North Carolina Newspapers

■ps:-,' . N. C. Wi ■A' -c.trJ rp/^ A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES. VOL. IV. BURLINGTON, R C, MAY 17} mih Na STANDARD OiLCOMDiNE ORDERED TO DISSOLVE Washington, May 15.—The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and its nineteen subsidia^ ry corporations were declared to day by the Supreme Court of the United States to be a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. It also was held to be monopolizing interstate com merce in violation of the Sher man anti-trust law. The disso lution of the combination was or dered to take place within six months. Thus ended the tremendous struggle of years on the part of the government to put down by authority of law a combination which it claimed was a menace to the industrial and economic ad vancement of the entire country. At the same time the court in terpreted the Shermar: anti-trust law £0 as to limit its application to acts of “undue” restraint of trade and not “every" restraint of trade. It was on this point that the only discordant note was heard in the court. Justice Har lan dissented, claiming that cases already decided by the court had determined once for all, that the word “undue" or “ahreasona- ble" or similar words, were not in the statute. He declared t’lat the reasoning of the court in ar riving at its findings was in effect legislation which belonged in ev ery instance to Congress and not to the courts. Ever since the decree in this ease in the lower court, the Unit ed Statts circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri, was announced, hope was expressed by the “business world” that the law’ would be modified so as not to interfere with what was desig nated as honest business. To night that section of the opinion calling’ for the use of the "'rule of reason” in applying the law is regarded in many quarters as an answer to the prayer of the “business world.” The opinion of the court was announced by Chief Justice White. In printed form it con tained more than twenty thou sand words. For nearly an hour the Chief Justice discussed the case from the bench, going over most of the points in the printed opinion, but not once ref erring to it in order to refresh his memory. Before him sat a distinguished audience of the most famous men of the country. Senators and Representatives left thoir res pective chambers in the capitol to listen to the epoch-making de cision of the court. WHO'S WHO, AND WHY Mr. Editor: Before we celebrate another anniversary of our National In dependence, the children, teach ers and people of Alamance Coun ty, will be committed to the care, foresight, and wisdom of some person as County Superintehdent of Public Instruction, for the next two j^ears, a leader who will be instrumental in preserv ing unto us and more perfectly developing that freedom our grizzly gray ancestors fought so valiantly to secure and maintain. The position to be fiilled by the ‘Jounty Board of Education, on the first Mondoy in July, is of greater importance and of more vital interest to the correct life of our future hope in boys and girls, than the filling of any oth er place m our county, and when I make this sweeping statement, I am not unmindful of the various pastora.tes of our county, for this leader is commended to rise above sect, creed, doctrine and Jenominational strife, and serve all alike in preparing the boys ind girls for the respective duties of life. Therefore, the anxious, and alert thinkers of our county are thinking daily on this supreme (iuestion, supreme, because it is a question that lifts itself iar a- bove party affiliations and ties' of psecial friendship, hence, the nien who are leading the rank and file of the great army of modern civilization, are thinking the modem educator in his true HiGKED BY MULE AND IS iN .PRECARiOUS CONDITION Continued on peige four. Little Carney McAdams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter tMcAdams, of Haw River, was brought into the city ia*!t evening on the 10 o’clock traiin and carried to St. Leo’s hospital, suffering with a fractured skull. The little fellow, who is only 4 yeare old, was kick ed by a mule late yesterday after noon. Mr. McAdams had been out in the iield working and had returned home for supper. When he drove into the barnyard Mr. McAdams took little Camey oiit of the wa,gon and^set him on ia bale of hay. When the niule walked from the shafts he kick ed the httle fellow in the head. His skull was badly fractured. After midnight last night physi cians were still working to re lieve him, but it was stated that his chances for recovery were not good.—Greensboro Daily News, 13th. SELL BOOZE WHILE GOVERNOR SPEttS Statesville, May 12.—D. W. Boyer, of Eufola, and Count Hicks (>f Greensboro, white men, were tried before Justice King Wednesday for retailing. Boyer gave $200 bond for his appear ance in court, but Hicks could not give bond and went to jail. The two men came to Statesville from Eufola Wednesday morn ing and received four gallons of booze from the express office. They then went off in a wagon and poured the liquor oul into quart and pint bottles, returning to a vacant lot near the county jail with the bottles of booze in the wagon covered with a quilt. And while the Governor deliver ed a Memorial day speech only a few paces away, and within view of the jail and courthouse, the tv.’o men are alleged to have disposed of several bottles of the booze. NEGROES BEAT ANO SLASH A WHITE KAN Dispatches from Washington indicate that the Senate is going toget busy this week. To good to be true. There are indications that Sen ator LaFolkitte will be among those present at the next Repuo- lican National Convention. SECRETARY OF WAR THROWS UP HIS JOB Washington, May 12.-' Secreta ry of War Dickerson resigned at 8 o’clock tonight and President Taft immediately appointed; Hen ry L. StimSon, of N^rw York^ Re publican candidate for governor last November, in his place. Secretary Dickerson issued a statement tonight to the effect that his private interests de manded his retirement from the cabinet at this time. He is in terested, in the Bon Air Goal company, of Tennessee, which is now in financial difficulties, and he desires to give his entire at tention to it. . ■ New York, May 12.—Henry L. Stimsom was at his country home near Huntington, Long Island, when informed of his appoint ment tonight. “I am very much gratified at this mark of confidence displayed in me by President Taft. The office is a great one, inyolvirig much hard work of importance to the whole country. 1 cannot tell now within a week of when 1 will be prepared to assume the duties of the office. The offer came to me unexpectedly and I must arrange my private affairs befcxa leaving for Washigton. Mr. Stimson declined to dis cuss the policies that he would be expected to pursue in respect to Mexico. He will see President Taft in this city next Sunday. Asheville, May 11.—What may prove to be a fatal fight occurred last Tuesday night just off South Main street, when J. H. Stillwell, a white man and railroad employe of Old Fort, was knocked in the head and on the back with rocks, and later seriously, if not fatally, cut with knives. Buddie White sides and Ed Proctor, two ne groes, are now in jail, charged with the assault. Stillwell cursed Whitesides while he was in a “soft drink” establishment. Later in the night he started do^vn South Main street and went into a vacant lot a few yards from the street, when Whitesides and Proctor made their appearance Proctor knocked Stillwell down with a rock and Whitesides jumped on the fallen man and cut him across the abdomen and other places about the body and left him to die. Mr. Stillwell managed to crawl to a yard nesarby and some one passing heard his groans. He was bleeding and exhausted. The police were notified and three men went on the case. One at-, tended the wounded man while the others v?ent in search of the negroes. Stillwell was taken to the hospital, where it was found that he was almost disembowell ed. Whitesides was arrested a few hours after the cutting and Proc tor was arrested next morning. It is thought that the police have sufficient evidence to convict the negroes. There is a chance that Stillwell may recover. Stillwdl's pistol was found on Proctor when he was arrested. He had taken it from the wounded man. MINISTERIAL STUDENT SUIQKS AT MARS HILL Asheville, ^ay 13.—Af>.er bor- rowine: a shot gun from raerchanjt at MaLrs Hill, Archie Linley, 24 years of age, of Anderson, S. C., went to his room and blew out his brains at 2.30 o’clock this af ternoon. Linley arrived at Mars Hill, 18 miles from this oity, this morning and told various people there that he had come to spend the summer. He engaged a room at the residence of Mrs. Kate Woodrow, who was shopping in the town at the time of the trag edy. The deceased was a ministerial student, and it is thought that his mind'had been affected by close study. He is survived by a moth er, a sister and two brothers, one of whom is Dr. William Linley, now in the Philippine Isands. ROCKY MOUNT DURGLAR BOUND OVER TO COURT Rocky JMount, May 11. - A con viction for first degree burglary and probably an electrocution may result from a hearing in Re corder’s court and from the evi dence brought out this morning when a negco, who gave his name to the court as J. B. Little, was bound over to Nash criminal court for the charge of forcing' an en trance to the home of Mrs Bessie Proctor of the extreme end of South Church street and stealing therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel, a pistol, some money and a watch. The robbery occurred on Sunday night and it appeared from the evidence that the negro went into the house and took possession of things, sacking the house arid taking for his own use what he desired. A party, who returned to the house, upon the discovery that the house had been entered, there having* been no one in the house at the time the negro broke in, was fire d upon by the negro with the pistol that was stolen. The negro was takeiv last night by the police officers find; at the time of his arrest he had in his possession a quantity o £ the goods stolen, the pistol, w{ itch and a part of the money, and this prop erty was identified in eourt this morning by the losers of the property. The negro seems to care little what the judgment of the court is, and it is kno wn that he has several times nerved road sentences with the Rocky Mount road, district and other road forces in this section of the State. T1 FORTUNE miER Wte TBE WOMEN Boston, May 11.—Prof. James G. R^fem, a palmist and for tune teller, whom is alleged to have swindled scores of women throughout the country out of lar^e sums of money, was arrest ed m New York today for the Boston police. He is under in dictment for the alleged swiind- lingof Anna S. Taylor, in May 1909. He had a palmistry office at 88 Boilston street and he used to en ter a trance and advise his women clients in their loye and business affairs. He is said to have desig- nated| a certain hour of the night for his clients to dream of him, when he would be in a trance a,hd advise them as to their affairs. According to the police he is al so accused of being a “switch” man. He would ind[uce women to place their money in bags and then he would switch the bags. He is wanted in a number' of western cities on this charge. STATF OFHCERS ARE NOT DOING THEIR BUT V Washington, D. C.., May 13.— Moonshining is flourishing to a greater extent in North Carolina than in most any other State in the Union, ^according to Commis sioner of Internal Revenue Royal E. Cabell, whe is a Virginian. In a letter to a North Carolina Congressman, who was seeking information, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue said: “It is a matter of common knowledge that illicit manufact- ur«^and sale of distilled spirits is distressingly prevalent through-, out the greater portion of the State of N orth Carolina. The in ternal revenue force is not very large in numbers. We have the largest force of officers assigned in the Asheville district than is appointed in any district in the United States, and the records will show that a ' surprisingly large number of illicit plants are captured every year. The records, of course, would show that there are also many men captured ^d tried, with not a few convictions. Were our rev enue force ten times as large as it is, however, it would be impos sible to entirely break tip the practice complained of. ‘ ‘I am informed that the State laws of Noth Carolina are very drastic relative to the manufact ure and sale of distilled spirits, but it appears that State officers do very little to prevent or pun ish for the violations of this law, though I suspect that there are one hundred State officers to ev ery one internal revenue officer. ” MRS. TAFT IS III INlWyilRKaTY • New York, May 14. —Miss fiel- en Taft was called from Bryn Mawr this afternoon to be with her mother. The two Taft boys, Charles, who is at Watertown, Conn., and Robert, who is at Harvard, were notified tonight of their mother’s illness, but were not asked to come to New York. . Following the President’s ar rival here at 10;20.o’clock tonight he was driven directly to his brother’s home. Soon thereafter it was announced that Mrs. Taft was much improved and that the President would return to Wash- ingtpn at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. The President looked somewhat tired and careworn from his hur ried trip to Harrisburg and anx iety over the illness of his wife. He found Ml'S. Taft better than he left her this morning, but con fined to her bed as she had been all day, with Miss Taft and Mrs. Henry W. Taft doing what they could to make her comfortable. -m « — A Washington correspondent hears that Hearst will be a presi dential candidate and then again hears that he Will not. Probably both rumors a^e w^ell founded. HENDERSON COUNTY FEARS DESTRUn BY VOLCANO /'Henderson vilie. May 13.—Is Henderson County arid a great part of westeni North Carolina to be utterly destroyed by the aroused fury of a slumbering vol cano? V In 1878, with terriffic rumbl ings and distinct quaking of the solid earth. Shaking Bald Moun tain split wide, a dense and evil smoke belched fr^ a black and bottomless a,byss, which threat ened to vomit death and destruc^ tion upon a smiling countryside, and for mUes around the turbu lent giant there wias no sleep pr safety that night. During the night of March 28 Henderson county was terror stricken from one end to the oth er by a series of dreadful rumbl ings, unlike any thunder, or ex plosion, or blast ever heard, in this world. The earth trembled, people tumbled from peaceful homes and feeling the very ^ound insecure benefiLth their feet, dazed by the awful detona tions soundihg * like some mon- strovas game of bowls played by the gods with the roof of the sky' as their allf^y, they were terror- stricken and sleepless for many weary hours. ■ ' This convulsiph of Dame Na ture was heardv and felt from Asheville aliuost to Spartanburg,, and no explanation of its cause has yet been made. True, some one started the ‘ Caeser’s Head has fallen’ ’ yarn on its forty-sev- enth annual trip through th^ col umns of a cr^ulous press, but within the usual time it was re called, carefully wrapped in moth bails and iiow sleeps calmly in the cedar chest awaiting its next journey. , . On the Saturday follQwing the earthquake, if it was an earth quake, JultlgeC. M, Pace, clerk of the superior court bi Hender son county, accompanied by two other reputably: citizens, was re turning from Saluda, driving through the country. When on the summit of the highest moun tain across which their road led, they felt the earth tremble and heard, thrice repeated, a dull, rpmbling roar, in all respects similar, they agreed, to that heard on the memorably night of March 28. And now for the final ^nd con clusive evidence that impel many old people here, recalling their awe-inspiring experience with Shaking Bald mountain away back yonder in 1878,» to believe that Henderson county, while en joying a fancied security on the roof of the world, is r€ al y rest> ing upon a slumbering volcano. Rumors there are, as yet un substantiated, but coming appar ently from reliable sources, that a thin column Of smoke is now ascending from that dreadful abyss in Shaking Bald^ that strange mu ttetings are heard 'within its infprnal depths, and of a feeling of terror amongst the people living within its shadow. If the tales told be true, then it is poiSsible the rumblings and tremblings of that black night of, March 28 were Shaking Bald’s forewarnings of some dreadful eruption soon to blot out all life within its grasp. For what has been may occur again. The old fellow was angry in 1878, evi dently again in 1911, and there is always the danger that this time he may not restrain his fury, biit casting aside ali bounds, blot out a world. HISTORIC Mitl BURNS NEAR SPENCER l^EAVY LOSS Spencer, May 11.—Old Saint John’s mill, one^ of the oldest grist mills in the South, situated on the Yadkin river two miles east of Spencetj was burned to night, entailing a loss of about $12,000. With the'' five story building erected 100 years ago was burned $1,000 Worth of mod ern machinery. The plant, be longed to H. Clay Grub, a wealthy business man of Davidson coun ty. The flames w^re decidedly spectac\ilar, and snot lOO feet skywards. The building was sit uated on the histonc spot where General Green met Cornwallis in a skirmish ^wo days before the battle of Guilford Court Housei The origin of the fire is unknown. GETS INSPIRATION FROM RE- CENT DESPERATE BLUNDER Durham, May 13.—Malcolm R Arnold, thie young man irhose sensational attempt at self-des- tructicih three weeks ago is re called in many places, tc^ay left the hospital and went ^ oo a trip greatly improved, Ip fiae spirits anddetermihed th^t a sin gle blunder should not hifder his future success in life. Hi^ changed appearance made his friends feel good. He ap pears to have no hack oji ^ceotint of the recent desperatic^ and it is altogether like) V that the affair will resolve itseif into -good for him. He is an excellent youtig fellow at his best and 'Appears tf have ho feeling against japy man. He never did have, for^hat mat ter, and he looks upi^lthe aiEair with the girl as triviaiity in light of logic and aftei^houjg^ Young Arnold is well^ and has excellent relatives he»e and in Norfolk. Heyrep»eftent« a Norfolk rekl es%te bu^nese and did a gcK)d wiark' for thait company while here. for been per- What will they do ment in the Gould all the members h manently married Democratic S^n^tors are {fan ning to upset Bi^iey of Teiii^ This is cruel. if tiiej f noy him resign ble thought. \ r‘. Raleigh, May 12.—In the pre sence of a crowd numbering 6^ pemle, iand including a number of Spring Hope people, Normatt Lewis, the negro who on Septem ber 18, 1910, murdered Chief of Police Stallings, of Spring Hope, was electrocuted this morning at the penitentia^. The spectators included J. S. Stallings, a broth er of the deceased, and Solicitor R. A. P. Cooley, who pi’osecutdl Lewis. There was one negi^ * present. Lewis was a smsul, light complected ne^o and was dressed this morning in a new checkered coat, dark trouse«t and in -stocking feet. He was ^ brought into the execution cham ber promptly at 10;3l o’clock; glanced about the room, and was seated in the chair. As the straps '• were fastened about him, and the :; last earthly vision shut from hit ,' eyes, he exclaimed in muffled ’ tones* “0 Lord, have mercy.”:; At 10.33 o’clock the 1,W volti - were turned on by Warden - the body squirined and twisi^l as usual when the powerful yoJt» age passed through. The second current was shot through the body at 10.35 o’clock, a5d four minutes later he w^s pronounce# dead and the body removed to the table. The body was taken t© jam undertaking establishment asaml has not been claimed. The electrocution passed off smoothly Those who kept the nigM watch last night say they hea^ Ixewit praying and reading part otf night. In going to his death this morning he carried in his left hand a small volume, the gcfflpeS of St John. He left nothing for public con sumption after his death, except expressing tO ' his spiritual ad- \ visers a regret for the crime and belief that he would be saved. It was on the night of Septem ber 19 that Chief Stallings went to Lewis’ house, haying a warrent charging him with illicit distilliiif He called to Lewis to come to the door and Lewis replied that would as soon aS he put his shoet> on, and when the officer insisted he was in a hurry, Lewis order ed his wife to blow out the light and picked up a shotgun, powed the contents into the officer. Stallings died in a Richmond hos pital, where he was taken, ani Lewis was identified at Hender son by a man who, after reading a description of him, noticed the thumb of a negro cut off. He was placed under arrest and con victed at the November term ot Nash county court Upon ap*-' peal of the Supreme court tfee j udgemon t of the lower court was affirmed. I iti ■M ■■M ■r' '.■ 'yr-a • J 'iJr I 1 ■im J;