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OUR I me COURIER leads In Both News and I me COURIER Advertising Columns "JIn Mii'ne Results. Circulation. eeued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.C0 Par Year VOL XXXIV. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, February 11, 1909. No THE G IER AID STATE SCHOOLS Pressing Demand For Aid Before Legislature. $1,000,000 NEEDED FOR BUILDINGS. The V.aaxe Law Nu Child I.abnr Legis lation Three Counties Wanted Power of Married Women to Make Contracts. Raleigh, Feb. 9, 190J. The Gener al Assembly of the State has now been hi session thirty working days, and has made good time on local bills only, but mighty good time on them, aud perhaps best for all con cerned that such has been the cast; for to this time there has actually been nothing done on the lloor of either house that will in auy way weaken the faith of the business wrld. A ' to The Came Law. In a former letter it was said that there would be some gJine legisla tion at this term, than would spoil the plans of some, and it has pass ed the Senate, ai.d will in- st pioba bly pass the house, on which calen der it bo rests. It is the Empie bill which was amended and allows no cale of quail or grouse. 1 ir the term of two years, an i in that time no hunter under penalty of law will be allowed to kill over fifteen birds in a day. Want Hetter Buildings. A bill has been introduced in the house to build a new agricultural building at Raleigh? The Governor recommended a new aud fire proof building f r the State records and such a well s for the officers of the State to have such room as they needed. Senator Klliott Still Holding Out. Getting his first resolution to ad journ the 15th -February killed Sen ator Elliott has introduced another requiring all bills to be in by the lath inst, and no mora be allowed; acd that the finance committee be required to make , its report bj the 13 inst. No Child Labor Legls'atton. The committee on manufacture had a live hearing last week on the Hinsdale bill to prevent the working of .children in the Mills. A large number of interested manufacturers and those who take the human side and some the political side were heard in the matter, and the com mittee decided to report the bill an favorably. Referring to this in his inangural address. Governor Kitchin eaid in substance, that nntil the state provided more room for the indigent and asylums for the or pbans, it was evident tb t some children must work in tb mills, Three New Counties Wanted. The propositions to make three new counties for the St te makes interesting rending to many. They are located as follows: Raeford, county seat of the proposed county of Hoke, is in the extreme northern edge of Robeson county, and p poses to iruke itself of the counties of Kobesou and Cumberland, The second one is to be called North Robeson, and proposes to cut Robe son in halves as it were and make the town of Red Springs the capital. The tecond covers the Robeson ter ritory covered by the first, and swings a Bght making the getting of either pissed the death of the other. The third is from the we-t, and proposes to make a new county of the counties of Watauga and Mitchell, ui-d to be called Avery, with the towii of Linville City as a county seat. This is all to be fought oat here yet. Would Tan Trade CounonH. There was introduced a ineaBun that bad for its object the taxing of coupons in the packages of cigarettes and such, for the lexson that they were used to stifle eompetitiou, as stated. It was killed on short order. The proposition to tax all bottlers, (they are now taxed,) as well as all small dealers pi bottled goods made an interesting hearing before the finance committee, as there was a delegation there, j. presenting many interests. Getting Many Officers On Sala ries. The tendency of the times is to Sat the county officer on a salary, tointy after county is dong that rerf thing now, and those who have deae so find that it works to the gad of the county. , Married Women Power To Contract. Bepresentative N. B. Kendriek of Cat-ton Connty, has intredisd and the committee on judiciary has favor ably reported a bill allowing a mar ried wnnan to make contracts the stme as a single woman. As it now swtes a married woman can make contraeti for only three thing: her own personal expenses; the support of the family aud the payment of debts contracted before her marriage Tie amendment proposed to that la v provides she may make any con tract she made or could make before her marriage. One lawyer on the committee said he knew of women who had plantations, which thy could J rovide for cultivating before her m-n-riage, but if married they cniii'i not, contract tor siii'i'i:es tor the farm nor do many thiols that v i.i-cess.try for the proper cue of the place, and he was in favor of letting down the bars, Law was discussed and it was found that the Supreme court has dividel on the question, in a similar case. Pele'a County Attorney Hill. Senator Jonathan Pe le of Scot- laud couuty has introduced a biltl to amend the constitution so as to abolish the ollice of District Solici tor, and in his stead have a county attorney to prosecute all cases in the county, ani be counsel for the coun ty . commissioners, and defend tb county in all its need for a lawyer. This would solve the matter that has been talked of so mucb, and would put the solicitor at home. This will most likely die unless there is need for other co '.stitutional amend ments. They Need a Million Dollars. The committees on education have never before in the history of this State had such calls for aid from the State's educit oual institu tions. The figures are beyond the comprehension of many people an are the results of the work for bet ter education in the commonwealth. The University needs $450,000 to pat .t in such shape as it ought to be to take care of the 800 studeuts there. .The Agricultural and Me chanical Collage heW like - the Uni versity and the Normal and Indus trial at Greensboro, has more pat ronage than it can take care of and is housing girls and boys outside of the buildings of the schools. Ex- Gov. T. J. Jar vis told the committee that were he Governor he would not hesitate to help to .issue bonds for th amount of $1,000,000, and put tbeni all where they Bhonld be. Mr, H ayea of W llkea Dies. Saturday morning it was an r on need that the junior member of the house from the Gounty of Wilkes had died, ana on niotiou the house adjourned at noon in his memory. RACE WAR THREATENED. Pittsburg on the Verge of a Clash lie tween the Whites and Blacks. Pittsburg, Pa., is trembling on the verge of a race conflict due to an effort by the police to pat a stop to attacks on white women by bad negroes. The determination of the pol ce t) rid Piitsburg of a lot "of bad negroes has prompted several negroes of the higher class to give out interviews in which they predict a race riot on account of officious policemen and hysterical white women. This has aroused great excitement and trouble between the races is imminent. Attempt Suicide. Miss Rosa Cook, a waitress in the Guiiford hotel in Greensboro, took a doie of poisou one night List week in an tlfort to commit suicide. Siie left notes stating that tho hotel management had treated her well but that she hoped that her associ ates among the employees of the totel would oe happier than she was. She was from Hickory and was said to be blue and despondent for several days before her i ffort to commit suicide. It was with the greatest effort that she was restored o life aftei taking the puis"). . Mrs. Ingram SinLIng A special to The Courier from Salisbury yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock says: Mis. Ev: Asbury-Ingram at Whitehead-Stokes Sanitarium grows worse and death is expected hourly. Fire at Spies. Fire destroyed the " re. idence of Roxy ISritt a few days ago. aHer little ten-year-old daughter who was alone in the honse was fatally burn ed, death following in a few hoar. HOME COURSE IN MODERN AGRICULTURE. By C. V. GREGORY, Of the Agricultural Division of the Iowa State College pARMERS and others are becoming more deeply interested every year in the science of agriculture as taught in the special courses provided in many colleges. It is not only a subject of fascinating interest but means largely increased profits to the farmer. Those who cannot go to college can get the information in the above each week in I he Courier. The Home Course in Modern Agriculture will run for eighteen wcl's in The Courier be sent f ' .tJdress for only 25 cents. JUios, TIlE COURIER, Aslwboro, N. C. WIfE SUING SAYS W. GOULD BROKAW PUMMELLED HER. Cruelties Began -Thirteen Days After Their Marriage Little Over A Year Ago'. JEALOUS, SHE AVFRS, HE MADE THREATS TO SHOpT. . ' Has Notice olSult Served by Publica tion She Sajs lie Deserted Her ( New Y.nk World ) After a Httle more thau a year of unhappy married life, Mis. Marv Gould Brokaw, the beautiful v;ung wife of William Gould Brok4w, wealthy society man and sportsman, has applieJ to the co'irts for a 'cgal separation from her husband, charg ing cruel and inhuman treatment. Justice Maddox, in the Supreme Court at Mineola, L. I., yesterday granted an order permitting Mrs. Brokaw te serve her husband with notice of thewjctipii ,hy, publication she having alleged that he was try ing to avoid service. ' Chargss Ho Hit villi Hit Flat. The suit came in ni way as a sur prise but the charges made by Mrs. Brokaw were far more serious than MRS. MARY UOULD BROKAW. was thought by tbose who professed to know the causes of the couple's anhappiness. for usance Mrs. Brokaw avers that her husband struck her with his fists on several occasions, in dieting black and blue rfcarke. " Mrp. Brokaw is twentjt-wo years old and her husband forty-two. Tbey wen married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jc.seph A. Blair, of Cbittenango, N. Y., Sept. 17. 1007. Mr. B.okaw had been nimried fifteen vtars before that to Miss Corahe C. Coudert, niece of tbe late Frederic It. Coul dert, the lawyer, but the fits!, Mrs. Brokaw di-r-jbed him five years later, charging cruel and inhuman treatment, he later married Wil li tin O. lloe'ker, tie lawyer who secured her divorce for her. There wns it note of ill onieu at uhe wedding of Mr. Brok iw and Mis Blair. They met on a Hudson River steam Vut among mutual friends and fell in love at first sight. After a tempest nous courtship, the wedding wms arranged for, but owing to Mr. Brokaw having been divorced difficulty was found in getting the services of a pastor. The Revs. James Emsringham and Herbert G. Ooginton, of the Episcopal faith, refused to pe: f irm the cretmny, but the Rev. Dr. George B. Sp.ldiug consented to officiate. raster Bald He Was Misled. After thewedding, Dr. Spalding, who is pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Chittenango, iseaed a new feature to be published nearly iive months; and will statement sivinir t'luD h i' lie known th vi th- li.ji, Mi.--. liiVikuw iitnl u!) ta'uid a Uivorcr a id not Mr. Brokaw he would ihil have? performed the ceremony, ! r. Sit tiding Mid that he hud bee . m:s eil. lu tnakirg her epplicetiou Mrs. B okaw 8s iiisi-ord arose between he self and ner iiusbaud 'es (hue two mont s aiu-r they were married, she churges hnn with being in the hi. bit of ev..d:!: .--rvice in l.iw suit at.-d savs :h.i. .Nov. 11, 1!)07, at the LI tel Menu ilrti.d, iur husotnd dis guised nuns;' if with falae betird and wig to escape uniecoguized from the hotel when a proces-i server was waiting 1 1 hand him a subpoena in a suit for breach f promise. She says her husband fled in an aatomo b le to the Lamei House, Like wood, N. J., and when the process server u rived Mr. Brokaw climbed dor.n a r.atr fireseape ami escaped in his au tomobile to Philadelphia. Viva Mouths' Hunt For Him. mtb. iSrokaw's process servers have been locking fcr the spoilsman for several months, the application alleges, and it is the belief of Mrs. Brokaw that her husband is at his sht otiug lodge near High Point. Mrs. Brokaw goes back as far as thirteen days after ner marriage in stating the grounds for ner action 8hn says that on Nov. 2, 1907, while she and her husband were stopping at the Hotel Seville, he came into their rooms intoxicated and offered her a bouquet of flowers. She thanked him, she state, but he abused her roundly, ordered hisvulet to pack his trunk and left the hotel. Later hi returned. Upon leaving the Sevetle Mrs. Brokaw says she aud her husband went to Baltimore, where he had a minor operation pei formed. One day Mrs. Brokaw says she went out alone for an hour and upon ner re turn her husband was in a rage Sbe declares he charged her with having gone out to meet a man. He also accused her, she avers, of having flirted with Dr. Martin, the surgeon who preformed the opera tion on hun. Inrldrut at a Dinner Partr. The next episode described by Mrs. Broku'v took place on Dec 24, 1907. at a dinner at her husband's hinting lodge in North Carolina There were many prominent persons at the paity including Senatoi and Mrs. lloi,n:e White, of Syracuse; Judge G'luorsleeve, Thomas Stur cis, Sam. itl Willetts former muster of hounds uf ti e Medow brook Hrnt Club; Mr. and Mrs. Jules Baehe and Jamta Martin, Mr. Brokaw s nephew. Mrs. Brokaw says her hn shard suddenly accused her ef flirting with "jimtnie" Maitin aud other ..(! V'.'.'. : I f. . 7'. Mi.tr ' MR. W. GOULD BROKAW. nen. She left tbe room, embarrassed, sbe declares, and her husband follow ed. He laid to her, she alleges:' faith i STATE CONVENTION. Sunday Schssl Wal ker to Meet at ICntt t ortf April ith ta 8th luclii-,lte. ' 'i lis St its $unUj C:chool Assoc;-: tion will meet at (. uncord April Gtl, j 7th and St,h. I ae ei"cnt,ive ccmniittee met ut Raleigh Ut week to arrange the d tail-. It is stated tht Mr. M-ce!-fresb, th national seoiv'.ajy, will at'end. At the meeting of the cacutive oonitinttee State .Secietatv J. 15. it a' f it. -joit offered ni.i rvsig.in'i'iu which wis accepted. Ilii iiicx'ss ir llSS Hot bi'ril el' ptt'd. I lie ISiifr III Kuwait. lubbers' are hflit-ved ti h-ive e'-t file t.O the dwelling house and sto e of I'. M. TyCR, 11 ui'.Ui ( ist if Salisbury, on tlie wight of .Kelt. 3''. Only a portion o f the household goods and stuck of merchandise i f Mr. L vrack were saved, as the lire had gai ed rapid headway whm it was di.coerd. "Take your clothes and go to h?U cut of this house, or I will go." He then put nis hunting cloth s on and re ui utd to her with his shut- gun lesUng across his arm, sue luiu.s. She was crying aud hyster ical. Brokaw said, she avers: 'Go to hell, you fool, 1 could bio out what little brains you have with this. Mrs. Brokiw declares this con versation took place in tbe presence of a nurse and a seamstress. Declared Ha Kicked The Door Down. In the month of January she and her husband returned to New York and stoppea at the Hotel Essex. While there he refused to eat with her, she asserts, and finally, ordered his clothes packed and left the hotel, vewmg never to sej her again. At 5 o'c'ock the mxi morning, she says, he returned in a dionken condition and kicked down the door. She ordered the maid to look the door,' whereupon feer hasband- called her unmentionable r a ones, she alleges. Another scene is described in the complaint as having occurred in the earn month at the Hotel Svoy, this City. Mrs. Brokaw states that her hasband accused her of having flirted with Dr. Satterwaite. The doctor overheard the conversation, sbe claims, and told Mr. Brokaw he was acting foolislb. According to Mrs. Brokaw the physician told her husband their trout le w;8 daa to the fact that Mr. Brokaw bad been a bachelor too long to appreciate a wife. This scene apparently brought aboi t a crisis, for Mrs Brokaw states that Dr. Battle was su union ed from Nashville, Teun. In the presence of Dr. Battle and Mr. Brokaw's secretary, it is stated, an agreement was drawn in which Mr. Brokaw is alleged to have consented to cease being cruel ta his wife and to pro vide suitably for her support. Mrs. Brokaw says her husband signed the agreement in the presence of the doctor. Early last December Miss Taylor, a friend, telephoned her at Great Neck that she, Mrs. Frame Gould and a Miss Jenkins weie going to motor through Gieat Neck with some men friends and would stop to take luncheon with her. Know ing her husband's dislike for ai y hing id the nature of a dinner party which included men, she tiied to prevent their coming, she says, but could not. The names of the n an in the party are giveu as "Mr. Thomas, Mr. Holmes and a gentleman whose name I do not recall. Thrents hy Telegraph. Mrs. Brokaw says her husband had established a system of espionage aud that the servants notihed him of the par'y. Ha immediately tele graphed from High Point, she says, that ha would close his Great Neck home if she wa3 going to en tertain any one but her brother or family. He said, she alleges, that his servants would refuse to serve her if she disobeyed him. On Dec 17 he telegraphed her mither, the complaint says, th-U his wife had permitted one of the men to occupy his belrooni. which idj iii.'d that of Mr. Brokaw. He milled that h;s wife bad failed to give him the names of the men and to explain her"pecuhar" actions that night. In conc'usion Mrs. Brokaw says her husband is worth at least $4, 000,000 and his an income of $200, 000 a year. Her attorneys are Griggs, Baldwin & Pierce of No. 27 Pine street, and Mr. Brokaw is rep: t tented by Eugene L. Bushe, of No "150 Nassau Street New York. KILLED STEP-FATHER Terrible Tragedy Near Grays Chapel Saturday. RESULT OF A FAMILY QUARREL Chut Allied. Aged l.s Years, In Jai! Charged With M unit l iny Luther Wilkersuii UN step-lather Pleads Self Defeuse-lf is Statement. Chus. Aili-fd, a young white uiitn, Me-; is stars wis committed to jail Mui d' wit built bond for causing the id :i'li of bi-t ttep father, Luther Wi k r. n which occurred at St. Leo's llu.peiil, iu (irei'itsboro Monday. DuriLg a f.unily ijuarre! di their borne, one mile f.-uiu Grays Chapel ou the Liberty r ml, Satur diiy 'ifternoon, voutig Allied cot Wilkerso.i's throut vwih a knife, severing his wind pioe. The wound ed man washurnid to the hospital immediately, but, he died from his wounds about i.oim ou Monday. Young Ailrtd was urrested by Sheriff Haywortu Monday morning, and waiving examination before Justice Pugh, of Providence town ship he was committed to jail with out bond. It is understood that Allred will plead eelf defeisj. Allred claims that his step father had been making lite miserable lor the family for some time and that on Monday he nau assaulted .Mrs. Wilkerson with a stick of wood and threatened to shoot rim. The prisoner says that when Wilkerson assaulted him with a gun, and fearing he would carry out his threat, he defended himself with his knife. The defendant has employed Judge Bynuin, of Greensboro to de fend him. The body of Wilkerson was sent from Greensbo, o to Lineberry Station near liberty where the funeial was conducted Tuesday. SEAWELL IS DOOMED. Senate Committee Has Pigeon-Holed the Appointment to Walt for Taft to Handle. Washington, D. C, Saturday, 6. The appointment of H. F. Sea well as judge of the Eastern district of JNorth Carolina is lying quietly in a pigeon hole and will stay there nu ll Mr. latt goes m. Then he will make another appointment and the Sea well document will not be resur rected. This is said to be the pro gram in the Senate now. Both North Carolina Senators will fight the confirmation of JSeawell. The President s friends signified a will ingness to keep hands off and let Mr. iaft make the appointment. Death of Mr. Graham. J. B. Graham, a well known rail road man of Durham died Sunday evening after a hugering illness. Mr. Graham was born near Jackson Springs, Moore County 38 years ago. He was agent for the Southern at Durham unt:l a few months ago when he was forced to retire on accourt of bis health. A widow and four children survive him. Two More Hams Burned. Two barns were burned in Meck lenburg Couti'y !at week. On last Friday night the barn of Wm. Mc Lelland with two mules and three cows. On the same night R. G. Kendricks' barn near by was burned with a number of horses and cattle incinerated. Suicide at Asheville. Jas." M. Hyatf, g prominent busiuess man of Asheville, commit ted sui. i .e Sunday morning by cut ting hi3 throat with a razor. Ill health and financial troubles caused him to destroy himself. SalUburj's Mew Car Line. The woik of laving the ratls for the new eb-t-tric street rmlway for Salisbury began Monday. Cars will be in rip-ration from the Fair grounds to the Court House by May 15th. Jewish Synagogue at C i reeutboro. The Hebrew citizens at Greens boro, have purchased the Friends' church and will convert it into a Jewish synagogue. The Friends wilt erect a new meeting house. S. W. Phipps, of Guilford county, aged 83 years, died Feb. 5.
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