North Carolina Newspapers

n ... . . . - ! i t .1 ' . T 4 t. i J I n i r II if 'I i j- . ii II I m I nil I i i '""'" in" ' " 11 11 '" " f , . State Netfs. Capt. Wo. I. Everett, of Richmond County, died Friday morulas from a itroke of paralyses. The Jonesboro Brick company plant, which U located one mile south of Jonesboro, was burned Sat urday night. Captain Charles F. Bahnson, Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Ma sons of North Carolina, died of pa ralysis Thursday night In Mocksvllle. At Maiton Friday a negro threw a bottle at Mr. Moses Fine, which struck him In the face and knocked out an eye- The negro was arrested. To-day at 12 o'clock the Corpora tion Commission will hear the mat ter of an additional Seaboard train from Raleigh to Hamlet and return. Edna Watts, the six-year-old child of Mr. and Mm. Eugene Watta, of Reldfvllle, was burned to death Sat urday morning while playing near the fire. News has reached Raleigh that the railroad, telegraph, ticket and freight depot at Bailey's In Wilson County, was burned on Saturday night. ' The Adrocates of Jarvls and Ran som counties were heard before the legislative committee Tuesday after noon. It Is said that both bills will be put quie.ly to sleep. At Goldston, Chatham County, on Monday, Julius Bynum, aged thir teen, shot and mortally wounded Matthew Heath, a negro. It is claim ed that the shooting was accidental. Mrs. D. G. Carter, of Asheville, was struck by a passenger train Monday andwas dragged for some distance. Several ribs were broken and her body badly bruised, but she will re cover. After a three days' trial IvTiheT perior Court of Moore County the jury in the case of Curry and Mc Queen against the Seaboard Air Line Railway, for destruction of plaintiffs' plant at Lakeview, rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, awarding $10,000 damages. The two and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hunsucker was drowned in a branch near their home at Elise a few days ago. Add ing to the grief of the family came the news that the five-year-old son of Mr. Hunsucker's brother came to his death accidentally while playing with a shot-gun. This occurred at Linden. CONFESSED AND RAN AWAY. linknOAvn Man Informs Chief-of-Po-lice of Kings Mountain That He Has Been Running Blockade Still and Wants to Be Arrested Di rects Officers to the Still, and While They Are Destroying the Outfit He Escapes. "i . - A special from Shelby to Monday's Charlotte Observer tells the following unusual story: "Having a man voluntarily confess to breaking the law, leading them to his illicit distillery and then dashmg away to freedom, was the experience of Chlef-of-Police Adam Hord and Special Deputy Sanders, of Kings Mountain, last Thursday. But the officers caught John Wells a prosper ous farmer living near the South Car olina line, who is wanted for retailing and wen to the still while the officers were destroying it. "Thursday a man, whose name has not been learned, walked into Kings Mountain, told Chief Hord that he had been running a blockade still and wanted to be arrested. It was a great surprise to the officer, but the man consented to direct him to the still near the monument that watches over the historic Kings Mountain bat tlefield. The still was warm and 40 gallons of whiskey was found nearby. Everything was destroyed, but while they were doing it, the man who had confessed and led them to the place was not to be found. He gained their confidence by openly submitting and then, when they were least exDectinir it, he dashed away through the woods! ana nas notDeen captured. The of ficers say he is crazy. "In the meantime John Wells, whom Sheriff Wllkins tried to catch a few weeks ago for selling whiskey, came up to the still. One of the of ficers knew him to be the man who fled across the line when the officers were after, him before, so an arrest was made. He was taken to Kings Mountain for trial and. unless he gives bond, will be brought here to await courtj He is said to be worth from $8,000 to $10,000." Mr. J. P. Alston Burned to Death in His Home. . Littleton, N. C, Feb. 1 6.-MrI J. P. Alston, one of the county's most prominent citizens, was - burned to death in his home here this morning about four o'clock. , He was about forty-five years of age. He was a, bachelor and lived all alone in a small house, 1 about one quarter of a mile from town. The charred body of Mr. Alston was found in the ruins. itXU ED. GIBBS 5JJSSIXG. Prominent Fanner of Pasquotank II Probably 3fet With Foul Play, Ellxabeih City, N. C. Feb. IS. The whereabout of Ed. Gibbf. the &romlfi&t nlanter who so mysterious ly disappeared yesterday coming. U atlll unknown and the xayttery deep en. Although Sheriff Held with many citizens searched every piece of road and woods with bloodhounds between Gibb't home and this city, but not the faintest trace has been gained. Case looks as if it will be a second Nellie Cropsey mystery and Interest in the case is almost as intense. Several theories have been advanc ed, but the one most generally ac cepted is that Gibbs was attacked on the road and killed and his body thrown overboard. Pasquotank River runs parallel with the road and this wquld have been a matter of only a few moments. However, there Is no evidence anywhere on the road of any struggle. Gibbs was In town Thurs day and was said to have had a large roll of currency which was seen by several negroes who bear bad reputa tions. When Gibbs started to town he had only $5.00. Three negroes were said to have been seen by par ties over near Drypolnt Friday morn ing before day. Officers are working on these clues and something definite may develop. Gibbs' wife and all those who know him believe that he is dead. As far as can be learned, ho had absolutely no reason for fleeing, and there is no evidence indicating that he is sepa rated from his wife and home on his own free-will. Gibbs was a hard working farmer who saved up all earnings and never dissipated. He was formerly on the water, having been commander for many years of the steamer Comet. He left home Friday morning between 4:00 and 4:30 o'clock for Elizabeth City to get a load of barrels for shipping pota toes. He waked his wife and she gave him $5.00, and that is the last any one has seen of him. Sheriff Reid will engage a party to drag parts of the Pasquotank River Sunday and it is believed that the body of the missing man will eventu ally be found there. Mrs. Gibbs' grief is heart-rending, and she may not be able to survive the great shock and long suspense. HOMICIDE AT WADESBORO. Also Four Fist Fights on the Main Street of the Town Within an Hoar's Time. Wadesboro, N. C, Feb. 18. In the busiest time of the day, a little after 4 o'clock this afternoon, James Allen, formerly a member of the lo cal police force, shot and killed Treze Hammond, a negro, on Rutherford Street in the center of the town. The sidewalks were crowded with Saturday, traders and in a few min utes the town was in tremendous ex citement. It seemed impossible to get at the facts, a number of those who were within a few feet of the two men claiming that there was no provoca tion, and that Allen shot without even a word, while others are equal ly positive that thenegro attacked Allen and tha he was shot only after Deing warned to keep away. The negro was shot twice, falling to the sidewalk, and dying in a few minutes without making a statement. Mr. Allen walked to the. court house and surrendered to the sher iff, being locked up in a cell. Allen claims that the negro at tacked him and was advancing on him. It is also asserted that the negro had previously threatened the life of Allen. To add to the general excitement of the afternoon, there are reported four fist fights on the Main Street as well as the killing, all within an hour. - None of the fist battles re sulted seriously. Wholesale Jail Delivery at Washing - V ton, N. C. Washington, N. C., Feb. 17. A wholesale jail delivery was effected at the city jail here last night sometime between 12 and 2 o'clock, when eight colored prisoners escaped. Two of the prisoners managed to get posses sion of a small piece of wire, and managed to pick the lock to one of the cells and then climbed to the top of the wall, and by means of an iron spook picked a hole in the real wall of the jail, thus making good their escape. The men who escaped were Sam Stanly, Joseph Washington, Claud Clark, David Dixon, Frank Tart. Garfield Tart and John Gor ham, all negroes and all but one bad been tried and sentenced. . Paint Lick Sick Lady Paint Lick, Ky. Mrs. Mary Free man, of this place,says : "Before 1 commenced to take Cardui, I suf fered so much from womanly trou ble, I was so weak that I was t down on my back nearly all the time. Car dui has done me more good than any medicine I ever took in my life." You need not be afraid to take Car dui. . It is no new, experiment. Com posed of gentle acting, herb ingre dients, it has been found to safely relieve headache, backache, and sim ilar female troubles. Try it for your troubles. . Yes, Mabel, it is true that the Dem ocrats carried the elections last fall. but they have not yet won the con fidence of the people Yellow Jacket. General Netfs. I i The census '.return give Tense a population of 2,1 S 4,7 S3, The Burlcy tobacco grower in Kentucky have voted to -cut It out" this year. "- The chief of police of Greenville, S. C, was murdered Thursday nixhl fcy two unknown white men. Mr. Bryan had been chosen the new Senator from Florida, but his term did not begin, until March 4 th. The Governor of Florida ha ap pointed N. P. Bryan United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of Senator Taliaferro. The Supreme Court of the United States has granted to the State of Arkansas the privilege of filing a suit against the State of Tennessee to determine the exact boundary be tween those two States. WOULD OUST SIX RAILROADS. Attorney-General of Ohio Has Insti tuted Proceedings to Drive Several Roads Out of State for Violating Anti-Trust Law. Columbus. Ohio. Feb. 20. Acting under the provision of the Valentine anti-trust law, Attorney-General Ho gan to-day instituted quo warranto proceedings in the Circuit Court to oust from the State the Hocking Val ley, the Kanawha and Michigan, the Zanesville and Western, the Toledo and Ohio Central, the Lake Shore and Michigan, Southern and the Chesa peake and Ohio Railroad companies. Excepting the C. & O. all the rail roads are Ohio corporations. Their dissolution is asked and also the ap pointment of trustees to wind up their affairs. In .the case of the Chesapeake and Ohio, its exclusion from the State is petitioned. In the main suit against the five lines eighteen grounds of alleged mis conduct are stated, covering allega tions of stock-jobbing, conspiracy to suppress and destroy competition in the transportation of bituminous coal by means of an organization known as the Ohio Coal Traffic Association said to be composed of a group of roilroad companies, and various in stances of favoritism to coal compa nies, whose stock was owned in whole or in part by carrying companies. BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN. The Southern's Fast Mail Robbed Near Carolina Line. Gainesville, Ga., Feb. 18. South ern Railway train No. 36, the United States fast mail, bound from New Or leans to New York, was held up by five masked -men at White Sulphur Springs, four miles from here, at 3.15 o'clock this morning. The express car safe was dynamited and the con- ienis sioien. irirst reports said more than $100,000 was taken, but South ern Railway officials declare the amount was $700. None of the pas sengers were molested. The robbers escaped in an. auto mobile, and are now thought to be in Hall County, probably bound for North Georgia, where pursuit would be difficult. A posse is on the trail. The robbers broke down the doors of the railroad station at White Sul phur, and stole a lantern and flagged the train to stop. As the locomo tive slowed up one of them enter ed the cab and ordered the engineer to proceed to Lula, as mall station several miles away. After a stop was made members of the gang en tered the express car and while one held the conductor and express mes senger at the point of a gun, the oth ers blew open the door of the safe containing the money. Agent Terrill, of the Southern Express Company! Deputy United States Marshal Lan ders, Detective Hauce of the Southern Railway and Deputy Sheriff Little are with the posse with blood-hounds in pursuit. Woman Horse Thief Convicted in New York. New York. Feb. 18. Mrs to Henry Mann, a youne marton nf striking appearance was convicted of horse stealing in Long Island City to day, ane is believed to be the first woman horse thief ever convicted in or about New York. Mrs 'Mann hrnVo. down in court and confessed the theft wim a male accomplice, of horses and buggies. She was re manded for sentence. Her alleged accomplice, Sidney Denning, is yet to do mea. Me says he is the son of a retired surgeon in the United States Navy. Each prisoner claims to have oeen under the hypnotic influence of the other. ' Alabama Senate Passes Local Option Bill. Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 17. By a vote of 21 to 12, . this evening the Alabama Senate passed the Parks lo cal option bill just as it came from the House. When Governor O'Neal signs the bill every prohibition law on the booka will be repealed, and a peculiar situation will ariseC There will be no Jaw. prohibiting the sale of liquor on the statute books and none al lowing it. The Parks bill does not become effective until bills are pass ed regulating the sale of liquor, and no wet or dry election can be held un til these regulation' statutes are enacted.; Had Left lite Wife at Elsstoa aad Was Oat f tosIjiacLetSr From til rather Reach! BalU - tarn Too Late. Af employment and ditheartne4 be cause of sep&ratloa from nk wife and four children. Herbert W. Camming, Jr.. cf Kins ton. K. C to-day commit ted suicide by gas poisoning in a boarding-house here. A he did so there was a letter in the .post-oSet for him from hi father, urging him to effect a reconcilation witn hi wife and accept a position in the elder Cummlcg' store in Kinston. DECISIONS OF TJ. S. SUPREME COURT. Tbe Xaval Stom Men, Xow Ubder IMson Sentence, Will Have Re- bearingliaclc Stove and IUge .wfvV, wii-vunrr Important Derlfiioxix. Important Decisions. Washington, D. a, Feb. 20. Not for years have so many far-reaching principles relating to interstate com merce been approved by the Supreme Court of the United States as were established in its decisions to-day as the unquestioned law of the land. De cisions on a number of other difficult questions were announced. Perhaps the most important of the questions of interstate commerce decided was: That the passenger has no right to buy tickets with services, advertising, releases, or property with transporta tion. This decision was an Interpre tation by the court of the Hepburn law of 1906. The case involved a large number of contracts between the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louis ville Railroad Company and various publishers. In another case the court held: That a State law resulatlne the size of crews on trains within the State is not an obstruction to inter state commerce, but is rather enact ed in aid of interstate commerce, and may be passed by a State for the pub lic safety. The so-called "full crew act" was enacted by the Arkansas Legislature in 1907. and provided for an engi neer, a fireman, a conductor and three brakemen on all railroads in the State of fifty miles in length on trains of more than twenty-five cars. Among other questions decided by the court were: That a railway system may not es cape regulation as an instrument of interstate commerce because one of its constituent parts Is a wharfage company and its dominating power over the wharfage company rests in the fact that it is a holding company. Ilia "Vo TU.e-:i-t6 Cai2c' Commission, does not possess the pow er to reduce a rate as unjust and un reasonable merely because the rate is inequitable under some circum stances, as in cases -where railroads induce shippers to enter a field by of fering rates as low as to be remun erative and later Increase the rates. The court furthermore decided as constitutional a State statute provid ing that no contract of relief, benefit or insurance should be a bar to the right of a railroad employee engaged in the operation to secure damage on account of injuries received in course of his employment. The mayor and several councilmen of Clay Center, Kan., were held in contempt, but ex cused from punishment with the pay ment of costs, because they destroy ed the subject-matter of a litigation before the Supreme Court after its decision was announced, but before mandate had been issued or time giv en for a motion for re-hearing. Boycott Case Dismissed. The famous boycott case, brought in the local courts by the Buck's Stove and Range Company, of St. Louis, against the American Federa tion of Labor, was formally dis missed. The oflicials of the American Naval Stores Company were granted a re view of their conviction of alleged violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. v; - Of the men concerned in the court's action, Spencer P. Shotter, chairman of the board of directors of the com pany, is under sentence to serve three months in jail and to pay a fine of $5,000, while J. F. Cooper Meyers, vice-president of the company, is un der sentence to serve the same length of time in jail and to jjay a fine of $2,500. Edmund S. Nash. DresidAnt- was fined $3000; George Meade Boardman, treasurer, $2,000, and Carl Moller, manager of the Jackson ville (Florida) branch of the com pany, $5,000. The decision of the court to review the conviction is a step in one of the most spectacular prosecutions ever known under the Sherman anti-trust law. For the first time men have come before the court to have .set aside sentences of imprisonment for alleged violations . of the anti-trust law of the land. Seven Persona Burned to Death in Their Home, f Mkvw, . t v eu. j.tf.-7-oeven persons lost their Uvea in a fire which destroyed the home ofJ. D.mrtin in this city early to-day. Only Mr. xxttt uui estapeu, me six remaining members of his family; and a lit girl who made her home with the Hardins, perishing in the flames. s The fire was caiisp1hTi ,tn..i satm gas ine enure : nrst floor was ablaze. Awafcening her husband, he spizpfi two of the children and dashed fm a stairway, Jwhich Immediately col- while the father waa J, Jf a "potet f alttj 6 t 'cap.. , Mrs. Hardin. Ue ,r ffaSL Jasped from ths second ury, rectivin Injuric froa wMca m CHIXA Cf PAKIC OVER. PLAGUE. All Dead Bodies Are Now Bcias reJ Into Heap BorttriL Peking, China Feb. 20. There 1 a noticeable activity n Use- part of the Chinese Government to tay the spread of the plagne. and sanitary measure are being strictly enforced In all the town where a few weeks h ' df waa allowed full swing, unhampered. Instruction hare its dead. The panic and fear of the plague hare over-ridden the Chinese superstition against cremation of the jjg, 0f the Tlcums, ana now almost ! . ... . n t aaiij lue lorca is apput w yum u hastily constructed conn, among which are often seen bodies wrapped onlr in shrouds. In the town of Kwang-Changtxe, near Uie Manchurlan Railway, where the daily death list has numbered a hundred or more, masked men go about in sleds and pick up the bodies lying In the streets, where they have been placed by relatives. The sleds transport them to the west gate, and from there they are removed in carts to the cremation grounds. ANOTHER IS LOOSE. Obngressman Mason Goes Wild in the House Uses Vulgar Language and Questions the Honesty of Many of lift Fellow-Members. Washington, D. C, Feb. 16. Rep resentative Mason, of Arkansas. speaking in general debate on the naval appropriation bill In the House to-night, made a sensational attack on Capt. Robert E. Peary, denounc ing him as a "fakir" and declaring that he "should be driven from the naval service." The bitter words used by the mem ber from Arkansas called out a quick reply from Peary's friends. Representaive J. Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania, characterized Mr. Ma con's speech as "unjust, outrageous and offensive." He said there was always some one to be found to su spect every, performance by men of genius and courage. He referred to Captain Hobson's exploit of the Mer- riznac and to Dewey's victory at Ma nilla Bay. "Heroes like these " said Mr. Moore, "have not the time to stoD aud Jeai .iutf every doLiai : at their heels." Mr. Macon declared that Peary's whole story was "a fake, pure and simple." He said his contempt for 'fake heroes" was supreme, and he Intimated that he put "the hero of San Juan Hill" in that class. Mr. Macon denounced the Peary Arctic Club, and charged that It had main tained a paid lobby in Washington. He said that President Taft's judg ment in this matter was not to be ac cepted, for he has congratulated Cook as heartily as he did Peary. Paying his compliments to the ed itors of the New York Times and the New York Post. Mr. Macon char acterized them as "unblushing know- all tit-bits," and "pea-eyed, pin headed and putrid-tongued infinites! mals." . He referred to Peary as a "fur trader": pictured him as "a gelf- aggerated, self-opinionated, puffed up near-hero,' 'and finally denounce'. him as "an unfaithful servant and ai Idle loafer, who ought to be drivei from the service instead of being promoted." He who considers too. much will perform little.- Schiller. ACCUSED OF STEALING. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton. Mt boldly accuses Bucklen's Arnica Salve of stealing the sting from burns or scalds the pain, from sores of all lands the distress from bolls or biles. "It .robs cuts, corns, bruises. sprains and injuries of their terror," ne says, "a a healing remedy its equal don't exist." 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Or JlO a TOT ; r CUlDr ZLC310S ' r Anii Horning, Evming T Re-optai WliUiey j Angnsta, Ife Feb. if.. in prohibition of tb aaas;? and tho cate of fatatkauij',4 shall ecnUase nadr the Ccr "S of the State of Mais u u mined by the roter of a special election t By a rote of 105 to 40 a Jbl RtpreenuUrc to-4ay Senate resolution rr-tiskaiujj. popular rote the eonstasu Jr hibltory amendment adopted 1 iiu All tnat remain I the j Gorernor rialtted. who SiOSL General Cbicy la the Norfolk, 'va., Feb. ti -c Jacob S. Coxey, of "Coxy ArzT fame, whose home Is at Uiii Ohio, was made one of j fendanU hero to-day to a i-a which resulted in the apiKHut--! Peter Wright, of Norfolk. Uar?, receiver of the affairs of th o;s t. minion Chemical Compaay. iaC,, ;r moted by "General" Coiey 4-4 era for the purpose of tgtv.zz U alleged Paris grea trait According to the allegation ef u bill the stock distribution atd cc-. quest financial status of the corpor. tion was not found to W la a . tlrely satisfactory condition. Fifty Whiskey Dealer In.lictL Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. :o Fifty-two whiskey dealers, iaiict recently . under the Instruct! of Judge McReynoIds that the holl! of a Federal license was prima U evidence of guilt, to-day mbaitt their cases and were fined :o ui costs with , thirty days each is vork-bouse. The work-house 1. enco was suspended during cool t. lavior. Lt ivis West Mother l)Uw Proa Grief. Fayettevllle, N. C, Feb. is. Fu ie West, mother of Lewis West, ii otprious cutlaw and desperado, i to be .tried at a special ters ef ourt March 13th for the murt&d eputy Sheriff Munford, is 6i u er home In the outskirts ot 4 ty of a broken heart and the shxk f her son's misdeeds. She &s u itimable negro and highly regarded her white friends. The Suffragettes stormed the N ork Legislature yesterday demand ig that women be allowed to vote. (O UT ' : ODD FELLOW Dad Caso of Catarrh end Qth:r Complications. Fully He ctored try Poruna. Mr.Chas.L Sauer, Grani Scribe. GrarJ E n campmtr.t L O. O. F, cf Texas, write from San An 'tonio, Texaa: "Nearly tw years ago I accepted position u secretary si t r e a surer oi one of tfc leading trj goods estab lishmentJ of Galveston, Texas. Tte s u d d t a change froras Mr. C has. L. 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