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THE CAUCASIAN.
General Netfs.
GOV.BLEASE 1ULED AGAIN.
Columbus, Ga., was visited by a
disastrous fire last Sunday. The loss
of property Is valued at $1,000,000.
The exports from the Southern
States In 1300 amounted to $484,-
652,000, and In 1912 they reached
$769,679,000.
The Naval Appropriation bill, car
rying $146,000,000 and providing for
two battleships, was reported to the
House Friday.
Among the new bills in the Penn
sylvania House of Representatives, is
one which prohibits the working of
horses more than twelve hours a day.
In outlining the program of the
new Mexican administration, Gen Hu
erta declared that peace would be re
stored in Mexico regardless of the
cost.
Mexico City dealers in automobiles
are wide awake, for they perfected
while the war lasted a bullet-proof
machine and advertised it in all parts
of the city.
J. A. Applebaum, a Chicago travel
ing man, was found dead in an At
lanta hotel Tuesday morning and
his wife was held on the charge of
shooting him.
The government Thursday filed a
civil anti-trust suit against the Mc
Caskey Register Company of Alli
ance, Ohio, sensational charges be
ing made against the defendants.
Thirty-five indictments were re
turned Friday against officials of the
defunct Citizens' Trust Co., of Au
gusta, Ga., charging violation of
State banking laws, forgery and em
bezzlement. The first of the troops ordered to
assemble at Galveston, Texas, began
arriving at their destination Tuesday.
The aviation corps stationed at Au
gusta, Ga., was ordered to proceed
to Galveston.
The new nickel of Indian head and
buffalo design will be put into gen
eral circulation on Saturday. Al
ready the Treasury Department has
received applications from banks for
more than 2,000,000 of the new coin.
The stock distribution plan for dis
solution of the Union Pacific-Southern
Pacific merger was criticised In
arguments Friday before the Federal
judges who will pass on the scheme.
A jury at Seattle, Wash., awarded
$22,200 to Mrs. Anna L. Valentine of
Chicago, because the door of a rail
road car was slammed on her little
finger, compelling amputation at the
middle joint.
Overriden Action of Democratic State
Commitee by Ordering Early Election.
Columbia, 8. C Feb. 23. Gov
ernor Blease sprang another sensa
tion here by ordering the general
election to be held in the first dSs-
State Netfs.
31. Stokely Shoot attd Kills J. F.
Towe At Elizabeth City.
Kliiatxlh City. Feb. 24. J. Fea
toa To we. a prominent youn buil
new man of Chapasoke. N. C Is
dead at the Arlington Holt I from a
wound IftfirliPii hr a htslUf frmA kr
trict to select a Congressman to guc-rwn. a negro, killed Dallas Welch.; jIurda stokely, kc of Rufus Stos-
ly, a prominent farmer of that cota
Geo. Perry, of Nash County, com
mitted suicide a few days ago by
shooting himself.
In Durham Saturday night Henry
HAD WROXGED HIS SISTER,
ceea me late ueorge s. iegare on
April 29, nearly one month In ad
vance of the date set by the Demo-
! cratic State Committee, May 27, for
the primary to select the Democratic
another negro, by stabbing him
a knife.
rittt
JsTtlYCIIXIXlS KILLS HOGH.
Catawba Cbttaty Man Kskhh X
From Rptk tr. SW Ei
pcrieac, (Catawba 'Ceasty Kr
Jut why say ob ahouU tatafc thai
strychnia will not kill a toe as well
as a doc or aey ot&rr aattsal l cam
of the tele abich mU not at-
The lower House of the General
Assembly Monday passed the Kel-
nominee in that district to be toted Ium 1)111 providing for the issuance
for in the general election. iof bonds for aiding counties in road
The Governor gave as his reason i building,
for his action that the State Com-1 """"
munit) Th shooting took pUe la ct.l Co, ltlt &aov,
on Matthews street and It was doo.
so Stokely claims, to avenge the
wrongs done his youag sister, cot
more than sixteen year old.
Towe, who was preparing to leave
j the city for his home, rode up to the
Rood
a coc an J taat
friea4 34r. Teu
mao. l oar
Kdnrds.
Here is the qt!aof of him ex
perience. He sold a pig to a good wo
man oa M id Jl brook hUi as.1 lo about
two weeks after the sale, be called
J. W. Addinston. cashier of the N'a-i . '
date fnr h nHma aia i. ! tional Biscuit Comnany in AsheviileJ .. . . 7 ror his pay. He was lasted doa to
, . . ; t. nr uicv uu urmugra
mm ana aiso Decause ne announce . . . ..Jot him to make amends to his sister
company, pieaa guiuy ana was neidJ Wl4 ,, .... "
ua i AAA L. land uPn bi refusal to do so Stoke-
in a. uiiki vi A , v v v lj i luai, j t Via - l .Am a . , !
I u iuu umi at. CIS grow so ranidir.
"ctu. jue ouuei eoierea ine rore-
some time ago that he was going to
order the general election in April.
There are six candidates for the va
cancy and two primaries will doubt
less be necessary to make a selection.
State Chairman John Gray Evans
when informed of the Governor's ac
tion said he did not know what would
be done by the State Committee. Of
course the general election being one
month before, the date for the pri
mary will cause that primary plan
to be abandoned.
the pic pea to e how much the pi
had grown and was astonished lo
now large the aforesaid pig was. lie
The Udy Informed
TUIKTKKX MEMBERS INDICTED.
Went Virginia Grand Jury Indict
Member of Legislature.
Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 21. The
special grand jury investigating
bribery charges against members of
the Legislature unexpectedly com
pleted its labors this afternoon and
was discharged by Judge Henry K.
Black. The jury reported a misde
meanor indictment against Delegate
Thomas J. Smith, alleging he accept
ed a bribe of $100 from Guy Bid
dinger, making a total of five felony
and eight misdemeanor Indictments,
the others having returned in spe
cial reports last week. The cases
were set for trial April 28.
ATTACKS ALLEGED LABOR
TRUST.
Harry S. Jones, of Coldsboro, N.
C, was found dead in an apartment
house in Philadelphia Monday night.
The report trt the police says Jones
died from the effects of an over
dose of morphine. The coroner sus-
him that lhi hnA Hn Anmtn Ik
head just above the eye. Towe fell ,nd .f0rM .i,WkBu. t
to the ground with blood and brains' Kdwrd. was amaxe and said: '-Will
gushing out of the hole. Dr. I. Fear
ing
! the
arrived
ot strychnine kill a pig? He waa
2 t a w a
muuiateiy ana naa assured if wahM An .t.K tki
wounded man removed to the' v-- -..
. . , . . ..... I n u " . - r.urm iwt Dim
uuiri. wa neiH iia si isn in Tnan .
pects foul play .and has ordered an! hou " to tne tiapp Urug store where he
investigation. I c, . . , , , w agin was assured that strychnine
- i Stokely remained cooly at the wouId not kll, a hog, the
The barn and other outhouses of!"- w"6 r w mM EjwarU8 armed himself with
A. W. Wilson, of Franklin County, j ?2lfllLTrf!;nXnfh fe,t e of said medicine and on the fol
were burned last week and with them f.!f. fleil,lnK the ronKS of,ing morning, which happened u
e!ect4 ! t&aS felg& Sf Thf
ia iHwra et lTj'c?AUi9. WaV
isstoa. Madras. J4oa. WiSlasa
Henry Harrtseo. Tykr. Tajler. Firw
asd ArtStir. Thtrs? feat &-?a tit
rtljUtU&. Jaelaoa. Pols, tla-
chsnaa, LiacoIa Ot vslaftd. tlarr'soft
asd 19 Woirtiw Wil nsit
shsos te ad 44. Tfefftt Jut far
Methodist chief nag UX rate: Jcas
sa. Grass!, Hayes, JitKtsky. Vaa
It-area aad lloot er a4hretita
of th Rfanse4 C3ttS Chafra Jia
aa4 Johts Jalaey Adae&a wr Cowctw
catio&slUta. Finaora asd Tafi wtr
rnUarUft. GarS44 was a DiKlle.
S--tt& religions bodie tate r
reweted hy th twenty -U trel
d?5t.
a quantity of feed stuff, ten horses
and mules, fourteen bales of cotton,
valuable farm Implements, etc. The
estimated loss is $5,000, partially
covered by insurance.
Grover Batchelor, a constable of
Nash County, who was shot by Clay
Strickland a few days ago, died in a
Richmond Hospital, where he was
taken for treatment. The men had a
quarel about cutting a road through
J his little sister
As France Sees Roosevelt and WRmhi.
Charlotte Observer.
Coming into New York. Professor
Henry Bergson, the eminent French
philosopher, was interviewed upon
the subjects of laughter, American
philosophers, syndicalism, Colonel
Roosevelt. Governor Wilson, the Bal
kan War, sea-sickness, and woman
suffrage. He nrnvprt rnnorvtli'f In
Batchelor s property which resulted hig expression8 toward a t
in the shooting Strickland made , ColoneI Koosevelt and Governor WII.
his escape after the shooting. j son for botQ Qf whom he expregged
. . , ,;very high regard. It is too seldom
Claude Goodlake. a young man of,that we get from Kuro a man ke
Asheville, w-as convicted of seduction Bergson Generally the writers vlslt.
ing us have been novelists who come
to write about us all sorts of things
that are not so.
Carrying a total appropriation of
$118,525,726, the sundry civil ap
propriation bill reported from the
United States Senate Committee on
Appropriations Tuesday by its chair
man, Senator Warren. This is an in
crease of $5,362,106.00 over the
amount the bill carried when it pass
ed the House.
The English Textilose Manufactur
ing Company has erected large works
in Trafford Park, Manchester, Eng
land, for the production of textilose,
the new jute substitute. So far as
can be ascertained from published de
scriptions, the material seems to be
practically a paper, twine coated with
mucilage, then drawn through cotton
waste and spun.
The United States Senate has rati
fied a supplementary treaty with
France, extending to 1918, the oper
ation of the present arbitration treaty
between that nation and the United
States. A general treaty with for
eign nations, covering sanitary reg
ulations for the handling of epidem
ics, such as plague, yellow fever and
cholera was also Tatified.
The superintendent of the Matte
wan Insane Asylum testified Friday
before a commission of inquiry that
he was offered $20,000 during the
latter part of 1912 to release Harry
K. Thaw, and following a bitter at
tack on the New York prison author
ities at Governor Sulzer's committee's
hearing Saturday, it was decided to
summop Harry K. Thaw to tell what
he knows about the recent attempt to
secure his release from Mattewan.
Federal Government Brings Civil
Suit Against Chicago Unions En
gaged in Strike.
A Chicago dispatch of February
24th says:
"An alleged 'labor trust was at
tacked by the Federal government in
a civil suit filed here today against
local unions Nos. 9 and 13 4 of the
International Brotherhood of Electri
cal Workers engaged in a strike
against the Postal Telegraph-Cable
company.
"As part of the labor war against
the telegraph company the govern
ment charges officers and employes
of the unions with combining and
conspiring, through acts of violence
and depredations, to injure the Pos
tal Telegraph wires to interfere with
the transmission of government and
commercial messages in interstate
commerce. The alleged interference
is declared to have been deliberate."
A Disgrace to the State.
Waynesville Enterprise.
Did you know that North Caro
lina's educational standing is still a
disgrace? Well, it is. There is only
one State in the Union having a less
number of free school days that's
in liuncomoe superior court last
week, his victim being a girl under
fourteen, who committed suicide last
spring. Goodlake had since married.
He was sentenced to the State prison
for eight years. The case was ap
pealed and bond was fixed at $4,000.
Robert Lee Thomas, of Thomas
ville, who had been in jail in Wash
ington City for a month for shoot
ing and killing Romie Stevens at
Takoma Park, Md., has been releas-;poor little New Mexico, the baby
ed, the grand jury ignoring the j State, which can boast of but three
charge of homicide against him. i people to the square mile.
Thomas was a boarder at the Stevens ; North Carolina has ninety-four
home and engaged in a duel with j school days per year, New Mexico has
Stevens. Thomas plead self-defense, j ninety-one, Rhode Island has one
i hundred and ninety-one, Kansas one
A Morganton dispatch Sunday j hundred and sixty, California one
night says: "Gorman Pitts, the eld-; hundred and seventy-eight, and Min-
est of the Pitts boys, who was shot nesota one hundred and thirty-three
and cut and otherwise injured in the
Pitts-Hennessee battle of Glen Al
pine several weeks ago, died here
early Sunday morning from his
wounds. Dr. Hennessee, who is now
charged with killing him, was
brought here and placed in jail, and
days.
Democratic Politicians Not Willing
for the People to Rule.
(From The Greensboro Record.)
ANOTHER. ANTARTIC TRAGEDY,
No one has ever been able to un
is being held without bond to await ; derstand why there is so much time
Speaker of Indiana Senate Stops Min
ister in Midst of His Prayer.
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 21. Lieutenant-Governor
O'Neall caused a
sensation in the Senate yesterday
when he stopped Rev. E. R. Henry,
of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of
this city, who was making the open
ing prayer, who said:
"Stop making a political speech."
The minister had prayed for the
separation of the rum traffic from the
State and for the .day when Indiana
"would refuse to sell to men right to
make other men drunkards, murder
ers, filling prisons and benevolent in
stitutions." The Lieutenant-Governor pounded
the marble slab with his gavel and
commanded the minister to stop.
Then he ordered the journal to be
read, and Rev. Mr. Henry immediate
Lieutenant Iiyiis, of British Army,
and Dr. Merz, a Ski Champion.
Sydney, N. S. W., February 25.
Another was added to the list of an
artic tragedies by the news received
here to-day of the death of two
members of the expedition command
ed by Dr. Douglas Mawson. The par
ty left Tasmania in 1911, accom
panied by a large body of scientific
men, to explore thoroughly the re
gions around the southern magnetic
pole.
Once again the British army is af
fected by the loss of a brilliant of
ficer, Lieutenant D. E. S. Ninnis, of
the famous Royal Fusilliers regi
ment. He was a close friend to Capt.
Lawrence Oates, of the Inniskilling
dragoons, who perished while return
ing from the South Pole with Scott.
Switzerland also has suffered with
a great loss by the death of Dr.
Merz, a prominent scientist and
sportsman. After winning the "ski
jumping" championship in Switzer
land in 1908, he offered his services
to Dr. Mawson.
No Cause Known.
Lieutenant Ninnis was the expert
of the expedition of surveying and
sledging. The wireless messages
hitherto received from the Aurora
do not state the cause of his death or
of that of Dr. Merz.
The expedition started out not
with any idea of rushing to the South
Pole, but with the intention' of ex
ploring and naming the unknown
lands of the Antartic and making
numerous observations around the
magnetic pole.
EXTRA SESSION APRIL 1.
President-Elect Wilson Announced
' His Decision Monday.
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 24. Woodrow
Wilson today announced that the ex
tra sesson of Congress would con
vene April 1. The Governor arrived
at this decision following the receipt
of a letter from Majority Leader Un
derwood. The Governor said after
corresponding with . Underwood he
concluded April 1 the most feas
ible. He intimated that the interval
between March 4 and April 1 might
be devoted to caucuses and conferences.
trial at the March court.
A dispatch to the Greensboro News
says that Gorman Pitts, the eldest of
the Pitts boys, who was shot and cut
and otherwise injured in the Pitts
Hennessee battle at Glen Alpine sev
eral weeks ago, died In the hospital
at Morganton early Sunday morning.
Dr. Hennessee, who is charged with
killing Pitts, was brought to Morgan
ton Sunday and placed in jail, and is
being held without bond to await
trial at the March court.
The Statesville Landmark says:
While Babe Godbey, a Stanly coun
ty negro, was at work and his house
unoccupied a strange negro entered
Babe's domicile and hung himself
with a piece of wire. WThen Babe
returned home he was confronted
by the corpse swinging from a poise
and he at once fled and gave the
alarm. The stranger who chose the
home of another in which to end his
earthly career proved to be Bud Tol
bert, of Montgomery County, who
was somewhat demented.
to
be the Lord's Day. secured a pall of
milk and began bis rounds at the pig
sty.
The said and aforesaid Edwards
took his pocket knife and measured
on the point of the blade, as he bad
been advised, the correct amount to
make a hog grow. He went from one
swine patient to another and felt sure
he was rendering a service to a part
of the animal kingdom, even on the
Lord's Day.
By the time the sixth patient had
been reached the milk had given out
so that other patients would have to
wait for another day to rceive their
dose of hog growing medicine. About
this time Mr. Edwards saw the feet
of some of his patients flying thick
and fast in the air. Two of sal4 hoes
had the power to vomit their doses
and in a pair of minutes all of the
other hogs that had received the med
icine to make them grow were dead
hogs. A loss of about $70 to Mr.
Edwards.
Religious Faith of President.
Greensboro Record.
When a new President is elected.
there is speculation as to hia relig
ious faith. No Baptist has ever been
su Weaterw Uakm for f
Ixurr.
(ChArlotta OWmr.
Mts Ansa DMoca has ectered sail
agsisst tha Western Ueioa Tlgra$h
Company ailtgtcg thai the aegll
genc of tha telegraph company la
failing to deliver with raosat4 dl
patrh a meaaage directed to bsr lot
rr. one Joseph Flynn. apprising hlra
of the fact that she was en rout to
Charlotte "ready, willing, and an
xious to enter Into the holy bonds of
matrimony.' 'as previously agreed op
on. resulted in the breaking aaundr
of the aforesaid ties which in turn
occasioned great mental anguish to
wit: t:.ooo.
DenH rary, DrM, lktsds and High
Tac.
Lincoln Times J
North Carolina la now a million
dollars in debt for ordinary running
expenses within the last ten year.
The Democrats have created so many
new offices and Increased so many
salaries that they hav run the Slate
a million dollars behind. This not
w ithstandlDg. the taxes of our peoplo
pay is about three times what they
were ten years ago. Verily Democ
racy, debt, and bonds go together.
More on Now!
Says a policeman to a street crowd,
and whacks heads If It don't. "Mora
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ing follows. Dr. King's New Ufa
Pills don't bulldoze the bowsls. Tkey
gently persuade them to right aetton.
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A Tolerably Sorry Aggregation.
(Charity and Children.)
The House of Representatives took
a shot at Charity and Children last
Thursday giving us the honor of a
very vigorous discussion. Notwith
stand the vote commending the
offending editorial was unanimous,
we desire to make it clear that the
criticism of the House did "not apply
to all members. A goodly num
ber of our Representatives are cap
able men, earnest, faithful and true,
but they are in a painful minority.
Taken as a whole (and that was the
spirit of the editorial which raised
such a tumult) the House of Repre
sentatives of 1913 is a tolerably sor
roy aggregation.
That "Dead Pauper Law."
Union Republican.
The present Legislature has Toted
to keep the abominable "dead pauper
law" on the statute books. A State
that refuses to aid in burying its
pauper dead and will not permit a
county or municipality to perform
this deed of kindness and leaves the
body of such an unfortunate to go to
a pickling vat in some medical insti
tution, needs no special comment.
The act itself is condemnation sufficient.
wasted in the Legislature in talking
over bills that are demanded, yet no
matter what it is some wise gentle
man feels called on to dive in, waste
time and do more harm than good.
Senator Long of Alamance has in
troduced a bill in the Legislature
giving any city or town in the State
authority, on petition, to hold an
election on adopting or rejecting the
commission form of government. The
bill Is on the same lines as the orig
inal local option bill in force in this
State. On presentation of a petition
signed by one-third of the qualified
voters of any town, township or coun
ty, the County Commissioners were
required to order an election and the
voters did the rest. This bill is de
manded. Instead of passing it, the
wise men are holding it up, while
a dozen cities are asking for a chance
to vote on the commission form of
government. Senator Long's bill
would settle the whole thing at one
time. And yet we howl about this
being the day when the people rule.
Maybe, but not when the astute poli
tician can help it.
First Democratic Congress Has an
Extravagant Record.
The Lincoln Times.
The Democrats" have howled loud
and long because the last Republican
Congress appropriated nearly a bil
lion dollars. Now here comes the
first Democratic session of the House
to a close with a record of more than
a hundred million dollars greater
than any prior Congress. Congress
man Fitzgerald, chairman of the ap
propriations committee, and a Dem
ocrat, says the House has gone mad
and is controlled by a disorganized
mob.
They want to reduce the income
from tariff, and they are by nature
prone to waste the people's money
io wonaer iemocrauc rule means
poverty to the people. It is coming
again.
President and Sirs. Taft Presented
With Handsome Jewelry.
Miss Mabel Bordman and eight
other society leaders of Washington
called at the White House Friday
night and presented Mrs. Taft with a
$25,000 diamond necklace and the
President with a $1,500 pearl cravat
pin. The committee represented 150
women of Washington, New York and
Philadelphia.
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