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he Monroe Journal Volume XVII. No. 26. Monroe, N. C., Tuesday, July 26, 1910. One Dollar . rear. PAID FCR ANOTHER'S CRIHE. Man Who Was Sentenced for Life for Murder of His Own Family is Cleared After HU Death. Toura, France. lipateh. il-t. A rag-picker name ! Joseph today confessed to the assassination April 21, 1901, of five children of a farmer named Briere, in the vicinity of Charlres. The father of the children was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment He died in prison. The trial of Briere attracted the attention of the whole of France. Four of his daughters, aged reipect ively 14, 11, and 4, and his son, 7 years of age, were found in bed one morning stabbed and beaten to death. The farmer was arrested and charg ed by the police with the crime. Ac cording to a theory advanced by the police to prove a motive for the crime, Briere, who owned a small farm near Cerancez, wished to mar ry a woman of considerable wealth. Circumstantial evidence led to the conviction that the farmer, consider ing his family an encumbrance, mur dered his five children in order to carry out his wishes. . Briere stoutly maintained his in nocence throughout the trial, declar ing that two tramps entered tLe house during his absence and killed the children. He added that he re turned while the murderers were robbing the place and that they at tacked him and left him for dead. During the trial the judge got down from the bench and gave loud ex pression of his opinion of the guilt of the prisoner while the spectators shouted, "Kill him, kill him!" A specific incident of the trial occurred when Bricre's surviving daughter, who, the police declared, only escap ed tie fate of the other children by not responding to Briere's invitation to go to see him, went on the wit ness stand and soblingly protested that her father was innocent and begged the court to restore him to her. The Pomato." Ltzlnpton llpatvh. Somewhere we have read that Bur bank, the wizard out in California who can gather figs of thistles and make dollars grow like apples on the trees, has perfected a plant he calls the "pomato," a combination of the tomato and Irish potato that pro duces potatoes underground and to matoes on top. Last week we saw such a combination, but Burbank had nothing to do with it. Mr. W. B. Hunt of Tyro fetched a bunch of potato tops to town clinging to which were small, green balls that looked like young tomatoes and which, when cut open, revealed an array of seeds just like a tomato. The plants produced Irish potatoes in the ordi nary way. Mr. Hunt plants the "Copper Eye" potatoes, and says that after several seasons the seed will "run out," that is, the type of potato changes from spotted to all white or all blue tubers. Last spring he planted new seed but did not have quite enough to finish out a row so he planted seme of the potatoes he had raised last year. Last year he had tomatoes near the potatoes, but none this year. In the part of the row where he planted the home raised tubers these tops grew which produced the tomatoes. W. E. Bell and Laney W. Baker Granted Their Freedom. Rait iirh Dlrpatch, 22nd, to Charlotte (ibef rver. Governor Kitchin pardons W. E. Bell of Union county from a 4 years' sentence to the penitentiary after two years service, on the ground that the judge now says he had much doubt as to the intent of the prison er to commit the embezzlement of which he was convicted. He was a sewing machine agent. Another pardon is for Laney W. Baker of Union county, serving 30 months in the State prison for be trayal under promise of marriage. That the prisoner has already been sufficiently punished, is the view taken by the Governor and prosecu tors. He has served 22 months. Hr. Parker Slated for Conjjes sional Race. Islington Dlipatrh, 2th. The Republican Congressional con vention of the seventh district, and the Republican Judicial convention of the tenth district will be held here at 3 o'clock, August 9th. J. J. Par ker of Monroe is slated for the Con gressional nomination and Charles Holton of Asheboro, nephew of the district attorney, is, named for the solicitorship. It is said there are sev eral names suggested for judge but cone is known. Death of Mrs. R. L. Stewart. Mrs. Sarah M. Stewart, widow of Mr. Robt L. Stewart, died at her home in Monroe last Wednesday morning, at the age of C7 years. She had been sick a long time and for the past seven months she was con fined to the bed. She suffered un told pain and was very anxious for the end to come in order to be re lieved from her suffering. Stomach trouble was the cause of her death. Funeral services were held at Cen tral church Thursday afternoon and the interment was in the Monroe cemetery. Messrs. Robt. Crow, W. B. Houston, Pickett McLarty, W. S. Lee, J. E. Stewart and W. B. Love were pall bearers. Mrs. Stewart's maiden name was Phifer, and she was a sister of Mr. V. H. Phifer and Mrs. E. A. Arm field. She was reared in Vance town ship, and was married to the late R. L. Stewart in 18C7. They spent most of the time on their farm, and later at Unionville, where they moved to educate their children, and finally lived some years in Florida. On the death of Mr. Stewart eight years ago, Mrs. Stewart built in Monroe and moved here, where she has since lived. She is survived by the following children: Mr. B. F. Stewart of Flor ida, Mr. Plummer Stewart of Char lotte; Rev. S. A. Stewart, missionary in Japan; Mr. Sidney Stewart of St Louis, Mr. Cyrus Stewart of Monroe, Mrs. L. X. Presson and Misses Agnes and Annie Stewart of Monroe. She wa3 a lifelong member of the Meth odist church. Having been all her life a woman of great energy and ac tivity, the forced inactivity of ill health bore heavily on her. She had all her life lived so that she was ready to die, and when health and activity left her, she was anxious for the end to come. A coincidence with the death of Mrs. Stewart is the fact that her son, Ilev. S. A. Stewart, was to be mar ried last Wednesday, the day of his mother's death. Being so far away, the news of her death was not cabled him, and the presumption is that the marriage service took place at the time set. Mr. Stewart, whose first wife died not very long after they went to the foreign field, was mar ried Wednesday to Miss Lannius, a missionary. About $150 Worth of Stamps Are Found in a Church. Statrnvlllr Landmark. Tuesday afternoon, while making the Methodist church at Catawba ready for the Statesville District con ference, which met there yesterday, some young ladies found postage stamps of the aggregate value of $151.25. The stamps were of the denominations of Is, 2s, 8s and 10s and were wrapped in newspapers which had been chocked in the back of a seat in the rear of the church. How came the stamps there is not definitely known, but the postoftice at Sherrill's Ford was robbed in De cember, 1907, and it is believed the stamps found are a part of the rob ber's booty. In 1907 several stores in Catawba county were broken into and robbed of money, stamps, etc. The guilty party stole a horse from Brown & Cornelius and pursuers got so hot after him that the horse was turned loose at Catawba and the rider disappeared. It is believed now that he spent the day in the church and left the stamps. Illegal to Loan Friend a Bottle of Whiskey. A new rule in the operation of the State prohibition law has just been laid down by Judge Cook at Raleigh in a verdict of guilty of retailing on the admission set up as a defense by Ransom Baker of Wake Forest that he loaned a friend a bottle of whis key. The judge holds that the act of loaning the whiskey really consti tutes a sale. Prof. N. Y. Gully, dean of law at Wake Forest College, was defending the negro when the rule was made. It is probable that the case will go to the Supreme court to test this issue. Boy Killed by a Fish. Wet Palm Brarh, Fla., Dltpatch, Sflth. Death in almost unheard of form waited for Maurence S. Baker, a 11-year-old Jacksonville lad, when he dived from a boat while bathing in Lake Worth yesterday. A stingaree, a huge. flat-bodied and gruesome spe cies of warm water fish, was lurking just under the boat One of the barbed spines which the fish carries on its whip-like tail pierced the boy's neck cutting into the jugular vein. He rose to the surface crying for help' and bled to death in fonr minutes. RED HOT RADICAL ROW. flailon Butler and Congressman Morehead Trying to Capture the Chairmanship from Duncan and Other. Special tmra Grn.fcoro to Ralngh Sfw and 'lnrr. The fight in the Republican party organization in North Carolina as to whether the Duncan-Adams regime shall continue or the Butler-Morehead influences shall succeed to the party management and dispensation of Fed eral patronage, is now the stage cen ter attraction to all Radicals who have the privilege of having anything to do with determining who shall be the "Boss Pie Dispenser" in North Carolina. Every Republican from now until the State convention meets at Greensboro August 10th, who is allowed to be a delegate from his county to that convention, will have thundered in his ears the volleys of accusation for and against the lead ers of the contending forces. The light artillery for the past two weeks has been sounding from Con gressman Morehead's headquarters at Washington in the shape of frank ed letters and faked extracts from the Congressional Record, also frank ed, and from the headquarters of Marion Butler at Washington, and the personal mouthpiece of his, the Caucasian of Raleigh. All this rat tle of musketry seems to have made no impression on the forces it was directed against, the old-line Repub lican hierarchy represented by Dun can, Adams, Meekins, Pritchard, Rol lins, Lusk, et id omnus genus. At least there was no return shot made until it developed that on July 7th, Butler had gone down in Nash coun ty and captured practically the whole of that county for his and Morehead's control of the State organization, in spite of the presence and protest of Assistant United States District At torney Meekins. This victory was followed up by the surprising intel ligence that on last Saturday United States District Attorney Holton had gone over to the county convention of Randolph, and after making an insurgent speech, had succeeded in having instruction passed for the voting of Randolph solid for the Butler-Morehead policy and chairman at the State convention. Again it was learned, that in the Guilford prima ries last Saturday right under the nose of Editor Smith of the News, State Chairman Adams and other old-line influences, there had quietly been selected in the list of delegates to the county convention, many Butler-Morehead delegates. On the oth er hand strong opponents of the Butler policies were named as anti Butler delegates, such influential names as G. S. Bradshaw, John Schultz, Z. P. Smith and Robert II. White appearing in the list. The anti-Butler-Morehead or pro-Duncan-Adams forces had had an awakening from the developments of the Nash and Randolph county conventions. They realized that the fulminations through the mails in franked letters from Morehead and through letters and editorials in Butler's newspaper, in the absence of any literature or information whatever on the other side, were having effect and secur ing endorsement for Butler's real leadership. News in Waxhaw Vicinity. Waxhaw Enterprise. Miss Emma Hunter of Wedding ton has gone to Rock Hill, where she will teach an eight months' school. One of Mr. T. W. McKibben's fine spotted match horses died last week. This is quite a heavy loss to Mr. Mc Kibben. Hoyte, the four-montbs-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Godfrey of this community, died Saturday morning at C o'clock and was buried Sunday at Waxhaw Baptist church. Mr. Len Paxton's barn, at Mat thews, was struck by lightning Mon day evening during a storm and was burned to the ground. One fine mule was burned, together with a large quantity of feedstuff. Mr. W. R. Wilkins of Concord is here this week making arrangements to move his family to that place. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins have made many friends in Waxhaw who regret to see them move away. The twenty-first annual reunion of Bain Academy will be held on rn day, August 5th, at which time Con gressman E. Y. Webb will deliver the address. An interesting pro gram of Bhort speeches and music has been arranged tor tne occasion. The supervisors of Vance township will meet at Indian Trail Julv 29th. to hear reports of overseers and ar range for public road worK. The Prize Winners at Belk's. At the sale last week Belk Bros', offered fifteen prizes free. A box was placed in the store and those who desired to do so wrote their name on a card and placed it in the box. Yesterday morning the box was well shaken and a little child drew out the tickets, the first drawn out retting first prize, and so on. The prizes and winners were as follows: 1. $4.00 Ralston Patent Oxford -Maggie Crowell, colored, Monroe. 2. ?2.00 Beautiful Muslin Petti coat N. A. Ross, Unionville No. 1. 3. $1.50 Man's Fine Cluett Shirt Townley Stevens, Monroe. 4. ?6.00 Lace Trimmed Coat Suit Ben Watts, colored, Monroe. 5. ?3.00 Queen Quality Oxford -Ben Houston, colored, Monroe. C. $1.50 Suit Case Mrs. B. B. Helms, Monroe No. 9. 7. $3.50 Stetson Hat-J. R. Press ley, Monroe No. 9. 8. Black Embroidered Fine Petti coat J. Z. Nash, Monroe No. 9. 9. $2.50 Pair Men's Pants Mrs. Samatha Davis, Monroe No. 8. 10. $3.50 Large Velvet Rug Fannie Presson, Monroe No. 1. 11. Ladies' $3.50 Hat Mrs. M. W. Lockhart, Monroe. 12. $1.25 Baby Billiken Bright Hamilton, Monroe. 13. Unlucky Number: a Five Dol lar Bill Miss Minnie Jones, Monroe. 14. $1.25 Ladies' Waist -J. M. Privett, Monroe. 15. W. B. Corset -B. B. Helms, Monroe No. 9. There were quite a crowd present at the drawing, and Dr. Belk an nounced that every one who hadn t received a present should have one. True to his ivord, he gave a nice embroidered handkerchief to every woman and girl present, and a nice handkerchief to every man and boy. He must have given awav a hundred, and it was a happy crowd. Police Took "Him" Off and the 'Squire Took "It" Off "Us." There was a brush in Lincolnton between county school Superintend ent Heafner and the editor of the Lincoln Times, in rthich the quill driver was worsted. In giving an account of the affair, the editor says in part: As we walked up and met, we said, "Good morning, Professor." He spoke and then said, "Will you pub lish in your paper that 1 did not steal that money?" We told him yes, and added we had never said anyone had stolen it, but had said no one believed any one had stolen it. He then said, "You have treated me mean," and struck us on the head and face several times. Whether he knocked us down or we stumbled, anyway we fell and he on us. He struck ns several times after we fell, before the police came and took him off. As to our wounds, we had a black face, and head was sore and gave us much pain. We are still suffering with it. It caused excitement in the home and a physician was called in. But we believe we shall eventually get over it and continue to run the Times as an earnest advocate of the peoples' rights, based upon truth, horse-sense and corn-field logic. We were both tried before 'Squire Padgett Saturday morning. Mr. Heafne: swore it away from Mayor Mouser, because he was a Republi can. We had more faith in human justice and let the Democrat court try us. He put a penny and cost on us both alike. We took an appeal, but the 'Squire finally took it off of us. Fire In Buford. The house and all its contents, ex cept three feather beds, of Mr. G. W Belk of Buford township were burn ed last Tuesday night about 9 o'clock. Mr. Belk and family had gone on a visit to his father, Mr. II. W. Belk, and the fire when discovered had made such headway that hardly any thing could be saved. The loss is pretty heavy on Mr. Belk, who is a young man just starting in life. He carried no insurance. Eleven Killed by Gun Explosion. Eleven men of the coast artillery are dead as the result of the blowing out of a breech lock in one of the big guns at Fortress Monroe, Va., with which the fort was engaged in target practice Thursday. A half dozen others are in the hospital, one of whom may die. The exact cause of the explosion is not yet definitely determined, although a board of in quiry was appointed immediately af ter the disaster by orders from the war department in ashington. COTTON. Three bales on local market yes terday, brought 15 cents. S York Plpatcb, hid. The past week in the cctton mar ket has been characterized by in creased activity in the speculation and by frequent and at times violent fluctuations in prices. For instance, in a single day Tuesday, July 19 prices broke $4 a bale on July, $3 on August, and $1.25 to $2 a bale on the later months. The break on Monday was traceable largely to a well organized bear raid. As a pre lude to the bear attacks were sent broadcast, that the bull pool had sold out its holdings and that the deal in July was over. London operators and spot interests of prominence at tacked the market vigorously. Many stop-loss orders were uncovered in the whole list and for a time support was lacking. Yet the general list has recorded a net advance for the week. Leading bulls denied in vig orous fashion that they had abandon ed the deal and they followed this announcement with aggressive bid ding and buying, not only of July and August, but also of the fall months. Moreover, much of the crop news has been unfavorable. Many believe that the situation in impor tant sections of the South is such as to preclude the possibilty of a yield of the requisite size. Trade reports in some cases are rather more favor able. In the local dry goods market the demand has improved and at some advance in prices. Rural Carrier Editor Going to Europe. KulMt'li Newn and 'Werver. In the citv at the Yarborough House yesterday was Mr. J. Hamp ton Rich, editor of the Carrier's Messenger of Winston-Salem, who is on his wav to the National (lood Roads Congress at Niagara Falls, and to the International Good Roads Congress at Brussels, Belgium, being commissioned by Governor kitchin to theso meetings. Mr. Rich will spend some time in Europe observing the roads of the continent. His paper, the Carrier's Messenger of Winston-Salem, is the official organ for the rural carriers of the South, and it carries news that is of interest to all rural free delivery carriers, to all other post- office carriers and to the public gen erally. Texas Elects Anti - Prohibitionist, but Submits Question to People. Dallas DUpateh.'.'Uh. Oscar B. Colquitt, an anti-prohibi tionist, was yesterday nominated for Governor by a plurality which will probably reach 60.000. Cone John son and uliam Poindexter, prohi bitionist candidates, have only about a thousand votes' difference between them. These are now in favor of Poindexter, but may change as some heavy Johnson counties are yet to come. Former Attorney General David son is about 20,000 votes behind Poindexter and Johnson. The proposition to submit to pop ular vote a prohibitionist amendment to the constitution has carried by probably 20,000. This presents the situation of an anti-prohibition Dem ocrat being nominated with a party demanding the submission of a pro hibitionist amendment confronting him. This was caused by the pro hibitionist split on candidates. Harry Lewis Confesses. Kuineke, Va., Dlxpateh, 24th. Harry Lewis, the 18-year-old white boy who was arrested yesterday at Bristol charged with the murder here last Sunday of Henry F. Zachary, a miser of Mount Gilead, N. C, and at whose door the coroner's jury yester day laid the crime, confessed to the killing today to a Roanoke police of ficer who went to Bristol for the prisoner. The confession was made in the presence of the chief of police of Bristol. Lewis will be brought to Roanoke tonight Zachery and the boy sought shelter in the stable during a rain storm. Lewis was after a roll of cur rency he knew Zachery had, but fail ed to secure the money. The green backs, amounting to $625.00, were found sewed in a secret pocket on an under pair of pants worn by Zach ery by the police when the body was searched. Mr. W. S. Blakeney and family have been spending some time at Unaka Springs, Tenn. Capt. J. M. Odell of Concord died Thursday night of paralysis. He was about 80 years old and one of the foremost business men of the State. Farmer's Union Meeting ay in Raieizh. Raifh Nrwt and Otrer. The North Carolina Division of the National Farmers' Union is to be in session in Raleigh for two days this week, and the outlook is for a great assemblage of farmers inter ested in the agricultural develop ment of the State. The sessions are to be on Tuesday and Wednesday and will be held at the A. and College, where the farm ers will have the opportunity of see ing the big State plant for the edu cation of farmers and of investiga ting the plans which are used to present modern methods of farming. The address of welcome will be made by Hon. J. S. Wynne, the may or cf Raleigh, and the response will be made by Dr. J. Thomas Smith of Westfield. There will be heard with great interest the address of Dr. II. Q. Alexander of Mecklenburg coun ty, State president who is active and energetic in looking after the inter ests of the organization. There will be addresses of practi cal value by many leading farmers of the State and besides these there will be addresses by Dr. D. II. Hill, president of the A. and M. College; Major W. A. Graham, Commission er of Agriculture; Dr. J. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent cf Public In struction, members of the Depart ment of Agnculture, and members of the faculty of the A. and M. Col lege. It had been expected that Governor Kitchin would address the meeting, but he has been called to Scotland Neck by the serious illness of his mother and is not expected to be in the city. Next Sunday will be Great Day at Rocky River. Waiieliorn Matrli, i'lth. Next Sunday, the last Sunday in July, is the time for the July meet ing at old Rockv River Baptist church, located in the northern part of the county and it is to a great day. For 161 year, without a break, this annual gathering has been held at this old church and even during the war the gathering was largely at tended. Rev. John A. Summey of Wades boro is the pastor of the church and he has invited Rev. Roy W. Davis of Advance to preach the annual ser mon this year. There will be two services with a dinner in the grove and the services will continue for a week, twice a day and a basket din ner each day. The meeting house.although large, will not accommodate the people for the Sunday meeting it never has before but the grove of great oaks is large and an ideal location and the people will gather in little groups beneath the trees and exchange their confidences and experiences. Some will be present who went first to the July meeting when babes in the arms of their mother and others who have attended will be missed they have gone up higher. Want's Wife to Wed Afain Vir ginian' Unusual Will. Winchester INspalrh. The will of Sheriff Clark H. Pur- cell, admitted to record here, is one of the most remarkable filed in the clerk's office, in that the testator ex presses the hope that his widow, Mrs. Bertha Purcell, should marry again if it would contribute to her happi ness. She and her husband are to enjoy his estate during her lifetime. After her death the home place, to which he says the poor and distress ed have always been welcome, is to be known as the Clark Purcell Home for Aged and Indigent White Wom en and Unfortunate Young Women of Frederick County, and is to be managed by a board of trustees. The revenues from the farm are to be di vided among the poor of Frederick county. Provision is made for the education of a number of adopted children. The estate is worth about $60,000 Mr. Kope Elias, for years one cf the best known citizens of western North Carolina, died Monday at his home at Governor's Island, Swain county. Mr. Elias suffered a stroke of paralysis at the home of his son, Dr. Lewis W. Elias, in Biltmore, on the night of October 18, 1909, and while after weeks and weeks of ill ness he was able to be partially about, he never recovered from the stroke. A few months ago he was removed to his home, "Governor's Island," where he spent his remaining days. Mr. J. J. Montgomery of Buford township has a perfectly developed brown Leghorn chicken about a month old that has only one wing.
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