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^iiiTNEWS^R IN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY
J. J. MINER, OWNER AND MANAGEJI
A HOME JPAPBR FOR HOI^ PEOPLE-AiLL HOME PRINT
VOIiHME^XVI
BREVARD, NORTH GABOLliA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 5i7.1911.
NUMBER*4
HORNET ARRESTED
BY UNI1ID STATES
Honduran Rebel Leader Loses
His Boat.
CAUSED GREAT FURORE.
Commander Davis, of United States
Gunboat Tacoma, Takes Emergency
Action Aflainst General Manual
Bonilla.
IFTSUI^AaM «'x0^vi:^xifi«x£NTo.
Supreme Court Holds Alabama Law to
Be Constitutional and So Orders.
The law of Alabama, passed in 1897,
to prevent agreements and comblna'
tioDS between insurance companies
for the purpose of fixing rates of fire
insurance, has been held* to be consti*
tutional by the supreme court of. the
United States.
The act provided that every policy of
Are insurance should be Interpreted In
event of.lo»s thereunder, to include a
85 per cent penalty if the insurance
company, either at the same time the
policy was issued or before the time of
trial, was a member of the tariff asso-
eiatlon for fixing the rate of insurance.
The invalidity of the law arose in a
suit of Foster K. Hale, Jr., againct tbe
Qerman Alliance Insurance company,
of New York, to recover $4,000 insur
ance for the loss by fire of lumber at
Great excitement was caused at
Ceiba, Honduras, when it became
known that the United States cruiser
Tacoma had “arrested the revolu
tionary gunboat Hornet at Truxillo, »,.ii j t» u «
The Hornet recently sai.ed from New Byrne’s Mill Pond, Baldwin county,
Orleans. Alabama, and for ?1,000 penalty under
The Hornet is being “detained” on the act of 1897. It was claimed that
instructions from Washington, because the insurance company made a settle-
of alleged violation of the neutrality jnent by the Southeastern Tariff asso-
laws. elation, which fixed rates for insur-
The seizure was made Fri<my aiter^ ance. The federal court of Alabama
aSg^ aft?r“two hours ^of defiance 'O“?t«««onality of the law.
from General Manuel Ponllla, leafier from this judgment an appeal wa=
WOULD
RTIfY
CANAL
GENERAL Arpad Goczsel, whose
NEWS foreign bank suspended in
ITEMS. Pittsburg, sent a bullet
through his brain at the home of a
friend at Connellville, Pa. The body
was^found ifa the bathroom. Goczsel
had conducted a foreign bank in Grant
street, Pittsburg^ and had been in'fi
nancial trouble for some time.
A London dispatch says: I>r. Cham-
• plain, of Kansas City, Mo,, proprietor
of The Agricultural Journal, was mis
taken for a spy at Guernsey and ar
rested. He ^as soon afterward re-
l^jased. . Dr. Champlain had ‘ visited
President of the Mnlted States Haff Fort George, carrying a camera. His
President Strongly Urges
ill
NO TREATS OBLIGATIONS.
1'
of the Honduras rebels.
After Commander Davis seized the
Hornet he cast the rebel crew ashore, |
manned her with American gunners ‘
and engineers, and ordered her out of .
the inner harbor. 1
The Hornet’s recent movements up
and down the coast were taken in the i
light of threatening hostilities against |
Honduras by Commander Davis. j
$1G,000,C00 GIFT. j
Carnzsle Institution of Washington
Receives Donation. {
taken to the superior court which af
firmed that kclding.
DEATH CLAIMS MORTON.
President
Drops
of Equitable Life
Dead in Hotel.
Paul Morton, president of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, and
Secretary of the Navy under Theo
dore Roosevelt, died of cerebral hem
orrhage In the Hotel Seymour, at New
York, Thursday night.
Mr. Morton was 53 yearfe old.
The donation of an additicnal cn-! His wife and his elder brother, Joy,
jlowment of $10,000,000 to the Car- ^ were summoned to his side, but he
negie Institution of Washington, by was dead at 6:45 o’clock, a few min-
egun lrt. E«me<^ His Campaign for presence was noted by soldiers, whc
the Fortiflc^tlon of the Great proniptly took him into custody and
World's Vi^^el^ay—Banquet At handed him over to the civil police.
New York. ^; The police apologized for the mistake
Pl-esldeat Taft; BViday night, began military.
in earnest hl»;i»xiipaign for the forti- ’ Miss Ellen Terry, the English
fication oi Pacama canal. His en- actress, was presented, at New York,
tire speech at |he annual banquet of .by the founders of the New Theatre,
the Pennsylvj&V^ Society in New -^ith a gold medal as a token of grati-
York, was de*;^ted to this subject. jj{g q,
service to dra-
nxl The exercses were held
and api.ropriat^ »5,000,000 to begin <>“ the stage of the New Theatre. Miss
the work. ■ i 4 Terry was seated in the center, while
In the^ Senate^ the President has grouped about her were twenty or
been told the sfi^ment for fortifica- thirty men and women famous in arts
tion is almost tviwio one. The House and letters. Preceding the ceremony
seems pretty ev«^' divided, but not there was a special performance of
along partisan Most of the «gjgtei. Beatrice,” Maeterlinck’s tv/o-
members appear|?to have an open miracle nlav
mind, however, a^ are willing to be ^ m ra e p ay.
Ide that makes the During a quarrel over a trivial mat-
of its case. ' ter at Pittsburg, Mass., James Mc-
tll bring all of his Keever, a youth of 14 years, is alleged
favor of fortifica- have stabbed and instantly killed
' Francis Donovan, a playmate of tbe
convinced by t
better prew
President Ta
influence to be
tlon.
utes before they arrived, and an hour
after he was stricken. His close
friend, E. J. Berwynd, arrived a few
moments earl'er. perhaps ten minutes,
before he breathed his last, but he
was unconscious from the moment of
the stroke, and neither recognized
those about him nor spoke.
FIRED THEIR GLrOmiNa
Humiliation of Arrcct Caused Girls to
Commit Su'cide.
In his speech toniglit he said there ggjjjg while they were cn their
S^^the^^warof" «il “anal! way home trpm
that the United Sfiates had every right alleged, accused Donovan of so^e
and reason to proteet what was pure- alighting remarking, and drawing a
ly an American waterway. pocket knife, stabbed him in the neck.
The president said he yielded to no heaviest punishment ordinarily
man in his love of peace and h^red out to the navy in time of peace
of has fallen upon Ernest H. Walker, a
scon to the Senate arbitration treaties
of a broader natme than had ever isecond-cla^ fireman on the battle-
come before t!iat body, or any other ship Louisiana, who killed Patrick J.
legislative tody of the world. Fitzsimmons, a water-tender, while
— the two men were ashore at Cher-
NEW ORLEANS CHOSEN. , bourg, France. A courtmartial was
' held on the Louisiana, and the sen-
A Chicago dispatch says: ; ^hich
Seuthern c:ty Wins Fight For Cig tence. Just confirmed by the navy d^
Excos'*lon ' partment, is imprisonment for life for
’ I Walker. He will lie confined in the
New Orleans wins her fight tor the New Hampshire State penitentiary at
- Won■ of 'tfie'the fanama fipn. *MmCTlT *
canal In 1915. The House Committee prominent memter of^the Atlanta bar.
Industrial Arts and Expositions, by '’“t cow of Denver,.Col., is an ®PP ‘
Six favoretl the cant for the position of judge of the
San Francisco, eighth United States judicial circuit
court, made vacant by the promotion
H. G. BA!LEY
Civil and €k>x\sulting Engineer
and Surveyor
MEViOlO AKO
,if. (r.
Andrew Carnegie, the founder, was
announced. This brings Mr. Car
negie’s gifts to the institution up to a
total of $25,000,000.
Coupled wiin the formal anncunce-
TTient was a declaration by Mr. Car
negie that the work of the Institution
had cleared frem blame the captain of
fi British ship who ran his vessel upon
the rocks, by proving that the British
rdmiralty charts by wnich the captain
was guided we^ 2 or 8 desfte^es
astray.
The discovery of 60,000 new worlds
by Professor Hale at the observatoiy
on Mount Wilson, California, also was
announced.
! came to the tv.'o girls who set fire tol fn^tho ^ Tho fieht be™ Judge Vandevanter, to the bench
WOULD GIVE LIFE TENURE their clothing wh le iniprisoned in thp.j cit es will be carried to the floor Supreme Court of the United
^ J ^ I R,»A,arH ! ’ attempi, to com-j Horse, but, with the committee States. f , . , u a \
Bill i mit suicide because of the humiliatiorii Orleans, her chances are^ The largest cargo of corn ever ship-h^beir^claim
on
a vote cf nine to
Crescent C'ty over
has been a strong contender
Comity GovemmenL.
Representative—Thos. S. Wood.
Clerk Superior Court- Cos. Paxtcn.
Sheriff and Tax Collector — Fred. A-
Shuford.
Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols.
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. A. E. Lyday.
Surveyor—^J. C. Wike.
Commissioners—W. L. Brooks, G. T. Ly
day, Arthur Miller. ,
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
M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De-
Vane, E W. Carter.
Marshal—^J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallv>
way.
Treasurer—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Regular meetings—First Monday, night
in each month.
Professional Cords.
R. L. GASH,
LAWYER.
11 and 13 McMinn Buildins
Notary Public.
W. W. ZA6H1RY
AttorRey-ftt^-Law
BREVARD, N. C.
NOTICE OF EXECirrRtX.
Havinjr qualified as executrix of
the last will and testament of Wash
ington E. Galloway, iate of the cqu6-
ty of Transylvania, this is to notify
ail jjersons havinjr claims against thc?*^
. estate <»f the said testator, to present
A bill by Senator ?:^urton, cf Ohio,
which is intended to g've a life tenure
Oi office to some 8,000 republican post
master.? of the first, second and third
class was introduced in Ccnsress, the
measure providing that these posi-
their arrest had brought them. Missj
Stella Maxwell, 18 years old, the elder,
died in a hosp tal in .I«liet, where they
were taken when rescued by firemen,
who battered dov/n the jail doors. Mi^s
Freda Kemper, 17 rears old, died at
the Joliet hospital. Both girls lived in
Joliet, 111.
They had been arrested on charges
tions should be placed under the civil
service, and tliat appointments by the i ^-
President m flhmg vacancies need net ^
be made with the advice and consent j
of the Senate.” i '
This daring attempt to sweep all |
the good things off the pie counter 1
before the Democratic landslide of ’
MAY SUCCEED FATHER.
1912, will be fought by the Democrats j Mayor Herbert Clay, of Marietta, Pro
to the last ditch. It is being supported j
by Postmaster General Hitchcock,
who takes the high ground that it!
posed For Senate. i
The sugge«stk)n that Mayor Herbert
(’lay, of Marietta, will enter the race
will prevent the removal of good men • nnited States Senator to succeed
for insufficient reason. In a letter to ! father, Hon. A. S. Clay, is the In-
Chairman Penrose, of the Senate com-1 teresting news discussed among Geor-
mittee on pcstoflBces and post roads, * gis.ns at Washington
the postmaster general says the bill jg pressure has been brought
has the approval of President Taft. bear upon Mayor Clay to have him
enter the race, and that he will have
the backing of some influential polit
ical factors who were close to his fa
ther, the late Senator. Should there
be no primary and the Legislature
have the choice of * a Senator, the
DEMOCRATS MEET.
Tike Part In Jackson Day Celebration
at Baltimore.
Baltimore was the gathering place
1 uesday of prominent Democrats from larger the number of entries the great-
all sections of the country, invited to er the prospect of a deadlock, with all
take part in the Jackson day celebra- the possibilities that brings up.
tion of the Democratic victories of
1910, Governor Harmon, of Ohio, led |
the vanguard of incoming Democrats.!
He was met at the train by a distin-1
guished committee and escorted to the.
Belvldere hotel. I
The celebration Included the after-1
noon meeting at the Lyric, with Gov-!
ernor Harmon, Champ Clark and Sen-1
ator Bailey as the speakers, and the {
banquet at the Fifth Regiment armory. 1
Those slated to speak at the banquet |
were: j
Senator Shively, of Indiana; Repre-1
sentative A. Mitchell Palmer, of Penn-'
sylvania; Theodore H. Bell, of Califor
nia; Representative James M. Graham,
Judge Daniel W. Bond, of the Mas
sachusetts superior court, died at his
home, at Waltham, Mass., from a com
plication of diseases. He conducted
the recent trial of Hattie LeBlanc,
Who was acquitted of the murder of
Clarence P. Qlover, a Waltham laun-
iryman.
EDITOR RAY ARRESTED.
to do remains to be seen.
now infinitely better than ever before, ped from New Orleans, was sent out
The New Orleans people are confidori.t! on the steamer Stagpool, when 260,488
the House will sustain the comm!ltee. bushels of the grain, consigned to
The committee, after deciding in Denmark, was loaded in what Is said
favor of Now Orleans, named a sub- to be the record time of 20 hours, in
committee to draft a bill, emtodying eluding trimming of the ship and sack-
the essential points for which Nev/ Ing 4,000 bags of the corn, A Kansas
Orleans contended. The Governmeni; City, Mo., firm chipped the gr:,.n.
will be committed to participation in William C. Scru::gs, a pioiiiinent
tbe exposition, and ?1,000,000 will be | and well-to-do farmer of near Clay-
appropriated for a Government dis- ton, Ga., was struck and instantly kill-
play, as a starter. How much more ed by the pilot of an engine on the
the Government ^\U be called upon Tallulah Falls Railway, just north of
Clayton. He had been attending &
meeting of the local camp of Confed
erate Veterans, when the accident oc
curred.
The Imani of Sana, Seyid Yahya,
has declared war against the Turks
and armed bands are gathering In the
Yemen mountains. The notorious
Sheik, Beni Pasha, has joined the
Imam’s standard and a rising through
out Yemen, a region of southwestern
Arabia, is expected.
Three skaters who ventured dB
' thin Ice were drowned near Lowell,
Mass. William Hancock, aged 12, lost
his life In a pond at Methuen, and
Nicholas G. McNulty, aged 10, and Pat-
! rick H. McCue, 14 years old, were
' drowned In the Concord river. Mc
Nulty and McCue, who were playing
hockey, broke through the Ice to
gether.
COLQUITT INSTALLED.
Large Crowd Witness Inauguration
Texas Governor.
The Inauguration of Governor Col- j
quit-t and Lieutenant Governor David- ‘
son at Austin, Texas, was v«ritnessed
by one of the largest gatherings on
record in the state. The inauguration
took place at noon.
Governor Colquitt made his speech
along lines of conservative govern
ment, fewer and better laws and safer
and saner legislation. The pen with
which the governor signed his oath
will go to his son, Rawling Colquitt,
who managed his campaign.
Mr. Colquitt’s relatives from all over |
the-South were there, including his
cousins, ^rs. M. B. Short, of Buena
Vista, Ga.; Miss Sarah Burkhalter, of
Americus, Ga., and Mrs. Fannie Col- William Walker has been sentenced
quitt and daughter, of Shreveport, La. I ^ Bibb county, G^., jury to hang
on March 10th, for the murder of his
HERO’S GRAVE ROBBED.
Last Resting Place of War Veteiran
Reported Desecrated.
wife. Efforts will be made to ob
tain a new trial for the condemned
man.
Thirty persons were Injured, four
probably fatally, between Hartford,
before the 9th day of Jujy, 1911, or*
this notice will be plead in bar of
ttieir recovery. Alj persons indebtedi
to said estate will make iromediates
settlement. This July 9th, 1910.
SARAH LUCINDA CALLOW-AY„
Wdlch Galloway, atty. ^Kxecutr x,
ADMINiSTRATOR’S KOTlGi.
Having qualiified as adnjii.istratcr of'tKe;*;
estate of J. C. McGaha, deceased, late of -
Transylvania county. North Carolina, thiSt
is to notify all person^ having claims,
against the estate of said deceased to ex
hibit them to the undersigned at office of'
R. L. Gash, Esq., Brevard, N. C., on or be-,
fore the 27th day of May, 1911, or thisa
notice will be pleaded in bar of their re-,
covery. All persons indebted to said estate^
will please make immediate payment.
This 20th day’ of May, 1910.
* V. B. McGAHA,
Adm’r estate of J. C. McGaha, deceased
Entry No* 256^^
W. J. Owen enters and claims six hun^-*
dred and forty (640) acres of land, lying in
Hogback Township, on the waters of In
dian creek. Beginning on a white oak, E.
D. Owen’s corner, and runs thence north
66 deg. east sixty (60) poles to a hickory
stump on top cf the Blue Ridge; thence
south 24 degrees east with S. A. Owen”fe
line to a stone, S. A. Owen’s comer, on top
of the Blue Ridge; thcnce south with the
top cf the Blue Ridge to a black oak, John
Kizer’s comer; thence west, running so as
to include all the vacant land on Indian
ercek. B. A. GILLESPIE,
* Entry Taker-
A report comes from Wilkes county Ark., and Monroe, Okla., when a Ghl-
that the grave of John Harrold, who cago. Rock Island and Pacific passen-
Newspaper Man Charged With Slaying was a follower or General George ger train struck a cow. The Injured
Member of Negro Mi*nstrel Troupe. Was|iington in the revolutionary war, were taken to McAlester, Okla.
FoUowlng four arrests at Eureka! has been opened and. It is thought, I Charles Fogel, alias Andy Vlcartow-
Springs, Ark^ In connection with the that a large amount of coins hidden
race riot at Benton, Ark. on January' 100 vears aero were takpn n’lt
13, Sheriff Cox served a war- ‘ ^
ski, a soldier In the Twenty-third In-
. «■ fantry, was arrested In Laredo, Texas,
of Illinois; Maj. James C. Hemphill, of rant on R. C. Ray, editor of The Ben-' ^ ^ neigh-, the alleged murder of Nellie C.
Richmond; former Senator J. C. S. ton Democrat. Ray, with Ed Ashbyi '^orhood that the fio-vlngs of the pio-
Blackburn, of Kentucky, and “Private” ^ and Purvlss Gantt, is accused of tne settler had been hidden by his
John Allen, of Mississippi.
Directors of the Seaboard Air Line-
Railway company at New York, au-,
thorized the sale of $19,000,000 new re-'
funding 4 per cent bonds to a syndi
cate of bankers headed by Blair & Co.,
Ladenburg, Tnalman & Co., and Mid-
dendorf, Wllllapis & Co. The Issue is
in connection with the retirement of
$14,651,000 collateral trust 5 per cent
bonds, which mature May 1. The new
bonds. It Is said, will be fssued at
about the 28th.
murder of one of the negro mlstrels,
while Harry Lacy and Earl Bell are
charged with having been accessories
after the fact.
Two other warrants are In the
hands of the authorities, but the men
named are said to have left Benton.
The five men arrested all made $1,0^
bonds, and were released.
widow In the grave, but no one had ■
ventured to Investigate. |
The parties who the grave'
did so secretly, and are not known. '
The amount ow the coins has usually
been estimated at more than $500.
Captain Park Howell, of the army
medical corps, formerly of Atlanta,
has been honorably discharged from
the army with one year’s pay. NIr
leason is given. i
OPPO«.11JNITY.
A man must .train himself for his
opportunity, for^a great occasion is
worth to a exacdy what his
antecedents Wve enabled, him to
make of i^’‘*~jpfi
ews.
Culne, In Kansas City, Mo., In Janu
ary, 1908.
Patrol Officer Morris captured
Thomas Sanders^, an escaped convict
from Eastman, at Macon. The negro
offered resistance and made things
lively for a time. He will be held for
authoHtles_ In Dodgejcomity.
A Paris dispatch from Madrid states
that advices from Lisbon describe the
political situation In the new republic
i of Portugal as threatening. The gov-
j ernment Is Reported as not sure of
the loyalty of the army and navy.
Executrix Notice*
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been appointed Executrix of
the last will and testament of W. B. Duci-
worth, deceased. All persons >havf:»|r
claims against said estate are hereby noti
fied that they must present same before
the 25th day of November, 1911, or ti&3s
noticc will be plead in bar of their reco!^-
ery. All persons owing said estate are
required to make immediate pavroent.
MRS. ELLA F. DUCKWORTH-
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1911
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