the main
levees of the lower Mississippi river
occurred when the Woodlawn levee
just north of Mayersville, Miss., went
out. Within a few minutes the cre
vasse was 200 feet wide, and the space
through which the waters are pour
ing is increasing.
General
Conditions in the fortress of Scu
tari when Essaad Pasha, the Turkish
commanders, surrendered to the Mon
tenegrins, were appalling. The Turk
ish troops and the whole population
were in a state of such extreme ex
haustion from-lack of food that Essaad
Pasha had been threatened with
ieath unless he agreed to capitulate.
Divergent views regarding the right
of the United States to exempt its
coastwise vessels from the payment of
Panama canal tolls were expressed in
papers read before the seventh an
nual meeting of the American Society
of International Law at Washington,
D. C. -
The lives of 100 miners, possibly
more, paid the toll of a disastrous ex
plosion in the Cincinnati mine of the
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke company at Finleyville, Pa.
Over threescore of workmen in the
mine made thrilling escapes,, crawling
most of the time on their hands and
knees through deadly gas fumes and
over debris. The .rescue work was
hampered by afterdamp. Fire which
followed the explosion has been com
pletely subdued. Three entries of the
mine are entirely choked with debris.
Kidnaping her husband for the
purpose of getting him out of ,the
state before a divorce suit could be
brought to trial, Mrs. Frank Kasman
dell is alleged to have hired a stran
ger to impersonate a United States
officer and spirit her husband away
at Pueblo, Cal.
John Mitchell, former president of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica and vice president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, was desig
nated by Governor Sulzer to be state
labor commissioner of New York. The
nomination has been sent to the sen
ate. Bombardment of the Turkish city of
Scutari is going on in spite of the
threats by the powers. The Europe
an governments have handed an ulti
matum to Montenegro, Dut the
Greek government refuses to take the
alarm.
The superdreadnaught Bretasrne was
launched in France, this being the
second French warship launched vith
in two days. France is rushing naval
construction work since the German
French jingoes have become so active.
Another officer of the French mil
itary aviation corps was killed at the
flying grounds at Villacoublay.
Love of an 11-year-old girl was 'be
lieved to have been the motive for
the murder of Mrs. Maud Sleep and
her two children by Herman. Coppes,
ie 34-year-old confessed slayer, at
Elgin, in.
FOR
Ml
The 95-year-old frigate Granite State,
the largest wooden vessel ever built
for the United States navy, which
seemed doomed by fire which broke
out on board her, was saved from de
struction in New York City, but not
before serious damage had been done
throughout her forepart.
News of the fall of Scutari to the
Montenegrin army has been received
with extraordinary demonstrations in
all the allied capitals, notably Bel
grade and the Bulgarian premier has
sent effusive congratulations to the
Montenegrin premier.
Eastern railroad firemen are grant
ed an increase of pay estimated at
from 10 to 12 per cent, by the award
of the Erdman act arbitration board
in their case. Other claims of the fire
men are allowed, but the demand for
two firemen on large locomotives is
denied except in case of necessity. An
other request for which the firemen
fought, namely, the standardization of
wages, based on the weight of loco
motives on drivers, was granted.
Protection for the cotton trade of
Lancashire, England, by rostering the
supply of cotton independent of Amer
ica, was the gist of Chancellor Lloyd
eorge's argumenlt on introducing in
the house of commons a resolution per
mitting the British government to
guarantee a Soudan loan of $15,000,000
for the development of cotton growing
along the Nile.
Bulgaria and Greece are rapidly
drifting towards war over the posses
sion of Saloniki, while another is be
ing landed at Orfani, in the Gulf of
Orfani, to watch movements of Bul
garians at Drama' aua Kavaia. The
victorious Epirus army from Janina
is being distributed along the new
stratetgical front from Saloniki to Or
fani. Owing in great part to the advice
of the king, the government of Bel
gium accepted the compromise pro
posed by the Liberal leader, F. Mas
son, and the great strike for manhood
suffrage, which, on account of the
remarkable discipline maintained, the
solidarity of those who joined in the
movement and skillful organization, is
unique in history, will be called off,
the leaders of the Socialist trades-unions
and their followers having gained
their point.
James S Douglas, president of the
Cananea (Mexico) Consolidated Cop
per company, was driven out of Can
anea by a mob of 2,000 idle miners
and smeltermen. The mob presented
its demand to Douglas that he leave,
and he departed by automobile for the
international border; in the mob was
J. N. Durazo, prefect of the Arispa
district, and Colonel Alvarado,
Washington
James Bryce, on the eve of his de
parture for home, after six years as
ambassador to the United States from
Great Britain, said his farewell to the
American people in an address al
Washington, D. C.
President Wilson directed Secretarj
of state Bryan to proceed to Sacramen
to to co-operate with Governor John
son and the members of the Califor
nia legislature in framing a law re
garding the ownership of land by
aliens that would not conflict witfc
the treaty obligations of the United
States, particularly with Japan. "I an
going in the hope that we may b
able to find the best solution of th
difficulty," said Mr,. Bryan.
Secretary of State Bryan's prellmi
nary outline of his proposed interna
tional agreement for peace which h
laid before the senate foreign relatiom
committee developed wide differences
of opinion. Nevertheless, it was un
derstood that with the endorsement o;
President Wilson, the secretary o;
state will soon undertake to open ne
gotiations with leading powers, for
such treaties as his proposal con tern
plates.
Through the exchange of telegrams
between President Wilson and Gover
nor Johnson the settled policy of the
California adminlistration on the ques
tion of alien land ownership, as agreed
upon, was officially made known at
Sacramento, Cal.
Julian Hawthorne and Dr. William
J. Morton, convicted of misuse of the
mails at Washington, D. C, and now
in the Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary await
ing parole, will not be eligible for re
lease until they have actually served
one-third of their, sentences in prison,
which will be in the latter part ol
July. This decision was reached by
the department of justice.
Chairman Owen of the senate bank
ing and currency committee, called its
members together, and advised them
of results of informal conferences with
President Wilson, Secretary McAdoc
and Chairman Glass of the house
banking committee on the subject oi
currency reform. Working informally,
obtaining the views of the president
and. his advisers, Senator Owen and
Representative Glass have be,en look
ed upon the- men who will frame a
measure to be known as the Owen
Glass bill to be introduced at the same
time in both houses and carrying with
it the administration's approval..
In a special message to congress,
President Wilson urged the immedi
ate adoption by the United States oi
the international anti-opium legisla
tion, in which practically all the na
tions of the world have concurred.
News of the determination of the
legislative leaders in Sacramento tc
frame and pass an alien land-owning
bill for California, directly discrimi
nating against the Japanese, unoffi
cially conveyed to the white house
and state department, was received
with grave concern and 'disappoint
ment. Such a development had no1
been expected in view of the first fa
vorable comments in California upon
the president's suggestion of that re
gard he had for the preservation ol
the friendly relations between this
country and the Oriental nations and
other countries. "
OVERHAULING THE
II. C. CONSTITUTION
AMENDMENT COMMISSION OR
GANIZES BY ELECTING A. M.
SCALES PRESIDENT.
ALL NOT PEACE AT MEETING
Commission Called to Order by Gov
ernor Craig. E. J. Justice Involved
in Question as How and When Com
mittees May Be Called.
Raleigh. The legislative commis
sion to make recommendations to the
special session on tine amendments to
the state constitution organized by the
election of A. M. Scales as president,
Senator A. T. Grant vice president
and Joseph B. Cheshire, Jr., of Raleigh
as clerk. ,
The commission was called to or
der by Governor Craig. He declared
ihat, in his opinion, no body of men
could have beenelected from all the
state who would discharge with more
ability, honesty and patriotism the
duties devolving on the commission
and that no more important work will
come to this generation in North Car
olina than that entrusted to this com
mission. He predicted harmonious
and thorough work that will meet
with the complete approval of the leg
islature and be ratifed by the people
at the ballot box.
The nomination of A. M. Scales as
president of the commission was made
by E. J. Justice, seconded by State
Senator Ward. His election was by
acclamation. Senator Stubbs, before
the vote was put, raised the question
of whether or not Lieut. Gov. E. L.
Daughtridge would not be presiding
officer of the commission. A-general
desire to elect Mr. Daughtridge was
expressed, but it was announced by
him that his contemplated trip abroad
would prevent him from serving.
In accepting the chairmanship, Mr.
Scales expressed appreciation for the
honor of presiding, over so important
a body of men as the one to frame
amendments to the state constitution,
and stated that he had naturally ex
pected that Lieut. Governor Daught
ridge, or Speaker Connor of the house,
would be the presiding officer, and it
was only after it developed that Mr.
Daughtridge was going to Europe and
Mr. Connor to the superior court
bench that his friends had considered
him at all. The place had come to
him, he said, entirely unsolicited.
He paid tribute to the progress of
the people of the state in industry
and commerce and in the matter of
having high ideals of morals and gov
ernment. Craven Farm Life School.
Work on Cravep county's proposed
farm life school is to start at an, early
date and, according to a statement
made by Dr. J. E. Turlington, who is
to have charge of the new institution,
it will be in readiness for opening
by the latter part of September. The
board of trustees met in New Bern
anad received bids for the construc
tion of the school. There were nine
bids received for this work, but owing
to the fact that the trustees wanted
time in which to look them over the
contract was not awarded at thattime
but the fortunate bidde will probably
be made known in the near future.
The citizens of the entire county are
very enthusiastic over this school.
Argue Drainage Case of Cabarrus.
A case of state-wide interest just
argued in the state supreme court is
that in re the drainage of Big Cold
Water Creek, Cabarrus county, in
which the constitutionality of the gen
eral state drainage law is involved
as well as the question of whether, in
passing on the necessity of drainage
of a given territory the health of the
community can be taken into consider
ation. The advocates of the drainage
scheme for Big Cold Creek, presented
evidence of .great detriment to health
by reason of the lack of drainage, this
being in addition to the general evi
dence of the devastation of the bot
tom farm lands the past few years.
Heavy Fine For P. H. Thrash.
In county court at Salisbury P. H.
Thrash, a well-known white man of
Asheville, was fined $400 for violating
the search and seizure law and a por
tion of a barrel of whiskey was order
ed destroyed. Thirteen full barrels
which Thrash and a revenue man
were stamping preparatory to ship
ping to Tennessee were released and
allowed to be shipped. Mr. Thrash
gave notice of appeal. The whiskey
has been store dhere since Thrash's
distillery was closed down some
years ago.
The State Does Noi Know Them.
Commissioner of Insurance Young
says he is constantly receiving in
quiries to the status of the Empire
Realty Company and the Standard
Home Company, which are offering
to lend money on easy terms for
home building. He wants the peop'le
of the state to understand that neither
of these concerns is licensed to do
business in this state, that severa1
of their representatives have been
arrested and that patrons of the con
cerns have absolutely no recourse in
lHft courts of this state.
URGING TAR HEEL FOR JOB
Senator Overman 'Wants North Caro
linian Named As Brigadier Gen- -eral
in U. S. Army.
Raleigh.- A special from Washing
ton states that Senator Overman is
intent on having a North Carolinian
named as brigadier general . in the
United States army to fill one of the
vacancies which, will occur during the
present year. Recently the senator
made his second call upon Secretary
of War Garrison to see how the "land
lay" , and urged the secretary to give
a North Carolinian on of the briga
dier generalships if not altogether in
consistent with the. service rules.
Four of the present brigadier gen
erals will be retired during 1913 by
the age limit rule, and it is fully ex
pected that some of the Tar Hel col
onels will be successful in succeeding
to the vacancy.
There are now four North Carolin
ians in line ' f Or - promotion to this
grade Col. E. 'F. Glenn, of Greens
boro; Col. Wm. Lassiter, of Oxford;
Col. C. D. Cowles, of Charlotte, and
Col. H. P. Kingsbury, of Oxford.
At least two of these colonels will
reach the age where they will be forc
ed to retire within the next 18 months
and to reach the rank of brigadier
general, and be retired with that rank
will make an enormous differencce in
the amount of their pension when
placed upon the retired list.
May Not Be Able To Extradite Smith
It will not be known for several
days whether or not the North Caro
lina authorities will be successful in
their effort to extradite Ector H.
S-nith, the president of the States
Trust Company of Wilmington from
Alabama to answer the charges made
by the corporation commission. The
habeas corpus hearing in Birming
ham, which was set 'for a week ago
was continued on' account of settling
technicalities that are raised in oppo
sition to the return of Smith to this
state. Solicitor H. E. Norris, who
went to Birmingham to make the
fight for the extradition returned
and reported that Smith has retained
six lawyers to fight extradition and
that when the case came up Saturday
the point was made that the warrant
and affidavits from the governor of
North Carolina to the governor of
Alabama for the extradition had
been retained in the office of the gov
ernor of Alabama, if they were In
the state at all, and that the Alabama
law required that these documents,
with evidence ' of due certification
must, accompany the requisition when
presented to the jailor for' the delivery
of the prisoner.
Fifth District Medical Society.
Dr. J. W. Halford of Chalybeate
Springs wa selected president of the
Fifth District Medical Society at its
concluding session at Fayetteville re
cently. Dr. A. B. Croom of Maxton
was re-elected secretary and Dr. Ros
coe D. McMillan of Red Springs was
made treasurer. An interesting series
of addresses featured the program.
Dr. J. Frank Highsmith of this city
addressed the convention on "The
Correlation Existing Between the
Surgeon and the Interne as Compared
to 30 Years Ago." Dr. Hubert A. Roy
ster of Raleigh spoke on "Sigmoid Ad
hesion." Some Minor Surgical Hints"
was the theme of fir. T. Marshall
West. "Adenoids" furnished the sub
ject discussed by Dr. M. R. Gibson of
Maxon. "Mode of Infection, ' Diagno
sis and Treatment of Tuberculosis
and Peritonitis" by Dr. P. L. Pitt
man and the "Significance of Preven
tative Medicine" by Dr. B. W. Page
of Lumiberton were other addresses.
Davidson Bond Issue Defeated.
The $300,000 bond issue for good
roads was' defeated by a majority not
less than twelve hundred when the
returns are all in. The bond issue
carried in only two townships, Thom
asille and Boone. In Thomasville
the south precinct broke exactly even
and in the north precinct there was a
majority of 24 for good roads. Boone
township majority for the bonds will
be small. Lexington township'a vote
was the biggest disappointment of
the day. The vote stood 554 to 312
against good roads, a majority of 242.
In one township, Conrad Hill, only
seven voted for bonds; in Abbott's
Creek, nine.' ;
Large Tract For School For Blind.
For the erection of the new blind
school buildings the directors of that
institution have .purchased in the
name of the state nearly eighty acres
of the William Boylan property, pay
ing $30,000 for the site. The deal was
consummated April 18, and has been
recorded. It is authorized by an act
of the recent general assembly whicti,
recognizing the need of more room,
ordered a new site. It set apart $30,
000 for a site and real estate men
declare that in securing the Boylan
ground, the state made a fine deal.
Negro Wanted in Gastonia.
Deputy Sheriff Archie Nash of Easv
Spencer, who had a desperate encoun
ter with Ernest Ferrell, colored, who
attempted to take a pistol away from
the officer, was advised that the negro
is wanted as an escaped convict from
Gastonia. Ferrell is now in Rowan
jail and the officer is receiving con
gratulations upon his narrow " escape.
It is said there is a reward out for
Ferrell. He is the same negro who
five years ago gave Chief of Police
Julian of Salisbury a close call for
his life, taking a gun from the officer.
STATE IN EARNEST
ON RATE QUESTION. SECOND
; CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN
THE NEAR FUTURE.
WILL NOT BROOK A DELAY
Mr. Creighton Says People of the
State Are in No Temper For Trifling
and .Will Take Swift Action. To
Meet in Raleigh.
Charlotte "What is the present
status of the .battle for fair freight
rates in North Carolina?"
This is a question which is being
frequently asked, in .View of recent
developments and the ' failure of the
state authorities and the railroads to
reach a definite understanding as to
a solution.
Traffic Manager W. S. Creighton o
the Charlotte Shippers and Manufac
turers' Association and one of the
most aggressive spirits back of the
movement, summed up the situation
authoritatively several days ago.
"An inequitable freight rate ad
justment," said he, "must necessarily
affect adversely the welfare of any
state, at least to the extent that the
adjustment is more favorable' to other
localities. That such an adjustment
does exist in North Carolina is ad
mitted by the railway presidents,
who attended the conference with
Governor Craig and the . Special
freight rate commission at the
meeting in Raleigh during the last
session of the general assembly. It
was agreed upon at that time that a
readjustment would be gone into upon
the principle that- fair proportional
rates would be established south of
the Virginia, cities. '
"That, substantially, was the basis
for further negotiations and it only
remained to be determined to what
extent the principle agreed upon
should be applied. It may be that the
legislature's being in", session had
something to do with the show Of
candor made by the railway presi
dents, who looked into the face of the
'Little Giant of the Mountains' and
then and there recognized the fact
that North Carolina had been dis
criminated against."
State Saving Reward Money.
Raleigh. Governor Craig has laid
down a rule that is having the ten
dency to put a stop to a large part
of the practice of having the state
to offer rewards. This is that the
state will issue no rewards unles:
the people interested in the capture
or the county officials will also offer
a reward. In many cases, when this
requirement is put to the applicants
the application is withdrawn. It ap
pears that the state is saved the pay
ment of numbers of rewards by the
ruling of Attorney General Bickett
that no officer of the law whose duty
it is to make arrests shall collect a
reward. Several payments of rewards
have been stopped on this account.
North Carolina New Enterprises.
Raleigh. The Moore-Herring Hos
pital of Wilson, is chartered with $50,
000 capital authorized and $18,000 sub
scribed by C. E. Moore, K. C. Moore
land s B. S. - Herring for conducting a
hospital.. Another charter is for the
H. G. Coleman Medicine Company,
Durham, capital $11,000, subscribed
by H. G. Coleman, W. E. Vaughan and
I. E. Coleman, for making Coleman's
Tobacco Oil Ointment and other drug
products.
Good Roads Bond Issue in Randolph.
Asheboro. The people of Ran
dolph county are at a fever heat over
the proposed $300,000 bond issue for
good roads, which is to be voted on
May 20. Speakings at various points
in .the county are being held every
night. -
Scottish Society of America.
Red Springs. The Scotish Society
of America will hold its next annual
meeting here May 21. Featuring the
session will be address by Dr. James
A. MacDonald, editor of The Toronto
Globe, Toronto, Canada. ,
Run Down and Killed by Automobile.
Charlotte. Within ; a few . seconds
after she alighted from a street car
on South Boulevard . almost immedi
ately in front of the power house,
Miss Annie King, aged 23 years, was
struck by the' rapidly 'driven automo
bile of Mr. J. Lemuel Houston and
fatally injured. Death came about an
hour later, when Miss King had been
removed to the Presbyterian Hospital
and had been placed on an operating
table. Mr. Houston was arrested and
later released on $5,000 bond, the
charge being manslaughter.
Federation of Woman's Clubs.
Newibern. The State Federation of
Woman's Clubs will meet in this city
May 6. , The local organization is
making elaborate and extensive ar
rangements for the entertainment of
the visiting ladies. There will be nu
merous social events during the time
that the federation is in session and
every one who attends will be made
to enjoy their visit. It is expected
that at least a hundred visiting mem
bers will be, present. The program
of the meeting is now being prepared
nd will be sent out in & tegt days.
FROM THE TAR HEEL. STATE
Short Paragraphs of State News That
Has Been Condensed For People
- of the State.
Henderson. Vance couny voted
$200,000 .bonds for good roads by a ma
jority of 522. Returns are in from
all precincts except Dabney, which
did not vote.
Asheboro. A band of fortune-telling
gypsies stopped a few days in
town and were relieved of about $150
which they left with officers here as
appearance bonds for next term of
superior court.
China Grove. In pursuance of a
call by the' mayor the citizens of
China Grove assembled in mass-meeting
to nominate candidates for mayor
and five aldermen. The meeting was
a representative one and .was presided
over by Mr. O. M. Hanna.
Winston-Salem. Another Democrat
ic primary is necessary to nominate
a candidate for mayor of consolidated
Winston-Salem. The primary recent
ly resulted in this voted: O. B, Aaton,
456;J. L. Ludlow, 456; R. I. Dalton,
present mayor, 398. The second con
test will be between Eaton and Lud
low. Forest City. The advocates of the
bond issue proposed in this county
for road improvement are making a
concerted effort to arouse favorable
sentiment in this section. Messrs.- F.
B. Rankin, J. Q. Adams, James Carson
and Supervisor Valentine made short
speeches in behalf of the issue at a
meeting several days ago.
Asheville. Charles Robinson, a
young man of Bryson City, was the
victim of a serious accident several
days ago, when he fell beneath a
moving train on the Murphy division
of the Southern Railway, being severe
ly crushed. He was rushed to Ashe
ville and was taken to the Mission
Hospital where his left leg and right
arm were amputated. ' -
Mt. Airy. The reports from recent
heavy frosts indicate that the fruit
in the valleys of this section, is killed,
but that on the ridges the apples
are not seriously injured. In the three
largest orchards the Sparger, Cove
land and Granite City there remains
an average crop. Early vegetables
were killed, but thetobacco plants are
safe. .
Mount Airy. Hon. George Peuu,
member of the state railroad commis
sion, but now confined in a Philadel
phia hospital, has written a citizen
of this place assuring Mount Airy of
a new and modern passenger depot.
This is the result of a long-standing
effort to secure decentN quarters for
those who are forced to wait for the
trains.
Salisbury. Fire of unknown origin
which started in the second story of
a drug store of D. C. Swearingen, In
China Grove, destroyed the drug
store ,the general store of Holshouser
and Siert and damaged the building
and stock of. the China Grove Hard
ware Co., Pemberton and Yost, gen
eral store, and also damaged the res
taurant of J. E. Cline, located near
the scene of the fire.
Hickory The Ninth District Medi
cal Society met here recently. The
meeting was opened with prayer, af-
ter which the physicians were given
a cordial welcome by several of the
citizens of this city in short addresses
which were responded to by Dr. David
J. Hill, of Lexington. The opening
address was delivered by the presi
dent, Dr. Isaac M. Taylor of Morgan
ton. Spencer. Engineer R. S. Sigman of
Spencer has been retired by the
Southern Railway Company on a sal
ary for life-. So far as is known, he
is the oldest engineer in the railroad
service 4n this country and is the first
to be retired for life. Mr. Sigman be
gan his railroad service .nearly sixty
years ago, at a time when coal-burners
were unknown and only wood was
used for steaming.
Asheville. The stockholders of the
Western North Carolina Fair Associa
tion held their annual mee'ting recent
ly and. named October f, 8, 9 and 10
as the dates for the next annual exhi
bition.' Following the meeting of the
stockholders the directors chose the
following officers: President, E. D.
Weaver; first vice-president, G. S. Ar
thur; second . vice-president, W. J.
.Cooke; secretary and treasurer, D.
Harris.
Charlotte. Charlotte i3 booked for
another big convention in June when
the- Trl-State Furniture Association
composed of furniture manufacturers
of the Carolinas and Virginia, meet
here to discuss common problems pre
sented in the manufacture and sale
of furniture. ( . i
Spencer. The Spencer board of al
dermen passed an ordinance requiring
all dogs to.be muzzled after May 1
with a fine of $5 to be imposed on all
who allow their dogs to go without a
muzzle! The action was, taken with
a view to protection of children and
others against vicious or rabid dogs.
Waynesville. Joe Sutton,,' 17 years
old, is in jail here awaiting trial at
the July term of Haywood criminal
court on a charge of attempting crimi
nal assault upon his eight-year-old
niece in Big Creek, a remote section
of the county.
Hendersonville. The Henderson
ville authorities have purchased from
J. S. Cox five acres of land just put
side the city's limits to be ' used as
a garbage farm the consideration be
ing $500. Heretofore the city has not
had a regular - dumping grc-und, de
positing the refuge matter at most
convenient places. , ;
DEBATE ON TARIFF
BECOMES ANIMATED
STRINGER CALLS UPON PRO
GRESSIVES TO STAND BY THE
' UNDERWOOD BILL.
PLANK OF THE PLATFORM
The Income Tax Was The Subject of
A Prolonged . Discussion in The
Lower Branch' of Congress. Denied
They Represent "Protection Party."
Washington. Confronting Progres
sive members of the house with a
plank in the national platform of theh
party pledging them to immediate re
vision .of 'excessive tariff schedules"
without waiting for their proposed
non-partisan tariff commission, Rep
resentative Jawrence B. Stringer, a
new Democrat from Illinois called up
on the third party representatives in
the house to support the Underwood
bill if they wished to carry out their
party declaration!
First defending the Progressives
against onslaughts of both Democrats
and Republicans and declaring that
they represented more than 4,000,000
voters and have the right to claim
U .J A
mat men yxi iy wixa LUtJ . BOCtJIlU,
party i this nation," the Illinois
Democrat emphatically denied that
they represented a "protection party."
"You tell me that the Progressive
party favors- a nonpartisan tariff
commission," declared Mr. Stringer.
"That is true, but that plank in the
Progressive platform concludes by
saying: 'The work of the commission
should not prevent the immediate
adoption of acts reducing those sched
ules generally recognized as exces
sive." Waving aloft the quotation and ad
dressing himself, to Victor Murdock,
Progressive party leader in the house,
Mr. Stringer continued:
"I call the attention of the gentle
man from Kansas to the statement
that, if he and the Progressive mem
bers of this body, whom he leads, de
sire to carry out the declarations of
their own platform, and I believe they
do, they wilj be compelled, by the
logic of these declarations toJoln with
us in the passage of this ? pending
measure."
May Participate in Politics.
Washington. Retired naval officers
are not debarred from taking part In
politics, Secretary Daniels f ibelieves.
The same rule will apply to army of
ficers. Some time ago Senator John
son of Alabama complained that
Rear Admiral Wadhams, retired, had
been lecturing In Alabama, on a need
for a big navy. Indirectly the sena
tor thought that this' was calculated
to help along Representative Hobson
in his campaign for a senator's seat
Want Federal Aid For Roads.
Birmingham, Ala, The executive
committee of the United States Good
Roads Association appointed a spe
cial committee to go to Washington
to urge Federal aid for good roads
before congress. The committee con
sists of. United States Senator J. H.
Bankhead, Alabama, chairman; Dell
M. Potter, Clifton, Arizona; Tom L
Connor,-St Louis; E. J. Watson, com
missioner of agriculture of South
Carolina.
Commissioner of Corporations.
Washington. Joseph E. Davies, sec
retary of the Democratic national
committee, has declined to be govern
or general of the Philippines and has
been selected for commissioner o
corporations to succeed Luther Con
ant Jr. His nomination, it was said
would go to the senate soon.
New Postcard Order.
Washington. Postmaster General
Burleson ordered that unpaid, misdi
rected, unmailable and unclaimed
postal cards as well as postcards de
posited for local deliverry be return
ed to the sender when they bear card
addresses. Twelve million postcards
annually, it is estimated, will be re
turned under the order.
Bigelow Sends in Resignation.
Washington. Dr. W. D.- Bigelow,
assistant chief of the Bureau of Chem
istry, whose name figured in the con
troversy which followed the resigna
tion of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, has left
the government service. Before he
oame to the bureau he was connected"
with various educational institutions.
Correspondence between Dr. Bigelow
and Dr. Carl Alsberg, chief of the
bureau, divulges ' that Dr. Bigelow is
to become chief chemist of a research
laboratory to be established here by
the canners association.
Garrison Defers Appointments.
Washington. Secretary Garrison
announced that he Intended to post
pone 'the nomination of a successor
to Brig. Gen. Walter S. Schuyler,, com
mander of the Eighth Army 'brigade,
at San Francisco, who retired, until
the retirement May 15 of Brig. Gen.
Frederick A. Smith, commander of
the Fifth army brigade at. Omaha. The
secretary is considered to regard as
untenable the status of Gen. William
College, also titular head of the ord'
nance bureau.
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