North Carolina Newspapers

5 T A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY PEOPLE. WTT7I RANDOLPH "RTTTTFrTl VOL. 5, NO. 28. DUKES GET CHARTER Tobacco Kings Put Forth Big Enterprise. THE TOTAL LENGTH 657 MILES. Commission Granted in Columbia For an Extension of the Anderson Sys tam to Spartanburg. Columbia. S. C, Special. The en terprise backed by J. B. Duke and 1- X. Duke, ike tobacco kings, vrkich proposed to extend the Ander son interbuan trolley system from Belton through Williamston, Pelzer and Piedmont on to Greenville and thence 30 miles to Spartanburg has been commissioned bv Secretary Stile. The initial capital is $300,000 with an ultimate two million. The Same of the corporation is the Green ville. Spartanburg and Anderson Kaihvav Company. The corporators are J. B. Duke, B. X. Duke, Ellison Smytlic. W. J. Thackston, H. J. lia neswoitii. Lewis W. Parker. From Greenville the line is to be built to Taylor's Creek, Pelharn, Duncan. Keidsville. Wellford, Lock hart. Fairforest. Spartan Mills. The total length or the line will be 657 miles. MERGER OF TRUST COMPANIES J. Pierpcnt Morgan. Thomas F. Ryan and Levi P. Morton Link Hands. Now York. (-:al. J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Y. Ryan and Levi P. Morton have linked hands in New York in a mt company merger which, unites resources of $150,000, j0t). It is a Triple combination, orinv.ing the Cv.arauty Trust Com pany, the Morton Trust Compar and the -Fifth Avenue Trust Com pany, all of U is eitv. under one head with the title of the Guaranty Trust Company. The merger is perhaps the largest' of its kind in the United States." To Investigate Resdy Fork Wreck. Raliegh. N. ('.. Special. Chairman McXei'.i of the Corporation Commis sion .announces that on the 12th of -January the investigation into the railway wreck at Reedy Fork creek, on the Southern Railway, near Greensboro, last month, in which a dozen or more people lost their lives, will be investigated. The witnesses will include all whom the railway of fers, the coroner's jury, etc. This in vsti nation will be full of interest. Governo Haskell Wins. . Washington. .-' the Prairie Oil which iittraeted pecial. The case of and Gas Company, so much attention in : the campaign of Oklahoma durin 1903. because of Governor' Haskei the company, ha the Supi-eme (: ike intervention by I in the interest of s been dismissed in ni l of the tinted vt of the dismissal t h o G o vera or 's c on- OlilU'S. J. lit vi is favorable to .ten I ions. Eoundary Line Dispute. v ."Washington, Special. An order has ieen issued by the Supreme Court -oi the United States in the lioundary line case between the States ol North Carolina and Ten nessee giving each of the States iiinety days to take testimony. The order takes effect immediately. As .complainant North Carolina will be the first to proceed. White Enumerators For White Set . tlmenets. Washington, Special. Directors of I he Census Durand announces mat the has notified his supervisors in the South to avoid having negro enunier--ators call on whites. In case colored enumerators are named white men hould al'O be named to see white persons. In other sections colored . .numerators' will not be appointed unless at hast two-fifths of the pop ulation is colored. -Bay Lamplere Murderer of Mrs. Belle Ganness Dies in Prison. Laporte. Intl., Special. A great "-rowd asser.thled about the Lumphere home to attend the funeral of Ray Lamphere, v. ho burned the home of Mrs Belle Gunness, near Laporte, 1 rril S- 1908, and incinerated ?? IvnPr'ot' the ''murder farm" the ownei L . Inst week ni n-mn v.hv pnouu ivhere he was serving time for arson. Lost Boy Found. I ouisville- Ky- Special. A search nearly three months for Otis True, wcalthv parents of New the son of - . T,.,i was ended bv the find Albany, l(l" . o hoy. m 11 forest near his mg of tne - - , home. Beside .was a noxe saying that he inteiwHtC"ud hlS llfe and a o paris green." lie was i.nv marked .t . i,i Since his disappearence a vffLr 1'). it has been the belief ?? ?? o was runfover by a train and that he was ortcd in the entire every fIstigated by order of country M as i tivc bag been the family. .signed for the at... BRADSTREET'S REVIEW The Year Jm;t Closed Was Entirely Satisfactory. New York, Special. Brad- strret's weeekly review of trade savs : "Quiet has folowed the pre- ceeding week's rush of business in retail lines, while in whole sale lines salesmen are in from road and inventorving is general. All obtainable information points to a satisfactory m many sections, indeed, a record volume of business done in the year just closed. The least satisfactory reports as to the year's' result come from those sections of the South where crop damage has precented fullest advantage being tak?n of the high prices of cotton. "In wholesale and jobbing lines a large if not indeed rec- ord spring business has been booked Prices of commodities show undiminished strength and some of the highest prices of the year were made in the last week. Cotton, for instance, reached passd 16 cents, a price never be- fore readied at this date since war times." TENNESSEE GOES DRY. Forty-One Distilleries and Five Big Breweries Affected. Xashvile, Tenn.. Special. The law passed by the last Legislature prohibiting the manufacture of in toxicating liquor in Tennessee went into effect at midnight December ol. Forty-one distilleries and five big breweries are affected and all an nounced a suspension of operations with the close of the business day. It is conceded, however, that some one of them will cimmit a deliber ate overt act for the purpose of test ing the statute. Prize to English Aeronaut. Chalons Stir Ma me, By Cable. The Miehelin cup for duration and distance covered in the air during 1 f)0t goes to Kerry Farman, the English aeronaut v.-ho on November 3 established a since unbeaten rec ord of 144 miles in 4 hours, 17 min utes and 35 seconds. The trophy is given by M. Miehelin. a wealthy member of the Aero Club of France and consists of a beautiful prize and $32,000 to be competed for dur ign a period of eight years. Each year the trophy and $4,000 or one eighth of the cash prize goes to the aviator making the longest flight in that year. The trophy was first of fered in 1008 and was won by Wil ,bur Wright, with a mark of 76.5 miles made in France n competition with Farman and others. Cotton Seed Oil Men Form an Or ganisation. XeAv York Special. Cotton seed oil men of Xew York have complet ed an organization known as the Oil Trade Association of the NeAv York produce exchange with a charter membership of one hundred. Its ob ject is to further the cotton sed oil industry in all parts of the world. Sales of cotton sed oil on the New York produce exchange last year ag gregating 2,303,500 barrels. J. G. Gash of the American Oil Company, was elected president. Greater Birmingham a Esality. Birmingham, Ala., Special. At the stroke of midnight December 31, ten incorporated suburbs of Birming ham and a large amount of unincor porated territory automatically be came a part of the eity of Birming ham, giving the city an estimated population of 135,000. The Supreme Court recently sustained the act creating Greater Birmingham and to day the ara of the new city is slight ly in exeess of forty-two square miles. $1,000,000 to Nippon. Seattle, Wash., Special. Sixteen thousand money orders payable in Japan, worth in the aggregate $1, 000,000, were sent from the Seattle post-office during the Christmas holiday rush. The money came from the State of Washington, Idaho, Montana and Minnesota and the Territory of Alaska. Challenge Watson to Public Debate. Atlanta, Special. Tliomas W. Watson has been challenged to a public debate by representatives of the various protest ant churches of Georgia. The challengers want the debate to be held in Atlanta January 14 and have named as Watson's op ponent, William T. Ellis, a Philadel phia newspaper man. Annis Left Only $300. New York, Speeial. William E. Annis, the publisher who was slain by Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., at the Bay side Yacht club, in August, 1908, left an estate valued at only $300 A.SHEBORO, N. 0., THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1910. JOHNSON IS PRESIDENT. Matter of Nest Meeting Place Left to a Committee. Charlotte, N. C, Special. The Southern Educational Association, which has been in session here for three days, after transacting much business and enjoying social func tions, elected the following officers'. President Dr. D. B. Johnson, of Winthrop College, S. C; first vice president Chancellor J. II. Kirk land, of Yanderbilt University; sec ond vice president C. E. Glenn, of Birmingham; third vice president J. S. Grabbe, of Kentucky; treas urer E. P. Burns, of Atlanta, Ga. The elective directors chosen by the association are: Alabama Prof. C. C. Thach, Poly technic Institute, Auburn; Arkansas J. J. Doyne; Florida W. W. Hol loway; Georgia J. M. Pound, Atlan ta; Kentucky M. A. Cassidy, Lex ington; Louisiana T. II. Harris; Maryland F. E. Buckner. Baltimore; Missouri E. E. Todd; Mississippi L. II. Whitfield; North Curo'.'n.a E. C. Brooks, Trinity College; Okla homa E. D. Cameron: South Caro lina II. X. Snvder, president Wof ford College; " Tennessee T. P. Parley ; Texas K. B. Cousins; Yir ginia J. L. Jarman: West Virginia M. P. Shawkey; District of Colom bia D. J. Crosby. The matter of next meeting place was left to a committee. Many cities are bidding. ANTI-TRUST LEAGUE. The Object of Which is Keep Down the Cost of Living. Washington. I). C, Special. Plans for a national boycott of those com binations that it'. e-a.se ihe cost of living were laid out last Thursday when the National Anti-Trust League was launched. Members of Congress are itnerested' in the new movement. The plan has worked well in Ger many. Among some present were Representative Champ Clark, the House minority leader; Representa tive Alexander and Murphy of Mis souri; Martin of South Dakota, Kin kaid of Nebraska, McKinley of Cali fornia and Morgan of Oklahoma. One matter was settled however. The women of the United States will be taken into memberhip on equal terms with the men, and "ill have , equal voice in the campaisi. FIEE AT PORTSMOUTH. Overheated Office Stove the Cause of a $125,000 Conflagration Eight or Ten Horses Cremated. Norfolk', Ya.. Special. Fire origi nating from an overheated office stove destroyed the O. L. Williams' block of business houses at South and Crawford streets. Portsmouth, with a loss of $125,000, partially covered by insurance. The Portsmouth mar ket and armory were only saved by shifting winds. Eight or ten horses weer cremated. The places burned were O. L. Williams' livery stables, wheer the fire started. ASK RANSOM FOR GIRL. Return of Little Alma Kellner to He? Parents is Promised on Payment of 5,000. Louisville. Ivy., Special. A letter has been received from some town in Ohio promising the return of little Alma Kellner to her parents on pay ment of $5,000 ransom. The girl dis appeared December S. Frank Fah rin, millionaire brewer and cousin to Fred Kellner, father of Alma has gone to Chicago or elsewhere on such a mission. City Adopts State Prohibition Law. Birmingham, Ala., Special. By unanimous vite the city council of Birmingham has adopted the State wide prohibition laws has regular city ordinances. Heretofore the city acted with the State laws but a decision of the Supreme Court knocked out all convictions. Many men working n the eity chaingang will have to be re leased from arrest. Diaz Cautions Zeleya. Mexico City, Special. That Presi dent Diaz gave Jose Santos Zelaya a little friendly advice in regard to talking to newspaper reporters, and whispered in his ear that it would be wise for him to refrain from too freely, expressing his opinions, was admitted by his secretary. Count Leo Tolstoi is ill again. Coldest South Has Experienced. Atlanta, Ga., Special. A terrific cold wave gripped the entire South last Thursday, not even the orange belt of far southern Florida being exempted from the freezing tempera ture. The mercury ranged from 2 degrees above zero at Asheville, N. C, to 32 degrees at El Paso, Tex., with 20 above registered at Jackson ville, Fla., and 28 at Tampa. A few Texas points and the extreme south ern portion of the Florida penisula alone escaped the freezing blast. It was the coldest day the South has experienced. Ice in the Chattahoo cheeee river at Atlanta for first time since 1886. MADRIZ FOR PEACE a But Estrada Declines to Ac cept His Terms. TROOPS TO BE SENT EASTWARD New President of Nicaragua Wires Revolutionists Leader Asking Sus pense of Hostilities. Washington, Special. General Estrada, the revolutionary leader in Nicaragua, will not aecept the extra ordinary terms proposed by the new President Madriz as a basis for peace. A telegram frm Bluefields states that on the 22d inst. Madriz had proposed in a telegram to Estrada, a suspension of hostilities, pending the arrival of a committee Avhich he was sending to Estrada to discuss an amicabl3 and equitable settlement of the present strife. Madriz begged the revolutionary leader not to ob struct his efforts for peace. Gen eral Estrada in his reply expressed his willingness to meet the Madriz commissioners, but said the revolu tionary party would not recognize the action of the legislative Assembly in placing power in the hands of Madriz. lie denied most emphati cally the Asembly's right to deal with the election of President, and stated that he saw in Madriz the usurper of the rights of the Xica raguan people. t is not doubted here that Es trada's known astuteness will pre vent him from accepting terms of peace predicated upon the prior sur render by him of his army, arms and ammunition to his enemy. There fore, it is not believed that the con ference between Estrada and the Madriz commissioners will result in any particular change in the present status. A telegram from Managua receiv ed at the State Department says that the Madriz patry is making prepara tions to send troops to the eastward to meet Estrada's army. Zelaya Declares He is Still President Mff Nicaragua. Cordoba, Mex., Special Jose San tos Zelaya saA-s that he is still Pres ident of Nicaragua, although he may never go back to that country to enjoy the privileges of the office. Madriz, he asserted, is only a pro visional President and that he (Ze laya) has not reliquished the execu tive office. He also enters a denial that he is a prisoner in the hands of the Mexican officials. Receiver Appointed. Camden, X. J., Special- Vice Chan cellor Learning has appointed James Calloway of Atlantic City receiver of the Southern Public Service Cor poration, incorporated under the laAvs of New Jersey, to build rail roads in South Carolina and Georgia. The company is capitalized at $L 500,000. The receiver was appointed upon application of Ludwig & Co., an engineering concern, which claims the company is insolvent. Anthony Murphy Dead. Atlanta, Ga. , Special. Anthony Murphy, aged 80, a pioneer citizen of the South and one of the two men who pursued and captured the fa mous engine "General" when the latter had been seized and carried off from Marietta, Ga., by Federal raiders during the civil war is dead. Secure Contract to Build Canal. Lynchburg, Va., Special. Scott Brothers, genearl contractors of this city, announced here that they have just secured a. fourth contract on the New York State canal at Rome, N. Y., which will amount to $1,750, 000. Four years will be required to do the work. Twelve Balled During Christmas. Bluefield, W. Va., Special. Twelve tragic deaths are reported from Southern West Virginia and South west Virginia as the result of drunk en men walking on railroad tracks and. being killed by trains and in fatal affrays with knives and pistols. Madison Square Garden Sold. New York, Special. Madison Square Garden, eercted at a cost of $3,000,000, has been sold to a real estate syndicate and will be torn down and replaced by a modern office building. Pierce Succeeds Cone. Richmond, Speeial. W. L. Pierce, with headquarters at Strasburg, his been appointed superintendent of the Richmond division, to succeed the late A. P. Cone, who was killed in the wreck near Greensboro, N. C. Whole Turkish Cabinet Resigns. Constantinople, By Cable. The whole Turkish Cabinet resigned, fol lowing resignation of Hilmi Pasha. ONE TOWN WIPED OUT BY FIRE Hamlet of Holland, Near Suffolk Practically Wiped Off the Map Richmond, Va., Special. Fire de stroyed the Majestic theater, the postoffice and all but one of the twenty-six business places in Ham let of Holland, 12 miles from Suf folk, Va., on the Southern Railway Saturday night, and rendered half of the town's "two hundred inhabitants homeless. There was only the crud est apparatus with, which to fight the flames, and aid asked of Suffolk was rendered nugatory by reason of the absecnece of water facilities. The total loss is estimated at $115,000. The total insurance is about $63,000. More than $10,000 worth of peanuts Avere burned. Only twenty-one homes are left in the town, and these are housing the homeless. Five of these caught fire b&t Avere saved. HOSTILITIES CONTINUE. Belief That Two More Battles Must Be Fought. Bluefields, Nicaragua. Hope that the Avar should be brought to an end through the recognition of the pro visional government by the United States has been abandoned. Many believe that two more battles must be fought; one in the State of Chontales and the other near Managua. The insurgent generals have sign ed a solemn pact to the effect that they Avill stand as a unit Avith Es trada until the last vestige of Zelay aism is blotted out of the government of Nicaragua. The peace commissioners which President Madriz announced that he Avas sending to negotiate Avith Estra da have not arrived. FIRST NEW YEAR. RECEPTION. President Shook Hands With More Than 5,575 Callers. Washington, I). C, Speeial. Pres ident and Mrs. Taft held their first Xpav Year's reception Jan. 1st, at the White House. All classes passed in revieAV, and in tAvo hours and fifty five minutes more than 5,575 people shook hands with the Chief Execu tive. ; The diplomatic display sur passed all previous ones, and all members of the cabinet were present, except Knox and Dickinson. Will Wage Determined Fight. Atlanta, Ga., Special. "To Avage an 'organized and determined fight" against the methods of dealing in cotton in vogue at the XeAv York cotton exchange, I 'resident Charles S. Barrett of the National Farmers' Union has issued a call for a meeting of the officers and leading members of the union to take place in Wash ington during the present month. In the call Mr. Barrett announces the determination of representatives of the union to remain in AVashing ton until Congress takes some defi nite action in the matter. Greetings to All Nations. Washington Soecial. Precisely at midnight on Dec. 31st an employe of the Navy Department pressed a but ton in the naval observatory. In stantly there leaped from it a spark that encircled the globe. It lost only a comparatively few seeonds, which did not discommode, those A'ho heard the news that a neAv year had been born. NeAv York got the word, both started , from Washington and a feAV seconds later afte rit had encir cled the globe. Banker Trask Only Victim. ' NeAv York, Special. Spencer Trask, the head of a firm of bank ers, Avhich for many years acted as fiscal agent of the late Queen Vic toria, A-as crushed to death by ,a rear-end collision of a Pullman and freight train in his private compart ment while returning to XeAv York from Yeddo, his country place at Saratoga. Florida Crops Not Injured. Jacksonville, Special. The dam age to Florida crops from the recent cold weather is trivial. It was thought the Ioav temperature had ruined early vegetables, but only trifling damages have been wrought and this can be remedied by replant ing. The orange crop had been mar keted. 1 Kills Two and Puts Three in Jail. Guthrie, - Okla., Speeial. FiAre men avIio intended to rob the bank and postoffice at Harrah, Okla., ran into a party headed " by United States Marshal "Jack" Abernathy. As a result tAvo of the bandits are dead, one is in jail at Guthrie wounded, and two others are held in jail at Oklahoma City as suspects. It Is Now Judge Lurton. Washington, D. C, Special. Judge Horace H. Lurton, the neAv associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was sworn in last Monday at noon. DOLLAR A YEAR. MEMORY OF WOMEN Monuments to be Erected in Rememberance of 61-65 ELEVEN WILL BE DEDICATED. Design is Selected tj a Committee of Confederate Veterans General J. S. Carr, Treasurer. Atlanta, Ga.r Special. A design for a suitable memorial to the Avomen of the Conf edearcy has been select ed by a committee of Confederate -etenas named by General , E'ans last June. AH the Southern States except Virginia were represented at the meeting last week in this city. Only tAvo artists submitted designs, Louis Potter of New York and Miss Belle Kinney of Nashville. The de sign submitted by Miss Kinney Avaa selected. For the purpose f raising funds to pay for the eerction of one f these memorials in the capital each of the Southern States, the f olloAving committee Avas appointed: General C. I. Walker, f South Carolina, chairman General Julian S. Carr, of North Carolina, treasurer; General John P. Hickman of Ten nessee, secretary; General J. O. Wad de.U of Georgia, Maj. C. M. Felder of South Carolina, Maj. L. C. Scott of Mississippi and Col. James Dick ens of Louisiana. The price agreed upon for the mon ument ia $5,000) the veterans enter ing into an agreement to accept ho less than ten in duplicate. The eommittee named will be in corporated under the Liavs of Ten nessee as a memorial association and will actively enter upon a campaign for funds, appealing especially to the different States Legislatures for ap propriations. COLD WAVE GRIPS COUNTRY. Thermometer Reaches Lowest Mark of Season in Many Places. Chicago, Speeial. The thermometer dropped to one degree cboAre zero in Chicago. The termometer registered the loAvest at Charles City, 12 de grees below zero. St. Louis, Speeial. The Missis sippi river was frozen over at the v outskirts of St. Louis for the first time in four years. Tavo below zero was reported by the government ob servatory. Pittsburg, Pa., Special. Weather conditions here the most seA-ere since 1875. Damage to Avaterfront proper ty and shipping along the Ohio Avill total close to half million dollars. Had to Move Out. Blowing Rock, N. C, Speeial. The fiercest snowstorm that has vis ited the mountain section for years fell last week. -The snoAv Aas so deep in places that the houses of the mountaineers Avere e6vered. One house collapsed and many families whose homes Avere strained under the great Aveight of piled-up snow had to move out for f ea rthe rcoi'3 Avould give Avay and they would be buried. Blizzard Cost $5,000,000. Baltimore, Md., Special. The storm of Christmas Day Avas a costly one to the. Eastern States, says the Sun. In and around Boston the damage AArought bv the blizzard has been estimated as high as $5,000,000. Along the New.-England coast there Avas a tide which swept over loAv-ly-ing lands and much damage Avas done to shipping. NeAv York and, Philadelphia were almost smothered under the fall of snow. In Balti more about 140 extra men and a few carts were employed in remoA'ing the snoAv, Avhile in New York the num- ber employed in this Avork was '10, 000. In Pittsburg traffic Avas tied up and in the North generally rail-i-ond trains were snoAvbound. Hurt by His Mother's Punishment, Hangs Self. Toledo, Ohio, Special. Sent to the cellar because he refused to get his mother a pail of Avater, Herman Miller, aged 14, son of John C. Miller, hanged himself. Will Wager Money on Johnson. NeAv York, Special. A pool of $10,000 has been raised by negroes in New York city to. wager on Jack Johnson in the championship Furniture Men Meet. High Point, N. C, Special. The manufacturers of upholstered furni ture of the Southern States met in this eity last Thursday. The object of the meeting was to perfect the or ganization of an upholstered furni ture manufacturers' association and to formulate plans for the future. Kills Self in Texas. Kingsville, Tex., Special. Henry , Jackson, a young man about 28 years ' of age, who came here recently from North Carolina, ' and opened ...a meat market, committed suicide by shoot ing himself through the head. t .. .1 - -s - 1 :4 ''' I ft! .4 t i i 'I A