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11
NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS
Occurrcsvces ^ Interest Gle^Lived From All SectiotM ^ tKe Busy
Tatr Heel State
Legislation is As^ed.
Kaleigh, Special.—At the Fish and
Oyster Convention recently held at
;Mi)rehead City, of which Joseph Hyde
Tratt, State Geologist, was chairman,
and W. J. Tate, of Carrituck county,
was secretary, it was unanimously
;i( kiiowledged that the supply of edi
ble fish in the waters of North Car
olina has for a number years past
become less and less and that there
:ire two facts which are responsible
for this condition: First, insufficiency
of laws for the protection of the fish,
and sccond, non-enforcement of such
law- that have been passed.
State Geologist Pratt, in speaking
of the proposed legislation said:
‘'The State has placed little or no
restriction on the amount of appara
tus that can be fished in the waters
of the State and made hardly any at
tempt, except in a small territoiy, to
enforce the laws that have been
]vassed with a view to protect the
fish. It is not putting it too strong
to say that if the commercial fisher
men will not consult their own in
terests enough to protect the fishing
industry of their own accord, they
should be made to do it because they
are not the only ones that have an
interest in the fishes of North Caro
lina.
‘^Careful consideration was given
by the convention to legislation which
it Avas considered would best protect
the fish and oyster i*dustries and
build these up to the place where
they would be a source of considera
ble n-venue to the State. The in
terests of the commercial fishei'men
were carefully considered and the
committee believes that the le^sla-
tion recommended is in* every case to
the best interests of the tishermen,
nnd that if laws are passed regulating
fisliing and oystering, acc’oTding to
these recommendations, that in a few
years both these industries will be
very much improved and the com
mercial fisheraian will find that with
the same amount of labor and expense
Iw can make considerable more profit.
“It was the unanimous opinion
that the oyster industry in the State
nocds much more thorougli protection,
not only from the shipment of oys
ters outside the State, but the taking
off of the beds and selling of oysters
smaller than the law allov/s. If the
laws recomraonded for the cultivation
of the oyster are passed, it will bo
])ossi])lo for those desiring to enter
thi' ])u’shiess to obtain an incontest
able tillo to a bottom suitable for the
growing of oysters and, as this indus
try is introduced, it Avill m.ean an in
crease in the iiroductivity of the
natural oyst-''r bottoms.
“A general closed season of three
months was recommended for frgsli
water fish that are being caught in
eastern North Carolina by netters for
commercial purposes.”
The convention, outside of legisla
tion that is recommended, was of
considerable value to the fishing in
dustries of North Carolina inasmuch
as it brought together between 50 and
GO delegates, representing nearly ev-
county in eastern North Carolina.
These not only exchanged ideas, but
v.ore biought into a much closer
t'lneh with the fishing industry of tlie
Slate as a whole and they have seen
more clearly than ever before the
value ff this industry’' to the State
and the need of fostering- and pro
tecting it.
FUTURE FLOOD DANGER ' YOUNG LADY KILLED
Will be Amicably Adjusted.
Washington, pecial.—Health Officei
Woodward, of Washington, returned
from his vacation and has taken
charge of the leper case. He says
he met Dr. Lewis, chairman of the
North Carolina board of health, out
West and told him he would have a
leper , to turn over to him upon his
return to Washington. Dr. Lewis
replied, says Mr. Woodward, that
North Carolina would take <jare oi
the man if it had any funds for such
a case, but that it did not. Mr. Wood
ward gave out a long statement in
which he said that Earl;/ would be
cared for that he was not going tc
be shifted back and forth in a rail
road box car as the Assyrian was be
tween Mar\dand and West Virginia
a few years ago. “There is no rea
son for any feeling in the matter,’’
says the health officer. “It will all
be amicably adjusted somehow. I
know of no law to compel North Car
olina to take charge of the man, but
if it is decided that the State is to
charge, he will be sent in a way which
will be comfortable for him and not
endanger the people along the way.’’
To Provide Girls’ Training School
Winston-Salenni, Special.—One ol
most practical philanthropies yet pro
jected in this city is that which is
now being fostered by the Young
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Centenary
Methodist church, the idea being tc
provide a training school for girls,
with particular reference to sewing
and domestic arts. A meeting will
be held soon, when it is expected that
the project will assume definite form.
Miss Florence Blackwell, deaconess
of the church, has the matter in
charge.
An Appeal by the Grovernor.
Raleigh, Special.—Governor Glenn
has issued a proclamation in which
he declared the Governor to be pow
erless to relieve suffering in the flood-
deva^Jtated sections of eastern North
Carolina and calling on all humane
citizens of the State to contribute to
the fund for relief in these sections.
He also stated that he had directed
the attention of the national govern
ment to the devastated conditions, es
pecially in Pender and Lenoir coun
ties, urging that steps be taken for re
lief. The proclamation was isssued
with the approval of the council of
State.
Aged Man Killed by Freight Train.
Reidsville, N. C., Special.—J. M.
SAvann, SO years old, was killed by a
freight train on the Southern vrhile
crossing the track just north of the
depot. Some one called to him to
get out of the way and as he turned
around he was struck by the train.
An arm. was Ijioken and a severe
vx'ound about the temple resulted. He
was carried to his home where he died
about an hour after the accident. The
deceased is survived by his aged wife
and one son, HavAVOod Swann ,of
Charlotte.
ITcrth State Items.
Mr. I). J, Carpenter, of Newton,
iia'< made considerable improvements
lately to his hosiery mill. He has
greatly enlarged his warehouses ia
order to give liimself room for his
large output of goods. He has also
added a new room to his office build
ing, which he has furnished in an
up-to-date style.
Txaleigh will have the electric power
^lom Buckhorn Falls by the end of
<he year. Work is going ahead on
tiio transmission line and $25,000 is
to be expended by the Carolina Pow
er (\)mpany in doing concrete work in
the place of stone and earth work at
plant.
The new bank building of the
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of
Nowton, has reached the second
story and is a very handsome edifice.
Governor Glenn has tendered his
>^ervices whenever needed as a cam
paign speaker to the chairman of the
National Democratic committee.
Quartermaster General Francis Ma-
<^on says that the cost of the encamp
ment of the National Guard this year,
including the rifle shooting, was about
^34,000. The War Department pays
all this.
Dr. F. H. Hawkins, a negro physi
cian, has located in Concord to
practice his profession. He is a
graduate of Biddle University, al
so of the medical department of Shaw
University. He is the only negro
doctor in that city.
Car Inspector Killed.
Hamlet, N. C., Special—W. A. Mel
ton, car inspector for the Seaboard
Air Line, was run over and instant
ly killed here by train No. 44. No
one seems able to state the exact
manner in which he met his death,
but it is supposed that he was on the
front platform of the rear car and
when the train started to pull out he
slipped and fell under the caj". Mr.
Melton was a young man, 25 years
old.
North State Items.
T. H. Vanderford, North Carolina
agent for the Bryan campaign fund,
secured $100 in Winston-Salem. He
has $1,500 in all so far.
The farmers along the Cape Fear
river report that all the cotton and
com that was covered by water dur
ing the recent freshet is a total loss,
and some of them will sustain a great
loss.
There are about 67 candidates for
the ministry at Davicfson College. A
large per cent of this number ^ is
furnished by the senior class, which
as campared with the junier is rich
in such material.
Salem Female Academy, of Win
ston-Salem, began its one hundred and
seventh year with appropriate exer
cises. The attendance is large, in
cluding representatives from many
States and some foreign countries.
An interesting experiment will be
tried this year, that of having Mon
day for holiday instead of Saturday.
The new city hall at High Point is
nearing completion and will probably
be ready for occupancy within three
weeks, tl is located on Jordan street
and will be used for mayor's office,
police, light and water departments
and as headquarters ofr the North-
side fire department.
Are the River Floods Becoming High
er?
The question naturally arises in
connection with the recent floods what
has been the cause of the enormous
increase in the height of floods in the
Southern States during the pase de
cade? W. W. Ashe, State Forresier
of North Carolina, ascribes it largely
to the destruction of the leaf mold by
to te destruction of the leaf mold by
forest fires, and to te large areas of
washed and gullied land which sheds
the heavy rains in place of absorbing
them.
The increase both in the number
and the height of the floods has been
remarkable during the past fifteen
years. That it is not due to climate
is shown by the weather bureau data,
which shows no noticeable change in
climate since the bureau has been in
operation. The higher rises of the
floods in the Cape Fear and the Sa
vannah rivers may be taken - as ex
amples. The flood of 1S60 of 53 feet
was the highest in the Cape Fear riv
er up to that time. In 1903 a heigh-t
of 63 feet was reached, while the
present freshet w^as 8 feet higher or
71 feet. The same gradual increase
in the height of the floods can be
traced on the Savannah. For many
years the flood of 1S30 was the
standard, but those of the past de
cade have been higher, culminating,
up to the present, in the one which
has just cost the city of Augusta a
million dollars and the loss of two
score of lives. The same rccord e.~-
ists on many other Southern streams
the Yadkin, Catawba, Pacolet, Ohio,
Cumberland, Alabama and Santee.
Cailse of the River Floods.
There is'no doubt that both ^the
height of the floods has increased,
and that the actual number has in
creased during the past fifteen years
and that the same amount of rain
fall now produces a much higher flooc^
crest than formerly. The destruction
of the forests on the headwaters of
the rivers has undoubtedly been one
of the important car.scs. The area of
forest land on the steep slopes has
been rapidly decreasing during the
past fifteen years. There has also
been a large area of forest land lum
bered and burned destroying the leaf
p]old which kept the soil open and
norous and in a condition to nbsoib
heavy rains. There is in addition to
tl'.is about 2,000,000 acres of waste
farming land from Virginia to Geor-
iria. having a hard baked soil, which
does not ab'=ori) one-half of the water
which it would vrero it cither in cul
tivation or in timber. These unfav
orable conditions increase every year.
Less of every heavy rain is absorbed
and a larger portion runs rapidlv of?
resuUiT’'" in li’S’her and more destrue-
tive Ifoods. The upland soils of the
‘Piedmont are heavy clays, naturally
inper\’ious, unless kept porous by
deep plowinc’ or by the cover of for
est litter. When dry and baked bv
the sun this clay is as nnabson^tive
as a brick. It is the additional five or
ten feet of flood water Avhich causes
the destruction, and this is the water
which these soils would ab=^orb if thev
were <jpen and porous. The rainfall,
als(*, is of a very heavy concentrated
character, making it all the more nec
essary that the soils shall absorb as
fast as the rain falls. The Piedmont
of the Southern States differs very
much in this repspect from the north
eastern States.
Cp^ the Biff Rivers be Made Safe?
The Southern States have now
7'eached the point when they must de
cide whether the large rivers and their
valleys are to be made safe, or wheth
er their enormous value is to 1)4
threatened by the attempt to secure
a higher temporarv profit "^rom the
steep hillside land than the conditions
justify. The permanent value of
these lands can only be maintained in
timber and the States which are con
cerned, should on their own initiative
tj.ke some proper measures for per-
netuating their earninsr power in tim
ber, and at the sam.e time protect the
commerce, cities, factories and lands
of the large rivers.
The damage to these States from
floods during the past ten years ag
gregates more than $20,000,000. How
much will it amount to before the
States act?
Awful Deed of a Crazy Man
in Ncrth Carolina Village
TRAGEDY CN THE SABBATH DAY
Miss Willie Bullin^er Murdered Sun
day MorHins While Seated at Or
gan Playing Sunday School Hymn.
Newton, N. C., Special—At Startown
three miles from this place, the Sab
bath peacefulness was broken by one
of the most demoniacal crimes ever
known in this county. The tragedy
took place in the Methodist church
about 10:30 while Sunday School was
being held, Miss Willie Bullinger,'
aged about 18 years, being stabbed
to death by Lou Rader, aged about
21, a discharged lunatic.
The reports that reach here are a
little conflicting as to just how the
awful deed was done. On6 is to the
effect that Miss Bullinger was seated
at the organ playing for the Sunday
school when Rader, leaping across
several seats, attacked her with his
pocket knife, stabbing her once in the
back and twice in the breast. An
other report is that the m.an waited
.just outside of the church door and
just as she came out committed the
deed. But wherever the act was
done, the result is the same and the
girl lies dead at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bullinger.
The attack was very violently made
and it is said that those reaching the
couple first could not prevent Rader
from giving his victim several cuts.
The murderer was arrested at once
and is now in jail. He is not sorry
for the crime and is reported as say
ing that he killed her “because she
was a witch.”
Rader was last spring committed
to the asylum at Morganton, having
become violently insane. At this time
in his ravings he talked incessantly of
Miss Bullinger for several months.
He has been at home apparently well
and nothing—strange was noticed
ab’out him until his terrible dead Sun
day morning. Saturday afternoon he
delivered a load of wood in Newton
and while here purchased a new knife
with which he committed the murder.
3 KILLED; 30 INJURED
Passenger Train on Yazoo & Missis
sippi Valley Railroad Jumps the
Track, the Chair Car and One
Coach Falling Over Embankment,
Killing Three Persons and Injuring
30.
Memphis, Tenn., Special.—Passen
ger train No. 314, on the Yazoo &
Mississippi Yalley Railroad, was
badly wrecked near Clarksdale, Miss.,
Mondday afternoon. Three persons
were killed and about thirty injured:
The dead:
Virgie Graham, wife of Hon. T.
A. Graham, of Glendora, Miss.
Unidentified girl, 15 years, ticket
reading to Memphis.
Unidentified woman.
Seriously injured:
John H. Perkins, of Memphis;
Conductor E. E. Sharp; Miss Annie
Lubkin; Miss Katherine McLean, of
Lexington, Miss.; Miss A. J. Jack-
more, of Mattson, Miss.; Miss Hattie
West Johnson, of Greenwood, Miss.
The train was running at a high
rate of speed when at Durham, a
small station near Clarksdale, it
jumped the track. The chair car and
one of the passenger coaches; both
filled with people turned over an em
bankment and were badly smashed.
The W'recked train left Jackson,
Miss., at 6:25 in the morning and was
due at Clarksville at 1:20 p. m.
Log Train Wrecked.
Montgomery, Ala., Special.—A spe
cial from Sampson, Ala., says:
IHE mm LLLCIION
State Goes Republican But By
Reduced Majority
PROHIBITION THE LEADING ISSUE
Bert M. Fernell, Republican, Chcsea
Governor Over Obadiah Gardner,
Democrat—Republicans Elect Four
Congressmen and State Auditor.
COURT Disanssss suits.
Held Up and Robed.
Spencer, Special.—Adolphus Wil
helm, a well-known merchant at
Richfield, Stanly county, was held up
and robbed about midnicrht Satur*iy
night by four masked white men who
accosted him while returning from a
social call. Two men held the team
driven by Mr. Wilhelm, one covered
him with a pistol and another werii
through his pockets, securing about
^-20 in cash. They also took his hat
hut returne^l it, fearing detecteion in
some way. Mr. Wilhelm was roughly
Governnieiit’s Suits For the Enforce
ment of the CoLimodities Clausa
Against the Anthracite Coal-Carry
ing Railroads A.re Dismissed by the
Circuit Court.
Philadelphia, Special. — Declaring
it to be drastic, harsh, unreasonable
and an invasion of the rights of the
States, and, therefore, repugnant to
the constitution, the United. States
Circuit Court for the eastern district
of Pennsylvania dismissed the suits
of the Federal governnK’nt to enforce
the commodities clause of the Hep
burn lailroad act against the anthra
cite coal-carrying railroads of this
State, Judges Geora'e Gray and Geo
M. Dallas filed opinions dismissing
the suits and Judge Joseph Buffington
dissented but did not file an opinion
The commodities clause prohibits rail
road companies to thansport in Inter
state Commerce any article or com
modity manufactured, mined or pro
duced by them or under their author
ity. A penalty not to exceed $5,000
is provided for each violation.
The case was argued in June, Unit
ed States Attorney General Bona
parte delivering the principal argu
ment for the governm.ent. The effect
of the (Tommodities clause if consti
tutional would be to confine the min
ing of anthracite coal by the rail
roads for us6" in Pennsylvania only,
or compel the railroads to sell all the
mining propert7,r they are interested
in .either directly or indirectly.
It is almost certain that the case
will be appealed directly to the Unit
ed States Supreme Court.
Portland, Me.„ Special.—Although
the Republicans, came off victorious
in the State election Monday, Bert M.
Fernald, of Poi^land, being chosea
Grovernor over Obadiah Gardner, at
Rockland.
All four Republican candidates tat
Congress were elected and for State-
Auditor Cliarles P. Hi^ch, of Augus
ta, Republican, defeated his oppotk-
2nt.
At 10:30 returns for Governor from
all of the cities and 400 towns and
plantations out of 499 gave:
Feniald (Rep.) 68,300.
Gardner (Dem.) 61,616. , ;
Same places in 1904 gave:
Cobb (Rep.) 70,882. ' ■*
Davis (Dem.) 46,712.
This shows a Republican loss of 40
per cent, and a Democratic gain of
32 per cent. On this basis the Re«
publican plurality in the State was
estimated at about 8,000.
The result which was much closer
By the derailment of a log train c*f j than any of the Republican leaders
the Hendefson-Boyd Lumber Com- hand anticipated, showed not only the
pany near here earlv Monday, three
, “ T , 4. I larity of Mr. Gardne dthroughout the
persons were killed and twenty others | cities'as well as in the'
injured, three of whom are not ex
pected to live. The dead:
J. 0. Stephenson, a convict guard.
Joe Wise, white laborer,
Albert England, colored laborer.
Probably fatally injured:
Frank Williams, wood boss.
Oscar Powell.
Will Jackson.
little rural districts, where his famo
as the head of the State graiJge
proved a great vote gainer.
The Republicans were on the de
fensive throughout the campaign,
seeking to hold the State by the usual
plurality by answering the various
Democratic arguments, which wero
mainly for resubmission of the pro- »
The wreck occurred on a trestle at j hibitory law, taxation of the wild
the bottom of a dip. An engine ta'nds and refonn in adm?nistratiy&
was pushing eighteen cars over new j methods. But little w»s said of na-
track, which, it is said, had not, tional issues, although the Republi-
been properly tested, when a car in cans, through outside speakers,
the center of the train buckled, de- | sought at various points to bring
railin.^ the entire train.
such subjects to the attention of the
people.
Mr. Kern’s Itinerary.
Chicago, Special.—Governor Has
kell, of Oklahoma, treasurer of the
Democratic national committee,
stated that miscellaneous contribu
tions to the campaign fund ranging
from $1 to $100 were being received
at the rate of $3,000 a day, exclusive
of funds gathered by the finance
Wounded Two; Killed Self.
Laurinburg, N. C., Special.—Enrag
ed because his wife, with whom he
had failed to live peaceably for sev
eral years, would not go back home
with him, Henry Moore, colored, shot /
both her and his mother-in-law about
committee. Vice Presidential Candid j 8 o’clock Monday morning, iriflicting
date Kern spent the whole day at the 1 ^gly though not serious wounds on
national headquarters discussing rte-1 thinkin.- he had killed
Oil Can Explosion Causes Fatality.
Pomeroy, O., Special.—A can of oil
standing near the stove in the
kitchen at the home of John G.
Roush, in Mason county, W. Va., ex
ploded early Sunday and as a result
one child was burned to death, and
Mr. and Mrs. Roush and three
children were so severely injured that
they may die. The house was con
sumed.
Reception to be Genuine.
Tokio, By Cable.—The full pro
gramme for the reception by the Jap
anese to the American fleet, which is
due here October 17th, leaves very
few minutes for sleep while the ves
sels are in port. Official orders. The
Associated Press is informed, will in
clude decorations and regulations as
to the treatment of the visitors. Al
ready in Yokoharng, it has been di
rected that durfng the visit of the
fleet, lantenis bearing the flag of the
tails of his itinerary. He left for
Indianapolis. Mr. Kern’s itinerary
was announced as follows: Chicago,
Jefferson Club banquet, September
17th; Evansville, Ind., Se]itember
IStli; Maryland and West Virginia,
September 19th-24th, at points to be
fixed byi the central committees of
those States; Mansfield, 0., at formal
opening of the Democratic campaign
in Ohio, September 26th; points in
northern Ohio, September 28th and
29th; Saginaw, Mich., September
them he w’alked off a short distance
and, putting his pistol to his throat,
took his own life. His wife is shot
through both hands and the right ear,
the latter shot striking the skull and
glancing off. The elder woman was
shot in the mouth, the ball coming out
at the lower jaw.
Germans Celebrate.
Washington, Special. — Bennings
race track was the scene of a bi^
30th; Birmingham, Ala., October 2a, I (German Day celebration under the
Macon, Ga., October 3d; Asheville, is. .
C„ October 6th; Greensboro, N. C.,
Oetober 6th; Winston-Salem, N. C., of Washington. An extensive
October 7th; Roanoke, Va., October 1 literary and athletic programme was
7th; Finncastle, W. Va., October 9th; j carried out. The celebration con:i-
Huntington, AV. Va., and other points memorates the anniversary of the
to be named beginning October 10th. landing in America of the first Gcr-
October 8th has been left open to man immigrants headed by Francis
perm-it Mr. Kern to visit his sister Daniel Pastorius, who founded at
near Roanoke, Va. It was in Roan- colony at Germantown, Pa., in 16SJ.
oke that Mr. Kern’s parents lived The actual anniversary of the land-*
before they migrated West, and lie j ing is October 6, but it was decided
will spend as much time as possible | to hold the festivities earlier this
there.
year.
Honor McKinley’s Memory.
Canton, O,, Special.—Monday was
the seventh anniversary of the death
of President McKinfey and was ob
served with every evidence of sor
row in his home city. Many tributes
were received from prominent men
and many Canton people visited the
tomb where the martyr President and
his wife sleep side by side and left
flowers and wreaths.
Colored Odd Fellows.
Atlantic City, N. J., Special.—A
black cloud is hovering over Atlantic
City, occasioned by the invasion of
colored folk from all over the land
for the convention of the Grand
United Order of Odd Fellows, an in
ternational negro fraternal order.
The convention will extend throuRh.
the week and the visitors will be en
tertained in an elaborate manner.
Mr. S. L. Patterson Passes Away.
Lenoir, N. C., Special.—Mr. Samuel
L. Patterson, Commissioner of Agri-
Mexican Veterans.
San Francisco, Special.—Although
few veterans of the Mexican war re-
sed i?p and was glad when the high-1 States shall be distributed and
way robbers permitted him to drive I from every house and shop
off, which he did with great speed. day.
culture of North Carolina, died at main'to obsen, e the day, celebrations
his home Palmyra, in the Yadkin Val- will be held in several Western anj
ley. He was chairman of the board Southwestern cities to mark the
of commissioners of CaldAvell county I sixty-first anniversai’y of the entry of
from 1886 to 1890. He was elected a Winfield Scott and the Araer-
member of the House of Rei!>resenta-1 , ,
tives in 1S90, elected State Senator ' f,
in 1892 and served a» Commissioner September 14, h,ii. iho tniimph _
of Agricnlture from 1893 to 1S97. He the American army <«nfi™ed uy
was again elected to the Legislature force of ;inr.s tiicle Sams title to
in 1900 and Commissioner of Agiicul- the vast- conquered '
ture in 1905, which office he held to forma, Nevada, Ltah, ^,>ymlng, Lol-
the time of his death. ' orado, Arizona and New Mexico.