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VOLUIE*XVI.
BREVAED, mWlt CAROLmA, FEIDAY. FEBEUAEY 10,1911.
NUMBEE»6
HOT SHOT FIRED
AT STKL TRUST
Combine Attacked In House of
Representatives.
CALLED PERNK MONOPOLY
Roosevelt is Also Denounced as the
Tool of the Trust Because He Allow
ed It to Get Control of the Tennessee
iron Company.
BARREL MuRDKi<
Representative Stanley, of Ken
tucky, made a forty-five-minute plea
in the House of Representatives, at
Washington, for action by that body
cn his resolution calling for an investi
gation of the United States Steel Cor-
portion. He characterized the corpor
ation as a “lawless, defiant and pernic
ious monopoly,” and demand that the
guilty, “no matter how high or pow
erful, be brought to the bar of jus
tice.”
Mr. Stanley declared the “steel
trust,” in fear of competition from
Andrew Carnegie, paid him the colos
sal sum of $520,000,000 for a plant
rated two years before at ?76,000,000.
Mr. Stanley declared E; H. Gary
and Henry C. Frick went to President
Roosevelt and told him that if he
dared interfere with their plans (the
absorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron Company), whether legal or ille
gal, the “so-called prosperity of his
administration would end in a finan
cial cataclysm.”
“Never,” continued Mr. Stanley,
“since the Prince of Darkness appear
ed to the Nazarene on the mountair^*
was such visitation of evil and far-
reaching dominion unveiled to the
vision of God or man. And the hero
of San Juan Hill, and the savior of
men assumed the same relative posi
tion toward the arch tempter. The
Saviour said, ‘Get thee behind Me, Sat
an,’ and Roosevelt cried? ‘I will get
in front of "Vou, thou omniscient devil,
1 will paralyze the arm of Justice and
Etill voice the popular clamor while
you sandbag a competitor and loot a
dominion In the South, rich and vast
as an empire.”
Police Believe Black Hands Killed
Bertha Garlow.
According to clues discovered, the
victim of the barrel murder mystery,
at Hazelton, Pa., three years ago was
probably Miss Bertha Garlow, ,who dis
appeared from West Hazelton. She is
said to have known the secrets of a
“Black Hond” society.
The woman was hacked and then
Jammed into a sugar barrel that was
set on fire on the Ebervale mountain
where the charred and unrecognizable
body was found by a miner. Only one
shoe and a necklace remained intact
but they furnished no clue to the
identity of the victim.
DROP IN DEPOSITS.
Decrease of $191,000,000 in National
Banks of Country.
Deposits of individuals in the 7,200
national banks of the United St;at0s
decreased $191,566,488 betweei^ No
vember 10 and January 7—a situation
probably unprecedented in the reports
made to the comptroller of the cur
rency.
Of that sum, more than $158,000,000
was withdrawn from the thirty-nine
national banks of New York city. No
two oflScIals of the treasury agree as
to where the n^ney went. Some are of
the opinion that part of it might have
gone to‘strengthen the New York state
banks and trust companies during the
flurry caused by the so-called Robin
failure early in the month.
All of the treasury oflficials, however,
expressed great interest in what ex
planations the New York bankers
might give.
GOLDEN CATE HAS
WON CMAL SHOW
PanM EiiNMor 6ces ts
' Sin ffMcfeiio,
WILL BE Hao III t915.
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New Orleans Wa8»Q|ef«l«ted,i;>y Aepub-
/ican Votes, the Democrats Gener
ally Supporting the Crescent City.
ARISTIDE BRIANO.
French Prennier, Who Escaped
Bullets Fired by an Assassin.
GIRL CLERK IS SCALPED.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
As Result of Jealousy Man Kills Self
and Betrothed.
Sitting on the steps of the country
church at Naked Creek, near Harrison-
"burg, Va., Fitzhugh Comer, a young
farmer, shot and killed his betrothed,
Miss Cora Turner, aged 20 years, and
then committed suicide.
Comer was jealous of the atten
tions of another farmer to Miss Tur
ner, and several times, it is alleged,
he threatened to kill the girl if she
continued to write to anyone else but
him. Having heard that the girl was
exchanging letters with another. Co
mer went to the girl’s house armed
with a shotgun. Miss Turner did not
regard him with suspicion, and the
couple strolled away to the church
yard, near by. They talked for an
hour and suddenly Comer drew away
and fired a load into the girl’s shoul
der. When she did not fall, he reload
ed and fired again below the heart.
Comer watched her, and, calmly
loading his gun, turned it against
himself. Death was instantaneous.
First Accident at Washington Due to
Power-Driven Tabulating Device.
The power-driven tabulating machin
ery of the census bureau, at Washing
ton, was credited with its first acci
dent, when Miss Alice V. Houghton,
a clerk, was scalped by the instru
ment at which she was employed.
Her hair became entangled in the roll
ers and her scalp, including the ski^,
of her forehead and her eyebrows,
was ripped off. The doctors took 100
stitches. They believe the girl will
recover and possibly save her hair.
An Investigation looking to the In
stallation of safety devices will be
made.
22,328 CASUALTIES.
Statistics of Accidents on Railroads of
United States.
During the months of July, August,
and September last the total number
of casualties of all kinds on steam-
operated railroads was 22,328—3,948
killed and 19,380 injured. The acci
dent statistics of those electric lines
on which interstate traffic is carried
show 146 persons killed and 1,070 in
jured.
FALSELY IMPRISONED.
TRAGEDY IN CAROLINA.
Pitched Battle on Public Highway
Klear Greefnville, S. C.
In a pitched battle on the public
highway two miles from the village
of Mauldin, six miles below Greenville,
S. C., between a posse headed by Lee
Holland, mayor of Mauldin, and Rob
ert McAbee, and his son. Will, of Spar
tanburg county, the elder McAbee was
shot dead and Mayor Holland badly
wounded.
According to the sheriff’s account of
the tragedy, the McAbees fired a pistol
shot through Holland’s store as they
were driving through the village of
Mauldin, in an alleged drunken spree,
and fled. Mayor Holland organized a
posse and set out to make arrests. In
fleeing, the McAbees took the wrong
road, and while retracing their steps
Were met by the posse.
Robert McAbee, it is said, opened
fire and Holland fell to the ground
pierced through the breast by a pistol
ball. The posse returned the fire and
Robert McAbee fell, his body being
penetratd by one shot and his head
by three, and expired an hour later.
Holland arose from the ground and
arrested the son, holding him until the
sheriff arrived.
General Manager R. V. Taylor, ac
cording to a special received at Mo
bile, Ala., has been named as tempo
rary executive officer of the Mobile
& Ohio Railroad pending the election
of a successor to Vice-President D. L.
Russell, deceased, by the directors, on
February 1. The advice from Wash
ington is that Mr. Taylor is mentioned
in connection with the succession.
Innocent Men Suffer From Perjury of
German Officials.
The discovery that five men, who
were prominently connected with a
socialist organization and who have
been sixteen years in a penitentiary
serving sentences, are innocent of the
offense for which they were condemned
has iieeply stirred public opinon in
Germany, says a Berlin dispatch.
The men were sentenced In 1895, on
the charge of perjury. They were con
demned largely on the evidence of two
police officials who swore that the men
had testified falsely regarding the con
duct of the police at a meeting of
working men near Essen.
It now develops that the evidence
of the police officials was perjury.
The case places a difficult question
up to the judicial authorities. Under
the German law the men are entitled
to heavy damages, and the courts must
fix the amount due them. *
A Washington dispatch says: The
House of Reprcn5#ntatives, by a vote
of 88 to 159, doottled in favor of San
Francisco, and against New Orleans,
as the city in which an exposition to
celebrate the opening of the Panama
canal in 1915 shall be held.
The vote was taken on a roll call to
determine whether the Saji Francisco
resolution or the New Orleans bill
should have consideration in the
House. On a final vote, the San Fran
cisco resolution was passed by a vote
of 259 to 43.
The advocates of San Francisco arc
claiming that their fight Is won, and
that the Senate will ratify the action
of the House.
San Francisco won by capturing the
Republican vote In the House. New
Orleans’ support came from the Demo
crats. Only thirty Republicans voted
for New Orleans. Thirty-six Demo
crats voted for San Francisco. The
San Francisco resolution does not ask
for government aid in, any form. It
simply authorizes the president of *the
United States to invite foreign nations
to participate in the fair.
An effort to amend the resolution to j
include provisions for an international •
naval parade from Hampton Roads j
through the Panama canal and up the
west coast to San Francisco was de
feated on a parliamentary point of or
der.
The New Orleans bill called for an
appropriation of $1,000,000 for a gov
ernment exMbit jwad,*the creation of 5
government commission.
MANEUVERING CAMP.
Favorable Report on Proposition by
Military Committee.
The House committe on military
affairs, at Washington, reported the
Moon resolution directing an inquiry
by a commission of five officers of
the regular army into the advisability
of establishing a maneuvering ground
and camp of inspection at Chicka-
mauga park, in northwest Georgia.
In 1906 a commission, having as its
head W. P. Duval,' then in command
of the Department of the Gulf, report
ed in favor of the purchase of 32,640
acres of land in this locality at a
cost slifehtly under $1,000,000.
The War Department approves the
idea of having maneuvering grounds
near Fort Oglethorpe.
GEORGIA MEMBERSHIP.
BORDER TROUBLES.
American Troops Ruistied to the Mexf*
can Frontier.
The acute revolutionary situation
the northern border of Mexico has
moved the American government to
rush twelve additional troops of cav*
airy to the frontier to preserve the^
neutrality of the United States.
The American military forces will
prevent not only the movement of rev*
olutionary bands from this country
into Mexico, but also will prohibit de
feated rebels with arms from seeking
refuge on the territory of the United
States.
Vice-President Sherman cast the de
ciding vote which adopted the Gallin-
ger substitute for the ocean mail sub
sidy bill in the Senate. The vote was
39 to 39 when the Vice-President broke
the tie. Vice-President Sherman again
had to break a tie on the final pas
sage of the ship subsidy bill. The vote
was 39 to 39 and Mr. Sherman voted
for the bill.
GENERAL CRONJE DEAD.
He Inflicted Many Defeats on British
During Boer War.
General Pliet A. Cronje, the note^
Boer general, died at Klerksdorp,
Transvaal.
General Cronje commanded the
western army of the South African
republic in the recent war. After nu
merous i reverses the British govern
ment sent out Field Marshal Lord
Roberts and General Lord Kitchener,
with thousands of fresh troops to put
down the Boers. Ali their arrange
ments were completed by the early
part of February, 1900. General Cronje
and his Boer forces were too greatly
outnumbered to Mithstand the ava
lanche which fell upon them. On Feb
ruary 18, Cronje was brought to bay
at a point on the Modder river, near
Paaderberg, where he defended himself
for nine days in a position that was
impregnable to assault, but greatly ex
posed to artillery from surrounding
heights. After suffering to such a de
gree that his men would endure nc
more, Cronje surrendered on February
17, the anniversary of Majuba. He was
born about 1836.
Will Probably Continue at Present
Figure of 11.
' Georgians membership Kousd
of Representatives will contmue at
its present figure, 11, if the plan
agreed upon at a Republican caucus
is passed by Congress.
The Republicans refused to accept
the Crumpacker plan which would
have given Georgia a twelfth member,
and adopted in its stead a scheme
for holding the House membership at
its present figure of 391. Under this
plan Georgia will hold its own. The
basis of representation will be 232,840
to a member.
STRANGE FATALITY.
Widow of Col. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
Meets Tragic End.
A hot rock used in warming the bed
set fire to her garments and caused
the death of Mrs. Mary Carlisle at
Lebanon, Ky. She ,was the widow of
Col. John B. Carlisle, who was for
many years a prominent lawyer of
that city. When the aged woman was
awakened, the bed clothing had caught
fire and she sustained fatal burns be
fore her cries brought assistance.
reformatory barred.
County Government*.
Representative—Thos. S. Wood.
Clerk Superior Court- Cos. Paxton.
Sheriff a nd Tax Collector — Fred. A
Shuford.
Treasurer—Z. W. Nichols.
Register of Deeds—B. A. Gillespie.
Coroner—Dr. A. E. Lyday.
Surveyor—^J. C. Wike.
CoEomissioners—W. L. Brooks, G. T. Ly<
day, Arthur Miller.
Supeiititendeiit
derson.
Physician—Dr. Goode Cheatham.
Attorney—R. L. Gash.
ToMfn 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. Gallo
way.
Treasurer—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt.
Regular meetings—First Monday a night
in each month.
Professional Cards.
R. Ju.
LAWYER I
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Notary Public.
W, W, ZAQHARY
Attomey-at»-Law
BREVARD, N. C.
H. G. BAILEY
Civil and Consulting Engineer
and Surveyor
HENDERS0NN1LLE.N.C.
BREVAM AND "
CORPSE PUT OUT LIGHT.
Sody of Dad Man Threw Town Into
Darkness.
Holland Kichlein, a wire chief em
ployed by the Edison Electric-s.Light
Company, of Brooklyn, was sent out
before daybreak Tuesday to locate a
leakage of electricity at Red Hook, a
suburban district. He had been gone
about ah hour when someone telephon
ed that all the lights In Red Hook had
suddenly gone out.
Two men ^ent to seek out the new
trouble, found Kichlein’s body lying
rigid across the wires 40 feet above
the street. He had apparently fallen
from his perch on a pole and his body,
caught in a tangle of wires and cables,
had short-circUitfcd all the current in
the little town. He had been instantly
killed.
30 YEARS IN CONVENT.
Nunn Comes. Out of Seclusion to View
Face of Dead Father.
For the first time in 30 years Sister
Mary, of the Rosary, a nun in the
convent of the Good Shepherd, at New
York, was permitted to see the face
of her father. It was a pathetic scene,
for the father, James P. Lang, a retir
ed merchant, of Savannah, Ga., died
Thursday at St. Mary’s hospital. Sister
Mary has not been outside the walls
of the convent for thirty years. Mr.
Lang, who was 85 years old, came to
New York to be near his daughter.
Two months ago he was taken ill and
went to St. Mary’s hospital, where if
died.
House Passes Bill Restraining District
of Columbia.
The house of representatives at
Washington voted to restrain the Dis
trict of Columbia from erecting a re
formatory or any other penal institu
tion within a radius of 10 miles of
Mount Vernon, the tomb of Washing
ton, either on the Virginia or Mary
land side of the Potomac.
The galleries rapidly filled up dur
ing the debates, and when the vote to
prevent the erection of the reforma
tory was taken there was an outburst
Of applause.
The original Carlin amendment,
which included Virginia only in the
excluded territory, was amended on
motion of Pearre to include Mary
land. Patriotic societies throughout
the country joined in working for the
defeat of the measure.
SPORTING Phil McGovern won a
WORLD clean victory over Mont«
AFFAIRS. Attell in a ten-round
bout in Brooklyn. He knocked Attell
to the mat three times in the first
round, and only Attell’s fine condition
saved him from a .knockout. McGov
ern is a younger brother of “Terry,”
and Young Attell bears the same rela
tlonship to Abe Attell. Both are ban
tams.
Clark Griffith, manager of the Cin
cinnati National league team, haa
been indulging in a little speculation
as to the order in which the National
league clubs will finish the coming
season. He says Chicago and Cincin
nati will fight it out for first place,
New York will finish third, and Pitts^
burg fourth.
Abe Attell broke his arm in the
fourth round of a scheduled ten-round
bout with Tommy Kilbane at Cleve
land, Ohio. The fight was at once
stopped.
NOTICE OF SALE AND PURCHASE
OF REAL ESTATE FOR TAXES.
Notice is hereby given that at a sale of
land for taxes made at the court house
door, in the Town of Brevard, on the 2nd
day of May, 1910, by C. C. Kilpatrick,
sheriff of Transylvania county, one tract
of land containing 100 acres, in Boyd
Township, listed for taxation in the name
of A. E. Reece, was sold to the undersigned
for the sum of $5.19, and unless redemp
tion is made on or before the 2nd day of
May, 1911; the purchaser will apply to the
sheriff for a deed to said land.
W. C. REECE.
NOTICE OF SALE AND PURCHASE
' OF REAL ESTATE FOR TAXES.
Notice is hereby given that at a sale of
land for taxes made at the court house
door, in the Town of Brevard, on the 2nd
day of May, 1910. by C. C. Kilpatrick,
sheriff of Transylvania county, one tract
of land containing 30 acres, in Boyd
Township, listed for taxation in the name
of Mrs. EJiza Reese, was sold to the under
signed for the sum of $2.61, and unless re
demption is made on or before the 2nd
day of May, 1911, the purchaser will apply
to the said Sheriff for a deed for the said
land. , W. C. REECE.
NOTICE OF SALE AND PURCHASE
OF REAL ESTATE FOR TAXES.
\
Notice is hereby given that at a sale of
land for taxes made at the court house
door, in the Town of Brevard, on the 2nd
day of May, 1910, by C. C. Kilpatrick,
sheriff of Transylvania county, one tract
of land containing 16 acres, in Eastatoe
Township, listed for taxation in the name.
of Emily Aiken, was sold to the under
signed for the sum of $2.02, and unless
redemption is made on or before the 2nd
day of May, 1911, the purchaser will apply
to the said sheriff for a deed to the said
land. ^
* M. C. AIKEN.
Executrix Notice*
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been appointed Executrix of
the last will and testament of W. B. Duck
worth, deceased. All persons having
claims against said estate are hereby noti
fied that they must present same before
the 25th day of November, 1911, or this
noticc will be plead in bar of their recov
ery. All persons owing said estate are
required to make immediate payment.
MRS. ELLA F. DUCKWORTH.
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