I ascitt ,25 Sylvan Valley News yo thought that two of them '■vill die. The injured were given med- i'a! attention at Shelby and were lat- ' V uiought to Charlotte in a special t!io train arriving about noon, and plncn,! in the Good Samaritan Hospiial for treatment. Most of the victims of the flames were horribly hurned about the hands and face. Two horses which belonged to the company and which were hauled in one end of the car, where the mem- bei’s of the troupe slept, were burned to death. The fire was caused by the explosion of a gasoline tank attach ed to a cooking stove which was lo cated in one end of the burned car. Judge Fred Moore Dead. Asheville, Special.—Judge Freder ick Moore, of the Superior Court bench, died shortly after 8 o’clock Friday night after an illness of two weeks of typhoid fever. An op>era- tion was performed in the hope of saving his life, but in vain. Judge Moore was one of the best known judges on the bench and a leading Democrat of this section of the State. Ee had been on the bench for about six years, having held court in every county in North Carolina. Judjjc Moore returned from Bakersville, ten days ago suffering with typhoid fever. The disease had made considerable j)rogress before Judge Moore would consent to adjourn court and when he reached Asheville he was quite a sick man. His conditions grew stead ily -worse until Friday night whoti the end came as above stated. MONUMENT CONTRACT LET. Clash Between the Southern and the Corporation Commission. Durham, Special.—The Southern Railway Company will fight the or der of the Corporation Commission in regard to making an undergi'ound street crossijig at Gregson street. The company has filed exceptions to the ruling of the commission and will ask to be heard in the matter. Should the commission refuse to rescind or modify the order the railroad com pany w’ill appeal to the Superioi Court. The order of the commission recently made, was that the under ground way is a necessity, and direct ed the road to proceed and make the w’ay. The city had offered to pay $750 towards the cost and the com mission dii*ected the city to. pay $1,000, which was promptly done. State News Items. A charter is granted to the Bank of Jacksonville to do a commercial and savings business, the capital stock being $10,000 and E. L. Cox and oth ers being the stockholders. Rockingham’s new water tank, with a capacity of 250,000 gallons, is neai-ly complete. The tow^n will soon have an up-to-date waterworks and sewerage system. Work has begun on the buildings to be occupied by the Rockingham Foundry and Machine Company at Rockingiiam The American Motor Company, of Greensboro, is chartered by the Sec- retai-y of State to manufacture and sell motors and motor carriages and other vehicles and do an automobile rental business. The capital is $25- 000 and the incorporators are H. L. and L. B. Hopkins and J. C. W’^atkins. The work at Blewett’s Falls is get ting along nicely and 35,000 electrical horse-power, it is said, will be ready for delivery by June 1st, 1909—per haps a few months earlier. North State Items. R. W. Bishop, patent attorney, Washington, D. C., reports the issue of the following patents on the 11th inst. to residents of North Carolina: Continuous sales-slip, J. R. Williams, Fayetteville, assignor to the National Stamp-Vending Machine Company, same place; scissors sharpener, N. J. Northam, Wrightsville; card clothing attaching means, Addison Arnold, Charlotte; game apparatus, J. B. Mer cer, Wilmington. Messrs. Gilmer Siler, of Charlotte, and Louis I. Jaffa, of Durham, two Trinity College students, have return ed from a trip abroad. They left Dur ham soon after commencement and at Philadelphia hired themselves to g cattle boat and worked their wa;? across the water, receiving a return trip from Liverpool to Philadelphia. While abroad they visited several points in England, Scotland and Ger many and Holland. Convention of Fish Dealers. Washington, Special.—A number of the local fish dealers are deeply interested in the approaching con vention of fish dealers to meet at Morehead City, August 25th to 27th{ and Washington will be well'repre sented there. The especial purpose of this convention is the exchange of ideas among the fish dealers for bringing about a change in the State fishing laws, for improving the fish ing industry and bringing it back to that highly profitable basis enjoyed several years ago. Rowan Connty Will Dedicate Abou6 October 1st a Shaft to the Memory of Her Confederate Dead at Cost of $10,000. Salisbury, Special.—Rowan coun ty’s monument to her Confederate soldiers is to be unveiled about the 1st of October. The contract for the base and perestral and the placi^ig of the monument was let to the Bal four Quarry. Company, of Salisbury, and the understanding is that the work is to be completed in time to have the unveiling by October 1st. The base and pedestal are to be of the famous pink granite. The figure is a replica of the Baltimore monument. This tribute to Rowan’s soldiers is erected at a co:$t of $10,000 and is made possible by earnest efforts of the local chapter of Daughters of the Confederacy. The Balfour Quarry Company will receive $1,500 and of this amount $1,000 has been secured by the soliciting committee—Col. C. R. Barker and Capt. T. B. Beall. They felt safe in letting the contract with $500 yet to collect as they are certain this amount will be forthcom ing. Big Quantity of Whiskey Fonnd in Middle of Street. Asheville, Special.—Patrolmen Lo- minac and Lanning, of the local po lice force, desire the acquaintance of a certain person or persons who “lost” a quantity of whiskey. It is hardly probable, however, that the owner of the whiskey will put in a claim. The officers were making a round in a dark section of the city w^hen they stumbled upon a big quan tity of ‘‘wet goods.” They were just in time to see a man vanish in the dark. The wdiiskey was found in the middle of the street and it is the opinion of the officers that a “blind tiger was in process of opening. State News Items. Mr. James W. Brown, owner and manager of the Lorene Oil Mill, at Mooresville, has placed an order with the Westinghouse Electric Company, of Pittsburg, for two motors. ONiie will be 50-horse-power and will be used to drive his up-to-date ginnery. The other one will be 30-horse-power to drive his corn crusher. Farmers in Forsyth and adjoining counties say they are in the best con dition they have known for many years. Crops are in excellent condi tion generally. Tobacco shows up well. The fruit crop is of the “bumper” class, growing in such lux uriance that it cannot all be handled. A charter is granted the Meldon Chemical Company, of Zebulon, Wake county. It is given power to make many things but will probably devote itself to fertilizers. The capital stock is $50,000. The stockholders of this company Avill build a cotton oil plant at the same place. Another charter of special interest is the Farmers’ Protective Truck Growers’ Association, Mount Olive, Wayne county. This corporation has $100,000 authorized capital and $1,- 000 subscribed by H. L. Faison, AYel- lington Patton and others and has for its purposes the promotion of the best interests of farmers and truck ers generally and the co-operation of members of the corporation in the distribution of truck crops. Capt. John Duckett, of the State department of education, who has the supervision of the four State negro normal schools, says the con tracts will be aAvarded w’ithin a few days for school room and dormitory furniture fpr the new normal build ing at Fayetteville, just completed at a cost of $8,000. The location of the Fayetteville school has been changed and will reopen this fall very much “better fixed.” The cornerstone of the new building has never been laid vet and the negro Grand Lodge of Masons for this State will perform this ceremony, August 27th. Assault on Married Woman Charged Against Young Man. High Point, Special.—Jim Poole, a young white man, is under arrest here charged with a most serious crime, that o fassault upon Mrs. Will Smith wife of a factory employe living near the suburbs of the city. The trial occurs before Magistrate Johns. The case has caused no little excitement. There is said to be conclusive evi dence against Poole. TWO BOILtR VICTIMS Deadly Explosion Gets in Its Work at Sawmill TWO OTHERS SERIOUSLY HURT iSenry Gilbert and Fred Jackson Two White Men, Lose Their Livea in Explosion of Boiler at Reid’s Sawmill in Caldwell County. Fatal Accident at Henderson. Henderson, Special.—one of the most horrible acidents in the history of Henderson occurred Monday morn ing in Parkam Bros.- bagging fac tory at 5 o’clock. While feeding the picker Henry Allen, colored, age 30 years, had his left arm caught in the machine, which drew his body also in to the works, crushing not only his arm and shoulder, but a part of ^ his face disapearing. In an unconscious condition the mangled form was re moved to the oflBce, w^here death soon relieved him of his suffering. Taylorsville, N. C., Special.—Two men lost their lives and two others were seriously, probably fatally, in jured by the explosion of the boiler at Mr. William Reid’s sawmill, near Draco, in Caldwell county, sixteen miles from Taylorsville, Monday morning at 11 o’clock. The dead are: Henry Gilbert, aged about 50. Fred Jackson, aged 21. • The injured are Mr, William Reid, the owner of the' mill, and his son, Hugh. All the parties are white and were working at the sawmill when the explosion occurred. Mr. Reid is not expected to live and his son is in a serious condition. The exact cause of the explosion has not been ascertained but it is thought to have been the result of too high pressure. The safety valve was tied dov.’u and the exact pressure at the time of the explosion is not known. The boiler was thrown 50 yards and demolished. The engine was also completely wrecked. Bryan Denies Canard. Lincoln, Neb., Special.—The most important happening at Fairvuew was the emphatic denial given by William J. Bryan to a story printed in Pittsburg saying that he hlad “sold out” to the Kerr faction of the Pennsylvania Democratic party in or der to accomplish the defeat of Col. James M. Guffey for national com mitteeman. The price alleged to fig ure in the transaction was $200,000 as a campaign contribution. The charge is said to have been made that Mr. Bryan “made good” but that Mr. Kerr and his supporters had not come forward with the money. Mr. Bryan declared that he had never heard of the offer or agreement and he suggested that the proper per sons to consult were the members of the cimmittee on credentials which decided the Pennsylvania contest. Mr. Bryan would not permit him self to be drawn into further dis cussion v/ith James W. Van Cleave, president of the Manufacturers’ As sociation, who came out in the press with additional reasons why the bus iness men of the country should not support the Democratic ticket. The decision Mvas based on the fact that Mr. Van Cleave had failed to defend his former contentions but instead had shifted the discussion to other questions, Mr. Bryan said. Pritchard Out of Politics. Asheville, N. C., Special.—The ef fort of fonner United States Senator Marion Bittler and many influential Republicans in North Carolina to in duce Judge J. C. Pritchard, of Ashe ville, to take the Republican nomina tion for Governor of this State, is without result.. Judge Pritchard will have none of it. He says that from a financial standpoint he is unable to make the sacrifice which such can didacy would involve; that his am bition is to administer the law faith fully, impartially and fearlessly; that he believes he can better serve the whole people in the position he now occupies than by again entering the arena of politics and that he is entirely content with the place he now holds. POOL IS SENT TO JAIL.. News of the Day. Mile. Fallieres, daughter of the President of France, was married to Jean Joseph Edward ‘Lanes, her fa ther’s secretary. The divorce of the Countess of Yar mouth (Miss Alice Thaw) w'as made final. King Edward is on the way to visit Emperors William of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria. A big banquet to the visiting of ficers and other overservances mark ed the second day’s stay of the American fleet at Auckland. Four German sailors were drowned while maneuvering in Sondenburg harbor. Cardinal Gibbons was given a ban quet by the procurator-general of the Sulpician Order. President Ben Davis of the West Virginia Mine Workers, is at Grafton giving his attentiop to the strike of the miners at Tunnelton: The men have been out for some tme and Pres ident Davis expects to be able to settle the trouble. Damaging Evidence That He Assault* ed Mrs. Will Smith Brought Out in Trial Before Blagistrate, Who Holds Him Withont BaiL High Point, Special.—Jim Pool, a plumber, charged with assault on the person of Mrs. Will Smith, a mill operative, was tried before Magistrate W, E. Johns, Sr., last week and sent to jail without bond to await court, which convenes in Greensboro Sep tember 21st. The woman says the assault was committed in the after noon while her husband was away and that she struggled to prevent the foul deed. T. J. Gold represented the defendant and C. C. Barnhardt was counsel for the prosecutrix. The trial was held behind closed doors and developed damaging evi dence against the defendant. Mrs. Smith lives with her husband on the outskirts of the city and was alone with her infant when Pool, who she says committed the crime, came to the well while she was engaged in washing some clothes. He inquired about a girl, the sister of Mrs. Smith’s husband, whom he called to see in times past. After hanging around for some time he came upon the porch and when Mrs. Smith went into a room where her baby was Pool fol lowed and there assaulted her after a struggle. Mrs. Smith appears to be rather an ignorant kind of person—in fact the \f-itnesses who testified to her good character said as much, and( there fore she did not make a good witness altogether. She was excited, but ap parently told a straight story of the affair. Dr. Duncan was called in for private examination and his testi mony before the court was damaging to the defendant, and was one of the strong points in sending Pool to jail, as the magistrate remarked. The trial lasted until after 11 o’clock and excited no little local interest. CRtAT SINGER DEAD Ira D. Sankey Transferred to the Choir Celestial THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINGER Former Companion of Dwight L. Moody and th^ Greatest Hymn Writer of the Present Day Passat Away at His Home in Brookljrn. Y. W. C. A. Extends Its Sphere. Greensboro, Special.—The Greens boro Young Women’s Christian As sociation, v/hich has accomplished much good in this city, is preparing to extend its sphere of influence- and usefulness by operating a boarding house and home for young ^^en. The directors of the association bargained for the purchase of the property on the corner of South Ashe and East Sycamore streets, two blocks from the center of the business dis trict, and expect to open the house about October 15th. The building, a large and well-arranged residence, is admirably suited for the purpose for which it 'will be used. In addition to the boarding department, a lunch room will be operated for, the benefit of young women w'ho* do not live in the home. For the residents of the place, tlnjre will be a gymnasium, a reception hall and a library, besides a number of well-arranged sleeping apartments. Summer School for Teachers a Suc cess. Newton, Special.—The Catawba county summer school for teachers has closed its three week’s session. More than eighty-five teachers were enrolled, and great interest and en thusiasm marked the daily w^ork. Many who came protesting against having to attend two weeks remain ed through the entire three weeks. The teachers were required to attend only two weeks but more than sixty continued through the third week. Horse Killed and Buggy Damaged. Concord, Special.—No. 46, north bound passenger train struck a horse and buggy at Mount Ollivett cross ing, three miles above this city, at 5 o’clock Thursday afternoon, kill ing the horse instantly and demolish ing the buggy. Paul Walker, owner and ocupant of the vehicle, was thrown some distance but escaped un hurt. Walker was going south from the church and did not see the train until the horse was on the track. The animal was valued at $175. State News Items. A charter is granted the Bank of Stokesvlle to do a commercal and savings business, the capial stock being $5,000. Governor Glenn left Monday to ad dress chautauqua at Purcellville and Harrisonburg, Va. From the latter point he may go to Chicago to aid in preparing the national Democratic handbook. Insurance Commissioner Young paid into the State Treasury $44,813, in collections during July. The annual picnic and barbecue at River Bend, in Gaston county, was held last Friday and Saturday and was a fine success in every respect, being largely attended and the crowds were addressed by prominent speak- ei's. Governor Glenn offered the ap pointment of Judge to fill out the un expired term of Judge Moore who died last week, to Hon. Locks Craig. Mr. Craig, however, telegraphed the gov ernor that he was not so situated as I to accept the appointment. New York, Special.—Ira David Rankey, known as an evangelist ^ throughout the Christian world, died Thursday night at his home in Brook lyn, but the news of his passing did not become generally known until Fri-. d*ay. Mr. Sankey was 68 years of age. For the last five years he had been blind and had suffered from a complicatfion of diseases, broughht on by overwork. But almost to the very last he worked at hymn writing. Hia tours throughout this country and Europe with Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, brought him into wide prominence. Composer of Many Songs. Sankey, it might be said, wrote the Gospel hymns of the world. In China, Eg^Tpt, India, Japan, in almost every language known to man, Sankey *a hymns are sung. He received a large income from his publications and leaves considerable of an estate. Among Mr. Sankey’s most familiar compK^tions are “The Ninety and Nine” and “When the Mists Have Rolled Away.” His son-ys are said to have had a circulation of more than 50,000,^00 copies. He was a rapid composer and wrote book after book of Gospel hymns. During the last five or six years of his life he was interested in preparing aad publishing the story of the Gos pel hjTnns. At the eame time he sav ed his wonderful voice for posterity by singing into phonograjDhs. The records were sent all over the world. Sankey first m«t Moody at a Y, M. C. A. convention in Indianapolis. Moody was so charmed with the young man’s voice that he urged him to accompany him on his evangelistio tours. Sankey explained that he was married and could not give up his position. ^‘You must come,” said Moody. “I cannot get along without you. ’ ’ Tours with Moody. Sankey consulted with his wife and they east in their lot with Mr. Moody. They visited Great Britain from 1S73 to 1875, and again in 1883, and made many tours throughout the United States. When Mr. Moody died, Mr. Sankey felt keenly the loss of his friend. From that time he trivl to conduct the work alone which chey had hitherto shared between them, but the task was too great. In 1902 his physical condition compelled him to give up most of bis evangelical en gagement?., although he continued for some time to compile new series of h\Tnn boolcs. Then came failing eye sight, w’hich speedily developed into total blindness. With the blindness came also a nervous breakdown. After his retirement from public life the impression became general throughout tiic country that he was dead. Mr. Sankey lived in Brooklyn for twenty-seven years, and it was there that most of his songs were written. He was a singer from bovhood, and bis voice attracted attention in the hamlet of Edenburgh, Pa., where he was bom Au^st 28th, 1840. At the banning of his active life Mr. San key was a Methodist, but for the last seven years he had been a Presbyte- idan. He is survived by a widow, Fanny V. Sankey, his two sons, I. Allen Sankey and Edward Sankey, and two grandchildren. Negro Killed; Railroad Blamed. Suffolk, Special.—John Melton, a negro painter, was killed under a train on the Norfolk and Western railroad. He was getting away from a shifting engine and was struck by an express. A coroner’s jury, con vened by Mayor John B. Norfleet, found that the railroad was guilty of negligence in not providing safety gates or a flagman. Apple Crop Prospects Good. St. Louis, Special.—That the pros pects are good for a bumper crop of apples in most sections where tho fruit is grown is the joyful news brought by the delegates to the sixth American Apple Growers’ Conrress, which convened at the South ern Hotel. Papers on all phases of the apple business will be read da ring the sessions by the members of the congress, including commercial orchardists, commission men, exporN ers, entomological experts of the ag ricultural departments of the nation and the various States and profes-^ sors of horticulture at many colleges and experiment stations.