s its 10 News yoxi Can*t Keep 2>o&efn cl yforf^in^ Tottptu-Lte'fs^ VtiU Together. JJ. MINER. Mgr, BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA CO., N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23,r908. VOL. XIII. NO. 43. n NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS Occurrences of Interest Gleamed From All Sectious of the Busy Tdtr Heel State TOBACCO FARMERS IN CLOVER. The Crop this Year is Very Good and the Prices Exceptionally High— Great Breaks on Warehonse Floors of Twin City. Winston-Salem, Special.—^Eftind- reds of farmers in thir schooner wagons, loaded to capacity, were in the city last week, the tobacco ware houses being filled long before day- lig:ht, so that hmidreds of wagons actually filled the streets in the vicin ity for many blocks. It looks cer tain that the local market will see records smashed this week. Prices ruled high and firm, the ■buyers of the many firms showing eargemess to swell the volume of big stocks that they have been already buying. The leaf offered ranged from ordinary to good, as a rule. The to bacco has been brought from several adjoining counties besides Forsyih, among them being Surry, Stokes, Rockingham and Yadkin. The good tone at which the local market has held since the season started is making the farmers rush their crops to the buyers as fast as they can strip the weed. A tremen- dous crop is reported throughout this -section, yet many of the best-posted men maintain that good prices will prevail right along till next spring. The panic did not effect the con sumption of tobacco, except to in crease it, manufacturers say, for a Tnan may economize on other things ^ut not on the weed. In consequence, the big manufacturers here are look ing for the biggest sales in their his tory; in fact, they have been doing a big business all along already. Whatever hardship may have been felt from the panic, the tobacco farm ers of this section are free of such. They are in better condition, finan- rialh", than ever, it is said by men in a position to know. Verdict For $20,000 Against A. C. L. Goldsboro, Special.—In Superior Court the jury returned a verdict for $20,000 damages to John E. Walker, of ’Monnt (Hive, against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for the loss of both arms in an accident occurring in the company ^s yards at Rocky Mount. The amount sued for was $50,000. The plaintiff was represent ed by Aycock & Daniels, W. T. Dortch and J. D. Langston. Dnrham Lady Found Dead in Bed. Durham, Special.—Mrs. Cornelia Evans was found dead in bed at the county home. The night watchman built the fires as usual in the morning and one of the inmates reported ^o him the death of Mrs. Evans. She bad been entirely well all day and death was unexpected. She h&d betn in the county home fourteen years and never gave trouble though aflSict- ed with a mental trouble. The Festivities Are Over. Greensboro, Special.—The Greens boro centennial and home-coming fes tivities are over—they closed Friday night; Thus does Greensboro step from one great event to another. The week has been one of gayety, good cheer and mirth. Saturday was a day of politics. A large crowd gathered here to see the leader, of the Repub lican forces and hear him speak. For six days — Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday- and Friday—the celebration of the one hundredth anniversay of the birth of the historic old town continued. For more than a week the glad hand was extended and the latch string left hanging out, in easy reach of all who would take it. Everywhere and all the while it was “Howdy-do, we^re glad to see you. Make yourself at home and stay as long as you like.” The crowds were large, sober and or derly, but spirited and fatally bent on taking chances—chances on the street cars, chances with the fakirs and chances at the race track. One accident—a fearful one—came to mar the merriment of the occasion. Thomas Dalton, the younger son o? Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dalton, was dash ed headforemost against a stone curbing and perhaps fatally injured. Young Dalton, just coming to man hood, was a handsome, vivacious, gallant boy, lovable, promising and the darling of his parents. Barring this sad accident all went well. Two of the best parades and one of the best fairs ever seen in the State were given during the week. Evei*vthing, even the elements, com bined to make the days glorious. There were receptions and receptions but it was almost impossible to get about unless you happened to own an automobile or a carriage. The girls of the Greensboro Female Col lege were at home for several hours in their respective reception rooms and the Merchants and Manufactur ers^ club played host. It was a gay night socially. The men in silk hats and dress suits and the ladies in even ing gowns were flitting about until 1 o’clock. The mai^hals’ ball, in Neese Hall, closed the celebration The morning was devoted to the City of Greensboro and the old vet erans. Marchants^ and manufactur ers’ floats and Confederate soldiers formed a long and spectacular proces sion and paraded through the streets. ROOSEVELT TO GO ABROAD riie London Times Leams That the President Will Lectnre at Oxford and Receive a Degree After TTis African Trip Will Also Visit Paris. \ London, By Cable—The Times is in formed that President Roosevelt will nsit England after his African trip sarly in 1910. He will deliver the Romanes lecture at Oxford, and, on the ocasion of the university com- nemoration, will receive the honorary legree of D. C. L., which Oxford ilready has bestowed upon Emperor William. According to The Times President Roosevelt also will visit Paris and ieliver an address at the Sorboune. Neither the dates nor the subjects of the lectures are yet known. The Times further states that ac- jordvng to the present plans Mrs. Roosevelt will join the President at Khartoum on the journey north ward. TAFT IN THE SOUTH »■ - ... Republican Nonnnee Makes a Number of Speeches MEETS A CORDIAL RECEPTION Robbed by Xegro Yonth. Charlotte, Special.—D. M. Beattie, living twelve miles west of the city was knocked down by a fifteen-year- old colored boy, Jim Boulware, near the Battie home, Thursday afternoon and robbed of about twenty-fiTe dol lars. The negro was later arrested in Charlotte. He is absolutely in different about his apprehension and admits taking the money. Looks Like Patricide. Kinston, Special.—Thursday mom- ine Abe Mason, a young negro man v.’hile in a drunken condition slipped up behind his aged father and struck him a violent blow with a brick. The old man fell unconscions ind has not yet recovered sufficiently to give any account of the difficulty. Young Afason was c-antrhh bv thfl Safe Carried Off and Blown Open. Burlington, Special. — Thieves en tered the store of L. C.'Crater, color ed, in the suburbs of Burlington last vreek and removed from the build ing a small iron safe, taking it to a nearby field, where they knocked out the bottom and escaped with the con tents, which, acordiug to Crater’s f^tatement, was .$300. Bii? Shipment of Tobacco From Snrry Elkin, Special.—This has been the greatest week for shipping tobacco from this section ever known. Twen ty-four solid. carloads of leaf tobacco have been shipped from here and points this side of Donnaha to Win ston this week. Monday there were ninety-seven tierces weighing up wards of 50,000 pounds packed anc shipped from this place. The crop is unusually good this year and the farmers are getting good prices. Sheriff Howard D^ad. Oxford. Special.—^E. K. Howard sheriff of Granville county, died at his home in Oxford Wednesday night He was buried at Elmwood cemetery Oxford. He had been in feeble health for several months and his death was not unexpected. He left a widow anc six children. Mother of Editor Stevens Dies. Wilmington, Special.—Mrs. E. E Stevens, mother of Editor C., L Stevens, of Newbern, died suddenly at the family home at Southport, aged 74 years.' She is survived by her husband, five sons daughters. and two North Carolina State Items. A charter was issued to the Bonies & Western Railroad Company, prin cipal office Causey, Chatham county, to extend fourteen miles throiigh Chatham and Randolph counties to a point on Deep River. The capita is $150,000 and the incorporators C C. Bums, J. H. Dunlap, W. T. Brooks, C. M. Andrews and others. Fonnd Man’s Body. Saturday night, while out ’possum ^imting near King Creek, Caldwell <’ounty, a party of men found the bf seventeen of the twenty-seven de- ’endants in the proceeding charging Sheriff James F. Shipp, of Hamil ton county, Tennessee, and twenty- six others with contempt of the Su preme Couii: because of the lynch- ng in 1905 of a negro named Ed Johnson after the court had taken jognizance of his case. Most of the dismissals were based on the failure )f the testimony to identify the de fendants with the crime. Following ire the names of those who profit by ;he court's order: Paul Pf»*l, T. B. Taylor, William Beeler, John Jones, Marion Perkins, C. A. Baker, Claude Powell, Charles J. Powell, A. J. Cart wright, I^. F. Cartwright, John Var- aell, Joseph Clark, Fred Frau icy, Paul or ^^Sheenie” Warner, Alfred Qammond, William Marquette and 3eorge Brown. In the case of Pool it was stated that he had disappeared from Chattanooga immediately after the lynching and had never since been heard of. The court also order ed the publication of the testimony in the case taken by Commissioner Maher. Hon, Willian H. Taft Makes Political Campaign in North - Carolina and Virginia—Greeted by Enthusiastic Crowdis at Statesville, Salisbury, Lexington, High Point and Reids- ville, Ending Sontiiem Tour at Richmond. tion. I am anxious that you should exercise the influence through your able and great men, of whom you have many, in the same way that Ohio and ndiana and New York and Massa chusetts do. But, my dear friends, if you are going simply from historic tradition to keep voting the Demo cratic ticket because }*ou think that your fathers voted that way, then you are bound to stay on the outside and ook in at others enjoying the power in the executive councils of the na tion. It is not possible otherwise. Human nature and party politics are such as to make that necessary, and appreciate the homogeniety of the Southern people. I know their fam ily tradition. I know their conser- atism, and their adherence to some- Statns of Foreign Missions Shown in American Board's Meeting. New York. Special.—Reading of reports showing the work done at home and abroad during the year and the appointment of committees and nominations and business, took up the first dav of the ninety-ninth annual convention of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions in Brooklyn. Frank H. Wiggins, treasurer of the board, submitt^ a ref>ort showing the financial condition at the clese of the fiscal year. The general mainto- nanee of missions, it appears from the report, involved an expenditure of ,$881,254, or $2,075 more than during the previous year. The income of \he board during the same period was $337,999. Mr. Wig gins’ figures showed that the indebt edness was $79,891. Declines Call to Washington. Washington, Special.—Giving as a controlling reasons that his work in Boston, Mass., is unfinished. Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, rector of Trinity Episcopal church, of that city, has de clined the position of bishop of Wash ington to succeed the late Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee. Dr. Mann’s de clination was communicated in a let ter received from him. Another con vention will be called to fill the va cancy. Japanses Hd.- are enterprising, progressive, cour- butions to the Democratic national ageous people in ejeiything but pol- ^ ^ inelnfin* itics, and I think it is time that they ^ ® jegan in politics to show the same cn-1 October 9th, showing sums of and terpriSe that they do in manufactur-1 over $100. The statement also show* ing furniture and in reaching out to receipts and disbursements as fol- develop the enormous wealth of North j . Caiolina. Received from contributors of $109 The Perils cf Aeronants. 1 Berlin, By Cable.—A report receiv- $100, $115,355.22. ed from Heligoland says the balloon I Amount left over from Denver Castilla, one of the competitors in the vention fund, $42,500.00. international race fell into the North J Total, $248,567.55. sea near that city and both aeronauts 1 Amount disbursed, $225,962.38. were rescued with difficulty. Four j Balance on hand, $22,604.67. other balloons are still missinff and jhe statement which is siimed fc» ittle doubt remains that they haveK^^.. , j m_ fallen either into the North Sea or the National Chairman Mack and Tr«s« Baltic, and that the aeronauts are I Ridder says that 343 subsenlK drowned. 1 ers gave $100 or more, and the smaller sums were from 25 cents - np;. It Southern Aeroplanist Falls With Mar I adds: chine, But Escape* Injury. I ^*The number of contributors te Chattanooga*, Tenn., Special.—In at I the national campaign fund is e&ti^ attempt at flight in an aeroplane Fri- j mated at abont 50,000 people ani day, G. M. Mallory, of this city, Iht j about $100,000 of the whole aroorail inventor, fell fifty feet with his ma contributed came from the Demoerat-^ chine ,but escaped with a few slight ic newspapers throughout the United bruises. Mallory’s aeroplane wai States. partially wrecked. The inventor an ^ Congressional Fund. ' nounced that he would rebuild hu • , ^ machine and try it again. This if Chicago, Special.—The Democrati* the first attempt at aerial flight in th< j congressional campaign ccxamittea Soutli. I made public the list of contribtttionsi of $100 or over. They apfHregate $1,744, while smaller contributions bring the total up to approxixnat^;^ $20,000. James Lloyd, chairman of Ite Bids for Savannah City Bonds Opened Savannah, Ga., Special.—-Bids were opened for $2,610,000 of city of Sa vannah bonds, bearing interest at 4 1-2 per cent, and maturing in 1959. congressional committee, states thaft Thirty-four bidders subscribed foi j in order to complete the work Hm $27,269,000 worth of bonds. The j committee is in urgent need of 9^ award of the issues will be mad^^^^^ $15,000. The announeemenft week. The Mutual Life Insurance Companv of New York will probably continues: get $1,000,000 of the bonds. ‘^The Democratic national eongres- sional committee received prior to ^ ** ~ . I the Denver convention in coptrili aefonn* in Cotton Fntnres. and over, the som ot New Orleans La., Special.—^With j $3,500. It has received in sums of instructions to make reforms in the I $100 and over in addition to the ahoiva cotton futures contract of the New amount for which it makes speexfia Orleans cotton exchange, a committee j reporfc on account of the action was appointed b ymembers of the the Denver^ convention in regard tn exchange. The committee will confer the publicity of campaign fnnds, 04 with farmers, brokers and cotton I following amounts: spinners throughout the South and ''Congressman R. C. Davey, Loa»> will also investigate the action of iana, $100? D. E. Finley, South directors of the exchange in ,elimi- Kna, $100; E. W. Saunders, Yiri^ii^ nating stained cotton below middling $100; Morris Sheppard, Texas, $170^ as tenderable grades on future con-j Jack B#all, Texas, $100; J. G. frfipt* I Menry, Pennsylvania, $100; CL HL — I Weisse, Wisconsin, $110; J. J. Ri The Power of a Rockefeller. 1 sell, Missouri, $218; Thonaas Hadc-^ Utica N Y Special.—The Post-1 ney, Missouri, $100; John M. Goodew master General has just issued an Texas, $100; ^XW. HamiUon, order putting out of existence the $100; Champ Clark, Missouri, $2»; Derrin<^ postoffice and turning the G. M. Hit«hcoek, Nebraska, $100; C. business of the office over to the post- V; ^ojk, T. U. master at Bay Pond, seven miles Nichols, Pennsylvania, $100; Hemty distant This is an office on the T. Rainey, Illinois, $100; Francis R. p^v^ate property of William Rocke- Harrison, New York, $200; lAneolm teller, who objected to having people IHxon, Indiana, flOp; D.^ D. G cross his grounds to get to the office, ger, Rhode Irfand, $100j^H. D. Floo^ The people are very indignant at 1 he Virginia, $100; Rufus Hardy, *^x^ closi^ of their office at the beh>st $100; United States Senator W.X of Rockefeller and are getting up Stone, Missouri, $100; Hema nRi^ petitions of protest. A HUMOROUS PATIENT. Surgery has much to sain from spinal cocalnization, says Robert Jones, a Liverpool surgeon, in th< Medical Press. He advocates this process in cases where patients can not or will not Uke oth«r anaesthetics The resulting insensibility to pain lasts mere than an hour, but the pa tient often develops abnormal loquao ity. Mr. Jones tells of an operation ix which he cocainixei the cpine. It wai that of a big man, who as soon as hi Kad taken two or three whiffs o1 chloroform Jumped off the operating table and scampered away. This hap pen-ed twice, and Mr. Jones tried co cainlzation, injecting cocaine into th« cerebro-spinal fluid. 'By this means a troublesome operation of cutting oul bones in the leg was safely carried out The man, stn old poacher, moan time regaled the doctors with storiej of his art, only once interrupting when the surgeon was chiseling f bone, to ask, "What is that knock ing?”—^London Mail. MORE SUBSTITUTION. Customer (in book etore)*—®Javo you Dante’s “Inferno?’* Clerk—No, but I can give you **Wio’s Who in Chicago.”—Life. der, New York, $250; W. G. Conrad^ Montana, $250; and Democratic n» tional committee, $3,000. There Iia4 been $3,089 additional received fren individuals and committees for frank-^ able literature. English Balloon May Be Wbaur. Berlin, By Cable.—Seventeen of tha balloons which competed in the xa* terpational race have landed. IVk» are still missing and it is feared have been driven seaward. The EngliA Banshee landed farthest from Berfin going approximately three hundred miles. She will be the winner nnlssa one of the missing balloons has {ona a further distance. Wed at 102; Died st lia Seneca Falls, N. Y., SpeciaL—Mifc Charlotte Decker is dead here, was 110 years old. Her father, Godr frey Reals, was a volunteer in Hi# Colonial army and served nntil tts colonies were free. She remembered the year 1813, when no grain could be raised and it was sold for $5 a bushel. In June 1900, Mrs. BrsinarJ was married to Samuel Decker, k«t third husband, the other two beii^ dead. He was then 62 and Decker 102. She had but one chil^ which died in infancy.