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VOLUME XXI-NUMBER 4
LAURINBURG, N. C THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1913.
$1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE
DRUNKEN NEGRO DROWNED
IN LUMBER RIVER
Matthew Allensworth, a Negro Employed at Saw Mill in Spring
Hill Township, Drowned in Lumber River Saturday, Octo
ber 18th Body Lay in the Water Two Weeks.
Went to River Drunk.
Coroner Jordan was called to
a point near Turnpike Bridge, in
Spring Hill township, Saturday,
to hold an inquest over the dead
body of a negro which had been
found in the waters of Lumber
river by Messrs. Dave Williams
and Jasper Herring.
Just two weeks before, Mat
thew Allenworth, a negro wno
came here about a year ago from
Illinois and was employed at W.
E. Gardner's saw mill, in Spring
Hill township, left the camp in a
drunken condition, saying that
he was going to the river a short
distance away, and although ad
vised by Mr. Gardner to not go
in his drunken condition, insisted
upon going, and did go. Noth
ing had been known of him since
except that a boat was found
overturned and it was feared that
he had been drowned. Saturday
morning, two weeks later, Messrs.
Williams and Herring decided to
go down the river and see if they
could find his body. After boat
ing down the stream a short dis
tance they discovered something
that appeared to be a body, and
which upon close investigation
proved to be the dead body of
Ellensworth. Upon arriving at
the scene the Coroner and his
jury secured the services of a
colored man, who went down
near the river, and placing a
rope about the body, floated it to
the landing. As much investi
gation as was possible under the
circumstances was made, and the
jury concluded that the negro in
his drunken condition was un
able to save himself when the
boat caDsized. and that he was
drowned.
There was no direct evidence,
no eye witness to the happening,
and only the circumstances sur
rounding the tragedy could be
found by the jury.
party. When Ridley was then
searched he was found to have
upon him a pistol, and now faces
the double charge of being dis
orderly and carrying concealed
weapons.
Chief Hubbard later found Mc
Kay and placed him in jail.
A COLUMN OF
STATE NEWS
On October 15th this
661 bales had been
Ordered Liquor Together Now Both are
in Jail.
Mingo McKay and Henry Rid
ley, both colored, ordered a jug
of booze together, and now both
are repining in the official county
hotel, Mingo charged with selling
the wet goods which is a viola
tion of the law and Henry
awaits trial for carrying a con
cealed pistol, which is also an in
fraction of the law. ,
The jug arrived Saturday.
Mingo stole a march on his asso
ciate in the liquor business and
went to the express office and se
cured the liquor. Up to this time
the law and officers were igno
rant of the partnership, but Sat
urday night officer Medlin discov
ered an impending row between
the two. and about the time
the officer appeared Ridley was
threatening vengeance upon Mc
Kay because all the liquor was
gone and, he dry and expectant,
had found but an empty jug,
whereas he had anticipated a
real Saturday night spree. Mc
Kay observed the presence of the
officer first and made a dash for
liberty, and not being able to
hold one and overtake the other,
the officer clung to Ridley. As
soon as Ridley found himself un
der the care of the law, he open
ed up and told how he had been
treated by McKay, and added
that he (McKay) had elected to
sell the whiskey and refused to
even, give him his portion of the
profits- Ridley named a sale he
had witnessed, and an investiga
tion revealed the fact that he had
told the truth, at least was cor
roborated by the purchasing
Short Items of North Carolina News of
Beneral Interest To Scotland County
In Condensed Form For Exchange
Readers Gathered from Con
temporaries. A case of smallpox has been
discovered at St. Mary's college
at Raleigh,
A Washington dispatch to
Charlotte Observer says that
Manly McDowell will be given a
$3,500 job if he will take it.
October 15th last year the gin
ning report of Halifax county
Two Ncrth Carolina Citizens Recogaized showed 2,361 bales ginned up to
By Carnegie Hero Cecimissicn.
Rescued A. Baty.
Pittsburg. Pa., Oct. 31. The
highest award, consisting of a
gold medal and $2,000 in cash
money, goes to Chas. N. Wright,
a merchant, 38 years old, of
Highlands, N. C, who, withWra.
M. Dillard, a liveryman, 33 years
old, of the same place, helped to
save R. Augustus Baty, a car
penter, 26 years old, from a fall
down a precipice at that place
May 14, 1911. Dillard receives a
silver medal and $2,000.
Baty had fallen from the sum
mit of Whiteside mountain at
Fool's Rock and rolled 150 feet
down an almost vertical cliff, and
lodged against a small bush, two
inches from the brink of a preci
pice 2,000 feet deep, part of his
body dangling over the edge.
Wright and Dillard descended
the vertical ledge, their only
handholds or footholds being
ridges and hollows not more than
arj inch in depth or height.
Wright's' wife saw him and be
gan to scream. He was nearly
unnerved, but .pushed on. Stop
ping at a tiny bush 6 feet above
Baty, he let his feet down to a
ledge two feet above the brink
and then grasped Baty s coat
collar. Baty gave a sudden jerk,
but became quiet when Wright
threatened him.
Pinning his legs around the
bush, Wright drew Baty up to a
place of comparative safety,
where Dillard, who had lost his
nerve in the final stages of the
rescue, was waiting. The two
men took Baty, who was deli
rious 15 feet across the bare face
of the cliff, within 18 inches of
the brink. Then they moved
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that date.
year, only
ginned.
The State sanatorium for treat
ment of tuberculosis located at
Montrose, is to be reopened with
Dr. Wilson R. Pendleton of Vir
ginia in cfharge.
At a depth of Z50 feet, a re
markably rich strike of gold is
said to have been made in the
Coggin mines in Montgomery
county.
The directors of the Confed
erate Women's Home at a meet
ing held in Raleigh Saturday de
cided to erect an $11,000 home at
once at Fayetteville.
The law firm of Mclntyre,
Lawrence and Proctor of Lum
berton have been appointed di
vision counsel for the Seaboard
to succeed the late Maj. J. D.
Shaw.
W. C. Fields of Cumberland
county demonstrated at the
Fayetteville Fair that many dif
ferent crops can be raised on one
farm. His exhibits showed 135
different products raised on his
farm.
With the closing of the Waverly
hotel in Lumberton, that town is
without adequate hotel facilities.
The owners of the building will
tear it away and build a hand
some bank building on the site.
Jonas Oglesby, a negro wanted
at Raleigh for murdering his wife,
was arrested recently in Spartan
burg, S. C. When arrested,
Oglesby had $387 in his pocket
and stripped off $150 which he
paid a lawyer as a retainer.
A cypress tree, said by its
rings to be 1,000 years old and
which stood 100 feet in height
and measured 11 feet and one
TAMMANY HALL
HAS BEEN REPUDIATED
In Tuesday's Election Tammany Hall's Candidate, Edward E. Mc
Call, is Defeated by John Purroy Mitchell, for Mayor
of New York Sulzer Elected to the Assembly.
Mitchell to Drive Murphy Out
a line. He recovered. The res
cue took two hours and thirty
minutes.
Ritv tr the fnnt nf tliA vprtifnl
ledge at the summit, from which i ind? diameter at the base, was
point he was hoisted by means of 1 the Tuckahoe swamps near
xvinsLon recently, ine tree win
yield 16,000 feet of lumber or
80,000 shingles.
Commissioner of Agriculture
W. A. Graham Friday gave out
a statement estimating North
Carolina's cotton crop for the
year at 700,000. He says about
two-thirds of the crop was gath
ered up to that time.
An aged man claiming to be a
Representative o! the U. S. Department
ol Agriculture Here Monday.
Mr. T. D. McLean of Carthage,
district agent of the Farmer's
Co-operative Demonstration
work, which is being carried on
and the State department of i onierate veteran appeared on
Agriculture, spent apart of the , fcm a"ce,La U1V1UUIU Airy
past weeK ana appeared to oe
asking alms. It later developed
that the old codger was selling
liquor and making it as he found
a sale. He would take the order,
step out to one side and with the
use of alcohol, water and flavor
ing extract quickly be ready to
deliver the goods.
Judge B. F. Long handed out
sentences in Cabarrus county
court last week to liquor dispen
sers that is calculated to halt the
reckless dealer. H. A. Goodman,
a white man was fined $500 and
cost and given 5 months in jail.
J. F.Harris, proprietor of People's
Drug Store, was fined $500. W.
S. Austin, colored, owner of a
drug store, was given 12 months.
J. W. Seaborn and his wife were
also convicted. Seaborn? was
given eight months on the roads
and his wife four months in jail.
C. O. Earnhardt s:ot ten month3,
Will Foster six months and Joe
Patterson six months.
day here Monday. Mr. McLean's
visit was for the purpose of in
teresting Scotland in this work
and he appeared before the
county commissioners in session
that day and outlined the plan of
the work.
Tha proposition is made from
the State department of Agricul
ture to pay an equal amount with
the county and employ an expert
to do this demonstrating work,
showing the farmers the
improved and more scientific
methods of planting, growing
and harvesting all the different
crops.
The commissioners heard Mr.
McLean's explanations and prop
osition and deferred any action
in the matter - until the regular
December meeting, at which
time the matter will in all proba
bility be acted upon.
The income tax. which went
into effect Saturday is said to
have caused quite a deal of con
fusion on Wall street.
Chas. C. Clusker, of San Diego.
California, who is 103 years of
age and says he was a playmate
and chum of Abraham Lincoln is
looking for a wife.
Although the new tariff act
with its lowered rates of dtitv
has been in effect practically a
month the custom receipts have
so far shown little falling off.
Judge Roan denied the motion
for a new trial for Leo M. Frank
under sentence of death for the
murder of Mary Phagan. An
appeal was taken to the Supreme
Court of Georgia.
James Muncray, who had not
left his bed in fifteen years, died
at Jersey ville, 111., Saturday.
ine attending pnysicians say
that it was a pure case of Mun
cray being too lazy to breathe.
Former Senator John L. Mc
Launn of Marlboro county, South
Carolina, who it has been thought
would be a candidate to succeed
Gov. Blease, and who was con
sidered favorable to Blease, has
announced that he will not be a
candidate and incidentally took a
rap at Bleasism in the State.
Joe Farrow of McFarlan, an
old sla time darkey, sent
Psjpt Wilson a 'possum to
gVVfrjtt tfye j 'tater someone else
sent, pjoe wrote the President
as follows: "lam an old slave
time darkey. I heard someone
-ont you a sweet potato the other
day. Here is an opossum to go
with it."
Josephine McLouchlin, a 14
year old girl of New York, who
had been held by a band of al
leged traffickers in women, was
rescued by the police Friday.
Her clothes had been taken and
she was closely watched, but
slipped a note through the win
dow shutter, which fluttered to
the ground and at the teet oi a
passerby who notified the police.
In a statement Senator Tillman
says that "Bleasism is not a child
of Tillmanism." He further
said, "Tillmanism is charged
with being the father of Bleas
ism." Tillman disowns the
paternity. "Blease has stolen
the livery of heaven to serve the
devil in. Blease has stolen most
of his thunder from my speeches.
He is a pastmaster at demagogy.
That is how he deceives the people."
Mrs. John Lind, wife of Presi
dent Wilson's special envoy to
Mexico, saved the lives of two
Mexican legislators. The men
were 3ought by Huerta's detec
tives and sought refuge on the
Morro Castle, on which Mrs. Lind
was to sail. They appealed to
her for help, and with quick wit
she gave them the key to her
stateroom where they secreted
themselves until the boat left
port. Mrs. Lind was compelled
to sit up on the deck all night.
Judge Walter Staples has been
designated to sit for Judge A. A.
Campbell, of the Wytheville cir
cuit court to try several civil
cases against members of the
Allen family, as results of the
Hills ville. Va.. tragedy, March
14th., 1912. Judge Staples pre
sided at the murder trial of the
Aliens, and the civil suits will be
heard November 7th. Verdicts
have been returned against the
estate and Floyd Allen, who with
his son, Claud, were electrocuted,
and Sidna Allen, now serving a
oo-year sentence. The property
oi the Aliens will be sold to sat
isfy judgmen
New York. Nov. 4. Fusion
carried New York city today,
electing John Purroy Mitchell,
Mayor by approximately 75,000
plurality and retaining control of
the important board of estimates
by a safe margin.
Tammany Hall's nominee for
the mayoralty, Edward E. Mc
Call, was defeated by one of the
biggest pluralities ever given
against a candidate of the organ
ization, and as late returns came
in it looked as if Tammany might
not even save the New York coun
ty offices. The big vote for
Mitchell pulled through by nar
row margins the fusion candi
dates for president of the board
of aldermen and comptroller,
George C. McAneny and Wm. A.
Prendergast, against whom the
Independence League, as well as
Democratic organization candi
dates were running.
Apparently, with the exception
of assemblymen in the districts
which usually go Democratic and
minor borough officers, the oppo
sition to fusion elected only one
of its nominees, Maurice -E. Con
nolly, for oorough president of
Queens. The f usionists elected
borough presidents in Brooklyn,
the Bronx and Richmond, and ap
parently also in Manhattan. The
result thus indicated would leave
Tammany but one vote out of
the in the board of estimate,
which controls the city's purse.
A fusion majority in the board of
aldermen also seems assured.
In the Sixth Assembly District
William Sulzer, recently deposed
as Governor, was elected on the
Progressive ticket.
Tammany leaders early conce
ded the election of Mitchell, but
it was not until 11 o'clock that
thev would concede the board of
estimate to fusion.
"It looks asif we had lost ev
erything," Secretary Thomas
Smith, of Tammany Hall, finally
admitted.
Chas. F. Murphy, leader of
Tammany Hall, followed shortly
with a brief statement :
"The resulf speaks for itself,
he said. Mitchell has been
elected by a majority of the vo
ters. His opponents join in the
wish that he may have a sue
cessful administration and hope
that it will be of substantial ben
efit to the city.
Former Judge McCall, the Tam
many candidate, retired eariy
He took the announcement of his
defeat calmly when told over the
telephone that that the returns
sDelled Mitchell with a big ma
jority.
"Is that so ?" said Mr. McCall.
"I have been playing golf all
day and I am tired. I will send
a telegram of congratulation to
Mr. Mitchell and go back to bed. ' '
Mayor-elect Mitchell declared
the result was not a personal tri
umph, but a victory for the cause
of good government.
"I shall be mayor for all the
people of New York and not for
any party, division or party," he
declared in a statement- "I
have but one ambition, and that
is to make New York city the
best governed city in America."
When Mr. Mitchell arrived at
fusion headquarters he was ask
ed :
"What are you going to do
about Murphy ?"
"By not recognizing him or
any one connected with him, I am
going to do all I can to drive him
out of business."
A foreerone conclusion of the
balloting today was re-election of
Chas. S. Whitman to the district
attorneyship. He was a candi
date on nearly all the many tickets.
HASTY ITEMS.
Mr. Arthur Medlin, of Maxton,
N. C, spent Saturday in our
town visiting among his old home
friends and school mates.
Mr. Fred Kendall of Johns,
made a pleasant visit in Hasty
Sunday.
Mr. Tom Hasty visited McColl,
S. C, Sunday.
Mrs. Alex Jones spent Satur
day in Laurinburg, shopping.
Miss Katie McDonald, from
the Southern Presbyterian col
lege, Red Springs, is spending a
ew days with her homefolks.
She was accompanied home by
Miss Bessie Culbreth, also of the
Southern Presbyterian college.
Miss Glennie Kendall spent
Sunday with Miss Eupha Hasty.
Mr. J. D. Medlin, of Maxton,
spent a few hours with his friends
in Hasty Friday night.
Miss Pattie Webb, of Laurin-
burg, spent Sunday with home-
folks.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hester
visited in Laurinburg one day
ast week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.
Alex Jones.
Mr." Colin A Hasty spent Sun
day in Maxton.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carmich-
ael, Mrs. Sam Hasty and Miss
Julia McColl visited at the home
of Mrs. J. W. Carmichael Sun
day.
Mr. Jim Gurganious adds very
much to the appearance of our
town by painting his very hand
some residence.
Mr. Shaw Webb made a flying-
trip to Mr. H. A. Mclntyre s
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Theodore Gurganious spent
Sunday out of town.
The singing Sunday night at '
the home of Mr. J. R. Hasty was
exceedingly enjoyed by a large
attendance. We were glad to
have our Southern Presbyterian
college girls, Misses McDonald
and Culbreth, with us.
Gibson and Boykia Items. -
Are you attending the Marl
boro county fair at Bennettsville
this week? If not, you are miss
ing a great thing.
A large crowd of the Gibson
people attended the State Fair in
Columbia last week. Among;
those who attended were: Messrs.
Claude Gibson, Tom Pate, Tom
C. Adams, Jep Gibson, Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Gibson, Mr. and Mrs
Perry R. Adams, Mr. and Mrs.
T. M. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. McHurley; Misses Myrtle
Hurley and Mattie Hunsucker.
The South Carolina School Im-
rinwomont A Qanriainn nf Tlnvlrir,
High School met last Friday at
Boykin. Mrs. May Townsend
was appointed president; Mrs
Rebecca Nicholson vice-president i
Mrs. Charles Hunsucker secre
tary and treasurer. Mr. W. HI
Gibson, Misses Ruth Adams and
Mattie Lena Watson are on the
program committee. Mr. Charles.
Hunsucker, Mrs. P. L. Newton.
and Mrs. Clifton Hunsucker the
entertainment committee.
Mr. Laurin Gibson has returned
with his bride.
Miss Ruth Adams is spending
this week in Bennettsville at
tending the Marlboro county fair.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Liles are
expecting to move to Bennetts
ville next year. X. Y. Z.