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FAYETTEVILLE. N. C, WEDNESDAY. MAY 5. 109.
$100 A YEAR
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V
Altogether Nov for
Appropriate Celebration
Gov. Kitchin to Be Heard Here Monday
Business Uen Requested fo Decorate
and Close Stores and Business
houses During Hours of Exercises
-Order ot Uarcb Marshals Nam.
ed Preparations Made for t a
Creti Dir.
It is only five days until Memo
rial Day-Monday, May 10th
and preparation are being rapid
ly completed to make it the big
gest event of the kind ever held
in this section. Capt J. H. Cur
rie, chief marshal, has named a
fine corps of assistant and the
order of march has been arranged.
The various committees also, have
been named.
The business men have been
requested to decorate their fronts
for Memorial Day and to close
stores and other places of busi
ness during the hours of the ex
ercises. The feature f the day's exer
cises will be the oration by Hon.
W. W. Kitchin.Governor of North
Carolina, and this alone should be
enough to bring: a tremendous
crowd, for he is one of the State's
finest orators, and something
thrilling in the way of an address
may be expected.
The procession will start from
the Armory at U;:w promptly,
and will march to the Cemetery,
where the speaking will take
tlace. The V eterans' dinner will
pzin after the speaking, and
there will be exercises and be
stowal of Crosses of Honor at the
Armory. Governor Kitchin will
then meet the Veterans.
. ORDER OP MARCH.
M ounted marshals. ,
Holt-Morgan band.
Military.
Honorary marshals.
Confederate Veterans.
Governor Kitchin and escort.
Daughters of the Conf ederaey.
School children.
Donaldson Military School.
I. 0. O. F. Canton.
HONORARY ASSISTANT MARSHALS.
Following is a list of the hon
orary assistant marshals:
Col. W. J. Green,
CoL J. B. Starr,
Capt J II. llobinson.
Charles Kennedy.
First carriage, in charge F
Stedman.
ASSISTANT MARSHALS.
II.
The assistant marshals are the
following:
J. W. Atkinson. J. W. I idlings-
worth, H. 11, Downing, E. W.
Nolley, James Evans, W. H. Mc
pherson, D. N. Mclean, W. S.
Evans. W. W. Cole, J. W. Car-
roll, J. F. McArthur. J. It. Buie,
W. L. Williams. J. W. McLauch
lin, J, T. Sinclair, Colin Mcllae,
C. W, Iiroadfoot, II. It. iioltortr
D, H. Ita, M. D. Hethune, Ar
thur R Williams, Uerbert Lut
terloh, Walter Watson, J. M. De
vane, C.G. Rose, II. U, Horne,
Jr.; J. SL Haigh, E. il Gorham,
W. E, McGilL a J, Currie, N, A.
Watson, W. W. Huske, Dr. J. A,
MacKethan, W. H. Kyle. Capt
Alex. Campbell. F. II. Stedman,
W, A, Vanstory, J. It Tolar, Jas.
Mcpherson. K. A. McArthur, I.
A. Murchison, T. I Evans, John
Clark, Walter Clark. Prof. J, A.
Mclan. Henry E. Williams, Hec
tor McKethan, Fletcher Sedber
ry.lLS. Sedberry, LR Hale.
Will Vann, J. a Thomson. Claud
Hank in, Thomas Rankin, Uoddie
Harris, Leslie Bolton, John Wil
liams. W. I Halt. L. A. William
son. T. G. McAlister, T. J. low
ers, A. L, Allen, James hirkpat
nek. Charles Haigh. Jr.; JohnR
iliiams. John IlosUn Smith;
Neill McNeill and John McCor
mwk, iVkton. N. G; Ex-Sheri:I
I od. McMillan: Ik P. McEachern,
Hamilton McMillan; lied Springs:
Upt T. McBryde, Ilaefwd; J. A.
Pemberton. David Seasoms, 11,
tHlrymple, Ernest Sikes. H. A.
Lindsay, Leighton Huske.Geory-e
McNeill, a R Culbretb, a W.
Cooper, T. 1L Sutton, Jr.; Archie
Mown, Hector McGeachy, John
tnderwood. Q. K, Nimocks. J.R
TUhnghast. a G. Haigh.
Marshals will please assemble
by 10:30 a'clock: at the Armory,
mounted. . It u hoped that all
will accept, as it ia desired to
nave fatting memorial servi ces.
Crowded Out
Owing to an unusual amount of
advertising coming in late we
were forced to leave over until
next week a lot of correspondence
and other news that had been
prepared for this issue of The
Index.
DR. W. 5. JORDAN ELECTED.
Sudeefs Dr. A. S. Rose as
County Superintendent o t
heilth.
Dr. VVm. S. Jordan, a popular
young physician of Fayetteville,
was on Monday elected by the
Cumberland County Sanitary
Ikiard. to be county superinten
dent of health, succeeding Dr,
A. S. Rose, who was not a can
didate for re-election.
The .Sanitary Board is com
posed of the county commission
ers and two physicians one of
whom is appointed by the chair
man of the board of commission-
ers and the other by the mayor
of I ayettevi'le at the May meet
ing Monday. Dr. R J. Willing
ham, of Hope Mills, was appoint
ed to succeed Dr. J. W. AlcNeiJJ
and Dr. S. Highsmith became by
appointment of the mayor suc
cessor to Dr. J. H. Marsh as a
member of the board.
THE COUNTY'S Af FAIRS.
Mar Meeting ot the Board
County Commissioners.
of
The Cumberland county board
of commissioners met in regular
session Monday, all members be
ing present Resides the regu
lar routine business the following
orders were made:
That a tent be ordered for No.
1 convict camp.
That the matter of the pur
chase of a road roller for the
county be referred to H. Lutter-
loh.
That the real estate of Holt
Morgan Mills be "declared to be
$25,000."
That the bridge across Rock
fish at Wm. Gillis' be referred to
Commissioner J. A Keith with
power to act
STORK IH BLADEN
f
Visits Two Homes a! While Oak
Uve News Notes and fersonals.
Oorradaoe et tit Isdei.
Thi stork hs nude two visit
to this community rtoeatly. Prof !
J. E. Porttr sad Mr. A. B Cain
oh has a fine ton.
Mr. K F. MoColloch was in
Fat stUville on bnsinsM last week
Mr. It T. MslTio vsnt to Fsy
luvwia lawaiT and bougut a
my fins pair of mules.
W,J. MoMUUu, of AbboiUbuiv,
a formsr Bladen boy, was visiting
bar last wk
iter. O P. Mks 6114 his reg-
alar arpointroents at the tiaptut
huroh Saturday and Sandty Mr.
Meek baa inua a dep imrreioa
oa the people here and he is da
ins (rood work for the obarcB. Ibe
Sunday school is larger now than
it has ever bees and grat inter
act ia being shown.
The clceiDg exercises of White
Oak Academy will be held on Fri
day, tUt of May The Literary
Addrtea will be delivered on rn-
day morning by Hon. K. Nim
ocks. Oa Friday afternoon the
Young Ladies Eieroiaea will take
ptaoe. Friday night the regular
A&autl Conetrt Ul be given.
The concert are niually the
jxm iK'pukr part of the exerciaee
and era alaavs largely attended
The school baa cad a very soo
roasful year in spite of the &.di
Ut August, which were ao disaa
t'oua, and the resulting drawbacks
The management tf the sohool ia
making greater preparations U t
next vear. The lanr new dormi-
iloty, whioh is already ia na, will
be oompletely finishca and equip
ped before the opening of the fall
term, and other improvements
will be added,
White Oak. May, 3.
Interesting Tetm
of Superior Court
Importrnt Cases Disposed of
Since Court Convened Mon
div April 26th Some ot
Unusual Interest.
Cumberland superior court.
civil term, has been in session
since Monday, April 25, Judge W.
J. Adams presiding. Several
cases of importance have been
tried -at this term and some of
unusual interest
One of the most interesting cas
es was that of Mrs. Came McDon
ald, from whom a divorce was
granted her husband, Don Mc
Donald, Tuesday of last week.
Wednesdays she was arrested on
a peace warrant for threatening
to kllh Mr. McDonald and her
i three children, who had been
'awarded to their father, and was
committed to jail in default of
bond.
Judge Adams Tuesday after
noon issued a writ of habeas cor
pus commanding the production
in court of the three children,
whose whereabouts Mrs. McDon-j
aid refused to disclose. After an 1
extended search by the officers it!
was reported to the court Wed
nesday morning that they could
not be found, when another writ
was issued to Mrs.McDonald and
her mother, Mrs. Victoria Bur
nev, commanding the presence
of the children at four o'clock
that afternoon, but at the appoint
ed hour they were not produced.
Thursday, however, Mrs. Bur
ney produced the children, who
had been spirited away by their
mother and grandmother and are
believed to have been secreted in
an upper room several miles from '
the city.
rnday Judge Adams turned
over the children to their father,
and airs. Mciwnaia was reieasea
from jail.
Saturday Mrs. W. H. Monroe,
of this city, was awarded $3,000
damages in a suit against the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad for in
juries received by falling into a
turntable pit in the railroad yards
several years ago
Another case of peculiar inter
est was that of W. L.Kindley vs.
the A. C. L, in which the plain-
titl asked for f JIM), the value of a
diamond which disappeared from
Mrs. Kindley a trunk while in
possession of the railroad. The
allegation was that Mrs. Kindley
left i ayetteville on December 12.
1005. for Charlotte.and when she
reached Maxton. learning that
she could not proceed any furth
er that day on account of a wreck
ahead, she returned to Fayette
ville. On December 24th her
trunk, which went on, was re
lumed to her. On opening it
she found that a big diamond
solitaire had been taken out of
its setting, the ring being left in
the case. Late Saturday after
noon the jury brought in a ver
dict for f 170 in favor of the plain
tiff.
In the case of W. H. Nunnery
etaL vs. David Sessoms et al.,
for the recovery of U7 acres of
land in Cedar Creek township,
the jury brought in a verdict in
favor 6f the defendant
The famous case of LM. An
mews vs. J. Elwood Cox.of High
Point. Republican candidate for
Governor in the last elect ion, was
compromised- Mr. Andrews
claimed that he cut a lot of shut
tle blocks valued at $1,500, for
Mr. Cox. which the latter refused
to accept. Mr. Cox claimed that
the blocks did not come up to
specifications.
A case said to be without a
precedent was that of J. . Ied-,
sole vs. the A. C. L Kailroad.
This is a suit for fl(M,000 for al-
leged mental anguish ami person-,
al injuries- It is alleged that on i lumber. Senators Bradlev, Dol
Julv 7. PJOG. the plaintiff, while Uver amJ Cummins let it be
returning on an excursion from known that they would make
Wilmington, between Autryvtlle eenpral snwhf rlnrimr tho
and a ta:ian, naa io kiu we i
. , l.lil.MI 1 ...
son to save his own life. That be-
foresaid killing Alexson had kick
ed him in the face. He asks for
$100,000 damages for mental an
guish he has suffered and will
si.tJW until he dies, asaconse-
heauence of having to kill Alex-
son and afcso lor tne personal in
juries received by him in being
kicked in the face.
A good batch of cases have
been continued.
What The World is
Doing These Days
Latest Views ot What is Ooinq
On in America and Elsewhere
this Week of Interest to Our
Readers.
The week's news interest no
far as can be seen at this writing
centers cnieny in tne second na
tional peace congress in Chicago.
the work of congrea and the de-
vopraenU in 1 urkey.
The Second National Peace
Congress op ned in Chicago Mon
day and continues through Wed
nesday. A notable programme
had been prepared, in which dis
tinguished men and women,
representative of this and other
countries took part. The first
peace society in the world was
the New York society organized
in 1815. Thirteen years later
various State societies were
merged in a national organization
kr.wn as the American Peace
S-K'iety. International peace
congresses nave been neid
fre
quently since 1843, the date of
the first gathering, which met at
MJiidon. 1 he first national peace
Congress in the United States
1 under the auspices of the general
organization wa held in New
Jor m 1&7. The peace pro
moters claim to have influenced
during nearly a century of ac
tivity, more than eighty arbitra
tion treaties.
This week is free of industrial
diooutes of possible serious con
sequences to the country at large.
Mt of the labor troubles that
came to a head on May Day are
local, the
!that which affects the traffic on
, the Great Lakes. The men want
recognition of their union and
minor concessions. The threat
eneu strike In the anthracite coal
liistrict has been avoided through
a working agreement recently
a iopted and the labor situation
as a whole is peaceful.
Interest continues this week in
(ievelopments in Turkey, particu
larly in the conduct of Mahmed
V, the Sultan, and the disposition
of Abdul Hamid by the
loung Turks, who dethroned
i rata
mm. me Armenian massacres
in Asiatic Turkey, now quite
generally laid at the door of the
reactionaries, have passed, but
further details of the atrocities.
as related by American mission
aries, may be expected.
The Roosevelt East African ex
pedition is slated for more bhr
game hunting.
The oroeress of Oueen Wilhel-
mina, of Holland, who last week
gave birth to an heir to the
throne, and the health of the in
fant Princess is followed with
interest this week by Americans.
President Taft will DarticiDate
Friday in the unveiling in the
national capital of a monument
to Henry adsworth Longfellow.
The general debate on the
tariff is expected to continue
during the present week, and it
is oeueveu xnai it win even ex
tend well through next week.
The committee on finance is dis
posed to allow the wildest lati
tude in the general discussion of
the subject, but is at the same
time prepared to proceed with
the consideration of the schedules
which have been passed over
whenever there is a cessation of
SIwh m a trine Snatnra RtwiK
and Pyles opened the battle on
Monday, the former in advocacy
0f an income tax and the latter
in support of a hisrh dutv on
weeK,
W v
Beginning yesterday the Senate
meets daily at 11 o'clock, and if
necessary will prolong the sit
tings later in the day than ordi
narily. This change has been
ordered in the hope that it will
result in a more rapid disposition
of business. In the House the
PhiUipine tariff bill will probably
be reported on Thursday, but it
will not be immediately taken up
for consideration.
South is Swept by
Cyclones and Tornadoes
Dealing Out Death and Devastation
PHY BALL."
Fatetteville Team oo the Job and
Bust These Dais Practicing.
The conteet for a name (or the
team hat cloeed and "Highlander"
the name firat eoggeated by Mra
G d. Myrorer has beea accepted
The FayetteviiJe Team U the
Eaatera Carolina Baseball League
is rapidly etting in shape to do
some fiae work and make itself a
wioner this scaaon. The playera
are here and Manager Moss is
practicing them twice daily. The
ree ball luver of tbe city are en
tbnsiastio over the prospect for s
wii ning team.
Tbe following players are here:
Charles V. Mose, manager and
abort atop, who fat year, while
witb Lynchburg, made a fielding
recora 01 a percentage ex-
oeeded by only one National
League abort atop since the forma
tion of tbat organization; Cland
Durhtin. who oaugbt for Cbarlee
ton last eeaean, witb a fielding
average of b5; Dan Hart, a sec
ond baseman, from tbe Union
Lingua; M. R. Webb, an outfield
r, from tbe Tri-State Leagae;
Ralph b. Myers, a sontbpaw pitch
er, from Lancaster, Pa , Bert
James, a first baaeman; B. 8 Mo
Donald, an outfielder; John Klugar,
a first baseman; A. Klemm and F.
O Coder, pitchers, and Fullmer, a
third baseman.
The uoiforint for the team have
been received. When at home
tbe players will wear white auits
witb black trimmings, stockings
and caps; while on the road the
x irn a
uniform will be gray with maroon
trimminge, cape and eocka
Tbe park, located within tbe
Fair grounds, ia undergoing ex
tenaive improvementa, and tbe
iiamond, wben completed, will be
tbe fastest in tbe Km tern Carolina
circuit.
The Uighlndera defeated tbe
Holt Mcrgan team Saturday af.
ternoon 10 to 0 rq. the first prao
tioe game of the seaaon.
Monday afternoon they defeated
Uaeford 9 to 1.
DlhTH OF N. D. EMERSON
Son ot A. C. L President Passes
Away at rnoenit, Arizona.
Telearapblo adrioea conveyed
to hundreds of triends the news of
the death of Neil Dvis Emereon,
only eon cf President T. M. Eaier
on, of the Atlantio Coast Line
railroad, whioh ooonrred Thursday
night at t boenix, Arizona, wbere
be bad been for some time with
the hope tbat tbe climate would
be of benefit to bie health, tie
improved for a time until his heart
began to tail and bis decline was
rapid.
Mr Emerson was an eleotrloal
engineer and prior to his illness,
following an attack of typhoid fe
ver last Deoember, he was witb
tha .Allan tin (Vutat T.ina anrl latar
I with the National Lamp Compa
ny, tie waa W years old last April,
graduated in P,04 from the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
and married Misa Lillian Slooomb,
daugbtar of Maj. A. H. blooomb,
of Fayetteville, in June, 190ti His
widow and infant daughter sur
vive him, also bis father and two
sisters, Mrs. C. Van Leaven and
Mies L Elliott Emereon, of Wil
mington. The remains were
brought to Wilmington for inter
ment. Patent oa Cotton Picker.
Mr. N. 11. Smith, of this city.
has received notification from the
pateat oiKnh at Washington that
he has been granted a patent on
an improved cotton harvester, with
which Mr. South has made a prao
ticat demonstration and whicb he
declares works perfectly.
Her many friends will be de
lighted to note that Mra. iSarepta
Unmphrey, who met a serious
accident several weeks ago, has so
far improved that she will be able
to return to her home in Robeson
to-morrow. She has beea at the
home of her son, Mr. D J. Humph,
rey, wbere the aooident occurred.
Hundudi ot Dead and Uangkd
Bodies in the Several States Visit
ed - Property Losses Run Into
Uant Millions Tennessee the
Hardest Hit-Towns and Villages
Almost Wiped Out
Saturday was the windiest day
experienced in Fayetteville and
vicinity in many a day. All fore
noon and until late in the after
noon the wind blew a perfect
gale. Part of the time it was
almost impossible to walk facing
the wind. And Friday was the
rainiest day of the season. That
afternoon and night at close in
tervals the rain poured in tor
rents. While the wind and rain
here were severe, the people of
this section have cause to be
thankful. We received only the
fringe of the storm that swept
other portions of the South.
Cyclones and tornadoes, the
like of which have not been
known for years, swept through
the South Thursday night and all
Friday, leaving in their wake
hundreds of dead and mangled
bodies, and the dismantled
wrecks of property worth many
millions.
Tennessee was an especial
sufferer. Careful estimates in
dicate that at least 50 people were
killed in that State alone, with
monetary losses about $1,100,
000. At Franklin and in Hills
bora there was loss of life. The
latter town is said to be practi
cally destroyed, while at Centre
ville and adjoining villages the
loss is reported very heavy both
in lives and property. Near Pji-
laski, unes county, the death
list reaches twelve, and many
are injured.
ih the vicinity of Chattanooga
storm was felt at its worst
ephone and telegraph wires
were blown down and the move
ment of trains was greatly ham
pered. The hurricane followed
the Cumberland valley, wrecking
small towns and destroying farm
houses.
At Ebenezer eighteen houses
were blown down.
At Charlestown the storm
swerved up the Hiasse river, de
stroying property. At Fayette
ville Tenn. three are known to
have perished. At Cuba many
houseswere blown down and at
Gilestown not even a shed was
left standing.
Memphis reports heavv loss
from towns within a radius of
100 miles in three States.
An Associated Press d;soatch
from Atlanta Saturday nierht
said:
"Despite three days of snuff
ing out human lives, crushing
habitations, doine perhaps mil
lions of dollars damasre and for
a few hours in some extensive
sections, well nigh demobilizing
business and communication, this
tremendous atmospheric distur
bance until late to-dav aoDarent-
ly had lost none of its vicious
energy. Iite this afternoon
wires, suddenly retrained, flashed
the news of thirty-four more
deaths in Georgia, lives taken by
a storm of the coming of which
some of the victims had been
reading for two days in the news
papers.
"Last nkrht when the news of
the extent oi the destruction in
Tennessee, with between sixty
and a hundred deaths was speed
ing by trains from the presses
toward Albany and Cedartown,
Ga., and even old hands at pre
dicting the course of tornadoes
were drawintr a sieh of relief
that it was all over, the winds
were racing with the trains to
ward these towns. Before dav-
ght the tornadoes struck both
places, killing twelve in the vi
cinity of Cedartown and six a
few miles south of Albany.
'The Georgia death list by
towns as received bv the Consti
tution tonight is:
Buchanan, 13. reported dead;
Albany, $; Meigs, 1; Cedartown,
12; Gainesville, L"
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