Page Two. - THE CAUCASIAN !Tlsari4ar, February 6, 1313. General Netfs. Grief-stricken because of the death of her husband, Mrs. Guy Relchtmyer of Lebanon, Missouri, killed her two small daughters and herself. President-elect Wilson Monday ac cepted the offer of Princeton stu dents to escort him from his home at Princeton to the White House on the day he is inaugurated. The Tennessee Legislature has ex tended an invitation to William J. Bryan, Oscar Underwood," and Ollie James to address the two Houses in joint session at some time in the near future on any subject they may se lect. The Supreme Court of the United States has dismissed the appeal of Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, in dicted in Chicago, on the charge of violating the Federal white slave law. The appeal was taken from the Fed eral Court's decision in Northern 11 linois, which refused to release him on habeas corpus proceedings. John Paul Farrell, a New York janitor, confessed Tuesday that he sent Bernard Herrera the bomb last Sunday which caused the death of Mrs. ' Herrera and serious injury to Herrera. Then Farrell astonished the police by calmly reciting that he sent the bomb which killed Mrs. Heel en Taylor a year ago, and added that she was his daughter. Next Farrell solved the mystery surrounding the sending of a bomb last year to Judge Otto Rosalsky. A dispatch from New Haven, Conn,, says that since the opening of the parcel post a noticeable decrease in business has been shown by the pri vate express companies in that city and the Adams Company has dis charged twenty-eight employes from the main office and twelve from a branch office. There is also a de crease in the number of carrying wagons, while the postoffices have been compelled to add several clerks and to make collections by specially engaged trucks in some instances. Exchange. SUFFRAGETTES STILL RIOTOUS. v England Fears the Militants May Re sort to Incendiarism Lords in Par liament Are Panic-Stricken. A cablegram from London under date of Saturday says: "Suffragettes to-day smashed with stones a glass cover of one of the cases in the jewel room of the tower of London where the crown jewels are kept. They were arrested. This attack is in line with militant pur pose to attack all Government build ings. "Lords in Parliament are panic stricken because of the militant methods of suffragettes and seldom venture into the streets without a body-guard. Their homes are pro tected night and day by specially as signed police who have been warned to prevent incendiary fires or other damage. "Alarmed by rumors that his child would be kidnaped, Winston Church ill has four police constantly on guard outside his house. The Churchill baby is followed by plain clothes men from Scotland Yard when the nurse takes the child for an airing. "Incindiary fires, however, are most feared by the authorities. They firmly believe an -attempt will be made to burn the principle Govern ment buildings. - The force of night policemen in the neighborhood of Westminster has been double in con sequence." $1,500,000 FIRE IN SAVANNAH River Front for Two Blocks Entirely Destroyed. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 3. Damage estimated at $1,500,000 resulted early yesterday from a fire of un known origin, which swept the Sa vannah River front for two blocks de stoying the wharves of the Mer chants' and Miners' Transportation Company, several warehouses and the Planters Rice Mill. The blaze was discovered shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday morning in a shed on the eastern end of the wharves. All the available fire ap paratus in the city .responded to the general alarm and every effort was made to check the conflagration, with the assistance of fire tugs in the river. The flames spread from the Ogechee Canal east to within 150 feet of Broad Street, threatening many business structures and shipping. Af ter fighting the flames for hours the fire finally was gotten under control without loss of life. SeveraL firemen were slightly injured but none seri ously. The greatest loss was sustained by the Central of Georgia Railway Com pany, owners of the Merchants' and Miners' terminals and the Merchants' and Miners freight which was tored in the warehouses. The loss to. this company is estimated at $600,000, covered by insurance. Hoboes Hobnail Howe. New Orleans, La., Feb, 1. James Eads How, of St. Louis, the self styled "millionaire v hobo leader," who first organized the "Migratory Workers of the World," and called the first national hobo convention, waa repudiated as a leader of the ho boes in convention here to-day. How tried to Inject Socialism into the pro ceedings and the "boes" finally tired of his propaganda and to-day the former leader was "squelched" and told to get out. Tired of How and the monotonous fight between him and .President Jeff Davis over the question of Socialism, the hoboes broke up the convention of the "International Brotherhood Welfare Association," threw How and bis principles out and organized a "hobo mass meeting.' After appropriating one dollar for the purchase of tobacco for the ho boes confined in the parish prison and in the house of detention, the convention adjourned to meet in the open air on the river front Sunday afternoon. Jeff Davis said that the conTentJon probably wound continue for three days. v John D. Pocket the Change. New York, Feb. 3. John D. Rockefeller is $10,000,000 richer to day than he was yesterday. Of a special dividend declared to-day by the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, this amount approximately represents bis share of a total distri bution of $39,332,000 on the com pany's capital stock, at the rate of $40 a share. The huge "melon" comes as a re sult, it was indicated in a statement given out by the company of the Su preme Court dissolution decree. This necessitates the payment to the pa rent company of vast sums owed to it by the former subsidiaries. It was explained that this divi dend represented moneys owed to the company by its subsidiaries at the time of the dissolution. A VOICE FROM THE BENCH. Thre is a Cause, and Reform Will Come Either From Within or With out. (Washington (D. C.) Times. Justice Wesley O. Howard, of the appellate bench of New York, has raised from his place on the bench a voice of sympathy for the current criticism of judicial methods. Jus tice Howard will be understood by the rank and file of people who be lieve and demand that substantial justice should be done as among all! classes of people. His utterances will perchance sound extreme and dangerous to those people who see nothing to criticise in the adminis tration of justice by our courts. But his acclaimers will be the vast ma jority of sincere thinkers. After citing Instances of inequit able treatment of rich and poor at the hands of the courts, whereby great malefactors escape with inade quate sentences while unfortunates without social or financial influence suffer extreme penalties, Justice How ard proceeded: - "The people are becoming impa tient with these discrepancies of jus tice, and they are demanding with a louder voice each day that there be reform. It is not well to scoff at the mutterings of the people; there is much reason for it Unless the judges act, the people will act; if they do not resort to the recall, they will revise the Constitution and cre ate new courts courts that will do rough justice; courts to do summary justice; courts close to the common people; courts without technicalities, sophistry, and delay, and where sub stantial right prevails." Which means that unless reform comes from the inside, it will be im posed from the outside. And it is all true. Fortunately, Justice How ard is not alone among jurists, a number of whom recently have sounded similarly sensible warnings. Assistant Postmaster at Keyser Charged With Defaulting. A special from Carthage, N. C, to Sunday's Charlotte Observer says: "Glenn H. Keith, assistant post master at Keyser, was tried here to day before United States Commis sioner J. T. Copeland on the charge of default of money order funds. The amount alleged to be short is about $1,200. "Postoffice Inspector W. F. Chester is said to have discovered the short age at a recent inspection of the of fice. 1 District Attorney Seawell pros ecuted and the defendant was rep resented by Attorney U. L. Spence of Charthage. "Keith was required to give a $500 bond for his appearance at the May term of Federal Court at Raleigh." Governor Wilson Is Very Late With His Reforms. Union Republican. Many persons will wonder why Governor Wilson, postponed to this late day that New Jeresy war on the trusts which he has just started. He entered the Governorship in 1911, at which time he was just as well aware as he is now that New Jersey was the mother of trusts. ' And yet he al lowed; two. years to elapse, says the St., Louis Globe-Democrat before he made, any attack, upon them which anybody took, with . any seriousness. His State has granted more charters to the really iniquitous combines than all the other States in the ag gregate. In his messages and con fabs with politicians in the, past two years he has dealt the New Jersey patented trusts a few slaps on the wrist, but they have laughed at him. State Netfs. Dock Dean, of Salisbury, died tud- denly a few days ago Just after hJ bad taken a drink of "blind tiger whiskey. The stomach of the de ceased was sent to Raleigh for an alysis, and following this report the coroner's jury will render a verdict. A. H. Hawkins, W. M. Shepard, A. C. Morris, nad F. E. Tepton. the four Hendersonville merchants who were charged with violation of the United States law which forbidi lottery, were set free in a hearing before a Unit ed States Commissioner on the ground that the Government failed to make out a case. The merchants had offered prizes in a manner that the Government held It against the postal laws. Monroe Enquirer: "Hurely Mills, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy who lived in Lane's Creek Township, went out hunting and while he was stand ing on a log in the woods his gun fell from his hand and was discharg ed when it struck the log. The en tire load entered the boy's right el fcow. The arm had to be amputated the next day." A Winston-Salem dispatch of Jan uary 30 says: "C. E. Green, a mem ber of the construction force at work on the Yadkin River Railroad, a new road being built through Wilkes and Watauga Counties, lost both eyes and is now suffering from lockjaw as a re sult of an explosion of dynamite. Green and his force were at work on a tunnel when the explosion occur red. No hope is entertained for his recovery." Married Twenty-Four Years, and Has Twenty-Seven Children. Winston-Salem, N. C, Jan. 30. Mr. and Mrs. Henrv Wilson, of Stokes County, whose post-office address is!empty TreaBurv Peter's Creeks, Va., have been mar-j ried twentv-four Years. Dnrine this: time Mrs. Wilson has given birth to1 twenty-seven children. Among these ; are one set of triplets and six sets of twins. Mrs. Wilson is only forty-one years of age, and Dr. Leak, the fam ily physician, thinks she is good fori thirty-nine years more. Woman Drops Thirty-Five Feet in a Well Climbs Out by Chain. Newton, N. C, Jan. 31. Mrs. Edith Lominax, of North Newton, went to the well yesterday afternoon to draw a bucket of water, and as she began drawing, the floor, which had become pretty well rotten, gave way and she fell thirty feet to the bottom in about eight feet of water. She landed on her feet and had pres ence of mind enough when she arose above the water to grasp the chain, and on this she climbed fifteen feet to where the wall stopped off. Her, little daughter, saw her fall and ran for help. When found she was sit-1 ting on the wall waiting for them to draw her up. She had only a few . slight bruises. Young Chatham County Killed. Farmer Pittsboro, N. C, Jan. 30. A coro ner's inquest over the body of Cleve land Campbell, the young farmer who was shot near his home late yes- terday evening, resulted in a verdict that the deceased came to his death caused by a gun-shot wound from the hands of Will C. Griffin. Griffin's plea is self-defense and he surren dered himself early this morning to Sheriff Lane. .After the jury's verdict Griffin was lodged in jail. Will, his cousin, Walker, and Un cle Joe Griffin were all squirrel hunt- ing, and Campbell ordered them off his place. Griffin claims Campbell tried to shoot him, having his gun leveled on him when he shot first, the load going directly through Camp bell's heart. Campbell is of a fam ily of eleven boys and three girls. His father, mother, ten brothers and three sisters survive him. Feeling runs high in the family. He is sur vived also by a young widow and two small children. CROATAN'S AND NEGROES FIGHT. Small Riot at Buie in Which One Negro is Killed and Several Croa tans and Negroes Are Severely Wounded. A special -from Lumberton, N. C, to Sunday's News and Observer says: "One negro is dead and several Croatans and negroes are severely wounded as the result of a drunken row in the village of Buie, eleven miles from Lumberton on the Coast Line. The fight occurred late this afternoon. "Sheriff Robert Lewis and depu ties were dispatched there about 7:30 to-night and are still there. The number involved in the fight isn't known. A passenger on the Coast Line to-night brought back the story that order had been restored and that the officers are holding a number of the rioters. "The names of the dead and the wounded are unknown as is the cause of the trouble. Nothing more than a drunken row between, the roughest elements of the two races appears to have caused the trouble; The .fight seems to have been started., by the blacks. "Though white men interferred and helped to brenk up the row, all es- taped injury sad assisted la holding some of the worst. The dlitasc pre vents the return of the oSker b for midnight sod the noabtr under 1 "rcst 1 not known. It is reported ta there may be two Indians and a! negro f sully la J a red.' THE ST.ITirs IXIIElITKDXKHg. Tfe Fusion Administration Left Moo- ej In 1 14- Tr-aur Who It Una! the .State Into Del to Saw 000.00? I ,l M lated in the report that . prisoners at the coat let catap com- The Clinton News-Dispatch, speak-' plained of Uk of quxXUy sad quaat ing of the State's Urge indebtedness.! lty of feod sad that often rats were and the responsibility for the debts," found ia the boiled dinners. V v I U W" aJ fcrouKht out that the If one should believe what the boiled dinners are cooked la two Democratic press and stump speakers Urge pots in a furnace aad that pots say during the campaign they would are used on alternate days for wash think that every Republican adminls- Ing the clothing of the prisoners. Af tration this State ever had was com- ter the statement from the county posed of thieves, highway robbers, commissioners. Judge Carter dis and carpet-baggers. But let's look charged the Jurors, thanking them into the matter and see if we can get most heartily for the fine public ser at the real truth and compare the vice they had Derformi Republican administrations with the recent Democratic administrations. The Legislature of 1S68 and 1869 during the Reconstruction period of which we all have heard so much, was composed of carpet-baggers from the North, together with their North Carolina associates whose sons are the leading men in the Democratic party to-day, and when many of these stump speakers and certain editors are abusing the Legislature of '68 and '69 they are helping abuse upon their own fathers. But that Legisla ture as mean as it was did not hurt the State much, it is true they issued lots of bonds but the Democrats re pudiated them and they have not been paid until this day. So North Carolina is not in debt one penny by virtue of the Legislature of '68 and '69. But in 1896 the Republicans car ried the State an dof course found an Governor Russell and .t his administration found the State institutions in awful bad condi- tion' tne buildings in bad repair, with but little furniture fit for use. At the State Hospital they found many of the poor insane patients lying up on the floor for the lack of beds. They went to work, repaired and fur nished this institution, took the pa tients off the floor and gave them nice clean beds. They repaired and built other institutions. In fact, the Re publican Legislatures of 1895 and 1897 appropriated so much money for buildings, repairs, and maintenance for the different institutions of the State that the Democratic editors liked to have had convulsions because the Republican administration had tSfent so much money. But it must be remembered that Governor Russell and his administra tion did not sell a single bond in or der to get money to run the State Government, that they contracted no debts but Daid everv Dennv of the an propriations that they made and left jn the State Treasury more than one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars which the Democrats fell heir to. There can be no doubt of this amount being turned over to the Democrats because a legislative com mittee composed of three Democrats the late Dr. B. F. Dixon, J. W. At water, and W. P. Ormsby counted the money and said It was there. It must be remembered that the Repub licans did not collect half the taxes ! out of the People of North Carolina that Governor Kltchin and his admin istration collected out of the people during the year 1912. But in January, 1899, a Democrat ic Legislature met and began to write the laws and spend the money. It was only, a very short time before this money had vanished and Gover nor Aycock and Treasurer Lacy hik ! ed off to New York and borrowed two hundred thousand dollars to tide them over until the next Legislature met and issued bonds to pay it, and they have continued to issue bonds, run in debt and raise taxes until the people cannot stand it much longer. Only two years ago they almost dou bled the taxes, and now they are in the hole $75,000,000, and say that our taxes must be raised still high er. But if they keep it up at this rate our property will soon be taken away from us in taxes and the people reduced to paupers. ' As we see it, there is only one rem edy that can save our property from confiscation in the name of taxes, and that is for a large majority of the people to quit voting the Democratic ticket." RATS IN THEIR FOOD. Convicts. Complain, and New Han over Grand Jury After Investiga tion Report Conditions Bad- Also Brought Out That Their Dinners Are Cooked in Same Pots Used for Washing Prisoners Clothes. Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 1. The grand jury of the present term of court, which has been in session for two weeks and has conducted a most searching investigation into a num ber of matters, made its report to the court at noon. The report showed bad conditions at the jail, county home and convict camp so bad, ip. fact, that Judge Carter, said, he would not discharge the grand jury at that time, but would bold them together for a fur the investigation, ordering the com missioners to appear instanter and give him, categorical answer, to. the charges made, and-assurance that the coeditioes conpisised of woald be tetaedled without fartat r dtUy. The cosi:aifl6Drt aseta&l4 promptly, sad larauch their chair man eirectea a eoaaisAioaer to th court- aaswerln catrcortcallr the statements la the report a&4 promis ing immediate relief. The preeeat board has bea la See only a t!tU over s month aad 1 said to be cask lag as good headway as tcibie to ward bettering condltiota. 1UU in iH&oor. 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