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h RANDOLPH BULLETIN VOL. III. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1908. NO. 43, THE 0 iibrel 7 TAT? HEEL TOTICsT g Items Gathered From All Sections of the State x" n' v T- 5 Kcore Trait Escapes. t!ii'rn Pino. Snoninl Ti.. c :i 7 f J.IVJ ilUU , :: , f Moore county have been wfc :r.g a strenuous period. Friday git one of the most tempestuous orms in a long time wound up with la unzzara oi snow and ice. and cn aturtlay morning the thermometer egisrerea m, wnn the fruit blossoms i iiuased in globes of ice. The fright The jury rendered its verdict in thir ,. as big enough to cut with a knffe, ty-five minutes after retiring to the s everybody threw up both hands nd conceded the complete destruc- ion of all fruit. Orchards had been u in the fullest blossom for several ays .and everywhere hopes had been -jtertaineu or a bumper croD Fol-; a4-v;i:ir ihe snow and ice of Friday 'il c:uie another freeze Saturdav t. to finish what the first vio-lit ul done, the victims asserted. Many ' fc t ..rvhnr,! m Wf J,,"e - . lilt llUb lluij 7- luau lo lnlu ul Ule leaving prospects of a rea- B.OSSt matuv lair, it not a srood oron. 1 0 r- . i uiK-ousuraionai. creditors, Joseph J. Littig, Jr., local Asheville, Special. Judge Fred agent for the Home Brewing Com ciore, cf the State Suuenor Court pany, being the assignee. The assets Tit- T attot T TT j . . I iin h, rendered his decision in the and liabilities are not large and the fitter of the Southern Railway Com- failure is of no commerciual impor iny against the commissioners and tance. Vivhx collector of Buncombe county, citf10lain$? that the special tax of 10 ;;tfeuts on the SI 00 worth of property key for roads and bridges, and IS l-'J -tents for interest on bonds and sink "g fund was unconstitutional and A-aiid. and continued the in.iune Siqin restraining the tax collsctor from . jollecting from the Southern this tax, r,ri miouniinc to .4.S0(). Practicaly the F iame point was raised by complain ts uit's counsel relative to Mecklenburg Vi- )',nuy on account of the county lavy q jb'g a 10 cent road tax, 15 cent bond j3?i-v-, and 2-3 cent convict tax and no pull tax to correspond. , r.i A Davidson Home I if 1-tingtou, Special. Ni Burned. ews reached ' a .f. the ('esJ1ruction hJ fi ot 'ft lesidence of Dr. J. E. Cathell, of this county, in which about $4,-' 0!) worth of property was consumed ' iiiil not a thing saved except a canary ers' Journal of this city, says that it Ju1''- T'le insurance carried amounts has received telegraphic reports from ISSUe The origin of the fire is all the leading trucking centres a ' own. The popular physician round Wilmington and eastern North ' Aa ?o.it on a professional call and Carolina and finds that little if any Of tb'l"ain'ly a"d servants were away, damage, was done by the recent snow WenPe'"? about midiiig-ht when the fire fall and consequent cold weather in C3jjjp rvd. Together with the S-room this vicinity. On aecotmt of reduced , , all tlie doctor's instruments, acreage most growers have been able J. R. is medicines, his diploma, li- to straw their berry plants and they "ecovertC" were destroyed, as were are well protected until gathering 'lffic': pounds of pork and lard from time comes . f'ail h?3- The loss is exceedingly , ZjpJivy on the doctor. At present he State News in Brief. JsTtaakinsr his homo with a neighbor, , , . Baxter Leonard. . T '.e Unted Department of ,t ! Justice offers $100 reward for the -j i A. ' capture of Jim Staley, the negro 1 1 Coffin On the Doorstep. moonshiner who shot Deputy Marshal l Cbarlottp. Snpfial. Mr. anil Mrs. Henry Reese. It ought to be easy c"lW. G. Russell, residents of Hickory -Urovc township, this county, found a Vlemde miniature coffin on their front A rfHirlh when they awoke, and in it a letter demanding money. The letter -llVas adorned with a skull, crossbones ;?tj a blackhand. The county author- iflMJi?s have two neighboring youths E-.j ader suspicion, and will arrest them, il3They refuse to divulge the names of SStb suspects, but they believe the af- ifair to have been the prank of irres- Jiipnsib!e youths, and that is the view ,icld by the community. " Mills May Shnt Down. Dallas. Special. The stockholders -of the Monarch held Ttosdav at which the capital stock of !tnt- mill was increased $13,000. It is iVttmored that the three cotton mills ndw in operation in this town will n shut down for two months. New Charters. Tlalcigh, Special. New charters as -allows were issued Friday: lVadesboro Pensi-Cola Company, lith capital of $5,000: W. B. Blalock, (1 ,;re Britts and George Stanback, 1 The State Superintendent of Pub orporators. lie Instruction has issued a very well 1 Scott Library Company, Aheville, ' prepared and illustrated pamphlet Vpital 25,000; C. H. Bobbs, J. F. with designs for public school houses M.un? and Henry B. Stevens, incor- this taking the place of one which jw ra tors. j was issued some years ago. f I There is talk of a fine new hotel t&lisbury Gets a Good Price For Its at Lakeview, with Western capital en f $100,000 Bond Issue. ' at the back of the scheme. The id SlliKburv, Special. At a special tf are not worked out yet, but ,u I , . n ii a representative of the investors has S ,eln,g of the board of aldermen bids beeooki over thc ound and ap. re opened tor the .flUU.OOU bond is- j'ic passed at a publie election last i Kja!l. Several bids were tendered and ftf'r due consideration that of N. W- pied. The -agreement under which ' sale is made provides that the ' Jurchaser shall pay all legal expenses, limine. lithographing, transfer X-,, liverl t."the City of Salisbury without any exchange har- L the sum of $101,600. h's the Ciaf tl.bs, ': ,it-f' Young White Men Killed. RlnK-! uson Special. Thursday night 'iiruSiSrm Rob; its and Turner Bailey, both (''fcr white men, were killed about !nD': :-it ilos west of llerf b.y a Norfolk Rifles- Southern passenger train. Roberts rin.l Hailev left here during the after- h3' ,-,:.m bnth under the influence of ws- rtfey. nnd got off at the first station iv.d s'.aried to walk down the rail- ftrii iracK to uicn uomes. -ii i 3 .1. . i i ii. i lc;e Killed in a ucp cut. Wilmington Concern Assigns. V.'ilminuton, Special. . T. Mer- It ( onipany, lncoipoiaiea, wnoiesalc . A. J 1 1 d retail furniture dealers of this y and Darlington, S. C, filed a c,l rf trust last week, naming T. tVf4 ('''ncl.v Escl-' to wind uP.tIje affairs J ih lmc;p. this llV iilf( 1 iin nf 1 ' -.- . . . 1. ,1 . . 1 . - p '-toelinolders ot me corporation. i- claimed that the company is per- - solvent but is not now conduct- ' r . ink i is:ness upon a sansiaciory oasis, Tonic jbi e the decision to liquidate. Benton's Slayer to Hang. Fayetteville, Special. Sam Mur chison, alias Melvin, will pay with his life for the murder of James H. Benton, which crime he committed on Sunday afternoon, February 23d, last. In Superior Court he was found STuilfry of murder in the first degTee alter a trial extending over two davs. ilTY room. The accused showed con- siderable nervousness when brought back into the court room to receive the verdict ,but after it was rendered he sank back into bis seat without evidence or emotion. Saloon Keeper Makes Assignment. 1 V C 1 ; f o : . T T t -r o l," " , ..um., luc baloo.n KeePer wnose dtia ric rnnonMir 1- ,3 1, ... K board of aldermen effective April 1st b f irreeuiaritiGi, in tI man. c l: . I - - -O 1 T an assignment for the benefit of his iier oi ins rciiunri mo- ms n .irp. mani? Charters Granted. Raleigh, Special. A charter is granied the Johnson-MeCubbin Com pany at Salisbury, which will deal in real estate, build houses and factories, etc., capital stock $130,000, the stock holders being Thomas P. Johnson, J. S. McCubbins and T. II. Vandeiford. Another charter goes to the Carolina Paper Box Company, of Winston Sniem, $25,000, the stockholders bc ii'g W. B. Hemingway and others, all from Norfolk. I A commission is issued to Willey . C. Rodman, of Washington, D. C. as ' major of the Second Regiment, vice Sellers, resigned. Trnck in East mt Injarel by "Wilmington, Special. The Truck- to identify and capture Staley as he was shot twice. Several people saw him at Sanford the evening of the day on which the shooting occurred, United States Marshal Doikery says that moonshining is certainly inereas- ir- in this district and that the moon- shiners are becoming bolder and more desparate. Not so. much is going on now as in the winter, but more than at this time last year. Durham and Johnson are the worst eounties in tne district for moonshining, while Robe- son leads in retailing.. ! At the office of the State Labor Commisioner it is learned that there s some increase of work in the State. it is said tnat the sawmill people make more complaints about the Pan.ic than perhaps any other class. SS IS the ,real thing and has hit them hard and caused-a big drop : m prices. A charter is granted the Leaksville Light, Power and Milling Company, . , i -i . 1... to turnisn eiecinc poer, eic, uiu ; amount ot the capital stocii being a Jvtng uie Mi . stockholder. peftrg impressed with Lakeview as a place for a good summer and winter resort. The number of volumes in the fnpreme Court library ,s now 1,136 this being a gain of almost COO a j ear " an ""8e U1 ' The number of volumes in the State .4n0 h luc Tu- im - T nnn - I Sain 13 something- like 1,000 a year. Renresentative Pase has secured L- - L- two new R. F. D. routes one from Seagrove, in Randolph county, and the' other from Cameron, in Moore county. c t jj. R Stuart, of Charleston, . , t . -n- vi, has notlfied Representative Webb that the Plans and specifications tor the King'a Mountain monument are ruadv an1 on. ,th 2?d of ,pl ! y The cost is to be $30,000. Thursday afternoon the atorneys for the State and the corporation commission met at the office of the latter and conferred as to the hearing to be held by the inter-State com- merce commission, in the United States Court room before Judson C Clements. This gentleman is the Southern member of the inter-Stats commerce commission and is from Georgia. Messrs. Walser & Walser, attor- neys at Lexington, have been made special counsel for the Southern Kail way. THE WORKJtf CONGRESS Doings of Our National Law-Makerg Day by Day. A scene somewhat out of the or dinary was enacted in the House of Representatives because of a charge made by Mr. Mann, of Illinois, that Mr. Sulzer, of New York had put in The Congressional Record what pur ported to be a speech delivered by him last Saturday, but which Mr. Mann charged was not the one de livered. It all had to do with Mr. Sulzer's claim that he and not Mr. Mann was the author of the legisla tion which brought the Department of Commerce and Labor into being. A resolution offered by Mr. Mann to expunge the printed speech from the record was adopted by a strict party vote, but not until cfter the House had been treated tj a bitter denun ciation of Mr. Mann by Mr. Sulzer and several lively tilts between the latter and the Speaker. Mr. Sulzer characterized Mr. Mann as a "petti fogging lawyer, mean and contempti ble," for which be was called to or der by the Speaker with the admo nition that such language could not be used toward a member. Anticpating that Lis speech would be ruled out and with the view to getting it back into the record Mr, Sulzer resorted to a piece of Strategy by trying to have the speech read and later endeavored to read it him self, but the Speaker insisted that he could only address himself to the resolution to expunge. Smarting under the action of the Republicans, Mr. Selzer for the rest o fthe day posed as an obstruction ist. He objected to all unanimous consent proposition, and baited the proceedings of the House for a con siderable time by a point of no quorum. After passing a number of meas ures relating to the District of Co lumbia, the House at 4:01 p. m. ad journed out of respect to the memory of the late Senator William James Brvan, of Florida. The Senate for the fifth time in the present session, adjourned because death had robbed the body of one of its members. The announcement that Senator William James Bryan, of Florida, died was made by Senator Clay of Georgia, in the absence of Senator Taliaferro, who left Wash ingto early in the day as a member of the committee which accompanied the body to Jacksonville. The untimely death of Senator Bryan, who was familiarly known as the "baby" of the Senate, a title in which he took pride, came home to the Senators with more force than any which had preceded it. The seven sorrows that have come upon this branch of Congress since ad journment a year ago were a matter of solemn comment. The mortality record of the present session already is greater than in any previous en tire Consrress. In submittin? the usual resolu- tions providing for adjournment out of respect to the memory of the late Senator, Mr. Clay said: Senate's Youngest Member. "He was the youngest member of this body had not reached bis thirty-second year at the time of his death. His friends thought he had before him a career of great useful ness. Had his life been spared, doubtless their most sanguine ex pectations would have been realized. He possessed a charming personality and made friends wherever he went. He was studious, industrious and ambitious for his country's good The people of Florida loved and trusted him, and he loved them, and Florida today mourns his death. This is not the proper time to eulogize his memory. At some future time and on an occasion appointed for that purpose the senior Senator from Florida will join with other friends of Senator Bryan in paying to his memory that tribute of af fection, confidence and esteem whieh I know is felt by all." The Senate was opened .jrfth prayer by the Rev. Ulysses G. 13. Pierce, of All Souls Church, who re ferred feelingly to the Senate's be reavement and to the sorrow of the family of the late Senator. Announcement of the death of Senator Brvan was made in the House by Mr. Clark of Florida, who nfferA "-resolutions lamenting the death of "this illustrious son of our beloved Commonwealth." The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and as a further mark of respect the House adjourned. Democrats May Obstruct. Determination to conduct a fili buster on all occasions where oppor tunity presented itself, in order to force the Republicans to action on an employer's liability bill and other measures deemed necessary of enact ment was announced br Mr. .Wil liams, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives Tuesday during the consideration o fthe agricultural bill. He said he bad waited until now to sec some evidences of an intention to transact business which the people were demanding, but, finding none, had reached the conclusion that the time was ripe to force the hand of the Republican party. The Demo crats cheered the announcement. General debate on the agricultural appropriation bill continued through out the day. except for a brief time when Mr. Sulzer, of New York, by way of retaliation for the action of the" House in eliminating from The Record bis speech of Saturday last, sought to have expunged some re marks of Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylva nia, regarding the rules. In that, however, he was unsuccessful. Many Democrats refrained from support ins: his proposition. Currency Bill in Senate. The currency bill was practically given an exclusive right of way in the Senate until it is finally disposed of by an announcement by Senator Aldrich that he would move Tues day to give it that status in the Sen ate. A question brought out a statement by Mr. Aldrich to the effect that be hopes to 6ee the creation of a joint commission of the Senate and the House authorized to consider perma nent currency reform before Con jrress adjourns. SPECIAL MESSAGE President Roosevelt Uuges the Passage of Vital Legislation IS A CONSERVATIVE DOCUMENT Makes Recommendations Calculated to Please Railroads, Trusts, Capi tal and Labor Says Strikes Are and Should Be Legal The Black Li3t and tho Boycott Should Not Be Legalized. Washington, Special President Roosevelt Wednesday sent Congress a message in which lie urges action upon several matters before the close of the present session, suggesting among other matters an amendment to the inter-State commerce law THB PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. To the Senate and House of Repre senatives: I call your attention to certain measures as to which I think there should be action by Congress before the close of the present session. There is ample time for their consid eration. As regards most if not all of the matters, bills have been intro duced into one or the other of the two Houses, and it is not too much to hopo that action will be taken one way or the other on these bills at the present session. In my message at tho opening of the present session and, indeed, in various messages to previous Congresses, I have repeated ly suggested action on most of these measures. Child Labor atd Employer's Liabili ty Bill. Child labor should be prohibited throughtout the nation. At least a model child-labor bill should be passed for the District of Columbia. It is unfortunate that in the one place solely dependant upon Congress for its legislation there should be no law giving compensation to its own forbidding or regulating their labor. I renew my recommendation for immediate re-enactment of an em ployers' liability law, drawn to con form to the recent decision of the Supremo Court. Within the limits indicated by the court, the law should be made thorough and com prehensive, and the protection it af fords should embrace every class of employe to which the power of the Congress can extend. In addition to a liability law pro tecting the employes of common car riers, the government should show its good faith by enacting a further law giving compensation to its own employes for injury or death incur red in its service. It is repoach to us as a nation that in both Federal and State legislation we have afford ed less protection to public and pri vate employes than any other indus trial country of the world. Injunctions in Labor Disputes. I also urge that action be taken along the line of the recommenda tions I have already made concern ing injunctions in labor disputes. Xo temporary restraining order should be issued by any court without notice and the petition for a permanent in junction upon which such temporary restraining order has been issued should be heard bv the court issu ing the same within a reasonable time say, not to exeeed a .week or thereabouts from the date when the order was issued. It is worth con sidering whether it would not give greater popular confidence in the im partiality of sentences for contempt if it was decided that the issue should be decided by another judge than the one issuing tho injunction, except where the contempt is com mitted in the presence of the conrt, or in other case of urgency. Amendment to Inter-State Commerce Law. I again call attention to the ur gent need of amending the inter State commerce law and especially the anti-trust law along tho lines in dicated in my last message. The inter-State commerce law should be amended so as to give railroads the right to make traffic agreements, subject to these agreements being ap proved by he Inter-State Commerce Commission and published in all of their details. The commission should also be given the power to make public and to pass upon the issuance of all securities hereafter issued by railroads doing an inter-State com merce business. Receiverships. A law should be passed providing in effect that when a Federal court determines to place a common car rier or other public utility concern under the control of a receivership, the Attorney General should have the right to nominate at least one of the r-icivers; or else in some other wav the interests of the stockholders should be considered, so that the nian aaemenl may not be wholly redeliv ered to the man or men the failure of whose policy may have neeessiiat ed the creation of the receivership. Receiverships should be used, not to operate roads, but as speedily as pos sible to pay -their debts and return them to the proper owners." Amendment To Anti-Trust Law. In addition to the reasons I have already urged on your attention it has now become important, that there should be an amendment of the anti trust law, because of the uncertainty as to how this law affects combina tions among labor men and farmers, if the combination has any tendency to restrict inter-State commerce. All of these combinations, if and while existing for and engaged in the pro motion of innocent and proper pur poses, should be recognized as legal. As I have repeatedly pointed out, this anti-trust law was a most un wisely drawn statute. It was per haps inevitable that in feeling after the right remedy the first attempts to provide such should be crude; and it was absolutely imperative that some legislation should be passed to control in the interest of the public the business use of (he enormous ag gregation of corporal e wealth that ere so moiked a feature of the mod ISSUE TIGHTLY ern industrial world. But (he mesent anti-trust law, in its construction and working, has exemplified only too well the kind of legislation which, under the guise of being thorough going, is drawn up in such sweeping form as to become either ineffective fr else mischievous. Modification Needed. In the modern industrial world combinations are absolutely neces sary; they are necessary among bus iness men, they are necessary among laboring men, they are becoming more necessary among farmers. Some of these combinations are among the most powerful of all in struments for wronsdoin". Others offer the only effective way of meet ing actual business needs. It is niis ebevions and unwelcome to keep upon the statute books unmodified a law like the anti-trust law, which, while in practice only partially ef fective against vicious combinations, has nevertheless in theiry been con strued so as swepingly to prohibit every combination for the transac tion of modern business. Some real good has resulted from this law. But the time has come when it is im perative to modify it. Such modifi cation is urgently needed for the sake of the business men of the country, for the sake of the wage-workers, and for the sake of the farmers. The Congress can not afford to leave it on the statute books in its present shape. The Law and All Organizations. It has now become uncertain bow far this law may involve all labor organizations and farmers' organiza tions, as well as all business organ izations, in conflict with the law; or, if we secure literal compliance with the law, how far it may result in the destruction of the organizations nec sssary for the transaction of modren business, as well as of ?U labor or ganizations and farmers' organiza tions, completely cheek the wise movement for securing business co operation among farmers, and put back half a century the progress of the movement for the betterment of labor. A bill has been presented in the Congress to remedy this situa tion. Some such measure as this bill is needed in the interest of all en gaged in the industries which are es sential to the country's well-being. I 3o not pretend to say the exact shape that the bill should take, and the suggestions I have to offer are ten tative; and my views would apply eually to any other measure which would achieve the desire dend. Bear ing this in mind, I would suggest, merely tentatively ,the following changes in tho law: Changes Recommended The substantive part of the anti trust law should remain as at pres ent ; that is, every contract in re straint of trade or commerce amor,; the several State or with foreign na tions should continue to bo declared illegal; provided, however, that some proper governmental authority such as the Commissioner of Corporations acting under the Secretary of Com merce and Labor) be allowed to pass on anv such contracts. Probably the best methods of providing for this would be to enact that any contract, subject to the prohibition contained fn the anti-trust law, into which it was desired to enter, might be filed with the Bureau of corporations or other appropriate executive body. This would provide publicity. Within, say, sixty days of the filing which period could be extended by order of the department whenever for nuy reason it did not give the department sufficient time for a thorough exam ination the executive department having power might forbid the con tract, which would then become sub ject to the provisions of the anti trust law, if at all in restraint of trade. Should Be Allowed to Register. If no such prohibition was issued, the contract would then only be lia ble to attack on the ground that it constituted an unreasonable restraint of trade. Whenever the period of fil ing had passed without any such pro hibition, the contracts or combina tions could bo disapproved or forbid den only after notice an dhcaring with a reasonable provision fors um mary review on appeal by the courts. Labor organizations, farmers' organi zations, and other organizations, not organized for purposes of profit, should be allowed to rigrister under the law by giving the location of the head office, the charter and bv-laws. and the names and addresses of their principal officers. In the interest of all these organizations business, la bor, and farmers' organizations alike the present provision permitting the recovery of three-fold damages should be abolished, and as a substi tute therefor the right of recovery al lowed for should be only the damases sustained by the plaintiff and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee. Not To Affect Fending Suits. The law should not affect pending suits; a short statute of limitations should be provided, so far as the past is concerned, not to exceed a year. Moreover, and even more in the in terest of labor than of business com binations, all such suits brotigh foi causes of action heretofore occurred should be brought only if the eon tract of combination complained oi was unfair or unreasonable. It may be well, to remember that, all of the suits hereto brought by the govern ment under the anti-trust laws have been in cases where the combination or con'rnet was in fact unfair, un reasonable, and against, the publie in terest. Employer and Employe. It is important that we should en courage trade agreements between employer and employe where tliev are just and fair. A strike is a clumsy weapon for right ins wrongs done to labor ,and we should extend, so fai as possible, the process of concilia tion and arbitration as a substitute for strikes. Moreover, violence, dis order, and coercion, when committed in connection with strikes, should be as promptly and as sternly repressed as when committed in any other con nection. Hut strikes themselves are. and should be, entirely legal. Com binations of workingmcn have a pe culiar reason for existence. The very wealthy individual employer, and stiU BOUND more the very wealthy corporation, stand at an enormous advantage when compared to the individual working man; and while- there are many cases where it may not be necessary for la borers to form a union, in many oth er cases it is indispensable, for oth erwise the thousands of small units, the thousands of individual working men, will be left helpless in their dealings with the one big unit, the big individual or corporate employer. The Trades Unions. Twenty-two years ago by the act of June 29th, 1SS6, trades unions were recognized by law, and the right of laboring people to combine for all lawful purposes was formally recog nized, this right including combina tion for mutual protection and bene fits, the regulation of wages, hour? and conditions of labor, and the pro tection of the individual rights of the workmen in the prosecution of their trade or trades; and in the act of June 1, 189S, strikes were recognized as legal in the same provision that forbade the participation in or insti gation of force or violence against persons or property, or the attempt to prevent others from working, by violence, threat, or intimidation. The business man must be protected in person and property, and so must the farmer and the wageworker; and as regards all alike, the right of peace ful combination for all lawful pur poses should be explicitly recognized. Rights of Employers to Combine. The right of employers to combine and contract with one another and with their employes should be explic itly recognized; and so should the right of the employes to combine and to contract with one another and with the employers, and to seek peaceably to persuade others for the purpose of peaceably obtaining from employ ers satisfactory terms for their labor. Nothing should be done to legalize either a blacklist or a boycott that would be illegal at common law; this being the type of boycott defined and condemned by the anthracite strike commission. The question of financial legislation 1? now receiving such attention in both houses that we have a right to expect action before the close of the session. It is urgently necessary that there should be steps taken to estab lish postal savings banks. These pos tal savings banks are imperatively needed for the benefit of the wage workers and men of small means, and will be a valuable adjunct to our whole financial system. Revision of the Tariff. The time has come when we should prepare for a revision of the tariff. This should bo, and indeed must be, preceded by careful investigation. It is peculiarly the province of the Con gress and not of the President, and indeed peculiarly the province of the TT .i. .- .. nouse oi representatives, to origi nate a tariff bill and to determine upon its terms; and this I fully real ize. Yet it seems to me that before the close of this session provision should be made for collecting full material which will enable the Con gress elected next fall to act im mediately after it comes into exist ence. This would necessitate some action, perhaps in the shape of di recting the proper committee to gath er the necessary information, both through the committee itself and through government agents who should report to tho committee and should lay before it the facts which would permit it to act with prompt and intelligent fai mess. These cov-; ernment agents, if it is not deemed wise to oppoint individuals from out side the public service, misrht with advantage be members of the execu tive departments, designated by tho President, on his own motion or on the request of the committee, to act with it. One Change Practicable. I am o fthe opinion, however, that one change in the tariff could with advantage bo made forthwith. Our forests need every protection, and one method of protecting them would be to put upon the free list wood pulp, with a corresponding reduction upon paper mado from wood pulp, when they come from any country that does not put an export duty upon them. Waterways Improvement. Ample provision should be made for a permanent waterways commis sion, with whatever power is requir ed to make it effective. The reason able expectation of the people will not be met unless the Conerses pro vides at this session for the beginning and prosecution o fthe actual work of waterway improvement and controL Thc Congress should recognize in fullest fashion the fact. that the sub ject of the conservation of our nat ural resources, with which this com mission deals, is literally vital for the future of the nation. May Veto Water-Power Bills. Numerous bills granting "water power rights on navigable streams have been introduced. None of them give the government the right t make a reasonable charge for the valuable privileges so granted, in spite of the fact that these water power privileges are equivalent to many thousands of acres of the best coal lands for their production of power. Nor is any definite lime lim it feet, as should always bo done in such cases. I shall be oblisred here after, in accordance with the policy stated in a recent message, to veto any water-power bill which does not provide for a time limit and for the right o fthe President or of the Sec retary concerned to fix and collect such a charge as he may find to be just and reasonable in each case. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. The White House, March 25, 1903. One Killed in Tennessee Wreck. Memphis, Tenn., Special-One man was instantly killed, another probab ly fatally injured and five others badly hurt in a rear-end collision be tween a work -train loaded with la borers and a freight train on the Illi nois Central Railroad early Tuesday The accident occurred at New South Memphis and was caused by a dense fog. The world's population U estimated Rt 1,480,000,000 perxoua. SCORES DIE IN MINE Fire Follows Explosion Deep in Coal Shaft RESCUERS USE THEIR LIVES In a Deoperate Effort to Breach the Bodies of 13 Victims and Possible Survivcrs cf Explosion, Probably E0 Rescurers Met a Similar Fate by a Second Explosion in the Hanna Mines of the Union Pacific Coal Company. Cheyenne, Wyo., Special Between 55 and 70 men, it developed Sunday, lost their lives in two explosions in coal mine No. 1 of the Union Paeifio Coal Company at Hanna. The explo sions were caused by gases and coal dust, and each was followed by fire. The first explosion occurred at 3 o'clock, killing 18 miners, including a superintendent and three bosses. The second explosion occurred at 10:30 o'clock at night, snuffing out the lives of from 40 to 50 rescurers, including State Mine Inspector D. M. Elie. The wildest excitement prevailed in Hanna and at the mine, where hun dreds of persons are congregated, in eluding widows, children and other relatives of the victims. Men and women are running about wringing their hands and crying, while many litle children, separated from their mothers, are sobbing with fear. When tho second explosion occur red, additional appeals were tele graphed to all surrounding towns for assistance. One train is rushing west from Omaha, carrying officers of the Union Pacific Railroad and of the Union Pacific Coal company. The regular force of men employ ed at mines Nos. 2 and 3 were pressed into rescue work, which is extremely difficult. The bodies of four of the 18 men who lost their lives in the first ex plosion, vere found Sunday night, but owing to the increasing volumes of gas, whieh threatened to explode at any moment, no effort was made to remove them to the surface. At 3 o'clock the fire reached the gas, and a terrific explosion followed. In a few minutes many men volun teered to enter the mine to rescue any possible suJvivor. Fumes and fire hindered the rescurers but they made some progress. After a long strug gle, the volunteers got well into the mine. Those on the surface had be gan to expect results from the intre pid daring of the rescurers, but at 10:30 o'clock the camp was startled by a seeond explosion that partly shut off the shaft of the mine and most likely killed the volunteers. The victims are all below the tenth level and it is probable that flames have consumed the corpses. Bomb Thrown in New York. New York, Special. Saturday as the police were dispersing a crowd of 10,000 idle people who were holding a socialistic meeting without a permit, a bomb was thrown with telling ef fect. The bomb was intended for the police, who with rough firmness had broke up a meeting of 10,000 unem ployed. It exploded prematurely in the hands of t he assassin, horribly wounding him, killing his companion, injuring slightly four policemen and throwing to the ground a score of those who were massed in the vicin- ity. . To Try Banker Montgomery. New York, Special. William R. Montgomery, former president of the Hamilton National Bank, who was indicted on two counts charging the over-certification of checks, will be placed on trial before Justice Dowling in the Supreme Court. Mont gomery has entered a plea of not guilty of tho indictment. Germany Accepts Hill. Berlin, By Cable. Emperor Wil liam, having been fully advised as to the altitude-of President Roosevelt and the feeling of the American public in regard to the alleged re fusal of His Majesty to receive Dr. David Jayne Hill as American am bassador to Germnay, in succession to Charlemagne Tower, has with drawn all the expressions of dis approval he recently sent to Presi dent Roosevelt and would be pleased to receive Dr. Hill as American am bassador. Murdered Woman Pound in Bed. Trenton, N. J., Special. Mrs. Frances Kabe was found dead in bed at her home at Fallsington, Pa., Sunday morning with two stab wounds in the body and a fractured skull. The woman had been murder ed and had been dead at least 24 hours when the body was discovered. A broken chair and other conditions in the room gave evidence of a struggle. There is no clua te the murderer. Virginian Shot Five Times. Roanoke, Va., Special. A Times special from Wytheville, Va., says: W. W. Pendleton, a well-known citi zen, fatally shot James Spoon Satur day afternoon. Pendleton went to Spoon's house, which is near his own home, called him out and shot him five times. He then went back to his home and notified a doctor Vnd the officers, saying, "I have shot James Spoon." it lias been thought for soma time that Pendleton's mind was unbalanced. Guilty cf Embezzlement. Macon, Ga., Special. The jury in the case of former Cashier C. M. Orr, of the failed Exchange Bank, charged with embezzling funds of the bank, after being out about three and one-half hours, returned a ver dict of guilty. Judge U. V. Whipple sentenced the defendant to seven years in the penitenitary. A motion for a new trial was made. SHOT COLORED MAN Congressman Heflin Uues HI3 Pistol on Darkey AN UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE Alabama Representative Promptly Attacks Negro Who Resents Hia Kind Admonition to Cease Drink ing in the Presence of Ladies. Washington, D. C, Speeial. In a desperate affry on Pennsylvania ave nue car Friday night a negro and a white man were shot by Congressman Thomas J. Heflin, of Alabama. Thos. Lumby, the negro, was shot in the head and is in a critical condition and Thomas McCreary, a New York horse trainer, is suffering from a wound in the leg. The shooting qf McCreary was accidental. Mr. Hef lin was arrested and taken to the sixth police precinei station, where the charge of assault with intent to kill was placed against him. Later he was released on $5,000 bail. The shooting occurred shortly after 7 o'clock as the car reached the cor ner of Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street, bound for Capitol ifill. Congressman Heflin, accompanied by Congressman Edwin J. Ellerbe, of South Carolina, had boarded the car at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue, Mr. Heflin being on his way to deliver a temperance lecture at the Metropolitan Methodist Episco pal ebur'ch, Four-and-a-half strest and John Marshall Place. Upon boarding the car he observed two negro passengers, one of whom was Thomas Lumby, and who was in the act of taking a drink from a bottle of whiskey. There was a number of other passengers, including several la dies. Mr. Heflin says he remonstrai ed with Lumby, and asked him to stop drinking, saying: "Don't ta! that drink, there are ladies here and it is not right. It is agai."t the law tor you to do this thing iu a street car and I hope you will put that bottle awav." The other negro, who was sober, attempted to take the bottle away from his friend, but fall en. It is said that Lumby became or- fended at Mr. Heflin 's remonstrances and applied vile epithets. As the ar reached Sixth street and Pennsylva nia avenue Mr. Heflin and Lumby were engaged in a desperate struggle. Mr. Heflin, who is a large, powerful man, succeeded in throwing Lumby off the car as it eame to a stop. Mosl of the occupants of the car hastily alighted, including Mr. and Mrs. Mc Creary. The negro fel to the ground on being pushed off the car. He arose and it is said began cursing Mr. Hef lin again and made a motion for hi hip pocket as if to draw a weapon, whereupon Mr. Heflin fired at him through the car window, missing the negro and hitting Thomas McCreary, who was about 20 feet from the car. Mr. Heflin fired once or twice again, one of the shots striking Lumby in the head above the ear. iLumby ran a short distance and fell. An ambulance was called and he was taken to the Emergency Hospital. The conductor of the car disappeared and Officer George N. Scriven took charge of the car and ran it to Third and Pennsylvania avenue. There Representative Heflin wss escorted by Officer Scriven to the Capitol Hotel and later was taken to (he police station in a cab. He was not locked up. Mr. Heflin explained at the station his reason fcr going armed. He i author of a "Jim Crow" car law in thc District of Columbia and save that since lie introduced the measure he has received many letters of a threatening character, and secured permission from the authorities to go armed. Mr. Heflin represents the fifth Ala bama district in which the Turke gce I.nsiiinte, of Which Booker T. Washington is at tne neaa, is loeatea. Earthuake Destroys Town. Mexico City, Special. Chilapa, a town of 15,000 inhabitants in the State of Guerrero, has been 6haken by an earthquake. Friday the shocks, two in number, occurred early Fri 8ay evening and were followed br fires which, originating' in a dozea places among the tumbling buildings, joined in a conflagration that swept the town. The Aldrich Bill Passes. Washington, Special The Aldrich currency bill was passed by the Sen ate by a vote of 42 to 10, in the main a party vote. Previous to the fals ing of the vote on the Aldrich bill, a vote was taken on the Bailey sub stitute authorizing the government. insted of the national banks, to iss-ie the emergency circulation lor wiuca !;? bill provides. Thc vote on th substitute stood 40 to 13, and thi vote was entirely partisan, even Suna lor LaFollette casting his vote witfc the Republicans. Mine Owners Pear Trouble. Seattle, Wash., Special. Serious trouble is threatened at the Treadwcl mines on Douglass Island, where cigbi hundred miners are striking. Tht strikers, it is charged, have stole-: large quantities of powder from th mine stores and threaten to des!iv the works if non-niiionisls are lan-U-f. Troops have btcn ordered from Foil Seward to preserve order. Bryan Visits Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Special. Democrat! from all over western Pcnnsylvair are arriving in Pittsburg to partici pate in a demonstration in honor ni William Jennings Bryan, who y.! speak in thc Exposition building President Jers S. Black, of thc Penn sylvania Bryan League, will pros:-' ova il.c nicc-lmu-. Thc Nebraska will proceed from l.erc to Parkcn burg. W. Va., where h will dcln n addrw.
The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.)
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