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NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 3.1910, NUMBER»23 jilleged GRAETING IN THE HIGH PLACES loirimer Affair hi Inois Has Caused Sensation. ’ Bursting like a bomb wMle United States Senator Lorimer was deliver ing his vindication speech at Wash ington, D. C., State Senator Jffhn Broderick, a leading Chicago demo crat, was indicted on a bribery charge by the grand jury at Springfield, 111. Broderick’s indictmefit, U is said, ws the direct result of a confession made to the grand jury by State Sen ator D. W. Holstlaw, of luka, 111., who In the hands of President Taft be fore November. ^ It is reported that Secretary Bal linger Tias already Intimated to his friendfi that h© thought of resign* ing but he declared he, would never resign under fire. AGED MAN KtLJ.S SELF. Suffering From Refhiorse, William " Young Sought Death.. ‘ Hanging by the neck from a rope tied to the limb of a tree in a dense thicket near the Atlanta city stock ade, the dead body of William S. Young, aged 62 years, was found. He had been missing for several days from the home of F. C. A. Mul len, on Glenwood avenue, where he had lived for the past year. Suffering from rmOrse because of a terrible crime for which it is said he served twenty years in the peni tentiary, coupld with broken and fee ble health, and the fact that his child ren no longer cared for him, formed the motive, it is \ believed, which prompted the old man to seek a lone ly spot and take his life. HUNTER FOUND GUILTY, Charged With Atrocious Triple Mur der at Savannah, Ga. Guilty of.the atrocious murder of his wife, Mrs. Maggie Hunr.^r, and aged Mrs. Eliza Gribble and her daughter, Mrs.' Carrie Ohleander, In the Perry street murders here last December was the verdict returned against J. C. Hunter in Chatham su perior court at SavanT’ab. The verdict came after the jur.7 had been out but twenty-six minutes and was a distinct surprise both be cause many persons believed the solely circumstantial evidence ad- Y<rte for Lorimer for yPator. A cap^ jpn© proseotttlw woald leaTi# las 'was ordered at once ibr BrOder- ^ reasonable doubt in the minds of \cK and a bench warrant issued for jurors, and because it was believ ed the jury would not agree quickly TWO HUNDRED ARE KILLED IN BATTLE V ' AmericaiK Taks an Important Part In Struggle. By the unerring Marksmanship of American gunn^e the government army has been repulBed in its. attack on. Bluefieldtt an^ tlSfe custom hpu e has been recaptured by tte forces of the provisional government. Two hundred have been killed in the fight ing and more tha^i- 400 wounded. The government forces were too slow in following up their victory of Wednesday. This dllatorlness gave the Americans in Ae insurgent ranks time to rally the Estradan leaders and the repulse ofvthe Madriz^forces began. • As the army of Madriz fell back under the heavy ra^n of shells, again and again it attempted to hold its ground, throwing trenches about the city. The i»ojdterg"were killed as they dug ‘the ditcifees, picked off by the field gun^ operated by the Ameri can soldiers of^ furtane, or picked off by the sharpshooters from the states. The Madriz army appeared to be handicapped by lack of proper arma ment. ' With the fortunes of the insurgents almost from the first dependent ujjctn the eftorts of the Americans holding commands in the E:;4radan array, the Nicaraguan war is now clearly more a struggle between < Americans than be tween Central; Americans. I^en from the states form the backbpne of each arm;?. . WILLIAM LORIMER. says Broderick paid him $2,500 tis arrest. $4,700 All Told for Votes. Tile unexpected turn in the Lori- mer scandal Is said to have been an upon the verdict in any case. The murders for which Hunter is now under death sentence were com- offshoot of State’s Attorney Burke’s j mitted in ^ ie early afternoon of De- Investigation of alleged graft in a leg-, cember 12 in a small irame two-story islative furniture deal. Senatcrr Hols-! house on Perry street. Mrs. Grib- tlaw has been indicted on a prejury ■ ble's skull was crashed In with blows charge in connection with the furni-j of & tlunt instrument. She was very ture contract, and upon advice of his old.' Her daughter, too. met i^eath lawyers, when offered .immunity, almost instantly from blows over the agreed to make a confession. Then head. Mrs. Hunter, the wife of the he told the grand jury that he had convicted man, was not dead when received $2,500 for his vote for Lori- a patrolman pushed open the door mer; $700 as his share of a legisla tive “jackpot”, and a prcfmise of $1,- 500 as his share of the state house furnitpre deal. Confession Coroborated. Senator Holtslaw’s confession re garding the furniture deal was corob orated before the grand jury by Otto Freier, of Chicago, who, as agent for the Ford-Johnson Furniture Company, obtained the furniture contract. The two confessions regarding the furniture contract resulted in two ad ditional indictments, oA a conspiracy charge. These were State Senator S. C. Pemberton, republican, of Oakland, lii., and Representative Joseph S. Clark, democrat, of Vandalia, 111. As in the case of Senator Broderick, In the Lorimer alleged bribery mat ter, capiases and bench warrants were immediately issued for Senator Pem berton and Representative Clark, on the conspiracy charges in connection ^ith the furniture contract. of the house on the terrible scene, but died several days later in a hos pital without recovering conscious ness suflSciently to tell who struck her. She babbled of a “while man” who attacked her. W. H. Walls, a while man, and John Cooker, ^ negro, are charged with aiding Hunter and are prison ers. Details of Great Disaster in Japanese Town—4.088 $2,500,000. The story of how 100 persons were burned to death and 8,000 buildings were destroyed with a loss of $2,500,- 000, was told at^ictoria, B. C., when the liner Inaba arrived with the de- , tails of the fire that swept Oomori, Japan. Thirty thousand persons were ren-' dered homeless by the fire and sev eral hundred by a powder explosion which followed the blaze. Famine and pestilence still menaces the refu gees. BALLINQER INVESTIGATION. Report of Congressional Committee May Come Soon. Washington advices say that the report of the congressional committee Appointed to investigate the Ballin- ger-Pinchot controversy will, in all ikelihood, be published about the ®iiddle of July. There may be two reports, one signed by Senator Neh of Minnesota, chairman of the committee, and the majority embers, and the other by the insur- eents and democrats on the com- niittee. ’^^hiie it is generally believed that ecretary Ballinger will be entirely wrong doing, and Gif- inchot, Louis R. Gavis and the accusers wlH be tern?^^‘tvi what the committee may fh’" “‘^sulded zeal,” never- retarv „ ®.prevails that Sec- y Ballinger’s resigaatlon will be CHANNEL DISASTER. French Boat, Struck By Steamer, Is Sent to Bottom. Twenty-three men were drowned in the English channel when the French submarine' boat Pluviose was , struck by the packet steamer Pas DeCalais. The passengers pn the latter were thrown into panic, and the ship itself was so badly damaged that she had to put back to Calais. The fighting ship was scudding along partly submerged when the steamer crashed into her. According to the reports, the submarine spun around for a moment and then tae water began to pour through a big rent In her plates. Befoi*e a man could escape she had foundered in one of the deepest parts of the chan nel. This is the sixth serious accident in the French isubmarine flotilla in five years. It is reported that Colonel L. L. Middlebrook, of Covington, Ga., who is serving his fifth term in the Geor gia legislature, announces that he is in the race for governor of Georgia. This is a surprise in politics, as no one except close friends had any idea that he would make the race for gov ernor until it was announced. ^ nf ^ GENERAL Queen Alexandra has NEWS expressed to Theodore NOTES Roosevelt, special ambas sador from the United States, her ap preciation of the sympathy which has been extended to her from America. The queen’s acknowledgments to Colonel Roosevelt were made during the course of a reception in the throne room at Buckingham palace, which she panted to him. Lord Strathmore, high cqmmissioner .from Canada, and Sir George Reid, representing Austria. Colonel Roosevelt was received first, and had a long talk with her majesty before the other envoys were an nounced. The ofllcial audience lasted an hour. SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY. Operating the Transylvania Railroad. Effective 12:01 a. m. Sunday, Dec. 26, *09, Time Table No. 7 N. B —Schedules figures given as information only, aiiil not guaranteed. <» 6i 25 C) Eastern Standard Time STATIONS MRS. MORSE’S FIGHT. A bill for the reconversion by the Mexican government of its consolida ted foreign 5 per cent loan of $22,700,- 000 pounds sterling has been passed by the national chamber of deputies. The Council of the Royal Society of London has elected Theodiore Roosevelt a life member. The first American to be so honored was Ben jamin Franklin. Henry Watterson, e^iitor of the Louisville Courler-Journal w^s the guest of the New York press club, at a recent dinner at the metropolis. All Her Household Effects Will Go In Effort to Secure Pardon for Husband. Mrs. Charles W. Morse is quoted as saying that she will sell all her household effects and art objects to raise funds to continue the fight for her husband's release from the fed eral prison at Atlanta. For months Mrs. Morse has been directing the work of obtaining names to a monster petition praying for a presidential pardon for the convicted banker and maintaining offices here as headquarters. The Morse home on Fifth avenue has already been sold and Mrs. Morse must soon va cate. She intends to visit her hus band at Atlanta soon. AUTO TURNED TURTLE. MUses .Lillian Wright and Flossie Herman, of Columbus, O., Meet Death. Miss Lillian Wright and Miss Flos sie Herman were instantly killed at Xiogan, Ohio, by their automobile turn ing turtle. Several others were re ported to have been severely Injured. The occupants of the automobiles were returning from a party at mid night. Willian Snyder, president of lumber company, and driver of the machine, ran over an ‘ embankment near Young’s bridge. Mrs. Don Goss 'had a rib fractured and Mr. Snyder’* leg was broken. Miss Wright was to have been married inta few days. An official protest against the postal savings bank plan was entered by the executive council of the Tetinossee Bankers* association at a diziner at Chattanooga as a preliminary to the opening of the twentieth annual con vention of the organization. The pos tal savings bank plan was the chief subject up for discussion, aid practi cally every man present ^ve a t^lk of greater or less length setting forth his views in opposition to It. The Standard Oil Company has now a competitor in Talledega, Ala. The Indiana Refining Company has completed its storage tanks on the Southern Railway and a bright, new tank wa,gon of the company is on streets iieliverlns oil a^d gasolin# to merchants. With more than 300 delegates pres ent, the great welcoming paradp of the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Alabama was given at An niston, as advertised, with th^ excep tion of the fact that General W. W. Brandon, of Tuscaloosa, acted a:* grand marshal in place of Colonel W. H. McKelroy, who ,was suddenly stricken ill. i More than 500 knights were in the parade, which extended six.blocks. ' - ‘ * Mrs. L. G. Nations died at her home at Blue Springs, Ga., after an illness of some time. She was GG years of age. She is survived by a husband and the following children: W. T., George and J., H. Nations, of Gordon county; Mrs. Ida McCauley, of Armu- chee; Mrs/ J. A. Owens, of Dalton, and Mrs. R. B. Adams, of Ranger. Mrs. Nations is survived by forty grand children and seven great-grandchil dren. Contracts for locomotives, rolling stock, steel ralils and fittings, involv ing a total expenditure of i**.^*5^,000, have been let within the past few weeks by the Southern Railway (Jom- pany, according. to announcement made, thus carrying out the state ments as to orders to be given con tained in President Finley’s announce ment of March 17. It was learned at the department of justice that an investigation is to be made of the workings of the lum^ ber trust for the purpose of ascer taining if any violations qf the Sher man anti-trust law are being made. This is a part of the plan of Attorney General Wickersham to inquire into ous sections of the country to gather the high cost of living. Several in- supctors have been detailed in vari- evidence. Coal in dhicago which supplies the factories and other large commercial interests of the city is to advance $1 a ton in price on account of the min ers’ strike. Soft coal is now being mined and Chicago and all of the other manufacturing interests in the state are dependent on coal from North Carolina, Oklahoma and Indi ana for their fuel supply. The honorary degree of doctor of laws has been conferred upon Com mander Robert E. Peary by the Uni versity of Edinburgh. Sir Ludovlc Grant, who presided at the ceremony, introduced the explorer, saying in conclusion: “This Is the man who by his explorations has vastly con tributed to the extension and enrich ment of scentific knowledg^.** Official dispatches received at the state department at Washington, D. C., from both Lima, Peru, and Quito, Ecuador, indicate that warlike prepa rations between Peru and Ecuador are being rapidly pushed forward and that a conflict seems, inevitable. That James M. Lynch has been re elected to the presidency of the In ternational Typographical Union is indicted by reports received at the headquarters in Indianapolis, accord ing to a statement given out P M 3 20 4 ao f4-41 84 4& f4 51 85 GO f5 06 b5 12 f6 £0 25 05 85 f5 42 f5 56 f 5 59 h6 05 f6 10 f6 20 f6 80 6 40 Lv. Asheville Ar Lv ..Heudersouviiie Ar Yale Hort-e Shoe Cannon Eto«ah’.V.**.‘.’.'...... Blantyre Penrose Davidson River Pisgah Forest... Ar Brevard LV „ Selica Cherry fleld ..Calvert. Rosman» 1....6aIlotvay8 Quebec...... Reid’s... Ar...Lake Tozaway...ijv A M It 90 10 10 f9 48 s9 44 f9 89 s9 88 f9 s9 21 fO 18 s9 10 89 05 f8 50 fS 48 f8 40 s8 35 f8 10 8 CO * ‘f’ ’ Stop on signal. ‘ ‘s’ ’ Regalar stop. For tickets and full information apply to E. W* CARTER, Ag’t. J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. A^’t, Asheville, N C. E. H. COAPMAN, S. H. HARDWICK. General Managpr. Pass. Tragic Mgr. H. F. CAliY, Gen’l Pass. Agent. Connty Govemmeiit>. Representative—G. W. Wilson. Clerk Superior Court—T. T. Loftis. Sheriff and Tax Collector—C. C. Kilpat- riclc. Treasurer—Z. W. Nicholls. Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie. Coroner—Dr. W. J. WalHs. 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—R. L. Gash. Town Government*. Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr. , Board of Aldermen—^T. H. Shipman. J* Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F^ L. De- Vane, E. W. Carter. Marshal—^J. 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 ni^t in each month. ~ Boarding Houses. McMINN HOUSE BREVARD, N. C. This old and well known hotel has been leased for the summer season of 1910, and solicits the patronage of the traveling public and hotrie people who want a square meal. For rates, etc., address MRS. M. B. WATERS. WHITMIRE COTTAGE . CHERRYFIELD, N. C. Summer tourists will find this an ideal home for rest and recreation— near the depot. For informktion ad dress as ab.ove. J. C. WHITMIRE. Professional Cards. R. L. aASH. LAWYER. . 11 and 12 McBiinn BtiUding Notary Public. W. B. DUCKWORTH, ATTO rISIEY-AT-LAW. Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Buildinfi: H. G. BAILEY Civil and Consulting Engineer and Snrveyor McMInn Blodc BREVARD, N. C. Southern Railway. For best schedules, fewest changes of cars and lowest rates to all points, call on or write to J. H. 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