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ink si J. D. BIVINS, Managing Editor Established 1880 $1.00 per year, in advance VOLUME XXIV. , ALBIM A IIl-E, N. C, THURSDAY,. AUGUST 31, 1910 NUMBER 41 I GEORGIA CAPTAIN SHOT ' BY AN ATLANTA WOMAN Shooting Occurred at State Camp at'Robert A- Beattie, Small Merchant Mobile He Was Formerly a Thy-1 and Children's Friend, Kills Wife in sician. I F't of Jealousy. Macon, Ga., Aug. 26. Acompanied by a military escort, the body of Capt Edgar J. Strapling, F Co., fifth regular National Guard of Georgia, who was shot and killed at the State mobilization camp here yesterday by Mrs. H. C. Adams, of Atlanta, early today, was shipped to his home in At lanta. The burial will be at Opelika, Alabama. Mrs. Adams, who was formerly a patient of Capt. Strapling, who in pri vate life was a' physician, last night was held by a coroner's jury for the killing. In the Bibb county jail here she asserted she shot Capt. Strapling because of attentions paid her while in his office in Atlanta. After several hours in jail Adams 'became hysterical, but Mrs. frc- quently declared that when she goes to trial her course will be jus tified. Her husband, a laundry wagon driver, is expected here today? Mrs. Adams was quoted today n having made a number of apparently conflicting statements as to the motive of the killing. Shortly after her arrest yesterday the woman, who is about 20 years old and mother of three young chil dren, was quoted by the county offi cials as saying that improper atten tion on the part of Capt. Strapling had caused her to shoot him. Capt, Strapling had treated Mrs. Adams for nervous troubles. Today Mrs. Adams is quoted by those who talked with her at the jail, as declaring that the alleged action on the part of Capt. Strapling did not cause the killing, and she would not now ted what had prompted the act. It was said she declared she would give a full statement of her alleged relations with Strapling on the arrival of he: husband. TENTATIVE STRIKE ORDER. Washington, Aug. 28. The tenta tive strike order, addressed to all members of the four brotherhoods, i very brief, and is signed by the va rious general chairmen. The order reads as follows: "Sirs and brothers: "This is to advise that the vote of the ebployees in train and engine service on the eight hour day and time and one-half overtime proposi tion was overwhelmingly in favor of a strike. "Notwithstanding this, your repre sentatives have been unable to ef fect a satisfactory settlement and a strike under the laws of the respec tive organizations becomes effecti 'e on September 4, 1916, at 7 A. M. "Jmpart this information so tho e interested will understand that they are to promptly obey." On a separate sheet the duties of members and officers in the conduct of a strike are set forth. Particul ir emphasis is placed on conducting the proposed strike as peacefully as poi sible. Among the duties of members set forth are these: "No man in road service involve! in the strike will perform any servi :e after the nour set to strike, unless he has already begun a trip and has actually left 'the terminal. If the train has left the terminal he will complete the trip and deliver the engine and train at the end of the run, or tie-uo, if tied up under the law, after whhh he will perform no further service until the close of the strike. Men n other than road service will leave the service at the appointed time. "So far as your legal right to strike is concerned, there is no difference between a mail train and a freight train. You have identically the same right to refuse to perform service on a mail train as you have to refuse to perform service on a freight train. "All men on strike will keep awaf from the company's property except such men as are designated certain duties to be performed by the author ity of organizations. "Every man should understand th .t the laws of the land must be obeyed. Acts of violence of any nature will not be tolerated by the organiza tions." Dom Mot Grips nor Distort thi Stoma, la addition to other properties Lax-Foe contains Caacara in acceptable form, UrangLaxauve " . .T i J Am i err in nor I ECUTCiJ BUM 7: 1a JJ . tionMCb. At tne tunc luIK' '' . atoawe tne irrer ana acOTuuua -es the healthy functions. 50c JEALOUS MAN KILLS r WIFE IN CHARLOTTE Charlotte Observer. Actuated by jealousy and the ob session that the honor of his home was at stake, Robert A. Beattie, 68 year old merchant with place of busi ness at the corner of Ninth and Ca. ! well streets, shot and instantly killed his wife, Dixie Nicholson Beattie, t the residence, 412 East Ninth stree-, Monday morning at 7 o'clock. The shooting took place in the bedroom of the residence and was unwitnessed. Beattie, who was ar rested immediately afterwards, is be ing held at police headquarters witn out bom nenu.ng a commitment trial before Recorder Jones this morning. An inquest held at the undertaki i.j establishment cf Z. A. Hovis, at noon Monday, rendered he verdict th t the woman had come to her death from pistol wounds inflicted by a re volver in the hands of her husband. "I .. it to protect my family frjin dishonor," said Beattie, when seen in his cell at headquarters directly fol lowing the shooting. "I got to the point where I could stand it no long er, and now I don't care whether I live or die." That was the statement made by the aged merchant to an Observer re porter. His sole cause for the act and the reason he had for deliberately shooting his wife, who is 30 years his junior, was jealousy. According to the story of the aftVr as gained by investigating police and detectives, Mrs. Beattie was in the act of passing from her room into the hall of the residence. Breakfast had just been concluded and the merchant had returned from opening his store for Monday morning's business. Without a word he raised a 32-cali-bre revolver and fired point-blank at his wife just as she gained the threshold of the door. Her body fell backwards to the floor as the three reports rang out. Each of the three shots took effect near the heart, and acocrding to ex amining physicians, any one of them was sufficient to have caused instant death. (Mrs. Beattie was a sister of Mis, "Plyler" Furr of this place. Mrs, Furr left Tuesday for Charlotte to be present at the funeral services.- - Ed.) A TRAGEDY OF LIQUOR. Charlotte Observer. The story of the shooting to death by a Charlotte citizen of his wife af fords reading of the most deplorable character. One need not wonder at the motive. It is more reasonable to woi.- der that a man could be moved by impulses so brutal and so savage. There was no motive, but there was a cause and the cause is easy to under stand. It was whiskey. It had taken the monster long years of persistent attack to conquer his victim and the price of the final and complete mas tery was the sacrifice of the life of an innocent woman. It is the old, old story, tragic and almost unbelievable, but the world has come to know that there is nothing impossibly tragic for King Alcohol to bring to pass. Mrs. Axtell Will Support Wilson Washington, Aug. 25. The White House, was notified yesterday by State Democratic Secretary George E. Ryan, of Washington, a suffrage State, that Mrs. Frances E. Atell has bolted the Woman's Party and the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and will support President Wilson at the polls. She resigned as State president of the Congressional Union and entered the race for Con gress as the candidate of Progres sives and Democrats. Mrs. Axtell will take the stump for Mr. Wilson. She charges that the woman suffrage campaign against President Wilson is financed by the Republican party. The suffrage campaign against Mr. Wilson is not making much head way, for it is generally believed that the activities of Miss Alice Paul and her organization, the Congressional Union and the Woman's Party, are being encouraged by Republican lenders, and Democratic women will not stand for it Some men are mean enough to re ceive honorary degrees from a; school of sharks. Mexican soldiers ere paid four cents a day. m$w IpifiiiMI ill FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Cornerstone Was Laid Monday, August 28, at 10 A. M., Before Big Crowd i7- i t i. sm. l mi. i i.u , First Baptist Church, Albemarle. -in the presence of a large congregu- is well under way. Mrs. S. Austin, tion of Baptists and a few others. Mr. the fr st Baptist to come to Albemarle B. A. Holbrooks, one of the best and one of the charter members of builders in all the lan!, has charge the church, laid the first brick in the of the work. The building is of red new building, July 27, at 7:25 A. M.,i NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC LEADERS GATHERING New York, Aug. 28. The National Democratic leaders began to arrivo here today in readiness for the con ference which will precede President Wilson's notification ceremony at Longbranch next Saturday. The gathering of members of the Nation al Committee for the first time since the St. Louis convention will enable Chairman McCormick to canvass the political situation and prepare his campaign plans, to be launched as soon as the President has made his speech of acceptance. The notification committee, of which Senator James, of Kentucky is chairman, will have headquarters this week at a local hotel, while tho members of the National Committee and the two campaign committees will be at campaign headquarters. Two Dollar Wheat. "Black rust" probably will be the cause of sending wheat prices soaring to unheard-of levels, with the com ing of the spring wheat output, ac cording to the United States depart ment of agriculture. One official said $2 wheat now appears probable. One of the most severe epidemics of this black rust ever recorded has swept the wheat belt of the northwest with unprecedented damage, presaging a production far below normal. Commercial reports arriving at the department not only substantiate the predictions of the government ex perts, but, it is said, tend to place the loss at a far greater figure, with corespondingly high . prices certain for the fall and winter. The infected area Minnesota and the two Dako tas produce, it is said, the greater part of the spring crop. The reap pearance of the Hessian fly, with the inferior quality of grain sown, will tend to greatly reduce the crop in other sections of the country, it is said. THE STRIKE SITUATION. Washington, Aug. 28. President Wilson tonight definitely decided o go before Congress in person tomor row or Wednesday to recommend leg islation aimed to avert the threatenc 1 Nation-wide railroad strike, or to stc it, if it comes before Congress cai act. He worked until late tonight on his message, in which he will teil members of the Senate and Houae the negotiations to date and lay be fore them a definite legislation pro gram. The President reached this decisis) after conferences at the White House with the committee of eight railroad presidents and the four brotherhool heads, on a new proposal for settle ment of differences, suggested by tho executives, and after a prolonged dis cussion of the situation at the White House with members of the Demo cratic steering committee. The proposition of the railroad ex ecutives was that an investigation of all issues be conducted by a commi i- sion to be named by the President. the investigation to last for a period of three or four months, no action to be taken by either side in the mean time and at the conclusion of the in quiry the situation to be what it now is, the employees having the choice of either arbitration or striking. The brotherhood heads promised . reply tOmorrow morning, and there was every indication it would be unfavorable. pressed brick. THE SOUTH WILL BE WELL ADVERTISED IN THE NORTH Washington, D. C, Aug. 24. The South will be advertised as the ideal faming country at more than twenty-five fairs nnd expositions in the XT . i 1. . i - ,. . Northern States this fall by the Sou hern Railway Company and af- nv7 p a a! A . ! Ohio Railroad and the Georgia I out h- h ti.m w:i.- Exhibits containing a full repre- ... . ., . . ;il r; . , -I ' . .. ' , iuiafcc tiujjs, iiuus, vegeiaoies an 1 miscellaneous farm and orchard pro ducts of the Southern States, will ie displayed and literature abjut the South will be distributed. A special exhibit will be moved from iace to place where the county and district fairs are held, but larger exhibits will be made at Rochester, N. Y., Ex- position, September 4-9; tho New; OVER 5.000 PEOPLE RECEIVE York State Fair at Syracuse, Sep- FULL ANTI-TYPHOID VACCINE tember 11-16, and at the National Dairy Show, Springfield, Mas., Oc tober 12-21. 1 During the anti-typhoid campaign These fairs and expositions will be j which ended Saturday night, 5,087 visited by several hundred thousand t PC0PIe received the full immunizing farmers of the type desired by the treatment of three doses. South as settlers, and it is with the 1 If we add seven hundred more who view of aiding in the development ofjhave been vaccinated by Dr. Rainey the territory they serve that the'at Badin, those treated privately by Southern and affiliated lines ai e male-1 tI;c Physicians of Albemarle and Nor ing the exhibits, the expense o" whkh wood and the third doses I have ar will be borne entirely by them. nONT TIRIXK rfpr iv sruMsi) DONT DRINK BEER IN SLMMEIi Drinking Beer Increases Heat One Hundred Per Cent, "Beer is not cooling." said a noted physician recently while discussintr the best summer drink. Continuing feel sure tnat tne educational value he said: "While cold beer tastes cooljof the campaign will in the long run to a hot man, it does not 'cool him off.' far surpass its immediate good re On the other hand, 'it heats him up.' suits. Beer contains 4 per cent of alcohoi;1 In saying good-bye to Stanly coun a pint contains eight tenths of ani 1 desire in this public way to ounce which is nearly a tablespoonf ul i thnk n people of the whole county and equal to nearly two tablespoons-1 for the courtesy and kindness I have ful of whiskey. The effect of alcohol met with everywhere. To my broth is to sent an excess of blood to the er physicians, I extend my most sin skin, so when a man drinks beer in I cere gratitude for the help they have hot weather, he increases his chance S'en me, for without their willing of sunstroke at 'least 100 per cent.jand self-sacrificing service to the The best drink for a man at work. ' community the work could never whether it is physical or mental bor, is clean, cool water." As to drinking beer, a member of i the crew of the Deutschland is quot- i cia,s Dr- Anderson and Mr. R. N. ed as saying: "Yes, we have beer cJFurri uPon whom rested the respon board, but not a drop of it is taken on ! sibility of conducting the campaign, stormy days or nights. There is nohave shown an unflagging interest need for prohibition either. We have and enthusiasm that could not have all tried at one time or another to been excelled in any private venture, quench our thirst with beer in our I I trust that it may be my good for rest hours, only to suffer the tor-; tune to come again to Stanly county, tures of hades when we are back on CHARLES S. MANGUM, our post. It makes you perspire a!University of North Carolina, hundred times worse than does water' Chapel Hill, N. C. and we drink water like camels. Wej take enough of it in eight hours of j FORMAL NOTIFICATION OF rest to bathe us in the four hours on watch." An Illogical Candidate. From the Harrisburg Patriot (Dem.) receipt of the following: Mr. Hughes is thus left in the I "The Democratic National Commit position of a candidate with nothing itee cordially invites you to attend the to offer save quarrelsome criticism of rormaI notification to president WU acts which have been performed, un- son of his re-nomination at Shadow der the most trying circumstances, Lawn' West End nK Branch, New to the satisfaction of the great ma-'Tersev' Saturday afternoon, Septem jority of votinir and thinkinir citizens ber second, nineteen hundred and six- of the United States. i He is therefore a candidate who can offer no logical reason why he should be elected. The Russians that the Germans captured are no longer preserved in alcohol. j SALISBURY AND SPENCER HIT BY SEVERE CYCLONE !Crc Man Killed in Salisbury City m Darkness New Mill Wrecked Shade Trees Blown Down. Salisbury, Aug. 28. One person' killed; others seriously injured; prop-1 c!o;iie proportions played havoc in crty damage running into the tens nfEa.;t Spencer this afternoon, demol thousands; power companies out of ishi.-.g a two-story brick building oc business, and the city in darkness, cupied by the general store of C. E. are the results of the most severe Fesperman and the Majestic Theatr;, cyclone that ever visited thi.i section. ; High winds accompanied by much j hail and a heavy downpour of rain j came from the west at 3 o'clock this , afternoon, wrecking a path through j the entire city. The new damask mill of Mars? & ' Murdock in the western part of the tovn, recently finished, and the na- chi installed read for busine.ssi was COffPletely wrecked. Will J. Cai- l0way, a carpenter, aged 45, and Henry Whitlow, who were working nCa took refue-e in the hrirk mill buiU'ing and were later taken out of!tneV abandoned the store only to be the debris. Calloway had met instai.t covered with brick and timbers fall death and Whitlow was badly hurt, i irS in front. Reports of narrow escapes by peo ple caught out in the storm are nu merous. Business houses lost roofs and plate glass windows and the sub sequent flooding did thousands of dol lars' damage, i 11C IcaiVICllUttl SClllUIl illSU BUilCl-' v.. wiv, ot-in; ill 1 ed from flo0(i power ,ines we(.elEho:t time and did all they could to put out of commission and es j relieve the suffering. This was the blocked street traffic. Street cars cou'd t , . , . . , . 1 not run and the tovvn was ln complete darkness at a late hour. iiuuuicu.i Hundreds cf the city's beautiful shade trees that have made it famous wore blown down. The sun came out just after the storm had passed and hundreds of citizens made tours of the whole town and surrounding community where there were evidences of the storm. ranged to have given during this week at the various stations in the county, we shall have a grand total ' larper companies engaged in selling of weU over six thousanJ people whu;at wholesale. One-nan who is aeent have been immunized against typhoid fever from among a population at the time of the last census of 19,909, an achievement of which the county mav weI1 De Prud, In addition, I la-inave been done. The record, too, shows the evidence of many helpful volunteer hands, and the county offi- RE-NOMINATION PRES. WILSON The editor of The Enterprise is in teen a f ur o'clock." Mr. Penrose and Mr. Perkins were both prominent at the notification iratherimr. After all there never has been much of a dividing line between the two, merely in the matter of the means to an end. .MANY ARE INJURED-BIG j STORM LOSSAT SPENCER C. E. Fesperman, a Former Stanly bounty Man, Suffers Severe Loss Other Houses Damaged. Fpencer, Aug. 28. A storm of cy- bloving down a number of other buildings and injuring a half dozen persons. The most seriously injured is Mrs. D. A. Kluttz, who was caught under the walls of a store building. Om arm, one leg, and her hip bone were bruised, besides other serious inju ries. She was rushed to a Salisbury hospital for treatment. In the store at the time was also Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Fespeiman and four children. Seeing the top of tho building had blown across the street, With considerable difficulty they were extricated, and all were moie or less injured. The youngest son, Milford, wa.i badly cut about the face and shoul ders and was sent to a hospital. Sev- second time the Fesperman store has been demolished by storr.i, the first being in 1905. He has been burned out once since that and has been robbed by burglars several times. His store building and stock, valued ,'.t about $5,000, is a total wreck tonight. A fire started from matches but was soon extinguished. The roof of his dwelling was also crushed in by the sto:n. Julia Swaringen, aged 10 years, who was in the store when the wind struck it, was hurt in the side and leg. la other parts of East Spe.icar a dwelling owned by Zebb Furr and occupied by J. C. Craven was blown from its foundation; a house being erected by J. W. Lingle was blown down, and a bai n of J. I. Bapgart waj destroyed. PRICE OF COAL GOING UP TO THE WHOLESALER Greensboro News. Coal is now skyrocketing, accord- ting to representatives of some of the for a large dealer stated that during the past fortnight there has been a 15 per cent increase in prices and that coal is hard to get in large quanti ties at any figures. This man has been to the West Virginia mines dur ing the past two weeks and recently returned. It is inferred that the threatened strike of railroad trainmen is one of j the causes of the extraordinary de mand which has overtaxed the produc tion at present. It is said that the sales forces of a number of the big companies are idle for the time, be cause the mines are unable to get enough men to dig coal to fill the huge orders going in. Whether the inflated prices will come back to the usual level when the danger of jl j strike is over or not can only be con jectured, it is said. Submarine Bremen on Way to U. S. With Dyes. Berlin, Aug. 27. The Cologne Ga zette, is quoted by the Oversea News Agency, says the German merchant submarine Bremen is now on her way to the United States with a cargo of dyes. The Bellinger Tageblatt today ha3 an interview with D;rector Lohmann of the company owning the submarine Bremen in which he says the Bremen is on her way to Baltimore and that trade by means of a submarine fleet soon will be increased materially. VICTROLA GIVEN AWAY. The handsome Victrola to be given away by the Alameda Theatre has created quite a little interest, and several have already entered the con test, while a great many more have intimated that they are going to en ter. The following have already been I nominated: Miss Evelyn Pannill, Mrs. C W. Morton, Franklin Cotton, Miss Hettie Blalock, Miss Velma Mor row, Miss Bessie Huckabee, Miss Bon nie Bostian, J. H. Hartsell, and Mrs. J. D. Monroe.
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