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1 ' t VOL. 1 BESSKMBs CITY, tf'jC;, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912 NO17 4 . . - , .rJr'. ----- - --'- '-.. - ' . . , . ' f r-, - 4 -t. Twelve Per Cent of Voters Unable to Read. Now York, Juno 18." Twelve per cent, of men Voting in the United States cannot " read their ballots, declares W: H. Hand, of Columbian s. C, in an article ;ih a child labor bulletin review -is sued by the national, child labor committee. , Hand states - that more than one in four of the na live white children between the ages of ten itnd fourteen in eleven southern states are not in school. Hoy Hanged; Mother Supports Dangling Body Until Help Cbmes. ; Louisville, June ,17. Seven year old Frank Norton, while playing with his younger, brother in a lumber car fell from a stack of boasds and his head, caught between protruding pieces of limber. In this position he hung by his neck until Mrs. Belle Hol man was attracted by the screams of the smaller lad. When she arrived Prank's face was purple and he was unconscious. Mrsr Holman had recently fractured her shoulder but she got under the-boy and liftsd him up to re lieve the pressure on his wind pipe andrsent the other, boy. for aid. ' When helped arrived Mrsv Holman swooned but both sh and Frank were revived. . Horse Kills Child. Morganton, June 14. Falling from a buggy under the feet of an excited h6rse, the 3-year-old danghter of (Rev. and Mrs. J.SS. Black, of this city, met with a horrible accident yesterday, re suiting in instantaneous deajth TYc liorse was rendered restive by the child's falling under its hoofs, bu': it could not be-checked until it had walked over the little girl and crushed out her life. - ' . Good For Underwood. Washington, June 16. Sena tor Bankhead of Alabama, man aging the presidential campaign of Representative Underwood of Alabama, conferred with Mr. Underwood yesterday. Later he voiced roseate views, of Mr. Underwood's prospects. Sena- tor Bankhead said Speaker Clark. Governor Harmon or Governor Wilson, would not be a.ble to muster the two-thirds vote necessary for Iheir nomina tion and the path would e open for the Al-abama candidate. The question o f .nominating and seconding speeches will no't be settled until Monday. Priest is Killed. ; Zanesville, O., June 16. - Three were killed and a score more injured early today when i cyclone struck here, topping the steeple of the St. Thomas' Catholic ehurch -through the iroof while services were being held. The Rev. F. 'R. Roach was struck and killed while ad iiiinisterihg the last sacraments sis live hundred of the congrega tion were fleeing. Ends Hunt For Rich Girl. Often the hunt for a rich wife ends when a man meets a woman that uses Electric Bitters. Her strong nerves tell in a bright brain and even temper. Her peach bloom complexion. and ruby .lips lips result from her pure - blood: her bright eyes from restful sleep; her elas tic step irom firm, free muscle's, all tell ing of the health and strength Electric fitters give a woman, and the freedom iro:n indigestion, backache, headache, fainting and dizzy spells they promote. Every where they are voman's favorite remedy. If weak or ailing try them 50 cents at . All druggists The family nearer seems able tD learn that a man . never loses his temper even when he acts that wav. Kills Sweetheart Then Kills Self. - Salisbury, June 16. -Smarting under an old rejectinent of matrimonial-proposals freshened by a recent renewal of the old court ship, Frank Chunn tonighfrsliot and killed Miss , Burnadette Roueche, held Charles Gable, an attendant.of the dead girl's sis ter off at the point of a pistol, and coolly turned ,the muzzle of the gun toward his own teazle, falling dead across tho prostrate body of the slain girl almost be fore the-- echo of the" first shot had died. The tragedy, which has stir red the town as nothing ' else in its recent history. was enacted on the front porch of J. X.J Roueche, editor of the Salisbury Post, and an uncle of the dead girl. Miss Hortense ' Roueche and a friend, Charles Gable, had just left Miss Burnadette and Chunn on . the porch to: step around to the well to get a drink of water before going home. When they hurried ' back to find the cause of a pistol- shot they found the happy sister of only a a moment before lying prostrate,, with Chunn ordering them bak at the point of a pistol. Before their eyes he turned the gun on himself and : ended a tragedy, the news of which a minute lat er was flying over the city : like wildfire. . Chunn and Miss Roueche had been sweethearts for years and about ' six'! months; ago Miss Roueche rejected a proposal vto rnjvyy-.nh 11 ri n tljsQb.tJLnyc?d.-w-attentions for a time, but recent ly friends had noticed a renewal of the old courtship. To friends Miss Rouche declared that she and Chunn were merely good friends, that she liked him, but not the right sort of way to mar ry him. She confided to- her sister, however, that Chunn had told her that if she didn't mar ry him he would kill her. Neith er of the young women consider ed the threat seriously, especi ally so since there had been nothing unusual about the de- the meanor of Chunn during past few days. This afternoon Chunn made an engagement for himself and Gable to take the' young ladies to church. The supposition is once alone he made a second proposal and that when rejected he fired. Neither Mr. Gable or Miss Hortense Roueche had noticed anything'unusual in the conduct of the young men dur ing the evening. In fact, he appeared in good spirits, and was laughing when the sister stepped off the porch to get a drink of water Miss Roueche was. 19 years of age and was aystenographer for the Salisbury Reality and Insur ance Company. She was a young woman of more than ordinary beauty, talented and generally admired for her lovable disposi tion and charming personality. Frank C. Chunn, too, .was well known and popular. He was 23 years of age and a son of Mrs. Florinea Chunn; of Asheville, and nephew of Misses Sallie and Maggie Chunn, of this city. For several years he had been work ing as a boilermaker at the Spen cer shops. He was well known to practically everybody - in the city and'moved in the best cir cles. v From all the. preparations a man makes to go fishing 2 "miles away you'd think he was start ing on a trip around the world. Harry lhaw righting ror Libertf j White Plains, N..Y.; June 17. Harry K. Thaw's own alienist, i Dr. Roy L. ljeak subpoenaed o Thaw's lawyers to" aid' ihrhis le- gal fight for freedom, assisted! the state this afternoon m its ef- fart to keep the slayor; of Stan ford White iu the -Matteawan asylum. Dr. Leak, who isisec- pnd physician aTlhe asylumtes. titled before- Justice Ke6gK: ih the Supreme, Court that in his opin ion T.haw was "constitutionally inferior." "Can he recover from that?f' asked W. T, Jerpme, former dis trict attorney of New York, who Is attorneys for .the State. "No." "Are such person 'apt to do strange things when under stress or under the influence of Ji-j quor?" "They may." r K ; "Do they have delusions of persecution?" w - ' - "They do." " ' ' - And when they drink they resort- to; acts of violence, do" they not?" "In a great many cases." Dr. H. Ernest Schmidt, an alienist :- of White Plains, -and William -Vanamee, lawyer of Newburg testified- that .? they thought Thaw rational. Dr, William A. .White, V an alienist, in charge of the ( United States government hospital at Washington,' testified that he had examined Thaw : oh three occasions recently,4 the ' ', laf e$t being last Thursday, -vwhorthe witness said he had found , no evidence of paranoia. "Thaw is not insane, he , said, 'and it would not be unsafe to the community to liberate him now." ' , .1 : The hearing will be continued tomorrow. a ' Many Automobiles. Many people are often asking how many automobiles there are in the country in actual commis sion. The'f olio wing list is given out by States and while not guaranteed is probably within the truth: Alabama 1,800, Arkansas, 1, 129, California 21,000, Colorado 9,100, Connecticut 7,080, District lot Columbia 7,000, Delaware 1,- 060, Florida 1,800, Georgia 7,800, Idaho 941, Illinois 23,500, Indi ana 28,000, Iowa 17,850, Kansas 4,313, Kentucky 3,300, Louisiana' 1,800, Maine 7,500, Maryland 4,509, Massachusetts 15,000, Michigan 22,000, Minnesota 11, -170, Mississippi : 230, Missouri 12,400, Montana 1.496, 'Nebraska 18,575, Nevada 275, New Hamp shire 4,970, New York (State) 80,00C( New Jersey 18,000, North Carolina 3,100, North Dakota 7,500, Ohio 30,000, Ok lahoma 3,4j00, Oregon 6,192, Pennsylvania 31,065, Rhode Is land 6,000,' South Carolina . 625, South Dakota - 5, 333, Tennessee Texas 10,140, Utah 1,666, Wash ington 8,000, Vermont 3,850, West Virginia 1,182, Virginia 2,880, Wisconsin 12,325 Strikers Killed by Officers Perth Amboy, N. J., June 14. A thousand " striking laborers stormed the American Smelting and Refining plant and were fired on by deputies. One strik er wras killed and three wound- ed. With the fir&t volley tri kers fell back. the . It is. a good thing to be richy. and a good, thing to be strong tufr it is a1 better thing to be lov ed of man.vi things. Euripides.. New Equipment for'Soathern Railway Washington, - June 1 8, Presi dent Finley has announced: that the Southern .Railway Company is asking for bids on ten Pacific type passenger locomotives and thirty freight locomotives of the Mjkado type, all of these loco motives ,to be fitted with super heaters'; twenty first class steel frame passenger coaches; fi ye steel underframe combinatton baggage and : express cars; five steel underframe combination baggage and mail cars; two dirr ing cars; two hundred steel, un derframe ventilated box cars; one houndred and fifty steel un derframe automobile, cars;, and one; hundred steel fiat cars. Thfs is in addition to five' Pacific type passenger locomotives and four dining cars recently contracted or. - Cutting Affair at Lexington. - Lexington, June 16. Demp sey Walser was badly cut last night in an encounter with John Harrelson. Both men were un der the influence of liquor and the cutting followed as bitter quarrel. An artery in Walser's right arm was severed and there were several bad cuts 7 Several Hurt in Wreck. Macon, Ga. , June 15. Nine teen were hurt,, three seriously, yesterday when a Central of Georgia passenger train struck a' string of freight cars on the curve at Everette. - v omanHeld Accountable. :"-. : Chicgo.JjinjeMr,s . , kpuise lindprf, 45 years old; has been arrested by the police pending the investigation of the deaths of her two husbands and three children, one of whom, a son, died last-week. The five are said to have carried insurance amoun ting to $10, 650. ' Waiting for. Electric Chair. Columbia, S. C., June 18. Be cause the electric chair will not be installed in time to be used for the execution of five murder ers condemed to die far murder, Governor Bleasedias granted re-, spites to all of them. They were all to have ben executed early in July but the first execution will take place on August sixth. Sam Hyde, the man from Ander son, who was convicted of mur dering his wife and father-in-law and condemed to die on July 5 will be executed on September 3. Hyde asked to be the first to be seated in the death chair but ac cording to the governor's order there will be several to die be fore his time comes. Never Too Old To Wed. Atlanta, Ga. , June 18. A. wo rn an who is on the shady side of 75 years of age is not too old to marry, in the opinion of the writer of a letter to a local news paper from Spicelands, Ind.j who says that she is open to a pro posal of marriage from some southern man with a home. in the south, far from the cold climate Of her state. . - . The writer stated that the as pirant for her hand mustr be at least 75 -years old, as that is her age. According to the woman, whose romantic nature evidently has not been dulled by the. pres sing of years, her husband died about three years ago and she is not averse to again 'entering on the state of wedlock. ; . : ' Post Office Robbed. . -Steuben ville, Qhio, June47. Robbers raided the mining town of Parlett, blew the postoffice safe, and stole five hundred dol lar s. escaping.ina : hand car.ffV WOULD ME ADVERtlSE? , . Mr. Meekius was habitually all that thev first Jsyllahle of . this name -miglit imply, but' a day came when the worm turned , at last and spoke his 1 mind freely to that other- member of " the domestic firm who, had assumed lead ership.' Mrs. M-r--, stood- aghast and then remarked "ominously:,; i: L ''TimotKy, you'd regret those words if you f hould-suddenly lose your wife." " "Oh., I don't want to lose her," came the cheerful -retort, 'but' iher are times when I'd like very much to mis lay her for a few hoursV-Harper's Bazar. - " - .. - Theory and . Practice, "I am a friend of the :people, said he." "The people must rule." , "But," reported a courtier, "the . peo ple are opposed to - the measure you propose. They don't want it." v "They don't, eh?" said, he, banging the table. "I'll show 'em. If they op pose me I'll slap ; a tax; .on the lawn mowers, and make every one. of .'era sweat for it." .' By Mutual Concession. "So you've named the baby at last," remarked -.the caller. : . - t - ''Yes.'r said the young ,- professor. "My wife insisted jon ,'Clarence,' and I was equally determined on 'Pytha goras,' so we . compromised, and . bis full name is Clarence: Pythagoras Mc Goozle. Sounds rather striking, don't you think?" Vi : ; - UP-TO-DATE. Mrs. Newwed- "He who rocks the cradle rales the world;" dont forget that. ' ' - '' ;. '"' ' - Mr. Newwed Then you come in and rule the world awhile; I'm tireL A Sad Awakening. - A dreamer of dreams woke up one day And wfeat do you think he femnd? 9 A. bundle of bills that; he-could not pay And collectors snooping around. Handles $37,000,000 At 72. New .York,- June 14. Miss Christiana Arbuckle, 72 years old, "Was appointed administra trix in Brook'yn today of the great estate of her brother, the late John Arbuckle. The estate of the coffee and sugar dealer is estimated at $37,500,000. ' ; Miss Arbuckle was appointed administratrix over the protests of the public administrator, who contended tlat she was disquali -fied by her residence in Pitts burg, Pa. ' Twenty-Six Killed. : Kansas City, Mo., June 16. - Twenty-six persons are known tfi" have been killed and many in jured by x a storm that passed Over central west Missouri, late Saturday, demolishing buildings tearing $own wires and leaving the smaller : towns and country homes completely wrecked. Killed By Officer. Rock Hill, June 16. Henry H. Putnam about 20 years old, an employe of the Victoria cotton mill, was shot" " and almost in stantly killed by Policeman Eu banks on the Southern's track near the mill this morning, about 5 o'clock. ' : Foolish Dare Ends in Death. St. Joseph, Mo. June 14. T PhiHp Scheibe and Henry El more, two - "young ( men " were found dead in their rooms, hav ing swallowed striehnine in -beer last night; after they dared each other, to do'so,.- - J ' Interurban an(L Southern Agree " After several days in which a , number of hitches are said to', -have ' developed, the v Southern Railway has agreed ; to, co-oper-'1 ate with the Piedmont & North ern lines in" the 5 building of - arif. . underpass, for the latter atv Gas- . tonia and to this .end ;the corf--struction forces of the; twp sys- terns will meet tomorrow there1 to begin the work. The. -Southern .-r has' ordered its bridge-building-. crew to be ',at Gastonia tomor-"' row. morning and the Piedmont : & Northern : Company ' has in- . structed its construction ? forces-" to Have all the necessary:; ; mate rial at this time 'so that the gangs of thel Southern road'inay be able to begin work immedi- . ately. - - - ' v . - The report.that the Southern v had'secured a restraining order against the Piedmont & Northern?. ' to prevent the' buildings of an-o underpass under " the i tracks at ; j Gasionia is erronepus; it being'- ' denied at the local oftices of 1 the V interurban system. ' There seem-; v ed, howe v er to have, been some j " difliculty, in getting the construe- ; : tion forces, of the Southern, which .will have charge of -the building of the. underpass, to . take up the work as the Interur- , ; ban officials wanted. Nothing: -1. was said here as to anyinterfer-;. i; -? ance on the part of the. South- ' . ern to the building of the pass -: -under its tracks. Jlad the South- -ern taken this course', the Pied-: inont & Northern system . would!- " , have been put to a great . disad-. vantage as well as expense. Its-- . ; point where the road will the southern, nearly a mile this- way from Gastonia. Its surveys- were made into Gastonia withi the understanding , that . the"; Southern would give "the necess ary right-of way go under itsij tracks at a designed point and v had refusal bee given at the last moment, the survey of the inter urban lines would necessarily : have : been changed and greatu . delay encountered in getting into Gastonia." At present ; passen-; ? gers are walking! to Vihd from - the end of the line, into Gastonia j and the offiicials have been anx ious to get into th heart of the town as soon as possible., v They have given the people of', , (Gastonia assurance that the road : would be completed to the sites s, that have been selected for de pots by July 4, . this being the J occasion of a great celebration l that is proposed for that town. ; To Carry out this pledge, it will" be necessary for the officials to concentra.e every effort towards . the construction of the remain ing mile of road in addition to the building of " the .deiass.. : Ofilciols of the interurh$-fe!; saidli yestercay that the Southenhad : conceded that it would" require only four or five jdaysv to, build this pass if all the material was -placed, at the disposal of its con- -struction. forces and' the interur ban people have been hauling in--thei material for the past few;: days so that there will be no let up in the work when it is pnce started. The 'abutments.; have 7 already been built and all that; is: necessary to be done now is to'1 excavate under the Southern's tracks and'lay the roadbed. The officials are certain - that " this work will be - completed by the" middle of next week if nothing' turns up to ;.hinder operations, and that the road will be run ning ibto the sheds at Gastonia bv July 4.'-Charlotte Observer?. June1 19th. vV'f; ? SubwribKfor:;.th A. '' "if,1--;! '-X, -V it V
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