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VOL. XXXV.
PITTSBO,CX CHATHAM COUNTY, N .C. JUNE 25. 1913.
NO." 46.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR TIE BUS!
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLD'S NEWS EPITOMIZED
Complete Review of Happenings of
Greatest Interest From AH
Part of World.
Southern.
Allen Fleming is suffering from a
most unusual accident which happen
ed to him. Passing a corner of a va
cant lot, in Athens, Ga.f there was a
sudden, blinding flash and explosion
on Jhe ground at his side and within
a few feet from him. He threw out
a hand and saved his face and eyes,
but the arm was burned to a blister
from the hand nearly to the shoulder.
It was learned that two hours before
school boys had placed a large charge
of powder in a paper sack and had set
fire to the paper to see the charge
flash.
Looking to a reconciliation of differ
ences now pertaining to the. handling
and shipping of the cotton crop of the
near future, interests involved bank
ers, cotton exporters, compress own
ers and rail and water transportation,
company representatives were in ex
ecutive conference in Birmingham,
Ala., with J. P. Doughty of Augusta,
Ga., chairman of the general confer
ence of cotton exporting interests,
presiding.
The words, "guaranteed under the
food and drugs act," on a label are
no assurance that contents of a pack
age . are pure, according to Dr. Carl
L. Alsberg, chief of the bureau of
chemistry, who spoke before the
Association of American Food Dairy
and Drug Officials. Doctor Alsberg
was speaking of the limitations of the
federal bureau at Mobile, Ala'., under
the federal pure food law, appealing
for closer co-operation between feder
al and state authorities, and for uni
formity of laws of states based on the
national laws.
When bystanders, their attention at
tracted by a stream of blood flowing
from the conveyance, halted a patrol
wagon in Dallas, Texas, it was found
that the prisoner, a man believed to
be M. Peyton of Muskogee, Okla.,
had slashed his throat with a razor.
He died before reaching a hospital.
The man had been arrested in re
sponse to a telegram from the prose
cuting attorney at Muskogee, who al
leged that he was wanted in that
city charged with the embezzlement
of $1,000.
Lingering less than an hour after
surgeons had extracted six bullets
from his body, Eugene Watson, the
negro ' desperado who stabbed and
killed Deputy Sheriff Dave Yancey, in
Atlanta, Ga., and later was shot almost
to death when he took refuge from
the police beneath a vacant house
on Windsor street, near Woodward
avenue, died at Grady hospital. Wat
son, beside having a long criminal rec
ord, was an escaped convict.
Dr. Guy V. Brinkley, a prominent
young physician of Savannah, Ga., was
killed by Mrs. Eugene H. Whisnant,
who then turned her" weapon on her
self and fell dead across the body of
Doctor Brinkley with a bullet in her
brain. The young woman went to the
office of Doctor Brinkley accompanied
by a woman companion. Mrs. Whis
nant and the doctor went into the pri
vate office, and the other woman re
mained in the outer office, leaving
hastily when the shooting began.
General
The grand American gun, tourna
ment at Dayton, Ohio, was won by
M. S. Hootman of Hicksville, Ohio.
The Australian federal premier, Rt.
Hon. Andrew Fisher, and. the cabinet
have resigned as a result of the re
cent elections, in which the Liberals
obtained a majority of one . over the
Labor party in the house.
It was semi-officially announced
that former President Taft would pre
side over the great gathering of Con
federate and Union veterans at the
Gettysburg celebration. He is expect
ed to deliver the principal oration on
July 4. It was planned to have Pres
ident Wilson preside, but it was an
nounced a few days ago that he probably-would
not attend.
Charged with hitching his 12-year-old
son, Frank, to a cultivator along
side a ftiule and working him in the
field in a temperature of 120 degrees
in the sun, John Freismuth of La
crosse, Wis., was sought on a war
rant issued on complaint of the state
humane office.
Bartow Cantrell, in jail at Gaines
ville, Ga., has confessed to the mur
der of Arthur Hawkins, near Bellton,
Hall county. He claimed that his
"brother, James Cantrell, offered him
6 and a half interest in his still to
slay Hawkins
The money stringency is having its
effect upon the stores of butter and
eggs. Holdings of eggs in New York
City now are short 350,000 cases, of
SO dozen to the case, of what they
were a year ago.
Of the 700 members of the San
Francisco Dish Washers' Union, 100
are college graduates.
Six deaths and numerous prostra
tions occurred at Philadelphia as the
result of the excessive heat. The
temperature reached within a fraction
of 96 degrees, the highest point in
two years.
IN
The tragic story of how Ensign Wil
liam D. Biilingsley was hurled from
a disabled biplane, 1,600 . feet in the
air, and fell, straight as a plummet,
to his death in the depths of Chesa
peake bay, was related by Lieut. John
A. Towers of Rome,- Ga., chief of the
navy aviators, who clung to' the hurl
ing wreck that followed his comrade's
course from sky to water, and escaped
death, almost miraculously.
Fourteen American soldiers were
killed ill the recent four days' fighting
on Jolo Island, the Philippines, when
General Pershing's command finally
subdued and disarmed the rebellious
Moros, according to a report to the
war department. On the list of dead
were Capt. Taylor A. . Nichols of the
Philppine scouts, eleven scouts and
two privates of the regular army.
An unexpected sequel to the recent
burglary in the Berkeley hotel in Pic
adilly is the arrest of the night por
Jter, Arthur James, charged with being
concerned in stealing from the hotel
safe $35,000 and attempting to mur
der Gowers, the other night porter, in
London, England. Movements of a
big rat in the hotel dining room led
to James' arrest. Employees of the
hotel in hunting down the rat found
its hole under the radiator and
through it saw a gleam of gold.
For the first time in many years
British cabinet ministers -were com
pelled to defend their personal' hon
esty before parliament. The attorney
general, Sir Rufus Isaacs, and the
chancellor of the exchequer, David
Lloyd-George, excused their dealings
in American Marconi shares on the
floor of the house and the scene in
the Marconi affair, which their ene
mies had attempted to magnify into
a scandal rivaling the Panama debacle,
was tense and dramatic.
An infernal machine sent by mail,
when opened at Sherbrooke, Quebec,
killed one woman and mortally wound
ed another. The woman killed was
Mrs. Theodore Bilodeau. Miss Bilo
deau, her sister-in-law, was hurt. The
force of the explosion hurled the lat
ter across the room and severed one
arm. The house was wrecked. The
package arrived about noon, and the
two women were bending over it, un
tying the strings when it exploded.
The police have no clew to the sender.
Six of the most prominent leaders
of the militant suffragettes organiza
tion and one of their male supporters
were found guilty of conspiracy to
commit malicious damage to property
In London, England. Greater interest
was taken in the proceedings than in
any previous stage of the trial. The
courtroom was crowded. Women
formed the majority of the audience.
More details of the fierce fighting
which resulted in the complete over
throw of the Moros on the Island of
Jolo in the Philippines, was continued
in a delayed dispatch from Brigadier
General Pershing of the American
troops. - General Pershing says this
will probably end outlawry in Jolo
for some time. The last crater, strong
hold was captured after hard fight
ing. An epidemic of bubonic plague has
broken out at the seaport of Jacmel,
thirty miles from Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Numerous cases already have
resulted fatally. Jacomel has been
isolated from the rest of the country
by a cordon of troops, and the gov
ernment is taking energetic steps to
prevent propagation of the disease.
Three men were killed and twenty
five prostrated, one seriously, by the
heat at Cincinnati. The maximum on
the government thermometer was 95
degrees. The government kiosk on
the street level showed 104. No abate
ment of the heat was shown and the
parks and playgrounds were crowded
with sleepers.
Washington
President Wilson secured from a ma
jority of the Democratic members of
the house banking and currency com
mittee expressions of harmony and
acquiescence in the administration pro
gram of enacting a currency bill dur
ing the present session of congress.
Vigorous opposition from the new
department of labor to the proposed
arbitration and mediation act, prepar
ed by the railroads and railroad broth
erhoods for enactment by congress,
was voiced when the measure was
presented to a .joint session of the
house and senate interstate commerce
committees. Secretary Wilson criticis
ed the new measure as going beyond
the necessities- o the hour.
An additional exemption of $500
for each child of a family in the in
come tax section of the tariff revision
bill was determined upon by the sen
ate finance subcommittee, of which
Senator Williams is chairman, and the
change will be recommended to the
majority members of the committee.
Having determined upon this import
ant amendment, the subcommittee also
is seriously considering recommending
changing the $4,000 exemption in the
Underwood bill to $3,000.
The "civil rights act" of 1875, held
unconstitutional as to the states many
years ago in a series of famous de
cisions, was declared by the Supreme
court of the United States likewise
null and void as to the territories,
the District of Columbia, the navi
gable waters of the United States and
the sea.
, Without varying a dot from the
principles laid down in the Minnesota
rate cases, the Supreme court of the
United States upheld state . railroad
rate legislation in Missouri, Arkan
sas, Oregon and West Virginia. This
legislation included 2-cent passenger
laws in Missouri, Arkansas and West
Virginia; maximum freight rate laws
in Missouri and Arkansas; and freight
rates out of Portland in the Oregon
cases. The only exception to the
sweeping approval of state statutes
was In the case of several weaker
roads in Missouri. The Kentucky
case was not decided.
ANNUAL MEETING!
MEDICAL S0G1ETY
ADDRESSES WERE DELIVERED BY
DR. STUART McGUIRE AND DR.
HODGES.
ABOUT 350 WERE PRESENT
President Monroe's Address Was a
Feature of the First Session of So
ciety. Dr. Anderson'' Responds to
the Addresses of Welcome.
Raleigh. A special from Morehead
Oity stated that the Medical Society
of North Carolina met in its 70th an
nual session in the Atlantic Ho
tel recently. Addresses of ' welcome
were delivered by (Mayor W. M. Webb
and Dr. David S. George. Dr. Albert'
Anderson, superintendent of the state
hospital at Raleigh, replied.
The president's address was deliv
ered by Dr. J. P. Munroe. He dwelt
largely on health matters and took
occasion to make favorable mention
of the splendid work of the Asheville
health department and the energetic
and efficient health officer, Dr. L. B.
McBrayer, and recommended that
other cities of the state follow the
splendid methods-in use in that city.
He also spoke of the state institutions
and said he desired to emphasize the
remarks of 'his predecessor, Dr. A. A.
Kent, in regard thereto; to-wit, that
at these institutions should be con
ducted research work or else a spe
cial commission should be appointed
to conduct research work in connec
tion with all the state institutions or
else the board of health- should do it.
His report stated that through the
efficient efforts of the secretary, Dr.
John A. Ferrell, the membership of
the society was the largest in its his
tory, 1,100.
The house of delegates met with
seventy-two counties represented, and
organized and appointed its commit
tees. The afternoon session was given
over to papers on physiology and hy
giene. At the night session import
ant addresses were given by Dr. Stuart
McGuire, on hypothyroidism; Dr. J.
Allison Hodges, on mental health;
Dr. Witherbee, on X-ray in diagnosis
of tuberculosis, and Mr. John E. Ray,
superintendent of the state blind
school on ophthalmie neouatorum.
Fourteen Postmasters Confirmed.
--Fourteen North Carolina postmas
ters were confirmed by the senate in
cluding two who had been opposed in
the postoffice department. A. H. Huss,
of Cherryville, went through, as did
S. S. Lockhart, of Wattesboro. Charges
that Mr. Lockhart is deaf had been
filed, but were successfully refuted.
The others were: E. T.- McKeithan,
Aberdeen; W. L. Ormond, Bessemer
Oity; D. J. Kerr, Canton; Robert S.
McRae, Chapel Hill! E. H. Avant, East
Durham; H. B. Lambeth, Elon Col
lege; J. H. Lane, Leaksville; C. D.
Osborne, Oxford; A. N. Bulla, Randle
man; E. M. Sheffield, Spray, and G.
W. Hill, Vineland.
North Charlotte Postoffice Robbed.
The safe in the North Charlotte
postoffice was blown open by yegg
men and the burglars secured several
thousands stamps but very little mon
ey. Mr. W. V. Hall, the postmaster,
was awakened and told of the affair.
When seen on his way to the office tr
investigate the robbery he stated that
the yeggmen secured very little cash
there being less than $25 in the safe
He said that there was between 15,
000 and 25,000 stamps in the safe.
Must Also Contribute to County.
Drug stores selling spirituous and
malt liquors, 4n addition to the $200
required by the , city ordinance, will
have to contribute to the Wake cof
fers to the extent of $50. The county
commissioners in session made such
entry on its record, and if (figures are
stubborn thing3 drug stores in the
city handling the "real thing" will
have to pay an annual tax of $250 for
the privilege.
Crops in Durham County Good.
The farmers in Durham county who
have cut their wheat report that the
yield this year is the best they have
had in years. While the crop that
was planted was not so large as it has
been in other years, the yield will It
all probability be larger! The wheat
came up very finely, and all of it
headed out well. Most of the farmers
have completed cutting their wheat,
and are now devoting their energies
to their other crops. The tobacco in
Durham county is looking finer than
ever for this time' of the year.,
Fight For Hickory Postoffice.
Much interest is being taken here
in the fight for the postoffice. Repre
sentative Wehb mailed hundreds of
letter sto the citizens of the city ask
ing them to help him in making a se
lection by writing to him personally
and naming their first and second
choice. The letter states that he
wishes this done in order that he may
make a selection that will meet (with
the approval of the majority of the
patrons. A large number have writ
ten him personal - letters endorsing
fchelr respective friends.
WANT A SPECIAL SESSION
Petition to Get Signatures of Those
Who Would Ask the Governor For
i -
an Extra Session.
Charlotte. President Fred N. Tate,
of the Just Freight Rate Association
has forwarded to Mr. W. C. Dowd a
copy of the petition to be circulated
in this and other counties for the pur
pose of obtaining signatures of those
who would ask the governor of the
state to call a special session of the
legislature at the earliest practicable
moment for the purpose of taking
such action as is. deemed wise and ex
pedient in the adjustment of the dis
criminatory rates of the railroads do
ing business in this state. The peti
tion in part is as follows:
"To His Excellency, Locke Craig,'
Governor of State, Raleigh, N. C.
"We, the undersigned citizens of
the state of North Carolina, feeling as
we do the great injustice and burdens
resting upon our commonwealth by
reason of the unjust and discrimina
tory freight rates as applied by the
several railroads doing business in
our state ,and believing In the sover
eign right of the people to a voice m
the adequate adjustment of our griev
ances, through legislative enactment
if necessary, respectfully petition your
excellency to call a special session of
the legislature to meet at Raleigh at
the earliest practicable date for the
purpose of taking such action as may
seem wise and expedient."
Wake County Tax Settlement.
The county commissioners In ses
sion acknowledged full settlement
of taxes for the year 1912 as collect
ed by Sheriff J. H. Sears. The set
tlement met the debt side of the tax
books and had a margin to the good.
The sheriff was charged with $318,
487.23 and he turned in 318,600.48.
The settlement according to the dis
tribution of various sources were as
follows: Schools, $60,519.65; county,
$47,866.78; roads, $63,371.42; special
school tax, Raleigh, $48,863,68; school
bonds, Raleigh, $2,620.70; railway
(bonds, Raleigh, $1,310.14; school
bonds, Wakelon, $1,407.58; school
bonds, Wendell, $1,041.56; special
school tax outside Raleigh, $18,263.63;
dog tax, $3,230.84; special road tax,
$3,365.72; total, $248,861.70. State
taxes, $60,444.31; commissions on
county and special, $7,421.40, and on
state taxes, $1,864.07-; total, $9,285.47.
Total, $318,591.41. Allowance to sher
iff for making state settlement, $9,
making a total of $318,600.48.
Recommends Minimum Term.
A constitutional minimum term oi
six months for every public school in
North Carolina and a provision for a
state iboard of education are the two
outstanding recommendations agreed
upon by the legislative committee of
the Teachers' Assembly in session
recently in the office of Dr. J. Y. Joy
ner, superintendent of public instruc
tion. Accordingly these two recom
mendations will be advocated before
the sub-committee of the constitution
al committee on amendments. These
measures, if passage is secured, will
amend article 9 of the state constitu
tion relating to education. These rec
ommendations were to have bees urg
ed before the committee on amend
ments several days ago but due per
haps to a confusion of date3 for the
members failed to put In their ap
pearance. However, when the com
mission assembles in session thess
recommendations will be pressed un
relentingly. Four Judges and Three Solicitors.
The approaching limit ot time for
issuing the commissions to the newly
appointed judges and solicitors in
North Carolina, gave cause for, haste
in Governor Craig's office recently,
and the formal papers are being pre
pared. Hence four new judges and
three solicitors will receive official no
tification that they are fully authoriz
ed to . don their official robes and as
sume the responsibilities of judge
ship and solicitorship. The new ap
pointees as judges to receive their
commissions are: George W. Connor,
of Wilson; George Rountree, of Wil
mington; T. J. Shaiw, of Greensboro.,
and Charles J. Duls, of Greensboro.
The three solicitors to receive com
missions are H. L. Lyon, of White
ville; T. M. Newland, of Lenoir, and
John C. Bower, of Lexington. The
fourth solicitor has not been named.
Convicted of Criminal Libel.
On the charge of criminal libel, W
O. Saunders, editor of the Independ
ent, published in Elizabeth City, w,f
fined $150 and costs by Assistant Re
corder. Thomas S. Long, before whom
the case was tried recently. Saunders
noted an appeal to a higher court.
The charge was that the defendant
had published false and libelous state
ments in his paper against E. F. Ayd
lett of Elizabeth City. The state was
represented by Ward and Grimes, A.
D. McLean and W. C. Rodman of
Washington.
To Study Von Ruck Vaccine.
Dr. George Blaine Crow, of the
-medical department of the United
States navy, has arrived in Asheville
and will spend between six months
and one year in this city making a
thorou!ghstudy of the Von Ruck pre
ventative vaccine against tuberculo
sis. Dr.(Crow has leased a house and
is prepared to stay until he has'thor
oughly mastered the use of the vaccine
and has demonstrated its value. Dr.
Crow , is the second member of the
medical corps, to visit Asheville for
this purpose.
NEW FROM CAPITAL
JUDGE MONTGOMERY TO GETTYS
BURG TO OUTLINE CAROLINA
TROOPS' POSITION.
CRAIG HONORS REQUISITION
State Treasurer Lacy Sends Official
Notices to All Sheriffs of State.
Commissioner Young Issues Check
to 50 Fire -Fighting Companies.
Raleigh. Former Judge W. A.
Montgomery as chairman o the com
mission for placing suitable markers
at the "furthest to the front" posi
tions occupied by the North Carolina
troops on the Gettysburg battlefield
has taken up the work of officially
outlining the positions according to
the best authorities on the matter.
He will be joined within a few days
by Secretary R. D. W. Connor of the
State Historical Commission, Presi
dent D. H. Hill of the A. & M. College,
also a member of the historical com
mission and W. F. Utley, member of
the Gettysburg commission as re
cently named toy Governor Craig.
' Governor Craig honored a requisi
tion from the governor of South Caro
lina for F. A. Lahdis, who is charged
with getting goods under false pre
tenses In that he secured through
misrepresentation 250 tons of fertil
izers valued at $8,000. The South
Carolina authorities-represent to the
governor that they have located Lan
dis in this state and ready to extra
dite him.
State Treasurer Lacy is sending to
all the sheriffs of the state official
notices that ,the sheriffs will be ex
pected to give special attention to the
enforcement of Section 72 of the rev
enue act and see to it that no agents
of automobile companies are permit
ted to sell machines in this state, un
less the manufacturers of the ma
chines offered, have paid the $500
annual license and the agent has a
duplicate of the license in his pos
sessio. State Commissioner of Insurance
Young is issuing the checks to 50 fire
fighting companies in as many towns
of the state for their portion of the
firemen's Telief fund derived from a
special tax on the insurance compa
nies. It amounts this year to $871.
Appoint Range Officers.
Raleigh. Announcement is made at
headquarters of the North Carolina
National Guard here of the appoint
ment of Major J. Leigh Skinner of
Raleigh and Major Rf G. Gladstone of
Reidsville as range officers on the
part- of North Carolina for the Na
tional Guard target matches at Camp
Perry, O., the period of their service
being from August 12 to September
10. These appointments come as a
recognition of the exceptional capa
bility of these officers for this sort
of expert service. The matches at
Camp Perry are both national and in
ternational in their scope.
$1,000 A Month For Roads.
Elizabeth City. The treasurer's re
port shows that ; Pasquotank county
spent last year on the public roads the
sum of $11,904, or a thousand dollars
per month. The roads are worked
by the convict system and the con
victs are supplied from the counties
of north-eastern North Carolina to
the Pasquotank county Chaingang,
and thi3 chaingang is maintained by
taxation. Pasquotank county has good
roads, as good "as can be constructed
out of the material at hand, there be
ing little or no clay in the county
In Interest of Corn Clubs.
Charlotte. Mr. A. K. Robertson, as
sistant on boys' corn club work in
the state department of agriculture,
is spending a week in the county, In
the interest of the corn club organiza
tions of the county. He will visit the
various points in the county where
clubs have already been organized an?
will seek to organize clubs in other
parts of the county. Mecklenburg
county, according to the official fig
ures, already leads all counties in
the state in the number of boys en
rolled in corn clubs, Robeson county
coming second.
May Ask Help From City.
Charlotte. A debate as to whether
or not the city should pay a total of
$238 for expense incurred by the
Mecklenburg Drainage Commission
while at work on the creek west of the
city occupied most of the session of
the executive hoard held in the may
or's office. Of this amount $22.40 was
in conection with the sewer depart
ment and payment was favored by
Col. W. W. Phifer, chairman of the
sewer committee. The balance rep
resented expenses of the removal of a
bridge.
txpscts Some Sort of Move.
Washington. Some sort of a move
!s expected shortly in the appoint
ment of John Oliver as postmaster
at Reidsville. As stated severad
days ago, the postoffice department
has reached the point where it will
take no further actkm in the matter
until Senator Simmons and Congress
man Stedman reach some agreement
in -the matter. Major Stedman has
recommended the appointment of Oli
ver, and Senator Simmons has asked
the postoffice department to hold up
his nomination.
FROM THE TAR HEEL STATt
Latest News of General Interest That
' Has Been Collected From Many
Towns and Counties.
Charlotte. By unanimous vote the
Southeastern District Aerie of Eagles
in session at Jacksonville, Fla., . ac
cepted Charlotte's invitation to hold
the 1914 meeting in this city.
Washington. The sheriff made an
Important raid recently and found an
other violator of the state liquor law
in the person of Dick Johmson, who
lives about six or seven miles out, In
the country, at Beaver Dam.
Raleigh. Wake county's court
house become sertitude when the
county commissioners awarded to P.
Thornton Mayre ,of Atlanta, and F. B.
Simpson, of Raileigh, the architectu
ral contracts.
Charlotte. The steel has been or
dered and just as soon as it , arrives
in the city, the work iwlll actively be
gin In repairing and otherwise Im
proving the mammoth car barn of the
Charlotte Electric Railway Company
that was (burned several days ago.
Laurinburg. In a communication
from Washington the information
comes that Mr. William N. McKenzie
of the Mason Cross section of Scot
land county has been recommended
to the dierotor of the census for the
position of cotton statistician for this
county.
Washington. The meeting of. the
matflonol "forest reserve commissliofn
to decide upon the purchase of the
Vanderbilt tract at Biltmore was post
poned owing to the absence of the
secretary of agriculture. A meeting
will be held next week and it is ex
pected that 80,000 acres of this land
will then be acquired.
Klnston. Capt. A. L. C. Hill, of this
city has been appointed by Col. Wiley
C. Rodman, commanding the Second
North Carolina infantry, to be regi
mental quartermaster on his staff.
The office carries the rank of captain
Captain Hill stands high in militia
circles in North Carolina, and has had
excellent mention for his capability.
Salisbury. J. Frank Miller, who loi
a number of years was chief of police
in Salisbury has been given an ap
pointment in the revenue service un
der Deputy Sams at Asheville. He
made a fine municipal officer and
will make good in the Tcvenue . ser
vice which he will enter in a . few
days.
Elizabeth City Col. Witt and Mr
Kerr, officials of the Norfolk-Southern
Railroad," held a conference here with
Messrs." E E. Aydlett, E. F. Lamb and
J. B. Leigh, a committee appointed
by the Just Freight Rate Association
some time' ago, in regard to the pas
senger schedules which the Norfolk
Southern is operating.
Asheville. When asked as to his
stand in the case of .T R. Swann, whe
!s a candidate for the office of post
master at Marshall, Gov. Craig refus
ed to make a statement as to whether
or not he had withdrawn his opposi
tion to Swann. He stated that he had
nothing to do with the case and does
not want 'to be drawn into the contro
versy.
Winston-Salem. Forty-five out oi
of the sixty-three applicants for li
cense to practice dentistry in this
state, who took the examination be
fore the state iboard of dental exam
iners in this city, passed successfully
aocording to a list of the successful
applicants received here from Dr. F.
L. Hunt, of Asheville, secretary of the
state board.
Durham. The trial of Beamon
Smith and Henry Goss on the charge
of engaging in "white' slavery" wo
postponed at the request of the state
one of the defendants not being in
court. " Beaman Smith skipped out and
was caught in Raleigh. The charge
is that they induced a fourteen-year-old
igirl to .become their victim under
circumstances that make the case a
rather aggravated one.
Asheville. Members of the Ashe
ville branch of the North Carolina
Pharmaceutical Association are pre
paring to launch a fight for a lOnhoui
maximum day for drug clerks in this
state. The question was discussed at
length at a meeting of the registered
drug clerks of this city, and it . was
argued that a drug clerk, perhaps
more than any other professional man
has the lives of the people in his
hands all the time.
Salisbury. Dr. Robert S. Young,
aged 50 years, of Concord, one of the
most prominent physicians of North
Carolina died suddenly in his auto at
Landis, near Salisbury. He was 'being
hurried from 'Concord to Salisbury
for treatment and- the end came en
route. Spencer. Acting upon information
that a shipment of liquor had reaeher"
the depot at Spencer, Sheriff J. H.
McKenzie and Deputy Jame3 Krider
seized fifteen . gallons of whiskey in
the office of the Southern Express Co
here. The shipment was addressed
to John Carr'and others. i
Sharpsburg. Near .Nollies' cross
roads, at a barbecue, the colored peo
ple were having, Ned Harris, Wiley
Cobb and John Battle, all young ne
groes, engaged in a shooting affray
which resulted in. Ned Harris shoot
ing the Cobb and Battle negroes three
times each.
Washington. A. ten-inch shell, tak
en from the battleship Maine arrived
m the city recently. The shell was
sent here by Congressman " John H.
Small. Application, for the shell wa?
made about a year ago. The 'shell
weighs about four hundred pound f
ind stands about two feet hteti
HARMONIOUS WORK
ON TARIFF MEASURE
THE FIRST DAY OF CAUCUS GOES
BY WITH PRACTICALLY NO
CHANGES MADE.
THE CRITICISMS ARE LIMITED
There Has Been No Effort As Ye
To Assert Binding Authorities of
Party Upon the Individual Senators.
Other Work Done.
Washington. The Underwood-Simmons
tariff revision Dill, as agreed
upon by the Democrats of the sen
ate committee went through a full
day's session of the senate Demo
cratic caucus with practically no
change and 'With harmonious support
for most of the alterations of the fi
nance committee members had made
in the .original Underwood bill.
The tariff duties on chedcals, oils,
and paints; on earthenware and glass
ware and on two thirds of the arti
cles comprised in the metal and ma
chinery schedule, had 'been disposed
of when the caucus adjourned for the
day. Democratic members of the fi
nance committee met to finish redraft
ing the income tax section of the hill.
The important changes to he made in
this provision, reducing the exempted
income from $4,000 to $3,000, prob
ably will be completed within "a few
days and the income tax and admin
istrative features of the bill then will
be turned over to the caucus for con
sideration. Criticism of the tariff bill In the
a If li.. J A M
party conierence was nmiiea xo a iew
specific rates and a half dozen of the
items were sent back " to the finance
committee for further investigation
and report. The committee's report
putting cement on the free list was
sustained after some debate. The
proposed duties on flaming arc light
carbons; on stained glass and on field
glasses, optical and surgical instru
ments and "photographic lenses came
in for criticism and were referred
back to the Democrats of the finance
committee. '
Cheap automobiles as necessaries
of business and farming life were the
object of much of the "debate."
Currency Reform Methods Outlined.
New. York. Methods which should
be pursued in reforming the currency
system of the country, according to
the views of the American Bankers'
Association, were outlined in a detail
ed statement issued by the currency
commission of that organization. The
statement which answers 33 questions
formulated by a subcommittee of the
committee on banking and currency
of the United States senate which was
prepared by the committee which re
cently conferred at Atlantic City. The
commission endorsed the currency
plan endorsed by the National Mone
tary Commission of which Senator Al
drich of Rhode Island was chairman.
Federals Driven From City.
Nogales, Ariz. Reports were that
the constitutionalists had driven gen
eral Ojeda and his 4,000 federals back
from Ortiz to Santa Rosa, some miles
nearer his base, Guaymas, aind later
had cut him from his supplies. With
out water, and with but scant rations,
the federal commander was reported
to he In a desperate condition. Fifteen
hundred rebels and Colonel Alvaredo
have gained Ojedas quarters, accord
ing to reports to the Mexican consul
here.
Will of Morgan Held as Example.
Pittsburg. Daniels S. Remsen, of
the New "York har, an authority on
the 'post-mortem administration of
wealth, told the memmebrs of the
Pennsylvania Bankers' Association
that the wills of the late Edward H.
Harriman, Albert C. Bostwick, Charles
T. Yerkes, Henry B. Plant, Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy, Robert Mather and
other prominent persons he mentioned
were unsafe models to follow. As a
type of the "safe and sound" will be
cited the will of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Has Increased Machinery Purchase.
Washington. South America has
been increasing its machinery ' pur
chases from the United States more
rapidly during the last few years
than any other part of the world as
shown by figures prepared by the bu
reau - of foreign and domestic com
merce. This increase has amounted
during the last decade to 440 per cent
whereas the entire world growth of
machinery export has been only 17?
per cent. The machinery shipped
from America in 1902 amounted to
only $5,000,000.
A Fight For Freight Rates.
Washington. An ' inquiry will be
made by the interstate commerce
commission of its own Initiative on
the application of the railroads east of
the Mississippi and" north of the
Ohio ana Potomac, rivers ior permis
sion to -advance freight rates, both
class and commodity. An order was
issued by the commission denying the
application of the 52 eastern lines to
reopen the old advance rate case. No
3,4000, which was a proceeding look
ing to the Increase of clas3 freight
rates.