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Sf aie Netfs. 3AMKJS If. TtUMAS - rXH&tSl. 1 General Nets. fclaycr of Kdlfor Gm&le Cot Uj Reward W a 'HpncUcoUrll Charles Moberly Bell, managing! V ! Florida . UcUUtr . fiitt director of the Umdon Time, dMj AibevilJe. N. C, April j.W!Oi HeonUI wwloa lwdtjr mt--aowt yesterday in London. only bit physician aad young ncp. : tin. is. a kxam ' rAastsw . ! ... i 1 - " ixjJ-i i.ii-JiiJ.ii.iiimrTli 1 1 " ; - - t - - Qtm t the Expc tm fb tift la hew with him at tb end, Col. Jtmesi Th mayor of Roanoke. V&.. It hit home- fcier yeiUrday. Harrisoa was elected I year old lim wa S ttfit f AgricmlliiTeW lrrpA V drat f 0m Jttcm otiifot f A-CH4TS CW ; Wapiti agios April 2.- Ir. Sataa A-Mbcl Knapp, ae of Uus . fomoott Frank II. Urigg. of Maine, was If. Tillman, once Lietitaant-Gorcr-t eargci wna grait muu wua . w yesterday appointed by President: nor of South Carolina, aita aere io-r - ' rr k r!rf t i . .v , -i-u. - A.jr - MmA (rtm ofite. ; la ccaay pxru of tm world. died at ; tery suddenly. He ha been here for $ Carter II Washington yesterday cabled $5,000 and haa bwa apparently getting bt-f mayor or wwo mcsoay. " L v i A I a 7 ZZ to China for the relief of the famine ten A few day. ago he became flflk time ho haa eea elected bU f fcUfferer. wono and reached the ttage where mayor of that city. Sectloa with Americaa rW prodae. lu wai hard for blrn to take nourish-j ' t Uon ia tb Sala la pnsmoUoa Atirf rnat Un ha olaced I mnt f-a. this afternoon he Warn The Alaaka coal fraad ease were! of Tarioat Southern crop, made htm an order for tblrty-IWe new engine jmuCh weaker, and about 9: 30 o'clock! dlsmliaed la the United State Cir-f famous among agrtcoltaral iavesU. and for more than one hundred j had a collapse, the end following al-fcalt Coart, at Seattle. Wash., Tnes-j gator. A , frelgh and passenger cars. j most Immediately. For year be waa? day, and was then appealed to the? RbeamaUam, which later deTelop- lone of the political leader in SootH j Supreme Court. j d into a complication ofdUeas, Three barns belonging to Itepre- Carolina, rising to -the position off caused Dr. Knappa death. He wa tentative A. C. Cox. near Wades- Lieutenant-GoTernor of the State as! Prof. H. C. Hobart, director of the a graduate of Laloa College aad re boro -were destroyed by fire Tuesday, fa follower of his uncle. United States school of commerce in Eastern Col-j eel vet. many degrees from other In Losa' estimated at about $3,000, par- j Senator Benjamin It. Tillman. lege at Manassas. Va.. is mysterious, stitutlons. tlally covered bv Insurance. ! In 1903, following editorial crit-!ly missing. . Neither his family nor Dr. Knapp introduced the ImproT- ' j icism in the Columbia State, he shot; his associates on the faculty of the! ed Japanese rice in this countjry after Mrs Ann I erry. wno uvea aooui ; ana Kiiiea on me sireeis oi uoiuui- couege nae u vcwfec " seven miles northwest of PitUboro, j bia the editor of that paper, N. G. j whereabouts. Gonzales. A Jury later acquitted him of the charge of murder. f J. J. Abbott,, mail clerk in the The body will be taken to-day to! Tampa Northern railroad, was arrest- the old Tillman Borne at Edgefield, j ed at Tampa, Fla.. Tuesday in con S. C, for burial. 1 liection with the disappearance of a , packet supposed to contain $10,000 Farm Topi C5 Chatham County, lost four head oi horses, together with barn and all her feed stun, by fire one day last week. The cause of the fire is un known and there was no insurance. Fire of an unknown Origin, which started In the office of The Sentinel, at La Grange, late Sunday night, de stroyed tbe building and the gro cery store adjoining, owned by a Mr. Hurfc. The damage amounts to about $2,000, with small insurance. The board of commissioners of Guilford County have decided not to have any county court in Guilford. An act was passed by the last Legis lature giving the commissioners of that county the power to establish a county court if they desired to do so. The properties of the Randleman Manufacturing Company and. the Naomi Falls Manufacturing Com pany, both bankrupts, were sold un der the hammer by order of court last week. Both plants were pur chased by J. E. Gilmer, of Winston Salem, the price aggregating $215,-500. Child of Mr. Gus Johnson Humed to Death. Dunn, N. C, April 1. While Mr. Gus Johnson was plowing in the field and burning some corn stalks and grass, his little four-year-old child was playing aruond the fire and its clothes caught and the child was burned to death. Mr. Johnson was badly burned in trying to save the child. Mr. Henry Lee Killed by a Train at Calypso. Goldsboro, N. C, April 3. Parties coming to this city this afternoon re port that a special express train of empty cars going South over the At lantic Coast Line, between this city and Wilmington, Saturday afternoon at a high rate of speed, struck and instantly killed an old gentleman, Mr. Henry Lee, at Calypso, who was walking across the track on iiis way to the home of his daughter, with whom he lived. GUXTKK BROTHERS AltHESTEI). ! from a registered mail pouch be- Madison County Officials Had Peril ous Trip Over Mountains. Ashevllle, N. C. April 4. After an all-night search in a downpour of rain through the mountains of Cocke County, Tenn., near the North Carolina boundary Sheriff W. M. Buckner, of Madison County with a posse of deputies this morning sur prised Riley and Elisha Guhter while they were still in bed, arrested and took the two men. to the county seat. These are. the men who, on Sunday night, waylaid two deputy sheriffs, shooting the officers from their horses and rescued their two broth ers. The search took the sheriff's posse over almost impassable roads and it was only after they had search ed a number of houses that in the early morning they found the cabin of Richard Gunter, one of the nine Gunter brothers. The people of the household were Just arising when the officers surrounded the cabin and Sheriff Buckner kicked open the door at the same tinje leveling two revolvers at a bed on which were resting the two men wanted. Taken completely by surprise they offered no resistence although beside them in bed were two Winchester rifles. A careful search failed to locate the other two brothers, who were res cued Sunday. The prisoners were taken to Marshall. - The two officers who were shot are recovering. , JUDGE J. S. ADAMS DIES SUDDENLY. tbe Philippines for the Department of Agriculture. In 1S9S he was appointed to an important post in the Department of Agriculture aad the same year visited Japan, China and the Philippines to report on agricultural conditions in the islands, returning early in 1899. t?een Tampa and Tarpon Springs, on! In 1900 he visited Porto Rico on a March 25. Thirty-two hundred dol- similar mission. lars of the amount has been recover ed and postoffice inspectors are on the trail of two others believed to be connected with the theft. .Man Flies With Wife 28 Miles for Breakfast. . Augusta. Ga., -March 30. In a high wind that uprooted trees, avia tor, Frank Coffyn, accompanied by his young wife, made a flight of more than 28 miles from Augusta to Aik en, S. C, in 41 minutes to-day In 41 to keep a breakfast appointment with friends. No woman in America, under weather conditions of any sort, has ever made a flight of this length. It was found impossible to take a straight course because of the direc tion of the wind. Dr. Knapp was the first president of the Iowa Stock Breeders Associa tion and at the time of his death was president of the Rice Association of America. frail tm loprS will' lit &t ioar 4 prodvtm a aca trail tt-Uwf that ar trtmc4 tsoff faTtsg!y 4 A Esecs3fit an bwrWttd a Rowaa for the buildlag of - lff cottoa warhiAe for tortnx cottoa aad msg It direct to the mill. The matter U Uin promulgated by th Itowaa Farmer' Co-operatir Educa tional Ualoa. aad It U 14 th farm er ar a unit la fator of th ware house plan. If tome of our reader who hat mad a success of railing poultry will write aa article oa the subject for the column they will confer quite a favor oa some of our tafcscrlber who are thinking of engaging la the poultry butiae oa a more cxtewlve scale. Tell the best breeds aad why you think they are tbe bet. The Departmeat of Agriculture at Washington ay: "Approximately $8,000,000 loss wa sustained by the peach growing industry in the United States east of the Rocky Mountain last season from brown-rot, scab and curculio. a small beetle. The loss was about half the value of the crop. It 1 estimated that with 113,950,000 bearing tree last season's crops aggregated from '$12,000,000 to $l,000,000.,t JUDGE O'GOHMAX ELECTED SENATOR. Senatorial Deadlock in New Ends After a Struggle of More was as follows: A correspondent to the New and Observer says: Tbe crop made by Mr. R. H. Weeks in 1910 on the Pittman farm in Edgecombe County, near Whita- York kers, owned by Mr. John Sherrod, One hundred and Navy Department May.Establish Aviation-School. Washington, D. C March 30. In order to form a corps of competent aviators for the navy, thus recogniz ing that the flying machine will be a factor in future warfare, an aviation school probably will be established at Annapolis by the Navy Department this summer. Lieut. T. G. Ellyson, an expert, who for several months past has been receiving instructfo in the operation of aeroplanes at San Diego, Cal., will be one of the in structors at the school, according to tha present plan. , Train Hand Killed in Freight Wreck. China Grove, N. C April 1. The sudden breaking of an axle on a coal car wrecked an extra southbound freight on the Southern Railway at the town limits early to-night, killing an unknown negro train hand, de molishing six cars and tearing up both of the main line tracks for 200 yards. The most serious damage Was on His Way to Jackson to Hold a Term of Court. Warrehton, N. C, April 3. Judge Joseph S. Adams, of Asheville, while on his way to Jackson, where he would have held court his week, died here on Sunday. He had stopped here on, a visit to his son, a student of Warrenton High School, and was stricken with apoplexy Sunday morn ing about 7 o'clock. The end came very quickly, the Judge having pass ed away about 1:30 p. m. Judge "Adams was elected last fall from the Twelfth Judicial District and had already proven himself to be one of the ablest judges in the State. He presided over February court, held in this county, and dur will be the delay to the main linein& tnat week's stay quite a number trains. The track was so badly torn up that it is probable the schedule cannot be resumed before Sunday morning. Wrecking crews are build ing a track around the wreck. Rev. S. C. Owen, of Candler, Drop ped Dead. Asheville, N. C, April 3. -Walking toward, his bed to lie down, Rev.' S. C. Owen, of Candler, yesterday fell outstretched across the bed dead. He had complained of feeling unwell and had remained In his room while oth er members of the' family went to dinner. Hearing the noise of a fall, his wife rushed into the room to find ' her husband dead. He was a promi nent Baptist minister of thisy county and Secretary of the County Farmers' Co-operative - and Educational Union. Surviving are his wife and several children. Death is said to have been due to an attack of apoplexy. of our people became very much at tached to him. His remains left for Asheville on yesterday afternoon's train. Marines Votes for Federal Income Tax. Augusta, Maine, March 30. Fol lowing a conference between Gover nor Plaisted and the . Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, the Legislature voted late to-day to ratify the proposed amendment to the Fed eral Constitution providing for an income tax. This action squarely re versed that taken by the Senate this morning and by the House previously in voting against the Federal tax and adopting a State tax measure. Than Two Months A Tammany ite is Finally Elected. j Albany, N. Y?, March 31 Supreme Coart Justice James Aloysus O'Gor-j man (Democrat), of New York City, was elected United States Senator to-night by the Legislature, after the most protracted struggle over this position, ever held in the Empire State. On the final ballot, the sixty fourth, he, received 112 votes to 80 cast for Chauncey M. Depew, whose term expired March 4th. The result was in doubt almost to the minutp of recording the votes owing , to the uncertainty as to how many of the Democratic insurgents, who for over two months had pre vented an election because of their oppositon to ;Wm. F. Sheehan would enter the second caucus which had been adjourned from day to day since Monday. At the close of a day, of almost continuous negotiations the insur gents capitulated and Justice O'Gor man was elected. A few minutes be fore the ballot was cast Justice O'Gorman's resignation from the bench was filed at the office of the Secretary of State, as a constitution al, provision would have prohibited his election while holding the office $f Justice of the Supreme Court. sixty-five bales of cotton, packed, 425 pounds to the bale, on 137 acres of land; 600 bagsfeof peanuts, 350 to 500 barrels of corn, 100 bushels of field peas, and l 1,300 pounds of pork. "The crop was cultivated with a force of eleven plows, and the land on which the peas and corn was raised was not measured, but Mr. Weeks states that on the farm are now sixty-five head of hogs, twenty seven head of horses, mules and colts to be fed, and this corn will be suf ficient to feed them this year." Mart tunmg W Dm AsftUtoa Ala., Ajni . . , riSSc: w!b4- Hem rti . feeatjr dowtsrar of tnz. t city aad rorrcMSfttftac day. Street r mi M allied aad ulr?a s !rt wcr tons doa ana ana several tssau z'i destroyed. 3 Birmingham. Ala., A--. bcaty wlsd aad rain tto- ,t( over thU Uo8 of AUbac-4 v .J aad telegraph wir oat of Joa. No na diSMi- reported. Other polld la the Sut , ported to hate fared tm t,lffc alt of the torm which ; t from th Gulf lnt mom it At CUatoa. Ala., trr rf sh rooted aad bouse badly di , the high wind. Tt t.., u piungea ibio uriim electric light plant wa pui 0 com mill Ion by falling trti a Km Montgomery, Ala., April 4 tecuon wif Yisiicu uy me or; tt rala and hall tonn today k? u year. Ualoatown and Sim tteru ed coaslderable property ajs. Wire are down la nearly rectloo. In the vicinity of Mo&trc4. ery there wa a deluge of rase, ul the wind reached a velocity of n miles aa hour. DEMOCRATS WITHOUT A COMPASS. Ground Broken for Great Interurban Line. Anderson, S. C, March 30. Ground'was broken to-day for the construction of the road-bed of the Greenville, Spartanburg and Ander son line of the Piedmont and North ern Electric Railway, which will con nect Greenwood, S. C, Charlotte; N. C, and smaller towns between W. J. Oliver, of Knoxville, Tenn., has the construction contract. 'The syn- Negro Boy .Burned to Death in His Home. .. Fayetteville, N. C, April 1. A four-year old negro boy, the son ol! Chaney : Hart, a tenant on the farm of R. Bailey Evans, west of Fayette ville,- was burned to death this morn ing, his clothing catching flre while he was sitting on the hearth of his home where his mother had left him with several other children while she went on an errand. Kowan Citizen Jbataiiy-lnjurea in a Runaway; , . Salisbury, N. C, 1. Cyrus Barn hardt, an aged and, well known citi zen of Rowan County, was run over and it is thought fatally hurt by a team of horses at China Grove this ' afternoon. The team, was being used at a land sale and,v taking fright, dashed over the old man, rendering his condition precarious, and .he was taken home by a p"hysician. Durham Officers Captured Booze and . . e . ' Horses. Durham, N. C, March 31. The officers have been unable to locate the owner of ten gallons of blockade booze and "the fine horse captured Tuesday night in East Durham by Officer Lonnie Morgan. The whiskey was in a buggy -and was near a near beer saloon when the officer called to the man driving the horse to wait , a minute. The gentleman did not obey. He fled and left everything behind. There is no clue to th horse owner, but the whiskey is so much less valu able than the animal that there isl half an opinion that there will be somebody turn up for the team. Several weeks ago -there was a theft; of. two horses from the livery stable here. These had been taken in a "raid on the road to Hillsboro. There were 100 gallons of whiskey and the horses were brought here. One morning at 4 o'clock there was a call for a team and some men came stole two saddles and two horses and have never been heard from. the street railway system of Char lotte, Greenville and Anderson. Mecklenburg Wants a Home For Widows of Confederate Soldiers. - dicate, which is said to be backed by the Duke interests, has purchased f fourth that the act attempts to regu Railroads Attack Validity of Safety Appliance Act. Atlanta, Ga., April 3. Action at tacking the Federal safety appliance act as it effects railroads was started in the United States Court here to day at the instance of the- Louisville and " Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line railroads. " They seek to have the act declared unconstitutional, set ting forth the reasons, which the law should be taken off the statute books, v The reasons are: First, that Congress in passing the act, exceeded its powers to regulate commerce; second, that such a law, is not authorized by. the Constitution; that the act is so broad that it pen alizes railroads engaged in interstate commerce, whether the defective ap pliances on. which, the Government bases Its prosecution have been used in interstate commerce or not; New Reciprocity Bill Will Be Intro .duced Democrats Undecided on the Tariff Thousands of New Bills the First Day. Washington, D. C, April 4. The plan of the tariff revision to be re commended to the House by the Ways and Means Committee will be the subject of a conference tomor row morning among the Democratic members of the committee. Although revision and reciprocity have been thoroughly considered by Chairman Underwood and his associates, no definite method of procedure has been determined upon up to this time. ! There is a division of opinion as to whether the Canadian reciprocity measure should be presented as a separate bill, or should have attach ed to it revised schedules embracing parts of the existing tariff law, such as the woolen or cotton schedules. A decision may be reached at to morrow morning's meeting, and that the committee will be ready, if de sired, to report some legislation to the House by Thursday. It is understood that the Demo cratic members of the committee have a reciprocity measure In slight ly different terms than the McCall Sweep Portion of MiU4f Gulfport. MlsaT, April 4. u- damage wa done by the heavy ks'. west gale which swept orer th n$ and harbor this afternoon, 'the O. man ship Sacken dragged t.li and fouled a small schoont-r. T schooner Robert G. Dunn was Uoj from her moorings and ramrn-i xu Gulfport, doing $200 damage. Will Smith, a negro, trying to f cape the fury of the torm. ran ii front of a train and was killed WELDON POLICEMEN ARUK.sTKH, The Chief and Assistant Placed t der Heavy Bond Charged t& CauHing the Death of George Jn Weldon, N. C. March"30.-Oa i bench warrant issued by Pr-;ditf Judge J. S. Adams of the HaHfu Superior Court, Chief-of-Polke Did ens and his brother. Policeman U ny Dickens, both of Weldon, were ar rested and taken before the court day to answer to the charge of it saulting and causing the death c! George Jones, an old citizen, w he friends say waa inoffensive. Judge" Adams held the chief unie $5,000 bail and his brother unit $2,500 bond for th next term court. The arrests caused a big; i? sation and thj court-room was rery much crowded Several North Carolina Postinartrtt . Appointed. Washington, April 5. The Presi dent sent to the 'Senate today & following nominations for States postmasters: - John M. Burrows, Asheboro; Wr ren V. Hall. -North Charlotte; Mot L. Buchanan, Concord; Frank S Dickey, Murphy; John G. Brown, td Springs. Sold Charlotte, N. C, April 3.- A prop-f osition has been, started here with fine prospects of success for the es tablishment of a home"for widows, of Confederate veterans and of other deserving women, the same to cost at least $25,000 or more. , A num ber of representative ladies appeared before the county commissioners to day together with a delegation of Confederate veterans. , Would Shut Off the Long Winded " Ones. " - Washington, D. C., April 3. Sen ator Curtis, of Kansas, is preparing to "inaugurate a crusade for an amendment of the Senate rules. which will permit the Senate to de termine when debate shall cease up on a given subject. He announced jp-day-that he will introduce a reso lution for an amendment to provide for closure after a subject has been under discussion for five separate calendar, days or ten -consecutive hOUrS. ; V r - 9 , Under the plan suggested any Sen ator would be recognized to move for the termination i of debate, and if the motion prevails by a two-thirds majority a vote shall be taken after three hours additional discussion. "Under the present rules any tw6 or three Senators can hold up a sub ject indefinitely," said Mr. Curtis in diseussing his resolution. rtThe coun try sends us here to transact busi ness, and we shall provide the way ror doing so. Certainly there can be no reasonable complaint of a rule that allows two-thirds of the mem bers avoice on the point of cloture." late appliances used in intra-State as well as interest commerce; and, fifth, that the act violated the tenth amendment to the Constitution, be cause "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution by it are reserved to the -States or the people." During the past few months the Government has made more than a dozen cases out under this act against railroads entering Atlanta. Democratic Ring Defeats "Progress ives" in Baltimore Republicans May Win. Baltimore, Md.. Apr. 3. The Dem- World-Wide System of Crop Resort jng. - - - -Washington. D. C. April 3. A world-wide system of crop reporting win he proposed at the International Institute of Agriculture, which will assemble in Rome May 15th. ; F. Danna Durand, director of the census, has been delegated to repre sent the Department of Agriculture and explain the methods of crop re- porcing in the United States. ocratic organization opposed by all the newspapers of the city,, "won a sweeping vitcory in the primary- elec tion here today. James Preston, or ganization candidate for mayoralty nomination, defeated Mayor J. Barry Mahool by - about 9,000 majority. Mayor, Mahool is a former president of the League of American Munici palities. ' ; ' : , - "-. - Former Mayor E. Clay Timanus defeated -Charles H. Torsch for the Republican mayoralty nomination by' a large majority. Negro Reglinent.WiU P Sent to the Philippines. Seven-iear-um i$oy snot ana KiUed, Atlanta. Ga Ai-n a ' ..f. i TXUXS in CUIJ- AGENTS WANTED. We want agents in every county in the State. We have some good pre mium offers In connection with the paper. Write us for terms. -Address, THE CAUCASIAN. ;. ' Raleigh, N. C. " Brother by Accident. - Anderson, S. C, April 4. J. T. Conwell, aged seven years, son of G. E. Conwell, a farmer, was accident- fourth infantry regiment, comnosed entirely of negroes, is to be recruited- to full war strength before sail ing IOr the Philfnnfn. nmo ally shot and fatally wounded by hi3; next month. ; Instructions reached uAMaC, mv, jFisi, uear, lue local recmitinp- stntfnn here to-day. The .wounded lad. nerv- from the AVaf nrtn,- ily told the story of the shooting be- e.ery effort to obtain negro recruits fore death cut short his words. , for this regiment. . LOST WoH bless North Carolina & Bond. . Boston. Mass., April 4. The Fed eral grand jury to-day returned true bill aealnst Howell T. Voo4. local attorney, charging miss the mails In connection with aa v leged misrepresentation in el2!f administration bill, and that it" may bonds of the Corriher Mills corpc be presented by Chairman Under-j tlon, ofXandis, N. C. wood. j z "Bills on almost every conceivable! i subject, both public and private were!- introduced today. They provided for changes in the tariff, pensions, im provements in the postal service, an income tax and many other matters. Several hundred public bills and more than ' two thousand private bills were presented during the three hours that the House was In session. Representative Hull, of Tennessee, Is the author of a bill for an income tax of $5,000 or more derived from any source whatever, unless other wise ' taxed, to be assessed at a rate of one per cent a year. He expects to press this bill without regard to the proposed constitutional amend ment on the subject. . WflJU OPE ncglistcd Ccldteuccd Cc calicn, RtzjUy IlcstorcJ tyPcrca. mmm ml . , -.;:-...,.;-;: --.- Shenna writ: 5 one runfit jf ly run oo-v the eeiL 3 Mr. Rosa Coyer. a month I felt better than "1 thank Peruna for ac ' strength. I send you two Jtf you can see what Percna eringf several ed in p me could eat nor V well. f,i tried and Jf " tf. wondef me. K week r me."
