^TECTION. )btained, or FE E RETURNED. EXPERIENCE. OurCHARCE»^» ;ST. Send iliodel, photo or sketch Iw ch and free report on patentahulw* nZNT suits conducted before ^ tents obtained throngrh u«, AD"** SOLD, free. TRADE* mark*! ci COPYRIGHTS quickly obtWMO* 8lte G. Patent OfTloOf y^ASf^iliiCTON* D. C. WflSB6fli6555S ■kipMMMk J. d. MINER, OWNER AND MANAGER -AJiL H03M3B ONLY NEWSPAPER IN TRAIjSYLVANiA COflNTY A HOME i>ABBR FOR HOM VOLUME*XYI. iTS. SENATORS BY BiRECT van Rucker Measure Pass^ House by Large Majority. ' ^ VOTE STOOD 296 TO 16 TNis Is the Firet of the Demooratic Progrvn Measures Passed by the House—Many Republicans Support Measure ^ " A Washington dispatch says: The house, for the fifth tii|ie, has gone on record in favor of ihe election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Four times the measure has been before the senate and failed. The vote in the house was 296 to 16, Mr. Mc Dermott, of Chicago, being the only democrat to vote against it. Special Elections for Vacano!es. The Rucker resolution not only pro vides for elections for full terms, but for calling special elections to fill un expired terms. If this were the lan guage of the federal ^constitution to day an election for senator in Georgia would have to^be held and the people be given an opportunity to record their choice. The fight ranged around the amendment of Mr. Young, which was identical with the question raised in the senate at the last session by Sen ator Sutherland. This amendment would have denied* to the states the right to prescribe the manner of hold ing elections and the qualifications of electors. Southern members opposed this. This amendment was defeated in the house by a vote of 196 to 112. That out of the way, all but sixteen members came to the support of the main proposition. This is the first of the democratic program measure passed by the house. The resolution, as the house approv ed it, is in the forna of the Borah res olution repealed out of the senate ju diciary committee in the .closing'days of the last congress. No Federal Control. Republican opposition to the Rucker resolution in the house wasi based on the fact that it did not contain the BREVARD, NORTH CAI^ i., FE!DAi,;APRIL Sil, 1911. $3,000,00 ON GEORGIA ROADS Sum Spent During 1910—Al| States Active In Road Making. Activity in' road making all over the country for which great sums have been expended last year is summed up in a condensation of state highway reports given out at Albany, N. Y. New York ftpept about $8,000,000 and plans to spend nearer 19,000,000 the coming y6ir. Niew Jersey built at a cost of more than $825,000 with con- |racts of about $670,000 not yet' com pleted, Repairs and maintenaiice amounted to 'more than $1,400,000. Penn«$!lva&ia spent considerably more than $1,000,000 on roads, with con tracts of $700,000 ^ completed. Ohio had construction and*^ repair,bills of. nearly $600,000, with repair bills of nearly $500,000, with work aggregat ing $620,000 still to be finished. The total CTpenditures of other Btates were as’followsi: Arizona, $200,000. California, besides completing three or four state roads, voted $18,000,000 for a state highway system. Georgia, $3,000,000. Maryland, $1,477,000. ' Missouri, $100,000. North Carolina," $800»000. Texas, $7,000,000 with estimates for about $25,000,000 in 1911. I Virginia, $85,000. West Virginia, $1,150,000. mm TOLEDO BLADE BURNED. Fire Loss on Ohio Newspaper Esti mated at $200,000. Fire practically destroyed the office and plant of The Toledo Blade Pub-» lishing company, at Toledo, Ohio, en-* tailing a loss e^mated by officials of The Blade at frbm, $H^50,000 to j$200,- 000, partly covered by Insurance. Ooie fireman was seriously injured. The fire is thought toi have been caused by crossed electric light wires and was discovered by printers work ing on the third fioor, and a general alarm was turned in. The fiames spread rapidly, and for a time threatened the Toledo hotel, next door, and also the wholesale grocery house of Church & McConnell, cn the east and facing St. Clair street. The nine printers at wprk on the third floor, finding their means-.of escape cut off by the fiames, were res- '^cued by firemen. The flames were confined to .the stereotyping room and^ circulation de partment. The composing, editorial, changes afterwards made in the fight | press and counting rooms and the in the senate, which assured to con- basement were flooded, flfteen car- gress control senate. over elections in the STORMS SWEEP MISSOURI. Much Several Persons Killed and Damage to Prosperity. A terrific wind, hail and thunder storm, nocompanied by a heavy down pour of rain, swept over St. Louis, causing many thousands of dollars of damage and indirectly three deaths. The dead include a driver of a team of mules, who, with his mules, was electrocuted by running into a live wire; a woman who succumbed to loads of nrint naner in the basement, valued at $20,000, being thoroughly soaked. The Toledo Weekly Blade and gal leys of type representing 270,000 sub scribers, and located in the circulation departments of the building, were ruined. PUBLICITY BILL PASSES. Second the Important Measure for Democrats. The passage of the campaign public ity bill by the house Friday by the . . , ^ ^ , , overwhelming vote of 303 to 0 makes fright and another woman who was, Important measure passed killed m a runaway. The horse she I The party, however, met its first serious trouble in the house Friday. At the close of a, session marked by insurgency in the democratic ranks, by reason of which the republicans narrowly missed scoring a triumph, the house passed the Rucker bill. But for the vigorous use of the dem ocratic party whip an important re publican amendment extending public- was driving took fright during the Houses were blown down in the out skirts of the city, and in the extreme north end an eight-story elevator con taining one million bushels of wheat' valued at $750,000, was blown into the Mississippi river. Four Killed at Valley Mines. Four negroes are known to be dead, a number injured, one seriously, and three missing, following a tornado which wrecked the town of Valley Mines, 40 miles soutnwest of St. Louis, at 2 o’clock p. m. Fatalities at Cadet, Mo. Five persons are reported dead and a score injured at Cadet, Mo., a town of 30 inhabitants, as the result of a tornado, which practically demolished the town. ’ Qutok Wmtnniise Satprlses LBISUMPilMUMRIISIKl) GENERAL Street Car ‘No. 208, NEWS Conductor O. R. Single- NOTES. toiit and Motorman A. C. .Cross, was held up by twp negroes near Atlanta, at the end of Uie Lake wood line, liiere was no one in- t^e car at the time except Conductor Sin gleton, who was forced to hand over all th(^ money he had coUected from fares,'a total of $8. Fifty of tlw seventy-three victims of ^e Pancoast mine difiaster were bur ied at Scranton, Fa. Alt funeral, ex- pens^, as well as immediate needs of tjie bereaved families,, have been or dered providd Ijy the Pancoast coxHe« ^ . pany. Mayor voii Betgen, any for the . lamp from a table, and tn doing so overturned it, setting fire to the room. The neighbors ran to his assistance, attracted by the blazing house, but the fire had made such headway that they were unable to enter in time to rescue the old man. Sawyer lived in the house alone. HORSESHOE CONVICTS. death of her husband, who was killed by a street car at Columbus, Ga., some two year» ago, as a result of that supreme court decision rendered in Atlanta in the case. The case had been before the highest court in the state before and it had attracted un usual attention. The widow was su ing for^$10,000. V. V. Bulloch, former assistant post master of Atlanta, and son of ex-Gov. Bulloch, of Georgia, blew out his brains at the country home of J. A. . Charged withl)igamy, Karl Kolb, 25 years old, of Memphis, Tenn., was' taken from his bride of a week and placed in jail at Hopkinsville, Ky. He was married on April 3 to Edna Boyd, 17 years old. It is pharged that Kolb has a ^fe in Paducah, Ky., but he claims he was divorced from the Pa ducah wife in January. Foy W. 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