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VOL. XXXVI
FITTSBO.aO, CHATHAM COUNTY; N.C., SEPTEMBLR 17. 1913.
NO. 6.
'5 BOTES
FOB THE BUSY MAN
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.
The government lock and dam at
Iayo's bar, Georgia, in the Coosa riv
er, now Hearing completion, is threat
ened by a sudden rise of the river.
The high water is endangering the
dan;, which is not yet completed, and
the eov eminent engineers fear that
the pressure of the waters will cause
the dam to burst and sweep away the
expensive construction which has,
during the last two years, cost Uncle
Sam 5237,000. v
A boiler explosion on the United
States torpedo boat Craven, off Tybee,
resulted in the death of Chief Water
Tender McCaffray and Water Tender
Milton and serious injuries to Chief
Machinist's Mate Swinn, Water Ten
der Laughton and Oiler Gabbitt. The
Craven was steaming into Savannah,
Ga.. under a good head of steam when
the accident happened.
William Clark, a prominent farmer
and landowner, living near Moultrie,
Ga., was shot to death by his nephew,
Fulton Crosby. Trouble has been nar
rowly averted for some time between
the two, it is said, owing to a dispute
concerning a land line which separat
ed the plantations of the two parties.
This ill-feeling culminated in the kill
in? of Clark.
Darius Reed, aged 30 years, living
in Lamar county, lies in a critical
condition as the result of a big load
of buckshot received several miles
from Sulligent, Ala., at the hands ot
Amos Pennington, aged 65 years, who
mistook him for a bear. Reed wa
out squirrel hunting and had shot one.
The squirrel lodged in a tree and Reed
climbed up to get it. Pennington came
along with a double barreled gun,
heard the noise in the tree and, his
sight being defective,' imagined he
r v a bear in the tree and opened
j -.
ne of the oldest persons i?i the
l ed States, and probably the old-
in the state of Georgia, died on
i Johnson home place, seven miles
of Albany, wha Callie Tro-
'.a negro woman, w5o had reach-
'ie allotted three score years and
i when the Cicil war closed, sue-
bed to tie infirmities oi her great
; She was, according to records,
:li are generally regarded as au
i itic, 127 years old. She lfad been
rouble to gt oit of the house in
winch she lived for nearly twenty
years.
General.
The postal employees of London,
England, connived at the theft of the
t2f,000 pearl necklace which myste
riously disappeared July 16 between
Paris and London, was established by
evidence presented at a hearing in
London.
One negro was killed and another
is believed to have been fatally
wounded by a posse of citizens near
Tamms, 111., following the negroes at
tempt to force a merchant of Tamms
to accept a bill which had been raised
from one to five dollars.
Governor Sulzer's transactions in
Wall street from June 27, 1910, till
they ceased at least so far as one
of the New York City brokers was
concerned on July 14 last were de
scribed under oath by Melville D. Ful
ler, who said he was Sulzer's broker,
in a hearing held by the nine impeach
ment managers appointed by the as
sembly of the state of New York.
A death from bubonic plague oc
curred at Martinez, Cal., according to
reports received by the state board of
health from Dbi J. D. Long of the
United States marine hospital service
in San Prancisco. At the same time
a message was received by the board
from its secretary, Dr. W. F. Snow,
now in Washington, D. C, stating that
t'ae federal government had decided
to appropriate $40,000 additional to
nsrht the disease. The body of the
-Martinez victim was examined by Dr.
I' H. Curry of the federal laboratory
service in San Francisco.
Returns from the primary election
held in Maryland show that the regu
lar Democratic organization was vic
torious in most instances over the
Progressive wing of the party. State
Senator Charles P. Coady of the regu
lar organization was nominated for
congress in the Third district to suc
ceed George Konig. All but two of
tne state central committeemen were
selected from the ranks of the regu
lars. The Republicans had few con
tests. The United States team won the
Palma match with a score of 1,714.
at Camp Perry, Ohio. The team from
the Argentine republic was second
with a score of 1,648, nine point?
ahead of Canada's score of 1,675. Swe
den made 1,484 and Peru 1,465. The
hootig was on the 800, 900 and 1,000
yard ranges. The scores are consid
ered good, as a strong north wind
blew in the face of the shooters. The
winning score was six points below
that made by the United States team
last year, when it captured the prize
i Canada. The Argentina shooter
were highly complimented.
BRIEF H
Harry Kendall. Thaw, fugitive frota
Matteawan, is on American soil, after
one of the most exciting days in his
career. Thrust unexpectedly over the
Canadian border, despite the writ of
habeas corpus demanding his produc
tion before the king's bench in Mon
treal, he was for three hours a free
man and during that time drove mad
ly in an automobile for fifty futile
miles through the hills of Vermont
and New Hampshire. Near noon he
ran into the arms of a New Hamp
shire sheriff and was taken to Cole
brook, where he retained counsel to
resist extradition.
German's ambition to maintain a
a squadron of airships as an adjunct
to the navy met a rude check in the
destruction of the L-l in a hurricane
in the North sea. The loss of life
is estimated at from "thirteen to six
teen. An all-steel train probably saved a
score of lives when the Pennsylva
nia flyer, New York to St. Louis, was
ditched by a raised rail near Wylie's
Station, four miles west of New Mad
ison, Ohio. Thirty-five persons were
injured, three, it is believed, fatally.
Running at a terrific speed to make
up lost time, the fast train struck the
defective rail about fitfy feet from
the approach to a small steel bridge.
The engine hit one side of the .bridge,
tore it from its foundation and fell
with it half a dozen feet to the creek
bed.
Alexander M. Thackara, consul gen
eral at Berlin, Germany, has been se
lected for promotion to the post of
consul general at Paris. President
Wilson will send the nomination to
the senate with others, which, admin
istration officials say, will be promo
tions based solely upon the merit
system regardless of politics. Dudley
Field Malone, third assistant secre
tary of state, submitted to the pres
ident a long list of consular nomina
tion. They will be required to take
the regular examination and will be
graded according to their merit
William Travers Jerome was acquit
ted of the charge of having gambled
on the station property of the Grand
Trunk railway at Coaticook, Quebec,
Canada, while waiting for the immi
gration authorities to pass on the
case of Harry K. Thaw. In discharg
ing him the court apologized for the
humiliation to which he had been subjected.
Washington.
Senor Emanuel Da Zamacona, for
mer Mexican ambassador to the Unit
ed States, who is supposed to be
charged with the task of reopening
the negotiations between the United
States and the Huerta administration
for a peaceful solution of the troubles
in Mexico, arrived, with Senor Alga
ra, charge d'affaires of the American
embassy. Senor Da Zamacona did
not reveal the character of his mis
sion. He maintained that he had
come to the United States on ''private
business."
Proposed advances of five per cent,
in freight rates on all commodities
except grain and coal will be submit
ted to the interstate commerce com
mission by the fifty-two railroads op
erating in the East. There will be a
carload or more of the tariffs filed by
all railroads in Eastern classification
territory. The proposed changes will
be based on the present first class rate
between New York and Chicago, the
increase being five per cent. flat. Upon
the request of the commission the rail
roads will hold up the changes until
the commission shall have had op
portunity thoroughly to investigate
them.
The Democratic tariff revision bill
passed the senate amid a burst of
applause that swept down from the
crowded galleries and found its echo
on the crowded floor of the senate.
Its passage was ' attended with sur
prises in the final moments of the
voting, when Senator LaFollette, Re
publican, cast his vote with the Dem
ocrats, and was joined a few moments
later by Senator Poindexter, Progres
sive. The Democrats had counted
throughout the long tariff fight upon
losing the votes of Senators Ransdell
and Thornton of Louisiana, Demo
crats, because sugar was on the list.
The probability that negotiations
between the United States and Mexico
will be resumed at an early date, is
the opinion expressed at the American
embassy at Mexico City, although
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the charge
d'affaires, was non-committal as to
whether he had been officially advis
ed of a new proposal or of Washing
ton's determination to make a fur
ther effort at adjustment.
The dry excavation of the Panama
canal has been completed, the steam
shovel working in the Culebra cut hav
ing removed the last rock. The fur
ther excavation of the canal will be
completed by dredging. Much digging
and cleaning out remains to be done
in Culebra cut and along the route,
but this will be accomplished by the
mammoth dredges floating on the sur
face of the canal. An army of men
will be busy during the next four
weeks removing steam shovels and
other equipment and material, includ
ing 36 miles of railroad track, from
the nine-mile channels in Culebra cut
between Gamboa dike and Pedro Mig
uel locks. -
News that Dominican gunboats were
shelling the city of Puerta Plata, en
dangering American lives and prop
erty, caused hurry orders to go from
Washington to the cruiser Des
Moines, which had been preparing
to sail from Guantanamo, Cuba, for
Santo Domingo since reports of the
latest revolution there were received
several days ago. The cruiser has
coaled and sailed directly for Puerto
Plata. In the meantime communica
tion between Puerto Plata and the
outside world had been broken, and
no word had come to the stale- department.
PLAN GREAT FA!
LIFE CONFERENCE
FARMERS' UNION GIVES HEARTY
ENDORSEMENT TO THIS BIG
UNDERTAKING.
WILL BUY MUCH FERTILIZER
The Executive Committee and the
Advisory Council of the State Or
ganization Have A two Days' Ses
sion in Charlotte Recently.
Charlotte. The executive commit
tee and the advisory council of the N.
C. division of the Farmers' Union
held busy sessions several days ago,
following an elaborate luncheon, and
unanimously endorsed the motion of
Dr. J. M. Templeton, of Cary, favor
ing the Farm Life Conference to be
held in Charlotte May 22 and 23, 1914.
Those in the council present were:
Dr. H. Q. Alexander, president, of
Matthews; Mr. E. C. Ferris, secre
tary, of Aberdeen; Mr. W. H. Moore,
of Bruce; Mr. J. R. Rives, of San
ford; Mr. J. P. Coggins, of Bear
Creek; Mr. W. B. Gibson, of States
ville; Mr. W. C. Crosby, of Mecklen
burg county, and Mr. W. G. Crowder,
of Cary. Mr. Carraway had previously
takm up the matter of holding the
mammoth conference here with Dr.
Alexander, and Immediately follow
ing the luncheon Dr. Alexander called
a meeting of the council to consider
the matter and settle it before the
council should take up its regular
routine of work. Mr. Carraway was
called upon to explain the object of
the proposed conference. While the
entire scope of the conference had
not been worked out in detail, Mr.
Carraway had the matter in most ex
cellent shape for discussion and he
briefly outlined the proposed pro
gram. The conference, which will
hold sessioons throughout the two
days mentioned, will attract over one
thousand people, it is believed.
State Senator From Iredell.
In the special election in Iredell
Mr. Dorman Thompson, a prominent
young attorney of Statesville, was
elected State Senator without oppo
sition to succeed Mr. A. D. Watts,
who resigned the senatorship when
he was appointed collector of internal
revenue. W&ile) there was no opposi
tion to Mr. Thompson and really no
occasion for much voting, several
hundred votes were cast for him in
the county. In Statesvilte alone 200
votes were cast. The only candidates
who came out against Mr.' Thompson
before the primaries was Capt. P. C.
Carlton, who withdrew from the race
a few days before the primaries. The
Republicans knew it was useless to
put a man in the field and did not do
so.
New Bridges for Cumberland.
The Cumberland County Commis
sioners have ordered the erection of
seven bridges across the canals being
due as a part of the drainage work in
Flea Hill Drainage District. One
bridge each is to be built across the
Flea hill marsh. Flat Swamp and Ter
rell's Creek canals, and two each
across the Gum Log and Beaver Dam
excavations. The bridges are ordered
to be so as not to retard the flow of
water or interfere with the dredges
in reopening the canals.
Killed While Coupling Cars.
As the result of injuries which he
sustained while coupling cars of the
Southern Railway Company a short
distance from Asheville, William J.
Ross, the 18-year-old son of Arnold
H. Ross, of Grambling, S. C, died at
a local hospital. The deceased had
been employed as a switchman by the
Southern for the past several months,
with headquarters at this city. The
body was taken to Gramblin.
Spencer. Spencer has a new mail
carrier between the postoffice in the
business section of town and the pas
senger station, a contract having been
let to Olle Kestler. He has already
entered the service.
Commissioners Looking Over Roads.
Messrs. W. M. Long, chairman of
the County Commissioners, and W. B.
Bradford, A. Morris McDonald, M. N.
McKee, and County Engineer Stowe
left for a, tour of the roads and
bridges of the upper part of Meck
lenburg, the purpse of their tour
eing to see the progress that is be
ng made toward the construction of
the new sand-clay road on the Hun-tersville-Davidson
highway and t6 ob
serve if it is the type of road which
it will be best for the county to build
in the future.
First Set of Registrars Named.
The first set of registrars under
the new vital statistics law has ,been
named by the County Commissioners
and their terms are fixed for one
year, beginning October 1st. The law
provides that every death and birth
in the State is to be officially re
corded, and the duties of the regis
trars . are to make a report of every
such occurrence in his township. He
will receive a fee of 25 cents for each
report. In Raleigh township it will
mean a salary of about $25 a month
for the registrars.
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NEWS FROM STATE CAPITAL
The Statesville Air Line Railway
Seeks Readjustment of the Con
vict Service, y"
Raleigh. Governor Craig ani the
Council of State and a delegation of
officers and directors of the States
ville Air ine Railroad, were in con
ference recently relative to a com
plete adjustment of state convict ser
vice for the railroad construction.
There are now 55 convicts at work
on this road, the state receiving
stock in the road for the work, and
15 miles of the road on the Statesville
end have been graded. The new rules
of the Governor and Council of state
requiring increased bond, $1,000 a
mile, is considered burdensome and
the delegation is pleading for an
equitable regulation ' "governing " the
convict . service and for an increase
in the number of convicts allotted to
the road. The delegation here was
headed by former Lieut. Gov. W. D.
Turner, president of the road; D. A.
Ausley, secertary; J. A. Hartness and
A. D. Watts, of Statesville, and R. L.
Haymore, Representative from Surry
county.
The tax authorities of Wilmington
and New Hanover County have put
a question up to the Corporation Com
mission involving the operation of
the inheritance tax clause of the
revenue act. It is that of whether
the $2,000 exemption on inheritance
by children from parents should ap
ply in a case where a citizen of an
other state leaves property in this
state that does not exceed the $2,000
exempton. Indications are that the
commission will rule that the inheri
tance tax cannot apply.
The case in question is George H.
Bartlett's estate. He died in New
Hampshire, leaving as a portion of
his immense estate 30 shares of stock
in the Tidewater Company at Wil
mington. The corporation commission made
an order that the commissioners of
Washington county must settle 1912
taxes on the basis of the 1911 tax1 as
sessment of property for that county
instead of on the basis of the 20 per
cent deduction, arbitrarily made by
board in 1912, through, instructing the
register of deeds to make this cut
in the valuation of Washington coun
ty property.
Compulsory Education For Durham.
The county board of education will
meet for the discussion of two impor
tant propositions regarding the con
duct of the county schools. The first
of these will be the time for begin
ning the enforcement of the compul
sory education law which requires
that all children between the ages of
8 and 12 shall attend school at least
four months during the year. The
law leaves the time with the mem
bers of the various boards of educa
tion in the state. Unless otherwise
provided the law will go into effect
the first day of school and the chil
dren will be required to attend school
the first four months".
Buncombe County Corn Growers.
Winners of the Buncombe county
zoom growers' bontest, both junior
and senior, of 1912, will have their
pictures displayed before audiences
in northern, western and . central
western states, under the auspices of
the federal government. The bokrd of
trade received a letter from O. M., Ben
son, specialist in charge of club work,
at the department of agriculture at
Washington, acknowledging receipt
of pictures recently furnished. Mr.
Benson stated that the photographs
will be transferred to lantern slides
and displayed with the story of the
Buncombe county corn growers be
fore audiences in twenty-five states.
Pleased With The Conference.
State Superintendent J. Y. Joyner
has just returned from attending the
last two of a series of six joint edu
cational conferences in Buncombe
county. He attended the meetings at
Swannanoa and Hominy. Mr. L. C.
Brogden, of the state 'department, at
tended the other four. Superintend
ent Joyner was greatly pleased with
the conferences and their results. The
conferences ,were held on the school
house grounds in community centers
in various sections of the county, so
selected as to be reached convenient
ly by all the people of each section..
Asheville Assured of $50,000.
Asheville is assured of $50,000 of
the crop-moving fund, according to a
telegram which was received -here
from L. L. Jenkins, the president of
the American National Bank of Ashe
yille, who is now in Washington. The
telegram follows: "Have secured
from Assistant Secretary .Williams
special government deposit of $50,000
for American National bank of Ashe
ville for crop-moving purposes on
practically same basis as accorded to
other banks in other cities originally
designated."
North Carolina New Enterprises.
Charters are is?ued for the Leak
Cobb Company, Winston-Salem, capi
tal $25,000 authorized, and $1,000 sub
scribed by J. O. Cobb, P, O. Leak and
L. D. Leak for insurance and general
brokerage business; the Yoder-Clark
Clothing Company, Hickory, capital
$10,000 authorized, and $5,000 sub
scribed by N. W. Clark, George C. Yo
der and D. N. Chadwick, Jr., and the
Central Drug Company, Lumber
Bridge, capital $4,000 authorized, and
$2,000 subscribed by D. W. Stamp and
others. ,
GET i
UL
FROM AN ALL-DAY SESSION FOR
DISCUSSION OF FREIGHT-RATE
PROBLEM.
MEETING VERY HARMONIOUS
Says Governor Craig As the Spokes
man. State Officers Call it an "Ex
hibition of Sore Toes." What Has
Been Done at Conference.
Raleigh. Governor Craig had an
all-day conference with President
Fred N. Tate and the advisory board
of the North Carolina Just Freight
Rate Association without any result,
it is said beyond as a state officer ex
pressed it "an opportunity for va
rious members of the conrerence to
exhibit sore toes."
It was not made clear whether
the conference was requested by Gov
ernor Craig, or granted by him at
the request of President Tate or oth
ers connected with or interested
in the Just Freight Rate Association.
There were morning and afternoon
sessions and at the conclusion of the
conference Governor Craig stated that
a very harmonious conference was on
on the freight rate situation of this
state had been held. The governor
was the spokesman for the entire
party.
After the conference had been in
session a couple of hours with only
the governor, President Tate and his
committee present there was a call
from the governor for the members
of the council of state to come in,
and they were participants during the
remainder of the morning and the
afternoon session.
The conference was, it is said, more
of a general presentation of griev
ances in freight discriminations than
any offering of possible means for ob
taining relief either through further
pressing the efforts for adjustment
with railroad officials, action by the
approaching session of the legisla
ture or of relief, through the inter
state commerce commission.
J. Allen Taylor, of Wilmington, did
express very strongly the idea that
the best and only effective solution
of the freight problem for North
Carolina Is to press before the inter
state commerce commission the idea
of making -Wilmington the basing
point for North Carolina instead of
Norfolk. (President Tate took the
ground that the commission did not
have this power) but Mr. Taylor in
sisted that it had.
Treasurer Completes Settlement.
Lenoir. County Treasurer E. L.
Steele completed his annual settle
ment with the county commissioners
at a special session. The financial
condition of the county is much bet
ter than in recent years and Mr.
Steele says he has been able to set
tle promptly upon presentation all
claims against the county. For a
number of years past the county's
financial matters were in pretty bad
shape, but at the present rate the
county will soon be out of debt.
More Trouble Over Rown Courthouse.
Salisbury. Upon motion of B. B.
Miller, counsel for the plaintiffs,
Judge D. F. Long has signed an or
der for hearing at chambers in Troy,
September 29, in the matter of re
straining further payments to the
contractors for the building of a new
courthouse in Salisbury. The plaintiff
in the action are C. O. Harrison and
R. B. Bailey, two of the county com
missioners against three other com
missioners, H. C. Trott, J. W. Peeler
and P. A. Hartman.
Whole Family Drowned.
Elizabeth" City. Floating bottom
side up - In the middle of Pamlico
Sound the boat in which Mr. Will Bar
nett, Mrs. Barnett and her mother
and father left Hyde county just
ahead of the recent storm was found
by relatives who had grown uneasy
over the failure of the Barnetts to
return to their home at Buxton.
Swamped by the wind and tide, the
party was drowned; there' can be no
other answer to the question.
Sheriff Kills Desperate Man. v
Asheville. After cutting and fatal
ly wounding George Kuykendall with
a razor near Marshall, T. B. Curry
was shot and instantly killed by Depu
ty Sheriff H. B. Barnes, while ad
vancing on the officer with the same
bloody weapon. Barnes was in the
sandy bottom district on special .busi
ness for a lumber company when he
heard of the cutting of Kuykendall.
He immediately tried to, place Curry
under arrest and when the latter
started to attack him, fired four shots
all of which took effect.
Drained Land Productive.
Newton. Never has there been the
amount of corn grown on the Clark's
Creek bottoms that will be gathere'd
this fall. The crop will be the best
since the creek was drained. Thou
sands of dollars annually will go down
in the pockets of Catawba county
farmers, the product of land that
heretofore grew nothing but bull
rushes and swamp bushes. The work
began on Clark's Creek four years
ago and since that time McLinn's
Creek has been drained with a num
ber of small tributaries of Clark's.
MUST QUIT SELLING CALVES
An Expert Sounds a Warning Against
the Selling o Female and Imma
ture Stock.
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Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 14. If the South
east is to become the great cattle
growing section that it should in view
of its natural advantages and the
present and growing demand for cattle
with commensurate prices, farmerrs
must quit selling their female and
Immature stock, declares Dr. C. M.
Morgan, dairy agent of the Southern
Railway, who : sounds - a warning
against a continuation of the whole
sale deportation of cattle from the
South. ;
"Farmers should keep their heifers
and build up the quality of their stock
by the use of pure-bred bulls of dairy
jor beef type as desired," says Dr.
Morgan. "This is the only way to in
crease the number or the quality of
cattle in the Southeast. The scarcity
of catpe is world-wide and it will
never be possible to secure enough
pure-bred cattle to develop the indus
try in the Southeast.
"Farmers w.ho sell calves are simp
ly giving the dealer a good part of the
profit they should have themselves.
If calves were battened on the farm,
using cotton seed meal as a concen
trate, a higher price per pound would
be received and the farmer would not
only profit by this and the additional
weight but would have in the manure
85 per cent of the fertilizing value of
the cotton seed meal.
"With the good grazing furnished
by Bermuda grass and Burr clover
and the abundance of forage crops
that yield bountifully in the South
east, this section should be the great
source of the country's beef aid
dairy products supply. The dairy di
vision of, the Southern Railway will
send a man to help build a dipping
vat or silo and to co-operate with
persons in the dairy business or de
siring to enter it. The U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture has1 offered to co
operate with farmers who have eradi
cated ticks and will send an expert to
aid farmers in choosing desirable bulls
of either dairy or beef type."
II Advised Laws Hamper Railways.
Chccago. W. L. Park, vice spresi
dent of the Illinois Central Railroad,
said that American roads were infe
rior to foreign roads because the
American lines "had been hampered
by ill advised, costly and pernicious
laws, orders and regulations." He de
livered the chief address before the
Roadmasters' and Maintenance of
Way Associations convention here.
"The money wasted in many direc
tions through the interference of
those who know little about the ac
tual conditions on railroads would
provide real safety if the railroads
managers were permitted to spend it
in the proper direction," he said.
"The money- to make the improve
ments required to bring our roads
up to the standards of foreign roads
is available in Europe but can not
be borrowed unless investors are as
sured that the investment will be safe
and the interest paid when due."
Charlton Trial Again Delayed.
Como, Italy. Porter Charlton, the
young American who is to stand trial
for the murder of his wife in 1910,
has prepared a long memorandum on
which he will base his defense and
has turned it over to the official in
terpreter, Signor Vitale. The examin
ing magistrate, Judge Rognoni, who
already had begun investigation of
the case, has been promoted and
transferred to Milan. It is expected
that another magistrate will be nam
ed to continue the investigation. On
this account and for the additional
reason that Charlton, according to
trustworthy information, now gives
a different version cf the" murder
than that which he furnished in the
United States, the investigation will
be delayed and it is feared that the
trial will not begin before April.
Two Governments Sign Agreement.
Paris. The governments of France
and Haiti have signed an agreement
to submit for arbitration the claims
made against Haiti in 1910 by France,
Jointly with the United States, Great
Britain, Germany and Italy . The
agreement also covers the claims of
Syrians and Ottomans.
English Builder Awarded Contract.
Washington. An English builder
was awarded the contract for turbine
drums for the. newest American bat
tleship No. 39 at a little more than
one-third the price offered by the
lowest American bidder. The accept
ed bid was $57,436,- submitted by New
York agents of the Cyclops Steel and
Iron Works, Sheffield, England. It is
exceptional for the navy department
to send a contract abroad but. Acting
Secretary Roosevelt held . that the ac
tion was justified by the difference
between English and American prices.
Twentieth Century Menace.
Colorado Springs, Col. The social
evil is the menace of the twentieth
ccntry was the contention of Dr. J.
H. Landis, of Cincinnati, before the
American Health Association recent
ly. "There is no reason why diseases
occasioned by the social evil should
not receive the same treatment, so
far, as their handlinqj by heiltb de
partments is concerned, as the plague
that of isolation," he said. Dr. Lan
dis advanced the idea that dress worn
by women is responsible for in
ttueces. which are undermining race.
THAW TIES CASE
TP FEDERAL COURT
THE DISTRICT JUDGE GRANTS
APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF
HABEAS CORPUS.
SENDS TELEGRAM TO FELKER
Grossman Issues Statement' Outlin
ing Gist of Argument ,to Be Made
Before the Governor of New Hamp
shire in Thaws Behalf. .
Colebrook, N. H. The perpetually
recurring writ of habeas corpus, which
has so often dotted the career of
Harry K. Thaw, since his incarcera
tion in Matteawan as the insane slay
er of Stanford White, cropped up
again in his fight to resist extradition
from New Hampshire. This time, and
for the first time in the history of
Thaw's efforts to regain his liberty,
the writ was issued by a Federal
Court.
United States Judge Aldrich of the
district of New Hampshire, granted
the application of three of the Thaw
lawyers, Martin, Shurtleff and Olm
stead, and made it returnable at Lit
tleton. William Travers Jerome,
specially deputized to take the fugi
tive back to the asylum, character
ized the move as one of bad faith.
There had been a gentleman's agree
ment, 'he. said, that neither side was
to make a court move pending the
extradition hearing before Governor
Felker in Concord.
The Thaw leaders, led by Moses H.
Grossman, said the writ .was one of
expediency and had been obtained to
meet an emergency should the Gov
ernor refuse a full hearing on the ex
tradition matter and sign the requisi
tion warrant, forthwith turning Thaw
over to officers of the state of New
York. They had reason to believe
now, they added, that a full hearing
would be accorded the fugitive and
that they probably would request on
that the 'habeas corpus hearing be
continued.
Fear a New Turn in Mexico.
Washington. In anticipation of
important developments in connec
tion with the Mexican problem, State
Department officials have been giving
much attention to the execution of
plans for the withdrawal in safety of
those Americans In Mexico who can
be induced to leave that country. The
immediate result of the State Depart
ment's warning was to gather a num
ber of such refugees in the seaports,
but most of them now have been
brought to the United ' States, and
American Consuls in Mexico report a
notable diminution in the number of
Americans now homeward bound.
Mrs. Godbee uets Life Imprisonment.
Millen, Ga. Mrs. Edna Perkins
Godbee was found guilty of the mur
der of Mrs. Florence Godbee, wife of
her divorced husband, and sentenced
to life imprisonment. Attorneys for
the defense announced that they
would make application for a new
trial.
Republicans Rap Currency Measure..
Washington. The House wound up
four days of general debate on the
Administration currency bill. Repub
licans and Progressives criticized the
measure on various points and Demo
crats lauded it as the means of evolv
ing a safe, solid financial system.
Altogether some three score membera
talked on the bill.
Money From Huerta Government.
New Orleans, Twenty-one Ameri
cans,' refugees from Mexico, arrived
here on the steamer Tamaulipas from
Tampico. All said they had accepted
money from the Huerta government
to help pay for first-class passage.
Almost all of the refugees were from
the southern part of the Republic and
their stories of the revolution were
far different from those told by others
who have arrived here.
Big Tim. Sullivan Crushed By Train.
New York. "Big ' Tim" Sullivan,
the New York newsboy who rose from
newsboy to Congressman, is dead.
His mangled body was identified by
his stepbrother, Larry Mulligan, after
it had lain for thirteen days in a
local morgue. Sullivan, who was ill,
eluded his nurses in the early morn
irig of August 31, and a few hours
after was struck and killed by a
train. With no identifying marks on
the clothing or articles in the pockets,
the body lay in Fordham morgue for
thirteen days awaiting identification.
Progress Rapid on Tariff Report.
Washington. The tariff conferees
got along so well that Chairman Sim
mons of the Senate Committee pre
dicted their report will be made to
both bouses of Congress this week.
The conferees practically "finished the
cotton, schedule and the flax 'and
hemp schedule. ' In the cotton sched
ule the Senate changes were largely
agreed to. The classification of stock
ings was changed and a sightly higher
rate placed upon them. Flax and
hemp were left on the free list.