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GREAT ACTIVITY
IN PUBLIC SCHOOL
MKJ GASTON
Plans Being Made to Spend
$5,800 This Summer for
School Buildings And Im
provements. Election
Went Off Quietly.^
Gala Day for Colored Popu
lation. Work Progressing
on Inter-urban Surveys.
Lines to Be Ready in Two
Years.
Gastonia, N. C., May 7— Gastonia's
municipal election for the year 1907
passed into history at G:3O o'clock
v.sterday afternoon, when the votes
of the day were counted. The ex
citing primary of March the seventh,
l>ad eliminated every interesting fea
ture of the contest and the small
stream of the faithful that strolled
to the ballot boxes did so through
their loyalty to the town and to their
friends. No "dark horse'' was rushed
;ii on the accepted ticket, and the
v hole list of nominees went through
vithout the least of trouble. There
was scarcely any scratching. The
{.uiding of the ship for the next two
years goes to the following nameu
citizens and gentlemen:
Mayor, Charles B. Armstrong, ex
shcrifi of Gaston county and promi
nently identified with every good
thing In the town; for aldermen,
Messrs. V. E. Long, S. M&CS Morris,
James M. Sloan, Eli N. Lineberger,
and Rufus M. Johnston; for school
ommissioners, R. Pinkney Rankin,
wsmes E. Page, Samuel N. Boyce, Jo
seph H. Separk, Pressly Reid. This
is a corking good ticket, and there's
i!ot a man voted into office but that
has the best wishes of the towns
f Ik.
Other municipal wars were waged
on yesterday at Stanley, McAdens
ville, Bessemer City, and other places
in the county, but your correspon
dent does not attempt to cover these.
Great School Wcrk.
Gaston county has never known
such an educational uplift nor such
a "revival of learning" in all her
days as she has enjoyed since Prof.
Frank P. Hall, of Belmont, became
county superintendent of education.
He announced here yesterday that
15,800 would be spent this summer
it' the work of building and enlarging
the county school houses. East
King's Mountain, the new school dis
trict and town recently made by act
of the last legislature gets a $2,000
school building right away, and the
authorities will have it in readiness
tor the opening of the fall session,
'fnat district voted on last Saturday
v school tax of 15 cents, the winners
loading in the voting by a score of
•7 to zero. Cherryville, N. C., gets
11.2U0 for school addition; SI,OOO
goes to the Mount Holly schools,
while Belmont fulls heir to $750. Six
1 andsome country school buildings
will be erected during the summer
reason at an approximate cost of
So'jO each.
Big Day for Negroes.
Today is glory day with the negro
population of the town of Gastonia
It is the occasion of the Big District
Odd Fellows Convention of colored
It-ople, and there are delegates here
from all over this and our neighbor
's State of South Carolina. The
rcost prominent visitor to the city
Grand Master of the World, Hous
ton, hailing from Washington, D. C.,
«'nd being suzerain over the U. S. A.
Africa, Asia and parts of Europe.
He is o ne 0 f the foremost colored
secret order men in America, and the
orders at this place are fortunate
i" securing his services. The usual
•'Cgro baseball game is scheduled for
the afternoon. The Gastonia Opera
House has been chartered for the/
events of the day.
Work on Interurban.
The Four C's Company of Char
to' to is forging its into Gaston
'erritory, having at present four sur
•eyors under general Engineer Kali
at work between Mt. Holly and Mc
•Vuenvilie. They are working out a
! nite from the river to McAdensville,
;-owell. Gastonia and other points.
•»e confidently expect to have an
interurban trolley within the space
1 two years time, and as a backing
r 'his expectation we quote the
words of Mr. Latta who in conversa
,on with a Mt. Holly citizen who
had invested in real estate said,
•oil may expect to see cars through
2 our town inside of two year's time.'
A Grave Charge.
Elliot Mack, a negro at this place,
v ' a " arrested Saturday for an attempt
wreck a train on the Southern
°n April, the 18th. Two white wit
nesses saw him tampering with the
switch, and this forms the bulk of
evidence against him. The Southern
js represented by Mr. O. F. Mason,
f jS( l-, while the defendant has appear
ing for him Messrs. Jones and Gar
and. The case comes up this after
noon in the local courts.
The train which came near being
wrecked on the eighteenth, stopped
I " uhin two feet of the open switch.
THE HICKORY DEMOCRAT
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SB ON
ORDER TG ASENTS
Mayor of Greensboro Be
lieves Agents for Liquor
Houses Outside of State
Are Amenable to the Law.
For Big Celebration.
Plans for School Work
Somewhat Handicapped.
Revival Doing Great Work.
Other Live News From
Gate City.
Greensboro, N. C., May 7. —Mayor
Murphy is standing pat on his order
to liquor agents to discontinue their
business. His interpretation of the re
cent Supreme Court decision in the
South Dakota and in the North Caro
lina case from Thomasville is that
agents of liquor houses, taking orders
in prohibition territories, can be held
as violating the prohibition law.
He also says that under what i 3
known as the Wilson Act the shipping
of liquor to agents in prohibition ter
ritory is exempted from the protection
given by the interstate commerce laws.
The question will evidently be a
mooted one until the Thomasville case
gets squarely before the Supreme
Court for a decision on the vital point.
Planning for Celebration.
A program of unusual interest is be
ing arranged by the members of the
Guilford chapter of the Daughters of
the Confederacy. Solicitor A. L. Brooks
will deliver the address and prepara
tions are being made for a grand cele
bration of the 10th of May. A large
number of veterans will be present and
while .they are here the Daughters
will determine how many of them will
attend the reunion in Richmond.
A Racing Event.
All arrangements have been complet
ed for the big racing event to take
place at the Central Carolina Fair
Grounds Friday afternoon, May 10 and
the event premises to be the greatest
of its kind ever given here. There is a
large list of entries and some of the
fastest horses in Virginia and North
Carolina will be put through their
paces. To avoid conflict with the me
jinorial exercises the management has
decided that the races will not be
called until 2:30 o'clock.
Shows Only Incentive.
The city election today will be a
dull affair. The only incentive to work
is the offer of a pair of shoes by an
enterprising merchant to the candidate
receiving the largest vote. Only one
ticket is in the field and the election
will be without any interest.
The county board of education in
session this morning for the purpose
of naming the public High Schools to
be established in Guilford under the
recent act of the legislature, found it;
had run up against a serious problem.
The recent ruling of the board that at
present only three first class high
schools could be established in a coun
ty having two representatives, cut
Guilford down from its expected four
schools. The board hoped that there
are four country schools able and
ready to comply with all the require
ments, and had proposed to grant each
one without rivalry or contest. But
this morning, instead of four only three
could be allowed, there appeared dele
igations of citizens and school officials
from Pomona. Jamestown. Gnilford
College, Pleasant Garden, Bessemer
and Gibsonville, asking for high
schools. In each instance it was shown
that the law could be complied with,
and that the committees surrounding
the present rural graded schools would
by special tax and private contribu
tion support and maintain a rural
high school. So the board will have to
take some time to consider the various
claims, and in solving satisfactorily
the problem of making six two yards
garments out of six yards of cloth.
A G'"eat Revival,
i The Hamilton-Wakefield revival
services which have been going on at
the First Baptist church for ten days,
with great good to the community,
seem to increase in interest and power.
All services yesterday at morning in
the afternoon and at night, were at
tended by church crowding congrega
tions, and there were over 50 conver
sions. Services will continue this
week.
Mr. James M. Wharton one of the
most estimable citizens and merchants
of the county, dropped dead in his chair
while sitting on the front porch of his
residence at Jamestown Sunday after
noon conversing with friends. In re
cent years he had trouble with his
heart, but was never kept indoors by
it. Funeral services were held at his
residence in Jamestown yesterday af
ternoon at two o'clock, followed by the
interment at High Point.
Mr. Wharton was seventy years old,
a native of this county and was re
lated to most of the Whartons.
He was a splendid citizen always of
a jovial disposition and was beloved
by all who came in contact with him.
He leaves a wife, but no children.
Lonnie Landreth, the young flagman
of the Southern Railway who was
found unconscious and fatally injuredj
beside the railroad track at Pomona i
Saturday morning died yesterday af-|
ternoon at St. Leo's Hospital where he
was taken for treatment. - 1
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* Crack Train on Tne North
ern Pacific was Held-up by
1 Robbers at Welches Spur
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1 and Engineer Murdered
by Robbers.
[ Officers Set Out for Scene of
J Rob b e ry. Bloodhounds
Wired For. Like Train
r Robberies in the Past. No
Money Secured.
Butte, Mont., May 7. —The North
Coast Limited, a crack train on the
Northern Pacific Railroad, has .iust
| been held up at Welch's Spur, east
; of the city, and the engineer killed,
i The sheriff's office has been notified
1 of the robbery and officers are now
preparing to leave for the scene of the
1 hold-up.
i The object of the robbery, it is pre
> sumed, was to secure the contents of
' the through safe, carrying consign
t ments of currency from Seattle, Port
• land and Spokane to eastern points.
t The bloodhounds of the penitentiary
i here have been wired for.
This iB the fourth time the North
t Coast eastbound train has been held
r up in three years. The other three
; times the robberies occurring near
I Bear Mouth, to the west of this place.
This morning's hold-up is nee'.-: the
i scene of the robbery of the Burlington
t flyer wheh occurred two years ago
5 in a section of the country very rough
- and mountainous.
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| Two Injure -
Train Wreck
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'l Holly, Col., May 7.—A California
- limited on the Santa Fe, eastbound,
1 was ditched a mile west of Medway
) last night by spreading rails.
3 The train was running at an unusu
r ally high rate of speed, being six
3 hours late.
All of the nine coaches exept the
last Pullman car turned over. /
The porter and baggagemaster were
1 hurt, the latter having his right leg
broken and a severe gash inflicted in
' his side.
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DUKE DE ARBRUZZI.
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" Is Expected at Jamestown Exposition
Tomorrow.
Norfolk, Va., May 7. —Duke de Ar
-3 bruzzi, commanding the Italian squad
ron at the Jamestown Exposition, will
3 leave for Washington Thursday. He
3 will remain in Washington probably
r through Sunday, departing in time to
3 reach Hampton Roads by May 13th.
- The Duke is expected to visit the
- Jamestown Exposition tomorrow.
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3 Agreement of trance
And Japan Pleases All
Paris, May 7. —The French press
' has received with general satisfac
tion the announcement that negotia
f lions are in progress between France
j f.nd Japan, looking to an understand
ing guaranteeing the political and
commercial interests of the two pow
i crs in the far east, jas relieving
3 France of the Ganger of the loss of
I I Indo-China and serving all nations
i! with interests in far east.
The papers also recognize in the
a' i pproaching understanding a triumph
> ior the British diplomacy.
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HICKORY, N. C.. THURSDAY MAY §, 1907,
SiMa
IN COLUNSIA §. G.
Annual Re-union of Confed
erate Veterans of Palmetto
State Opened in Columbia
With „ Thousands in At
tendance.
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Elaborate Preparations Have
/ Been Made for the Enter
tainment of Visitors. Ex
cellent Programe Arranged
for the Occasion.
Columbia, S. C., May 7. —The an
imal reunion of the Confederate Vet
erans of South Carolina begins in
Columbia today. It is expected that
several thousand men who wore the
prey and several tnousand men and
women who are too young to remem
ber that day will come to Columbia
today, the railroads having offered a
cent a mile rate from all points in
South Carolina.
For several years the reunions have
been held in Columbia. Formerly
ether cities entertained the veterans
in turn but Columbia is centrally lo
cated with convenient railroad facili
ties and gradually has come to be
looked upon as the permanent place
ior the reunions.
At the last session the general as
sembly appropriated $3,500 to assist
in bearing the expenses of the occa
sion, which relieves Columbia of a
heavy expense, as the capital city
has been putting up from $3,000 to
$5,000 each year for this purpose.
However, the Columbia Chamber of
Commerce has gone ahead and raised
a fund to supplement the State ap
propriation and the veterans will be
royally cared for while here.
v The reunion exercises will be held
in the Columbia Theatre today, Wed
nesday and Thursday and among the
most attractive features planned are
the visit of the city school children,
who will sing old-time Southern
songs, the war tableaux and war play
by local talent.
Preparations have been made on
an elaborate scale for the feeding of
the veterans by committees of ladies
and the town is at their command.
The Chamber of Commerce has ap
pointed a committee of fifty promi
nent men, headed by the largest
merchant in the city, Mr. John L.
Mimnaugh, who will be known as
"The Good-time Committee/' and will
devote themselves exclusively to
making the veterans, individually and
collectfcrely, have "a good time."
Program, for Today.
12:20 m. to 5:00 p. m. —Music on
Main street by Columbia Concert
Band.
3:00 p. m.—Manhattan Opera Com
pany, matinee, Mikadoo, Columbia
Theatre. r*
5:00 p. m. to 7:00 p. m.—Reception
to sponsers at Metropolitan Club.
8:00 p. m. to 10:00 p. m. —Concert
on Capitol Grounds by Columbia Con
cert Band.
8:30 p. m. —Manhattan Opera Com
pany, in Belle of New York, Colum
bia Theatre.
Tomorrow's Program .
10:00 a. m.—Opening exercises of
the annual reunion of the State di
vision, United - Confederate Veterans
the program being as follows:
Overture, by Columbia Concert
Band.
Doxology.
Assembly called to order by Capt.
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TWO KILLER, ONE
WILLI INJURED
IN TRAIN GUSH
Through Passenger Train
Crashed Into Fast Freight
Near Wheeling With Fatal
Results. The Cause of
The Wreck.
Baggage and Express Cars
And Engine Completely
Demolished. All Passen
; gers Badly Shaken Up.
Names ot The Killed.
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Wheeling, W. Va., May 7. —Train
No. 7, on the Baltimore and Ohio,
westbound, collided with a fast
freight, eastbound, at Rosby's Rock,
18 miles east of here this morning.
J. L. Painter, of Burton, W. Va.,
express messenger and C. G. i War
ner, baggage master, of Bellaire, 0.,
were killed outright.
The engineer of the passenger
train, C. A. Riley, of Wheeling, was
fataHy injured and cannot 'i v e through
the day.
The accident is alleged to have
been caused by a misunderstanding of
orders.
The two trains were goinj* at about
30 miles an hour when they crashed.
The baggage and express cars were
demolished.
The freight engine also demolished
the passenger engine.
The passengers in the coaches and
Pullmans escaped with severe shak
ing up.
Train No. 7 is the through passen
ger train from New York to Chicago.
Chisolm
Six
Birmingham, Ala., May 7. —Alex-
ander R. Chisholm, former paying tell-i
er, charged with having embezzled 1
SIOO,OOO from the First National Bank
of Birmingham, which sum, it is al
leged, he lost in cotton speculation,
brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed
the punishment at sjix years in the J
Federal penitentiary at Atlanta.
CHAIR WORKERS MEET.
North Carolina Chair Manufacturers' 1
Association Meets at Winston-Sa-
lem. /
Winston-Salem, N. C., May 7. —The. i
North Carolina Chair Manufacturers'
Association is holding its annual -
meeting here this afternoon. i
Besides the election of officers the
association is discussing the question
of prices; the prospect for fall busi
ness, besides.- outlining policies.
There are about 40 chair manufacture
ing plants in the State. •]
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Increase oj 10 Per Cent
Is Expected Soon .
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New Bedford, Mass., May 7. —An in
crease of 10 per cent in the wages -
of the cotton mill operatives in this 1
city is looked for soon as the result of
a recent ten per cent advance granted
in Fall River.
Secretary Ross, of the Spinners'
Union, says:
"The manufacturers have contracted 1
for six months ahead and have noth-
ing to fear during that time at least.
The mills are in a prosperous condi- «
tion, and the demaud is greater than
tile supply, and they have got to keep s
the wages up." \
BBS
WHO SHOT FARMER
Infuriated Mob Wreak Ven
geance on Negro at Dear
ing, Ga., Body Riddled
With Bullets After Lynch
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Mob Then Visited Negroes
Home and Administered
Severe Whipping to Each
Member of his Family. No
Arrests Made.
Augusta, Ga., May 7. —A special to
the Herald from Dearing, Georgia,
says:
/ Charles Harris, a negro, who yes
terday shot and seriously wounded
Hay den Pearson a prominent farmer,
was lynched last night by a mob of
unmasked men.
His Body was riddled with bullets.
The mob then visited the negro's
home, severely whipped the members
of his family and gave them a brief
( time in which to get out of McDuffie
county,
Pearson, who lives near this place,
was remonstrating with the negro
about poor work done on his farm,
when Harris drew a revolver and
fired several shots into his body.
Pearson probably will die.
A posse was immediately organized
and captured the negro.
He was started toward Thompson,
[ but never got through the Deep Swamp
which had to be crossed. ;
t No arrests have been made.
r Business of New Bedford
t W ill Likely be Suspended
New Bedford, Mass., May 7.
Every mill in this city, it is believed
/will,shut down during the last week
t in August, according to a vote of the
, cotton tnill operatives to take their
vacation at that time.
While the vote was taken by the
"J operatives in the weave mills only,
)it is the general opinion that the
rpinning plants will take the same
step,, which means that during the
last week of August practically the
entire business of this city will be
suspended.
Famous
Is Now
Boise, Idaho, May 7. —As a precau
tionary measure, street preaching or
speaking will be stopped in Boise dur
ing the trials of Haywood and the
other leaders of the Western Federa
tion of Miners for the alleged murder
of Frank Steunenberg.
It is feared that freedom of speech
in the street may lead to a local agi
tation for or against the prisoners and
possible disorders.
The city continues entirely quiet
and there is not the slightest indica
tion of disorder. An occasional crank
is feared.
Judge Wood has given no indication
as to what his decision may be in the
matter of the bill of particulars asked
for by the defense.
Should this motion be granted there
will undoubtedly be considerable delay
in opening the trial.
7rans-Atlantic Shipping
In Danger of Tie-Up
New York, May 7. —A serious tie-up
of trans-Atlantic shipping now ap
pears imminent as a result of the
ctrike of the longshoremen at this
point.
Practically every one of the com
panies which operate big passenger
and mail steamers between New York
and European ports are affected and
in addition many Southern and coast
wise steamship lines and a large num
ber of docks, used by tramp steam
ers, are seriously inconvenienced.
According to the strike leaders 10,-
000 men have quit work.
Killed his Wife and Baby
And Then Suicided
Washington, D. C., May 7. —William
O'Rice, of this city, shot and killed
his wife, mortally wounded his baby
and then committed suicide by shoot
ing himself today.
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A woman has a queer idea about
my one who wears false hair unless
it's herself.
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Head-on Collission on
The Mobile and Ohio
St. Louis, Mo., May 7.—A dispatch
f o the Globe-Democrat says a fast
passenger train on the Mobile and
Ohio from St. Louis to the Florida
coast collided head-on with a freight
near Percy, 111., last night.
In a meagre report from Percy it
taid six persons vere injured, but
it is believed none> were fatally hurt.
THE OP «
ALL KINDS AT THIS OFFICE.
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
RUTHERFORD
HAS DIMINISHED
New Law Applying to Ruth
erford County has Excel
lent Results. Trade with
Marion Greatly Diminish
ed. Town Almost Dry.
Many Guilty Parties Now
Doing Service on Chain
gang. District Meeting of
Knights of Pythias. Other
Rutherfordton Notes.
Rutherfordton, May 7. —Under the
Gallert liquor law, a special act applic
able to this county, only, the liquor
traffic that has been going on between
Marion and this place is rapidly b«ing
broken up.
Under the new law no person is al
lowed to have over one gallon of whis
key in his posession at any one time,
and any amount over one gallon is pri
ma facie evidence that the party is
guilty of retailing and is punishable
under the law.
Since the law went into effect there
has been no less than half a dozen ne
groes that have been making trips to
Marion, "pulled," tried and convicted
and are now doing road duty on the
town's chain gang.
Several other arrests have been
made, the prisoners being bound over
to the next term of the Superior Court,
charged with the same offense. The
rigid enforcement of the new act is
making our town exceedingly "dry"
at this time, the "blind tiger" business
being about cut out.
About the unly liquor that is brought
here now is by parties who are able to
order it from other States.
The district meeting of the Knights
of Pythias will be held with the Hen
rietta Lodge on Saturday night, May
18th. The order is in a flourishing
condition -fia this district and has a
large membership.
Mr. W. C. Mcßorie, Esq., of Mon
roe, who formerly resided here, has
returned to Rutherfordton and is now
associated in the practice of law with
the well-known firm of Mcßrayer &
Mcßrayer. The style of the new firm
is Mcßrayer, Mcßorie & Mcßrayer.
Drs. Gaston B. Justice and A. M.
Edwards, recent graduates of the At
lanta Medical College, have returned
to their homes here. Dr. Justice, af
ter spending a few days here with rel
atives and friends, will go to Marion,
where he will locate and practice his
profession.
Messrs. Matt Mcßrayer, D. F. Mor
row and Solomon Gallert left yester
day for Raleigli, where they go on le
gal business, having several cases on
appeal which they will argue before
the Supreme Court.
Mr. Matt Lynch, one of the county's
best and most substantial citizens, last
week suffered a stroke of paralysis at
bis home on Broad River, and owing
to his extreme old age, there is little
hope of his recovery.
Rutherfordton continues to improve.
Mr. Ed Beam's handsome new resi
dence on Mitchell avenue is nearing
completion and Mr. John H. Wood is
placing material for another nice resi
dence on North Washington street.
There is not a vacant house in town
and several more of our citizens are
contemplating building.
Mr. John C. Mills returned yester
day from a business trip to Ashevllle
and other points.
The many friends of Mrs. K. J. Car
penter, who has been quite sick for
the past three weeks, will be glad to
learn that she is improving.
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DEATH OF tyIRS GIBSON.
Died This Morning in Baltimore—Re
mains WWill be Brought to Concord
Tomorrow.
Concord, May 7 —Mrs. Emily Gibson,
wife of Robert E. Gibson, of this
place, died this morning in Baltimore,
where she had gone for treatment for
nervous prostration.
The remains will be brought here
tomorrow morning and the funeral will
take place tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Gibson was a sister of Miss
Julia McGruder, the noted writer, and
she was prominently connected in club
and social circles of North Carolina
and Virginia.
SIX PERSONS KILLED
Insane Carpenter Kills a Family of
Six.
San Francisco, May 7.—Walter
Charley Davis, a carpenter, in a fit of
insanity, shot and killed a family of
six persons with whom he resided at
414 Pierres street this city.
One lodger in the house escaped.
She was a girl of 17. Davis pointed
gun at her and was preparing to
shoot when he said she resembled
his daughter, so he spared her life.
The shots attracted a large crowd
?nd a rush was made upon Davis,
and as he was attempting to reload
weapon, he was overpowered and
turned over to police.
Davis fancied that tho people In
house had formed a plot to kill him
and take his money.
The guests at a party usually, feel
much more at home than father does.