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V LUME^XV ; BREVARD, NORTB CAROLINA, JUNE 10.1910. ~ ■ ' ' '3- NUMBER»24 —^^ ' M folk outline his PLATFORM FOR 1912 pnnciptes on Wliidi i!e 19 Seak Nominatio!!. ALMA KELNER TRAGEDY. Missouri Democrats of all factions at a dinner here heard former GkJV. Joseph W. Folk announce the princi ples on which, it is said, he will seek the presidential nomination in 1912. The dinner was in charge of men who have been promoting the boom of the former governor. “The dcrctrine of equal rights should he made a living, vital and controll ing force in the government,’* said I^Ir. Folk after he had listened to Democrats from all parts of the state tell the guests about the former gov ernor they should endorse for the presidency. Police Believe They .Are On Track of the Child's Slayer. The-most persistent questioning of Mrs. Joseph Wendling, who Is held at the police station here charged with having been an accessary to the mur der of little Alma Kelner, the child- whose mutilated body was found in a sub-cellar in St. John’s parochial School, after an untiring -search for months, has failed to shake the wo man in her first declaration that sh^ knew nothing about the crime. Sh4 adheres to her statement that a ring ind pin found in a^runk at her home, both t)f which hive positively been Identified as the property of the mur dered girl, were given her by a boy, and further than her admission that she has seen nothing of her husband, who was janitor at the school, since his . disappearance January 14, when he drew $60 from the bank, she will say nothing about him. Diligent investigaticm by the police and detectives is weaving a strong chain of circumstantial evidence about the missing janitor, for the ap prehension of whom the police depart ment set out a dragnet which v will sweep every part of the country. Clothing which he is known to have worn bears, numerous stains which the detectives oomfidently pronounce tra ces of blood. The Kelner family has offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the murder of Alma. ^ Mrs. Lena Wendling was presented in police court and her case continued until June 8. Mrs. Wendling denied all knowledge of the murdsr of the little girl. GOVERNOR BROWN IS AGAIN In RACE Amiounns Candidacy For a Socnd Tenii. Following the ,^ion of ’the. state, democratic ^ecutfve committee' in' naming primarj^^ and convention dates, Governor Jwseph M. Brown, in a brief statement;, has announced that he wj^t! be a candidate for re- electicm In the primary of August 23. Governor Brown’s announcemient does not come as any surprise; his friends and the public generally have long expected it shortly following the 'executive committee meeting. • Gjovernor Brown delayed- his an-*' nounqeinent until this time, because he di not desire ter put a political campaign upon the people of the state until the exefcutfve committee’js ac tion made time SiV^d occasion for it. V- JOSEPH W. coLk. “The Democfatic party,” comtinued Mr. Folk, “should insist upon the stamping out of graft and corruption from every department of the govern ment; the eradication of all special favors, including bounties, subsidies j and a tariff for any purpose other than revenue. ^ “We need the honest ,sincere en forcement of the laws we already have and the regulation of the rates of pub lic utility corporations upon a reason able basis that justice may be done the people and a fair return fcrr th^ amount actually invested be afforded.” other ^principle's named by the speaker were the preservation of‘the rights to the states of self-govern ment, the restriction of American ter ritory to the western hemisphere as a necessary corollary of the Monroe doc trine, the extension of American trade by revising the restriction upon com merce, a just income tax, the election of United States senators by direct vote and unrelenting opposition to the! domination in public affairs of special interests and the elimination of such influences from politics. PEDDLER LEFT HIM $10,000. The Good Fortune That Befell a / 'Kind-Hearted Faritier. George White, a farmer and rural mail carrier at Rea, Pa., has deliv ered to himself a letter from a lawyer in a vs'estorn state informing him that one Patrick Sullivan has left to him in his will $10,000. . White, whcr first took it as a joke, has remembered that 15 years ago he befriended a peddler whose name was Patrick Sullivan. He had often treat ed him to meals or lodging. White is now negotiating for the $10,000 which is said to have been left him by the old peddler. WHERE HOMLIKESS COUNTS. CORRUPTION SCANDAL. Covernor Deneen, of Illinois, Orders Probe to Bottom, Intense interest has been added'to the legislative corruption scandal in Illinois, which involve® the right of William Lorimer to his seat in the United States senate, by a statement signed by Governor Deneen, wherein be declares for a thorough investiga tion. Governor Deneen held a lengtny conference with State’s Attorney Burke, and a statement is published over the signature of the governor ^'herein it is stated that Mr. Burke ig assured of all possible aid by the state officials. The whole nefarious plot should be exposed,” said the governor, “The Crime of bribliry is one of the most insidious and dangerous. It makes a arce of parties and of elections.” One glint of humor is seen in the proceedings. It has been l.earned ^finitely that the “treasurer of the corporation jackpot” did not divide spoils evenly and that he kept for imself more than the lion’s share. e participants having no recourse, beared to complain. Y Vegetables. cooked in a steamer are iJoiled L nourishing than those in the ordinary way.' Ugliest Woman In World Paid $5,000 . Pep Week. Mile. Polaire, said by her press agent to be the ugliest woman in the world, has arrived in New York from France <m the liner Savoie for a long theatrical engagement at Hammer- stein’s. Mile, polaire sings and dances. She says she works for art alone, but is not averse *to accepting $5,000 a week. She brought $100,000 worth of jewelry with her. JEFF DAVTS~li0N0RlD. OEORQIA ST&Tf PR!MARY. * Democratic Executive Committee Names^^Date and Prescribes Rules. The Gfeorgia state primary will be held on, Tuesday,-August 28. In accordance with a report sub mitted by the committee on resolu tions, of which F. J. Paxon was phair- man, the state democratic executive committee fixed that date for the pri mary, and adopted the rales to gov ern the same, as recommended by the committee, with practically no dis cussion. It i^ to be a “white primary,’* In which all qualified white voters, irre spective Off past poliUcal affiliations, who intend in gi^od to abide the Result of And supiport" its nominations, are 'invited to partici pate. The democratic state convention, at which formal nomination of the pariv candidates will be made, will be held on Thursday, September 1, in the AuditoTium-Armory in Atlanta. In the convention each county is to have the full representation to which it Is entitled and in accord with its majority vote. RAIL BILL PASSED. Democrats Favored Larg« Portion of. Meas^ure)—rVote 50 to 12. The senate passed the administra^ tion railroad bill. It had been under consideration for more than 21 weeks, and practically no other business ex cept appropriation bills were consid ered in that lon^. pefiod. . Only 12 votes, all of these by Demo crats, were recorded against the bill. ■I^he practical unanimity with" which the ineasure^was passed was due to the radical changes made in the.meas* ure from the form in whi<^ it was drafted by Attorney General Wicker- sham, following numerous conferences at the White House on the subject erf amending interstate commerce laws. All of the “insurgents” who op*- posed many features of the “Original bill, voted for it. .! Tom Watson, K SQUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY. . Operating the Transylvania Railroad. JPffective 12:01 a. m. Sunday, Dec. 26, *09l Time Table No. 7 Hon. A - . a letter received at N. B —Schedules figure only, and nd I given 88 infonnatioii : guarantetrd. * ►. 2<Q Eastern Standard Time STATIONS O S3 GUARDS ARE BLAMED. His 102d Birthday Observed Through out the South. The South celebrated the one hun dred and second birthday^of Jefferson Davis and paid tribute to the leader of the Confederacy. Exercises in schools and elsewhere were held in every state. The day is a legal holiday in'Lou isiana, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Ten nessee . A feature of the exercises in most places was the bestowing of crosses of honor on the*veterans by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Services were held in every camp of the old warriors. UNCLE SAM WATFUCHL. Blue Jackets Go From Panama to Pro tect American Property in Bluefields. i Two hundred marine^ from the Panama canal will go to Bluefields 'within the next few days on the .United States ship Dubuque, which is .now at Colon. They will join the hundred blue jackets who hav^ already be^n landed in Bluefields from the ijnited States ship Paducah to protect American and foreign property. Their principal duty will be to police the town and pre sent fighting. V * Coroner’s Jury Returns Verdict^ on LfUcile Mine Disaster. Charging ..that reckless shooting and inhumane treatment on the part of some of the prison guards did much to enhance the terror of the Lucile, Alabama, mine disaster. May 16, whereby twenty-seven negro con victs met their death, the coroner’s Jury which has been investigating the disaster, returned its verdict. The jury has found that an insuffi cient number of guards was main tained at the stockade; that criminal negligence was displayed on the part of a guard, that the fire was started by three convicts, two of whom, Ed. Porter and Joseph McCoy are dead, and George Porter, living. FATAL EXPLOSION. Seventeen Men Believed to Have Been Killed in Utah. ^ Four hundred kegs of powder were prematurely discharged in the quarry of the Union Portland Cement Com pany, near the Devil’s Slide in Weber cannon, eight miles east of Morgan, Utah. Seventeen laborers are miss ing and it is believed all were killed. A tunnel had been driven into the hill above the cement plant and 400 kegs of powder had been placed there- in.i The workmen were prreparing to sal the chamber, preliminary to firing the blast, when the powdei* exploded prematurely. Whether women will be granted suf frage in Oklahoma will be decided at the regular election to be held in November. The last obstacle in the way of the election was removed when the state supreme court sustained the action of Secretary of State Cross in overruling tlie objections to the peti tion of the suffragists asking that the question be submitted to the voters. The proposition will now be referred to Secretary of State Cross and to Governor Haskell for a place on the official ballot. , GENERAL NEWS ' NOTES gusta, G^., is said co have declared that he will never be a candidate for an office again. He also says, it is reported, that in com ing back into r the democratic party, he has abandoned none of his former principles. He says that he will fight for those principles by a new method, forced upon him by circumstances over which he had no control. ^ A survey is being made for a rail road from Decatur, Ala., to Falls City, a new town at Clear Creek Fa\ls in Winston county, 50 miles south of he^e. Civil engineers commenced the survey at ^ Bashams Gap for the-pur pose of determining the best and cheapest route over the mountain at that point. As soon as this is determ ined the road survey wUl be complet;-. ed the entire, distance frotn Decatur to Fans City. V : . ^ unanimous v^e^irthd^uffeeas^ ern Cotton Buyers’ Association, in ses sion in Atlanta, expelled from its mem bership the firm of Knight, Yancey & Co., of Decatur, Ala., for its alleged forgery of bills of lading for cotton, by which English and European firms were ’defrauded of about COO,000. C. B. Howard, of Inman, Akers & In man, made the motion that Knight, Yancey & Co. be expelled. Tenders fpr four war vessels for the new Canadian navy will be called for shortly. The experts of the naval service department are now working on the specifications. These four ves sels are to be built in Canada and will mark the birth of warship »con- struction in this country. The arma-* ment will be purchased in ^Great Britain. George A. Rose, formerly connected with the Producers’ National Bank, of Cleveland, has been released from the Ohio penitentiary, after serving ten years for violation of the bank ing laws, tiis home has been broken up, his wifev-dying in Cleveland some years ago. Kansas City, Mo.; advices state that receivers for the Jones Dry Goods Company, one of the largest retail general merchandise concerns in this part of the west, have been appointed by the federal court here. The liabilities are placed at $1,600,000 and the assets at over $2,000,000. W. Lf. Manning' of Whitfield coun ty, Ga., has announced himself a can didate for govefhor. He states that he will not enter the, primary, but will run as an independent candidate, and desires to stump the state with the party nominee. He is a farmer- preacher. ■ Tke International and Social Com mission has been incorporated at Washington, D. C., to conduct a world-wide campaign of moral, social and political reform. The government of Peru has indi cated its purpose to w'thdraw its army from the Ecuador frontier. • « 4* The I entire properties of the C. W. Zimmerman Manufacturing Company^ in Clarke county, Alabama, have been sold to the Smith-McGowift Lumber Company for $850,000. The p^nt 13 located at Jackson, Ala., and includes 30 miles of steel railroad. The May Department Stores Com pany, of New York, capitalized at $20,000,000, has been incorporated to conduct general department stores.. Of the capital stock, $5,000,000 is ta be 7 per cent, cumulative preferred and $15,000,QOO comman. p 3 so 4 30 M 41 S4 46 f4 SI 85 (0 f5 06 Lv.: Asheville L\ ..Hendersonville.. Ar Yale. Hon>e Shoe Cannon Etowah ...V Blantyre fe5 12 f. Penrose f5 £0 »5 21 S5 55 Davidson River Pisgah Forest., Ar. Brevard Lv Selica Cherry Held ..Calvert. Rosman Galloways Quebec .....Reid’s Ar...Lake Toxaway...Lv ▲ M ,11 SO 70 10 f9 48 s9 44 f9 39< b9^ f9 28 99 21 f9 1^ &9 10 t.9 06 !8 50 18 43 f8 40 s8 3o f_8... 8 001 “f” Stop on signal, “s” Regular st9p. For tickets and full information apply to E. W. CARTER, Ag’t J. H. WOOD,,Dist. Pass. Ag’t, Asheville, N. C, E. H. COAPMAN, S. H. HARDWICK. Geneml Mauaerpr. Pass. Traffic Mgr. H.^F. CARY, Gen’l Pafes. Agent. 4'%'%-mm Cotanty Government*. Representative—G. W. Wilson. Clerk Superior Court^T. T.‘ Loftis. Sheriff and Ta^ Collector—C. C. Kilpat rick. Treasurer—^Z. W. Nicholls. Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie. Coronet—Dr. W. J. Wallis. . : Surveyor—A. L: Hardin. ^ Commissioners—W. M. Henry, Ch’n; G, T. Lyday^ W. E. Galloway^ Siyierintendent of Schools—T. C. Hen derson. * . ' Physician—DrT Goode Cheatham. Attomey—R. L. G^h. Tbwti Governmoit*. Mayor-—W. E. Breese, jr. Board of Aldermen—^T. H.^ Shipman. J, M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De- Vane, E. W. C^er. Marshal—J. A. Galloway. , ^ Clerk" and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo way. ■ ' ^ Treasurer—T. H. Shipman. / Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt. Attorney—W.W. Zachary. v Regular meetings*—First Monday night in each month. r Boarding Houses. McMINN HOUSE BREVAKD, N. C. This old and well known hotel has been leased for the summer season of 1910, and solicits the patronage of the traveling public and home people who want a square meal. For rates, etc., address MRS. M. B. WATERS. WHITMIRE COTTAOE ' \ CHERRYFIEU), N. C. Summer tourists will find this an ideal home for rest and recreation—■ near the depot. ^ For information ad dress as above. J. C. WHITMIRE. Profe$»onal Cords. « R. Ij. Gr-A.SH» LAWYER 11 and 12 McMfinn Buldiiig Notary Public. DUCKWOK.TH, ATTO RN EY-AT-L A W. Rooms 1 and 2, Pickelsimer Buildintr H. G. BAIL£Y Ci>il and Consulting Engineer and Surveyor CITY ENGINEER HENDERSONNILIE, 1. C. Southern' Railway. For best schedules, fewest changes of cars and lowest rates to all points, call on or write to J. H. Wood, District Passeziger Agent, Asheville, K. C.

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