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THE CAUGASIAIT. State Netfs. Snow fell in Haywood County Sat urday. The thermometer waa down nearly to freezing point. j W. H. Snowden. agent for the Nor-J folk Southern Railroad Company; at Shawboro was instantly killed Fri- day by being run over by a passenger train. j George Washington Gilmore, of Sanford, was found dead in his bed; Monday morning. He was seventy! years old and had been in usual j health. j William Harkins. United States Revenue Collector, was shot and fa-1 tally wounded at Asheville at an early hour Saturday morning by C. D. Boyd, a fellow club member at a local club. Overcome by the excitement at tending a political rally at Barnards ville, near Asheville, Monday, John E. Hurst, a prominent farmer of the Big Ivy section of the county, drop ped dead from a sudden stroke of pa ralysis. Mr. W. S. Spencer, one of Anson County's prominent citizens, died Tuesday afternoon from effects of carbolic acid administered through mistake. The poison was given by a colored girl in the absence of the at tending nurse. Oscar Rogers, a young white man who lived near Alexander, in Bun combe County, was run aver and kill ed by a train near his home Saturday night. He did not see the approach ing train and was crossing the track1 when he met his death. W. H. Farrow, a young white man in the employment of the Dare Lum ber Company, at East Lake, Hyde County, was run over by a long train Saturday afternoon and was horribly mangled. Death ended hip agony a few hours after the tragedy. Gus Young, a white man, leaped from a third story window of the Windsor Hotel at Asheville Tuesday afternoon, supposedly with suicidal intent. He was picked up within a few minutes of his leap and was found to be practically uninjured, not a bone being broken by the fall. The sum of $60,000 was spent by the National Association of Audubon Societies this year for bird protec tion. Secretary Gilbert Pearson of North Carolina reported at the eighth annual meeting held in New Kork a Tuesday. He announced that Mrs. Margaret Sage had renewed her pledge of $5,000 a year for three years for the protection of the robin in the Southern States. The sum of $7,500, he added, would be spent for bird protection in Alaska during the coming year. The following item is from Satur day's Charlotte Observer: "Mr. Zeb Bradford, the eighteen-year-old son of Mr. William Bradford of this coun ty, who is a student at the Univer sity of North Carolina, suffered the misfortune last Monday night, while walking in his sleep, to step out of the window in his room on the second floor of the Merritt House in Chapel Hill and as a result sustained injuries from which he now lies in a semi conscious condition at the home oti his parents near Caldwell station. FATHER AND SON GUILTY. The McCullens of Sampson Sentenced for Second Degree Murder. Clinton, N. C, Nov. 2. The trial of William R. McCulIen and his son, James McCulIen, charged with the murder of Jonah Simmons, was con cluded here to-day after consuming ten days of this term of the court. The case was hard fought by both the State and the defense, each side hav ing a strong array of counsel. The jury took the case at noon to-day and after being out about one hour re turned a verdict of guilty, as to both defendants, of murder in the second degree. The McCullens are men of some prominence, and it is not believed they intended killing Simmons, but jthat they shot him in the legs to wound and frighten him. From the wound received the injured man bled to death. The elder McCulIen was sentenced to serve two years on the county roads and pay the widow of Simmons $3,000. He is required to be confined in jail when ot able to work on the roads. James McCulIen is given a sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary. Charlotte Needs Commission Form of Government. Charlotte Observer. There are twenty-one aldermen running the affairs of Charlotte. In all, there are seventy hands in charge of the city government. This includes, in addition to the twenty-one alder men, a mayor, an executive board of five, a school board of seventeen, a a water board of four, twelve trustees of the Carnegie Library and ten park and tree commissioners seventy y hands at the bellows of a single ' small municipality! No wonder municipal affairs are pretty much like a ball of knotted yarn. The peo ple of the town are pretty well ac quainted with the municipal situa tion. HIGH SCHOOL DEBATING UNION. A Plan for All Schools of SUUe to Enter Debating Contest New Ed ucational Building at Chapel Hill About Complete. (Special to The Caucasian.) Chapel Hill. N. C Nov. 6. A ! movement of State-wide significance had its rise at the State University! this week in the form of an organiza tion of a "North Carolina High School Debating Union." The two debating societies of the University evolved the plan, and expressed as its purpose the stimulation of greater interest in debating and encouragement of inter school debating among the secondary schools in the State. Towards the! accomplishment of this end more than; 375 letters have been sent to the high! and graded school of the State urging; their co-operation. The plan provides, for a triangular debate between; schools of the same standing and' convenience of location. The two so- cieties of the University will suggest; the query and provide, from the Uni-j versity Library In pamphlet form, ! material covering notn siaes or xne question, free of cost. Each school will send out a team to debate the( regative side of the query and keep a, team at home to debate the affirma- tive side. The schools winning both sides or tne aeDate win De enuueu to send both teams to Chapel Hill where a contest will be held to deter mine the two teams that shall contest In the final debate for the State championship. The school winning the debate in the finals will be award-! ed the "Aycock Memorial Cup," with the name of the school and the mem bers of the team engraved on it. If a school should win the cup for two; successive years it becomes that school's property. The new educational building, a gift of the Peabody Fund, is nearing: completion and will be ready for oc-j cupancy the first of 1913. The Pea-; body Fund contributed $40,000 to- wards its erection. It is a, handsome; structure and will be a credit to thei educational department of the Uni- versity as well as to North Carolina. ! The preliminaries for Carolina's! first inter-collegiate debate for the, college year will be held November i 19. The debate is with Washington j and Lee of Lexington, Va., about the; iriddle of December. The contest will! be held either at Lexington or L,yncn- burg, Va. What is considered to be the first; definite step towards the restoration of athletic relations, between all the colleges of North Carolina was taken! in Raleigh recently in the organiza-j tion of an inter-collegiate basket-1 ball league. All of the leading col-j leges of the State formed the league ; with the agreement of playing a se- ries of two games with each college. 1 This evident sign of restoring athletic, injunctions without notice and re peace amongst the colleges of thei stricted the granting of restraining State has been received everywhere orders, with commendation, and as a sign of good omen for all interested. Claimed He Was Body Servant of Robert E. Lee. Scotland Neck, N. C, Nov. 1. Benjamin Smith, an old colored man who lived between here and Spring Hill, died last Saturday and was bu ried Sunday afternoon. There is a good bit of history attached to this ol dnegro, those who knew him claim ing that he was a body servant and trusted attendant of General Robert E. Lee, and was the man who bore the message to President Davis from Lee telling of his surrender to Grant at Appomattox. The Long Staple Cotton. (From the Gastonia Gazette.) Gaston County probably produces j their deaths and four others are suf more long staple cotton than any i fering from severe scald burns as the other one county in North Carolina. Until recent years no long staple was grown in the up-land sections of the South. It had always been raised in the Mississipi Delta almost exclusive and people had gotten the idea that It could not be grown anywhere else. To a few men is due the credit of disproving this false idea and setting about to breed a long staple that could be successfully and profitably grown in up-land sections. To Mr. jPerry Lewis, of Gaston County, is due perhaps as much honor for this as any other one man. His Lewis Long Staple cotton, bred by him on his farm near Gastonia through a se ries of years, has gained a wide repu tation and is being experimented with now in many sections of the South. Its growth here has about passed the experimental stage and hundreds of farmers in this and adjoining coun ties are raising it. It is said by those who have raised it that it produces about as much to the acre as can be obtained of short staple and at no more cost per acre. It brings on the local market from five to ten cents a pound more than the short staple. Hence it is gratifying to know that our farmers are taking to it so rap idly and readily. A Record Fruit Canner. (The Mount Gilead Southerner.) Mrs. C. L. Steed, of Candor, stands heads in the fruit canning business in this county, having put up 1,500 cans of peaches, berries, etc. Mrs. Steed did this work unassisted the total expenditure for outside help amounting to only seventy-five cents. In addition to this, she attended to all her household work and her four small children. General Netfs. Henry L. Wade, formerly president of the Water bury Clock Company of Waterbury. Conn., died at hi home in that city, aged seventy yeart. Will Smith, a negro, waa killed by a mob at Bessemer, Ala., Saturday just after he shot and probably fatal ly wounded Frank Childress, a city detective. A. T. Wood, of Adenville, Ala., was shot and killed in front of the Governor's office in the State capitol at Montgomery Monday by Wood's stepson, A. W. Oakley. Edward H. Winter, of Boston, ob tained a divorce from his wife be-! cause she was a suffragette and in sisted on working for her own living after they were married. "Father" John Russell, founder of tfae ProniDition party and the oldest Melhodist preacher in the Detroit Conference. died Monday at the home Qf hJg daughter jn Detroit, Michigan, j secretary of War Stimson leaves! Xew York November 13 oT Panama t atner information of work on the' canal. He will submit a report to Congress at the approaching session for its guidance in legislating. Major-General Robert Maitland O- Reilly, former Surgeon-General of the United States Army, personal physician and intimate friend of , President Cleveland, died in Wash-! Ington Monday of uremic poisoning, j j The Pennsylvania Railroad has just placed an order for 5,000 more freight cars. Of these, one thousand are intended solely for the transpor tation of automobiles, while the re mainder are of the standard box-car type. Appeal for a new trial of Floyd and j Claude Allen, sentenced to be elec-( trocuted at Richmond, Va., November; 22 for murdering the court officials at Hillsville, va., last March, were filed Tuesday in the Virginia SuDreme ! Court. in the First Baptist Church of Chi- cago the pastor. Rev. Myron F. Ad-i ams has opened a school in which "prospective brides" will be taught to cook and sew. About twenty of his. parishioners have volunteered to teach in the school. I In promulgating Monday the first revision of the equity rules of Fed eral Courts in the last fifty years, the united states supreme court pro- hibited the granting of preliminary "In Europe the prevailing styles for women are just as ridiculous and outrageous as ever. Modesty seem ingly has been lost sight of in the desire to get the bizarre effects. Many costumes worn by women in Europe, as I have seen them, are disgraceful, to put it mildly." This is the mes sage brought back to Chicago by Mrs. Potter Palmer. A wreck, the most unique in rail road history of the Southeast, occur red npar "Rnn1r Tptas Thiiredav when an entire Missouri, Kansas, and Texas nasspn?pr train lumnc the track and rolled over into a ditch..;;16"1' , a wne1n,e Election &y Although tsvery car was damaged and e A chous hd been concludfd the smoker and exnress car were! the President gaged a moment at the smoker and express car were wrecked, there were no deaths or se rious Injuries. Two men received injuries causing result of the blowing out of the head of the battleship Vermont's boiler as the Vermont lay at anchor in Hamp ton Roads, near Norfolk, Friday night. The boiler head blew out while under banked fire. BOOZE, BEER, AND TOBACCO. Record Figures Shown Internal Re port for Past Quarter. Washington, D. C, Nov. 2. The use of whiskey, beer, and cigars has increased enormously in the last quarter of the present fiscal year, according to statistics of the Internal Revenue Bureau. From July to Oc tober 1 last more than 3,000,000,000 cigarettes were consumed, an increase PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS AND WWERMOSE Plenty of Blankets, Comforts, Quilts, and Sweaters for the cool weather. Shoes for the family children's Union Suits, and Wool. YOURS TO PLEASE HUNTER-RAND C C. Phone 274, of 1.000.000.000 from the corre posdlsg period last year. The drinking public ued op 33, 150.000 gallons of whiikey In Jalr. August, and September, an Increase of 450.000 gallons oTer the same quarter last year. ) A total of 1S.SO0.0G0 barrels of ; beer was drunk in the first three ' months of this fiscal year, an Increase; of 320.000 barrels over the same pe-j riod last year. , The internal revenue recipts for' October are $2,000,000 greater than? 'or the same month last year. j SHORTAGE OF FREIGHT CAKS. Interstate Commerce CnimiJon Urge? That Railroad Give Relief People Will Suffer for Coal. Washington. D. C, Nov. 3. Shortage of freight cars, the menace of a coal famine and industrial pa- ralysis in some parts of the country. has become so serious that the Inter state Commerce Commission to-day proposed to shippers and railroads drastic recommendations for its re lief, with a thinly veiled intimation that should they fail to remedy the situation the Commission itself would find a way to do go "The condition Is acute," declared Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, who for several weeks has been conduct- ing an inquiry. "Great institutions of the country are practically out of fuel and cannot get It because there are no cars for its transportation. If an immediate remedy is not found, people in parts of this country will be freezing to death because of their inability to get coal." The car shortage is said to have been found to be due In part to delay in unloading cars and the slow move- ment of freight cars and failure of railroads to return cars to the lines owning them. In the latter case it is said railroads hold cars, paying a! nominal charge for their use. This! the Commission denounces as "noth ing less than theft." The investigation of slow move-j ment of freights developed that a! freight car averaged about twenty miles a day, and that while one waaj moving thirteen were standing still, j FUNERAL OF VICE-PRESIDENT. President Taf t and Members of His Cabinet and Senators Attended Fu eral at Utica. Utica, N. Y., Nov. 2. WTIth simple but impressive services the body of Vice-President James S. Sherman i was laid away this afternoon in a crypt within a beautiful mausoleum in Forest Hill Cemetery. Under a canvas covering that served as a shield against a chill November wind i were gathered tne Sherman family, President Taft, members of his cabi-( : iiei, justices oi ine uniiea states su-: ' preme Court, Senators and members of the House of Representatives and! a -few intimate friends and business associates of the Vice-President, while without a throng which had as sembled to pay a final tribute stood reverently until the strains of "Asleep in Jesus," by the Haydn male chorus, which marked the conclusion of the services, had died away. President Taft listened with bowed head and tear-dimmed eyes as Dr. M. W. Strykner, President of Hamil ton College, read the brief committal service, and the Rev. Louis H. Hol- t den, pastor of Christ Church, of t which Mr. Sherman was a member. off !red prayer- w A mixed quartette sang "Good . nowers covering the casket of his j friend and slowly made his way to a waning auiomoDiie, accompanied by former Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks, Attorney-General Wicker sham and Major Rhoades, his mili tary aide. j Earlier in the afternoon there had, been private services at the Sherman! home and public obsequies at the First Presbyterian Church, both of which were attended by the Presi dent. WRECKED OFF HATTER A 8. Crew of Seven Souls Went Down With Ship. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 2. The three masted coasting schooner John Max well, Captain Codfrey, from Norfolk to Savannah, Ga., coal laden, to-night lies a total wreck three-quarters of a mile southeast of the new inlet life saving station on the North Carolina Ladies', men's, boys' and Vests and pants in Cotton CO. - Raleigh, N. . coast with her crew of souls crobablr all lost. With the fall of night the sole survivor an aged rasa was still clinging to the rigging of the sunken vessel .but with all bofrs of his succor rone. 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