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CLSII ISJATHEemG
Republican Megations Miirching
on Chicago.
BANDS AND FLAGS GALORE
Delegations from New York, Pennsyl
vania and Ohio Are Already on
Hand—Vice «Pre»ldcntial Situation of
Great interest.
Chicago, Juno 13.—Republican del
egations arriving Saturday from sev
eral of the most important states, ac
companied by bands and bearing flags
and “favorite son” tanners, gave to
Chicago the picturesque touclies of col
or and noisy entliusiasm that are so
essentioal a part of every national po
litical gathering.
The delegations in are from New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The
confident enthusiasm of the Oliio dele
gation was no greater than the demon
strative loyalty of the Pennsylvanians.
Most of the Pennsylvanians arriving
are from the Pittsburg district and
are members of clubs organized in the
interest of Senator Knox, whose head
quarters were crowded wifh his sup
porters from home^ The Philadel
phia contingent of delegates and
marchers, 850 strong, is cxpected soon
iind will add thoir vroices to the Knox
acclaim.
Ohio Confident of Taft.
The Ohio visitors are naturally In
the happiest frame of mind and are
eonfident in their expressed belief
that nothing can now prevent the
nomination of Secretary Taft on the
first ballot.
The New York Delegation.
The arrival of the New York dele-
^ation In a special train w^as av/aited
with special interest. The declara
tions by Governor Hughes that under
no c/rcumstances would he accept a
nomination for the vice presidency and
tiat his positi*Dn with regard to the
presidency remained 1 he same—in that
the vielegates were responsible to their
constituents and not to him—have had
the effect of focusing particular at
tention upon fhe New York delegation,
especially with reference to the atti
tude to be taken with regard to the
Tice presidency. Representative Jas.
R. Slierman, of !Jew York, one of
the men generally mentioned in con
nection witli the second place on the
ticket is among the arrivals and his
presence is expected to lend impetus
to the movement in his behalf. The
(New York delegation probably will
Tiold a caucus Monday to 'discuss the
Bituation -
Will Fight for Knox.
The Pennsylvania delegations lia^
•been provided with quite sumptuous
h'2adquarters at their hotel and in the
Fine Arts building, the seats in the
auditorium of the latter having been
moved to make way for adherents of
Senator Knox who are prepared to
carry on a vigorous campaign.
The determination of the “allies” to
carry on their “fight all along the
lines” is sustaining interest in the
plans of t”he various state delegations
that are boun’d by instructfons for one
cr another of the candidates other
than Mr. Taft.
Nearly all of the state delegations
are expected to* hold caucuses on
'MoBday. Sunday will 'be heavy with
arrivals and Monday Is expected to
see the greatest influx of delegates
and visitors. The convention will
he tailed to order by National Chair
man Harry S. New at noon on Tues-
’iay.
Vice Presidential Situation.
The vice presidential situation is
occupying the attention of all the con
vention delegates and followers wao
are here. The new arrivals make
their first inquiry as to the second
place situation, but are confronted
^’ith non-committal replies to the ef
fect that those here on the ground are
^ut little better posted than the more
<iistant of the incoming delegates. The
proposal to throw the prize into the
open arena of the convention, to be
fought for and won by the strongest
bidders, is gaining many enthusiastic
supporters. It certainly would add
immensely to the interest of the pro
ceedings of the convention and give
the individual deleg’ates an appreciat
ed part in making the selection.
There are so many candidates men
tioned in connection with the office
that a popular, open vote seems to of-
^er a most satisfactory solution of the
problem.
603 Taft Votes.
Members of the national committee
are resting after their arduous worV
of the past week. The committee
cat many long Hours to hear and dl&
l)ose of the more tban 200 contested
places on the temporary roll of th©
convention an’d there vag a general
Fight of relief when their labors were
concluded. The decision of fhe com
mittee gave to Secretary Taft an In
structed strength of G03.
Cotton to Nanie Kellogg.
It bas been decided that Hon. Jos.
Cotton, of Duluth, Minn., shall place
Hon. Frank B. Kellogg In nomination
for the vice presidency and Mr. Kel
logg’s friends were actively engaged
early in the day in doing all things
possible to promote Mr. Kellogg’s can
didacy. ' One of the arguments which
they are most vigorously pressing is
that Governor Johnson may be given
tlie s^ond place on the democratic
ticket and they say that ir this should
be done ,the result in Minnesota would
become uncertain. They claim also
that Mr. Kellogg’s reo*Drd as special
assistant attorney general In the pros
ecution of the anti-trust and railroad
cases would renier him peculiarly ac
ceptable to the administration and to
those ‘who endorse the course of the
administration in those matters.
Hon. C. J. Harris, head of the
'North Carolina delegation, is among
the late arrivals. He was a col
lege mate of Secretary Taft’s, and is
his enthusiastic supporter. He ex
presses a preference for Mr. Ham-
monvi for second place.
l^r.'TERESTING NAVAL TEST.
American Whitehead Torpedo Fired
at the Monitor Florida.
Fortress Monroe, Va., June 13—^Sat
urday in Hampton Roads the monitor
(Florida, fortified with a watertight
bulkhead specially o»3nstructcd and
designed to represent actual war con
ditions, was fire<l into with an Amer
ican Whitehead torpedo. 'rhe object
sought was to determine whether this
form of bulkhe'ad with which, if for
midable, all the modern American
ships of war probably will be provided,
can successfully withstand the force
of the explosive contained in the tor-
pe<3o, or in default of that, whether
the effect of the cnarge will be to
scatter destruction far and wide an’d
possibly sink the ship.
Results obtained from the experi
ment will be a guide for the construc
tion officials in the building of water
tight compartment bulkheads of the
new dreadnaughts—iNorth Dakota and
Delaware—now partly completed, and
of the Flori'da and Utah, authorized
at the last session of congress. The
compartment pierced by the torpedo
is nearly amidships of the monitor
and is of considerable size.
Secretary Metcalf left Washington
aboard the president’s yaclit Mayflow
er to observe the test and had as his
guests Secretary Taft, Postmaster
General Meyer, and several other
officials.
VALUABLE MINE FOUND.
Lost Indian Silver Mine Discovered
Near Talladega, Ala.
Birmingham, Ala., June 13.—The
lost Indian silver mine has been dis
covered, it is said, in Talladega. G.
W. Wright and Kelt Lackey have lo
cated it one and a quarter miles
from Ironton, at Lackey’s old mill, on
Horse creek, on the site of the Indian
town formerly occupied l)y Chief Mo-
hoc.
‘A passing wagon had turned over a
rock beside the road, and when Lack
ey came along later he noticed an
arrow-shaped spike in the rock. Ad
joining rocks contained carvings of
Indian figures. Upon blasting the
rocks away he found two 6-inch bars
of silver about one inch wide and a
flat round silver plate about seven
inches in diameter.
Under these treasures Wright and
Laoke^y found a vein of silver ore
about two feet thicft. It Is a fissure
vein and runs almost perpendicular.
'The men, upon having the ore as
sayed, found it to nm 9^62.11 to the
ton. Both of the discoverers are rep
utable farmers of this county.
SIX ARRESTS MADE.
Warrants Charging Murder Sworn Out
By Brother of Davidson.
Columbus, Ga., June 13—^Therewas
a sensational development Friday in
the matter of the death of Tuclcer Da-
vidEon, a young man who perished
In the Chattahoochee river, to the
north of Columbus, when E5. L. Da
vidson, brother of the dead man, swor^
out warrants against Ben Lood, John
Boggs, Bud Phillips, Lee Phillips,
JTidge Lloyd , charging them with mur
der.
The six defendants comprised a
camping party of which Oavidson was
a member. John Boggs, Bud Phillips
and Lee Phillips say they were in a
boat with Davidson and the boat over
turned in the rapida and he was drown,
ed. These three defendants are in
jail and the others are und^ bond.
Shots were heard from the direction
of the river about t]ie time the young
man met his death.
Dynamite Used on Traction Line
at Cleveland, Ohio.
MANY PASSENGERS INJURED
Police Arc Bending Their Energies
Toward Apprehending Miscreants
Who Placed Dynanvlte an Track at
•Euclid Heights, a suburb.
■Cleveland, O., June 12.—The police
of Euclid Heights, the suburb in which
a Municipal Traction car was blo-wn
up by dynamite at an early hour on
Thursday morning, were bending
every effort Thursday tp3 run down the
miscreants wlio placed the explosives
on the street car track.
By the explosion seven passengers
ware injured, none fatally. A list
of the injured follows.
Fred Singer, motorman.
Rev. Michael Gilday, Moline, 111.
John G. 'Murphy, justice of the
peace, Cleveland Heights.
W. Fishley, Cleveland Heights.
Mrs. Fishley.
Mrs. Cornelia White.
Robert Hirt, conductor.
The car was running slowly when
the front wheels struck the explosive.
; The explosion that followed was
heard a mile away. Windows were
shattered and seats twisted. The
flo*3r of the car was lifted upward,
throwing the passengers in a panic-
stricken heap on the floor.
Only the slow speed of the car
saved it from going over the steep
embankment lining the road.
The explosive lifted it clear to
within a foot of the curb.
SHOT HER FATHER^S 3LAYER.
BREWERS’ AS^CIATION.
They Pledge Themselves to Abolition
of the Immoral Saloon.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 12.—^The
United States Brewers' association, at
its closing session, adopted a plat
form of principles, in which it pledges
itself to the abolition of the immoral
sa^ion, and to the cause of temper
ance in the use of i^itoxlcants in the
broadest sense.
A new national organization was
formed as a result of the fight on pro
hibition. It will be known as the
United States Manufacturers’ and Mer
chants’ association. While not dis
tinctly stated in the constitution, the
organization plans to hel]5 the brewer
In the vi^ar on prohibition.
QUEZR WtDDIN'G PRANX.
This Bridal Couple Mu-st Have Creat
ed Sensation on Their Tour.
Chicago, June 12.—A dispatch to the
Tribune from Perry, Okla., says:
With a log cabin, to the end of
which was attached a cowt)ell, fasten
ed by a lock and secured around his
neck and the key purposely thrown
away, Louis Barnes, of Ponca City,
with his bride of an hour, Miss Mamie
DavIs, of Perry, was forced by
friends aboard a Pullman coach en-
route to Chicago on their honeymoon
trip.
ft was necessary to have a link of
the chain sawed in two In order to
free Barnes.
FORMER STATE SENATOiR DEAD.
Unique Political Race Rscailed by
Death of New Yorker.
New York, June 12.—^Former State
Senator Hawkins, eighty years old, of
Jamesport, L. I., is dead, after an ill
ness of about three months. Mr.
Hawkins enjoyed the unique distinc
tion of defeating his brother for sena.
tor of the state.
He was nominated on the democrat
ic ticket against Simon S. Hawkins,
who was then holding office.
Tne brothers, who lived within a
stone’s throw of each other, made a
very exciting race, Edward winning
out.
Revolt Becomes Serious.
Victoria, B. C., June 12.—.News
wasj^ought from Chlaa by the Tan
go Maru that the revolution in Yun
nan and South China is becoming so
serkms that the Pekin authorities
have Issued orders to the authorities
of foreign provinces to assemble ar
mies to attack the 'rebels wlio organ
ized a movement whic?h threatens to
be the largest of its kind since the
Staping rebellion.
“That orator says he feels that he
can never repay his constituents for
the distinguished honor they have con
ferred on him.”
“Yes,” answered the voter; that’s
his polite way of telling os we needn’t
expect much from him In the way of
actual work.”—WasJhington Star.
WoiTMin Figures In Sr2-nsationar Trag
edy at Tunica, Miss.
Tunica, Miss., June 12.—J.,D.
LfOwe, an attorney, was shot and -prob
ably mortally wounded on the street
Wednesday iby 'Mrs. Jacob Weinstein.
On March 3-1;.: last, Lowe shot and
klllod Perry M. Houston, fatner of
Mrs. Weinstein, in a street fight
growing out of Houston’s election as
secretary of the Yazoo levee board.
Mrs. Weinstein, wh»o is nineteen jears
Off age, was married last February to
a merchant of Charleston, Miss.
'Mrs. Weinstein passed Lowe In a
street near his office Wednesday. Af
ter the attorney had passed she turn
ed, drew a revolver from her waist
and fired. Lowe feil with a bullet
through hig back. As he fell lie drew
a revolver, but turning and seeing
that his assailant was a woman, he
made no attempt to discharge his
weapon.
Lowe was wounded between the
shoulders, the bullet passing entirely
through his body. A stud in his shirt
front was struck by the bullet and
forced out.
tMrs. Weinstein hurried to her home
and was later arrested. Lowe was
placed on a spc-cial train and rushed
to Memphis to the Presbyterian hos-
l^ltal.f It is believed he cannot live.
>Mrs. Weinstein is on the verge of
c^lapse from hysteria.
^'he Weinstein family Is wealthy.
Mrs. Weinstein has made no state
ment concerning her reasons for
shooting Lov»'e. Although under ia.r-'
rest slie had not been taken from her
mother’s home, which Is guarded by
deputy sherifCs.
TRIED TO KILL FAM;ILY.
Italian’s House at New Orleans Was
Wrecked by Dynamite Bomb.
New Orleans, La., June 12.—'With
a report that could be heard for sev
eral blocks, a dynamite bomb was
exploded early Thursday in front of
the dry goods store of Joseph Sperio,
an Italian, at Hospital and Decatur
street, badly wrecking the bullling.
Sperio, his wife and four small chil
dren were aslesp in the building,
but none of them was Injured.
Sperio said he knew who threw the
bomb, but told tbe police he was
afraid to give the name.
For several months Sperio has been
receiving threatening letters, telling
him that unless he gave up $1,000
he would regret it. His wife said
that an Italian recently called for the
money and when Sperio refused to
give it to him, tbe stranger drew a
dirk and attempted to stab him.
HEIRiE'SS WED® CAB CLERK.
*‘I Love Him and Have Money Enough
for Both,” Said M'Iss Largey.
Chicago, June 12.—^A dispatch to the
Tribune from Butte, Mcnt., says:
Mary Montana Largey, eighteen
years of age, youngest of the Largey
minors, came Into her fortune of a
million and a half dollars on Tuesday
and at midnight she was married to
Raymond J. McOonald, a young clerk
In a bi>Dadw'ay cab office who had
been working for $C0 a month.
Some friends asked the girl why
she wanted to marry the pcor cab
clerk. “Because I love bim and have
enougli money for both,” she replied.
The couple left for San Francis-co
and from there will start on an auto
mobile wedding trip to New York.
Miss Largey’s big touring car and
driver have been shipped on ahead
several weeks ago. From N-ew York
they will go to Europe.
HAD SEVEN YEARS OF LIBERTY.
Man Then Returned to Serve Out Pen
itentiary Term.
Pensacola, Fla., June 12.—'After
seven years of liberty, spending a por
tion of this time as a member of the
Salvation Army in Texas, S. T. Mill-
stead, a white man, convicted eight
years ago in this county of assault
with intent to murder, and who es
caped one year afterwards from tie
state penitentiary, returned to Pensa
cola to surrender himself and serve
the remainder of his sentence. Un
fortunately for him, an officer was on
the train who recognized the escaped
convict and took him Into custody be
fore he had the opportunity of surren
dering.
The officer making the arrest will
collect the reward money.
Immigrant Limit Reached.
Vancouver, B. C., June 16.—The
Canadian government has notified the
government of Japan that the limit
of Immigrants allowed for one year
has been reached and that no more
laborers should be sent to Canada be
fore Jan. 1 of next year. This Is in
connection with the understanding
reached between the two governments
last year.
IWASFllllOfCllSII
A Windstorm Creates Havoc In
Concentration Camp.
3,000 TENTS BLOWN DOWN
Paymaster Had Cash
Pay Off Men When
Scattering Currency
Scope of Country.
Out Ready to
Storm Came,
Over Wide
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Brevard Methodist Church
Robert G. Tuttie, Pastor. Preaching every
Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 45'p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday momlug at 10
o’ clock—Fitch Taylor, Supt.
Prof. Trowljiidge’s class for men and boy«
meets in church every Sunday moinin; at 10
o’ clock.
Midweek Prayer Meeting at 8:30 p.m.every
Wednesday.
Young People’s Evening7:80 every Wednesday
Woman’s Home Mission Society meets at par
sonage everj* first and third Monday afternoons.
Light Bearers meet in Sunday School room
every 2nd and 4th Sunday afternoons.
Oak Grove Methodist Church
Robert G. Tuttle, Pastor. Preaching every
first and third Sunday afternoons.
East Fork Methodist Church
J. Frazier Starnes, Pastor. Prcaching every
first Sunday at 111 a. m. Sunday school-every
Sunday morning at 10 o’clocJt. George Hay^,
Superintendent.
Connestee Methodist Church
J. Frazier Starnes, Pastor. Preaching every
second Sunday at 11 a. m. Sunday school every
Sundcy at 10 o’clock. George Justus, Superiu-
tendent.
Preaching every third Sunday at 11 a. m.
Rosmau bv Rev. J. F. fctarnes.
at
Greeliwood Methodist Church
J. Frazier Starnes, Pastor. Frcacliing every
third Sunday at 3 o’ clock.
Pine Grove Methodist Church
J. Frazier Starnes, Pastor. Preaching every
fourth Sunday at 11 a. m.
Little River Chapel (Methodist)
New York, June 16.—Pine Plains,
the concentration camp of the federal
soldiers and national guardsmen was
torn up from one end to the othe'r of
Its seven miles of territory Sunday
by the most severe wind and rain
storm tliat has visited that section for
years.
Three thousand tents were blown
down, mess shelters were leveled and
more than one hundred horses stam
peded and escaped from their corrals.
It was tlie soldiers’ first drill of trie
summer season of maneuvers, but it
was not of the kind anticipated.
The storm came with little warning.
The sky grew suddenly black and it
was apparent that a heavy blow was
imminent. The six thousand soldiers
In the numerous company streets were
instantly alert and began to strength
en their tent fastenings.
Tbey had hardly started, however,
when with-almost hurricane vel^tty^^dy in^jicch r&onth at wV‘ei6c*‘a.''na.'^'
the w^ind rushed across the plains from
the east and carried practically every
thing before It. .ar''
In some of the company streets
every tent was leveled and after the
storm had spent its strength at the
end of half an hour, more than three
thousand were down.
Paymaster John Mallory was paying
off the Twelfth United States infantry
when the storm descended. He had
arranged tlie money in heaps of bills
preparatory to distributing them
among the men. Major Mallory and
his assistants made an attempt to get
the money back into the strong boxes,
but they were unsuccessful and in a
moment the air w^s full of currency.
Bills of many denominations were af
terwards found scattered over a terri
tory of a mile or more and probably
the greater part of the money will be
recovered.
In the meantime, however, the men
will have to wait until the paymaster
can reckon up his accounts and find
cut where he stands.
He said he could not tell how much
was missing until he had checked up
completely.
1 DEAD, 4 HURT BY BOLT.
Lightning Traveled Down Wire to a
Building Occupied by Boys.
Charlotte, N. C., June 16.—^One lad
was instantly killed and several others
seriously, perhaps fatally, injured by
lightning near Lexington, Davidson
county*, in an unusual manner.
The boys were hunting plums when
a heavy storm came up and they took
refuge In the oflSce of a deserted
building. Formerly a telephone tad
been used in the office, but it had
been removed, leaving only the wires.
Lightning struck the wires outside
the building and'traveled to the of
fice, where the boys had gathered,
killing Odell Young, fourteen years ol
age, instantly, and injuring foui
others seriously. There were seven
In the party and two were uninjured.
They hurried to a nearby residence
and gave the alarm summoning aid
to the -^ijured.
None of the injured boys were ovei
fifteen years of age.
Bjrevard Presbyterian Clj^rch
Wni. K Chedesier,^ . jPreachiftt every
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Evening service
at 7:45 May to October, except on the 4th Sun
day. Sunday tchool every Sunday morning at
10 o’clock. Mission Society 3:30 p. m. 1st and 3rd
Sundays. Pastor’s Bible class every Tuesday at
3:30 p. m. Christian Endeavor prayer meeting
every Tuesdiy at 7:45 p. m.
Preacliing at Rosman by Rev. Wm. P. ChcdeF-
ter the 4th Sunday of evei*y mgnth at 4 p. m.
Davidson River Presbyterian
W. H. Davis, Pastor. Regular services every
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. Sunday school
every Sunday morning at 10 o’ clock.
Protestant Episcopal Church
St. Philips, Brevard. Rev. Chalmers D. Chap
man, minister in cliarge. Morning eervife
ever^’^ Sunday at 11 o’clock. Sunday school at 4
o’clock. The holy communion on the first and
third Sundays of the month, and on tlse
“Greater Holy Days.’ ’ Paring Advent and Lent
the holy communion is administered every Sun
day morning. Week day tervice on Fridays at
4:45; during Advent and Lent on Wednesdays
and Fridays. Service on Saints days at 11
o’clock. The Woman’s Auxiliary meets at the
Rectory on the Tuesday after the first Sunday of
the month. The Junior Anxiliary missionary
meeting on the third Sunday of the month.
Hike to Chickamauga Park.
Atlanta, June 16.—“Right face,
shoulder arms; for-w-a-r-d, march!”
was the comand sung out Sunday
morning at 6:30 o’clock by Captain
McKain, of the Seventeenth infantry,
U. S. A., at Fort McPherson, and the
175 men in the companies of I, L and
M swung Into line and began the prac
tice march of 201 miles to Chicka
mauga Park. The distance between
Fort' McPherson and Chickamauga
Park is just 130 miles, but the war
department calls for a practice march
of 200 miles and a detour will be made
In order to get the prescribed distance.
Th^e trip Is to be completed ‘by sun
down on the 29th of June.
Professional Cards.
W, B. DUCKWORTH,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Building’.
GASH ^ GALLOWAY
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts.
Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block.
K-I-P-A-N-S Tabules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
The 5-cent packet Is enough lor u.Fual ocoaf'otis.
The family bottle (60 cents) contains a supply
for a year. All druggists sell them.
THOMAS A. ALLEN, Jr.,
DENTIST.
(Bailey Block.
HENDERSONVILLE,
N. C.
Constable Fatally Stabbed.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 12.—
Hugh RIevely, a constable of Sher-
taan Heights, was fatally stabbed by
V. Clark, a youth who was quarreling
with another boy, and which quarrel
the constable attempted to stop. The
ftffair occurred at Cave Spring, a pic
nic ground a few miles from this citv.
RIeveily died before he reached his
home.
A beautiful gold crown for $4.00,
and up.
Plates of all kind at reasonable
prices.
All work guaranteed; satisfaction
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Teeth extracted without pain.
Will be glad to have you call and
inspect my oflBces, work and priced
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