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THE CAUCASIAN. (Th nrvJav, Ai. , Page Two. I; 11 I i t ! Ij ii a ) ! i f t i 1 f i i i. J 3 i : 'I 5 is1 Ml State Netfs. Ike Dees, colored, shot and killed D. Dalton, also colored, near Monroe, Saturday night. Dees surrendered to the authorities, stating that the kill ing was In self-defense-Charles Sutton, of Kinston, was sentenced to thirty days on the road last week for striking his baby step child in the face with his fist and badly bruising it, some :lays ago. An epidemic of smallpox in La Grange is giving the health officers considerable trouble. General vacci nation has been ordered in the town, which has a population of from 1,200 to 1,500 people. Cornelius N. Lucas, who shot and killed W. C. Jones in Cumberland County some days ago over a trivial dispute, and who afterwards made his escape, has been caught in Charleston, S. C. A barn on the farm of William Brothers, at South Mills, near Eliza beth City, was struck by lightning and burned a few days ago. About $500 worth of feed and farming Im plements were destroyed. Leonard Cameron, son of H. D. Cameron, of Rock Branch, Harnett County, was found dead in the grad ed school building at Rock Branch last Monday. He had committed sui cide by taking carbolic acid. M. F. Newson, a news butcher on the Atlantic Coast Line, running Into Rocky Mount, soaked pennies in an acid which gave them a silver luster and then passed them for dimes. When his crime was discovered he fled. The Roxboro jail was broken last Saturday night and all the prisoners made their escape. There were four prisoners, one white and three color ed. Their escape was a mystery. None of them were charged with very serious offenses. During the term of court last week in New Hanover, eighty or ninety capiases were issued for persons sell ing whiskey. Among those arrested on charges of volating the prohibi tion law was Charles Rogers, a mem ber of the grand jury. The sheriff and county officers of Burek captured and arrested Mary Williams, a moonshiner, at her still house in the South mountains a few days ago. This woman has proven 1 the most skilled moonshiner the offi cers have had to contend with. A true bill was found in Forsyth court a few days ago against the Stewart Bros., proprietors of the Stewart Printing House, for setting fire to their building some time ago. The building was a four-story brick building in the heart of the business section of the city. ' The case of N. Glenn Williams and D. C. Foster against Collector Brown, which came up in Federal Court in Greensboro last week, was postponed until this week. Williams and Fos ter are trying to keep Collector Brown from disposing of a number of barrels of liquor seized from them. While Mrs. William Nissen and a party of friends were enroute to Wentworth, in Rockingham County,! a few nights ago, the chauffeur, a Mr. Honeycutt, was struck in the eyes with a sand bag, which burst, filling his eyes with sand and completely blinding him. The sand was thrown by some unknown person. Mr. C. M. Dalton, a hotel proprie tor of Slick Rock Inn, thirteen miles from Hendersonville, has offered a re ward of $100 for the capture of W. L. Moore, who he alleges passed a worthless check on him for the amount of $185.85. Mr. Moore had been a guest at the Inn for two weeks and on leaving, gave Mr. Dalton the check, from which he was to deduct his board and give him the remaind--er, which was about $160. The check wag later found to be worthless. Catawba Delegates Pledged to Roosevelt. "Hickory Times-Meudcury. It is about decided to hold no new primaries in-the county. The same delegates will go to the county and other conventions to nominate candi- dates. If the same delegates go to the next State Convention,, and the question of instructing the electors for Taf t or Roosevelt comes up, what will they do? According to the instructions given . them by the county convention that appointed" them, they would, have to rote to instruct for Roosevelt. Be sides, according to that resolution passed by the last State Convention against President Taft, they could hardly do otherwise. Wilson Would Also Like to Born Some Books. Union Republican. Democratic Chairman Taggart burned his books, and there are indi cations that Democratls Candidate '"Wilson would like to his, too. . turn some of To Attend the Chicago t'onTcnUocu J The following is from Monday ) Greensboro News: "James N. Williamson, Jr., of Bur-1 lington, one of the original KooseTeit Presidential boomers, was In Greens- boro last night and to a reporter of the Daily News he declared that be would be present in Chicago August 5th when the 'Progressive convention is called to order. Mr. Williamson also expressed the belief that he would be one of a number of Tar Heel progressives on hand to whoop things up for the Colonel. Mr. Wil liamson will leave Saturday night for the Windy City. "He asked last night that all i North Carolina progressives, wheth - er they be delegates, alternates or visitors, who propose to attend the Chicago convention, communicate with him immediately that he may make seating arrangements and also prepare for the trip. He says he will have no trouble in arranging comfort-! able seats and quarters for all who! expect to be in Chicago on August! 5th." MKKTIXG OF STATE PRESS. Midsummer Meeting Was Held at Morehead City Address by Mr. Seitz'of New York World Week- j ly Papers Adopt Uniform Rate fori AlvfrHinfT- IT. CJnf mr President Trips to Cape Lookout and New Bern. The North Carolina State Press As sociation held its annual midsummer meeting at Morehead City last week. The meeting opened on Wednesday morning and came to a close Thurs - J I l A day night The feature of Wednesday's meet ing was the address by Don C. Seitz, business manager of the New York World. His theme was "The Inten sive Theory as Applied to the News paper Page." He pointed out that the object of an editor should not be to simply fill up his paper, but to print the news, and the business man ager should see that his paper gets justice inthe advertising. At Thursday morning's meeting Mr. J. H. Caine, editor of the Ashe ville Citizen, was elected new Presi dent of the Association. The other officers chosen are as fol lows: First Vice-President, W. C. Ham mer, Asheboro; Second Vice-President, A. J. Connor, Rich Square; Third Vice-President, Don Sinclair, Sanford; Secretary, John B. Sherrill, Concord; Historian, B. H. Depriest; Orator, J. J. Farriss; Poet, H. A. Banks. The Executive Committee is composed of the President and Secre tary, H. A. London, R. R. Clark, H. B. Varner, R. M. Phillips, and D, T. Edwards. The next midsummer meeting will be held in Asheville. A midwinter meeting will be held in Salisbury in December. The rest of the morning session was consumed in the discus sion of circulation and advertising. The final meeting was held Thursday night when the weekly newspapers discussed foreign advertising and twenty-two papers agreed on 10 cents an inch as minimum for first thou sand circulation and 5 cents per inch for each additional thousand circula tion. It was agreed that each paper should be assessed $2.00 per month to pay expenses in trying to get other, papers to join fh in promoting adver tising for the weekly papers. The committee appointed at the last meet ing of the Press Association were au thorized to all a meeting , have mat ter printed, and to draw on the pa pers fo rthe monthly dues. It is the opinion of many newspaper men that this Is the best movement ever start ed by the weekly. On Thursday afternoon the editors were taken aboard the United States ship Seminole and were carried to Cape Lookout and out to sea. Some were very sea sick, and the deck for awhile had the appearance of a hos pital; however, all of them were able the following day to say that they enjoyed the trip. On Friday the party was taken up the Inland Waterway from Morehead to New Bern, a distance of about forty miles. At New Bern the party was met with automobiles and were whirled over the city until train time. In "this connection it might be said that New Bern has shown great im provement in the way of streets. It probably has the best streetsand sidewalks of any town its size in the State. England Wants Wilson Elected. Burlintgon State Dispatch. A vote for Wilson means free trade and no market for the farmer. Who is foolish enough to take a chance? Certainly not a farmer. We are told that the English press is solid for Wilson. Well, we reckon so. This would mean the bankruptcy of our manufactories and England would soon flood our markets with goods with very little or no tariff. Can WTe Stand Another Wilson -Law? Union Republican x William L. Wilson, the author of the infamous Wilson law of twenty years ago, was a college professor and was born in Virginia. Woodrow Wil son is a college progressor and was born in Virginia. To those who re member the lean and hungry years when the Wilson law was in force, the coincidence of name, birthplace, profession and political principles has a sinister aspect. General New?s. A destructive earthquake In Piura, J - 1 M. 1 . reru. laai wees iwung jorxy wcooas and leaving the city almost im raias. j A number of people were killed and j injured. ; At a negro frolic near Gaffney, S. j C, a few nights ago, Charles Barnes shot and killed Cliff Littlejohn. Both negroes are said to have been drunk when the murder occurred. Rev. Dr. Griffith John, for fifty- three years missionary to China, died iin London a few days ago. He was the first Christian missionary to reach Central China. Six people were killed and several injured when a Lake Shore passen egr train struck an automobile near Toledo, Ohio, a few days ago. The machine contained nine people. , The discovery of bubonic plage was er pected Rose to bring about fie made in New Orleans a few days ago killin& of Rosenthal many days be by the health officers in a rat caught fore the crime was committed. When at the water front. It is declared RoBe faiIed to meet witn his Pecui- there is no cause for alarm locally. Rnnnia Henderson, a white man. in Asheville, successfully stood off two policemen for some time who were j trying to arrest her, by flourishing line two long hat pins as weapons She was finally arrested, however. The body of Naomi Mitchell, a fourteen-year-old girl, was found in Ma corn field near Carmel, Me., one day last week. She had been mur ! dered supposedly by an escaped in mate of the Bangor insane asylum. Mrs. Harvey R. Payne, one of the most popular young society women of Jacksonville, Fla., committed sui cide in a vacant house in the heart of the city last Saturday by turning on the gas. Domestic troubles are said to have been the cause. Robert Thornborow, president of the State Bank of Bancroft, Kansas, committed suicide last week by shoot ing himself at his home. He had been arrested on complaint of the Kansas State Bank Examiner, who al leged there was a shortage of $1,000. Justice Keogh, of the Supreme Court, declares that Harry Thaw is still insane and must remain in prison. The court took the ground that Thaw's release would be danger ous to public safety. He must remain in the prison where he was placed after the killing of Stanford White in 1908. At Wheeling, W. Va., at a Masonic outing a few days ago, a platform on which 200 Masons and their fami lies were seated, over a ravine in an open air theatre, suddenly collapsed and dropped to the bottom of the ravine, which was thirty feet deep. Thirty persons were injured, and some fatally. While being initiated into a lodge of the Woodmen of the World, at Friendship, B. C, a few days ago, Furman Bagwell shot and very se riously wounded Milton Taylor. Dur ing the initiation he was being shot at with blank cartridges, when he took it for real shooting and fired his pistol with the above results, Claude Allen, one of the Hillsville outlaws, was convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Commonwealth's Attorney William M. Foster. He was found guilty of in the second degree in a former trial for the killing of Judge Thornton L. Massie. Sentence was not passed in order that he might testify against others. As a result of bad blood . between the races at Rome, Ga., all the ne groes were driven from the town of Plainville, in Gordon County, Ga., a few days ago. Many shots were ex changed, and the latest reports are that Sheriff Owens was mortally wounded. Several negroes were wounded and one or two white men were shot. The body of the missing nurse, Miss Dorcas I. Snodgrass, who has been missing from the home of her sister in ML Vernon since July 17, was found last Sunday in Dubois Creek, near Catskill, N. Y. The iden tification was made by Frederick Schmidt, the young lady's fiance, and Police Lieutenant M. Silverton, of the same place. POLICE LIEUT. BECKER AR RESTED. Charged With Murder of Rosenthal Corruption of New York Police Force Brought to Light. The last issue of The Caucasian told of the murder of Gambler Her mon Rosenthal on one of the princi pal streets in New York in broad day time and that It was believed that the police instigated his death because he had stated that the police department of that city had been paid hush mon ey by the gamblers of New York. Several of the gamblers havebeen ar rested and on Monday Lieutenant Chas. A. Becker, of the police depart ment, was arrested, charged with the instigator of the death of Rosenthal. The evidence of some of the gamblers shows that the police department of New York baa been recelvrr.,; rXt and i rotten to the core A New York dUpatch of Monday ajf : Police Lieutenant Charles A. Beck er was indicted by the grand Jury to night, arrested, arraigned and sent io the Tombs on the charge of bating ordered and planned the assassina tion of Gambler Herman Rosenthal, who was shot down by assassins in front of the Hotel Metropole fourteen das ago- , The indictment charges murder in I firsl de&re nd come & resuU i of confessions made late today by Uack Uo8e "dgie Webber and Har ry anon. Each witness swore separately and without qualification that Becker bounded them for weeks to "get Ros enthal." Rose declared that he would I have 101(1 th trutn daTS S DUt h aia not. trust ueputy rouce commis sioner Dougherty, who seemed to dc having a great deal to do with the case at that time. It was even brought out that BecU- uona a coherence was cauea oetween ; Webber, Vallon, Rose and Becker at a Harlem resort at which Beck-r said: "This man Rosenthal has lived too long. You fellows must get hiui i Rse has failed to pull the job oft ad I expected." Turning to Webber, Becker is quoted as exclaiming: "Now Webber, you men have got to do away with Rosenthal. Since Rose has failed it is up to you to give the sign, you have got the money." The witness admitted that Becker had geen collecting graft from the ' gamblers for a long time. Rose said he had been the collector. Webber and Vallon bore out this statement by telling how much they had paid Rose each week for police protection. The total amount collected each month was admitted to be large. Rose in confessing his guilt and the details of how the murder was planned, made a pitiful plea for mer cy. He said: "It was necessary for me to obey the orders of Backer. It was the only way in which I could make a living. We, referring to the gamblers, con sidered him the biggest man in the police department. "Becker told me In the presence of others at the last conference when the killing of Rosenthal was discuss ed, that if we didn't do away with this enemy b?e would place pistols on us and send us to prison for seven years." The confessions were the result of the most exciting series of events that have taken place in Uev York county for many years. CONNECTICUT PROGRESSIVES. Hold Mass Convention and Choose Delegates to National Progressive Convention -Would Recall Repub lican Chairman. New Haven, Conn., July 30 Be lievers in the progressive movement in politics from all over the State met in mass convention here this afternoon and chose forty-nine dele gates to the Chicago Convention of the Progressive Party instructed those delegates for Theodore Roose velt for the presidency, decided to have the party legally enrolled as a political body in Connecticut, advo cated the placing of a State ticket in the field. As the delegation will have seven votes in the convention each dele gate will have a seventh of a vote. The delegation is instructed to support the short ballot, direct pri maries, popular election of United States Senators, the initiative refer endum and recall, a protective tariff which shall protect both industry and employe, while destroying monopolies which have increased the cost of liv ing, a parcels post, womans suffrage and a working men's compensation law. The sensation of the session was the presentation of the following res olution: "We demand that the consolidated railroad company recall from the po sition of chairman of the Republican State Central Committee its chief lobyist, Mr. Henry J. Roraback." It was adopted with a cheer. Thinks Lime Will Benefit Soil in Most Southeastern States. Washington, D. C, July 26. An Investigation made by President Fin ley of the Southern Railway System has shown that experts in the chemis try of soils are unanimously of the opinion that lime in some form will benefit many of the soils of the South eastern States by correcting their acidity and improving their mechani cal condition. President Finley has secured the opinions of experts throughout the Southeastern States and also in the Eastern and Middle States, in some of which experiments with the use of lime have been carried on for a long series of years. These opinions have been published in an illustrated fol der which Is being widely distributed among the farmers In the territory traversed by the lines of the South ern Railway System. Farmers and others interested in this subject may obtain copies of this folder by addressing W. W. Finley, President, Southern Railway Com pany, Washington D. C. 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