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THH CHATHAM RECORD It A. : LONDON, EDfTOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 Per Year Strictly in Advance THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Sqnar, on inMrtioa $LC3 One Square, two msrtioM One-Square, one month SftfO For Larger Advertisements Libera! Contracts will bo. made. VOL. XXXV. PITTSBOriO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N '.C. MAY 14, 1913. NO. 40. !S NOTES FOR THE BUSY HI MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest From All Parts of World. Southern. In Birmingham, Ala., one man was killed and two injured by the explo sion of a pot of molten slag at the Alice furnace of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company. The dead, Ernest Corley, a a negro switchman. Injured, R. L. Montgomery, engineer, badly burned about shoulders; J. A. Rogers, fireman, burned on arms. The molten slag spread over the negro, and the men on the engine saved them selves by uncoupling the pot car and running the pot engine out of danger. The United States mail boat La porte, a gasoline launch which carries mail to the St. Johns river towns in Florida, sank while off Arlington. The boat was overloaded with mail and parcels post matter besides some cargo and went down in 19 feet of water, 200 feet off shore. In New Orleans several -hundred panic-stricken school children fled from the Amesville school building in a blinding rainstorm when lightning struck an oil tank belonging to the Texas Oil company and set fire to the more than 2,000,000 gallons of crude oil which it contained. There was no explosion, but the flames burst forth .in an instant and enormous volumes of black smoke ascended to a height of more than a thousand feet. Two men are dead and a third mor tally wounded as a result of two pis tol battles near Vienna, Ga. The first encounter was between Oscar Blow and P. P. Sangester, the latter being killed. When Sheriff Bennett and his deputies cornered Blow he opened fire, shooting the sheriff in the stomach. The officer killed Blow as he fell. One hundred thousand dollars' dam age was done, and several hundred men and women thrown out of employ ment when fire destroyed four cigar factories, . three sponge houses, two lumber sheds and several smaller buildings in Key West, Fla. The fire was discovered in the factory of the Key West Cigar company, and spread rapidly, for a time threatening the low er business section of the city. J. W. Williams, 64-year-old slayer of his wife, Mrs. Henrietta Williams, of Rome, Ga., was sentenced to life imprisonment at the state farm. The jury bringing a verdict of guilty, with recommendation to mercy after the minutes' deliberation. The defense's plea of insanity and the age cf Wil liams were the contributing factors to the lienency. Raving just before dying of con sumption, William Fine, aged 50, of Newport. Tenn., is alleged to have claimed that he had the blood of four persons on his hands and that he could not expect forgiveness. General William Jennings Bryan, speaking at a dinner given in honor of the foreign members of the international confer ence that is arranging the celebration of 100 years of peace among English speaking peoples, in New York, de clared that "the new peace plan offered by President Wilson to all nations is the latest and longest step toward peace. It contemplates time for in vestigation and deliberation," he said, "and this makes the possibility of war remote." James P. Thompson, James E. Hus sey, John J. Murtha and Dennis Swee ney, the four demoted police inspec tors, charged with a conspiracy to of struct justice in New Ycrk, were con victed by a jury in the supreme court. Only 38 minutes were taken by the jurors to reach their verdict that the defendants were guilty of a misde meanor in plotting to keep a pros pective witness against the "system" from making graft disclosures before the grand pury. In New York a despondent east side paper cutter released such a quantity of gas when he turned on the jet in committing suicide that the fumes filled the tenement building where he lived and an explosion occurred, in which more than a score of persons were injured, two of them probably mortally. The explosion and resultant fire caused a panic in the neighbor hood, a crowded section on Madison street. . Hauling vegetables with play ex press wagons, wheelbarrows and tri cycles, 6,000 Spokane school children will take part in a vegetable parade in which several thousands boys and girls are causing' as many backyards to blossom and produce real money. Fourteen convicts, some of them life termers, escaped from a stockade near Largo, Fla. Guards discovered the break and headed 'off the rest. One bloodhound was killed during the night by the fugitives. Contracts have been placed for the construction in Japanese yards of three dreadnaughts. The Italian foreign minister, Mar quis Di San- Giuliano, and the Spanish ambassador have signed an agrement whereby Italy and Spain reciprocally grant in Morocco and' Lidya the most favored national treatment. BRIEF NEW At Los Angeles Lieutenant J. D. Park, a military aviator, who started from San Diego on a flight tb Los An geles, was killed at Olive, nine miles north of Santa Ana. Lieutenant Park met his death in a fall of less than fif teen feet. Professor Hugo Munsterberg, a Ger man citizen, told the American com mittee ararnging for a celebration of 100 years of peace among English speaking peoples in New York, that there were many "non-English people" who regarded the movement a forerun ner of an alliance between England and the United States antagonistic to Germany. Aleko Schinas, who assassinated King George, of Greece, on March 19 at Saloniki, committed suicide by flinging himself out of a window of the police station in Athens. Schinas gave as an explanation of the crime that in 1911 he had applied for as csistance at the king's palace and had been driven away. In Syracuse, N. Y., determined ef forts were made to settle the strike of building laborers which developed a series of riots in which twenty-five persons, nine of them policemen, were wounded. The strikers met with Sessare Sconfetti, Italian .consu lar agent at Rochester, who came to Syracuse and appointed a committee to wait on the employers with a view of arbitrating the wage dispute. The contnractors have signified their wil lingness to arbitrate. When the new submarine torpedo boat H-l was launched at the Union Iron works, in San Francisco, Cal., an American naval tradition was shattered. For the first time in the country's history a United States war ship was christened by a subject of a foreign country. Miss Leslie Jean Meakin, who stood sponsor for the new craft, was born in Montreal and is a subject of King George. In London the fate of the woman's suffrage bill was sealed by the votes of more than fifty Irish nationalists, who voted against it. The bill, where by it was sought to enfranchise 6, 000,000 women, was rejected by a ma jority of 47; the vote stood '266 to 219. The rebel committee received verifi cation of the report that General Trucy Aubert had surrendered to the Carra zana insurgents at Lampasas, below Laredo, Tex., The verification was brought to the border by Major Salca dor Gomez, of the state forces, who says he saw the surrender of, Aubert and 700 federal troops. Washington Keen interest is being displayed by the government and the public general ly in what action the United States will take as a consequence of the virtual repudiation of Ambassador Wilson by President Huerta. The president has made no statement eith er to Ambassador Wilson or to the public qualifying his statement that Mr. Wilson, "diplomatically, has no standing'' but foreign. Minister De La Barra displayed an eagerness to minimize the incident. Charles C. Glover, the Washington banker, who recently attacked Repre sentative Sims, of Tennessee, on ac count ofa speech delivered in the house, was brought before the bar of the house in Washington and repri manded by Speaker Clark for violat ing the privileges of the house. A resolution authorizing the banker's arrest had been adopted with only four dissenting votes. When brought in by the sergeant at arms, Glover read an apology, saying that his act was com mitted under great stress of feeling and that hp did not know he was af fronting the house. All fourth-class postmasterships, ex. cept those paying less than $180 a year, were thrown open to competitive examination by an order issued by President Wilson at Washington. These positions are retained in the classified service, but about 50,000 in cumbents who were "covered" into the classified service by executive orders of previous administrations, will have to meet all comers in competitive ex aminations to hold their positions with civil service protection. Approximately 93,000 acres of moun tain land in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia, was approved for purchase by the national forest reserve commission. This will make almost 600,000 acres bought by the government up to date for the Appalachian and White mountains forest reservation. By a vote of 41 to 32 the senate refused to accept an amendment to the sundry civil bill by Senator Gallinger striking out a clause exempting labor and farmers' organiaations from prose cution under the anti-trust law with funds appropriated by the bill. Three Republican senators, Jones, Lafolette and Norris, voted with the Democrats again'st the Gallinger amendment and two Democrats, Pomer and Thomas, Joined the Republicans In supporting it. Representative Thomas M. Bell's nomination of A. S. Hardy, editor of the Gainesville Eagle, to be postmas ter at Gainesville, Ga., was turned down and President Wilson sent in the name of Mrs. H. W. J. Ham, widow of "Snollygoster" Ham, to succeed Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet. The Japanese embassy was supplied by the state department with a copy of the alien lan-owning bill passed by the California legislature and' the am bassador will employ the time between now and Secretary Bryan's return to Washington in preparing a formal pro test' against the measure. Apparently the -embassy has no hope that any word President Wilson may send after Secretary Bryan returns will influence Governor Johnson to withhold his sig nature from the act, so thp only ob ject of the protest will be to acquaint the American people with the Japanese contention. POSTMASTERS FOR. NORTH Mill PRESIDENT WILSON SHAKES OFF EIGHT PLUMS FOR THE TAR HEELS. , ' A FIGHT FOR WADESB0R0 S. S. Lockhart is Opposed on Charge That He is Too Deaf For the Job. Wilson Member of N. C. Society of the Cincinnati. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that President Wilson in sending in 200 postmasters' nomina tion relieved a situation that had be come acute. Almost ap open break had been caused between the presi dent and congressmen over the fail uie of nominations made six weeks or two months ago to come through. Whether the president's friends told him of the anxious state of feeling is not known, but he relieved much ap prehension by bringing to the capitol the plum tree with 200 postoffice plums. North Carolina gets eight new Dem ocratic postmasters. All of these were recommended by the congress men from the districts in which they are located. They follow: Newton, F. M. Williams, recommended by Mr. Webb; Hamlet, R. B. Terry; Hocks ville, R. E. Hunt, Sr.; North Wilkes boro, James G. Hackett; Mount Gil ead, Richard A. Bruton; all recoor mended by Mr. Page; Lenoir, Virgil D. Guire; Albemarle, J. D. Bivins, recommended by Mr. Doughton; Gieenville, David J. Whitehead; rec ommended by Mr. Small. Word 'reached Congressman Page through the postoffice department that charges have been filed against S. S. Lockhart, recommended as post master at Wadesboro. The principal charge is that Mr. Lockhart is too deaf to properly discharge the duties of the postmaster. The matter was a complete surprise to Mr. Page and he was unable to learn who had preferred the charges. The fact that papers are urging the appointment of W. M. Morton, who was a contestant against Mr. Lockhart, would seem to indicate that the action was taken by Mr. Morton's friends. President Wilson was presented with a gold insignia of the North Car olina Society of the Cincinnati. A committee composed of Col. W. G. Lamb, of WUliamston, president; J. C. Davis, vice-president, and Col. Ben ehan Cameron, of Stagville, called at the White House to inform Mr. Wil son that he was elected an honorary member at a meeting held in Greens boro recently. Women on Henderson School Board. Repudiating time-honored customs and joining the ranks of the new coun ties in North Carolina adopting the more progressive educational methods the Henderson count board of educa tion in special session here announc ed the first appointment of ladies to serve on school committees, express ing the hope that sufficient applica tions would be made for the appoint ment of women to fill half the vacan cies on school committees in this county. North Carolina New Enterprises. A charter is issued for . the Gibson ville Insurance & Real Estate Co., Gibsonville, capital $50,0000 author ized and $5,000 subscribed by W. E. Sharpe and others of Burlington. There is an amendment for the char ter of the Mutual Aid & Banking Co., Newbern, changing the status of shares and stocks by order of the stockholders. New Drainage District. Stewarts Creek drainage district, comprising about 7,000 acres of fine land situated just across Cape Fear River from Dunn, is now. an assured fact. All the preliminary legal steps have been taken and the district . de clared formed and the drainage com missions appointed. Caldwell Singing Association. The annual meeting of the Cald well County Singing Association met at New, Collier's church in the Bush settlement of the' county. The entire day was taken up by the association. In the morning the devotional exer cises were conducted by Rev. J. O. JMllbright, pastor of the First Baptist church, at Lenoir, after which officers were elected for the ensuing year. At the noon recess a feast was served and an old-fashioned picnic dinner was enjoyed by the large crowd which had gathered. Many Blockade Distilleries. As a result of raids made by Sher iff Stafford and his deputies on block ade distilleries, the court house green at Greensboro was graced with two big stills, in the corridor of the building were several bags of meal and malt, vessels containing over 700 gallons of liquor, and in the jail re posed one white man in the person of James Bayle. The officers captured a still near-Brown Summitt, near the Rockingham county line,, poured out about 200 gallons of beer and confis cated twenty gallons o fliquor. CRAIG ISSUES COMMISSIONS For the Naval . Brigade Officers on Recommendation of Commander- C. D. Bradsham. Raleigh. Gov ernor Craig issued a number of commissions to naval bri gade officers on recommendation of Commander C. D. Bradsham of New bern as follows: F.,' P. Shipp, lieutenant commander and chief of staff ; R. Duvall Jones, surgeon and 'lieutenant commander, Newbern ; E. E. Williams, chief , en gineer and lieutenant commander, Newbern; J. H. Crawford, paymaster and lieutenant commander, Newbern ; A T. Willis, gunnery officer and Hue tenant; Newbern; B. F. Husk, chap lain and lieutenant, Newbern; J. C. B. Ehringhaus, judge advocate and lieu tenant, .Beaufort; J. B. Green, aide and lieutenant, Newbern; E. H. Ba ker, Raleigh, aide and lieutenant; J. R. Grade, Raleigh, lieutenant. Commissions are also issued to a number of officers elected by cavalry troops as follows : R. M. Phispatrick, first lieutenant Troop B, Ashevile; Bert Nichols, sec ond lieutenant, Troop B, Asheville; L. S. Byiium, second lieutenant Com pany I, second infantry, Edenton. Three Important Hearings. There are three important hearings set by the corporation commission for this month. The first is in the Rock ingham case for May 16 in which there is demand for the physical con nection of the Seaboard Air Line and the Rockingham railroads. This will be in the offices ofthe commis sion at Raleigh. May 20, at Greens boro, there will be the hearing on the petition, for improved train service on the Southern from Sanford to Mount Airy and for better passenger station facilities at Mount Airy. On May 23, at Raleigh there will be the hearing in the case of 75 central and western Carolina shippers against the Southern Railway for the refunding of excessive rates on freight charges on interdivisional shipments into and out of the western Carolina divisions of the Southern, on which high division al rates are allowed because of high cost of maintenance and operation. This is ah especially important hear ing. The amount involved is hun dreds of thousands of dollars. Medical Students Given Degrees. Twentysix graduates of the North Carolina Medical College received their degrees of Doctor of Medicine, the exercises being held in the audi torium of the Presbyterian College. The exercises were simple, yet pretty and the evening was featured by an address delivered by Dr. C. R. Hard ing, professor of Greek at Davidsor College. The large auditorium was filled with friends and relatives of the graduates and by a large number of Presbyterian college students many of whom assembled to see Miss Mary Montreville Parker, an alumna of the Presbyterian College, receive her de gree in. medicine, and incidentally be presented with a case of surgical in struments won by having led her class. Mecklenburg Drainage Commission. The Mecklenburg Drainage Commis sion met at the county court house, with Dr. James R. Alexander, pre siding, and with Mr. W. S. Pharr act ing as secretary. The meeting was for the most part taken up in routine business, though there were several petitions coming from farmers throughout the county -asking that va rious creeks and branches be 'drainer' at the earliest possible time. One dredge is now near Pineville and will soon reach the county line, when it will then be moved alsewhere. The sec ond dredge is near the grist mill of Long & Beattie, six miles southeast of Charlotte, where condemnation proceedings are now going on with regard to altering the site of the above mentioned mill. , Purchase of Land Approved. The purchase of 5,465 acres of land in the Nantahala region of Macon county, North Carolina, was approved by the National Forest Reservation Commission, the price ranging from 50 cents to $10 per acre and an average of $7.50. Millions Lost in Forest Fires. Millions of dollars of losses have resulted from extensive forest fires that have raged in western North Carolina mountains the past three weeks. The oldest residents say that no such forest burning has occurred before for more than 20 years. Begin ning about 25 miles south and " east of Linville Falls, the fires have ex tended from 20 to 40 miles north and east. Not all that territory has been burned, but much of it. All of Lin ville Mountain, within two miles of Linville Falls, has been burned. Organize to Fight For Just Rates. Twenty-one North Carolina cities through their representatives, met in the Selwyn Hotel at Charlotte, and organized the Just Freight Rate As sociation of North Carolina, effecting a permanent organization and calling a meeting for next Thursday, May 15, in the legislative halls at Raleigh to elect officers. The officers were not elected at last meeting because, hav ing had only 48 hours in which to gather, the towns in the far eastern part of the state were represented by telegrams only. SHAM AND PRETENSE OVERMAN SAYS CIVIL SERVICE LAW HAS BEEN USED TO PAY POLITICAL DEBTS. HAS STARTED AN INQUIRY Thousands Now. Holding Office Who Have Never Taken Examination. Senator Overman of This State - ' . ' . - - , . V Author of Resolution of Inquiry. Raleigh. A special from Washing ton states that a determined purpose to rid the civil service rolls of those who do not belong there, has been shown by the Democrats in congress. This inquiry presages a big shake up in all the, executive departments. Senator Overman, of North Carolina, the author of a resolution of in quiry, says the law has been a sham J and a pretense and that the old spoils, system is better than a law that clothes political deceit, "Senator Pomerene of Ohio has also expressed positive views on the sub ject. He Js chairman of the commit tee on civil service and retrench ment which will conduct the investi gstion either under a resolution he has introduced1 or that of Senator Overman. The committee will meet to make plans for ne- investigation. His committee will not be a merely ornamental one, but will undertake a really gigantic task. Persons who have obtained a place on the rolls In the last 20 years through nepotism and political favoritism will be de nied the, protection of a 'law with which they have - never complied Thousands of government employe? have been covered under the civil service by executive, proclamation, as was done in1 the case of 40,000 fourth class postmasters by President Taft. Senators Pomerene and Overman both declare they ;have no disposi tion to disturb employes - of the gov ernment who have won their places by taking examinations in good faith and who have been certified through the civil service commission in the regular way. But they do object to extending the protecting arm of the civil service to men and women who were appointed through Irregular methods by executive order waiving the civil service examinations and re quirements, by influential relatives, who ignored civil service barriers, r by blanket orders issued by the exec utive at convenient seasons by which groups of persons on temporary rolls came into the service without taking any examination whatsoever. Overman on Cotton .Schedule. Raleigh. Senator Overman . " dis cussed the cotton schedule of the tar iff bill with President Wil3on and when he came away expressed him self as very well satisfied with the interview. He believes that the pres ident will look with sympathy upon certain amendments in the Underwood bill correcting certain inequalities in the cotton schedule. He said these charges will be in .accordance with the Baltimore platform and the presi dent's own public promises. ..Good Roads Meeting in Davie. Mocksville. A good roads meeting was held in the court house recently. Nearly every part of the county was represented. A number of good speeches were made on good roads by Mr. Cobb, of Cooleemee, T. J. Byerly A. T. Grant, Jr., B. F. Stonestreet, Rev. W. E. Wilson and R. B. Sanford of this city and M. J. Hendricks of Can. Speakers . will stump the county thor oughly between this time and the bond election,' which , occurs May, 31. Lumbermen Kick . On Rates. Asheville.---Western "North Carolina lumbermen are preparing to register a kick against the recently announced increased freight rate of the South ern Railway Company, applying to certain grades of lumber. Already the lumbermen are beginning to take the matter up with the various lumber men's organizations to which they belong and ' it is expected . that the matter will be taken, up to the inter state commerce commission. To Start Drainage Work. Concord. The . drainage commis sioners of Cold Water Creek district, Messrs. Paul Kimminger, N. M Banr hardt and John A. Scott have decided to begin at once on- the work. The commissioners and their attorney met and advertised for bids. They will re ceive bids until 12 o!clock Saturday May 24,f or ditching the creek. It Is estimated that the work will require the excavation of 237,000 cubic yards of,, dirt. The contract " will require that the work .be ; done in eight months . Jury Returns Unusual Verdict. ' Asheville. "We, the jury find Hor ace Melton not guilty; but recommend that he leave the state." This was the unusual verdict delivered in the su perior court by the jury which heard the evidence in three cases against Melton, charging him with selling whiskey Illegally. It was charged that Melton "boot-legged"- whiskey," .al though the defense claimed that the alleged sales - were ; made more than two years ago and that Melton was not liable to pwalshment through the statute of limitations. r . ELECTIONS FROM OVER STATE Brief Accounts of the Town Elections From Many Sections of the Tar ' Heel Stats. Spencer. The municipal election in Spencer passed off quietly with the following men chosen to office: 'May or, C. G. Theiling; aldermen, J. D. Carter, D. Fulk, E. B .Burgess, M. L. Klser, W. G. Hrne and H. A. Huff ines. .The ticket was elected with out opposition. Weaverviile. The Weaverville city election was unusually Interesting, the candidate of the "Progressives" for mayor winning over the "Conserva tives" by seven votes. The successful ticket follows: Charles R. Moore, mayor; J. J. Reagan, W. F. Mack, W. M .Rajan, F. E. Blackstock and T. W. Blackstock, aldermen. Raleigh. Returns from the city election show, that James I. Johnson defeated Franklin McNeill for mayor and .commissioner of finance by a vote of 1,234 to 933. O. G. King de feated Williard McDowell for com missioner of public safety, 1,153 to 999, and Richard B. Seawell defeated John S. Jones for commissioner of public works by a vote of 1,369 to 787. Monroe An election was held here to confirm the nominations for the city officers. Very little interest was shown, as the officers were practical ly known. Those elected are: May or, J D. McRae; aldermen, first ward, T. C. Lee; second ward, S. O. Blair; third ward, W. E. Funder burk; fourth ward, W. H. Norwood; at .large, J. W. Fowler. Fayetteville. John Underwood was re-elected mayor of Fayetteville over his independent opponent, S. M. Campbell, by a vote of 328 to 51. Only the Underwood tickets bore the names of the Democratic aldermanic candidates, all of whom were elected. They are E. W. Peoples, D. S. Mc Rae, John L. Wade, S. W. Cooper, J. B. Buckleigh, B. M. Jackson, L. N. Webster and T. G. McAlister. Wilmington. P. Q. Moore was elec ted mayor of Wilmington by a major ity of 205 over W. E. Springer, after one of the warmest political fights the city has known in many years. The result was in doubt until the bulk of the returns had come in from the four wards. . For councilmen, D. N. Chadwick, Jr., W. F. Jones, C. C. Loughlin, T. W. Wood and B. A. Mer ritt were elected by good majorities, Merritt leading all candidates. Concord. By the skin of. their teeth, by the tighest of squeezes, with the scantest of margins the oppon ents of the straight Democratic tick et elected three aldermen and the mayor in the recent municipal elec tion, leaving three aldermen for the Democrats, but keeping the control of the town. By seven slim votes A. F, Hartsell goes in as mayor, defeating W. W. Flowe, Democrat. ."'-' s Mocksville. The municipal elec tion passed off very quietly in this city. There was but one ticket in the field, and less than 100 votes were cast. The ticket elected is Demo cratic and is composed of the follow ing gentlemen: Mayor, V. E. Swaimj aldermen, T. J. Byerly, C. C. San ford, J. B. Johnstone, J. P. Green and G. E. Horn; school trustees, O. L. Williams, Dr. J. W. Rodwell and L. G Horn. ' North Wilkesboro. The North Wilkesboro municipal election passed off very quietly. There being no op position to E. B. Barkley for mayor, he was elected by a handsome vote. The real excitement of the campaign came last week when, in one of the largest and most enthusiastic mass , meetings ever held in the town, Mr. Barkley was nonjinated over present Mayor S. E. Absher. The board of aldermen selected at this time were also elected without opposition. Burlington. In the municipal elec tion here several days ago J. Edward Moore was elected mayor over J. H. Freeland by a majority of 190. There were only 500 votes polled, so it will be readily seen that Mr. Moore's ma jority was overwhelming. The en tire Democratic board of aldermen was elected, three of whom are old members, W. P. Ireland and Dr. T. S. Faucette, first ward, and H. C. Stout, third ward. The independents polled a very light vote. t . Thomasville. The municipal elec tion passed off quietly, the nominees chosen in a recent mass-meeting be ing elected without opposition. The officers are as follows: Mayor, Chas. M. Hoover; commissioners, J. W." Boyles, R. C. Harville, C. F. Finch, A. W. Hughes and John R. Myers. Reidsville. The town election ' re sulted in the defeat, of the old admin istration with the exception of Mayor Womack, who had no opposition and Recorder Humphreys, who had a ma jority of 222 over A. J. Burton. E. H. "Wrenn defeated P. W. Glidewell for solicitor by a majority of 48. '; Murphy. The town election passed off quietly here. Col. J. D. Mallonee was elected mayor over his opponent, Mr. Woods, by 106 majority. Town Commissioners elected are John E. Fain, A. Y. Brown, P. C. Hyatt, R. R. Beal, R. M. Fain and D. W. Deweese. These won by large majorities. Lenoir. The town had an election recently, but it passed off so quietly and the interest shown was so little that it would have been hard to tell that anything unusual' was taking place. At this election Mark Squires was elected mayor and a board of town commissioners Awas elected. WILSON CONFERS WITH UNDERWOOD PRESIDENT ANXIOUS TO KNOW LINE-UP ON THE CURRENCY " QUESTION. CONTEST OVER HEARINGS Interested in Organization of Com mittes. President Believes Make up of Committees Should be Decid ed on Soon as Possible. Washington. President Wilson discussed w,ith Majority Leader " Un derwood the general situation in con gress and the prospect for currency legislation, which the president is anxious to have passed at this session if possible. The president was par---ticularly interested in the organiza tion of the committees of the house. He was anxious to7 learn the complex- ion of the Democratic side of the banking and currency committee which the ways and means committee y acting as a committee on committees for the Democratic caucus is now preparing to select. Mr. Underwood told the president that Representative Carter Glass of Virginia, ranking remaining member of the banking and currency commit tee of the last house, would be select ed as chairman. Representative Glass was chairman of the sub-committee on banking and currency which made an extensive investigation last session of currency reform measures with particular attention to the so called Aldrich currency plan endors ed by the national monetary commis sion. ' The President believes the make-up of the house banking ' and currency committee should be finally decided upon as soon as possible so members may begin work on a currency bill to be brought in soon after the house resumes active sessions early in June. The committee has been tentatively selected by Mr. Underwood and his committee colleagues but the names are still subject to shifting before B 11 A h v. a rrr nhnnAil imaiiy ituuuuuceu. ab uuw ouajicu up, these members who were on the ' committee in the last congress will remain : Representative Glass of Virginia, chairman; Korbley, Indiana; Bulkley, Carolina; Brown, West Virginia, , and possibly Stephens, Mississippi, Demo crats, and Hayes, California, and Guernsey, Maine, Republicans. Threshing Out Japanese Objections. Washington. Secretary of State Bryan formulated a message to Gov. Johnson of California, setting forth representations of the Japanese gov- , ernment and views of the admioistra-' Hrn hnrn aj tn what was considered . discriminatory in the Webb aati-alien i . i i t i 1 1 m t M Dili, passeu oy me amurma legisla ture and now awaiting action by the governor. Mr. Bryan conferred with President Wilson an hour, discussing in detail the formal protest filed by Embassador Chinda. G. A. R. Reunion at Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Tenn. The reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held in Chattanooga next Sep tember, the invitation having been accepted by the organization by tele graph.' The committee appointed a ' week ago to consider the advisability of inviting the veterans to meet in this, city decided to extend the invitation and this was ' done by telegraph, the message being signed by ex-Senator Newell Sanders, chairman. Amend Tariff Bill Now Seems Likely.' Washington. i(hairman Simmons of the finance committee, sees merit in an . amendment to the. tariff bill suggested by Assistant Attorney Gen eral Denison, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Curtis to authorize the secretary of the treasury to pro claim valuations on imports. It Is claimed that It would prevent under valuations and to avoid confusion re sulting from fluctuating foreign mar ket values and ad valorem rates. i Loss on Both Sides Heavy. Nogales, Ariz. After an estimated loss of 4,000 men on both sides in fighting which lasted from 3 o'clock in the morning until after nightfall, 2,500 Federal soldiers were driven back Into Guaymas, the California gulf port, by 3,000 insurgents Sonpra state troops. Heavy cannonading re ported from Ortax indivated that the attack on Guaymas proper ,had begun. The official insurgent reports that 150 Federal soldiers and 35 officers were captured and 10 machine gun3 aban doned to the state troops. , s' Submarine Fleet to Norfolk. Washington-The little fleet of sub marines has started from Newport, R. I., for Norfolk, to execute in Chesa peake Bay and off the Virginia Capes some of the drills and exercises they omittted when last In those waters. The "hurry up" orders given to th officers at Newport were intended merely to. test the readiness of the officers and men to respond to an emergency call and probably would not have been Issued had. it been known at headquarters that the sub marine ball had been set.
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