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- : , -an , i- i' .'-is VOL. I. CITY, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER II, 19!2 NO. 33. ?"l "ID lil n- f'OS flDV ; WAYS TO ; DJE SULZEH JAr.lEO SUOUARINE IS i SUNK. BY LINER S fiEFf 4 ? f FOR GOVERNOR UNIVERSITY FACULTY'S HAZIHC . - ----- - . n .-o-- r. ' "... 3, . - """" - v N TJTT 17" TTr'TID A- HTVPlTnT - - BESSEMER ' ' '- ....., - - - ; :. .... - . ' 1 t z r 1 : : ; 1 ' ' ; BUT SHE - v I FALLING 75 FEET. THE MACHINE WAS SMASHED A Wealthy Young Man Was Taking a Party of Friends Home After an -Evening Spent -in" Riotfng-List of the Dead Given. Philadelphia. Nine Tung meir lost their lives - when an automobile j in. which they were joy - riding crashed, through the railing on the ide of the new Twenty-third Street Boulevard, at Master street and fell into a; coal yard 75 feet below. The machine, a big touring car, turned turtle in the de scent and the J occupants; were found crushed and. mangled . in the hood of the machine. The body of the car was smashed to splinters. The dead are: : Robert A. Boyd, 27 years old; Gordon H. Miller, 21; Wil liam M. Lawrence, 25;" Edgar Shaw, 19 ; Thomas Nevin, 18 ; ! Daniel J. Wilkes, 25 ; Jess"e Holmes, 23 ; Er nest Schofield, 27 ; t Robert Geisel, 22, - all were from Philadelphia. Edgar M. Shaw, 19 years old, a son of James Shaw, a lumber merchant, who owned, the car, was taking. a party of his friends home after an evening spent in ' various cafes -and saloons. Nine Jfpung men were in the machine and six others were m a smaller auto mobile when the party came at ter rific speed down Thirty-third street. In turning to avoid the smaller auto mobile which was in the-lead Charles I.; Spayd, T?ho was aiving an . auto mobile, collided with . the rear , wheel of the Shaw machine. . The heavily Joaded car swerved and crashed!' through the iron railing of ie bridge. - When those in the-other machine" had -made their way to ther coal yard, " only, one occupant of. the ill-fated car showed any sign of life and he died shortly after at the hos--pital. The others were all pronounced dead when the institution was reach ed. - - . . " Operators Must Have License. Washington. Four - hundred wire less equipped American ships, nearly one hundred ' commercial wireless stations, many more stations con nected with colleges, schools and ex perimental laboratories and several thousand amateur wireless stations : and the disquieting internal conaiuon are affected by the regulations pro-1 of Turkey might induce the Porte to mulgated by acting Secretary Cable seek a way out of the difficulties in of the .Department of Commerce and '. war. - ' ' Labor to enforce the radio-communi- Alexandria, Egypt. The officers of cation beginning December 13. The the Greek army reserve here Jave re act estabUshes a , complete Federal.; ceived telegraphic in the --.--- colors Immediately. A Constantinople w 3 . - . . . ; tion andrrequires licensing ot aiwire- r 1pSS nnerators .working across state 1 lines or In communication jwith ships at sea. Mexican Rebels Slaughter. Mexico" City. Word was brought into Holuca, southwest of here, of the almost total, annihilation of a detach ment of rural guards and a number ol . women and children in a fight with "j TIanatlsta. rnhpla near SulteDec The sole survivors of the rurales and their party three men and a woman staggered into Toluca. They said the detachment V of sixty ' rurales " with a number of women and children was stationed on & hill near Sultepec and was surprised -by the rebels ' while feeding their horses. y Falls 200 Feet and Lives. - ' Washington. Falling in' an aero plane from more than 2,200 feet 'in the air and escaping with only a few scratches was the remarkable expe rience of William Kabitzke,' a profes sional aviator for the Wright Com pany, at the army aviation school at J College Park Md. Kabitzke .wtfs at tempting to complete a 2-hour engine endurance test and had flown 34 min utes when the engine' suddenly stop; ped and the aeroplane - started a rapid descent. - - --. . . - Americans and Nicarauguans Clash. Washington. In a gallant assault, American marines and bluejackets drove the Nicarauguan revolutionary leader, General Zeledon, and ; his forces from Coyotepe and Barrancas Hills, near Masaya, but in the action four privates of the 'United States Ma rine Corps were killed and a number were wounded;; 'The : victory of ; the Americans opened, the. way for the Nicaraguan government troops to as sault the town of Masaya, which they took from the revolutionist! . and the starving inhabitants were .relieved.- . WAR IN BALKAN STATESJMMINENT Bulgaria, Servia and Greece - : Wow ThreatenTurkey MOBILIZING THEIR FORCES Peace Has Not Yet Been Broken and HHppe Is Expressed in the Official Quarters That War Will Not Be Outcome of Tangle. " r Belgrade, Servia. War prepara tions are being carried on" with fever ish haste. General mobilization of the Seryian army has been ordered and, it is expected, will be well under way in twenty-four hours., ; j According to newspaper reports, the I Servian Minister to Turkey, Dr. vNena-dovitehi- lifto - left CerggtajtrUitiplp : Hfl i Belgrade. ' " Belgrade ia seething with excite menL ' The " streets - are full of uni formed reservists, : and the ' railway stations are crowded with men on their way to join the colors." - The mobilization of the Bulgarian army simultaneously with that of Ser- via has added enthusiasm to the occa sion. - - . -; :-':" '--." - Athens. The Greek government, in agreement with other Balkan states, ordered the -mobilization of her forces by sea and by land. .The reason given for this step is apprehension on the part of the Balkan states that the mobilization of the Turkish army Htonfltrh ah.tr that all Greek vessels Liki tn'Wve to leave Turkish waters. Constantinople. The Servian min ister handed a notice to the Porte and the manner of its . presentation and the nature of its text practically amourtt to an ultimatum from ; the Serb country Servia asks Turkey to Ap. within forty-eight hours whether to allow" the detained; war munitions to goto Servia or to be re- turned France. to the manufacturers in London. The situation in the Bal kans has assumed a' .most menacing aspect, and indiplomatic quarters in London . it is regarded as extremely serious. . '.' . ' ". t : . " CHEAP BEEF HO MOREWILSON. Secretary of Agriculture Advises the People to Resort to Mutten. Washington. "I see no hope of beef getting much cheaper said Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agricul ture. Fresh from a vacation in the West, Mr. Wilson declared there was, a much greater scarcity .of cattle than he : had r realized.. '. .v.:.:. "The breeding grounds' of stock cat tie," said Mr Wilson, "have beenr.given. over to the homesteaders There -V 7 a supply of meat .that people should be come accustomed to eating mutton. Muttonon the hoof i lee than half the price of beef." - "AUNT DELIA" IS .'88. President Sends Gifts to Relative on Her Birthday. MiUbury, Maes. Mtea Delia C. Tor rey, known as President Taft's "Aunt Delia" observed her birthday tere. She U eighty-eight years old. Friends ' called at the ..Torrey man: slon,on Elm street, and MIss Torrey received: maiiyromembrances, ins- ons from "Will."; Only . a 1 ttle while ago Aunt Delia entertained the President .on his, birtnaay. EXPLOSION KILLS 3 ON DESTROYER -' 1 "... . ,-..' ; . v. ' - -v -. .... . 4a T Lieiit. Morrison and Two Ma chinists Victims on the Walke STEAM CHEST BLOWS OUT Men Go Down in Steam Filled Engine Room to Bring Up Injured Dead S Officer Had JusfBeen Official-. . . . ly Commended for Bravery. Newport," R. I. The explosion of the forward end of - the port turbine, to gether with the steam chest, on the torpedo-boat destroyer r':.-Walke.;-;off Brenton's Reef Lightship Instantly killed Lieut. Donald P. Morrison, the chief engineer officer, and wounded I Erht rttiwra ttrn" of Trrlinwii. J ?JSI.Zi Rumpf and H. Wilder, both ma chinists' mates of the first, class, died on board the hospital ship Solace T B. Crawford, ..gunner's mate of the destroyer Patterson, one of the umpires named to watch' the speed tests of the Walke, and John Delaney, a . first-class fireman of the Walke, were f atallyinjured.. . , ..' , By a coincidence, Admiral Andrews, Acting Secretary of the Nayy, had forwarded to Lieut. Morrison a letter commendiag him for bravery in say ing the life of a seaman Sept. 22 last The - missive -Wasrceiye after the. officer's death. ; ' . Others injured, are. Lieut. Robert L. Montgomery of the destroyer Fan ning, and umpire of the speed tests; D. S." Kelly, chief4 machinist's mate; W. E. Kraus, oiler; F. B. Conway, oil er. ' The accident, the only one of its kind on record, occurred as the Walke was starting" on- her- second quarterly trial and ; xp to- this time naval officers have been unable to fix the cause. At the moment of the ex plosion the umpires named to- watch the test and fully & dozen -men were in the vicinity and that any - escaped with their lives is considered remark able, r . "The discipline of the crew is said to' have been perfect and their, con duct in leaping down into the steam Qlled engine room to carry put their wounded comrades brought the high est praise from their, superiors.' " -J Lieut, Charles It. Train, the com manding officer, who was on the brdge at the time of the explosion, handled, the situation In a way to gain him per sonal commendation v from Rear-Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, commander of the-Atlantic fleet, who "boarded the de stroyer " later. A '.V ":'.:?,'s ' '"..'. '2 TWO JERSEY CONVENTIONS. Republicans, and Democrats Meet at - 'S Trenton Simultaneously - Trenton, . N. J. Republican and Democratic stated : v conventions at which Presidential., electors were, nominated and 'state platforms adopt ed were held in Trenton the same af ternoon without creating eyen a stir of excitement in the f political VatnidV' phere. '. :-C: XrX:y:'' :X- Representatives of, the woman suf frage ' movement appeared at- both conventions and , asked for s recogni tion. - The Republicans- inserted -v a plank in ther platform declaring for woman suffrage. The ; Democrats omitted such a plank on the ground that the calling of a constitutf3nal convention, -which their platform ad vocated, would sufficiently cover the situation. -v- , - The;, Hudson delegation in the Re publican i convention refused to": sub scribe to .the planks "indorsing Presi dent .Taft and his administration. The votevstood 54 to 9 In favor of the Taft propbsitlbn.' '.T - -; Nominated on Fourth Ballot by v Democrats at Syracuse 6LYNM IN SECOND PLACE tew YorkeUgaterrepId to Ex- :Vi8'helr;iOwnFw -Was toyala - vided at the . First Roil Call. : DEMOCRATIC , STATE, TICKET.; FoF Governor Will iam lzerbf Ne York. v ; -" For Lieutenant-Governor Martin H. Glynn, of Albany, : - . : 7S For i Secretary of State---M Itchel L 'Ms'yof ;.kings.v;,'i7i;-s v .1 'S:. For Comptroller--Wniiairi Sohmer, of New York. . " :. r" V-f For Attorney-General Thomas Car ;ndy)f?f;atf8 ,$-7J - FjpriTfeasurer-7-John j.-Kenneay, ot Eriet v . -VU ' - '! ' 'jf(Sr State Engineer, and. Surveyor Job n A. Bensel, of New York. ; For Justices of the Court of Appeals -Alohn W."Hogan, of OnondagV, Will iam H. Cuddeback, of Erie. - ' Convention - Hall, Syracuse.-Con-gressman William Sulzer of i'ftew York. City was-nominated for Gover nor on tSe fouyth. ballot by the Demo cratic State Convention.' The name of Gov. Dix was" withdrawn on this ballot and there was a' rush to . the STOzer standard.- Sulzer had led after the first ballot, when Dix showed his greatest strength with 147 votes.: - Martin H. Glynn of Albany was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor on the first ballot. - - ' . ' i -JThe first ballot resulted as follows: Dix, 147; - sulzer, I2t; . Metz, vu; Glynn,: 46; urd, 28; IJarrison, 21 ; Sohmer, 1: '. . '-; ..' ; ;. . ; On the second, ballot Dix lost 23 arid Sulzer gained 15; Senator O'Gorman got-l-xote ; Metz ; lost 2 ; Harrison same; Glynn lost 3. r . ; The break to Sulzer began on the third ballot. Erie gave him 8, Jeffer-, son 6, -Onondaga 9, Franklin 3, Mon roe 3, New York 9,. Orleans 3, Oswego 3, Otsego 3, Wayne 3, Westchester 4. . WILLIAM 8ULZER, Congressman From New York. The name of W. B. Ellison was ..in jected into the. contest, New York giv ing him one vote.- Murphy did not vote on this ballot. ' , The result of the third ballot was as follows : Sulzer, 195 ; Dix, 87, Har rison, 91 ; Glynn, 21 ; Burd, 9 ; Metz, 10 ; Dowling, 4 ; Wagner, 3 ; Sohmer,. 1 ; Gerard, 1 ; Ellison, 1 r O'Gorman, 1 ; George W. Batten, 1. v Before the fourth "roll was half completed it was evident that "Sulzer Hwas the victor. Then Herman A. Metz of Kings withdrew his : name; and Senator Robert F. Wagner! cast he solid vote of New York County (105 votes) tor Sulzer, making his ; nomina tion certain, amid the- greatest ap plause. ..There was a roar of approval. At 1.30 o'clock a. mv, nominations for- other offices were called for. .Wil liam Cook of Albany named ' Martin H. : Glynn for- Lieutenant-Governor. On' behalf of Kings County, Walter C. Burton seconded the nomination. New York, Monroe . and a dozen other counties followed suit Mrl- Glynn was namedDy acclamation. - v The platform adopted by the Demo cratic State : convention hot only de clares that the administration of Gov. Dix has been efficient, clean : and economical 'but that all the progres- s?ve principles of the Rochester plat-J form on which Gov Dix was elected have been! redeemed., --T:'-'::'f Britisfi WaK Y essel Cut in Two 1 . and 15 Perish ' VAS HIT BY THE AMERIKA Secon o nicerPJcfced 1 Up, Too .ek ?ti hausted to Tell of H is Terrible v ; w ' Experience Sixth Submarine . j ., . - -.-Lost- by -England.' Dover,. England. Fifteen ' officers and men of ; the British submarine ' B-2 were drowned off the ; coast of ' Ient . when jthe s Hamburg-American liner Amerika ,cut the" submarine in two. Lieut Percy B. O'Brien commander, of the smaller ;vessel, was drowtied, and the; only survivgr; was Lieut. Richard I.rPulleyne, second in command,,; who was ; rescued in an exhausted condi- tion.; -.U The -Aniorika's bow ry was merely scratched, and v she . proceeded ' to Southampton after informing the rest of the flotilla of submarines of details as to the accident. The B-2 was maneuvering with five other .submarines off the South Fore land. There was a,thick haze.' An hour after the maneuvers began; the accident occurred. , The big. liner cut the smaller vessel in two as if it had been of match woodv The Amerika: stood by and threw put life belts.;. Lieut Pulleyne, the only, one -saved, was too exhausted to say "more than : "The submarine is cut-in two. I went down a. mile." . :, I . ' - The second officer of the Amerika said that he was on the bridge at the time of the accident and that the red light of the submarine came up just ahead of the Amerika's bow. , Efforts were -made to aver,t a collision, he said, but the B-2 -was too close. - - The B-2 was built a' year, ago and was one of the newest in the British -navy,' . .. V .: :"-' v.- ' " ; r;-": X ''' arrmrcixtt-M.s UBM A RtN ES France, Great Britain, Russia and Ja pan Heaviest Losers. During the twelve or thirteen years in which the submarine boat has been ! developed . to its present efficiency as a fighting machine it is estimated that nearly 200 lives" have" been, lost by ac cidents. - England has lost six sub marines. :. : ' " :. -. - Since 1904 a total of 17S members of crexvs have been drowned by the sink ing of their boats or by explosions, the principal losses having been in the navies" of France, Great Britain Ru sia and Japan. . . NOMINEE FALLS-DEAD. Dr. G. Knight, Candidate foe Con- " gress," Expires at Meeting. I,akeville, - Conn Dr. George . H. 4 Knight of Salisbury, Republican can didate C for Congress from the fifth district, dropped dead on the stage of Roberts Hall here as he was about to address a political rally at . which he was presiding. ' -: ,77x ?-X - Rising to introduce the .chief speak er, Representative George B. Chand ler, of Rocky Hill, Dr. Knight had spoken hardly more than a dozen words when he collapsed and fell un: conscious to the floor. Mr. Chandler and others sprang to his assistance, raising him from the floor and carry ing him to the rear of the stage. Phy sicians were quickly at his side, but he soon died without having regained consciousness." His daughter, Miss Gertrude Knight, who accompanied him from Salisbury, was with him when he died. His wife arrived a few minutes afterward. : V ' BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN. Get Little Money and Mail on. Kansas V City Southern. ' " Fort Smith, Ark. Four masked men held up and robbed northbound Kan gas City Southern passenger train 4, three miles northeast of Poteau, Okla. - After opening two safes in the ex press car with nitroglycerine, they es caped 'a tMn s i,rht to a halt i near-Poteau by application the air j ler. Gojdsboro. sweet potato vine tB ; -brakes. v Simultaneously two of the Per;; Y. :M. Westmoreland, ; Gress- robbers made their appearance in the ' tq. automatic fire-alarm ; W. 15." . express and baggage car, fqreed the Wine, Washington. N. O, ladder twa 4 express messepger, "baggageman and j or.rHiitnr hPhind a nile of trunks and applied the - explosive to - the safes, while the third bandit stood guard outside the car.- '-r.:, '-"' :.-'Xl . The robbers are said to have got but $45 and some registered letters. . MYSTERY IN MINISTER'S DEATH. The Rev. Dr. Henry .Cranerr Body ' Found In the Water at Norfolk. Norfolk, Va. With bruises on te head and; face, the body of the Rev; Dr., Henry Craner of 25L West Fif- teenth street,' New 'York, was found floating at Roanoke dock. INVESTIGATIQjIS LAID s -FORE COMMITTEE. ! THE CASE REFERRED nDACS V sThe . Synopsis of the." Circumstance hich Led to the-. Exputsiow 'm. ll Susptflslon of the Studentsv Presi- .: dent F. P. Venable's Report.- ; . ':y. Raleigh. After hearing the' repopsi of 'President Venable, and ! listenis to v the defense of D. L. McWbortci a .suspended ': junior, . the - execQtivs committee of the University of NorCx Carolina : declined to go behind ' fZm faculty's probe in the matter 'of -;! ing last" spring and this fall and refer red such matters back to the factdtjv. President Venable made a lengthy re port' in which he said that the faeadV ty, In .investigations of hazing incident to Z the 'Rand affair, had - learned thai sophomores of the previous year had been guilty and these had, so far was possible, . been punished by pension. - . . - Hazing began at the university thia fall even before registration' day. JOu '. first Monday night of opening .week. some sophomores made J freshmen, v dance. 3This was followed Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and on Tfcsxa day night, the night Rand fell fnma v " ! the 'barrel,! three r distinct incldentat " " : ' ) occurred. Freshmen Were made to- .":"- dance, Dr. -Venable said, but. in the 5 investigatioa it' was shown that.-no.-;-sophomore's laid violent hands on the - v; freshmen. V,- X" XhiZi-'t : Seniors and other upper,; classmea - " ' interferred, and in one Instance rfa', - '! 4 ' sophomore drove a "y crowd - from lia ' room. Only 15 men,. as far as contil ; H be learned, had been guilty of haxlnr. . " " - University - men and others in Sal elgh, it is said, do not' approve' of the C ' faculty's action in- going after jlast--'; -f-rear's allegedlhaAali1-- oo iarietcnea. : inose men . suspenaea or expelled have been given the privilege j . ! of appealing to the faeulty. After thecoroner's Inquest and in meeting of the executive committees of the trustees the faculty made . as ; thorough an investigation as. possibte not merely of the Rand hazing, mt of all , hazing this session and of tlto . hazing last spring. . ' v.'..". V Get Lots of Corn Liquor! - ' Rockingham."- Sheriff -Homer : JX Baldwin got wind of a wagon' loaded; with com liquor passing through Rich mond county. The sheriff and his de puties were soon on : the spot wneraP. the wagon .had campedifor the nigldL between .Hoffman and' Hamlet, about two mlle3 from the latter place. Th " wagon was found in charge of a white-' man and a negro, both of whom were asleep. The . vehicle and its contents, some 200 gallons of the wet goods' inv ; barrels, were brought into RockiBfT. ham, and the white man and negro placed in jail. .The. wagon was being--.drawn through the country from Daa ville, Va., and the liquor wasbilled to T. D. Green Lancaster, S. C. ; , !, - Duke Democratic - Club, 'i ' . Duke. There was called a masis . : meeting of the voters of Duke audi Duke township to be held in' the'mo ditorium - for the purpose "pf 'forming: ' a Duke Democratic club. .The . re ' suit y was most encouraging; A. large number of enthusiastic Dexao-.-' crats met and completed the orgaaixav' tion by electing L. E. Standi as pre- ident and E. B. Thomas secretary and, . treasurer. Several committees appointed each with a : specific to . do. Mr, Thomas announced that . he was ready to receive contributtens for the campaign fund and a liberal amount ' was donated. ' - Patents For North Carolinian. Washington. Messrs. Davis tt Da i vis,, patent attorneys, report the grant ; of the following patents to North Car olina ciiuens: b. J. Dixon Lituetesv - extensible window screen; J. L. Ifi . yaieuis. J - ' - ' . v I Pitt Democrats Elect Chairman. Greenville. At a meeting! of the ; Democratic Executive Committee of Pitt countyrC.! O. ! Pierce !was elected -chairman to succeed P. C! TTardhtg; who ; was' " recently, named ' tar pretf-V dential erector for the first; districts- ! Xf-, Cleveland Contributes -$1CZX ' Shelby. Through the efforts of CoL J. vT, Gardner, chairman of the Bezoo cratic Executive . Committee of. tne county $102.50 has been subscribed to the ;Wils6iMarshali campaign ;' v 1
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