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Thursday December 2i Page Two. rM CAUCASIAN Oil General Netfs. The lower House of Congress Thursday passed the Burnett liter acy test immigration bill. President Taft wants Col. George Goethals, builder ofthe Panama Ca nal, made governor of the Panama Canal Zone. President Taft announced Friday; that the purpose of his trip to the canal zone was, to see if the zone was ready for civil government . All the money spent on the New York Street cars on Christmas day will go to the street railway employes as a Christmas gift from the compa nies. A Chicago policeman was detailed to round up suburban thieves. He met them and departed minus his overcoat, revolver, $35 watch, $10 in .change, and his pride. The Argentine Republic is now the largest purchaser from the United States of agricultural machinery and furniture according to Consular re ports received in Washington. The Progressive party has been recognized as the second party in Illi nois, replacing the Republican. The Progressives polled more votes than the Republicans in the recent elec tion. Near Dublin, Ga., a few days ago Mrs. A. L. Lynn, wife of a farmer, shot and killed F. W. Hightower, seventy-five old. The woman alleges that Hightower attempted criminal assault. Over three hundred merchants in Hoboken, N. J., were swindled out of sums that reach a total of $15,000 by two men who posed as employes of the Lackawanna Railroad. They used fake pay checks. Dr. Eugene H. Porter, Commis sioner of Health for the State of New York, declares that any health of ficer neglecting to report a case of communicable disease will be re moved. Secretary of War Stimson has is sued orders to the Twenty-fifth In fantry, a negro regiment, and three companies of coast artillery, to pro ceed to Hawaii during the first week of January. When Cornelius A. Hartzheim was called as a juror in a rase in the Su preme Court of New York Friday he refused to take the oath including the words, "So help me, God." He said he didn't believe in God. Over $250,000 has been pledged at Buffalo, N. Y., to carry out an elab orate program of pageantry in cele bration of Commodore Perry's vic tory over the British fleet on Lake Erie one hundred years ago. In a fight in the hills at Tamato Springs, Col., between a desperado and more than one hundred county officers and citizens, the outlaw was killed, the sheriff was killed, and three others seriously wounded. President-elect Wilson a few days ago held a conference with Chairman Wm. F. McCombs, in New York, and took up the task of picking his Cabi net. Mr. Daniels, or Raleigh, had his pleaders on hand to present his case. More than 120,000 volumes -and pamphlets have been added to the Library of Congress during the pres ent year, according to the report sub mitted to Congress. The total num ber has now passed the two-million mark, J Following an arrangement with Attorney-General Wickersham, the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads will appeal to the Supreme Court for instructions on how to work out the dissolution plan decreed by the court. United States Commissioner of Ed ucation, P. P. Claxton, protests against a too frequent change in ru ral teachers. The average teacher does not stay in one place long enough to get acquainted with his pupils, he thinks. President Woodrow Wilson has sent word to Staunton, Va., that he would arrive there Friday, Decern ber 27, to celebrate his fifty-sixth birthday, on December 28, in his na tive city, and be entertained in the house of his birth. Bertha J. Bowers, editor of The Creston Plain Dealer of Creston, Iowa, has instituted suit for $20,000 damages for libel against State Sen ator-elect C. H. Thomas. She al leges Thomas called her a liar and other unladylike names. Capt. W. H. Van Schaick, comman der o the excursion steamer "Gen eral Slocum," burned in the East Ttlver, New York, June 15, 1904, with a loss of nearly 1,200 lives and who was sentenced by a New York court to ten years in the peniten tiary for criminal negligence in con nection with the catastrophe, has been granted a full pardon by. Presl dent Taft. The pardon will become effective Christmas day. Cotton ginned In the United States; prior to December 13 amounted to 12,424,853 bales, counting round as half bales, according to the Census Bureau's seventh ginning report, is sued Friday. John S. Huyler, young son of the late John E. Huyler, the candy man- j ufacturer, had both legs crushed to the knee by falling beneath a Lacka awanna train at Hackensack, N. J. He failed to rally from the necessary amputation, and died in a Morrisville hospital. Colorado's electoral vote of Wood row Wilson will be cast by Mrs. Ger trude A. Lee, of Denver, Vice-Chair- man of the Democratic State Central j Committee. This will be the first j time in the history of the United States that a woman has performed such duties. 4j The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion has refused to order lower fur- nlture rates from North Carolina to points west of the Mississippi River, The Commission declared in a decis- ion made public recently that it has not been shown that existing rates are unreasonable. Secretary Meyer Friday signed the ! contract plans for the biggest battle ship in the world, the super-dreadnought Pennsylvania, authorized in the late session of Congress. The Pennsylvania will cost, exclusive of armor and arnament, $7,425,000, and. completed, $15,000,000. Former Magistrate Charles Wal len, of New York, Friday served no tice on District Attorney Whitman of an appeal on the part of the four "gun men," who were sentenced to die early in January for the murder of Herman Rosenthal. The notice will automatically stay the execution till the appeal is disposed of. The bodies of Horace Kearney, an aviator, and Chester Lawrence, a newspaper man, who started to fly from Los Angeseles to San Francisco a few days ago, were found Friday. One body was found a mile out at sea, whiie the other body was found on the beach near Los Angeles. Virginia officials have been re quested to arrest Rev. W J. Hub bard, of Charleston, W. Va., charged with criminal relations with an i eleven-year-old inmate of the Davis Childs Shelter, of Charleston, of which institution Hubbard was su perintendent until a few days ago. Four auto bandits attacked the two paymasters of the Silk Manufactur ing Company of America in New York Saturday, beat them into un consciousness, robbed them of $1, 2 00, the weekly pay-roll, then jump ed into an automobile and escaped. A dozen pedestrians saw the robbery. Twenty-two billion two hundred and forty-five million dollars are con trolled directly by J. Pierpont Mor gan, according to information that leaked out at the money trust inves tigation in Washington a few days ago. He controls twenty-two times the amount of the annual revenue of the United States. Most of the standing army officers in the United States have been order ed to be in Washington, January 8, for an important conference to ar range the details of the extensive plan of reorganization of the army. This will be the last important act concerning the army, the hetiring ad ministration will undertake. Lima, Peru, cables that an attempt was made Sunday by the populace of the Putumayo to lynch the two ju dicial commissioners,' Senor Valcar- cel and Dr. Romulo Paredes, appoint ed by the Peruvian Government to investigate the atrocities in the rub ber fields made public by Sir Roger Casement, British Consul-General. Work of settling up the big pop ular Christmas tree in the Madison Square, New York, which will be an outdoor novelty during the holidays, wTas begun several days ago. The tree is so big that it tok a four-horse steel girder truck to haul it to the square. It is 60 feet high, 18 inches in diameter, and its lower branches have a sweep of 20 feet. Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, of Chicago, who is at liberty on a $30,000 bond on a charge of violat ing the federal white slave act, has purchased as a Christmas present for his white wife, formerly Lucile Cameron, a home in the heart of the exclusive Lake Geneva summer re sort. Nearly all of the houses in the neighborhood are owned by Chicago millionaires. Mrs. Eva Walls Bailey, of Shreve port, La., convicted of having at tempted to poison her husband, C. C. Bailey, a wealthy lumberman, a week before he was clubbed to death by A. L. Watson, an employe, was sen tenced tofive years in State's prison. Watson was convicted of murder sev eral weeks ago and was sentenced to be hanged. Confessions were read at the trials of Watson and Mrs. Bailey indicating that the two had plotted to dispose of both the lumberman and Watson's wife that they might be married. Mrs. Watson died sev eral weeks before Bailey was killed. Emlgn Fiuhagh Green. U. S. N., has been detailed to accompany the "Crocker land expedition" to the arc- tic region which seta out next July and he will act as photographer and physiographer. Twenty-two of the twenty-seven of the crew of the F urn ess Liner; Steamer Florence from Halifax, N. S..I for St. Johns, lost their Uvea In the wreck of the vessel on the ledges ! near St. Johns, N. F.. during a gale; last Friday. Five survivors, who, reached land in a boat, brought the ; news of the disaster. j J The termination of the Russian treaty, abrogated by Congress be-! cause of Russia's attitude upon the j passport questions, which becomes j effective January 1, leaves the two j nations, for the first time In eighty years, without an agreement to gov- Urn their trade relations and pre- J sents a situation unprecedented, ! j J- H-.Logue, a prominent diamond j merchant of Chicago, was murdered Friday in his place of business in the ? center of the shopping district, ! Logue's body was cut to pieces, Three men were killed and several j badly scalded when a boiler in the saw mill at Edgefield, S. C exploded; Friday. William Burton, owner oij the plant, is said to have been fatal ly scalded. Several hundred Government of ficials, historians, political econo mists, sociologists, journalists and teachers from all over the country will be in Boston for the last five days of the month, when the Ameri can Historical Association will be in session. Colonel Roosevelt, as presi dent of the association, will deliver an address Friday night on "History as Literature." A plot to dynamitp the Denver mint, where approximately $500, 000,000 is stored, was frustrated by the discovery of the plans two weeks ago, it was learned Friday, and as a result of the anonymous threat to i dynamite the Denver Mint Director George E. Roberts has warned the su- perintendents of all the mints in the country to observe rigid measures of precaution against violence. ; , Miss Mary Boland, of Scranton, Pa. , a witness before the United j States Senate for Judge Robert W. Ribald, of the Commerce Court, j who is on trial for impeachment for; alleged misuse of his judicial power, is the first woman to appear before the Senate since 1905. In that year n0tel !eS,tifie at the Impeachment inai wi. juuge owayne, oi r loriaa. i A negro was taken from the city; The following postofiices in North jail at Norway, near Columbia, S. C, Carolina have been transferred from Friday night and lynched. Not more the fourth to thfe presidential class: than six men are believed to have Bessemer City, with a salary of $1, been implicated in the lynching. The1 100; Cherryville, $1,000; East Dur motive that led to the lynching is ham, $1,100; Fremont, $1,000; Rose thus far a mystery. The only crime; Hill, $1,000. charged against the negro was ob- taining goods under false pretenses and his employers had settled the case before the tragedy. Great Britain tendered a battle- ship to convey the remains of Ambas- sador Reid to the United States. The : steamer Natal left Portsmouth on, Saturday. There was a military es cort for the body from Dorchester House to Victoria Station. A me morial service was read in Westmin ster Abbey Friday which followed mainly along the lines of the service conducted for the late King Edward. Two American naval vessels will meet the British ship off Nantucket and escort her to New York. Florida's "blue laws" are being rig- idly enforced in Miami. The sheriff, ; according to the demands of the civic league and individuals, has decided to compel strict observance of the Sunday closing law. All stores, pea nut stands, theatres, ice factories and other places are closed on Sunday. The telephone exchange and the elec tric light plant have been ordered to shut down and no boats or street hacks will be allowed to operate for hire. The water-works nlant alnnp is exempted from the Sunday closing j law In an effort to discover the cause of the high mortality among children in the United States the children's bureau off the Department of Com merce and Labor at Washington will begin the new year, with a Nation wide house-to-house canvass. The information gathered will be studied in the hope that some remedy may be found. Mortality among children is higher in this than most other countries. Women investigators will be employed for the most part, ac cording to Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the bureau. President Taft will make his per manent residence in New Haven, Conn., when he takes up the duties of the Kent professorship at Yale College next spring. In connection with the professorship, it is under stood that at the next meeting of the corporation the tender of the profes sorship will be formally made and will be accepted by President Taft. Besides filing the duties of Kent pro fessorship, the President will lecture Ion International and constitutional law In the Law School and Univer sity, ranking as a faculty member and full professor, and will be en titled to a salary to be fixed here after, aside from the income from the Kent Foundation. Stute Netfs. Senator Overman underwent an operation for appendicitis In Wash ington Friday afternoon- Mr. J. G. Barentine. a prominent retired business man of Wilmington. died Saturday of heart trouble. Charlie Staten. a young colored boy, was run down and killed by an automobile at Kinston last Saturday, Mr. A. Jones Mitchell, of the Yir- ginia Carolina Chemical Company, died at his home in New Bern Friday night. Mrs. Abram Russell, who lived in! Montgomery County, was shot acci dently by a small boy a few days ago and died of the wound the following day. Aaron Stackhouse and Henry Lilly, of Maxton, had some trouble a few days ago over a pint of liquor. Stack house killed Lilly and made his es cape. E. L. Pickard, one of the highway engineers of the North Carolina Geo- logical and Economic Survey, died very suddenly at his home near Bur lington, December 20. Wm. Norwood Pope, the eight-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pope, of Fayetteville, was fatally burned a few days ago. The childs clothing caught from on open fire-place. The body of Nicholas Mitchell, of Wilmington, was found in the Cape Fear River Saturday at the foot of Dock street. He had been missing two weeks, and it is the general opin ion that he committed suicide. Governor-elect Locke Craig has an nounced immediately following his inauguration in January he would appoint Maj. Lawrence W. Young, of Asheville, as Adjutant General of the North Carolina National Guard. At a corn shucking in Gardner's township, Wilson County, Thursday night, Cleveland Farmer shot to death Charles Skinner. Immediate- after the shooting Farmer went to Wilson and took a northbound train. Milton Creech, a farmer of Lenoir County, is at the point of death in a Kinston hospital, as the result of a wound received in an encounter with Leon J. Sutton, another farmer. Sut- ton is under bond for his apeparance in court. City Alderman J. J. Maloney, of Fayetteville, was seriously burned Saturday afternoon while acting as Santa Claus at a Christmas tree at a Rfhnnl A rmnntitv nf ontrnrt nn his person caught fire and he was se riously burned The warehouse reports at Winston Salem show that over five million pounds of leaf tobacco had been sold on that market from December 1 to 21. Over seventeen million pounds have been sold on that market since the season opened August 1. Dr. Thos. N. Ivey, for a number of years editor of the Raleigh Christian Advocate, underwent an operation for appendicitis at Statesville a few day ago. Dr. Ivey's home is in Nash ville, Tenn., but was taken ill while in this State attending the Methodist Conference. The Wadesboro ' Messenger says Miss Henrietta Treadway jumped in to the well of Mr. George Brower, about two miles from Wadesboro, and was drowned before she could be rescued. She was about fortv years old and had been in poor health for some time. Mr. John D. Meares, of Wilson, died suddenly at his home in that city Thursday. His death is attribut ed to heart trouble. Mr. Meares was fifty-five years old and was formerly a prominent politician of the county He leaves a wife and three children. Kernersville, Forsyth County, was visited by a disastrous fire a few days ago. The hotel and a store building adjoining were burned. Mr. and Mrs B. H. Marsh, of Richmond, Va., had eight trunks in the hotel. They con tained much valuable silver and glass ware, etc., wedding presents, all of which were lost. John Henderson, a negro blind tiger, confessed In Buncombe Supe rior Court that he had sold liquor to Ed. B. Swinney, who was killed recenUy. Henderson was sentenced to eignteen montns on the roads. If Henderson had not seen ghosts he would have gained his liberty. The solicitor could not secure sufficient evidence to convict and had offered to nol pros the case. The judge ask ed Henderson if he was guilty of sell ing liquor to Swinney, for if he was the dead man's ghost would rise up to haunt him. Henderson saw the ghost and plead guilty to retailing. William Finley Blair story of the encounter between himself and George G. Thompson In the solitude of Blair's home In Greensboro op Oc tober 29. a struggle which ended in Thompson's death after fire bullet had been pumped Into bio, was ac cepted by a Gtillford County jury Friday after a deliberation of twelve hours and forty minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty. Blair was chief clerk to Thompson in the Division Freight Offlce of the Southern. WIKW KNIFE OX TKACHKIL. .Uheville School IUy Stood Two Teachers at Kay Until Policeman ' Arrived. j An Asheville, N. C. dispatch says: i "James Boyd, a ten-year-old, suc ceeded in thoroughly terrorizing the Murray School here yesterday, draw ing an ugly-looking knife and for nearly half an hour holding at bay both his teacher and the princi-! pal of the school. A policeman was finally called into the school and took the boy to the station house, where he was locked up on the charge of j attempted assault with a knife. "The boy misbehaved during the afternoon, and when his teacher went to correct him, the youngster backed up in a corner, drew an ugly-looking knife and remarked that he did not propose to be corrected by any wo-' man. The teacher was non-plussed ; by his attitude, and when he refused to drop the knife at her command, she called on the principal of the school. The principal came in deter mined to teach the boy a lesson, but she, too, decided not to get in close quarters. "The sight of the bluecoat and brass buttons took all the fight out of Jimmie as soon as the policeman ar rived on the scene and he cried bit terly as he was taken to police headquarters." ESTABLISHED 1886 Always under one management Henry F. Miller Pianos The purchase of a Henry F. Miller Piano is true economy. Complete in musical satisfactory, it lasts a lifetime and at any age is a quick asset in time of need. Compared with other makes the Henry F. Miller Piano shows many points of superiority. A. M O VEX they are sold at the lowest possible prices, consistent with best construction, constant improvements and reas onable profit. Several hundreds owned in this community by profes sional and amatuers muscians and careful buyers demon strate their enduring worth and great desirability. WE, ARE SHOWING AT OUR WAREHOUSE THE LARGEST STOCK OF FINE PIANOS IN NORTH CAROLINA. Darnell & Tluomas RALEIGH, IM. 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Detroit, Hlch, ofE.and "AMERICAN BOY" shoes sre not guarantee! to MeiPlboiPtt IR.os(2initilTisil 129 FAYETTEVILLE, STREET Following .ctio of u. ' Coramrrr Commikm. Three suits aCaint v Railway. Norfolk a-j WCS''; way, Chcap- xkr land. Cincinnati. Chltxio V" Louis, likewise ajc!nt the sV" the Seaboard, the v,'c delphia. and Norfolk !u.AiV t York, New Haren and lHvV,.. . Pennsylvania, and a th;r 1 rx Southern and Its cor.r.r. - - V '" were Instituted Friday by ation ComraiMion. ' These suits attack A , ,v local rates from I.TCfi. Greensboro and th rati- 1. !a ern cities to Grpntboro. fro-"j burg to Wlnston-Saltm xzi' Lynchburg to Durham; eastern cities. Boston. NV yV-k others, to all North Car -5 -4 tory, with Charlotto as th illustration: and from all if points to all points incline i b. ' Palm Rock. North Canit Greensboro. k The first of the suit u u based upon the finding of th state commerce commbyior. those lines involving th. r:, Winston-Salem and Durham, 1- .vu instance the commission four.' the local rates from Lyncher" Winston-Salem and from !.r.chi-.j to Durham, were excessive. Makes the Nation Ctp. The awful list of injuries cs t Fourth of July staggers huai.j Set over against it. however. !i wonderful healing, by Bucklea i Ar nica Salve, of thousands who m;.. ed from burns, cuts, bruises, tuit wounds or explosions. It's the c,ckk healer of boils, ulcers, eczema, or lips or piles. Twenty-five cents all druggists. WE HAVE THE AGENCY for Menz "Ease" and "American Boy" in your state agricultural paper this month. Come in and look them you these letters prove it. v c. "I wfll highly recommwd the M'-' IJr! shoe. 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