ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY J. J. MINER, OWNER AND MANAGER A HOME PAPER FOR HOME R^I^E-AIJL, HOME PRINT YOLTJME»XIV BKEVARD. NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 29.1909. NUMBER»44 CONVENTION ENDED Mrs. McSherry Chosen Head of Confederate Daughters. little rock selected Arkansas Capitai Chosen as Next Convention City In 1910—-Q«orgia Woman la Made Third Vice-Presi dent General of the Order. Houston, Texas.—With the selec tion of Little Rock, Ark., as the coa- vention city in 1910 and the election of the general ofacers for the year, ihs^^ixteenth annual conyention of th United Daughters of the Confed eracy adjourned sine die, closing the sessions in Houston. The following general officers were elected: President general, Mrs. Virginia McSherry, of West Virginia; .first vice president general, Mrs. L. C. Hall, of Arkansas; second vice-president gen eral, Mrs. M. E. Bryan, of Texas; third vice-president general, Mrs. Thomas T. Stevens, of Georgia; *’e- cording secretary general; Mrs. A.* L*, Dowdell, of Alabama; corresponding €ecretary general. Miss Childress, of Louisiana; treasured general, Mrs. C. B. Tate, of Virginia; registrar general, Mrs, James B. Gantt, of Missouri; hsitorian general, Mrs. J. Endols Rob inson, of Virginia; custodian of cross of honor, Mrs. L. H. Raines, of Geor gia; custodian of flag, Mrs. F. A. Walk, of Virginia. In contrast to general expectations, no contest developed over the election of general officers.' The Shiloh Monument Association committee's report was read by Mrs. White, of Tennessee, which showed that over $20,000 has been donated last year.. The report by the treasurer of the fund was read by Mrs. Roy McKinney, of Kentucky, and showed a balance of $5,420.30 for the erection of the monument. On motion on the floor of the convention, $1,000 was appro priated from the general treasury to the Shiloh fund. SHOT CHORUS ^IRDWIPE. Husband Then Sent Bullet Crashing Through His Own Head. Washington.—Enraged because his chorus girl wife preferred a life on the stage^ to his companionship, Wil liam H. Short, of New York City, shot and perhaps fatally wounded her at the union station here, and then sent a bullet crashing‘through his temple. He died an hour later at the Casualty hospital. ^ The tragedy created a sensation among the large crowds at the sta tion. Mrs. Short had just alighted from a cab, which was also occupied by^ her husband and a gtrl friend, and was hurrying to catch a train for Pittsburg, when Short whipped a re volver from his pocket and flred three bullets into his wife’s back. The woman, who was sent to th?? Casualty hospital, is known on the stage as Evelyn Howard, and played in the ‘Motor Girl’* company. She was formerly Evelyn Lewis, of Jack sonville, Fla., and married Short, who Is a native of Livingston, Ala., about seven years ago. They lived in New York, where he was employed as a bookkeeper in a bank, but soon after their marriage, the naan got into the clutches of the law through alleged misappropriation of funds, Mrs. Short •old police when she gained conscious ness at the hospital, and served a term in Sing Sing. Through sheer necessity, Mrs. Short said, she drifted to the stage as a means of livelihood. Short was recently pardoned from prison, Mrs. Short said, and began a new start In life. IT9 importuned his wife to return to !:im. but she -le- clined, and he full.)wel her 1; where, as related, the tragedy tooiv place. WHITE PLAGUE WANING. WLIVES ARE TAKEN "■ ■ —" ■ if A Fatal Mine ExpiosioQ Cccm Near Hart&horne, Okta. GAS IGNITED BY LAMPS DEATH CLAIMS M'CARREN. MILLS SHUT DOWN. Curtailment Plan Inaugurated by North Carolina Mills. Charlotte, N. C.—Some of the larg est cotton mills in the Piedmont sec tion of the Carolinas will inaugurate a one or two weeks’ curtailment, and, If conditions do not improve, it^ is Mkely that this period of curtailment will be considerably extended. The first North Carolina plant to inaugurate the ■curtailment plan is the Tarboro mill, and the Henrietta mills, the biggest plant In the state, em ploying three thousand operatives, will follow suit; and it Is probable that the Caroleen mills, under the came management, will shut^ down in a few days. The seven big mills in Spartanburg county. South Carolina, have shut down. These are the Whit ney, Spartan, Clifton, Glendale, Ark wright, Lockhart and Pacolet. They consume about two hundred thou sand bales of cotton annually, and employ ten thousand operatives. The mills have run two weeks on five days’ time, but the present sh^it-down ffi complete, and for an Indefinite period. Fight Against Tuberculosis Meeting With Great Success. Washington.—The great fight against tuberculosis is being won, according to Chief Statistician Cressy ti. Wilbur, of the division of vital sta tistics, United States Census Bureau. In a bulletin, he says: “A continued decline in the death rate from it, from year to year, may be expected.” He says that the organization ol many state and local anti-tuberculosis societies since the international con gress on tuberculosis in Washington in 1908 has helped to check the dis ease, The total deaths from tubercu losis returned In 1908 was 79,289, ex ceeding those of any previous year ol registration, but the death rate per 100,000 for 1908 is considerably less than that for 1907. In all registra tion states, the death from tuberculo sis showed a decline, except in Colo rado, Rhode Island and Vermont. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. JUDGE PECKHAM W»s Associate Justice of the U|i*ted States Su^prome Court. Albany, N. Y.—Rufus W. Peckham, ftsso6iate justice of the iTnlted States Supreme Court, died at Coolmore, his summer home at Altamoiit, Albany county. Death was due to a compll- cation of heart - trouble, Bright’s dteease •ad hardening of the arteries contributing. Justice Peckham hjwi been in iU health for some time, but his condi tion was not considered serious until recently. Following adjournment of the May term of the United States Supreme Court, he came on from Washington with Mrs. Peckham to spend the summer at Altamont, ex pecting to return for the beginning of the October term. A few days ago his condition became _such that his physicians said that lie was likely to die at any time, or might Unger for several m6nths. Quarrel Over Possession of a Parrot Results In Sensational Shooting. Anderson,' Ind.-^As the result of a Quarrel over the possession of a par rot, Charles Bunn shot and fatally woufided bis landlady, Mrs. Robert Nelson, and then ended his own Ufa by sending two bullets through his brain. It is said that the parrot was first taken from Bunn by Mrs. Nelson, but he went to her home and recovered It. The woman filed an affidavit charg ing him with the theft of the bird. Later he went to her home, and with thi? words, “I #m going to .kill you," fired two shots at her, both taking effect. The parrot, which had been V-ecovered^y Mrs. Nelson, witnessed the triigedy from Its perch. Pays Death Penalty. Montgomery, Alik.—^Wlll Stevenson, murderer of - his wife and step-daugh ter in Crenshaw county, a few months ago, has atoned for Ihe atrocity by surrendering his life on the.gallows at Luveme.' The condemned man took the noose without a quiver or without ^ murmur of prayer. Death w»s al most Instantaneous. SaKK- Shocks Feli Memphis.—A slight earthquake shock has been felt In this city, but ^ damage was done. St., Ix>uls and Hickman, Ky., also reported haTlng experienced shocks, severe enough at the latter place to arouse perwns I sleenlnc. Mine No. 10 of the Roo|c island Coal Mining Company Is tho:^ Scene of a Most Dlsajstrous E^qsVbsion.—Mine Boss Among the Victims. Hartshorne, Okla..—Ten men are dead, two are injured and one is miss ing as a result of an explosion in mine No. 10 of the Rock Island. Coal Minins Company. Nine bodies were re covered. The men are believed to have gone beyond a “dead line” with lighted lamps in entering the mine, the lamps igniting escaping gas. The fact that Dan Hughey, a sub-bass, wps with the other men, suggests the theory tliat the men were arranging the air courses to carry out the gas when one or more of the men passed over the “dead line.” Hughes was alive when taken from the mine, but n^ver re gained consciousness. SENSATIONAL TA1AL ENDS. Guy Veal Found Guilty of Mansiaugh- tier at Carrollton, Ga. Carrollton, Ga.—Perhaps one of the most sensational trials ever witnessed in this county came to a close when the jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter agtilnst Guy Veal, who was charged with the murder of Ex Hayes on August 8, of this year. •There were no eyewltnesfaes to the tragedy. It appeared from the evidence that the defendant and deceased visited a campmeetlng about from de fendant’s home on the day^of^the kill ing. The defendant pleaded self-de- fense, and in his statement admitted the killing, but claimed he did it to save his own life. A pistol was found on the pers er of James -McCook,'head Wfci'den ^ the state convict fa;rm. In I^eol9 county. Will Johnson, a negi^ trustr, was brought to this city to avoid niob violence. Mrs. McCook was found near the stockade. She had been •tangled with a whl]^ Famous Character In Wew York Poli- — tics Passes Away^ New York.—Patriclc H. McCarren, state senator and democratic leader of Brooklyn, died at St. Catherine’s hospital, Brooklyn, never having com pletely rallied from the effects of an operation for appendicitis which was performed on October 13. His death was not imexpected; in fact, the sen ator himself realized that his end was near. Patrick Henry McCarren, by trade a cooper, by profession a lawyer, and by vocation a politician, was one of the most picturesque figures in the political history of Greater New York. No ■ leader was ever more roundly condemned, yet at the close of sixty- one years of his life, he was proba bly the most strongly entrenced leader in New York state, and had wielded some influence in national politics. Senator McCarren first became rec ognized as a coming leader in the days when David B. Hill was at the height of his power. Comity Governra@nt>. Representative~G. W. Wilson.' Clerk Superior Court—^T. T. Loftis. Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat> ^ck. Treasurer—Z. W. Nicholls. Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie. Coroner—Dr. W. J. V,Tallis. Surveyor—A. L. Hardin. Commissioners—W. M. Henry, Ch*n; G. T. Lyday; W. E. Galloway. Superintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen derson. Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham. Attorney—Gash & Galloway. MRS. DUKE DEAD. She Was a Sister of tine Famoijs Gen eral John H.‘Morgan. Louisville, Ky.-^Mrs. HenrieJtta J^organ Duke, wife of General Basil Duke, known in history as ‘Morgan’s right-hand man,” was found dead in bed at the Duke residence here. Heart failure is thought to have caused death. Mrs. Duke, as Henrietta Morgan, the sister of General John H. Mor gan, commander of Morgan's men, was -married to Mi*. Duke In 1859 Her husbaind, six-brothers and a broth- ;er-ln-law, -fought* in th^, confederate army in the war between the states. Mrs. Duke was socially prominent in Louisville and throttghout the state, and an indefatigable member of the Daughters cf the Confederacy. Her efiforts of. late years have been di rected mainly to the collection and preservation of data, relics and his tory Incident to the war. FLAG GIVEN TOJ4USEUM. Captured From the Albemarle Just as It Went Down. Richmond, Va.—Dr. Thomas A. Warrell, formerly of Company B, Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania volun teers, one of the Keystone State vet erans, who came down to the Cold Harbor monument unveiling, present ed to the Confederate museum here a confederate flag that was taken from the confederate ram Albemarle, which was su&k off the. coast of North Caro lina during the civil war. K was re^ moved from the vessel just before the ship went down. The man who captured the flag, G. T. Ford, gave it to Dr. Warrell, who has had it in his possession a number of years. PLANS AIRSHIP FLIGHT. President Taft and Governor Brown Invited to Make Ascension. Savannah, Ga.—An invitation will be extended to President Taft and Governor Brown, of Georgia, to make a flight In an airship while they are here November 3. Two airships will be hei^e for racing purposes at the Savannah fall festival. It is planned to attach the airships to each other by rigid bars to give them double the lifting power of one and to guard, as. far as possible, against any mishap. If the ascension is made it will be at the sUrtlng line of the grand prise automobile race of 1908. Town Government*. Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr. Board of Aldermen—^T. H. Shipman. J. M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, A. H. King, E. W. Carter. Marshal—^J. A. Galloway. Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo way. Treasurer—T. H. Shipman. Health Ofiicer—Dr. C. W, Hunt. Attorney—W. W. Zachary. Regular meetings—First Monday night in each month. Profes^nol Car^. W. B. DUCKWORTH. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelslmer Building. GASH (S^ CALLOWAY LAWYERS. "Will practice in alLthe courts. Rooms 9 and 10, McMinn Block. Notice of Service of Summons by Publication. North Carolina—^Transylvania County. In the Superior Court. R & Osteen vs. Mrs. H. L. Lanning. Notice of Service of Summons by Publi cation. The defendant above named, Mrs. H. L. Lanning, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the superior court of Transylvania county by the plaintiflp, R. S. Osteen, for the pur pose of establishing his title to certain real estate in Brevard, in said coimty of Tran*- sylvania, and for the further purpose of having the title of the said Mrs. H. L. Lanning to said real estate declared null and void and of no effect, and for the pur pose of removing from his own title the cloud made by the alleged title of the said Mrs. H. L. Lanning; and the said defend ant will further take notice that she is required to appear at the term of the superior court of the said county of Tran sylvania, to be held on the twelfth Monday after the first Monday in Septem^ ber, 1909, at the court house of said cormty in Brevard, North Carolina, and answer or demur to the complaint of the plaintiff in said action, or the plaintiff will appljr to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This the 19th day of October, 1909. T. T. LOFTIS, Clerk Superior Court GIRL’S DESPERATE FIGHT. Fe«ght Masked Burglars In Her Room With Hat Pin. Mias, Texas,—^Armed only with a hat pin. Lent Barrantlne, aged 17* fought a desperate battle with two masked white burglara in her home nwT Mesquite^ Texas. *nie girl was finally overpowered and ehloroformed. She was found In an unconscious condition by members of her family wh^ they returned to the house fr<»n wdrk. - Dies of . FootbalK Injuries. Des Moinea, Iowa.—^Walter Svans, a^ IS, died ^e from injurie» re ceived te a footiMUl game. Entry No* 2547* North Carolina—Transylvania County. Duff Merrick, a citizen and resident of the state of North Carolina, enters a tract of land estimated to contain thirty-eight (38) acres, situate in the above county and state, on the waters of the Toxaway river. Beginning on a chestnut oak, the north- w^t comer of grant No. ^ and the northeast comer of grant No.'1223 and in the line of grant No. 388, and ispming thence with the southern boundaiy line of grant No. 388 about north 70 degrees east 400 poles more or less to the line of grant No. 195; thence with the line of grant No. 195 southeasterly to its black gum comer; thence with another line of grant No. 195 easterly to its chestnut comer; thence^ with another line of said grant No. 195 in a southerly or southeasterly direction to the northem line of said grant No. 301; thence with^the northern^ line of sa^ grant No. 301 to the beginning. 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