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VOLUME^IIV BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA. NOYEMBER 12.1909- NUMBER*45
ATLANTA AUTO SHOW.
FATAL AUTO WRECK
Two Persons Arc Killed Near
Greenville, N. C.
DRIVER LOST CONTROL
Eon of United States District Attor
ney Skinner Was One of the Urrfor-
tunate Victims of the Accident-
Auto Collided With a Tree.
Greenville, N. C.—J. L. Fleming,
Btate senator from Pitt county, and
Harry Skinner, Jr., son of United
States District Attorney Harry Skin
ner, were killeH in an automobile
wreck near here.
Mr. Fleming was thrown from the
machine, breaking his neck and dying
almost instantly, while Mr. Skinner’s
skull was fractured. Being rushed to
a hospital in Richmond, Va., he died
before the train reached Winston.
Those in the machine at the time
It was wrecked were E. G. Flanna-
gan, J. L. Fleming, Harry Skinner,
Jr., and S C. Wooten.
In trying to pass a lumber wagon,
Mr. Flannagan, who was driving the
machine, lost control and crashed
with terrific force into* a tree by the
roadside. The machine turned a som
ersault.
Mr. Flannagan was caught under
the machine, and badly crushed, three
ribs being broken and internal in
juries sustained.
Winston, N. C.—Colonel Harry
Skinner, United States district at
torney for the eastern district of
North Carolina, had just arrived to
Bttend the celebration in honor of
President Taft, when informed by
long distance telephone of the tragic
death of his son. He left at bnce on
a special train for his home.
RUN DOWN BY AUTO.
H. L. Anderson, Prominent Atlantan,
Meets Tragic Death.
Atlanta.—^While on the way to meet
his wife who had just returned from
the Auto Sljow opening with a party
f)f friends, Harvey L. Anderson, pres
ident of tlie Anderson Hardware Com
pany, was run over and killed by a
speeding automobile near the junc
tion of the two Peachtrees a short
distance from his home, 1085 Peach
tree, near Seventeenth street.
Traveling at a frightful rate of
Bpeed, it Is claimed, the car passed
on, and was soon lost in the darkness,
without the number of the machine
being observed.
The accident occurred Just as the
out going car swerved to one side In
order to pass an incoming one.
Investiga4:Ion proved that the car
•w'llch killed Mr. Anderson belonged
to Dr. J. H. Crawford, and it is
claimed that the iiccident was una
voidable.
TRAGEDY IN ALABAMA.
Farmers Have Fatal Duel Over a
BoHle of Liquor.
Huntsville, Ala.—Joe Webb and
John Clark, farmers, shot eacli other
to death near Mint Springs,* after
quarreling over a bottle of liquor.
Webb was the father-in-law of
Clark. It is said they were drinking
at a place about half-way between
their homes, and after quarreling,
both began shooting. Webb was shot
eight times and instantly killed, .and
Clark was shot tlirae times. He
walked home, and sent for a doctor*
but died before the doctor reached
bim. Mint Springs is in the north
eastern part of Madison county, and
no further particulars have been re
ceived here.
Other parties are said to hare been
engaged in the affair.
Murdered on Roof of Sky-Scraper.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—^Roby B.
Gannon, 28 years old, a real estate
<!ealer, ipirbo came from Lexington.
Ky., was murdered on the roof of a
ten-story office building and l&OO
which he drew, from a bank Saturday^'
Is missing. Evident disorder in Gan
non’s office on the fourth floor of th€
building indicates that he was attack-1
ed tnere and his bod^ d^ras^ed to thf I
roof with a rope, which was found
around his neck. The dead body
bore a number of cuts and bruises,
and some of the dead man’s friends
declare that fie was murdered as a
result of %, jealous quarrel.
ZELAYA DEFEATED.
Rebels Win Victory Over Troops of
the Government.
Bluefield, Nicaragua.—News was re
ceived here by General Estrada that
In an engagement near Guatuano,
Chontales Province, General Fornes
Diaz, of the revolutionary forces, won
a decisive victory against six hun
dred government troops.
The report states that a hundred ol
the Zelayan soldiers were killed or
wounded, and that the loss to the in
surgents was slight. General Diaz
bad sharpshooters in the trees, who
picked oft, a large number of the
government troops as they advanced;
The insurgents still hold the San
Juan river districts.
Reports from Managua stated that
the government troops had defeated
the revolutionists in the engagement
in Chontales province, with heavj
losses ^o the Estrada followers. The
same dispatch stated that General
Diaz, who was defending Paso L«as
Lajars with 400 men, was routed.
IRI^H IN POWER.
Great Landlords to be Deposed Says
T. P. O’Connor.
New York.—“Within ten or fifteen
years the great landlords of Ireland
will have been deposed and half a
million Irishmen wll! bo ’"r's of t’ ciV
own farms,” raid T. P. O’Cornor,
member of parliament, from Liver
pool, in a meeting in aid of the Na
tionalists’ cause in Ireland, at the Ly
ric theatre. An enthusiastic audi
ence contributed liberally.
“After tbe next election,” he said,
**we expect to have eighty-three mem
bers of parliament. Whatever com
bination of patriots wins in England,
our eighty-three votes will mean the
balance of power.” He said the Irish
people had won nine of ten things
they had started out to win, and ex
pected, during the next parliament, in
addition to national schools and the
university, the boon of home rule.
POISON PUT IN COFFEE.
It Is Believed Fanning Killed Mrs
Short to Get Her Property.
Topeka, Kan.—Following a confes
sion that he murdered Mrs. Mary
Short, a Topeka woman, in the bop’e
of gaining possession of her property,
Fred Fanning Implicated Mrs. Min
nie English in the crime. She was ar
rested as an accomplice.
Fanning said that he put rough- on-
rats in Mrs. Short’s coffee. He de
clared Mrs. English threatened to
kill him if he did not kill Mrs. Short,
that she told him how much rough-
(m-rats to use, and that he gave her
$1,460 of Mrs. Short’s money.
SHOT CHILDREN, KILLED SELF.
Father Was Overcome by an Insane
Desire to Kill.
Greenburg, Pa.—Seized with an in
sane Impulse to kill, Edward J. Perry,
a foriner mayor, of this city, shot
three of his children, wounding oue
fatally, and then committed suicide
by firing a bullet into his heart.
The shooting occurred In Perry’s
bedroom, while the three children
were gathered around a crib in which
lay their infant sister, fifteen months
old. The baby was not injured. Eliz
abeth, four years oW, died at the hos-
. pital.
TO CONTEST ELECTION.
Defeated Candidate at Memphis Asks
Recoiint of Ballots.
Memphis. Tenn.—By a plurality ol
79 votofs ovej^ former Mayor J. J.
Williams, his nearest opponent, Ed*
ward H. Crump won out on the face
t|ie returns In the mayoralty Sec
tion, The contest was tiie closest
svflT held in Memphis and-nearly I#,-
' 006 votes were polled.
Mr. Williams refused^to accept the
returns as announced and said that
he will file a petition with the county
election commission, asking for a re
count of the ballots.
SEABOA^AIR LINE
System Is Turned Over By Re
ceivers To Owners.
ASSETS ARE $12,000,000
Transfer of Property Occurred at Bal
timore and General Manager Hix
Received and Receipt^jj for the
Property,
New York.—Following a protracted
session of the directors of the Sea
board Air Line railway, this state
ment was issued:
“A meeting of the directors oi" the
Seaboard Air Line railway was held
in anticipation of turning over of its
property to the company by the re
ceivers. S. Davies Warfield, one of
the receivers of the executive com
mittee, and chairman, said that the
circular which the directors had or
dered to be sent all the employees
provided that until further notice ail
persons who at the thne of the trans
fer were officers or employees of the
receivers, are continued as corres
ponding officers or employees of the
Seaboard Air Line railway, with cor
responding titles and the same com
pensations and duties as at present,
t'^e purpose being to maintain tbe or
ganization which has produced such
excellent results during the receiver
ship.**
The meeting of the stockholders
will be held at Petersburg, Va., No
vember 11, when some action as to a
new executive may be taken.
Where Transfer Occurred.^
Baltimore.—The transfer of the Sea
board Air Line railway from its re*
ceivers to the directors of the com
pany took place in the office of the
receivers in the Codtfu^tai imild-
Ing. ^ ^
General Manager Hix received and
receipted for the physica.l properties
and Treasurer Nutt and Secretary
Porteous, of the railroad company,
the other assets, amounting to about
$12,000,000, the bulk of which repre
sents the proceeds of the sale of
$18,000,000 of adjustment 5 per cent
bonds.
Out of this tho company will pay
approximately $11,400,000, being the
outstanding and floating debt.
MISS BAXTER PRESIDENT.
Georgia Division, of Confederate
Daughters Elects Officers.
West Point, Ga.—Miss Alice Bax
ter, of Atlanta, was reelected presi
dent of the Georgia division of Uni
ted Daughters of the Confederacy, at
their convention here. Other officers
were elected as follows: First Vice
President, Miss Anna Benning, Co
lumbus; Second Vice President, Mrs.
Walter Lamar, Macon; Third Vice
President, Mrs. Trox Bankston, West
Point; Recording Secretary, Mrs. B.
K. Overstreet, Sylvanla; Correspond
ing Secretary, Miss Sallle Malone, At
lanta; Treasurer, Mrs. Oswell Eve,
Augusta; Register, Mrs. Lee Tram
mell, Madison; Historian, Miss Mil
dred Rutherford, Athens; Auditor,
Mrs. V. Z. Walker, Canton.
The next meeting ^ill be held at
Cartersville. ^
For An Immovable Kaster.
Berlin.—The general synod of the
state- church has approv,ed In princi
ple the suggestion to fix by IlgisUtlon
an Immovable date to be observed
as Blaster Sunday. This is proposed
as a conrenlence \o both the church
and the public. Dr. Dryander, vicc
president of the superior couneil, said
that the eouocll had the matter under
adYisement.
Murder Verdict Found by Jury.
Rome, Ga.—^**We, the Jury, find that
Will Nelson came torhls death from a
gunshot wound Inflicted by a person
unknown to the jury."** This was the
rerdict reached by the coroner’s Jury
in the death fst Will Nelson, Who was
shot near the camp of the Rome and
Northern Railroad Construction corps,
and lingered for a week before his
.death. Coroner Miller has been con
ducting a rigid investigation and it is
believed certain now that he will ap-
pi^hipd tb# steyw. ^
Great Occasion Attracts Thousands cf
Visitors to the City.*
Atlanta.—The south’s first Auto
Show opened in the Auditorium-Ar-
mory in the presence of a distingulsh-
'^ed gathering of state and city officials
and social life, to the accompaniment
of patriotic music and amidst a wealth
of beauty, decorations and mechani
cal wonders of the day.
There were at least 100,000 visitors
In the city from all sections of the
south to attend the exhibitions and
races.
The city is alive with motor car
enthusiasts and sleeping accommoda
tions are at a premium. The corri
dors of the hotels are literal beehives
and many happy reunions are being
held In nearly every room of the
local hostelries. Makers who have
not seen each other for months were
seen In groups talking over the past,
present and future of the industry.
Monday was Atlanta and Mayor’s
day; Wednesday, society day; Thurs
day, manufacturers’ day, and Friday,
governor’s day. On that day Govern
or Brown will attend, surrounded by
his mi^tary staff in uniform.
The principal interest centered Id
the races at the great tracl^, which
is said to be one of the finest In the
world. “
It is conceded that there has sel
dom been such a throng of visitors
In the city and the enthusiasm shown
In the various events is unbounded.
Mayor Maddox and President Cand
ler, of the Chamber of Commerce, ex-
ten del welcome to the visitors and ex
hibitors.
HENEY . 13 retired.
Union Labor Candidate Wins ’Frisoo
Mayoralty.
San Francisco.—San P^ancisco has
retired Francis J. Heney, who has
won national fame as prosecutor of
the graft cases here, and given i^on
labor another chance at running^ the
city administration.
Estimates based on a count of 50
per cent of the total vote are that
Charles M. Fiokert’s majority over
Heney will reach 13,000 and that F.
J. McCarthy, the union labor candi
date for mayor, was elected by a plu
rality of 8,000.
The union labor ticket ran well
through all the other city offices, and
the complete returns show ^ that the
next board of supervisors will be
composed of ten representatives ol
this party, five republicans and three
democrats.
WOMEN APPOINTED.
Mayor McClellan Concedes Principal
Demand of Suffragettes.
New York.—Mayor George B. Mc
Clellan has appointed three women
to the board of education, and there
by conceded one of the principal de
mands of woman, suffrage organiza
tions. It is the first time in a quar
ter of a century that women have
gained representation on the board
of education.
The three women appointed, eacn
representing a different creed, are
MI’S. Herman D. Robbins, Miss Olivia
Leventrltt, daughter of State Su
preme Court Justice Leventritt, and
Mrs. Alfred S. Posy, of Flushing. Long
Island.
POSTAL DEFICfENCY INCREASING
It WHL^mount to $17,749,770 for the
Year,
Washington.—A postal deficiency
of $17,749,770, an increase of $569,491
over last year, was announced In the
annual report of Merritt O. Chance,
auditor of the postoflce department.
The revenues for the fiscal year end
ing J^e 80 last, amounted to $203,-
562,38S, an increase of 6.31 per eent
over the preceding year and the ex
penditures increased 6.07 pjsr cent.
Cashier Robbed of $14,1(6. ^ '
Niagara Falls, Ont.—William Dob
son, cashier' of the Canadian Elxpress
Company, was sahd-bagge^d bere in
the company’s office at the Grand.
Trunk station and a package contaln-
ing"$14,156 taken from him by two u»-
known men. The robbery was com
mitted in broad daylight, with a e^ore
of the station employees within '20
feet of the office.
County Govwiunent>.
Representative—G. W. Wilson.*
Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis.
Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat*
rick.
Treasurer—Z. W. Nicholls.
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. W. J. Wallis.
Surveyor—A. L. Hardin.
Commissioners—W. M. JJenry, Ch*n; G.
T. Lyd^3r; W. E. Galloway.'
Superintendent of Schools—^T. C. Hen^
derson. , _
Physician—^Dr. Goode Cheathani.
Attorney—Gash & Galloway.
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—3. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo
way.
Treasurer—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Attorney—W. W. Zachary.
Regular meetings—First Monday night
in each month.
Profesdonal Cor^.
H. G. a^LEY
Chol and Consulting Engineer
and Sorveyor
McMiim Block' BREVARO, N. C.
Patronize those who Advertise
W. B. DUCKWORTH,
A.TTO RNEY-AT-LA W.
tlooms 1 and 2« Pickelsimer Building*
GASH GALLOWAY
LAWYERS.
Will practice in all the courts^
Booms 9 and 10« McMinn Block.
Patronize those who Advertise:
Notice of Service of Summons
by Publication.
North Carolina—Transylvania County.
In the Superior Court.
R. S. 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 above has been commenced in
the superior court of Transylvania county
by the plaintiff, R. S. Osteen, for the pur
pose of establishing his title to certain real
estate in Brevard, in said county 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-
her, 1909, at the comt house of said
county' in Brevard, North Carolina, and
answer or demur to the complaint of the
plaintiff in said acti<m, or the plaintM will
apply to the court for the relief demandedL
in said complaint.
This the 19th day of October, 1909.
T. T. LOFTIS,
Clerk Superior Conrt
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Entry No. 2547.
North Carolina—Transylvania County..
Duff Merrick, a citizen and resident o£
the state of North Carolina, enters a tract^
of land estimated to contain thiity-eight
(38) acres, situate in the above county and
state, on the waters of the Toxaway river-
Beginning on a chestnut oak, the noi^-
west comer of grant Na 301 and fte
northeast corner of grant Na 122S and iuL
the line of nant No. 388, and running
thence with the southiaii boundary line of:
grant No. 388 about nofth 70 degrees eastt
400 poles more or less to the line of grant
No. 195; thence with the line of gtant No.
195 southeasterly to its black guxft comer;
thence with another line of grant No: 19&
easterly to its Chestnut comer; thence
with anotiier 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 said
grant No. 301 to the beginning. Thisr
October 1,1909. B. A. GILLESPIE,
Entry Taker;.