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_ } Rates to Subscribers $1.25 per year In Advance Sylvan Yafley News You Can't K^ep Down A Workin^Totvn; LeVs pull together. J. J. MINEK, Manager. BEEVARD, TBANSYLVANIA COUNTY. I. C., FRIDAY. FEBfiUARY 7.1908. m. XI11 Ift TraB^iH CSHlT RAILROAD OFFICES IN BREVARD 6 KILLEDJ The Transylvania Railroad Company Once More in Oiafge of Its Property, Cydone Lail Waste Fanning Sec* tion Itt Mississippi MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGED The most interesting piece of news that has recently come to the people of Transylvania coun ty has culminated here this week. Monday painters were at work kalsomining the rooms formerly occupied by the Transylvania Railroad Company for their ^en eral offices, and it w’as current report that they were to be occu pied again for the same purpose. Monday night Mr. Hays, former ly general manager, arrived, and has Jbeen in our town ever since. it fen’t known whether or not the 50 year lease to the Southern has been canceled, nor on what basis the old officials have taken charge; nor is it material so far as the welfare of our county is concerned. Mr. Hays hus al ways been a hard puller in locat ing enterprises and it is a fore gioe conclusion that his perma nent residence here means the development of Qur resources to a greater extent than would be possible on our own initiative. It seems that the Asheville papers are as much at sea in re lation to the facts of this move as are we, but the following item in the Gazette News of last Satur day contains all that is positively known—and some guess work: The office of general ageut j of the Southern railway at | this place, held by J. F. Hayes, j has been abloished, efft^ctive to- i day and Mr. Hayes will remove to Brevard to assume, it is un derstood, the general manage ment of the Transylvania rail road, which the South*^rn rail way had leased and which it is rumored has now reverted lo the original owners. Mr. Hayes is also an officer of the Toxaway company owning the string of hotels in the Beautiful Sapphire Country. Mr. Hayes, upon his removal to Brevard w II be closely identified with both the railroad and the hotels. The furniture and tixtures of tht^ f)ffices of the general airent in the Electrical building have been packed and loaded on freight cars today for shipment to Brevard. ii 15 bill S ib.ii Rebels Casslng Tropfcls 03 th; Rnssian=Persian frontier. PEOPLE IN STATE OF TERROR 1 European Residents Have Barricaded | Themselves in Their Homes and Ap- ! plied to the Russian Consul for Pro tcction—Rebel Force Increasing. Odess'a, Jan. 31.—A dispatcii has been received here from Julfa. on thp Rufisian-Persiaii frontier, saying that the situation at Tabriz is extre-melv critical. The revolutionaries are in possessioa of the town and' their number is con stantly increasing. Bands of insurgents marcli through the streets of Tabriz, looting and ter rorizing the people. The government has no control oI the situation. The European residents liave barrl>\ caded themselves in their houses and , (have applied to the Russian consul, for Cossacks. The viceroy of the Caucasus has or dered Russian troops to Jnlfa to be in readiness for any emergency. bers and burned to death, while Mr. j Houston had a very narrow escape. | The loss by the Are is estimated at $15,000, with insurance of $6,000. j Found Valuable Jewelc. ' Washington, Jan. 31.—^Some time ago Paymaster Maupin, of the navy, wiiile traveling In France, found a letter bag containing valuable jewels. They were turned over to the Btate department, which, through its agen cies abroad, lias ascertained that a Spanish counteas is advertising for its return. Insitructions have been sent to the department’s representative at Madrid to take sucli steps as will es-, tablish the Identification of owner ship, Wind Tore a Pvthwoy Ntarly a Mile In Width, Partly or Wholly ll^ostrey- ing Every Building in That Area. Dead Animals Marlced Its Path. Wesson, MiEs., Feb. 1.—'Siv per sons were killed outright by a cyclone which laid wast6 "a strip of farmin^f country three-quarters of a mlJe wide and several miles long just north of here Friday. Three persons were probably fatally injured by the cyclone and many others were slightly hurt, when tlieir houses were blown down. A negro who arrived here about dark brought news of the storm and an appeal for aid. The cyclone struck about 4 o'clock p. ra. For a distance of twenty miles in a northwesterly direction the wind tore a pathway nearly a mile wide, partly or wholly destroying n^rly every building in this area. Scores of dead farm animals littered the cy clone’s track. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Maddox was blown almost completely off the premises and Mrs. Maddox’s s>pinal column w'as broken. A negro was found fatally injured in the debris of Robert Littleton’s farm houze. The cotton gin and store of Ras Matthews were almost wholly de stroyed . Surrounding towns not in the direct path cf the storm suffered damage dur ing the few minutes of the cyclone’s duration. At Georgetown buildings were blow'n down and at Hazelhurst two sawmills were destroyed, many fences and several small buildings were blown over. Center Point reported much damage but no loss of life. Martinsvile, which was just on the edse of the storm, escaped with out serious damage. Men in carriages are driving through the cyclone district offering aid to the storm sufferers. GLOVER IS HANGED. URGENT CEFICIENCY BILL. 'Measure Is Passed by the House Car rying Over $23,000,COO. Washington, Jan. 31.—The urgent deficiency appropriation bill was pass, ed by the house Thursday. The to tal amount carried by it is .$23,GG4,- 450, or 5-410,000 less than as reported by the committee. The largest single reduction was that cf $300,OOT) in the clothing fund of the army. When the session was resumed on Thurs'day only a few pages of the bill remained to be disposed of. Includ ed in these was a provision for the appointment of thirty-four addiVIonal policemen for the new house office building. Chairman Tawney urgol the provision because of the necessi ty for protecting such costiy govern ment property and “M guarding the reputation and honor of the mem bers.” Mr. Mann, of Illinois, opposed the provisiori, and It was stricken out on a point of order after considerable dis cussion. Tight Lid In Birmingham. Eirmingliam, Ala., Jan. 31.—Tiiat the reform laws of Alabama are to be extended still further in Birmingham | was evidenced by the announcement! from the sheriff’s' office that in future all cigar and scdawater stores will be closed on Sunday. This is provided: in the new laws, but it is only now to ■ be ecforced. Tnis action is in adui-j tion to stopping Sunday nolf and for- j bidding all social card parties at clubs, hotels or other public places. Estill Estate Appraicfsd. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 31.—The re port of the appraisers of the es-tate of the late J. H. Estill was made Thurs-^ day. It shows the total value of thej estate to be $043,000. The princip il item in this schedule is the Morning News, which is valued at $400,000. The debts against the estate amounted to upwards of $100,000. West Virginia for Bryan. Charleston, W. Va., Jan. 31—^Wil- liam Jennings Br>*an was unanimously! indorsed for the presidential nomina-! tion at a joint caucus of the democrat-1 ic members of the West Virginia sen ate and house o-f delegates Thursd / afterncon, and a telegram laformiiig him of the action was fiont to Lincoln, Neb. fire at CS'.RARD, ga. Dr. Brigham, a Prominent Physician, Loses His Life Augusta, Ga., Jan. 31.—Dr. G. F. Brigham, one of the most promi nent physicians of this section, lost his life in a fire Thursday which de stroyed eight stores and residences at the small town of Girard, near this city. In attempting to recover his medi cine case and some valua'ble papers. Dr. Brigham went back into the burn, ing house with J. W. Houston. The ^tor was c^augh^ by the falHng ^m- Statement c*f Lunacy Commission. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 31.—Accord ing to the nineteenth annual statement of the state commission in lunacy, pre sented to the legislatiure, the total number of committed insane on Octo ber 1, 1907, w'as 29,093—13,927 men. 15.JCC women. The net increase for the year in all Institutions was 791. Against Race Track Gambling. Now York, Feb. 4.—<Governor C. E. Hughes made a* trenchant plea Sun- d-ay night for the abolition of race track gam-bling in a £>peech at the Ma- jcstic Theater in Breoklyn at a mass ' meeting of the citizens’ anti-race track | gambIiE.5 campaign. The goveraor | dec’ared that the question of race | track gambling was not a matter for the churches or for any particular se^t cf social reformers, but whether the constitution of the state of New York shall be enforced. He said that much had been heard about improving the breed of horses which he was in fa vor of, but that he was also in favor of improving the hreed of men. He Is First White Man Executed in Richmond County in 70 Years. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 31.—The first white man to hang in Richmond coun ty in seventy years w’as legally exe cuted in the county jail yard here Friday morning. The drop fell at 10:18 o’clock, east ern time. Arthur P. Glover was the victom, and Vie paid the extreme pen alty for murdering Maud Dean liamson in the King mill here on Oct. 19, 1906. Fractlcally every resort known in the modern science of law had been tried to save the condemned man, but at last the majesty of the law could not be evaded and Glover went to his doom on the gallows. Only a small and select crowd wit nessed the execution, the doctors, the e::»cutioner, a few friends and a cou ple of newspaper men formed the cot erie that watched the prisoner walk calmly on the trap that swnng him into eternity. He was looking far bettor tXan when he was imprisoned 4lmost t'wo years a.go, and his tread was as fearless as could be. Tre story of his crime and the steps taken to escape the penalty is a pub lic story. On the day of the crime he walked Into King mill and approach ing a helpless woman operative, pulled a large pis*t*ol from his pocket and de liberately shot her five times, two or three of the shots being fired after she had fallen. He was a skilled marksman and either of the four shots would have pr*<ven fatal. The poor woman died almost without a tremor in a pool of her own life blood. aw ALLOWED KNIFE. Remarkable Accident to a Child in Banks County, Georgia. Maysville, Ga., Feb. 1.—News has reached here from Rtd Oak, a little place in Banks county, of a strange accident to a little boy. Ralph, the s-ix-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Barber, who, while the moth er was out of the room, got a case- knife down in his throat and s'wallow’- ed the knife. Mrs. Barber rang the farm hell for her husband, but as no did not hasten to the house, she start ed to the field after him. Upon u'er return she found the child had suf- ceeded in heaving violently, ejecting the knife from nis throat. This remarkable accident is vouched for by the hest auchority. How the child' could have sheathed nearly six inches of an ordinary-sized knife in his throat is a marvel. WfiTTFS SIAYER TO BE CON FINED IN ASYLUM. JURV’S LONG DELIBERATION It that Thaw Hla Attor- neyt Are ConvJnced that He Will Be . Abl« to Win Hla Way Out of the Aaylum. Wfcw York, Frt). 1.—After having argoied and battled all night, the jury in the atuffy little Jury room adjoin- Inif the chamber of the criminal branch of the criminal court, the Thaw jury Saturday morning warmly welcomed their release from confinement, hav- lUif arrived at a verdict, which was that Harry K. Thaw, the slayer of Stanford White, was not guilty on the grofnds ol insanity, and he will be confineci In the asylum for the crim- inlUly insane at Mattewan. has seemed reconciled to the faet that the best he could hope for is a term of confinement in an asylum. He is convinced, however, and s<^ are his attorneys, that he would be able to wia his way out of an asylum in a short while, as the tests he stood last year when arraigned before a commis- sion in lunacy, were quite convincing as to his present ability to prove his soundness of mind. WANT HIM TO STEP OUT. Liberals and Socialists Ask Removal of Lieutenant Governor. Vancouver, B. C., Feb. 3.—Impor tant steps will be taken within the next few days In the effort to cause the removal from office of Lieutenant Governor Dunsmuir. The Liberals have joined the So. clallsts In the provincial legislature and on 'Monday will ask the house, now sitting at Victoria, to netition the dominion government to remove Dnns- mulr. The Victoria Colonist, the oldest newspaper in British Colum bia, formerly owned by Dunsmuir, is demanding that the lieutenant gover nor step down. RUN STARTED ON BANK. Hon>e Bank of Brooklyn, a State in- stitution, Suspends Business. ^New York, Feb. 1.—The Home hank of Brooklyn, a state institution, onn which a run was started Fridav. did not open for business Saturday. The Home bank Is a smaal Institu tion, located in South Brooklyn. It has a capital of $100,000, and a sur plus and undivided profits amounting to $5.^,G70. Its clo&ing is without hearing on the general financial situa tion '’''’e deposits, which formerly aver aged about $500,000, have been reduced greatly since the October panic. ' Montgomery Fair Debt. Miontgomery, Ala., Feb. 1.—'At a meeting of the state fair committee, Ciiarged with the duty of settling up the debts of the association, $14,000 —'abcfut one-thilHl of the indebtedness —was represented. The holders of these claims agreed to take bonds of thd association at par. It is ex pected tli*at the others w'ill be wHling to make the same arrangement. Preparing for Eventualities. Tokio, Feb. 1.—At a sectional com mittee meeting of t!*e diet M. Oishi as.ked ag:*inst whom were Japan’s mil itary preparations directed. Minister of War Terauchi replied, sajing that they were not directed against any single nation, but against eventuali ties on the Pacific where Japan has a long cctfist line from Sawhalien to the isle of Formasa. To Hold Farmers’ Institute. ■Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 1.—Com missioner of Agriculture J. A. Wil- IdnsQn, has agreed with Pres. Dun can of the Alabama Farmers’ union, to aid him in holding a number of farm ers’ institutes and will send along ex perts to make addreses in the various counties. They will hegin some time in March. A Safe Blower and aMarlerc Break From Fiiton low^r. THE JAILORS ARE MYSTIFIED LODGE After in Some Way Getting Out of Their Ceils Men Sawed Bars of WIndowa in Corridor and Let Them selves to Ground by Blankets. Atlanta, Feto. 4.—John Harper, un der death sentence for killing the sher iff of Murray county, and George Bur ton, charged with safe blowing, made a sensational and* mysterious escape from Fulton county jail Monday morn ing. Harper and Burton were In separate colls but in the same cage. Harper’s cell dicor was found o-pen 'hut Burton’s was locked. The cage door, which en closed both was still locked After getting into the corridor in a mysterious manner the men sawed out two steel bars from a window on the third floor of the north wln^f of the jail and let themselves down hy tying four blankets together. W’hen Night Jailer Jim Brown pass ed the cell at 3 o’clock ‘Monday morn ing, he reported that everything wa* apparently all right. At 6 o’clock when the cells were vJ**- ited the prisoners were gone and an Investigation showed that two barii had been sawed out. The blankets tied into a long rope, were still hang ing from the third story window. 'The jailors 'are mystified’ over the escape, as they cannot understand how a prisoner got out of his cell and then out of the cage without sawing the bars of both cell and cage. They are of the opinion that the men must have ha;d assistance from other prisoners in the Tower. VICTIM OF “BLACK HAND.’» Vcung Italian In Wew York is Shot Down in Cold Blood. Chicago. Feb. 4.—Murder as the climax cf a series of Uireatening let ters by the black mailing of Italians known as the “black hand,” will give the newly formed “white Hand'” society its first opportunity to show its strength. Following closely upon the receipt of several letters demanding money, Jo seph Concello, was shot down in cold blood in the alley in the rear of his home Sunday night. ‘ Three shots were fired into his body at close range, each one taking effect. Death was almost instantaneous. The murderer escaped. The shooting follow^ed within a few hours cf an attemipt to murder Luci ano TavaseUi. and members of his family in their home, 'He. too, had received several letters demandkig $500^ Three shots were fired through the window of his bedroom, but none took effect. Concello w’as a young man of smal’ means, but his uncle, Guissep^e Bru- iacato, Is supposed to be well off, and the black mailers had demanded tha Concello get $500 from his uncl« a leave it in a certain place under pen alty of death. Previous demands had been made du rectly on Bruiscato and his house was dynamited last summer as a result. American Woman Murdered. Washington, Feb. 1.—Anna E. Hahn, one of the first American school ite/acheiTs to 'to to the Philippines, was miirdcied on the island of Luzon Jan. 29, according to a dispatch re ceived at the bureau of insular affairs Friday. No details were given. Miss Hahn was a native of Indiana. Bench Show Records Broken. New York, Feb. 1—Records ia num ber of ent^es are brokken for the Westminster club’s show, which will open in Madison Square Garden on Feb. 11. A total of 2,00C dogs has been entered, a larger number, it I.*: believed, than has ever been benched in this country or elsewhere. Chapter House Damaged by Fire. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 21.—Tife chapter hoTise cf the Berzelius secret society of the Sheffield Scientific school was gutted by fire Friday. Loss estimated at $10,000. The cause o: the fire is unknown. “1 cannot understand wh.v a man’s wife is called his ‘better half.’ ” “You would if you had to divide your salary with one!” Statement of Banks. New^ York, Fob. 1.—^The statement of the clearinghouse banks for the week shows that the banks hold $40,- 526,725 more than the requirements of the 25 per cent reserve rule. In ancient and more simple times it was the custom never to shave. For 400 years there was no such thing as a barber heard of In Rome. No. 143,K.ofP. ^ieetsTues-aa.v e<^enings 8.30., Castle Hall, Fra ternity i>u loing. A hearty welcome for visitors at all times. R. L. GASH, C. O. IrennI Tiltfksit Euhup. hours: Daily—7 a. m. to 10 p. m. Sunuay—8 to 10 a. m., 4 to 6 p. m. ( eutral Office—McMimi Blocis. Professional Cords. W. B. DUCKWORTH. \TTO R N EY-AT-L AW. iooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Buildlnf^. GASH GALLOWAY LAWYERS. Will practice in all the courts. Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block. D. L. ENGUSH LAWYER Rooms 11 and 12 McMinn Block, BREVARD. N. C THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr., DENTIST. (Hailey i^loc .) HENDERSONVILLE, N. C. A beautiful gold crown for $4.00 and up. Plates of all kind at reasonable prices. 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