- Yi if t J f I I U U . . I i VC v . i A J H ! i Ir . 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 CONDENSED fiEWS FROM EVERYWHERE A Gplmno of the Week's Happenings ThrfughQut the World Told In Brief e -thered From Our Contemporaries N Boiled Down For Our Read ers. 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.

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