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VOLUIE*XVI
BREVARD/NORTH CAROLINA,
24.1911.
NU1BER*8 ■
BOLD HOLD-UP Or^
SOUTHERN ROAD
Georgia Bandits M in tiie
True Western Styie.^
OBTAINED ABOUT $14,000.
Repeated Attempts Were Made to Dy*
namite the Large Safe in the Ex*
press Car, In Which was $60,000.
JAMES LOWTHER.
Speaker of House of Commons,
Who Would End House of Lords.
Disappearing as completely as 1^ the
earth had, swallowed them up, not a
trace has heen discovered of five ban
dits who, in real wild west style, held
up the Southern^ railway’s fast mail,
Xc. 36, near White Sulphur Springs,
Ga., Saturday morning at 2:15, dyna
mited and robbed the express car of
$14,000 in cash. More than $60,000 In
currency and gold remained in another
safe in the express car unmolested.
While clipping off the miles at a
pretty fair rate ef speed Engineer Fant
had just settled in his seat to make up
several minutes’ lost time when he
suddenly saw a red signal ahead. He
slowed down the train, and upon ap
proaching the signal, noted that a man
was swinging a lantern. Supposing
tliat seme track obstruction had been
discovered, he brought his train to a
dead stop. Mounting the cab without!
ceremony, and quietly, two masked;
men “covered” Engineer Fant and
Fireman Rufus Johnson. Engineer
Fani was marched back to the express
car, and was ordered to carry a shovel.
The fireman was told to run. He ran.
Expressman Ordered to Quit Post.
Three other members of the gang"
came on the scene, and patrolled the
train while the two men who*had the
engineer “covered” opened the door to
the express compartment of the bag
gage car, ordering Expressman Miller
to hold up his hanSs. Miller obeyed
after the bandits gave him to under
stand they meant business.
Conductor^ Mooney thought the whole
affair was a practical joke, and hanr
died one of the robbers roughly. He
was soon convinced, however, by the
persuasive presence_of a' dangerous
lobking gun that he was face to face
with the real thing.
After working for ten minutes, arid
after making three unsuccessful at
tempts to dynamite the larger safe In
the car, the men turned their atten
tion to the smaller safe. They (lUickly j
effected entrance to its contents, an>,
secured about $700 in currency, gold
and silver. Probably alarmed by the ^
explosions set off in the%effort to break;
the larger safe, the bandits allowed the j
train crew to take their places on the!
train, and they disappeared in the
woods.
A reward of $100 each has been of
fered by Governor Brown for their
capture,
Bandits Secured $14,000.
Information received later is to^ the
effect that one of the packages taken
from the express car safe contained
$14,000.
In addition to this, a quantity of for
eign money,, the .amount of which is
not stated, also is missmg.
Several foreign silver pieces were
found on the ground shortly after the
robbery, and these are believed to
have been in the missing package.
* FIGHT TO A finish:
Administration and Publishers War
Over Postage Rates.
Lines, it is said, are being closely
drawn for a fight to a finish between
the admini^ration at Washington and
American ^jblishers over the plan to
increase the postage rates on aiiver-
tising sections of magazi^ies.
Postmaster General Hitdhcock Is
taking an active part in urging the
plan by^demonstrating to senators and
representatives that the attitude of
the postal department is just. Presi
dent Taft is seconding the efforts of
his postmaster general. According to
Hitchcock, the publishers are using
unfair methods in urging publishers of
small periodicals to fight the proposed
Increase, because it would be harmful
to them. He asserts that as a matter
of fact it would be of great benefit to
many fraternal publications and oth
ers of that class which are unable to
print advertisements.
NORTH J>01£ FINDER
GIVEN'dARD RAP
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Arlcaiisas CoopassRian Imu
Gapt. Peary.
OEWT|D A “FAKER.’^
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In Debate on Naval'^AfH^ropNatfon l»l}I,
Macon, of .ArkanoxSr Sajrs Peary
' Should Be Driven From Naval Ser
vice—Reply From'Peary's Fricnda.
TOBACCO MEN SHOT.
Growers Are Ambushed and Wounded
by Negroes.
RELATIONS STRAINED.
Three tobacco men, on their way to
Danville, Ky., were held up by^ negro
bandits, who seriousl;^ wounded each
of the travelers and obtained about
$100 in cash. The negroes escaped,
but later two of the number were cap
tured and placed in jail at Stanford.
The victims of the hold-up were D.
O. Ballard, Clarence Deatherage and
E. B. Hatfield. As they drove along a
country road not far from Stanford,
they were passed by a party of ne
groes, who hid themselves in a clump
of trees by the roadside.
When the tobacco ~ men came
abreast of the ambuscade they were
targets for a hail of bullets from the
robbers’ revolvers. Deatherage was
hit by five bullets, both of Hatfield’s
Jaws were broken, and Ballard’s ^kull
was crushed.
City and county officers and a posse
took the bandits’ trail and arrested
two negroes in Danville. One of the
prisoners admits he shot Deatherage.
Representative Macon, of Arkansas,
speaking in general debate on the
naval appropriation bill in the house,
made a sensMional attack upon Cap
tain 'Robert E. Peary, denouncing him
as a “faker” and declaring that “he
should be driven from the naval ser
vice.”
The bitter words used by the inem-
ber from Arkansas called out a quicK
reply from Peary’s friends. Repre
sentative J. Hampton Moore, of Pehn*
sylvania, after, vainly af;empting to in
terrupt Mr. Macon, finally got the
floor in his own right. He character
ized Mr.’ Macon’s speech as “unjust,
outrageous and offensive.” He said
there was always ,^6me one to be
found .to suspect every performajico
by men of genius and courage. He
referred to Captain Hobson’s exploit
of the Merrimac and to Dewey’s vic
tory at Manila bay.
“Heroes like these,” said Mr. Moore,
“have not the time to.stop and deal
with every fdog that barks at their
heels.”
Mr.' Macon declared that Peary’s
whole story was a “fake pure and
simple.” He said his contempt for
“fake heroes” was supreme, and he in
timated that ho put “the hero of San
Jvan Hill” in that class. Mr. Macon
denounced the Peary Arctic Club and
charged that it had maintained a paid
lobby in Washington. He said that
President Taft’s* judgment in this
matter was not to be' accepted, for
he had congratulated Cook as heartily
as he did Peary.
TO SPEAK TO NEGROES.
Taft and Roosevelt Will Address
^hem in Atlanta Soon?
> '[Theodore Roosevelt and William H.
Taft will be vicitOrs to Atlanta next
mbnth, and will address the colored
people of Atlanta at the Central Ave-
mle Methodist Episcopal church, col
ored, at the corner of Central avenue
ajid Hunter street.
‘ Rev. J. A. Rush, pastor of the
church, received a letter from Mr.
Roosevelt accepting the invitation to
speak there, and March 9 has been set
as'^a tentative date, though the hour
has not been s«t.
President Taft accei)ted ihe invita
tion of this church a week or so ago
and will deliyer an address there on
iSfa^ch 10 in the afternoon.
YOUTH SLAYS SELF.
County -Covfct‘E.mfciut,.
Representative—Thos. S. Weed.
Clerk Superior Court- Ccs. Paxton.
Sheriff and Tax Collector — Fred. A
Shuford.
Treasurer—Z. W. Mchols.
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.
JoTin Williams Shoots Himself Through
^ Head in Macon, Ga., Hotel.
John Williams, a young white man
hardly 30 years of age, went to Ihe
Exchange hotel and shot himself in
the head with a revolver.
Death wa^ instantaneous.
Indications are that^he came to the
place with Intention of ending his life
Coroner Young took the case
charge to make an investigation,
i The dead man\ had followed. shows
about the country for recent employ*
ment.
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BIG EXPDSmON IS
PROPO^D IN 1915
To Msk son. Myetsaiy
Ending lavil War..
TO BE HELD AT LOUISVILIE
It Will De Known as the Lincoln-
Davis Exposition—Probfibie That
Corporation of the Federal Govern
ment Will Be Asked in the Venture.
RAISING THE MAINE.
Anniversary cf Battleship’s Sinking Is
Observed.
Trouble Seems to Be Brewing Be
tween Russia and China.
The relations of Russia and China
are strained to breaking point.
Russia has notified the governments
of Great Britain, France and Germany ‘
of her intehtion to make a military
demonstration on nhe Russo-Chinese •
frontier owing to China’s persistent,
violation of the St. Petersburg treaty
of 1881.
Russian troops will be sent forth
with to the district of Hi. ‘
The extent of the demonstration, it
Is added in the diplomatic note, will
depend entirely upon the attitude as
sumed by China.
The vital questions involved are free
trade in Mongolia, the extra terri
torial rights of Russians in China, and
the establishment or a Russian con
sulate at Keobdo, Mondolia.
$100,000,000 COMBINE.
Company Formed to Control Output o1
Automobiles.
.extra session certain.
Jf Senate Fails to Act on Reciprocity
Measure.
The first authoritative announcement
that President Taft will call an extra
session of congress if the senate fails
to aci upon the McCall bill, putting
into effect the Canadian reciprocity
agreement, came from Mr. McCall him
self, following an interview with the
president at the white house.
According to McCall’s announcement
the president feels that he is under an
International obligation to summon an
^xtra session if it be necessary to get
action on the reciprocity agreement
i hat session would be called immedi'
ately following the adjournment ol
<iongress at noon Marcl^4. !
The Christian Science Monitor pub
lishes a report to the effect that a,
$100,00t),000 automobile combine is in'
process of forq^ation. The article
says:
.“^ccoyding to trustworthy inforiaa-
ticn received from Wall street sources
in New York,.*Boston is the center oi
Interest in a $100,000,000 automobile
trust that is being formed. ^
“Representatives of the J. P. Mor
gan and Rothschild int^ests and capi
tal of some men who were connected
with the Licensed Automobile Dealers’
Association, ^together with $9,000,000
belonging to Walter Flanders, the De
troit automobile manufacturer, are re
ported to be behind the deal.
“It is said to be the plan of this
combination to purchase all shops in
the United States that manufacture the
machinery that makes parts for au
tomobiles, buying these large factdries
outright with patent rights.
“The negotiations pending in Bos
ton are for the purchase of one of the
largest machine shops in Providence
that makes machines that^ turn out
parts for automobiles.”
Thirteen years ago Thursday the
battleship Maine was blown up in Ha
vana harbor, and in memory of the
men who died, appropriate exercises
were held at Washington by military,
patriotic and religious bodjes. This
year’s anniversary of the terrible disas
ter added interest from the fact thai
the work of raising the sunken hull of
the wrecked vessel is noy^ nearing
completion.
Engineers of the United States army
are in charge of the project for raising
the Maine. A steel caisson was driven
into the hard clay bottom of Havana
harbor, which is about sixty-five feet
below no^an tide. Walls of a coffer
dam were then built along either side
of the hull from this caisson until they
met at the other-end of the vessel.
This wall was filled with clay from
a bar near the wreck to give sufficient
stability to prevent it from being over*
turned when the water is pumped out.
The piling of the walls was driven
through ten to eighteen feet of mud
and about thirteen feet of the softer
clay. The steel sheet piling was driv
en until the steam , hammer made no
impression,'resulting, it is believed, in
making the dam practically water
tight.
When the wreck has been exposed
all bodies will be taken out, and the
third of the ship which is a twisted
mass of wreckage will be carefully ex-
nal exh
ille in
for Loiifisville in 1915. It will be
known as the Lincoln-Davis exposi
tion, to mark the fiftieth anniversary
of the end of the civil war. Directors
of the Louisville Convention league,
in an announcement, call attention to
the fact that both Abraham Lincoln
and Jefferson Davis, heads of the two
governments opposed to each other
from 1861 to 1865, were natives of
Kentucky, and the claim that Louis
ville is the proper place for siJch ex
hibition. It is probable that co-opera
tion of the federal government will be
asked.
“Now that it has been definitely de
termined to hold the Panama exposi
tion in San Francisco,” says the an
nouncement, “all the vast expanse of
country east of the Rocky mountains
is left ‘expositionless’.” It then ar
gues that the fiftieth anniversary of
the close of the four years of strife
between the states should be fittingly
observed; that no more suitable
'method than a world’s fair can be
♦found, and that Kentucky, as the
birthplacfe of both President Abraham
Lincoln, of the United States, and
iPresident Jefferson Davis, of the Con
federate states, is the proper place to
hold such a celebration. One of the
features proposed is a grand reunion
in which survivors of both the Federal
and Confederate armies shall partici
pate.
That federal aid will be sought by
the Louisville promoters is indicated
by a comparison which they make be-
amined by experts to discover, if pos
sible, the cause of the explosion which, tween the amounts of money turned
sent the Maine to the bottom. The re- into the national treasury by Ken?
mainder of the ship will be bulkhea^ed tucky and California
so that it wUl float, and when the
cofferdam is again flooded the Maine AVIATORS ARRESTED.
wi^ be on the surface, ready for Con
gress to decide what shall be done ■with
her. ^
The human remains found win prob
ably be brought here' and buried beside At the completion of the_ aviation
the bodies ,already recovered iij^. Ar- exhibition at Tampa Sunday, J, A. D
Ministers at Tampa Wage War on Sun
day Exhibitions.
Town Covernment*. S
Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.1
Board of Aldermen—T. H. Shipman. J
M. Kilpatrick, Tv M. Mitchell, F. L. De-
Vane, E. W. Carter.
Marshal—^J. A. Galloway.
Clerk and Tax Collectw:—T. IL Gallo
way. . ^ '
Treasurer—T. H. Shipman.
Health Officer—Dr. C. W. Hunt
Regular meetings—First Monday night
in each month.
SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY
Transylvania Division.
In effect January 1911.
N. B —Schedules figures given as information
only, aud not guarantee.d.
C 33
Eastern Standard ;rime
STATIONS
C 5!
P M
3 40
3 45
4 4
5 00
5 05
5 08
5 13
5 20
6 26
5 Hi
5 36
5 4*2
5 5.5
6 02
6 04
6 Oi
6 i2
6 21
6 30
6 40
Lv Asheville Ar
iiV ..Heoders6uvHie...Ar
...West Henderson Vi lie...
Yale
Hor>e Shoe
Cannon
Ecowah
Blantyre
Penrose
Davidson River
Fisgiih Forest,.....-..
Ar Brevard ,Lv
Seliea
CherrySLeid
...„Calvert„
Rosmun
GaHoways
Qtieboe
Reid’s
Ar...Lake Toxaway...Lv
A M
II 80
10 25
10
10 10
10 05
10 02
9 56
9 49
9 42
9 3S
9 30
9 24
9 08
g 01
8 58
a 54
8 50
8 43
8 34
8 25
Nos. 5 and 6 are through trains between
A>heville and Ldke Toxaway.
No. 5 connects at llei dersnnville with the
Carolina Special for Spartanburg, Columbia aud
Charlestou, and at Spartanbuig with Nos. 11
ai d.l2 for Atlanta and Charlotte.
For tickets and fall information apply to
E. W. CARTER, Ag’t.
J. H. WOOD, Dist. Pass. Ag’t, Asheville, N. C
ProfesMond Cards.
“LAWYER. '1
and 12 McMinn Building
Notary Public.
W.W.ZA0HARY ,
Attorney-at>-Law
BREVARD, C.
H. G. BAILEY
Civil and Consultins Ensineer
and Surveyor
BREYARli AND HENDERSONNILLE. N. C.
lington Cemetery.
$500,000 LABOR FIGHT.
McCurdy and Clem Beachy, aviators,
and Colonel T. J. L. Brown, chairman
of the census celebration committee;
General J. U. Strode, of the Wpst Tam-
, pa race track, and Phil Collins, treas*
American Federation, of Labor Will Vacing association, were
Wage War on Enemies.
A Washington, D. C., dispatch sayti;
To support labor unionism in a life
Mrs. Caroline M. Hypes, 98 years of
age, who was one of two surviving
real daughters of the American revo
lution, died at*Greencastle, Ind. Mrs.
Hypes was born in Baltimore, Md.
At least six perso^ %ere drowned
off the coast south of San Pedro in an
attempt to smuggle a party of Chinese
ashore, ao€ording to a report at the
Angel Island immigration itation, at
San Francisco.
arrested on a charge of violating the
state laws relative to the giving of ex*
^ ^ ^ hibitions on Sunday to which an admis-
nd Sht, which may affect the |g charged. Bon^s Trt'cro iir.me
whole labor situation in America, th€ ^iately furnished
^erlcan Federation rf Labor Is rals- ' ^he arrest of the aviators anS bffl-
ng a fund of $500,000 to be sent to . ^ials of the race track was the result
warfare a concerted effort on the part- of
with the Merchants and MMufaetu- ministers of th® city. Sennons
rers association of ttat city. It was were preached denouncing the giving
announced at the federation • head- ^f such an exhibition on Sunday^ and
quar era at Washingtoxi. j consequent running of execursiona
—^ i into the city. No niove was made by
A coUislon off the Essex coast P™sram
suited In the sinking of the steamer been completed.
Mount Park, Cadiz for Yarmouth witnessed by the
Thirteen of the crew are, reoorted ' e^er assembled
drowned. i Tampa on any occasion.
NOTICE-Change
in Hour of
Meeting.
By a vote of Dunns Bock Lodge
at last regular communication the
hour of meeting was changed and
the following will be the hours un
til further notice: Jan. 13, 1911,
meeting at 2 p. m. Hereafter the
meetings will alternate—February,
meeting at 8 p. m.’, March, at 2 p.
m., etc.
All members are urged to attend
these meetings. Visiting Masons
cordially invited. Jan. 9,1911.
Welc^ Galkoway, Sec’y.
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1911
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