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. -,v;..-v..-: ; ': if- t.v. t'f'-'-'V'.''-'; I 1 AAA i .. .. m 4 1 1 Ik. i. I 1 1 1 U 0 want -Le3is,ature to- ' .v; 'Itm flT nfll riflli riinn Law That Will Be Binding Fr All i;JVj; - ,, , :, . v.js -PVI nHLciun maj A VERY SUCCESSFUL CON VENTION ASKED FOR STATE AID IN MOVEMENT. MANY NOTABLE ADDRESSES Or. Joseph Hyde Pratt Was R-elected . President and Treasurer, George R. Boyd Secretary. . Charlotte " Was Chosen As Next Meeting Place. Raleigh. The North. Carolina Drainage Association closed a success ful convention and elected the follow ' ing officers; ' . Dr. Joseph Hyde . Pratt, r-elected president and treasurer; George B. Boyd of Wilson, secretary. . Charlotte was chosen as the next place of meet ing.. , ", The convention adopted a resolution asking the legislature to. create th,e of fice of state drainage engineer; to authorize the acceptance py state tanks of drainage bonds as security and to make interest on these bonds payable by the state T treasurer. The convention commended the teaching of agriculture in the public- schools, favored all movements . looking to ward immigration and: asked the fed eral government to make a topo grahpical and soil map of the swamp lands. The feature of the. session was the address of Congressman John H. Small on' the need of a higher stand ard of public servants. He developed thjsidea fully and showed that indi vidual effort mustv-falJL, before co-operation on - the part of the citizens of a community. By co-operation the public schools are thriving, good roads are becoming more general and the swamps are to t be 1 made highly productive. One planter cannot handle-drainage, declared Mr. Small, but a hundred planters can. : Revenue Officer Makes Arrest. ' United States Deputy Marshall Sam uel Lilly, placed Joseph Buck, colored under arrest at Vanceboro, on a war rant charging him with retailing spir ituous liquors without a government license. There has been; a, warrant out for Buck for some months but ir some way' he learned of this and had managed to elude the revenue men for a time. He was brought to New Bern and taken before United States Commissioner Chas. B. Hill for a pre-, liminary hearing. : Owing to the ab sence of several .of the government's witnesses, he was required to give f bond for his appearance. Failing to . do this he was committed to the coun ty jail. Death Toll of Wreck Reaches Nne. The death toll, of ' the . Seaboard wreck near Granite reached the total of nine when Willis Pope, negro por ter, of train No. 84, died of his inju ries in St Agnes hospital. - He was brought to the hospital the day; of the wreck. Pope, it is said, was in the baggage car at the time of the fatal crash and was severely scalded on the head, face and hands. He wat unconscious and when placed in the hospital there was some hope of hif recovery. The other injured in the wreck brought to Raleigh hospital, G. - V. Bryan, of Vaughan, and J. T. Bry ant, of . Richmond, are getting along very well. ' - Surveying Beaufort Harbor. A party of eleven men is now en gaged in surveying C2pe Lookout har bbr for the proposed harbor of refuge to be built there by the government. The crew is in charge of W. H. Banks, and is comprised of efficient men. The work of surveying will probably be completed about February 1. It i; reported that the Norfolk Southern agent in Morehead- City has had in quiriesj from the headquarters in Nor folk 'as to the facilities for handling materikl f o rthe harbor of refuge pf o ject from that pointy and estimates on the cost of transporting rock from the linland to the cape by boat. Halsey Found Dead by Road. 'phone message- f rpm the nortn sideW the county brings the news to Jeff etson .that Bud Halsey. was found dead by the road. He was out with 1 his teAm, which had run away, and it was fiist thought that he was killed , in the runaway, but later that-he had been shot. A bullet hole is reported to have been found in his head. It is though that, thfe shooting, frighten ed his horses and caused them to run away. He leaves a family and many inenas. inr-ni legislature to Pass a Primaryt i-aw That Will Be Binding For All : Political Parties. Raleigh.-rThe impression . is strong among--pubilc men' here that the leg islature that is to .convene in Janu aryVili ' have . about its hardest fight over the passage of a state primary law that will be binding for all po litical parties There ? was a- strong effort to pass such a bill two '-years ago, but iff ailed after one of, the most spirited debates the house had. This time it is said that there will be much stronger forces behind it and that the indicatons are that it will be enacted into law without doubt.. The strongest opposition among the Democrats two years ago to the primary bill were the western members. This time National Committeeman Josephus Daniels sand a number of others of the strongest party leaders are determined in their purpose to secure such a law at he hands of the incoming legislature. . There are indications that a decid edly progressive measure that is sure to be urged upon the legislature is that for initiative and referendum, possibly in some, modified form. It s the prevailing opinion here that such an act will not have as smooth sail ing as a state primary act is expected to have. It is understood . that the initiative tand referendum measure will probably be off erect 'by on. E. J. Justice of Greensboro, who Is an earn est advocate if this system. x It. looks like there is sure to be some , sort of a modified form of Tor-rens- system for land titles' enacted. It is not generally believed that the incoming legislature will . be progres sive to any marked degree. . North Carolina New Enterprises. . Tw.o insurance companies wer. chartered by the secretary . of state and a total of five corporations au thorized. . "With Havelock, Craven county, as the home office, the Grand Lodge of Home Protection of . North Carolina was chartered, George Mc- Cully, Abraham Dennis, -Allen ' E. w. rteiijamui, w . i . ueorgeA. ru. xr ei- ham, D. C. Cooper, George W. Chance and A. L, Cully being the incorpora tors. The company does a mutual in surance business. The Forest City Loan and Insurance Company, home office at Forest City, begins work' with $1,500 paid up capital. The shareholders are G. E. Young, W. W. Hicks and J. F. Alexander. The Tide water Grocery Company, of Wilming ton, pays $525 and goes to work with R. B. Stone, B. C. Stone and J. H Stone as stockholders. y -r ; . -r-r-r- m1 trt ' T- 1 Forestry Association to Meet. The third annual convention of the North Carolina Forestry Association will be held in Raleigh on Wednes day, January 15, 1913. All who are interested in any phase of ' this sub ject either as owjigrs of woodland or. as users of lumber; or as those just interested in the prosperity of the state are cordially Invited to at tend. Some of the most prominent foresters and conservationists in this country," it is expected, will' be among the speakers, and a very interesting and' successful ' meeting is promised. Many of the best known business and professional men all over the state are members of the association and their coming together to discuss such top ics as "Improved Methods of . Manage ment for Forest Land," "Perpetuation of Our Eastern Pine Forests," "Pro tection of Our Forests from Fires," must result in great good to the pres ent and future welfare of the state. For A Rural Mail Route. The governor has been requesteu by the postmaster general' and the secretary of agriculture to have se lected in this state a suitable road about fifty miles long, over which there is delivery of mail by rural car-' riers; and he has been informed by them that when arangements . are, , made by the state of North Carolina or any of its local sub-divisions to raise $20,000, the United States will1 set aside $10j000 additional from the ' appropriation granted y congressfor" such purpose, and that the govern ment will expend the sum of $30,000 thus provided or so much of it as seems, wise, for the improvement and maintenance of the jroad selected. Columbus County School Tax. . Columbus county has made its spe cial school tax districts 42 by its latest election and district No. 4 was the last to carry. "It is a small district,1 but only one vote was cast against Lthe proposition. Tw.enty-five voted. for it, one against it and eighteen, did hot participate in the election. ' The levy is ten cents on $100 of property and 2p cents on the poll. Such is the sys tern of school tax districts in- Co lumbus that the county now raises $21,000 by taxation. Only a few coun ties kmay surpass this record, y ..... ; yr. -v m i mi 4 .-:?.: i '4 This remarkable photograph" just received from -the scene Of the Bulgarian operations in front Of Adrian ople shows a great body of Turkish prisoners on the inarch, guarded by the Bulgarians who captured them. - FOOTBALL KEEPS OP FATAL Sixteen Deaths of Players Re corded This Year LIST OF INJURED SHORTER Compared ' with Sixty-seven Mn 191-1 and Forty-three in 1910. Chicago. Sixteen deaths and . forty one persons seriously injured were the cost of football during the year 1912. This shows a falling off in the number injured fr,om the two previ ous years.' In 1911 . fourteen persons were killed and sixty-seven seriously injured, and in 1910 there, were four teen killed and forty-three injured. The season also, shows a smaller list of victims among the college play ers. This year there were thirty col lege men hurt and one man killed. Three college players were killed in 1911 and forty, injured. In 1910 there were four killed and nineteen injured. Details of Casualties. The following table shows the casu alties of football in 1912, as compared with former years: ; DEATHS. '1912. 1911. High school players. ..... 4 6 College players 1 3 Other players;.. 11 5 1'""0. 5 4 . 5 14 1 0 7 4 3 14 19 13 1 ia 43 Totals 16 CAUSES OF" DEATH. Body blows.., 5 Injuries to. . spine 0 Concussion of brain. I.... 4 Blood poisoning.. ...i 0 Other causes....... 6 Total 15. INJURED. College players. 30 High school players...... 9 Grade school players 2 Athletic club players..... 0 14 1 3 3 0 7 14 40 20 1 6 67 Totals 41 The followingr is a list of the dead and how they were killed: Earl Close, at Illiopolis, 111., November 20; . member of the Illiopolis High School football team; seventeen years old. Re ceived internal injuries in- a game with the Auburn High School eleven. He lived four days. Leonard Cummings, dt Pittston, Penn., November 20.; member of the Dunmore High School eleven;- eighteen years old. Four days before his death his neck was broken in a game with the West Pittston High School team. William Conley, at Pittsburgh, Novem ber 22; eighteen " years old. Died from internal injuries received in a game on November 9. Clair Fitzgerald, . at Omaha, November 18; eighteen years old. His neck was broken in a game at Valley, Neb. He lived three days.- ' Hugo Geil, at Oregon, Mo., October 28; high school player. 'He died from concus sion of the brain. Charles E. Hines, Jr., at Haverford, November 21. He was on Haverford Col lege team and died from internal injuries. James" Lyrich, at Bridgeport, Conn., October-20. He was nwenty years old, and death was due to fracture of the skull. Amos Pestridge, at Burlington, N. J;, November 14; grammar school, player. He died from internal injuries. Acton, Schrontzj at Ikngmont, Col., Oc-J tober 2. He died from a fractured skull. Lane Mason, at Indianapolis. He re ceived fatal injuries in a game at the Indiana capital, and was buried from JVlOUnt .fUiaSKl, liu, on reuruai j Edward Silvers, at McKeesport, Penn., October 19. He was fight ' guard on the McKeesport Olympics. In a game with the Johnstown All Stars Silvers's skull was crushed during a scrimmage. Joseph I. Van Rossum, at Merrill, Wis., September .29; fourteen years old.; He was knocked unconscious, , sustaining con cussion of the brain, and lived only a few William"' White, aged sixteen, at Nash ville, Tenn.'. November 23. A week before his death his side was injured, and he was taken to Nashville for an operation for, appendicitis; but was too weak to un dergo it. He was a member of the Bran ham and Hughes football team, Spring Hill, Tenn. : , " : . n TOLL ONIfHE " - if LAWRENCE STRIKE LEADERS GO FREE Ettor. Giovannitti and Caruso of I. W. W.Not Guilty GET OVATION AT THE MILLS mMmmmm If m Pip SenoasJy5rliction of' Strike Murvef - Case4f?- Liberates Men State Held Respons- . . ible for Death of Anna Lctpizzo, Killed in Riot atOills. Salem, Mass. A verdict of "Not guilty" was returned by the jury in the case of Joseph J. Ettor, Arturo Giovannitti, and Joseph Caruso for the murder of Anna Lopizzo, ; who was killed in a Lawrence textile strike riot January 29. Judge Quinn then told the men they were at liberty to go convicted lawyer a full pardon. -where they would. Nominal fine of j His release, was delayed many $100 was fixed . on the remaining j hours because the pardon from Gov indictments against Caruso, charging i ernor Dix, which was to have been de nim with rioting. j livered at the prison, by a special mes Bail to the amount of $500 was i senger, "was put in the mail by mis fixdd for similar indictments against take and went, astray. , Patrick, as he Ettor and Giovannitti, and the bonds, for all were promptly furnished. It was made plain that they would prob ably never be tried on the outstanding indictments, and that at a later date the indictments would be called up and dismissed on formal motion. " Court was then adjourned and the doors of the' room were thrown open to admit the dozens of friends waiting to greet the released prisoners, who held an impromptu reception in front of the cage which had confined them. Scores of frantically happy men al most smothered the three defendants with kisses. Then Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso led the Way down Wash ington street, followed by about 300 people, to Salvation Hall, where there was much speaking. Lawrence, Mass. Thousands of per sons greeted 'with red lights and cheers the return to this city of Ettor, Giovannitti, and Caruso, who were ac quitted at- Salem of charges of murder in connection with the death of Anna Lopizzo - during the textile strike here last Winter. Women with babes in their arms joined in the demonstra tion, which gathered in volume as the crowd surged with the three acquitted men through the, principal streets of the city to Lexington Hall, the head quarters here of the Industrial Work ers of the World, j The cheering was centinuous. From every side streetin j the tenement district flocked hundreds ; of operatives carrying Ted lights. FATAL SULPHUR WORKS FIRE. Explosions Start . Flames and They $p read to Haymarket. , . Brooklyn. Five men were hurled into the East River, and seventeen i others were-hurt SO badly they were taken to hospitals by a series of ter- brave-hearted . little . woman who- mar rific explosions which wrecked the ried him tenf-years ago when1 he was plant of the Union Sulphur Works at j-about -to be taken from the Tombs. the. foot of North,' Tenth, street Wil-j liamsburg. In all thirty-four persons j were injured. Fire which followed- the exphrsions destroyed the works, spread to the haymarket of the j .bad no word to offer until he had "re Brooklyn JEJasterri District Terminal gained his perspective," abandoned Company and for a ; time threatened himself to a feast sweetened by the the tanks of the Brooklyn Union Gas j breath of freedcra so unexpectedly Company. J given Jiim. , , . - MARCH , mm si r 5fS:-: GOV. DIX PARDONS LAWYER Man Convicted of Killing Million aire Free After T2 Years ENDS AMAZING MURDER CASE WfsS lA 'HeperflJjsja Case Pi Court to Court -and Appealed to Every Governor, Prepared Thanks giving Dinner for Him. New York. Believing . Albert T. Patrick innocent of 'the murder of Wil liam Marsh Rice in 1900,'for which he was serving a life sentence in, Sing Sing prison, after escaping the elec tric chair by Governor Higgins' inter- j vention, Governor Dix . granted the quit the prison in which he . had spent j eleven years following his conviction of the murder of 'the Texas million aire, in this city, seemed to be in good health. His face had. ;a; ruddy j glOwt and showed no traces of his long confinement.- - His eyes ' were clear, and, he wore the steel-rimmed spectacles which he adopted soon after he. went, to the death cell- He was said to be fifteen pounds heavier than when he was con victed,: and, though his baldness had increased, there were no gfay hairs in his head He wore the black suit-and black shoes provided by the State for released prisoners, a low, turned-down collar and a fur-lined overcoat belong ing to his, friend, A. R. Barker, of Peekskill, who waited in his automo bile outside the prison to take Patrick to his home in Harlem. As the iron gate of the prison closed behind Patrick, he came slowly up the steps to freedom, his face showing no emotion. At the head of the steps he paused to shake hands with the newspaper reporters who awaited him there. Below, him the prison keepers gathered to watch his' departure. - "I don think I care to make a statement," he said. "I have spent more than eleven years in prison and I realize that in my long incarceration I must have -lost jny perspective as to what has been going : on in the . world dictates that I regain: that i Judgment perspective before I decide upon my future plans. I expect always to cori-; tinue to fight for my vindication, and ! to fight to clear my name of the unjust j stigma which has rested; Jupon ' it.., don't feel . animosity toward any one. My philosophy prevents that. All I can say now is that I am " going back to my wife, who is ill." . - With the release of Patrick began the long-deferred honeymoon with the a joyous reunion it was-for the law- j year who for year3 stood in the shad- ow of the electric chair. Patrick, shut-A tting himself from' the world, saying he I fflSBSL 1M 1 PATRICK Other Bulgar Conditions Practi- caliy Agreed Upon by Turks : fur i. EUROPEAN OUTLOOK CLEARER Albania Now Declares Its Indepemt s" enee--Asks Powers to Save Their ;, ' Country from the Spoil of -.V;:; "War 9,000 Turks Takeru i 1 . - WAR INDEMNITIEC. i v Bulgaria demands from JTrk ey as price of peace : : ' ; : One hundred million dollars. Russia paid Japan; for peace in 1904 No cash.- W G Turkey jgald Russia for peacd , at San Stefano in 1877 No cash. France paid to Germany for peace, 1870 One billion dollars. Constantinople. The Balko-Turk- ish Peace conferees reached a solid.- basis of agreement which augurs well "J for the r early conclusion of negotlar." tions. The delegates are. now. at one on the following four points: . r . 7 1. Adrlanople to remain .Turk ish territory under certain stipu- latlons, including the reduction of ; the fortifications. - ; 1 -r ;V 2. Turkey to enter the Balkan V confederation ; for customs pur r GENERAL DIMITRIEFF When general 6avoff ordered his troops to,, take the Turkish ' positions at .JOrkrKnisseh, 'it xwas "Napoleon" TJimitrieff who received the command and . carried it out with a vigor that swept the enemy completely off their feet. ' . - ' ,; .. ". ,.;-vV.:".:- pose's. . ., The , exacjk conditions of -this partnership are hot, however, ,. definitely fixed., . 3. Autonomy be g ranted to AW ; bania, under the control of the i Allies.' " -. ' ,': ;-i ;:.V . v; A. Macedonian Mpsulmansr In any territories annexed by the coalition, to receive jcertaLn privW leges. , The only serious difficulty in the way of instantly sighing the peaces treaty is Bulgaria's" demand for a war indemnity of 500,000,000' francs ($100,-f 000,000), which Turkey so far refuse to pay or even to consider. , .o Albania Now a. Nation. - Vienna. A telegram from Valona. Albania, says:' ' '. "At a meeting at Valona a gathering' of - a national assembly of delegates from all parts of Albania, without re-, ligious distinction, proclaimed the in dependence of Albania; and constitute tnere8idenCy of Ismail Kernel Bey - ; . . ,:- ' Take 9,000 Prisoners. ' , . Sofia:-Two entire divisions of Turk- ish reserves surrendered to the Bui- gaTiah troops near the village of Mar-r- -hamli.v A fierce fight ''preceded . the; capitulation. The Turkish force was., commanded by Yader Pasha. ;..v ' - Two generals, 252 Turkish officer j and 8,879 men surrendered. , ,- . 1,500 LETTERS DAMAGED. ;- BoxeV- Contained. $10,000000 J ;' "' . Vandals' Used Acidsh When London. About 1,500 postal packets were- damaged in L'onddri by the in- troduction of acids. Daint andInk into the pillar post boxes. " Of this number the mall clerks were able to. decipher the addresses oh about. 1,000. . - One estimate places the Value of checks in the mail boxes around the' i Siccfe Exchange at $10,000,000. I . V ' r . 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