-F-tv : t -' r - "This Argus o'er the people's rights No soothingstrains of Maia's son Shall lull itshundred eyes to sleep." $1.00 a Year 1.00 a Year, Doth an eternal vignwp , ,rfSY ir3 mm to GOLDSBORO, N. C, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1909, y . NO. 99 VOL. XXIV V) r Is I ... V X UllCLE SAKS GETS BUSY Diplomatic gelations Hisarauga Are Dis continued. ELKS LODGE OF SORROW. Will The United States Government Hold Personally Responsible Men Who Tortured and Killed '' Grace and Cannon. "Washington, D. C, Dec. 1. Felipe Rodriguez, charge d'affaires of the Nicaraguan legation, was tonight ten dered his passports by Secretary of State Knox, thereby severing diplo matic relations of the two countries. Interesting and Impressive Exercises - Next Sunday Afternoon. Goldsboro Lodge, No. 1S9, Benevo lent and Protective Order of Elks, will hold interesting and most impressive public services in the Messenger Ope ra House next Sunday afternoon at three o'clock the Memorial Sunday of the order, that is observed with great fervor throughout Blkdom. These services - are always very beautiful and touching, and the local committee have arranged for the ob servance of the hallowed occasion by the Goldsboro lodge a program of un usual musical and literary attractive ness. As already announced, Jtae eulogist is to be Hon. Tasker Polk, who will be introduced by Mr. J. Langhorne Bar ham, of the local bar. The "Lodge of Sorrow" .will be pre sided over by Mr. Qeo. C. Royall. ex- R. 1 STRIKE SERIOUS Every Line f Industry Ham pered and Thiusands Are Idle. In delivering passports to the Nica-1 alted ruler, assisted by the other offl- raguan charge d'affaires, Secretary of cers of the lodge in their several ca State Knox informed him by note that pacities. the United States would hold person The following Is the program, as ar ally responsible the men responsible ranged: for the torture and execution of the Processional Miss Brinson. . two Americans, Grace and Cannon, Opening Ceremonies Bro. ueo. k. who recently were killed in Nicara- Royall, Exalted Ruler, and Oflkers. sua, and that Nicaragua would be hel i "Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me." to an observance of the principles of Schnecker Double Quartet, the Washington conference of South Opening Ode "Great Ruler of the American republics in the interest of I Universe. Dr. John M. Faison For Congress! To the Democratic Voters of Third North Carolina Congressional District: I take this method of announcing myself a candidate for Congress sub ject to the will of the next Democratic Convention of this district. Should I receive the, nomination at your hands, I pledge you an active, intelligent and successful canvass of the entire district upon the vital issues of Democracy as contained in your Convention platform and shall, with pleasure, champion the cause of the people, now burdened with unjust repub lican high protective tariff taxes and hostile class legislation, which are rob bing the people ,of their honest earnings, 1 : As agriculture is the xhief wealth-producing industry of this district, which largely underlies progress of all other industries and the general financial welfare of the;-people of most all the States as well, it should be fostered and encouraged, rather than taxed and hindered "by National legis lation. If chosen your representative such legislation shall receive my closest nrnfoccinn that lrftftns in C.lnsfi t.Olieh with the TieoDle f on oiSM "whifh has also eiven. freely and unselfishly, its best efforts to the lIn the tobacco trust case. Should th otn or,H tn. thomnrrBtip. nartv. and from DuDlin County, the oldest in the curt allow the tobacco combination district, which has so long and so continuously given such large Democratic majorities to this district, without due recognition, while many other Coun ties have been and are enjoying the honors of office, I shall thank you for your p"pp--rj ' PTRTRTiiiiv appreciate juur eiiuiua 111 uij ucuii, Montana Is Most Seriously Affected. Wholesale Grocers Report Jfoth Jng Moving in North west Idlers. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 1. Every line of industry in the Twin Cities, Duluth and Superior, and all cities of the Northwest dependent " on the move ment of supplies is seriously affected by the strike of the railroad switch ment which began at six o'clock last evening. It is estimated that upwards of' 12, 000 men are idle tonight on account of the strike order, thousands of freight handlers and teamsters are I losing time by reason of the ireignt We, the undersigned Democrats and citizens ol nupnn uounty. Knowing 'blockade in the terminal towns, while the character, ability fitness and loyal party service of our countyman. Dr. crtsX S"Congres8 to Wrestle -irfrSherman Law Changes. "tyashington, D. C, Dec. 2. At al most any angle from which it may be viewed, the coming session of Con gress, less than a week away, will be one of the most important ever known. Angling awkwardly for relief, the big combinations of capital have forced to the front the question f what to do with the Sherman anti-trust law. That long-disregarded statute is beginning to draw like a halter. Naturally the big corporations -want relief. The question what to do with that statute will be uppermost, no matter what the Supreme Court may decide Faison. N. JOHN M, FAISON, vember 30th, 1909. DR. JOHN M. FAISON FOR CONGRESS. general peace and harmony. Prairie Sails Today. Washmeton. D. C. Dec. 1. The Prairie will sail from Philadelphia to morrow or next day for Panama, with from 400 to 700 marines aboard, ac-l cording to a statement made late to day at the Navy Department. p.Ha Tiet. 1. The foreign office cabled today to the French consuls m Nicaragua instructing them to furnisn Information regarding the pubtfsheu reports that citizens of France had been ill-treated in Nicaragua. Upon the nature of the replies will depend the subsequent action of this government. In opening and closing odes the au dience is requested to unite in sing ing. Prayer Bro. L. N. Grant, Chaplain. Solo Selected Mrs. Ehrlich Smith, Introduction of Orator Bro. J. Langhorne Barham. Oration Hon. Tasker Polk, War renton, N. C. Violin Solo Calvaleria Rustlcana Miss Lucia Privett. "There Is a Land Mine Eye Hath Seen" Crowninshield Double Quar tet. a continuanee of theustrike for several days will throw additional thousands out of work. The railroad yards are filled with stalled freight trains and an attempt to move a few by the aid of the office men drafted as switchmen is making no impression. The railroad managers' committee announced today that they were bring- John M. Faison, take great pleasure m presenting his name to tne Demo cratic voters of this Third Congressional District as a worthy, able and most excellent Candidate for Congress, subject to the action of the next Congres sional Convention. ; Dr. Faison was born in Sampson County, near Faison, in 1862, his family returning to Duplin four years later. He attended school at The Faison Academy and worked on the farm in his early years, graduated at Davidson I from the interstate Commerce Com- Collese. in 1883. and received his Medical Education at the University of Vir- mission and creating a court, the sole jinia, taking a post graduate course at the New York Polyclinic. Since he has duty of which shall be to decide ques practiced medicine and surgery with skilled success, has been engaged in tions of transportation law. to escape, that would not help the Standard Oil or electrical combina tions. They present differences of fact and practice sufficient to sharply differentiate the nicotine monopoly. The leaders of organized labor are just as anxious to be relieved from the operation of the law as the combi nations of capital. "While the control over labor organ izations and industrial combinations seems fairly satisfactory to the ulti mate consumer, the control over the railroads of the country is not as good as it might be. President Taft senses that fact, wherefore, he is endeavor ing "to interest Congress in his plan for taking some of the functions away CAM FIX LICENSE MX The Law Making Power of City Alderman is Far Rerchlug. ing to St. Paul new switchmen to take trucking and farming, and at the same time, taken an active interest in all the places of the strikers. To this President Hawley, of the Switchmen's Union of North America, said;- "All right, let them come; we will not object." , Business men generally are begin ning to feel the result of the strike. The first to be affected were th? commission NEW STEAMSHIP SEEVICE. Une Between Boston and Galveston Established, nnctnn Mass.. Dec. 1. A new freight steamship service, between Boston and Galveston, was started to day with the sailing of the Clyde Line Steamer Algonquin. The steamer car ried a cargo of potatoes, provisions, wire and general freight. She will call at Charleston, S. C, on her way to Galveston, and at Jacksonville on the way back. In the new service weekly sailings will be made. . tt -oi wholesale grocers and Closing ceremonies that nothing is moving. Commission houses are doing nothing. Some of the larger- commission houses today reduced their working forces. In Minneapolis the flour mills clos ed tonight and it is estimated that 3,500 men employed in them are idle. In South St. Paul, where are located the stockyards, only 300 head of cat tle were received today, where, usual- and Officers. Closing Ode "America." Benediction Rev. J. Gl'n er Buskis IS SUPERIOR COURT. Cases Thus Far Disposed of at . Our Present Term. public affairs about him for the advancement and progress of his county, state and people. In;4892 when populism began he became a leading Demo crat in this county afid section of the state, and since then no man in the county and district'has done more arduous and successful work for democ racy, giving freely of his time, energy, intellect and means to the success of the party in county, district and state. Dr. Faison has always been "in the chickest of tbe fight"--"in the trenches with the boys" battling against the enemy without fear or favor and without even the hope of reward. When the State was in the hands of the fusionists in '94 to '98, he was selected a member of the State Executive Committee, of this District in '98, opposed any fusion on the part of Democrats, and took an active and determined part He wants the commission to confine itself sharply to the question of the reasonableness of rates, leaving the finding of facts to the investigating forces of the Departments of Com merce and Labor and Justice, so that all prosecutions can be placed in the hands of the Attorney general and his assistants, which seems a reasonable thing to have done. Then there is the question of reor- State Supreme Court Deelares Char lotte Did Not Impose Prohibitive Tax on Xear-Bew Saloons When It Levied $1,000. Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 1. The Supreme Court sustains the Mecklenburg Supe rior Court in holding that the $1,000 tax imposed by the City of Charlotte; in the case of the State vs. Dannen berg, on near-beer saloons, is valid,, thus setting at rest the prohibition forces of the State, whose leaders had declared if the power of cities and towns to impose such license tax on these places was not sustained there must be another legislative campaign that would assure to towns the power to absolutely control such places. The court's opinion, written by Jus tice Brown, who holds the Charlott ordinance is not ultra vires, and not discriminative, since it applies to all persons alike who would operate suca places, that it is not prohibitive, or rather, that the court can only taxe under consideration the question of reasonableness in view of the show ing of expense for police and other cost of maintaining order at thes places. The court declares the pre sumption of reasonableness is not overcome by the contentions of the defendant. The court holds, further more, that no violation of the four teenth amendment to the Federal con stitution, the ordinance being well within the police power of state and municipality. in redeeming the State, district and county, from fusion rule and also in the I ganizing the Navy Department so as to The following cases on the criminal docket heard yesterday and up to to day at noon have been disposed of: Ed. Stevens, carrying concealed ly 1.800 Is. the daily average, weapon, nol pressed with leave. J. R. Bivens, murder, nol porssed. Leslie Miller, carrying passage of the Suffrage Amendment in 1900.. Reared an ardent Democrat, Dr. Faison has ever been ready "to defend the faith that is in him" and has "stood guard" in the county and district, willingly and gladly crossing swords with republicans whenever and wherever opportunity presented. . - Dr. Faison is a christian gentleman of character and ability, well versed in State and National rlitical issues, a forceful, eloquent speaker an an able, successful, convincing campaigner and debater. 'Should the nomination come to him he will measure up fully to every obligation, make an active, vigorous, brilliant canipaign of the entire District and an able, useful representative of the Democratic people. DuDlin County, the oldest county in this district, has had but little recog- In tbe iron range country the small I aition for its long-time, large Democratic majorities and is justly entitled to get the full benefit that might be made to accrue if the $125,000,000 a year ap propriated for the navy were wisely laid out. 11 of which goes to make up the sum of things that will make the coming session important, aye, very important. . ........ STARTLING SUICIDE' BIG CHANCE FOR FRAUD. towns will soon be facing, a famine i- nnlARB trains of foodstuffs can De SUIT AGAINST TOBACCO TRUST. weapon, judgment suspended on pay ment of coat. D. J. Miller, affray, judgment sus pended on payment of costs. Leslie Miller, affray, judgment sus- Sam Shrago, larceny, nol pressed perior within forty-eight hours 10,000 with leave. brought in there. At Superior 300 men were laid off in the Great Northern j Railway machine shops, The mines will be affected by the stopping of freight traffic. ' On the ore docks at Duluth and Su- men will be out of employment and this nomination, especially when other counties of this district Craven, Jones, Cartaret, Onslow and Wayne have been for years and now are so signally honored with state and national offices. Other things being equal the other counties of this district should justly share, as it is only fair and democratic, in the honors and emoluments of office. Dr. Faison's profession has so freely and constantly given its best efforts .o the State and Democratic party and has been always such a power for Dem ocratic government, that it richly deserves such recognition from the party. As a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee for years, as member of The North Carolina Jamestown Centennial Exposition Commission, and as Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Duplin County, No Decision Has Been Beached As to Postponement of Argument. Washington, D. C, Dec. 1. No de cision has yet been reached by Attorney-General Wickersham as to re questing postponement of the hearing of the arguments in the suit against the American Tobacco Company be fore the Supreme Court of the nited States. The case was postponed by the . court until December 13, and Attor ney-General "Wickersham held a con ference today with Frank B. Kellogg, ; special counsel for the government in . the Standard Oil case and former As : sistant Attorney-General McReynolds, special counsel for the government in .the tobacco case. The effort was to : arrange a date which would be agree able to the government and to tbe ,court, but no decision was reach eo pending further conference. Walter Williams, assault, judgment the general loss on account of no em- Dr Faison has always "made good", displaying wise judgment, good common weights. This Is the Point Being Made by the Government. New York, Dec. 1. The fruitful op portunity for fraud in the haste and bustle of the enormous business done daily on the Williamsburg docks of the American Sugar Refining Com pany was what the government sought to bring .put today in its prosecution of the, six former employees of the company now on trial, charged with defrauding the government by under Greensboro Society Belle Puts Pistol Ball Through Heart. . m A. 1 Vv. n-nsl t -r 1 hi llTV T f I . .. . , -w-w simtiended on payment of cost. pioyment iur iauui ense and excellent discretion. As tne standard nearer oi tne jjemocracy oi Will Haid assault with deadly ueiiver mercuauuiac "'icnis uistrict ne wiu matte a oruiianL campaign aim an auw icpi calmative, ' ' ' thousands of dollars. and will reflect honor upon his state and district. Duplin Democrats, who .' p oritii disnosing of mort- st- Paul, and Minneapolis are dis- inow him best, will present his name to the coming Convention and trust Willis am, trlbuting' points for the entire North- that their County and their candidate will justly receive the nomination gaged property, judgment suspended " . . ... . nr thtsW lnnir f5vithfi ail(, aotive RftrviceS to their nartv. m . i wfiSLfirii H La. tea m tm -- k"" i --o - - oil yajriuoui, ui. wat. R. L. McLeod, disorderly conduct, fined $10 and cost, Ranzell Britt, carrying concealed weapon, judgment suspended on pay ment of cost, which the effect of the stopping of the carrying of freight will be felt. The most j serious - effect will be in Montana, 'particularly -In Butte, Ana conda and Great Falls, where the eop- November 30th, 1909. (Signed) J. R. Quinn, G. M. Houston, Robert James, D. J. Williams, James G. Kenan, G. B.: D. Parker, W. F. Murphy, B. R. Graham, M. D., W. D. Brice, T. Q. Hall, D. S. Williams, A. L. McGowan, N. F. Register, D. B. Williams, W. J. Boney, J. O. Carr, I. P. Alderman; Jos. Rouse, W. A. Fussell, R. L. Carr, M. D., W. F. Pickett, David Fragner, a customs inspector, and once an assistant weigher, testi fied that a busy time two truckc a minute passed over a single set of scales, or eight to the minute on th? four sets in use there for every hour of the day. Each truck weighed half a ton an deach half ton the govern mentwill contend was weighed thir teen pounds Bhort, by the secret ma nipulations of government employees nvnron Rritt TMtass iudrment Per mines smelters are located. jno. F. Croom. W. R. Tucker, A. D. Johnson, Andrew J. Pickett, W- A. Thompson, wh lt ig chargedi were paid cash by HOnzmt jail!.!,, 1.1 juubu. . ' -, r,..4.: T3.l r.tt r. t- t-.: ti . m it- 1-1 n -n TX7 T. Tim TT T Tlill HoTlTTT Tlnil I - . suspended on payment of cost. Herbert Hooks, larceny, not guilty. Bill Eason, assault witb deadly .veapon, judgment suspended on pay ment of cost. TAFT AND ROOSETELT. New York, Dec. 1. It was stated on authority this afternoon that the American Tobacco Companv will op pose any postponement of the hearing before the Supreme Court set for De cember 13. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. A Roosevelt "return from Elba" may strike the imagination favorable, but unless Mr. Taft becomes, very reac tionary unless he consorts with Aid I rich and Cannon and snubs the insur gents -4t is; difficult to see how it can (crystallize into a nomination in 1912. The fact should not be lost sight of that an administration controls tne DomitiHKan rialBcratna nf thirteen : one- I K-Uapp, party Southern state very much as In Montana and Eastern Idaho freight traffic Is tied up. " . The entire town of Butte is depend ent ;on the operation of the mines anr7 smelters. "- When they stop everything stops. All foodstuffs" are imported. Many of the big mining .companies run stores. A miner's credit is good there only as long as he works. The smel ters in Anaconda employ about 2.50P men.- There are also large smelters at Great Falls, employing 5,000 men, who are idle. ... That all hopes of "a settlement of the strike at present are at an end was. indicated -by the departure for tonight of Martin A of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and ' United States Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill, who r. B. Peirce. H. S. Boyette, G. G. Best, W. L. Hill, tt. J. mil, tienry uau, Li. P. Best, S. O. Middleton, S. .S. Bostic, L. H. Sanderson, L. Smith, B. F. ..Villiams, Wm. J. Grady, H. D. Grady, Walter J. Smith, R. D. Kornegay, John vV. Waters, A. H. Whitfield, D. C. Thigpen, R. N. Cole, Furney Jones, G. W. Joodson. Wilson Reaves, E. F. Hicks, Frank Hurst, W. R. Blackmore, John Hardy, J. A. Shine, Thos. Perrett, W. Scott Loftin, B. F. Pearsall, G. W. Ken nedy, M. D., J. A. Ferrell, M. D., P. L. Kornegay, Scott Stanford, J. J. Bowden, Jno. H. Carter, J. M. Williams, M. D., G. M. Long, C. S. Hines, O. P. Middleton, J. A. Powell, L. Middleton, D. W. Hobbs, F. G. WesturooK, J. ti. jfonvieue, J. L. Lane, M. D., H. S. Thomas, R. J. Williams, D. S. Boney, G. W. Carroll, Buckner Davis, Lucian Bradshaw, G. W. Boney, and many others. the sugar company for the evasion of customs duties. If the game ran prop erly the government stood to lose dues on 5,880 pounds of sugar every hour. At this steady flood of trucking rolled across the scales the checke who stood next the weigher was too busy for Fragner towatch him. John J. Longhran, a checker, was asked if all the entries to which he certified . .. a 1 A The Goldsboro Athletic Association desire to thus publicly acknowledge rt!ar Ano tha vntpa In MaxlriV or anv I South American administration does endeavored to settle the dispute by ar the votes cast in its state. These thirteen Southern states have h snleridid nublic spirit displayed by in a Republican national convention their fellow citizens of Goldsboro in 282 votes. The East, from Delaware the liberal patronage bestowed upon to Maine inclusive,' cast : 252 votes, the recent Baseball Fair, whereby the Here,' then, are '534 delegates but of a association has been enabled to great- total of 992. The South and the Eat ly reduce its indebtedness incurred in can control the convention.. c,iT,cr la-H-summer's baseball en- But a third-termer must indeed be tertainment. Ahd especially are we stronger than General Grant was grateful to he ladies wi? so tireless ly and enthusiastically championed our cause and made the Fair so at tractive and so successful. Very cordially, THE DIRECTORS. - Goldsboro Athletic Association. December 2, 1909. bitration. Mr. Knapp said he could do nothing but offer his services, and at this time they were not wanted-; MARSDEN' BELLAMY PASSES. in 1880. " The unwritten law against - rt third term has grown with tho yearE Prominent Wilmington Attorney Suc- V mmbs to Paralysis. Wilmington, N. C. Bellamy, Sd., one Dec. l.--Marsden of Wilmington' of the Republic, and unless Mr. Taft J most distinguished attorneys, died to- goes Tbodily over, to the reactionaries, it is much too early to assume that he will be turned down by his party con vention In 1912. Chattanooga in Southern League. Affirms Hargis Sentence. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. L The Court night at eleven ,0 clock, ; following a stroke of paralysis several months ago. He had been in a comatose state for three days or longer and while at times he rallied noshope was held out to those who waited so -anxiously at his bedside. . . 11 II AT 1111 1 I DIIV HI1fil if ILL I UUI FOR XMAS? Hundreds of satisfactory and appropriate answers to this question are readily found in our attractive display of Beautiful Holiday Goods Now is the time to get the Bestand get it to suit. Our assortment is so complete that the widest range for selection is offered. v - , - We can meet your wants with Bright, New Goods to please every buyer who is seeking an appropriate Christmas Gift for old or young. -; Whatever your needs let us show you that we have Genuine , NEW ATTRACTIONS for CHRISTMAS that will please you. After Being Kindly Remonstrated With by Relative Young Woman Went to Her Room, Where Awful Deed Followed. Greensboro, N. C, Dec. 2. Without any previous intimation and with no earthly motive other than a slight re monstrance from a member of her family about extravagant indulgences. Ethel Norman, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Nor man, of Pomona, passed her mother in the hall at 5:40 o'clock yesterday evening went directly to her room and thirty minutes later pressed a revolver to her bosom and fired, the bullet passing through the centre of her heart and death resulting instantly, the terror-stricken mother rushing in to the room "just in time to see her youngest and devoted daughter breata her last. Why the young lady, who was just budding into womanhood, should be prompted to such a rash act is beyond the comprehension of her closest rela tions and most intimate friends. Sur rounded at all times by ardent admir ers, overwhelmed with devoted atten- represented weights he had seen the tion Dy every member of her family weigher find. and society, in the very glory of youth "Not all," he admitted. Sometimes and tne cnarms which atttach to a had to be away." young woman graced with the culture Three cross-examiners were unable f refinement and the best society, it to shake the testimony of Andrew J. ig nard to attribute any cause for such Mallen, the clerk who swore that a tragedy otn6r than that in a moment James F. Bendernagel, formerly cash- of terrlDie despondency brought about ier for the sugar company, paid cash by tne sligllt but kindly remonstrance, at his office to customs employees in the young WOman became for the mo- uniform. I . ... .in j XI 114. n h,ttot,nnea ' Tenn.. Dec. 1. The of Appeals toaay auirmeu ui m .i cfarrin Little Rock's South-ltence given Beach Hargis for the-mur- uvai A Virginia man thinks his chauffer! ' era Taue franchise to Chattanooga der of his father, former Judge James tried to, murder imT It all depend .ueagua "ouul .. ... 1 , '.v. A T.Mrl whitlia th Virgin In. man was - -t tnHv. The'Drtce paw dy b. tiarB, w " i"" r"-w. W VAWOVU , vwvrf - - - nvtiaArt was 112.600. ' . crossimg th strut afatt. 114 ' V vv - R. A. CREECH, west Centre Streets KE1AJ3ING J1CWKLKR. - - Ml 1 rvfRX!se in Ti-ir vrgus i Al: G. Fields at Messenger upera lleua Dembr 8. ment deranged and fired the deatb- dealing bullet into. her heart without a full realization of its awful conse quences to the aged parents and de voted relatives and friends. XOTICE. Having this day qualified befor th Clerk f the Superior Court of Wayn County, North Carolina, as administra tor of the estate of George W. Brog- den, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons Indebted to said estat t make immediate payment, and to all persons holding claims against th said estate to present them to the un dersigned for payment on or befor the 13th day of November, 1910, er this notice will be pleaded in- bar c their recovery. . This the 13th day of November, 1801. H. T. DAVIS, Administrator of Georg W. Brog dea, deceased, 6eldsbr. N. . f J V , f " ! 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