North Carolina Newspapers

Thursday. April i, t Page Two. THE CAUCASIAN, ' I: ' "I ' M if ' i ii t3 9 : 1 ;! i j. j M .9 . 4 ! '.I ' , 3- : 11 i It, State Netfs. A little child of Noah Hempby. of Snow Hill, Greene County, got a pea nut in bis wind-pipe a few days ago and was strangled to death. Governor Kltcbin has ordered a special term of court for Buncombe County to begin June 10 for two weeks. Judge B. F. Long is to pre side. Joe Tate, who has been on trial charged with the murder of Bob Thompson last August, in Cherokee County, was found guilty of man slaughter a few days ago. A thirteen-year-old colored girl, of near Monroe, was almost killed by two vicious bull-dogs a few days ago. The dogs belonged to two colored men and were killed by the police. Chief-of-Police Rogers, of Clyde, Haywood County, has been commit teed to jail without bail for the mur der of Lee Willis, who created a dis turbance at the closing of a school at that place some time ago. - Mr. John Hicks, a young man of Troy, Montgomery County, and an employe of the Troy Brick Company, managed to get his hand caught in the machinery of that plant a few days ago and had his hand torn off. Rev. C. F. Hypes, of Spencer, was severely injured a few days ago, be ing struck by an automobile In that city. He was walking along the street and the machine, in an at tempt to pass a team, ran into Mr. Hypes. The citizens of Guilford County are making demands upon the authorities of that county for more and better bridges, as a result of the severe winter followed by the recent floods which destroyed so many of Guil ford's bridges. A man named Jones, of New Han over County, has been hired out by the Commissioners of that county, to his wife for six months, Jones re questing this arrangement rather than serve the time on the public roads. He was sentenced on the charge of non-support. Charles Murphey, of Yancey Coun ty, who killed John Simmons some time ago because he would not give him some whiskey, has been commit ted to the State's prison for seven of murder, but on evidence being teen years. He was first convicted produced that he was an epileptic, he was sentenced to prison instead. Fire in Goldsboro burned the home of Mr. J. D. Rice, Sunday last, en tailing a loss of about $2,000. The depot and a hardware store at Fairmont were entered by thieves last Thursday night and some whis key from the depot and a few arti cles from the hardware store were taken. Joel Gaddy, a young white man was killed one day last week, by a northbound train No. 76 which pass es Concord. . It is said that Gaddy made an effort to catch the train and was caught under the car and was killed. The barn of Mr. Ernest Sloop, who lives near China Grove, caught afire in an unknown way and was 'de stroyed Tuesday, together with two horses and five head of cattle; also quantity of feed. The loss is esti mated at $2,000. Solomon Burke, a negro who had been employed in a saw-mill near Fayetteville, died in Hlghsmith Hos pital there Tuesday as a result of burns received in an explosion of a bolter at said saw-mill a few days ago. Mr. T. A. Bill j superintendent, was also painfuly scalded. In five township elections held n Randolph County Tuesday, for the purpose of voting bonds for the Ran dolph and Cumberland Railroad, three townships voted a total of $80, 000 in bonds to be paid over to the company in return for the stock in the railroad after the completion of the road to High Point. The five-months-old child of 1 Mr. and Mrs. Ulyses Pritchard, of Eliza beth City, was burned to death to gether with their household effects, on. Bell Street',' in that city, Tuesday. The mother had left the child in the jkitchen'.and had ran over to a neigh bor's for a minute, and on her return ound the room in flames. Democratic Office-Seekers May Stum ble Over Each Other. In North Carolina there are so eo many hats In the Corporation" Com mission ring that the new-comers are apt to stumble . over them. News and Observer. ' The News and Observer admits .such a desire for office1 and then in grim humor refers to Republicans as piehnnters." ', Shades of Jefferson defend such hardstrained efforts to manufacture campaign enthusiasm. Union Republican. "visiks" giving tkouijlk. A Traveling Band Robbed and Fright- J ened Cltln In ThI Stat. j Statesville Landmark. A party of about twenty so-called Gypsies passed through this section this week and as usual engaged in conduct which necessitated the call ing of officers. The party was bead ed by an ugly specimen who gave his name as Gregory John and said he and his companions were f TamJ pa. Florida, and were en route to Kentucky. They trailed to r .or .mpedlloW night near the I a rtf Mr Flake Wagner, in the c U o. Troutman. d the party I C' Lmen and chtldren went to the home ot Mr. Wagner Just Deiore puSeT her aside and entering the feltchen and dining-eT thine eatable In sight. Mr. Wagner ardved home a short time after the incident and finding his wife badly rlghtened took her to the home of a relative, where they spent the night. The "Gypsies" came on to States vllle Tuesday and after a short stop headed for Yadkin County. They camped Tuesday night In the vicinity of Bethany Church and their victim that evening was Mr. ueorge x welder, a citizen of the community. Mr Blackwelder was passing along and one of the women asked him for a match. He stopped to give her the match and she asked to be allowed to tell his fortune, which proposition he turned down. The woman caught hold of him and he says apparently used some hynotic power over him, for the next thing he knew he was watching her take the money out of his pocket. He snatched tne pocKet- book and money from her hand and after moving off a little way counted the money. The purse had contain ed $34 and he found that a ten dollar bill was missing. Not caring to have a row with the travelers, ' Blackwel der made no effort to get his money until early next morning, when he came to Statesville and solicited the aid of Sheriff Deaton. The sheriff, accompanied by Deputy Gilbert, Po liceman Fulp and Mr. Blackwelder went out in the sheriff's touring car to where the "Gypsies" were encamp ed and demanded a reckoning. Speaking for the party, Gregory John at first denied that any money had been taken from Blackwelder, but when the officers told him they would either have to put up the money or come to Statesville for trial, Gregory John said that only $5 had been tak en and he was willing to return that amount. The woman who had taken the money was pointed out by Black welder, and when Gregory John saw that she going to be arrested, he sur rendered the $10 and promised to leave the county without giving fur ther trouble. The officers did not learn of the Gypsies' conduct at the home of Mr. Wagner until after they had left the county. THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. A Year's Work in North Carolina and the South of the Commission for Hookworm Disease. The Rockefeller Sanitary Commis sion has just issued its second annual report. This report shows that in the fight against hookworm disease in nine States for the year 1911 the Commission has expended $148,47 .14. (Of this amount $18,621.06 came to North Carolina.) The States themselves have expended $30,388 .73. (Narth Carolina $9,300.) There have been treated during the year in these nine States 140,378 persons (North Carolina being credited with 45,881 of them). This means that for every $1.05 (in North Carolina 40 cents) or for every $1.27 (in North Carolina 60 cents) expended by the Commission and the States, a human being has been helped to a higher and better scale of living and sanitary conditions have been im proved. These organizations have by pre liminary survey demonstrated the presence of the infection in 719 of the 884 counties in ten States (in North Carolina infection in 99 of the 100" counties); have completed the definite infection survey in' 87 coun- ties in ine States (21 of these are in North Carolina) ; and for this sur- vey have examined microscopically 37,267 (in North Carolina 11,267) aSe;i an complettd the definlte rural children from 6 to 18 years of sanitary survey in; 125 counties (of these 44 are in North Carolina) and have inspected 43,448 rural homes V1'1" tueai wing in ortn uar- olina) In nine States 85 counties (27 In North Carolina) have appropriated from county funds for the local ex penses in the county dispensaries for the free treatment of hookworm dis ease $10,799.60 (in North Carolina $4,300 fro mthe 17 counties where the dispensary work was complete. This does not include the appropria tions of something over $2,000 from ten counties then on the waiting list), and at these dispensaries 74,005 per sons, have been treated (29,172 of them being In North Carolina) . j ,7 General Ne&s. The ADDomottax Bank case, in which the president and cashier were charged with embezzlement, and which have been In court for fifteen months, ended April 3rd with acquit tal. Walter Z. Snyder, managing editor of a periodical called the "Sport of fhe Times." was found dead in a bath K b?, borne in New York a few days ago. His wife is charged with the crime. Mrs. Zee Run7McRee. of Oee tousee. La-, who shot Allan . Garland to death in her home l hJ cty some time ago. was acquitted by a jary on the charge of manslaughter a few days ago. William J. Bryan, in a letter to the Bryan Club in Los Angeles, Cal.. has ..- allow his name to be ceTon the primary ballot in Cali fornia as a candidate for the Presi dency. A mother and two children In Chi cago were crushed to death a few days ago in a wreck of a freight train which ran into a street car of that city. Eighteen other persons were also Injured, some of them fa tally. A proposal has been made to the House Committee on Naval Affairs, to sell the Jamestown exposition grounds, near Norfolk, Va., to the government for use as a naval train ing station. $2,200,000 being asked for the building and grounds. Mrs. Sarah Geittle, a handsome brunette of striking appearance, was found bound and gagged in an apart ment house in Brooklyn a few days ago. She had been robbed of $18 and shorn of her long black hair. It is thought it was a plot to mar the victim's beauty. Probably the only woman judge in the United States is Mrs. Lydia Berkeley Tague, who is the first wo man to occupy that position in the State of Colorado. She was elected to succeed her husband, who died about a year ago. She Is about forty-five years of age. One of the three negroes who broke out of jail in Dinwiddle County, Vir ginia, some days ago, was captured by Sheriff Galush, of that county, last week, and bloodhounds have been placed on the trail of the other two. The one captured is charged with the murder of a eleven-year-old girl near McKenney, Va. Dr. J. N. Lewis, one of the lead ing physicians of Roanoke, Va., and George Bernard, a clerk in the gen eral offices of the Norfolk Southern Railway, were killed in an automo bile wreck on the Hollins turnpike, five miles from the city of Roanoke, Saturday night. The driver lost con trol of the machine, which was a 90-horse power car, and the gentle men were hurled sixty feet into a j fied and killed instantly. An Unprovoked Tragedy near Green ville. A Greenville, N. C, dispatch of April 9th says: "A tragedy occurred at Traveler's Rest, wherein one young man is dead and another one is in the county jail here to answer to a charge of mur der. It seems that Harris Nichols and Newton Hitt had been out together the night before, getting in about 11 o'clock. Nichols was drinking but Hitt was sober. They came into the house and together with the aged mother of Nichols were seated around the fire. Nichols prepared two drinks and offered Hitt one, who refused. Two hours later, without a word of warning Nichols drew a revolver from his pocket and fired a bullet through the brain of Hitt, killing him instantly. Nichols was arrested and brought to jail here. Nichols is about thirty years old, while the man he killed was only eighteen years old." Miss Mary Davis First Woman to Fly Across Channel. Paris, April 2. Miss Mary Davis is the first woman to crds sthe chan nel from England to France as a pas sen ere r In a areronlane. Sh arrnm. panied Gustave Hamel, the aviator. Exclusive of stops the flight to Paris occupied less than four hours. ' ' r- What Kind of Democracy Does the Vote Stand PopV J ReidsvilIe Review. The Democratic party in t's S - needs some attention naid it in rH0, M - v w a. that the voters can find out what kind of Democracy the State stands for. The platforms read one way, and our senior Senator votes another way, and he and his friends argue that if he is wrong so are the major ity of our Congressmen. It is our idea that the platform is right, and any man who accepts a nomination at the hands of the people who adopted the platform should stand by its pro visions. If the platform is wrong let the people remedy it.'- If the senior Senator and the Congressmen are wrong, let the people defeat them; IHKSIDE.VTS ECOXOMY MXS. Send to Congress III Swntl ! iMige of the Year on Economy and KfHcJencj in the Guermet Ser vice, Washington. D. C. April 4. Presi dent Taft to-day s;nt to Congress his second message of the present year on economy and efficiency In the Government service. President Taffs principal recom mendations for economy were as fol lows: Placing of pension agents In classi fied service; estimated saving $62, 000 annually. Abolition of office of receiver of sttiH to reeister. who Is to be assist v " ed by a bonded clerk; estimated sav ing $200,000 annually. Transfer of "political appointees" In internal revenue and custom ser vices to classified service; estimate of saving not given. Consolidation of lighthouse and jjfe-gaving services into Bureau of Lighthouses; estimate saving $100, 000. Transfer of. vessels and equipment ) of Revenue Cutter service irom Treasury to Commerce and Labor De partment and Its abolition as a sepa rate service, estimated in message on economy January 17 that saving would be about $1,600,000 a year. Consolidation of auditing offices of the Government under one auditory; estimated saving $200,000 annually. Discontinuance of mileage allow ances for Government travel and a per diem allowance for officers and employes in place of "subsistence," which includes lodging for those traveling; no estimate of saving giv en. Improved method of handling cor respondence; estimate of saving not given, but predicted tht labor can be reduced 50 per cent. Centralization of the distribution of Government documents; estimate saving $242,000 a year. Discontinuance of population of the official register; estimate saving $45,000 annually. Burglar Alarm Creates Great Excite ment in United States Treasury Building. A Washington, D. C, dispatch which appeared in Friday's issue of the Baltimore Sun, says: "Armed guards dashing through the corridors and the clanging of the great burglar alarm gong turned the big Treasury Department Build ing topsy-turvy to-day. The wild clamor of the gong led many to be lieve that an assault upon the gold vaults was being made. "An investigation developed that a clerk in the office of the Register of the Treasury made a mistake in working the combination to open the vault. He knew the combination, but in some manner threw on the key which operates the burglar alarm." Farmer Eats Ten Pounds of Food and Wins Wager and Oilers More Bets. A Sanford, Delaware, dispatch of April 4th says: "After eating to win a wager of $5, Charles Bowdle, a young farmer living in this section, sang a song and wanted to wager $5 more that he could eat a gallon of apples for de sert. "The exceptional feast was an eat ing contest which was held at a lo cal variety store last night. Howard Morgan, Charles Sauerhoff and sev eral other young men displayed their eating capacity by getting away with two pounds of candy and a pound of cakes each. ' It was then that Bowdle wagered that he could eat as much as they had all consumed. "Funds were soon collected to cov er his bet and he started his feast by eating a pound of crackers and tw oboxes of sardines. This was fol lowed by one-half dozen oranges, two dozen bananas, a pound of cakes and a pound of candy. Bowdle finished the meal, as he said, 'with a good ap petite, and ' after singing a song, wanted to bet he could eat a gallon of apples to top it off." Throws Father's Ashes to the Winds, Then Gets Married. . t i . A Los Angeles, Cal., dispatch to Friday's Baltimore Sun says: "Arthur N. Steward and Miss Hat tie R. Laube were married on Inspi ration Point, Mount Love, to-day after-the bride had cast to the winds the ashes of her dead father, who died last week. ' fter dinner the party climbed to Inspiration Ponit. the bridge carry ing a small case that contained the aSMiss Laube refused to marry Steward for five years because of the illness of her- father, whom she con stantly attended. Cadet Killed at Target Practice. Charleston, S. C April 9.--Cadet Louis G. Dotterer, of the freshman class of the Citadel Military Academy of South Carolina was killed by a bullet fired by a squad of his college mates during target practice this af ternoon. New York's four delegates at large to the Democratic National Conven tion will go to Baltimore unpledged to any candidate for the Presidential nomination according JLo reports from the party leaders in that city. FACTS GIVEN P ANSWER 10 UNTRUE tDAEGES MADE BY BOLT The Bolters Did Not Try to Help Elect the Tic Wake County, But Many Threw Cold Water c- Instead Mr. adoicws Oiganuation, Though Hdp Elect the Ticket Andrews Ciub? The last issue of th Smithfield which is being circulated ex - t nidYlv lust at this time in wa at the expense of the Federal omce- holders, contained nearly two pages f fthit and misrepresentation on the Republican organization in this rnntv. Mr. W. J. Andrews, tne r eu eral office-holders' candidate, had a letter In that issue that occupied over mnt of which was IQICC CUIUU1UO, simply abuse. This article was pre pared in the Federal building a week ago last Tuesday and was sent me with the request that I have it pub nfco in Th Caucasian. It was not published for the fact as stated last week, that it was not in answer to any communication that had been published In The Caucasian. I had not written any attack on Mr. An drews and, therefore, as I stated in the last issue of this paper, did not feel called upon to have his personal attack on me published, especially not Vn article of that length. I of fered to have an article printed if he would write one in answer 10 any communication that had been pub lished in the paper, and would make it of similar length. He has not sent an answer, because he can't. The ar ticles published in The Caucasian in regard to Mr. Andrews' candidacy were not abusive, but stated facts. But facts are what hurt the other fellow, and that is probably why he grew abusive. Mr. Andrews doesn't like it because he and his element are called "bolters." Mr. Andrews head ed the list of the bolters delegates to the State Convention. He says our friends in the county are concealing well-known facts because we know that the State Convention decided that his "associates" and himself were entitled to cast part of the vote of Wake County in the State Conven- tion. And here is where Mr. An- drews didn't tell all that he knew, The State Committee that passed up- on the credentials was composed largely of antl-Morehead men, aiid not our friends; but even then the committee allowed the bolters only six delegates out of the twenty-six, and Hon. A. H. Price, of Sallsbuiy, who was a member of that commit- tee and anti-Morehead man, told me afterwards that they allowed you those in an attempt to harmonize matters. So you didn't get them be- cause you were realy entitled to them. At the Congressional Conven- tion we allowed you to have the six delegates because Mr. Charlie Wildes made the request, and we did it in the interest of harmony, and not be- cause your list of bolters were en titled to them. Even then Postmas- ter Briggs attempted to be unfair and wanted each one of the bolting dele- gates present to be allowed to vote, without regard to the proportionate vote. Mr. Andrews says I have hard - ly been known as a Republican long- er than himself. I did not raise this when the office-holders were in cos issue, but since Mr. Andrews has trol, and especially when that raised it, I will state that I was iden- man did not even claim to be a to: titled with the Republican party and working for its success while Mr. Andrews waa trying to be a Demo- !f!iiC T11 l CU7 ' "I TJ t"U "STS: on me, i wm aiso state tnat l was identified with the Republican party and working for its success when he waiT writing articles praising speech- M. Simmons, and Mr. Briggs never participated in a Republican Conven tion until he was a candidate for postmaster. Mr. Andrews further states that I began my political ca reer In Raleigh as an office-holder. This is a misstatement. I came to Raleigh to accept a position in The Caucasian office and have been iden- tified in politics more or less ever - since. urtnermore. I have never Mwjo done what I could in support of the ucei in tne county, you speak of a "rowdy convention.' Dian t rosu- master Briggs sound the first discord- ant note in the Convention ana mea take his handful and bolt the Con- vpntionwhen he saw the majority was tMm? You SDeak of the clubs yon organized in 1908. The club in Tioh' was formed by Mr. C. L- Sykes. whom yon all, later, saw fit to .1 the way. what has lgnotc- " e thiit clnb? vny aia you it it eo down? It was out of trasi- ueutiuc - . .i 1 wan elected County neu uciujb - ovrt if I bad been Chairman while the club was in ex- istence, the club was not a pan. o the county organization, and you could have kept it going if you were intprested in the narty. The other clubs in the county were rormea un- der the direction ol cnairman .vv. i. Barrow, and my friends and I gave him our support. Mr. Andrews arti cle says that the present county or ganization has not been a success, and gives this as his reason lor of fering himself as Chairman. Will " irr.LL -..i-n-1 just wherein Mr. Andrews has been 9 Aitauia mc x i cscnt V- He Did Nothing Hitnstij & - What Has Become 0f jj a success, and la thrrp -T v son to believe that h "40j T success as Chalvnan of it1"1 can party in Wake Coat:, Other AhaUr Article There were several uti: cnargea mat i wanteil to y man so I could b po,rzi$T is not true. As a nutter cf J, first suggested one of our . " . friends for Chairman, but oar decided mat the Chairman '4 in live In Raleigh, and ih-v i supposed 10 noid nis job UN, years more, I wonder hr th say that I want to be Chairc this time? But it is for ill reason that I was selected th tx time. One of those unipt-d i- cles states that "Mr. Aidr. never a candidate for office.- tUs Isn't true. Not long before he into the Republican ranks he iu. candidate fer alderman la even if the Democrats did decide tii they preferred some one el to in them. These some anonymous artidn a the Journal attempted to shov tu we only lost votes in townships our friends controlled the orguiu. tion. That isn't in accordance m the facts. In Cary Township, tt Chairman was against us, 1st i named him on the commission.-! ticket. He was not active. I trw to get him to collect some funii a that township to help with our c& paign. . Neither he nor his friend turned in a cent, notwithstandiir that a good deal of Federal moce? was going to that township. An a Chairman of the party lived In tts township. Still the party lost voi there. The ward In Raleigh In ihki the United States Marshal, the N tional Committeeman and Mr. V. J Andrews all lived, lost votes. Y( my ward lost votes. I was trylnj u help out In the whole county gave most of my time to workiir for the ticket, while others who tn drawing salaries from the Feden Government were throwing cold : ter on our efforts. The Chairman of Raleigh Township can bear tegticoir to the fact that some Republicans is this township stated to him that around the Federal buildini? bad to.i them it was not worth while te tot at the last election, that they ciif-i accomplish something by voting ' the next election. Mr. Andrews refused to po on csr - ticket two years ago. He did not cos- tribute to the campaign fund, neither did he make any speeches in the cav palgn, though he was asked to do w i note another article charges th "the party now is run by seven men" 1 Well, isn't that wttr than to kw it run by one man. as was the cist in Wake County? When the Ccs- venUon on the 23rd Ur. g wlu flnd out tnat the BepabDr cans nf Wake County are not ita turn the party back to the w UUiCO-UUlUlUK riUK. LESTER F. BUTLER. Chairman Wake County Republican Executive Committf I Simmons and Kitchln Both Trr With the Same Stick. Clinton News-Dispatch. We are expecting some I that Senatorial primary remembered that in 1900 wbe R Democrats stole the election. - ported that throw-; was re c,ftt Chairman I mons euorie i , mons fax county, went Democraww i thousand majoruy. ..ntert 15 .v was not that many TOl tnat COUnty. . It as iu, si that Mr. Simmons, wucu to the tremendous l'jo back: Kor Goa sac c, majority." The P1 state thought then that u ong who dId the wor. - j, to lnlnk of U. Halifax where Governor Kitchin t and raised. It Is the DOtr lt Srr hfiin it looks to us n I ' ,lnst IB"' ffll? n b black-gum and lightning. I . " ... i r'artli" I nro, ivutn TTotel. at tc' Moore County, was PartW,"JenUfl led ..by. fire a lew w a ioss Df about $7.00". Saves lies ot .stir fourteen V, C tfi lose his old boy would have to lose ' X. 11 P. 1 1111 UL Ulflbi a Z WW wrnTH kj Jtot V All remeu . . . . .iio till " c Jk doctors treaimenv . Bucklen's Arnica Salve. him with one box. R A1U ' - all druggists.