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BULLETIN IxiJu VOL. IV. lecissos Agaisst the n ihe Penitentiary the Penalty. omiH1116-' If"' SPeeial.-Guiltv pt murder m the second deoree mr ' xshmeut 20 years' imprisots was the unexpected verdict rendered Cooper and Robin J. Cooper Avhen the court opened Saturday. The iurv Fri day acquit ted John D. Sharp, indicted with the Coopers for the slaving of former L. S. Senator Edward W. Car mack. Rush to Sign Bond. Although Judge Hart fixed the bond at jplo.000 there was a rush to sign it on the part of wealthy citizens of asnvnie which fairly swamped the clerk of the criminal court. The first (o arrive was John J. Greener, who signed for $10.00 on each bond. Several others had been sent tor and telephoned that thev would come as quickly as automobiles would bring ihem. In a feAv moments alter O. Farmer arrived and sisrned lor the balance. "I will sign for a million for these men," he remarked. In vain the clerk protested over ami OA-er again that more than enough j sureties Imd sio-n..i v,, .,i7i i answer was "We Avant to put our name on that bond too." It seemed as though every friend of the Cooners considered it incumbent upon him to sign the bond. When th ere was no more room for names at the foot of the document the new bondsment en dorsed across the face until it was difficult to decipher the signatures. When filed the bond totaled nearly a million and a half. The Jury's Verdict. At 0:25 the 12 men entered the room and took the same seats they had occupied for nearly 9 Aveeks. "Have you agreed upon a verdict, gent lenient?" said Judge Hart. "We have," replied Foreman E. M. Burke hoarsely. "Advance. Mr. Foreman, and read the A-erdict." "We, the jury, find the defendants Duncan P.. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper guilty of murder in the second degree and assess their pnnishment at confinement in the State penitentiarj for a period of tAventy years." "So say you all, gcntlementf" "So say Ave all," in chorus. "I thank you. gentlement," said fho court, "for your patience and de votiton to the State, and dismiss you to your homes and to your personal vocations. The jurors were tired-looking and disheveled, but with the conclusion of this remark the entire 12 sprang from their seats as one man and hur riedlv left the court room.- UNITED STATES CENSUS REPORT ON THE COTTON CROP Washington, Special. Running bales of cotton numbering 13,40S,S41. of average gross Aveight of 505 pounds, all equivalent to 13,563,942 500-pound bales, with 27,587 ginner ies operating, Avas the final report of the census bureau Saturday on the cotton ci'op groAvn in 1908. The report included 344,970 linters and counts round as half bales. The final 1907 crop report was 11,325,8S2 bales, equivalent to 11,375,461 500 pound bales with 27,597. ginneries operating. Included in the 190S figures are 93, 0S5 bales, which the ginuers estimate ed they would turn out after the time of the March canvass. Round bales in the report are 340,- THE HOUSE PASSES AMENDED Trichina-ton, Special. In its emend ed f orni the House took Thursday for consideration the' bill providing, for the taking of the next census. The bill w-as passed at the last session, but was vetoed by the President be came of his objections to the pro visions Avhieh took aAvay from the Civil Service Commission the power of appointment of the clerks. An amendment by Mr. Sterling (Ills.) pgCLARE ALCOHOL Washington, bpecial. Alconol f.tieallly has no therapeutic uses, -lo-in"- from the discussion af the Sml-annual meeting here Thursday f the American Society for the qn-,dv of Alcohol an(Ls:(th, Drug I , Karcotics. Some of the medical ' icntists contended that alcohol has SCq therapeutic uses; others that on "'''ti, whole it has few such uses, while - oher declared that alcohol grad- ar'ilV is being eliminated as a drug. P-ners were read by Drs. Henry O. Afircy, Bbston, honoarary, presi jpnt of the society, entitled, '"A YNCHED AT ELKiNS, W. VA., JrSSAULTING OFFICER ' ril-ins. W. Va., Special. Joseph fstf , , -fTl Rrmvn for using offen- rilins, H. va., cyeciiu. .josepn jjroAvn, said to haA'e been an ex-con-who Tli-rsday evening shot and -Jonsly Avounded Chief of Polici ,,f- Whits, at u mimere. near nereJ taken from jail by a crowd ivas 1 ?.() Fridav irnminV U-nched. Brown was hanged up i wraph pole. Thursday evt egten White, of Whitemere, r7asb- Two Coopers for Verdict a Sur.JC. The verdict, coming as it did upon the heels of Foreman Burke's dec laration Friday that "we are hope lessly tied up as to the Coopers," Avas a decided surprise. The defendants took it collv almost Avithout emotion. In a second after Judge Hart ceased dismissing the jurors. Judge Ander son, of the defense, was on his feet exclaiming: "Your honor, Ave move that the case be declared a mistrial because of the verdict Friday we con tend that Friday's verdict Avas the only one, and that it acquitted John Sharp but declared a disagreement on the other defendants. We also ask that the defendants be admitted to bond at once." A Bailable Cass. "The verdict of the jury makes it a bailable case," Avas the court's re tort. ' Hence I will fix the bond of each, defendant at $23,000 unless there be some objection. In that event I will hear arguments." "It is satisfactory to us," said Attorney (ipiipi-fll McO.-irn. "And to us." re torted Judge Anderson. "J. Here seems nothing left but for the court to pass sentence," added Judge Hart. "I do not think that necessary," said Judge Anderson. We move that judgment be suspended and that Ave be given a neAv trial. We Avill be pre pared to argue the motion later probably next Aveek." "All right, judge," remarked the court. "I knoAv you will not delay unnecessarily and I will take it up afc your own conA'enience. " How tie Jury "Voted. The jurors Avere not inclined to tallt but one of them said: "On the first ballot AAe acquitted John Sharp and disregarded the con spiracy theory. On this same ballot Ave stood six for guilty of murder in the first degree with mitigating cir cumstances, five for murder in the second degree Avith 20 years, the maximum penalty and one for ac quitttal. The ballots all day Wednes day and Thursday shoAved the same result. Friday the man Avho A'oted for acquittal came OA-er to murder in the second degree but demanded that only 10 years be assessed. The rest of. us did not deem ten years as any thing like adequate, so Ave disagreed again. Of course, all this refers to the Coopers, not Sharp, whom Ave had acquitted. Early Saturday morning the man Avho Avas holding out for 10 years agreed to 20 years and the six Avho Avere A'oting for a first degree A-erdict agreed to this A'erdict." 450 bales. Sea island bales included are 93,S48 for 190S and S6.S95 for 1907. The crop by States, in running bales, including linters, folloAvs: Alabama, 1,35S,339 bales; Arkan sas, 1,018,708 bales; Florida, 71,411 bales; Georgia, 2,022,S23 bales; Kan sas, Kentucky and NeAV Mexico (in cluding linters, of establishments in Illinois and Virginia) 3,054; Louis iana, 4S1,694 bales; Missessippi, 1, 665,695 bales; Missouri, 60,609 bales; North Carolina, 699,507 bales; Okla homa, 703,62 bales; South Carolina, 1,239,260 bales; Tennessee, 348,582 bales; Texas, 3,719,1S9 bales; Vir ginia, 13,013 bales. CENSUS AND HEALTH BILLS Avas agreed to providing that the p pomiments snail oe made in co f'ormity with the laAv of apportion ment among the States .under civil service act. In order to prevent the spread of tuberculosis Jhmona government clerks, an amendment bj Mr. Bennett (N. Y.) was iSgreed to, requiring that each census applicani furnish with his or hlr application a certificate ot good Jf,ealth. IS BEING EUfivHNATED. JMedical Study of the Temperanc Movement in thect i, Howard A Kelly, of Baltioj-e on 'The. Alco holic Problem n Every-Day Life;'' T. D. Crotherg ,: cf Hartford, Conn, on "The FuU're of the Alcoholu Problem;" pd w. b. Parks, of At lanta, Ga., fon The Effects of Al cohol on Tfm perament as.it Relates to RaceVan(1 Nationality." Th night's sd,ssion developed much in terest 4fono- the scientists as indi cating rthe ecegsity for laws relat the care and protection of in ebnar atcu - i..riTuage. rsroAvn uitw . .w ve "71' nf: White and then took tc pi- anu . n ,;i 'm tbG U of citizens, captured anc a, P03,3 ;'n iail. Early Friday it seem pw?n ihe AVhole toAvn was arousec ed ta ... JU nnietlv taken out ol and Jiro - . . , Chief of Police the .13u ai. ,Ai7.j roonvnr ami , - , .-f ,g umuevuu, xv.v-.- vvnue, , m , ,T. COTVaA severa- said Brown is terms of iP lment. ASHEBORO, CENSUS BUREAU REPORT Amount of Cotton Stocks on Hand February 28 Was 5,252,663 Bales Report Preliminary to Official Statement and is Made at Request of Congress Total Supply of Cot ton. Washington, Special. The census bureau in a report Monday announc ed that the amount of cotton stocks on hand in the United States at the close of February was 5,252,663 bales. The indicated consumption of cot ton is 2,521,436 bales. The report is a preliminary one, and is in response to a resolution of Congress. The stocks on hand are distributed as fol lows: Manufacturers, 1,S44,992 ; produc ers, 326,377; Avarehouses and com press, 2,306,7S6; transportation com panies, 51S,479; other holders, 255,- 669. The total supply of cotton in the United States and the net imports for the six months' period ending Febru ary 2S, last, Avere 14,340,670 and 9S,000 bales respectiA'ely. The total stock held September 1, last, was 1,236,058 and cotton ginned since August 31, last, aggregated 13,006, 612 running bales. The total export of cotton from September 1, 1908, to February 2S, last, inclusive, was 6, 566,571 bales. The approximate segregation of cotton stocks shown in the report re lates to location and not to owner ship. Cotton in Avarehouses OAvned and operatingin conjunction with mills is classed as in possession of manu facturers, under independent Avare houses and compresses is shoAvn all cotton so stored, regardless of its ownership. Cotton of foreign growth included in these statistics amounts to 55,629 bales, of Avhieh 50,561 are Egyptian, 1,869 Indim, 3,085 Peru vian and 124 others. Of the total amount held 3,721,971 bales were in the cottn-groAving States and 1,530, C)2 bahs in all other States. Feudists Shot From Ambush. Huntington, W. Va., Special. John and Frank Flemming, alleged mem bers of a feud gang that has terror ized Harts Creek, incoln county, 40 miles south cf this city, Avere shot from ambush Monday evening. Frank Avas Killed and John Avas seriously wounded. John Flemming was re leased Saturday from the peniten tiary, Avhere lie served tAvo years for conspiracy to defraud the goA'ern ment. When he learned that his young Avife had secured a divorce and had married John McCoy, a bitter enemy of his, the Flemming brothers started for McCoy's home. They were ambushed en route. Five Persons Die in Mine Explosion, , EA-ansA-ille,Ind., Special. Five men Avere killed and a score injured in an explosion at the Sunnyside coal mine near this city Saturday afternoon. The explosion Avas caused by a AA-indy shot due to an overcharge of poAvder said to have been placed by John Petit. Petit is burned over his entire body and Avill die. The dead Avere all killed by sulphuric fumes Avhieh fol loAved the shot." The mine Aras sAATept as if by a whirlwind. Twenty-nine Avere in the Avest shaft of the mine AA'hen the explosion occurred. Wild Train Hits Station. Montreal, Special. Four persons are dead and thirty others Avere more or less seriously inured as the result of the blowing out of a wash pipe on . the locomotive hauling the Boston express of the Canadian Pacific Rail Avay Wednesday morning, three miles oun; from this citv. Scalding steam fiLied the cab and the engineer and fiireman were forced to jump. The tifain AA'ithout a guiding hand at the throttle, dashed into the Windsor itreet sation, through the granite wall nto the AATomau's Avaiting room and 'then into the rotunda.'. Furniture Shippers Must Pack Theii Wares. Mobile, Ala., Special. The South ern classification committee adjourn; ed to meet in Atlantic City in July. The committee devoted most of its time to correcting errors in the pack ing of freight, with a view to decreas ing the number of claims for dam ages. It Avas ordered also that fibre boxes must be made waterproof. Shortest Bill on Record. Washington, Special. Representa tive Coudrey, of Missouri, has just introduced what is probably the shortest bill so far presented during the present session, yet if enacted in to law it would attract more atention than the Sherman Antitrust laAV. After the enacting clause the entire bill is as folloAvs: That from and after the passage of this act all corporations shall pay a license tax of 1 1-10 of 1 per cent on their capital. Items of General Interest. Small pox is said to be raging in Guatemala and Mexico is making rigid quarantine against it. The latest prospects in the East are for peace. The Servian government acceding to Austria's propositions. A case Avas handed down from the higher courts cf Georgia recently, V tliP pfiWt that. fm. n w, i .Lii . -vv, a uiau iu can a Georgian a liar mennt o fin.i, ; to be construed as an assault. N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1909. A CHILD KIDNAPPED Willie Whitla, Aged 8, Taken from School at Sharon, Pa NO CLUE TO THE PERPETRATORS Willie Whitla, 8 Years Old, Taken Prom His School at Sharon, Pa. Held For $10,000 Ransom Terms Complied With, But Plan Fails. On last Friday Willie Whitla, 8 years old, was kidnapped from school at Sharon, Pennsylvania. A well dressed man drove up to the school and told the janitor that WTillie's father had sent him to bring Willie to his office. Not suspecting any thing wrong the teacher fixed Willie up and sent him on, in light pleasan try saying she hoped he was not be ing kidnapped. All too soon she found that it was a stern reality. A letter Avas received Friday in Willie's oavu hand Avhieh read: Dear Father: Two bad men have me, and if you don't send $10,000 they will kill me in 10 days. Willie Whitla. There Avas nothing on the envelope to denote Avhere the letter had been mailed. Frank H. Buhl, a millionaire uncle of Willie's took a decided interest in the case and will freely pay the $10, 000 for his safe recovery. It Avas reported from that city that tAAO men and a boy answering the description of the kidnappers and their victim haA-e been seen there, consequently the supposition is that Mr. Buhl has received Avord Avhieh made him believe his nepheAV Avas in Cleveland or that vicinity. The bug gy7 in Avhieh the child Avas taken from school Avas located at Warren Ohio, and as the Cleveland papers were among those specified, in Avhieh the demand of the kidnappers for a $10,000 ransom should be ansAvered by a personal advertisement, all evi dence seemed to indicate that devel opments in the mysterious case was centered about the Lake City. A clue Avas secured Sunday, in which little credence is placed, how ever. On March 1 the local postoffice department received a circular an nouncing a reward for a man de scribed as Samuel C. Leavanson, of Canton, 0., said to be Avanted there for the theft of $400. Janitor Wes ley C. Sloss, of the school from Avhieh Willie Avas taken, Avhen shoAvn the cir cular bearing a portrait of the man amen, declared it Dore a strong re- semblance to the abductor. A Cleveland, 0., special on Sunday says: Whitla Avas instructed in a letter frcm the kidnappers to leave $10,000 in Flat Iron Park Saturday night. If no detectives were about the kidnappers promised they Avould deliver the boy safely to the- father in a hotel at Ashtabula at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. Whitla deposited the money as requested, but the Ash tabula police learned of the plans to pay the ransom and Avent to the park. Hie kidnapers are supposed to have seen them for at 3 o'clock the money was lniaci ana not a man had ap proached the spot. Whitla believes that the failure to efleet a settlement with him will frighten the kidnapers and they will not communicate Avith him again. The police of Ashtabula are unwil ling to believe that the kidnapers have left that section of the country. ine letter ixom the captors of Wil ir. - t iT V ir y S Parencs m Sharon Friday afternoon. Upon receipt of the letter Whitla rtr:;Z asKeAaThe boy was brought -from his un . Aiicj were anxious TO capture1 the kidnapers and pleaded with him to permit them to place a decoy package of bills at the desig nated spot and let officers lie in wail and capture the men who came aftei the money. Whitla AA-ould not agree to this. He finally consented to permit the detec tives to acompany him to this city and await his summons to start a search for the kidnapers. Promptly at 10 o'clock Whitla left the package of bills in the park. He went tto the designated spot alone, feeling certain that his compliance with "the request of the kidnapers would prove the means of delivering ms boy back to him. Three policemen who had been sent out from the Ashtabula central sta tion saw Whitla leave the money in the park. They appraised Chief Las key of tieir discovery and received instructions to remain on duty and capture the kidnapers should they appear. In the meantime Whitla returned to the city and communicated with his detectives in Cleveland. They ad vised him not to go to the hotel foi his boy a minute before the time set. After five hours of anxious waiting, Whitla stated after his boy. As h was on his Avay, a policeman inform ed him that three officers had been on guard in the immediate vicinity oi the park and that no one had called for the money. Whitla was overcome when this news was broken to him. He went tc the park and found his package oi money undisturbed. A dettachment of detectives was sent out from Cleveland as soon as it was learned that the Ashtabula police Avere working on the case. The father refuses to sbep at all. and keeps up through sheer wilj power. The mother, who will not al- low her daughter, Saline, out of hei sight, is showing the effects of the worry. Whitla returned to Celevland and after a conference Avith Detective Perkins the return trip to Sharon was made. Hundreds of letters from all ovei the country continue to come mltjoi the country continue to pour in from friends and strangers alike, tendering sympathy. But among all the corres" pondence there has been no word from the abductors, nor any one who seemed to be in any way in touch with them. THE CHILD IS RESTORED Required Ransom Paid Agent Tht Scene of the Reunion Was Hollen den Hotel, Cleveland, O. Cleveland, O., Special.-Little Wil lie Whitla, who has caused the police of the entire country endless worry since he was kidnapped from school in Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, was re turned to his father at the Hollen- den Hotel here Mbnday night at 8:30 o'clock. In compliance Avith an arrangement entered into between the kidnaped boy's father and an agent of the kid napers here Monday the boy was placed on a street car on the out skirts of the city and started to the hotel shortly after S o'clock. Tavo boys recognized the lad on the cai and taking him in charge, conducted him to his father, who was in wait ing. The moment the anxious parent heard that a strange boy Avas in the hotel he rushed across the lobby, grasped him in Ins arms and smoth ered his face Avith kisses. Willie is in perfect health. He says that lie has been well treated and ever since his capture has been constantly indoors. He believes he Avas taken from Sharon to Warren and thence to Newcastle, Pa. It is his opinion, expressed in a happy school-boy way, that he Avas in Ash tabula on Saturday night at the time his father was to leave his $10,000 in Flat Iron Park. Whitla, senior, refused to state Avhether he had paid the ransom or not. He said that he received a let ter Monday from the kidnapers at his home in Sharon, saying that if he called at a confectionary store in the east end of Cleveland he would be told hoAv to secure his boy "unharm ed and well fed. ' ' In Mortal Terror of Kidnapers. Shortly after noon he left Sharon for Ceh-eland. He Avas unaceom- . , - . ...... - panied. - His immediate family and the private detectives he had in his omnlnv bo YmnvUM nf tVi nrnnne secret meeting, but insisted that he make the trip alone. EAery 'one of them was Avarned that he must be allowed to go unheralded, and no at tempt at the capture of the kidnapers ncAv be made. Whitla Avas certain that if he spoiled the plans of his son's captors he Avould never see the lad again. His experience at Ashta bula served as a warning. - About 2 o'clock in the afternoon he went to a candy store in the east end. With him he carried the $10,- WW. JJ.VUU, 000, expecting that it would be de- manded of him there. He was met by a Avoman who detailed to him the terms of the kidnapers. With all the : n i!.:iT. j 3-fx i Willie Unconscious of His Danger. In the meantime little Willie was being treated lindly and even at this time does not realize Avhat danger he Avas in. The woman at the candy store had done her duty. She com- municated with the captors of the b and told them at the father made no attempt to trap them. known hiding place to a car line in the east end of the city. Part of Willie's Story. "When we got to a town that the man called Newcastle, they took me to a big building and turned me over to a Avoman. She was good to me. The hospital, or Avhatever the build ing Avas, Avas a clean place. There was a man there AA'ho I think was a doctor. He looked like a doctor, be cause he had whiskers, short grey whiskers. "The people in the hospital told me that I must do .just what they told me to do.v If I did not obey them, they said they would take me to a place called the pest house, where folks that have smallpox have to go. I walked the chalk line just like a. good boy, papa, like you've told me to. . "They told me I was taking a little vacation. I was not going to be hurt, they told me, so I just acted nice and had a good time playing around the hospital. I kneAv I would get back home all right and just supposed Mr. Jonse Avas one cf my friends who was treating me nice because you wanted him; to treat me that way, papa dear." Before retiring for the night, Mr. Whitla admitted that he had paid $10,000 to the Avoman in the candy store. Triple Murder the Charge. Amita, La., Special. With the court house surrounded by State troops, the trial of Avery Blount charged Avith the murder of Buzzj Breeland, his Avife and step-daughter. Mrs. Joe Everett, near Tickfaw, on the night of January 29, was begun here Monday. Garfield Kinchen," al leged to have been implicated in the murders with Blount, is still a fugi tive from justice.' NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS Occurrences gf Interest Gleaned From All Sectious cf the Ifosy Tar Heel State Taylorsville Train Wrecked. Statesville, Special. The mixed passenger and freight train from Taylorsville, which is due in States ville at 10:10 o'clock was wrecked Thursday morning at a point about one and a half miles south of Hid enite. Two loaded box cars, the bag gage and mail car and the second- class passenger coach left the track and were badly damaged, but no one was hurt. The locomotive broke loose from the derailed cars and remained on the track uninjured, and the first class passenger coach, Avhieh was at the rear of the train, did . not leave the rails. As soon as the extent of the damage was learned the loco motive proceeded to Stony Point station, where an empty box car was secured. Chairs were placed in the car and it was taken to the scene of the wreck. Captain RoAvland quickly transferred the passengers to the box car "a side door Pullman" and the engine and car came on to States ville, arriving here on schedule time, The train Avhieh arrived here from Charlotte at 10 o'clock was sent back to Charlotte and the morning train to Taylorsville was annulled. What caused the Avreck is not known and neither Engineer Patton or Captain RoAvland offer any theories as to the cause. New Industrial News Deal. Greensboro, Special. Another turn was taken in the affairs of The In dustrial News Thursday, AA'hen Judge Boyd signed an order transferring the bankruptcy proceedings against the corporation to Mr. G. S. Fergu son, Jr., referee in bankruptcy. Ref eree Ferguson will advertise a meet ing of creditors for the purpose of electing a trustee for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the bank rupt. The Daily Industrial News, which was established here as the Re publican organ in North Carolina early in October, 1905, was placed in the hands of a receiver November 14, 1909, and the paper suspended publi cation, January 29. The receiver made j three attempts to sell the property. not a single bid being offered at the last sale, on February 15th. The fail nare to resurrect The Industrial News i means that, for a while, at least, I n 1 ;n i !n. ...i "leeusuuru win oe wiuioui an asso- , ciated Fress morning paper, Mr. Walter H. Savoy, the represen tative of the Mergenthaler Company, is here and has arranged to have the linotype "machines used by The In dustrial NeAvs" boxed and shipped to the company's factory in Brooklyn, N. Y. Mr. Charles G. Harrison, of the Harrison Printing Company, has been engaged to take doAvn and pre pare the machines for shipment and went to work on the job Thursday. Fearing in Whitney Case. Salisbury, Special. For the pur pose of conducting a special hearing in the litigation against the Whitnev Power Company, of Pittsburg, own ers of the big electric and Avater power plant being dev eloped at the Narrows, on the Yadkin River, near Salisbury, A. H. Price, of this city, went to New York. Thursday. Hon. John S. Henderson, receiver of the $10,000,000, concern, and Burton Craige, also of this city, are also in New York for the hearing, which, it is said, will last ten days. The prin cipal issue in the cases arises over a claim of the contracting firm of the T. A. Gillespie Company for a bal ance of about $253,000 alleged to be due from the Whitnev Company. It is believed here that all the differ ences will be adjusted and work re sumed on the big plant. In Trouble Again. Raleigh, Special. Fred Miller, the young man of good family who came into the limelight some months ago through being" arrested and held in jail some time on suspicion of being connected with the murder of Dr. W. E. Smith, of Richmond, last Novem ber, is in troble again, having been jailed on the charge of robbery. He is accused by Gordon N. Morgan, Pate Uncertain.' Raleigh, Special. Governor Kiteh in will make his order very soon as to whether former Sheriff Amon, of Sampson county, shall serce his six years' sentence for embezzlement of county funds in the penitentiary or on the roads of Sampson county. Friends of the prisoner are urging that he be allowed to remain in Sampson and serve on the roads. The carrying' out of the sentence to the State's prison has been suspended several weeks, in order" that the Gov ernor might have opportunity to look into the merits of the appeal for change of sentence. His Eye Removed. ' ' Salisbury, Special. As a result 'of the explosion of a powder magazine at the Southern Railway, shops at Spencer last October, an operation was performed Wednesday upon1 Fred Loftin, of Salisbury, one of his. eyes being removed.: A piece of steel :was found behind the : eye, and the other member is said to be seA-erely in jured. Mr. Loftin is the last victim of the explosion to be dismissed from a hospital here. NO. 40. Clcers' Victims Increase. Statesville, Special. Additional charges against the Cloer brothers Robert and Joe Cloer, the noted cheek flashers who are in jail here awaiting trial, continue to pile up and it is probable that the number of their victims Avill never be known. There are probably many victims who knoAV that the Cloers are noAv in. jail, but they don't care to let it be known that they cashed bogus checks be cause the telling Avill not bring back their money, and feAv of us are anxious to let it be knoAvn that we have been taken in or worked by a sharper.. This is preliminary to say ing that Mr. R. F. Burton, cashier of a bank at Marion, Avas shown, a photograph of Robert Cloer the one who operated most extensively the other day and recognized him as tha man who passed a forged check on the Marion bank. This is the first case to turn up frcm the Marion sec tion. Pitt County Teachers. GreenA-ille, Special. Pitt county has a teachers' association that ranks with the best in the State. It has a membership considerably above one hundred, holds meetings once a month and is attended by practically all the public school teachers in the county. Through the eftorts of the association, led by the county super intendent of schools, Prof. W. H. Ragsdale, educational interest has reached a high pitch OA-er the entire county. In addition to the splendid programme participated in by various teachers of the county, a prominent educator from different colleges in the State is secured to address each meeting of the association. The ad dress at the meeting last Saturday was by Prof. J. Henry Highsmith, of Wake Forest College, and is pro nounced one of the best the associa has ever heard. State Officers ' Club. Raleigh, Special. The North Caro lina State officers are organizing themselves into a social club Avith a limited number of outside members, the indications being that the organi zation Avill come to be quite a feature" of interest in Raleigh. The entire Woman's Club building, Avest of Cap itol Spuare, has been leased, except the assembly room, Avhieh the Avomen ; will retain for meeting purposes. It has been a matter of dissatisfied com ment for some time among the State; officers that they had no place AAiiere they could come together in a social' Avay and exchange A'ieAvs Avithout the formalities of some official sessiom or conference. To Hon. B. F. Dixoa State auditor, is due the credit for having hit upon a solution pf the difficulty in conceiving the formation of the club. , i; Many Want Jobs. ' Raleigh, Special. Governor KitchV in says he is receiving many letters from people in various parts of the State asking to be appointed as in spectors of illuminating oils under the operation of the act passed by the recent Legislature providing an inspection system for North aCro lina, provision being made for ten inspectors, one. for each, congressional district, the pay for each not to ex ceed $1,000 per year. The Governor says, hoAvever, that he finds that the appointments are' not to be made by him, but by the State Department of Agriculture. The act becomes oper- ative July 1, and will necessitate the testing oi all illuminating oils offered for sale in the State, the inspector's tag of approval being necessary on eA'ery package of oil before it can be offered for sale at retail. Pasteur Treatment Successful Statesville, Special. Mr. Fred Abernathy, who was bitten by a rabid dog two or three weeks ago and went to Raleigh to take the Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia, . passed through StatesA'ilb Monday evening en route to his home at Oak Forest. He can now rest assured of no further ill effects as a result of his experience with the mad dog. Special Tax For Schools. Raleigh, Special. The election for special tax of 15 cents on the $1,000 of valuation and 45 cents on the poll to maintain the schools of Raleigh township for nine months, in place of six, was Tuesday AA-on by the schools, which polled 1,154 votes out of 1,849 registered. The opposition voted only 345. The deficiency in funds Avas caused by the A-oting out of the liquor dispensary and for two vears the schools h d only a six months' term. The increase ap plies to next year's terms, as tha schools are now closed. Wounded Negro Dies. ' Fayietteville, Special. Robinson Elliott, negro, who Avas shot while resisting arrest, by Deputy Sheriff Godwin, Sunday, died from injuries Tuesday night, after amputation of his wounded, leg. iWb en shot, Elliott was engaged in a hand-to-hand fight. Avith the deputy while his daughter was attempting io place a shotgun irt his Jiand. The coroner's jury render ed , a ..verdict of self-defense.
The Randolph Bulletin (Asheboro, N.C.)
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