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JJ. MINER. Mgr, BREVARD, TRANSYLVANIA CO., N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23,r908. VOL. XIII. NO. 43.
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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.
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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
b<idy of a man named Bunk Saunders,
ho had been missing several days.
^ ho deceased had had a slight stroke
paralysis and partially recovered
J it is supposed he had another
Uack while out walking alone in the
oods. He was about 45 years old
nnd well to do farmer and a good
f'U’zen, The coroner’s tjury re
turned a verdict to effect that the de
ceased came to his death from nr.t-
Urnl r^aiiKAs
Alleged Lynchers Dismissed.
Washington, Special.—On motion
3f Solicitor General Hoyt the Su
preme Court of the United States
Drdered the discharge from custody
>f 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.-<J Withont BaiL I
Charlotte, Special.—Henry Yama-
guchi, the Japanese acrobat and man
ager of Haw Bros, London show who
murdered a fellow countryman at
Newton, this State, confessed his
crime to the authorities, declaring
that he killed Batsuchi because the
latter had mistreated two litle Japan
ese girls connected with the show
and for whose safety he was respon
sible. After shooting his victim five
times he beat his head into a jelly
with a stone. Following a preliminary
hearing Yamaguchi was held without
bond for the next term of Catawba
superior conrt.
Gets 20 Years For Mnrder.
Reading, Pa., Special.—Abraham
Rosenthal, of Philadelphia, who was
convicted a month ag of the murder
of Lewis B. Clawson, a wealthy shirt
manufacturere, was denied a new
trial in court and sentenced to 20
years imprisonment. He appeared
as if stunned for a time, but quickly
recovered his composure. Clawson,
who was Rosenthal’s brother-in-law,
was mureded in his office last Febru
ary. Rosenthal fled and was cap
tured in Oklahoma. Rosenthal
\bout 30 years old.
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Qets^^fe Sentence for Killing Wo
man.
Opelika, Ala., Special.—The jury
in the trial of Uhland Culpepper,
chained with the murder of Mary El
vin Hader, who was shot and killed
liear Phoenix City several weeks ago,
by a bullet believed to have been in
tended for her father, returned a ver
dict of guilty. Clupepper was sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
Greensboro, N. C., Special.—Hon.
William Howard Taft, Republican
candidate for President, closed his
tour of North Carolina here Satur
day. He was cordially received at
all points where he spoke and his
speeches were attentively listened to
by Republicans and Democrats.
First Stop at Statesville.
Mr. Taft was up bright and early
Saturday morning. His first speech
was made at Statesville at 7:30
o’clock: Several hundred people
heard him there. Being presented by
Mr. J. Elwood Cox, he said:
Ladies and Gentleman: I am glad
to come into the State of North Car
olina this beautiful October morn
ing and to receive this cordial recep
tion. Complaint is very often heard
On the part of your people that North
Carolina is not given her part in the
administration of the government.
She is not. She has able men, but as
long as you'are going to vote for the
Democratic ticket and the Republi
can party is in power, I don’t see
how these gentlemen who do the vot
ing can expect to share in the power.
In other words, let them vote as they
think and then we will wipe out sec-
.tional lines. It is a' great pleasure
for me to come here because I think
I am the first Republican candidate
for President that ever came into
North Carolina on a campaign for
the presidency, and I am here for the
■^rpose of testifying to the South my
interest in that section, my eaniest
desire to unite it with the North, and
my hope that the Republican party
will be built up in North Carolina, so
that it may well have its full repre
sentation in the executive councils of
the nation. I thank you for your
kindness in coming here' and I ap
preciate your Southern counrtesy.”
At Salisbury and Greensboro Mr
Taft said in part:
^‘It is a great pleasure to come in
to North Oarolina. I have studiec
the statistics of North Carolina and
her marvelous growth with intense
interest. I know a good many of
your North Car'ilinians, and every
time a man from North Carolina came
into my office in Washington when !
was Secretary of War, he had not
been there more than five minutes be-
'fore he put his Ifatfd in his pocket
pulled out a paper and began to rcac
and what he read was the statistics
of the growth of business of North
Carolina, so that it impressed itsel
upon me. For instance, your factory
products in 1900 were $85,000,000. In
five years they had increased, in 1905
to $152,000,000. In 1905 you hac
employed 36,000 persons in ;"our cot
ton mills. Your cotton manufactures
had increased from $9,000,000 in 1890
to $28,000,000 in 1900, to $47,000,000
in 1905; also that you are second in
rank of manufacture of tobacco; you
are third in the rank of manufactur
ers of lumber and timber products
You make in one of your cities in this
State nearly as much as they make
in Grand Rapids. Mich., in furniture
I am giving you these figures merely
to point out that unless we continue
to have a protecttive tariff, most o'!
these industries will be destroyed atid
the wealth that you have accumu
lated has been accumulated by reason
of the policy insisted upon by the Re
publican party in respect to the tar
iff. And yet how many electoral
votes have you cast in North Carolina
for the Republican party? SomellK)dy
m2y have a better memory than I
have, but I don’t recall a single one.
I ask you, my frieds, whether there
is a»iy reason under the existing cir
cumstances why, if you believe in
Republican policies, you ought nor to
vote the Republican ticket? You have
a State ticket and a congression.nl
ticket that is unexceptional. I am
Lot going to speak about the national
ticket because 1 have a personal re
lation to it. But the national ticket
is a Republican ticket and pledged
to carry out Republican policies I
submit to those who have stood in
I he Democratic party in North Caro
lina that there is absolutely no rea
son now why if they favor Republi
can policies in the nation they should
not vote as they think. Now it is a
great pleasure and honor to me to be
the first Republican candidate for tb*
presidency who has come to North
Carolina in a campaign for that great
office. I have come here because I
deeply sympathize with the South. I
am anxious that it should take its
place at the council board of the na-
DtMOGRATIC fUNDS
Committee Publishes Amoodt
of Money Received
ALSO DISBURSEMENTS TO DATE
Official Exhibit of Funds Ooliecied
tile Democratic National Oampaiga
Committee.
New York, Special.—^The Demo-
cratic national committee throng
thing just out of respect to their an-1 Treasurer Herman Ridder g&ve onft
cestors; but on the other hand they an extended statement of the eontzi>
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.