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BRSViSO. NOETH CAR0LIS1.TEIDAY. MARCH 8. mi.
NUMBEH*9
HOUSE HAS VOTED
TO FORTIFY CANAL
Appropriates $3,00pJ)00
Begin Work.
/'to
ROBBfiD^ OF~fIo;S23:
Postmistress of Kansas Town Is
- Held Up.
T0TAIE$TIM«TE$12,(I00,000.
Action of the House Practically Set
tles the Question of Fortification^ as
the Sentiment of the Senate is in
Favor of Same.
The house of representatives voted
overwhelmingly in favor of the policy
of fortifying the Panama canal, and
appropriated ^3,000,000 to begin the
work, the total cost of which has befen
estimated at $12,000,000, after a
lengthy debate.
The action of the house practically
settles the question of fortification, for
the sentiment in the senate is said to
be more -than 2 to 1 in favor of pro
tecting the Isthmian waterway by
seacoast batteries.
The real test in the house came on
an amendment proposed' by Repre
sentative Tawney, of Minnesota, chair
man of the committee on appropria
tions. Mr. Tawney has been opposed
to fortifying the canal from the first,
and made a forceful speech against
that policy near the close of the de
bate. He Vien offered an amendment,
which provided that no part of the
money set aside for fortification
phould be used until the president of
the United States had attempted to ne
gotiate treaties wjth all of the leading
maritime nations guaranteeing the
neutrality and international protection
of the canal.
Representative Sherley, of Ken
tucky, bitterly attacked this amend
ment and warned members that it had
been introduced for the sole purpose
of defeating the appropriation.
The Tawney amendment then was
voted down, 130 to 63. A motion by
Representative Keifer, of Ohio, to
strike out all provision for the fortifi
cation of the canal was lost, 135 to 51.
The final interest In the debate
seemed to center • in the Tawney
amendment, and the speeches made
for and against it by Mr. Tawney and
Mr. Sherley.
Mrs. Gus Joseph, postmistress at
Fuller, a coal camp, ne^ar Pittsburg,
Kan., was held up by two highwaymen
and robbed of $10,000, whi^h she had
Just received by express from Kansas
City. The money was to have been
used to pay off employes of the Sheri
dan Coal Company.^ /
The money was in one ^package.
Two other packages, containing $10,-
000 each, were not found by the rob
bers.
The' money was sent frongi Kansas
City. There was $30,523 in the three
packages. The train was met by Mrs.
Joseph and Albert Briggs, cashier of
the company.
The money yras consigned to aji ex
press company, of which. Mrs. Joseph
was agent. ^ '
Mrs. Joseph took a package contain
ing $10,523 and left the depot first. As
she stepped out of the door, a masked
man, with a revovler, confronted her
and demanded the money. Another
robber stood near by. Mrs'. Joseph
handed over the money.
Briggs, who was close behind, saw
what was going on, and threw his two
packages, containing $10,000 each, into
a corner.
The robbers did not linger to deter
mine whether they had secured all the
money, but ran to a buggy and
escaped.
TERRELL RECOVERING.
Georgia Member Is on Fair Road to
Recovery.
Senator Terrell has been removed
from the hospital where he has been
confined for over Wo weeks, or since
his sudden attack of cerebral hemorr
hage, to his apartments in the Hotel
Cochran, Washington, D. C.
The senator’s condition is reported
to be much imk>roved, and he even ex
pects to be able to attend a session of
the senate before adjournment, March
4. He sees, several visitors each day,
and a day or so ago had a long inter
view with his secretary, J. G. Perry, on
business, matters.
“Senatof' Terreff Is maWng'^a in
ning fight against his illness, and will
make a winning fight before the Geor
gia legislature,” said Mr. Perry after
the conference. “He is in the contest
to the close.”
, THREE DEAD, $500,000 LOST.
WAS SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
Louisiana Town Practically Wiped Out
John Boyd, Hero of Crimean War, and Raging Fire.
British Writer Dies in Huntsville. ^ estimated at $500,000 was sus-
tained Wednesday when flames, origi-
John Boyd, chief editorial writer of' mating in the kitchen of the Nicolls ho-
the Mercury-Banner and Weekly Mer- * spread rapidly and almost totally
cury, of Huntsville, Ala., and for many 1 destroyed the business district of Don-
years connected with the staffs of | aldsonville, La. Three lives are report-
many newspapers in the east and
It *s understood that the fire was
started by an explosion of a gasoline
stove. With almost incredible rapidity
the fiames leaped across the street and
fed by highly inflammable material de
veloped into a conflagration beyond the
control of the local fire fighters. Hurry
calls and special trains were sent to
neighboring cities for apparatus. The
flames starte^d shortly after 9 o’clock in
the morning, but it was 5 o’clock in the
afternoon before they were under con
trol.
ARE RUN 1EARTK
■ J
Gang of Train R(Ms Said to
' BeiMfl4
GAUeHTJN^n
After Long Chase of JWany Days OfH*
cers of the Law Believe They Have
Caught the Gang'Wih^'''R6i3bed South*
ern’s Fast Mail.
GENERAL W. H. BIXBY.
Army Officer Who Is Raieing
^Wreck of Battleship Maine.
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Three men arrested in Lumpkin
county, Ga., in conecti(5n with the hold
up and robbery of the Southern rail
way’s fast mail. No. 36, near White
Sulphur Springs, last Saturday, have
been fully identified by parties^ connect
ed in the case, including a portion oi
the train crew on th% run the morning
the train was robbed.'*'
One of these prisoners, aged 65, who
gives his name as ^ John Doe, John
Luck and also John Anderson, is sullen
and reluctant to talk on the> crime for
which he is l^Id.
The other two seem perfectly will
ing to .talk in regardr to the robbery,
and have confessed everything. Upon
their arrival at Gaipesville, Ga., they
were in a condition ^that necessitated
their being placed iri4he hospital ward
of the jail. Both refuse to divulge
their identity. One the men impart- Georgia Mob Dealt Swift Vengeance
TWO LYNCHINGS.
to Negro Slayers.
ed information to dtgtectives that led
to tha discovery of several valuable
papers, documents, mortgages and jew- Two negroes were taken from the
elry, taken from the blown safe in the jail at Warrenton, Ga., and lynched,
express car, and burigd near the scene They were carried to the outskirts of
of the robbery. ,1 ' town, strung up and riddled with bul-
Two more suspectsj arrested at Ball lets.
Ground, Ga., were brought to Gaines-1 One of the negroes was Charlie
ville, and efforts ard being made to Jones, who shot and killed Conductor
connect them with the hold-up. i W. W. Thompson Thursday night, and
When the thr’ee men were captured the other was John Veazey, who, in
In Lumpkin county there was found November of last year, killed Charlie
only $3 American money on the entire parham, a white farmer, of this
trio, while they possessed over $2,000 county.
In British coin. | ^ The mob was quiet and orderly and
Mrs. Cooper, of White Sulphur jjq resistance, as the sheHff was
Springs, has identifi^ out of the city at the time the jail was
-whd bought a smafi .coal ^ ^
oil from her store on the evening of^ Few people of the town knew of the
the robbery. . * ^ ' occurrence until daylight.
The two younger prisoners stated, bodies were unclaimed and
that Luck secured the larger amount o shipped to the Atlanta College of
the booty, which caused a row J>etween^j^yg.^j^^ Surgeons by Dr. G. R.
the three, followed by a separation and autlioriz-
their immediate arrest. They also
stated that they were headed for Ten
nessee when captured.
north, died in that city, after a brief
illness.
Mr. Boyd was about 75 years old and
leaves a widow. Mr. Boyd was born
in Ireland and in early life entered
the British army.
He fought in the Crimean war and
in the campaign in India that suppress
ed the Sepoy rebellion. He was a sol
dier in the column that cut its way
through millions of Sepoy’s to the re
lief of Lucknow, and his descriptive
writings of that campaign, appearing
in the Liverpool Gazette a short time
later, attracted much attention.
As a staff correspondent of the Liv
erpool paper, he came to America and
was so charmed with this country that
he remained and took up journalistic
work in the large cities of the east.
Thirty years ago he was with the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, later with the Re
publican Banner in Nashville and then
came to Huntsville and became a
member of the first staff of the Daily
Mercury.
His writings covered a wide range of
subjects and his knowledge of politics
and history was apparently unlimited.
CANAL BONDS.
Issue of $50,000,000 May Be Made by
Government.
tain to be made as soon as congress
passes the bill authorizing the secre
tary of the treasury to withhold the
new securities from use as a basis for
additional national bank notes.
In the event that the present oppo
sition to the legislation affecting the
bonds should prevent its passage, an
issue of 3 per cent certificates of in
debtedness, having one year to run, ia
probable. That is the treasury’s ten
tative plan now.
In view of the sale of about $100,-
000,000 industrial improvement bond«
during January and Vie prediction that
about $500,000,000 more will find thel#
to market in the next fevr
months, treasury ofilcials agree thin
Is a propitious time for an. issue ol
government securities.
Atlantic Liners.
It takes 7,000 tons of coal to bring
j®ne of the modern liners across the
•A-tlantic ocean.
RAID ON OCEAN LINER.
ing the anatomical board of Georgia
to dispose of unclaimed bodies.
Conspiracy to Violate U, S, Immigra
tion Laws.
ROBBED OF JEWELS.
Mrs. Drummond Loses Fortune
Gems on Ship.
in
An issue of $30,000,000 to $50,000,000
Ota per cent Panama bonds seems cer-kjaimB all7rs7tmafturtV7n
Mrs. Maldwin Drummond, formerly
Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., of Chicago,
was robbed of a fortune in jewels
aboard a trans-Atlantic liner.
Diamonds, pearls and other gems to
the value of approximately $130,000
disappeared mysteriously from her
stateroom on the steamship Amerika,
of the Hamburg-American line.
The Ibss was reported immediately
the liner docked at Hob<^'en, and the
police of Hoboken and Nfew York are !
working on the case.
Mrs. Drummond hurried to the Ho
tel Plaza, declining to discuss her i
loa^4
The Hamburg-American line dls-
tbat passengers leave jewels In their
state rooms at the owner’s risk.
BISHOP HEALIN DIES.
Widely Known Dignitary pf Roman
CathoHc Church.
Right Rev. Thomas Healin, ittth bish-
pp of the diocese of Natchez, Miss.,
and one of the most widely known dig
nitaries of the Roman Catholic Church
In the southern states, died at the Epis- f
copal residence in Natohez, his death
resulting from an attack of heart!
trouble and Bright’s disease, and the
added complication of pneumonia.
Bishop Healin has .been in indiffei^
ent health the greater part of the iiast
year but It was not until several days
ago that his condition was regarded at
serious. . ^
• Bishop Healin was' a native of Tr#
land and was in his 64tSi year.
Federal officers swept aboard a
trans-Atlantic liner when she ma^e
her pier in New York and arrested
every man in authority from captain
down. All are .charged with con
spiracy to violate the United States
Immigration laws.
The steamship Is the Athinal, of the
Hellenic Trans-Atlantic Steamship
Company, whose general agent at
New York also was arrested. The
government charges that the company
has been smuggling in aliens for more
than a year, some of them disguised
as members of the crew, others hidden
about the ship until there was no dan
ger of search.
Nikolas A. Galanos, the agent, was
released under $20,000 bond, and his
confidential secretary in $15,000. Cap
tain Gekas Klouras was released in
$10,000, as were his first oflicer, chief
engineer, and Dr. Gerasimos Diakova-
tos, the ship’s surgeon. Three other
officers were held in $10,000 bail each,
and each of the eighteen members of
the crew in $5,000 each.
In all thfe governmffint required $195,-
000 bail. Judge Chatfleld, sitting in
the United State’s circuit court, before
whom the indictments were read, set
trial for March 1. The penalty for
conspiracy is $10,000 fine and two
years’ imprisonment, either or both,
and for violating Section 8 of the im
migration laws $5,000 and two years,
•ither or both.
A field agent-»of the immigration bu
reau at Washington, who work6d up
the case, had seventy-six names on
ills list, but only twenty-nine of them
could be found on the Athinai when
he boarded her at quarantine. No ar
rests were made until the ship moored
In Brooklyn.
The passengers were taken ofiC with
out confusion, and federal officers then
searched the ship, arresting those
wanted who could be found.
$2,688,371 INCREASE.
Earnings of Railroads In Georgia for
Year 1910.
Ah increase in net earnings amount
ing to $2,688,371.29 is shown in the re
port just completed by the railroad
commission of*the net earnings of all
the railroads operating in the state of
Georgia, for the fiscal year ending
■ June 30, 1910, in comparison with the
! net earnings of the previoils year. The
year 1907, just before the big panic,
I was the largest year on record pre-
• vious to the year ending June 30, 1909,
! and the net earnings for the year end
ing June 30, 1910, show an increase
over the net earnings of that year
^ amounting to $5,107,342.75.
i The gross earnings of the railroads
' for the year ending June 30, 1910, ex-
I ceeded the gross earnings of the i>re-
i vious year by $4,665,568.31, and ex-
■ ceeded the gross earnings of the ban
ner year, 1907, by $3,443,790.69.
FOR BETTER RATIONS.
Fight Begun More Than a Year Ago
Is Sucjcessful. ‘ ’
The fight inaugurated more than a
year ago for the betterment of the
rations served in the various national
soldiers’ homes was won at Washing
ton when the provision in the sundry
civil bill, increasing the appropriation
for this purpose by $160,000, was
adopted.
Representative Cox, of Ohio, called
attention to, the fact last year that the
average ration in the soldiers’ homes
was 14% cents, and^that in some It
was as low as 11 cents, or about the
same as in the federal penitentiaries.
The increase provided wil^ bring the
average rations up to 17 cents.
Through her attorneys.
Colonel M. U. Moody and
John 'McDougald; XiUther Waller and
Henry*Terry died at Umpson, Texas,
fropoL the effects of injuries < sustained
when a boiler exploded at a lumber
mill near Timpson. Five other work
men were injured but it is not thought
fa^l^y.
A Nashville, Tenn-, dispatch says;
Just before living for a business trip
to Birmingham, Governor Hooper ve
toed the Nashville charter bill recently
passed by the legislature. The bill for
passage over his veto will come up im-
mediately after the recess./'
GENERAL
NEWS
NOTES. Colonel E. A. Jones, Mrs
W. W. Smith, of LaGrange, Ga., filed
suit for $40,000 against the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad for
the death /of her son, Cusler Ssiith,
who was killed by the A., B. & A.
switch engine, in the LaGrange yard,
on the night of February 7, while
coupling cars near the ^P0(t.
Three, passengers were killed, two
other persons were fatally injured and
^many js^riousl^ hurt In a wreck of the
: Atphiso^^ Topeka and" Santa Fe .pas
senger train Ijjlo. 410 near Stillwater,
Okla. ~ The wreck was caused by the
der^ment of three coaches. It is be-
I UeyeA the recent heavy rains under-
j mined the track. * -
County Govemmentf.
Representative—Thos. S. Wood. »
Cleric SuBerior Court-N^^Cos. Paxton.
^ Sheriff and Tax CollectorFred, A '•
Shuford. ' '
Treasurer-^. W. Nichols. ' „
Register of Dee3s-^B. A. Gillespitej^
: " Coiipner—Dr. A. E. Lyday.
Suitor—J. C. Wike. '
Gommi^'c:^»e^l^. L. Bfotoks, G. T. Ly-
day, Arthur Miller. -
Supetin^dent of Schools-rT. C. Hen- '
dersqn. I ’
Physicia»-~Df. Goode Cheatham. '
Attorney—R. L. Gash.
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Town Government*.
Mayor—W. E. Breese, jr.l
Board of'Aldermen—T. H. Shipman. J '
M. Kilpatrick, T. M. Mitchell, F. L. De-
Vane, E. W. Carter.
Marshall—J. A. Galloway. •
Clerk and Tax Collector—T. H. Gallo- '
way. -
Treasurer—T. H. Sh^fnah.
' Health Officer—Dr. W. Hunt. ,
Regular me^ings—First Monday night
in each month.
SOUTHEHN RAILWAY COMPANY
Transylvania Divibion.
• *In effect January 2,1911.
® -^Schedules flgur^ given br information
only, auU not guaranteed.
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Eastern Standard Time
/STATIONS ,
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3 40
3 45
4 4'
5 00
5 05
5 08
6 18
5 20
6 26
5 84
5 36
5 4'^
5 55
6 02
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6 12
6 21
6 30
6 40
Lv...'.... Asheville Jir
Ly ..Heiiden>onvilie...Ar
...West Hendersonville
Yale :::
*-...Hors.e Shoe
Cannon
Etowah
Biantyre
Penrose
Davidson River......
........ Pisgah Forest..
Ar Brevard - Lv
............. SeKca
Cherryfleid ....'
..i.,.!.......Calvert„
-.'.t.'.r.r,'. Rosman
Quebec........
Reid’s
Ar...Lalie Toxaway...Lv
A M
11 80
•10 25
10 22
10 10
10 05
10 02
9 66
9 49
9 42
9 33
9 30
9 24
9 08
9 01
8 58
8 54
8
8'43
8 84
8 25
Ncs. 5 and 6 are through trains between
A.'“heville and Lake Toxaway.
No. 5 connects ■ at Hei de'rsonville with the
Carolina Special for Spartanbur^, Columbia and
Cha»^]eston, and at Spartanburg with No$. 11
ard 12 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. 0
Professional Cords.
L. GASIL
LAWYER.
11 and 12 McMinn Building
Notary Public.
, W.W.ZiSHARY
Attorney-at^Law .
BREVARD, N. C.
H. G. BAILEY
Civil and Consulting Engineer
and Surveyor^ "
BREVARD AND ^ HENDERSOIINILLE. N. C.
NOTICE-Change
' in Hour of
Meeting.
J
By a vote of Dnnns Rock 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,
m*eeting at 2 p. m. Hereafter the
meetings will, alternate—^February,
meetiiig at 8 p. m^l, March, at 3 p.
m., etc.
All members* are urged to attend
these meetings. ' Visiting Masons
cordially invited.. Jan. 9,1911.
Welch Galloway, Sec’y.
The Rev. Irl R. Hicks 1911
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