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THE CHATHAM RECORD 5nm It THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $L00 One Square, two insertions - $L50 One Square, one month - . $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance VOL. XXXVIII. NO. 21. (ffflmfOT 11 Mil PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY. N. C. DECEMBER 29. 191 R IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Openings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS JJFJIfc SOUTH What Is Taking Place In the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Foreign London reports that a new Japan ese liner was sent to the bottom by a submarine, alleged to be German, without warning, with 120 passengers and a crew of 160 on board. There was one United States passenger on the ship, who was saved, together with all the rest on board. According to German sources, Eng land has 300,000 troops in Egypt, 200, 000 of whom are guarding the Suez canal. A dispatch from Christiana, Nor way, recites that Henry Ford has given up his peace mission and will shortly sail for home. London dispatches report the Ger man emperor's illness as being "zell gewebentzuendung," more frequently given as "bindegewebentzuendung." Emperor William has postponed the trip he purposed making to thewest ern war front on account of a "slight Inflammation of the cellular system." M. Skoudoulis, Greek premier, has given out an interview in which he 5ays, Greece, while trying to play the game, as the English say, is not re sponsible for existing conditions, but that the Anglo-French allies must be held accountable. Eighteen million francs were saved by Serbia frcm capture by the Ger mans. The money is deposited in the Franco-Serbian bank in Paris. Three hundred women employes were killed by an explosion at a pow der factory and ammunition -depot at Muenster, Westphalia. Great dam age was done the town. The cause of the explosion has not been aacer tained. The English parliament has voted to raise another army of a million men for participation in the great struggle that now grips all Europe It is given that the German casual ties since the war began, not includ ing the navy, has been 2,524,460 men. It was announced some time ago that the Prussian loss had exceeded 2,000,- 000 in killed, wounded and missing. The Greek election resulted m a victory for the neutrality party. This means, according to Greek politicians, that Greece will continue the present attitude toward the allies. General Francisco Villa, upon the advice of his wife and close friends, has given up as hopeless his struggle against the Mexican de facto govern ment. He declares he will come to the United States, and that if he is not allowed to remain here, he will proceed to Europe. Washington The American navy should be "equal to the most powerful maintain ed by any other nation of the world" not later than 1925, in the opinion of the navy general board, headed by Admiral Dewey. The annual report of the board discloses that this naval policy was formulated by that body in July last. An El Paso Texas, telegram recites that three hundred former soldiers of Francisco Villa rioted in Juarez, Mex ico, and before order was restored one American and a number of Mexicans had been killed. The Villa soldiers had reached Juarez from the interior in a desperate condition for lack of food, and when they learned that the de facto government was in charge of the town they immediately began looting. Col. E. M. House; confidential ad viser of President Wilson, will sail for Europe within two weeks, and will take important information and instructions to American ambassa dors in Europe, in order that they may have a more intimate knowledge and act more advisedly on the many complex questions which come before them for settlement. The seventh ginnery report of the season compiled by the government shows that 10,303,253 bales of cotton have been ginned. This is over three million bales less than had been gin ned up to the same time last year. United States horse dealers and breeders are growing' rich by huge sales of animals to the warring na tions of Europe. The state department has request ed the war department to see that Villa, the defeated rebel leader of Mexico, is shown every considera tion when he crosses into United States territory. The government wil frown on any attempt of the Carranza de facto government to extradite Gen eral Villa. Full settlement of the Lusitania case has been postponed on account of the controversy between the United States and Austria anent the Ancona disaster. It is stated from Berlin that settlement at this time would not be popular with the German peo ple. ' f , The last word anent the sinking of the Ancona by Austrian subma rines has been sent to Vienna. The note is short, about 600 words, firm in tone and somewhat less sharp the first note because It is based on the Austrian admiralty's own version of the sinking of the Ancona. Unless unexpected developments In terfere, all American consular officers withdrawn from territory in northern Mexico controlled by the Villa au thorities will resume their stations just sot soon as that section of the Mexican republic recognizes the Car ranza de facto government. The surrender of the remnant of Villa's army at Chihuahua City " is very gratifying to the authorities in Washington, and it is expected that big business will soon open up in the Southwest. The department of commerce and labor says that during the past five or six months United States securities of all kinds owned in Great Britain and France have been pouring back into this country. Domestic Approximately one and a half bil lion dollars' worth of foreign-owned securities have been absorbed in the United States in the past sixteen months. While there is no possibility of approximating the market value of the securities thus absorbed in the past sixteen months, it is generally believed that the market value is con siderably less than the par v.alue. Indictments were returned charging the chief detective of the Hamburg- American line and antique dealer with conspiring to dynamite the Well and canal. A watchman of the Ham burg-American line was also iadicted. The indictments, which were return ed in New York City, charge an effort to "set on foot a military enterprise against the Dominion of Canada. Nine were killed and twenty hurt in a wreck near Nashville, Tenn., on the Chattanooga and St. Louis rail road. The wreck was the result of a collision between a fast freight and a passenger train. The steamer Rotterdam, arriving at New York from Rotterdam and Fal mouth, reports that while detained at Falmouth two days, the British au thorities removed mail directed to people in the United States. The captain of the Rotterdam protested, but was compelled to accept a receipt for the mail. He was told that it would be forwarded by a later steam er. New York City reports that the Christmas this year offers many strik ing and happy contrasts to the same Iperiod a year ago. The de facto government oi Mexico has made progress in the assumption of civil and military authority in the territory surrendered by General Villa. General Trevino, representing the de facto government, has successfully en gaged, it is reported, the remnant of the Villa forces in Chihuahua City. The battle ended after nine hundred Villa soldiers were either killed, wounded or escaped. No quarter was shown on either side. The city of Chihuahua was captured. Sergeant Frank R. Merritt of the Twenty-ninth infantry, 26 years old, whose home was at Hawkinville, Ga., was drown at the Gatun Spillway (Panama) while fishing for tarpon. His companions were unable to res cue him, owing to the swift current. Ex-President William Howard Taft is ill with chills at the home of George W. Burton, a classmate ami friend, in LaCrosse, Wis. The $40,000 bridge which spans the Tennessee river at the head of Market street in Chattanooga, Tenn., was swept away by the recent flood. A telegram has been received by leading Chinese citizens of San Fran cisco declaring that five Chinese prov inces have set up their independence of the rule of Yuan Shi Kai. A large shipment of opium by a Japanese steamship to Mexican points was seized by United States customs officials at San Francisco. No effort, however, had been made to conceal the drug. Children in south Georgia, for the first time in their lives, had the op portunity of seeing snow fall in the extreme southern part of the state of Georgia. In many places business was entirely suspended to see the ele ments "shake the white down in the air." Two negroes were lynched by a mob of 500 men for having robbed and murdered a white man near Eastman, Ga. ) European War The heaviest fighting on any of the battle fronts appears to be taking place in the Vosges mountains at Hartmanns-Weilerkopf. The French captured an important German posi tion, but the Germans charged and recaptured part of it. Thirteen hun dred German prisoners are reported to have been taken. Artillery fighting on the western front continue daily. There is talk of a German-Turkish attempt to take the Suez canal. The Russians are reported to have bombarded and occupied the Bulga rian port of Varna, which puts them on the flank of the Bulgarians at tacking the Serbians. The town of Varna suffered heavily. The bom barding warships were accompnied with transports heavily loaded with troops equipped for an arduous cam paign. The possible prelude of a big Ger man offensive movement on the west ern front, where the Germans are re ported to have received large rein forcements, occurred against the Brit ish line to the northeast of the Ypre3. The Germans directed clouds of gas against the British, but the allies turned the artillery on the GermAn trenches with such persistence that the Teutons were forced to desist. General Jonesco, commanding the second Roumanian corps, suspected of having been bribed by the Ger mans, committed suicide, after the suspicions had been confirmed. EAST VISITED BY A SEVERE STORM IAIN, HAIL, SNOW, SLEET THUND ER, LIGHTNING 90-MILE GALE. SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED Vires Down, Traffic Delayed, Windows Broken and Some Buildings Are Demolished. New York. One of the weirdest itorms'the east has seen In many years rain, hail and snow accompa aied by thunder and lightning and a gale that reached a maximum velocity af 90 miles an hour descended from the Northwest as the aftermath of a Christmas fog. It indirectly caused Beven deaths in this city, carried iown telegraph wires, damaged ship ping, crippled railroad traffic and caused considerable property damage. The phenomenon of thunder and lightning in the midst of a driving snow awakened New Yorkers at 7 o'clock in the morning. The local weather bureau reported a total pre cipitation of 5.2 inches, of which 2.8 was snow. The wind shifted to the northwest and increased in violenece, reaching the 90-mile intensity at 9 o'clock and soon after carrying oC the storm clouds. The gale contin ued, however, throughout the day, blowing in hundreds of plate glass windows, hurling signs and copinks to the streets and demolisning several partly built structures. The storm had its center in Massachusetts, the telegraph companies said their service weather bureau reported, and the telegraph companies said their ser vice in New England had been badly crippel, although communication had not been entirely lost with the princi pal cities. Several land lines of the cable companies between New York and Nova, Scotia were put out of busi ness. Shipping of all kinds scurried to shelter and several ocean lines drop ped anchor until the gale abated. Twenty-five persons aboard 15 canal boats driven ashore off Sandy Hook were rescued by the coast guard and the crew of the coast guard cutter Seneca. James O'Neill, in command of one of the boats, was knocked into the sea by a flying board and drowned. SHELLS FLY AT CHRISTMAS. Christmas Spirit Observed in Trenchei After Shell Fire. Arras, on the French Front. Hun Hundreds of big shells tore the air over! Arras all Christmas evening. The echoes of these were the last compliments of the season and they had no sooner died away than the life of Arras began p show itsell through re-opened cellar doors and windows in preparation f6r usual Christmas eve festivities. The people of the Artois region rise above their afflictions due to the wai and the spirit of Arras survices among the heaps of ruins. "It would be teally a shame if we hadn't gotten used to It during all these months," said a woman selling postal cards and, stationery by a candle light on the first floor of s building three parts open to the sky "What we've got to do," the woman continued, "is to hold out for final victory and lasting peace." After ther usual systematic shelling died down, rifle shots and the oc casional rattle of machine guns was all that broke the stillness of deatt that settled over the city. The cath edral, when midnight mass was said last year under the thunder ol cannon, stood out against the twilight in ragged ruins like a spectacle witt crumbling walls of demolished build ings all around giving the aspect oi a gigantic cemetery with decaying headstones. The rattle of machine guns strucls up again and a few rifle shots rang through the clear air. Toward S o'clock the soft strains .of an organ were heard from an invisible source Going through heaps of stone and glass to a chapel entrance, one couLi see a candle light flickering through the darkness a short distance away Staff officers, waiting for dinner, led the correspondent of the Associated Press to an adjoining room, which re sembled an extinct volcano. "If it continues much longer yov. are likely to have your dining rooir also opened to the weather," said tht correspondent to the officers. "That is quite possible," replied the captain, "but the destination of shell is something over which we have not found any control yet." Nummber American Ships Decrease Washington. Althougn the numbei of merchant ships under the Americai flag decreased during the fiscal yeai ending with last June, the tonnage o: the merchant marine showed a record breaking increase, according to th annual report of the Commissioner o: navigation just made public. Oi June 30, 1914, 26,943 vessels havinj a total gross tonnage of 7,928,688 wer under American registry. A year afte; the number had decreased to 26,701 but the aggregate tonnage was 8,389, 429. DEMANDS AUSTRIA TO ACT PROMPTLY FULL TEXT OF SECOND NOTE TO AUSTRIA ON THE ANCONA CASE. NEW NOTE BRIEF BUT FIRM United States Government Flatly Re fuses to Enter Into Discussion of Evidence. ." Washington. The United ; States contends ,in its second note to Aus tria on the Ancona case, just made public here, that the official admis sion of the Austrian admiralty that the liner was torpedoed after she had stopped and while1 passengers still were aboard, alone is sufficient for the American demand for disavowel, reparation and punishment of the sub marine commander. The note renews the demands of the United States and says the details to which Austria referred in its reply to the first note are in no way essential to the discussion. It emphasizes the continuance of good relations depends upon the action of the Austrian gov ernment. The text of the note which Ambas sador Penfield was instructed to de liver to the Austro-Hungarian minis ter of foreign affairs reads as fol lows: Department of State, Washington. The government of the United States has received the note of Your Excellency relative to the sinking of the Ancona, which was delivered at Vienna on December 15, 1915, and transmitted to Washington, and has given the note immediate and careful consideration. On November 15, 1915, Baron Zwie denek, the Charge d'Offairs of the Imperial and ' Royal Government at Washington, transmitted to the Depart ment of State a report of the Austro Hungarian admiralty with regard to the sinking of the steamship Ancona, in which it was admitted that the ves sel was torpedoed after her engines had been stopped and when passengers were still on board. This admission alone is, in the view of the govern ment of the United States, sufficient to fix upon the commander of the sub marine which fired the torpedo the responsibility for having wilfully vio lated the recognized law of nations and entirely disregarded those hu mane principles which every belliger ent should observe in the conduct of war at sea. In view of these admitted circumstances the government of the United States feels justified in hold ing that the details of the sinking of the Ancona, the weight and character of the additional testimony corrobor ating the admiralty's report, and the number of Americans killed or injured are In no way essential matters of dis cussion. The culpability of the com mander is in any case established, and the undisputed fact is that citizens of the United States were killed, injured, or put in jeopardy by his lawless act. The rules of international law and the principles of humanity which were thus wilfully violated by the com mander of the submarine have been so long and so universally recognized and are so manifest from the standpoint of right and justice that the govern ment of the United States does not feel called upon to debate thehm and does not understand that the Imperial and Royal government questions or disputes them. The government of the United States therefore finds no other course open to it but to hold the Imperial and Royal government responsible for the act of its naval commander and to renew the definite but respectful de mands made in its communication of the sixth of December, 1915. It sin cerely hopes that the foregoing state ment of its position will enable the Imperial and Royal government to per ceive the justice of those demands and to comply with them in the same spirit of frankness and with the same concern for the good relations now existing between the United States and Austria-Hungary which prompted the government of the United States to make them. LANSING. November Foreign Trade. Washington. Foreign trade of the United States in November jumped to the unprecedented total of half a billion dollars. A department of com merce statement issued shows that imDorts as well as exports broke rec ords for the month. A record of five billion .dollars for . the past 12 months oTnnrta nnfl imnorts was set. Nov ember imports were $164,319,169 more by $11,000,000 than the previous Nov ember record made in 1912. Novem hr pxnnrts were $331,144,527, the greatest in history. Enaland to Increase1 Army. London. After an all-night debate the house of commons granted an in crease of 1,000,000 men in the British army bringing up its strength on paper to 4.000.000. With the Increase comes rhanees in higher commands, Lieu tent General Robertson,"1 chief of the general staff, having been recalled fmm France to become chief of the Imperial staff in London in place of Lieutenant General Murray, who Is ahnnt. to receive an Important com mand. These changes are accepted hhere as Indicating closer,co-operation ASQUITH PLEADS E MOVE3 FOR AN ADDITIONAL MIL LION' SOLDIERS' FOR SERVICE IN THE WAR. NOW HAS OVER 1,250,000 Ever-Widening Theatre of War Re quires Enlisting of Every Man of Military Age. London. Premier Asquith made his long-expected statement; on the Allies' military position in the,: house of com mons in connection with the introduc tion of a "supplementary estimate" providing for the raising of the numer ical strength of the army from 3,000,- 000 men to 4,000,000 men. The house was crowded and the pre mier's speech was listened to earnest ly and silently. In the Peers' gallery. Lord Fisher, the former first sea lord and Earl Derby, director of recruit ing, occupied the most prominent po sition. The prime minister, as usual, got .to the heart of his subject in his open ing sentences and declared that al though the British . fighting forces in the various theaters now amount to more than 1,250,000 men the war's demands were such as necessitated calling out the empire's "recruitable maximum." Although the premier did not put himself on record as either for or against conscription, John. Redmond, leader of the Irish N.- tonalists, at the close of Mr. Asquith s speech, flung a bombshell by declaring that the Na tionalists would oppose conscription by every means in their power. And John Dillon followed with a severe ar raignment of the British war leader ship, inquring: "What is the use of sending out more troops to be led like men re sponsible for the Suvla Bay and Anzac failures ?" VAST SUPPLIES FOR GERMANY. Turkey Holds Abundance of Food and Supplies. Berlin "Turkey has an abundance of foods and other material of all kinds which she can supply to Ger many if Germany needs them," said Dr. Nazim Bey, secretary of the Yemg Turk's Committee, in a state ment to the Associated Press on his arrival in Berlin. "It Is only a ques tion of transportation, which seems to be in a fair way of solution. "There is no lack cf anything in Turkey. For example, we have 30, 000,000 kilograms of cotton which Germany can have the moment she solves the transportation problem, not to speak of 10,000,000 kilograms of reserve supply in the shape of ma tresses and other articles In Turkish homes. "The same is true of copper. Of this we have at least 40,000,000 kilo grams which Germany can have at any time." 734 British Ships Sunk Berlin "It is stated on competent authority," says the Overseas News Agency, "that since the beginning of the war to the end of November last, 734 enemy ships with a tonnage of 1,447, 628 tons were destroyed. Of these 568 with 1,079, 492 tons were destroyed by submarines and 93 with 94,700 tons of mines. ' Oppose Compulsory Service. London.- -The Irish party held a meeting in the House of Commons, John Redmond presiding, and affirm ed its unshaken adherence to the res olution adopted June 7 opposing com pulsory military service. Col. House to Visit Europe. New York. Col. E. M. House, con fidential adviser of President Wilson, stated that he will shortly sail for Europe at the request of the" Presi dent. Sarah Barnhardt Dying. London. Sarah Barnhardt is re ported to be dying, according to a dis patch from Paris to The Telegraph. Moton Heads Tuskegee. New York. Robert R. Moton, of the Hampton Normal Agricultural In stitute, Hampton, Va., was selected to succeed Booker T. Washington, presi dent of Tuskegee Institute, Tuske gee Alabama, I at a meeting of the special committee of the trus tees of the institute here. The choice was unanimous. The committee mak ing the selection wa3 composed of Seth Low, chairman of the Tuskegee trustees; Frank Trumbull of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad; Edgar A. Bancroft, W. W. Campbell Horse Meat For Food. New York. Sale of horse meat for food will be permitted in New York after January 1, the" board of health announced. Commenting upon the revocation of the section of the sani tary node which prohibited the use of horse flesh. Commissioner Emerson said that while the health department ioes not exactly recommend it no harm can be seen in its use. "The horse never has tuberculosis and almost never communicates a malignant disease to human beings,' ie said. ' ,! FOR MOR ME BRITISH WITHDRAW FROM SUVLA-ANZAG NOT VERY MUCH LIFE LOST IN ACCOMPLISHING THE DIFFI CULT FEAT. TURKS WERE NOT AWARE Did Not Know Withdrawal Movement Was Going On, it is Declared. A Skillful Movement. London. The British troops at the Suvla and Anzac districts of Galli poli Peninsula have been withdrawn. The following official statement was issued here: "All the troops at Suvla and Anzac, togetner with their guns and stores have been successfully transferred, with insignigcant casulties to another sphere of operations." Operations in other sections of the front on the Gallipoli Peninsula than those from which troops were an nounced to have been withdrawn are to be continued, it is intimated in an official statement. The withdrawal was effected without knowledge of the movement on the part of the Turks, it is declared. "Further details of the evacuation of the Anzac and Suvla zones have been received," says the official state ment. "Without the Turks being aware of the movement a great army has been withdrawn from one of the areas occupied oa the Gallipoli Penin sula, although in the closest of con tact with the enemy. By this con traction of the front operations at other points of the line will be more effectively carried out. "Sir Charles Monro gives the credit for this skillfully conducted transfer of forces to the general command ing, and the Royal Navy." The withdrawal of the British troops from Suvla Bay and the Anzac zone ends, more successfully than most military men thought possible, the most unfortunate chapter of the British arms in this war. Thousands of lives were sacrificed in gaining these position, and other thousands in holding them. VILLA CONCLUDES PEACE TERMS Faction Signs Peace Agreement with Defacto Government El Paso, Texas. An agreement was reached and papers have been signed whereby the Villa faction in northern Mexico concludes peace terms with the de facto government of Mexico. - The conference was held between Mexican consul Garcia and former lieutenants of General Francisco Villa at the consulate in El Paso. General Francisco Villa is reported to be in Juarez. Tht signing of the peace agreement elimates him from Mexican affairs. Washington State department of ficials have decided that General Villa will receive the asylum accorded political refugee should he enter the United States. This decision was sent to General Funston by the war de partment for transmission to Villa or his representatives. The state department's agents had reported that alleged intermediaries had requested Villa's immunity from arrest, saying that if this was given they believed Villa would abandon the fight against Carranza and retire to private life in the United States. The state department does not con ceal its desire to have Villa eliminat ed. Without him the revolution in the north will certainly fall, officials believe. The Intermediaries also said that the plan was for the retirement from the field of the entire Villa ar my. South Carolina Statute Upheld Washington The South Carolina statute making railway carriers lia ble to one another and liable to a shipper for damages to a shipment, was upheld by the supremo court as constitutional. Supreme Court Recesses Washington The Supreme Court has recessed until January 3. Hundreds Congratulate Couple Hot Springs, Va. President Wilson and his bride abandoned plans to play golf to reply to hundreds of messages of congratulations from personal friends, relatives and officials. After reaching here the couple remained In such deep seclusion for two days that only members of their immediate party have seen them. They took an automobile ride the third day. Ar rangements for a Christmas celebra tion at the president's hotel were be ing made. Seventh Cotton Ginning Report Washington The seventh cotton ginning report of the season, com piled from reports of census bureau correspondents and agents through out the cotton belt just issued an nounced that 10,303,253 bales of cot ton counting round aa half bales, of the growth, of 1913, has been ginned prior to December 1J . That compares with 13,972,229 bales, or 87.8 per cent of the entire crop ginned prior to De cember 31 last year, 12,088,412 bales, or 92.5 per cent in 1' 12. RAISE 525.000 TO WRITE WAR FACTS NORTH CAROLINA'S PART IN CIVIL WAR TO BE SET FORTH IN FULL. PROF. D. H. HILL IN CHARGE Confederate Veterans' Committee Complete Task Which Means Much to This State. Raleigh. That the desired fund of $25,000 to pay the cost of having writ ten the history of the record of North Carolina troops In the War Between the States had been raised was the information which the committee ap pointed by the North Carolina Confed erate Veterans' Association to raise the fund gave out recently after a meeting held at the capitol. The com mittee declined to say who donated the money or whether it represented the gifts of many or was given by a single individual. Those details will come out before very long, however, said a member of the committee. Members of the committee were jubilant over the successful termina tion of their efforts. "It is one of the biggest things that ever has hap pened for North Carolina," declared Col. Boyden. "The record our state made in the war was one of the ut most bravery and fortitude. But the sources of information were fast slip ping away as one by one the veterans who knew the facts of the war pass ed beyond. Much information about the war is already gone and can not be recovered. But . there is much yet available and it is to collect this that we have raised the fund of $25,000." The next duty before the committee is the choice of a man to write the war history of the state. Rumor has associated the name of Dr. D. H. Hill' with the work, and it is believed that the committee would be very glad for him to accept the task if he finds that his other duties will permit of it. It was finally decided that Dr. Hill would have charge. Miss Martha Haywood, whose in terest in North Carolina war history is well known, will, it is understood, have the work of writing the history of Manly's Battery of Artillery and of the flags of the State. The members of the veterans' com mittee appointed to raise the fund of $25,000 are Gen. James I. Metts, of Wilmington, commander-in-chief of the North Carolina division; Gen. W. L. London, of Pittsboro; Gen. R. H. Ricks, of Rocky Mount; Gen. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, and Col. A. H. Boyden, of Salisbury. All members of the committee except General Carr who is spending Christmas in Hawaii, were present. Will Sell Timberland. i Asheville. By the terms of a de cree signed by Judge James E. Boyd at Greensboro, and received here, J. J. McCloskey is appointed commis sioner to receive and offer for sale at public auction about 8,000 acres of the mo3t avluable timberland in west ern North Carolina to satisfy a deed of trust held by the Union Trust Company and others of Michigan against, the land, the present property of the Highland Spruce Company and others. The deed was given to secure the payment of certain bonds, it is claimed, and the bonds are now over due, amounting, with the interest, to $208,500. Purchase Harris Tannery at Sylvia. Asheville. Adeal that means much to the industrial development of Western North Carolina has just been completed by Sharles J. Harris of Dillsboro and Asheville, by which Ar mour & Co., of Chicago, has secured the Harris tannery at Sylva, the con sideration being $100,000. Mr. Harris will not sever his connection with the company and the plants will be oper ated under the old name. Extensive improvements will be made at once, the first being the establishment of an extract plant, which wltl cost $100,000. Gets Patent on Improved Trush Can. Rocky Mount. An announcement from the patent office is received with much interest here, since it may mean an additional manufacturing enterprise for this city. Alfred J. Drapalik, a machinist of the Atlantic Coast Line, has just been given a patent upon what is considered the most sightly, the most sanitary street can yet devised, while the same is a model of simplicity and is absolutely "foolproof" and almost an impossib ility to get it out of order or maltreat it. Carolina Wins Debate. Chapel Hill. Carolina won the first debate, defeating George Washington College here. The query for debate was "Resolved, That the Federal Gov ernment should own and operate all telegraph lines, constitutionally con ceded." Carolina upheld the negative and was represented by R. B. Houe and A. H. Wolfe. P. Bryan Moore house and Charles W. Jacobson ar gued on the affirmative for George Washington. The judges were Dr. T. P. Harrison, Prof. W. K. Boyd and President W. A. Harper of Elon.
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