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No soothingstrains of Maia's son Shall lull itshundred eyes to sleep." $1.00 a Year $1.00 a Year, -Doth an eternal vigil Keep ; GOLDSBOEO, N. C, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1909. VOL,. XXTV NO. 98 "This Argus o'er the people's rights j J iv 4 ilEWBERN HAS BIG FIRE Host Costly Conflagrsticn in the City's Long History. PRESIDENT OPENS AUGUSTA FAIR - Two Engines, SeTeral Coaches and Freight Cars Destroyed, Besides All Important Buildings ExcepfFaint Shops. Fire, which originated in the fire , ; room, of the Norfolk & Southern shops at New Bern .Saturday morning at ,2:15 o'clock, destroyed the entire shops with the exception of the paint shop, office and store room. The alarn Visits Florence, S. C, Tonight, Which Is to Give Him Warm Keception. Augusta, Ga., Nov, 8. President Taft today concluded his three days' stay in Augusta by attending the op ening of the Georgia-Carolina Fair land delivering an address before one of the largest crowds ever assembled in this city. The occasion was given added brilliance by the presence of a number of military companies and prominent official representatives of Georgia and South Carolina. Florence, S. C, Nov. 8, Elaborate arrangements have been perfected for the visit of President Taft here to night. The President will arrive at 7:30- p. m., and will remain in the city one hour, during "which time he will deliver an address before the Pee Dee commercial convention, now in session here and later will partake of was given by the ice factory whistle, a pine bark fish stew at the Florence but owing to the inadequate water Hotel. The governor and other dis supply in the shops it was some time tinguished representatives of the state SERVICE FORJFARMERS Sunday in the Old North State's Capital and Convention City. THIS CLOCK A MARVEL. Most Striking Feature of the Farm ers' National Congress the Re ligions Service in the Acad, eray of Mnsic before " the fire department could gst many streams of water on the build ings and within a few minutes after the alarm was given the entire shop was ablaze from end to end. The loss to the buildings and 'machinery is complete. The carpenter shop, car shop, boiler room," machine shop and round house were destroyed and in ad dition two passenger cars, three freight cars, engines Nos. 114 and 41 were lost. The engines may not be entirely destroyed, but are badly dam aged. All of the new machinery was ruined. Some $23,000 has been spent on new machinery in the shops with in the past six months, and very little of it can ever be used again. A large number of cars and engines around the shops were saved by the shifting engines and were carried off to a safe distance. The blaze was very spectacular, es pecially when the oil house was burn ing. The large timbers used in the roof support and for the supports for the shafting made a very hot fire and the two thousand or more who gazed on with sad hearts were kept back quite a distance from the burning buildings. A part of the shops were new, having been built in 1890, but another and city will join in welcoming the President, and several companies of military have been assigned to act as escort to and from the central schoo7 building, where he is to speak. Has No Hands, Rays of Light .Indi . - eating Time. Washington, D. C, Nov. 8. An elec tric clock without hands is exhibited in , Chicago. Its pendulum weighs more than- three thousand pounds. It contains 5,485 colored bulbs and over a mile jdI wire. The minutes are -indicated by sixty series of lights, each series containing thirty-two globe: covered bulbs, radiating from an or namental centrepiece to the outer e Ige ofthe dial.- Shorteirays of different colored lights tedicate the hours, and tbese change xheir position twelve times duringeach sixty minutes, - or once every jflve minutes. The seconds are shown by sKty lights placed at equal distances around the extreme outer edge of the face. The hour, figures are three feet high, outlined in colored lights. Each second ' the illumination in the outer circle .of light moves forward ouf. bulb, and when the dial has been en tirely circled the lights indicating the also advance, and the hour The healthful properties of Grapes are conveyed to food by BASEBALL MEN IN SESSION. Following the Southern League Meet ing Tomorrow Will Come .the An nual Meeting of the National Asso ciation of Minor League Clubs. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 8. Minor league baseball owners, and patrons Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 7. Beyond ques tion one of the very finest of the man; striking features of the farmers na-1 tional congress was the religious ser vice in the Academy of Music this af ternoon. Ample space was reserved for the delegates, . the remainder of the building being filled by Raleigh people. The service was under the auspices of the chamber of commerce. I minute On the stage were one hundred and I hand, formed by lights, makes its slow fifty selected singers, representing the I journey at five minute intervals. hoirs of the Agricultural and Me- .uanical College, Peace Institute, St. FINE ARTS FOR WOMEN. Mary's, and Meredith Colleges, and the band of the Third Regiment. Charles I Hints on How to Make Stout Women U. aan, Aeaums, gave lu atiuyam- anfl Yjce yerga ments in admirable style- ine singing of the familiar hymns, such as "On-1 - Boston, Mass., Oct. 8. A gentleman ward, Christian Soldiers" and "How I from the Chicago Academy of Fine Firm a Foundation," in which the au-1 Arts gave the Dressmakers' Club a I dience joined, was a notable feature, few hints on how to make stout ladies The music was directed by the gifted slim and slim ladies seem plump at Wade Brown. Rev. Milton A. Barber, the meeting recently. Absolutely Pure . The only Baking Powder Made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Hence Finer, More Wholesome Food SELLS HIS HOLDINGS NORTH CAROLINA SMOTHERED. The Fine Arts gentleman took his chalk and drew figures to illustrate what he meant. One figure showed how vertical stripes make any one ited by a Cincinnati newspaper with explaining his dismissal from the At part had been used by the old Atlantic lanta' Club by declaring that "the di & North Carolina for about'fifty years One hundred and fifty men were thrown out of work, with a pay-roll of about $7,000 per month. It is not known how much insur ance was carried as the insurance is placed other where than in New Bern, but the shops were insured. What steDS will be taken by the Norfolk & Southern as regards re building the shops is unknown. The general manager is expected in New Bern today. Two or three years ago it was said that the shops would be moved from New Bern, but it is not thought now that such is the case. Very little of the present walls could be used, as "they are badly cracked and because necessary , to change the tracks in order that the trains can pass the walls of the build ings. The entire loss is about $250,000. rector of Christ Church, was in charge will be particularly interested in the of the services. Three other minis gathering of the small league mag- ters participated. nates which began here today and will Josiah William Bailey was tho occupy the greater part of this week I speaker, and his address was in fact I seem slim, and another how horizon Today the Southern League met for J a powerful sermon, delivered in hisltal stripes diminish the height and in- its annual fall session. The matters I best style and adding to his already I crease the appearance of dumpiness. to come before the session for dis-1 high reputation as an orator and I Still another showed how diagonal thinker. His theme was the contrast I stripes were much better for stout la - between the conservation of our nat- dies than broad horizontal stripes. ural resources, and the conservation of He stood up there, that Fine Arts our spiritual interests. America's gentleman did, and drew these figures chief concern is not maintenance of I and said those things to an assembly and who has been named to manage industrial progress so much as pres-lof dressmarkers largely "of the fe the Buffalo Club of the Eastern ervation of those principles which con- J male persuasion" with the evident idea League next year. Smith was cred-1 trol m a proper appraisal of the in-1 that he was imparting some novel and terests of the soul. Jesus was con-1 useful information cerned for the soul's welfare and with regard to property he placed no valua tion whatever iipon - it as compared with his valuation of the soul. His chief concern about property lay in the peril it offers the soul in its pas sage through time. A people who for get the interests of the soul will lose Tom Jolinsen Gives Up meise Ohio Ventures. cussion and action include, in addi tion to the routine business winding up the past season, the charges brought against William A. Smith, former manager of the Atlanta Club, Last of Cleveland Mayor's Big Enter prises Passes From His Hands When He Sells the Sheffield Company Interests. Lorain, O., Nov. 7. Practically the last of Mayor Tom L. Johnson's great Ohio enterprises will pass out of his hands when the Sheffield Land Com pany here disposes of its $3,000,000 properties to the Sheffield Realty Com- lef(. haifa; rectors fired him for not drawing a fine finish on the pennant race so that gate receipts would improve. It is. understood that Smith will make a formal denial of the statements cred ited to him, in which event the DOG TRAINED TO STEAL. Polieemen Solve Mystery of Thefts From Long Island Homes. charges against him will probably be j the great fundamental rights of f re-: allowed to drop. I government. Soul liberty made the Following the Southern League I way for personal liberty. Our nation meeting tomorrow will come the- an-1 al hymn is national and abiding be nual meeting of the National Associa- J cause it is true. It speaks of God as tion of Minor League Clubs. With no author of liberty. The sovereignty of war talk and baseball in the most I God is the basis of all sovereignty. prosperous condition in the history of I whether republic or kingdom. the game, the magnates will have the time to discuss the business from all angles and to map out the future of the organization devoted to minor league interests. GOV. J. F. SMITH RETIRES. Taft Accepts Resignation of Execu tive of the Philippines. ATLANTA SPEEDWAY OPENING. TESTS A NEW STORAGE BATTERY IN ENGLAND Mr. George Carmichael, of Brooklyn, Thinks He Has Achieved What Edison Has Attempted. London, Nov. 8. Mr. George Car michael, of Brooklyn, is in London in the interests of a new storage battery of his own Invention. Regarding this battery, Mr. Carmiachael said: "I believe I have achieved what Mr. Edison has been striving for man) years. My Dattery aoes not tuiue -up to all my expectations yet, but further improvements are rapidly progressing. We have already succeeded in putting the battery to a good commercial pur pose. "I have fitted a large automobile weighing more than a ton, includins its full equipment without passengers, rt a iiattorv wei-hine: onlv seventv- Two nounds. and I ran for a hundred tor. of which the most important will Claimed to Be the Fastest Automobile Course in the World. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 8. Everything is in readiness fo rthe opening tomorrow of the new Atlanta automobile speed way, which is claimed to be the fast est automobile " course in the world. The new speedway track, "which is lo cated about eight miles from the city, is oval in shape and two miles around. The back stretch and turns are sixty feet and their radius is 880 feet, mak ing it possible, it is claimed, for the cars to take them at highest speed The track is of clay, sand and gravel and has an asphalt binder. Strang, Robertson, Basle, Matson, Hearne, Clicquot, Knipper and Ding ley are among the leading drivers that will compete in the five days of rac ing. There are thirty-two events on the program. They will be at all dis tances from one mile to 200 miles. Five big trophies are to be competed New York, Nov. 8. A dog trained to steal groceries and meats from hallways and vestibules has been op erating, according to the police, in the vicinity of Beechurst, Whitestone, Long Island. For several months residents of this section have been mystified as well as annoyed, by .petty robberies about their homes. Bread and rolls left by the baker disappeared. Bun dles left by the grocer also seemed to take wings and fly away, while often the family roast left by the butcher disappeared as if spirited away. Two policemen this morning saw a big black dog steal into the hallway of a house and come out with a pack age of bread and rolls in his mouth. Washington, D. C, Nov. 7. It was announced last night that the resig nation of James F. Smith, of Califorr nia, governor general of the Philip pines, had been accepted by President I Giving a quick glance around, the ca Taft, to take effect on November 11. 1 nine thief darted away. The police Mr. Smith is now on leave of absence I men tried to head him off, but failing. in the United States. I they drew their revolvers and opened His resignation was expected and is I fire on him. pany. : This company, capitalized at $1,- 850,000, was incorporated immediately after the recent election, in which .Johnson was defeated, and it is an nounced that it will, purchase within thirty days the Sheffield Land Com pany, which was formed by Johnson in the early nineties, at about the time he founded the steel mills, since pur chased by the National Tube Company.- The Du Ponts, of Delaware, one of whom, A. B. Du Pont, has been closely associated with Johnson in his Cleve land traction ventures, are supposed to be behind the new company. An immense amount of ready cash, it is sa?d, will go to those interested in the Johnson Company. The largest steel plant in the United States will be built here as soon as the National Tube Company, of thi3 city, can complete a $7,000,000 addition to its equipment. The National Tube Company was built originally by Tom Johnson. It was purchased by the United States Steel Corporation, and several millions of dollars were ex pended here in new builduigs. V. P. I. Regarded As Wieaker. Team, Routs Tar Heels. Richmond, Va., Nov. 6. Stubbornly contesting every inch of the ground from the beginning to the end of a fiercely fought game, the University of North Carolina was smothered at Broad Street Park this afternoon by the gridiron representatives of the Virginia Polytechnic Instituet, the score being 15 to 0. One touchdown in the first half and a touchdown and field goal in the sec ond was the best the Orange and Ma roon could do against their opponents, who had been regarded as easy until a few days ago. , Line-up: V. P. I. Luttrell, left end; Burruss. left guard; Jones, left tackle; Gibba. centre; Hicks, right end; E. R. Hodg son (Capt.), right guard; Norris, right tackle; Hughes, quarterback; Logge, N. Hodgson, right CURSE OrVTHE SOUTH A Great Railroad Man of the West Speaks Plainly His Views. due to his long service in the tropics I the ground and increased his speed, Mother's Joy is made of pure goose The dog sunk close to grease, mutton suet and other healing and his desire to return to the prac tice of law. W. Cameron Forbes, of Massachusetts, who has been acting governor general since Mr. Smith left Manila several months ago, has been appointed to the vacancy. Mrl Smith went to the Philippines in 1898 as colonel of the First Cali fornia Volunteer Regiment. His home in in San Francisco. W. Cameron Forbes, the governor general, is, a native of Milton, Mass., and is a grandson of -Ralph Waldo Emerson. . - but he was struck by one of the bul lets and then y another and he rolled over. The police say the dog was trained by someone to commit the thefts. ingredients, law. For sale by M. F. Out- He Sees Great Things Ahead if the Farmer and Manufacturer and Merchant Will Curb the Professional Politician. Washington, D. C, Nov. 7. Express ing the belief that politics and poli ticians have retarded progress and de velopment in the South and Southwest, B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the exec utive committees of the Rock Island and Frisco lines, who has just return ed from a trip to that section, is ot the opinion that there will be less tol eration there in the future of selfish political interests. Mr. Yoakum ex changed views with leading mer chants, farmers and manufacturer during his trip, and from them he gained the impression that represent ative people of the South are tired of elevating to public life men who de vote their time exclusively to politics. and that they are very much In the mood now of sending to Congress and placing in other positions of trust pub- Uc men whose interests are more cen tered in the development, advance ment and improvement of the South. Mr. Yoakum has great faith In the South and his advice is that the peo ple of that section should profit from the examDle of the neoDle of the Pressure on Football Player's Spinal Northwest in the development of their Cord itemoved. section. More business and less poli- Annapolis, Md., Nov. 7. A most del- tics is the slogan advanced by Mr. icate operation was successfully per-1 Yoakum for the South and Southwest, formed this afternoon upon midship- and in this connection he makes ob- man Earl D. Wilson, a , vertebra of servations of more than ordinary in whose neck was broken during the terest with reference to Southern and football game on October 16. The Southwestern Congressmen. laminae or outward covering were cut "There is only one thing that may away from four of the vertebrae of the delay a movement of rapid agrlcultn neck in order to remove pressure on ral and industrial development In the halfback; Hodgson, fullback. Carolina Winston, left end ; Thompson, left guard; Garrett iCapt.),- left tackle; Brown, centre; Williams, right end; McLean, right guard; Hedgpeth, right tackle; Tillett, quarterback; Porter, left halfback: Eelden, right halfback; Elder, full back. Touchdowns Giggs, V. B. Hodgson, Goals from touchdowns Capt. Hodg son (2). Field goal Capt. Hodgson Referee Mr. "Pat." Barry, of George town. Umpire Mr. Donnelly, of Trinity College., Head linesman Mr. Meier, of Harvard. Linesmen Messrs Graveley and Ferguson. Timekeep ers Messrs. Wiggins, of North Caro lina, and Hargrove, of V. P. I. Time of halves 25 minutes. SURGEONS OPERATE ON WILSON. KAISER LIKES VEGETABLES. LED OTHERS TO MILLIONS. Says He Has So Marty Gardens He Onght to Have Products. miles without recharging." "The recharging of. the battery was done while I was dining. We then ran the return journey of seventy miles without mishap. Wie averaged for the entire trip more than twenty miles per hour. "The cost of the trip I find worked out at something like ten miles for a cent. This is, of course, much cheaper than any internal combustion engine can be operated. "Why have I come to England to eonduct these experiments? Simply because the conditions here are more difficult td deal with. They are less standardized and more varying. 1 want to subject my invention to the most difficult test possible." be the Atlanta Trophy, which includes $1,000 in gold to the winning driver. WTEYLER ASSUMES COMMAND. THE WEATHER. Expects to Restore Tranquility in the ; Province of Catalonia. - Barcelonia, Nov. 8. Gen.' Cipriano Weyler has arrived-here to assume the governor generalship of Catalo nia, to which he was lately appointed In addressing his official staff, he said he hoped with an olive branch in one hand and the military code in the other, to restore tranquility. , If he were successful, he would be amply rewarded for leaving Madrid which he had done at a great sacri fice. On two points he would be in exorable. He would tolerate no in suits to Spain and no insults to the army. -;' Forecast -for GoldUboro and Vicin- ' m.M - J When -words fail, send a box of Tnr.rPflsinsr cloudiness tonight. Tues- Dolly Varden Candy. Forteale at The day showersand cooler. . City Pharmacy, : "MOTHER OF GOVERNORS." Historian Lewis Claims This Honor for West Virginia. . Death of an Old Gold Hunter Recalls Discovery fo the Alder Gulch. Dillon, Mont., Oct. . 8. Barney Hughes, one of the old-time famous Argonauts of early days and one of six discoverers of Adler Gulch, the richest gold sands In the Northwest, died at Wisdom. - ; Hughes, with Bill Fairweather, Tom Cober, Henry Edgar, Thill Sweeney, and Harry Rodgers, was forced into Chicago, Oct. 8. According to a writer ;n one of the most courtly of Berlin journals, the Kaiser is vnrv fond of "vegetables. "I tfe so many gardens," he is reported to, havesaid to the Kaiserin, j been "that surely you can let me have iresii vegetables every day." He likes German beef stea..r. that is, chopped meat and onions fried. This he eats with mashed potatoes. It is, in fact, his favorite dish. His Majes the spinal cord, and the covering of the spinal cord was removed and the cord thoroughly inspected. , Portions of the fractured bone from the fifth vertebra were removed, but it was found that, the greatest injury to the cord had been occasioned by a dis- location of the fourth vertebra. -The cord was found to be intact, though in very bad condition' at the point of injury. It is believed that all pressure has removed and that Wilson's South and Southwest," said Mr. Yoak um. . "That one thing is politics. "I have just returned from a trip through various Southern and South western states. With the exception t mention, I am pleased with the out look.' "The signs of the times are for good business and the spirit of the people t met favors substantial growth. My exchange of views with men encour ages me to believe that business in the future will be less handicapped bv selfish politicians than it has been in Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 6. Accord ins to Virgil A. -Lewis, state historian I Hughes was mixing some flour In a and archivist, West Virginia is the I pan when Fairweather made him Mother of governors."" - J dump the whole mess. He made a Following the announcement that I test of some gravel he found inside Secretary of State Thompson, of Ohio of a bank. A handful of dirt yWded would be a candidate for the Republi-1 thirty-eight cents and -a hole two feet can nomination . for governor,- Histo- j deep produced hundreds of dollars, rian Lewis began an investigation I Making their way back to Bannock. with reference to the number of West j the six men returned with a crowd of Virginians who have been chosen gov-1 Three, hundred men, and thus began ernors of the several states. Secretary I one - of the most famous gold stam Thompson is a West Virginia. He was! pedes in the history of the West. The born in Wayne county, but emigrated I Gulch produced $38,000,000 Hughes to Ohio with his parents when a I left Adler Gulch in three months with child. . ' While Historian Lewis has not com pleted his investigation, he says West Adler Gulch by hostile Crow Indians. ty cann0t stand yste" fnce ne-was about two o'clock, and was not corn- chance of ultimate recovery Is great ly improved. In successfully passing 1 the past." through the-, anesthetic, Wilson sur vived what was considered one of the is HOSPITAL 24 YEARS; DIES. greatest dangers connected with the operation. The operation began at nvoman Had Never Spoken Nor Heard made ill once by some baked molluscs which an august English relative of fered him. "Fish must "never be ab sent from his table, and he always eats quantities of it, "It-is good for the brain,' he says, "as it contains plenty of phosphorus." Sound in Her Life. Cleveland, O., Nov. 7. After spend ing most of her time in the last twenty-four years looking out of the same window in St. Alexis Hospital, a worn. Virginia has produced hundreds of able men who have served other states fn different capacities. Goose Grease Liniment never fails to cure all aches and pain. For sale by M. F. Outlaw. . t - in about six months more returned I penniless, having invested his fortune in San Francisco real estate, to which the -title was worthless. Hughes died practically a pauper. f pleted until nearly five o'clock, Within -an hour Wilson had almost completely recovered consciousness and was talking intelligently. The operation was performed by Surgeon C. F. Stokes, assisted by Sur- an whose name was not known, who cenns .T. H. Iden.'E. Woods and George had never snoken. heard a sound, nor His only breakfast is at eight o'clock nnttla. air of' those nresent bein,r moved of her own volition in the for- and then he enjoys pjenty of toast and! memDere of the naval medical staff, ty-four years of her existence, died butter, prepared in tne mngnsn iasn i , Saturday, ion. His beloved. sweets are pancakes, aHim. wnnthftll Plavr OnArateA nn. She was hroueht to th timtntfal with lemcn juice ana sugar over uem. i utica, N. Y., Nov. 7. Joseph Picher- when she was twenty, deaf, dumb, and He tats rapidly ana aoes ume unguis mg of the Casenovia Seminary foot- paralyzed. Her name was lost two wiine at meais, dui arcer a ueartj ie- I hnli fpaTT1 whnsp anine was fractured I decades aeo. and an aunt, her onlv relative, died a few months after sh was admitted to the hospital. She iiad been known as Lottie. The only sign of conscious life she ever showed was the movement of her "eyes. $48,000 wrapped in a flour , sack, and " C11JUJ " V" in a game with Colgate yesterday, was lamina lain huu a snuus tigai. -. A BUSY DOCTOR K, Mothers,' if your baby has" cold or ! croup Mother's Joy is the best thing known. For sale by. M. F. Outlaw. Is often delayed. Keep a bottle 4t GOW AN'S PREPARATION in the home and be prepared for pneumonia, croup, colds, -coughs, grippe, pains and soreness In longs and throat External and gives quick iclief. AUdraggisU. $1.00, 50c, 25c, successfully operated upon a Faxton Hospital this morning. The' operation disclosed the fact that both sides of the arch of the seventh cervicular ver tebra had been broken and the spinal cord lacerated. , The compressing bone was removed and following the opera tion the surgeon said that the lad had a fair chance to recover. Frazier's Indigestion Pewder digests what you eat and cures indlgestlm and dyspepsia U stay cured. The City Pharmacy.
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