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'he Monroe Jou T7T T jKJ Volume XVII. No.' 30. Monroe, N. C., Tuesday, August 23, 1910. One Dollar a Year. V KILLED HIS OWN BROTHER. Jesse C Edwards, One Time in the Hospital (or Insane, Shoots His Brother Without Apparent Cause. As Cyrus Edwards of Anson coun ty returned from church Sunday and walked into the house, his brother, Jesse C. I -awards, picked up a pis tol and killed him instantly. Jesse then put on his Sunday clothing and went to the home of Mr. 11. H. Edwards, where he was later per suaded to give himself up, and was carried to jail at Wadesboro. The dead man and his slayer are sons of Mr. James T. Edwards, a substantial citizen who lives in An son county near the New Salem line. The neighborhood is not from the one where the Curran and Thomas tragedy occurred two weeks before. Neither of the brothers had been married and both lived with their parents, who are quite old, and the mother at least is very feeble. Some two or three years ago Jesse Ed wards was sent to the hospital for the insane at Morganton, but after staying four or five months escaped and came back home, walking all the way. As he seemed to have im proved his people did not send him back. He was working this year in the crop with his father and brother, and it is reported that he had taken up an idea that his brother was try ing to cheat him. He is about thirty years old. Another Account. The Wadesboro Messenger and Intelligencer gives this account of the killing: Yesterday Cyrus went to preach ing at Flint Ridge church, after which he drove to the home of his parents, reaching there about four o'clock. As he drove up his father and mother and brother, Jesse, were sitting on the front porch. He hitched his horse and, just as he stepped on the porch. Jesse rose from his chair and told him he must take back something he had done or said. Cyrus replied that he had nothing to take back, whereupon Jessie drew his pistol. Cyrus then jumped behind their mother for pro tection, but this did not deter the desperate man, who immediately reached aronnd the woman who bore him and, pressing the pistol against the left side of bis brother, fired three times in rapid succession. The fraticide immediately left the house, and the wounded man sat down in a chair, remarking to his father as he did so that he was killed. These were the only words he spoke, as he immediately fell from the chair and expired, the bullets all entered the left side below the heart, two of them passing entirely through the bodr. Edwards has not yet employed a lawyer but there is no doubt that in sanity will be plead when he is brought to trial. In June, 1907, Edwards was sent to the State hos pital at Morganton for treatment be cause of his mind. After staying at the hospital six weeks he escaped and returned home. The hospital authorities, so far as known, made no effort to recapture him and in Jan., 1908, the clerk of the court re ceived his discharge, the reason for the dischargo being given as his im proved condition. On the 14th of July Cyrus Ed wards and another brother, J. W. Edwards, went before Clerk of the Court Dunlap and procured exami nation papers for Jesse Edwards in requisition of lunacy proceedings. Edwards was brought here on the 19th of July and sent back home on the recommendation of Dr. J. M. Covington, Jr., county physician. At this time the proceedings were not formally dismissed and Thurs day afternoon Edwards was again brought before the clerk of the court. At this hearing Dr. Covington stated that so far as he could tell there was nothing wrong with Edwards' mind, and that he did not think his re lease would be a menace to the com munity in which he lived. After the hearing Edwards was given his liberty. - Sent Poisoned Candy. rrom, W. V., Dlipatch, th. John L Hartshaw is in jail here today, held without bail on a charge of sending poisoned candy to Ellen Navelle, the pretty daughter of the wealthiest land owner of Grant coun ty. She lives at Williams. It is alleged that Hartshaw compelled the girl to promise to marry him and sent her strychnine in candy when she refused to carry out the alleged pledge. Official Vote Union CANDIDATES. II J j f J3 ja a a S a 1-2 o eg Clerk of Court: ; D. A. Houston Sheriff: John Griffith ; Treasurer: f J. Walter Laney - R. T. Sistare ; Register of Deeds: : M.C.Long R. C. Griffin - , J. David Simpson : J. Ed. Stewart ! Commissioner: Jerre C. Laney Hiram T. Baucom ' Thos. J.Gordon.:! Wm. G. Long Surveyor: R. W. Elliott .j Coroner: !j J.S.Plyler 1 Representative : j R. V. Houston- I Henry McWhorter John C. Sikes J. E. Broom W. A. Love- Recorder: Robt L. Stevens Lee M. Howie C. Vance McNeely The above table gives the vote in all the precincts in the county, at which primary elections were held for the nomination of Democratic candidates. No election was held at Kuto because the tickets were not on hand. The tickets had been sent out but did not reach the polling place. The executive committee met yesterday and canvassed the vote and declared the following nominees: Clerk Superior Court, D. A. Hous ton, no opposition. Sheriff, John Griffith, no opposi tion. Surveyor, R. W. Elliott, no oppo sition. Coroner, J. S. Flyler, no opposi tion. Recorder, R. L Stevens. Representatives, R. V. Houston and J. C. Sikes. J. E. Stewart and M. C. Long will run the race over for register of deeds. J. A. Gamble was declared the nominee for cotton weigher at Wax haw, and Mr. Ellis May at Wingate, he having received a majority ol one. T. J. Gordon, J. C. Laney and W. G. Long were declared nominated for county commissioners. J. Walter Laney was declared the nominee for treasurer. The votes for cotton weigher at the different places were as follows: Wingate J. W. Outen 29, E. S. May 30. Waxhaw J. A. Gamble 251, J. II. Richardson 35, E. C. Godfrey 34, T. M. Haywood 21, Eugene Secrest 8, J. R. Eason 20. Marshville-J. V. Trull, 149, B. F. Black 192, S. D. Moore 18, M. 0. Bowman 43. J. E. Jerome 19. L. Hamp Moore 7. J. Walter Dean 15. Monroe Luther Williams 454, C. B. Barden 440, John Thomas Helms 233, J. A. Crowell 125, W. J. Walters 93. Court for the Trial of Civil Causes. Judge W. R. Allen began a two weeks' term of court yesterday for the trial of civil causes. Two cases were disposed of yesterday. Mrs. Georgia Mingus was granted a di vorce from her husband, F. II. Min gus. In the case of the Equitable Manufacturing Company against E! A. Collins, the jury answered all the issues in favor of the defendant. This was on a contract for jewelry, which Mr. Collins claimed was taken on consignment to be sold, and the company claimed that it was bought outright Judge Allen is now busy going over toe testimony in me case 01 John Mahew, the negro who was found guilty with Charles B. Plyler for the murder of Parks, with a view of determining whether or not a new trial shall be granted Mahew. Is Carrie "In Our Midst"? Charlotte Obsf rvf r. There is a persistent rumor that Mrs. Carrie Nation, late of Kansas. is touring this State incognito. The fact that on a single night this week in the vicinity of Thomasville two nnftr-beer establishments were de stroyed by dynamite and a third burned to the eround leads consider able color to this report. County Democratic Primary. August 20. IQIO. i ! I ! fl si ! & g, I ji i m ! 11 NiS 1 J III I 417 217 56 214 114 109 101 121 137 39, 90 S3 12C 4S 14 66 ! ! ! i ! t ! I ! ! 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I 364 127 17 91 53 71 57! 97, 84 18 77, 541 951 33 10; 36 86 65; 21 119 70 14 76' 85 57; 23; 15, 31; 16 4, 91 11 2591 200 43 111! 45 82; 78; 40 98 23; 54; 44: 24 25 7i 32j 29 51 21 78 22 12: 4, 10 331 4 C 11; 90 12 2 101 59 33: 14 25 23 26' 13' 13 13 5 24j 26 29 9, 48 I 1 I I I I I I 314 209 40 160 74 C4i 57! 36' 84, 17 47 69, 103 33; 10- 2S 52 23 2 2 14 6 5 9 1 2 6 10 j 3 4' 94 28 15 78 44 40 581 86! 531 22 42 51 15 19. 6 34! Preparations for Opening of City Schools. On Monday, September 5th, the city schools will open for another year's work. Some repair work is now going on, and the building has been thoroughly fumigated and cleansed. Present prospects indicate that in the matter of enrollment the coming year will surpass any that has passed, and with the able force of teachers who have been secured there is no reason why the standard of work should not measure well up to that of any preceding year. Work has been started on the new building to be erected in north Mon roe. This building, though it is to be neither large nor expensive, will nil a pressing need and will be sum cient for the demands of that com munity for some time to come. It will be remembered that several teachers resigned at the close of the last year. They were Misses Edna Harris, Frances Alexander, Bright Oeburn, Nancy Watkins and Prof, C. E. Phillips. The list of teachers as completed for the coming year in eludes the following: Lancaster avenue: Misses Mary Davis, Florida Morris, Susie Covington, Mamie Rob' inson, Ona Long, Anna Blair, Annie Stewart, Bessie Widenhouse, Helen Morrow, Bessie Dunlap, Lillian Kib ler and Prof. Horace Stewart; north Monroe: Misses Mildred Stephenson and Lydia Benton. The rule adopted at the beginning of last year regarding admissions to the first grade will apply this year as last. No student will be admit ted who has not passed his sixth birthday, and these will not be ad mitted after October 1st unless they shall be able to keep up with the work of tho classes. The citizens of Monroe are called upon to stand together in support of the schools that they may be made what they should be. riajor Houston Kills Dunham Mc Atanus. Major Houston, a darky who has for a number of years been a cloth ing cleaner here, killed Dunham Mc Manus, another negro well known about town, Sunday night. Major claims that when he went home Sat urday night he found that his wife was gone, and on making a search found her at the house of a neighbor and that McManus was with her. On the approach of Major, McManus ran. The next night he got a gun and went to look for McManus to talk the matter over, and that the latter started to attack him and he shot. The other side say that Major called McManus out of the house where he was and shot him as he came out A big load of shot went into the bowels of McManus and he died at 2 o'clock this morning. Major is in jail. He was arrested Sunday night and carried to jail by Tom Davis, a negro. Tom seems to have acted the part of an officer from good motives. On one occasion when he had been arrested for some slight offence, Chief Laney took his recog nizance for appearance at the record er's court and Tom skippef. Mr. Laney sent to Charlotte and brought 3 H O H 43 2025 1 50 2030 31 1762 4 302 4 554 5! 397 91 372 32 884 i 18 1407 52 1326 42 1697 30 1389 '! 36 1846 29 1842 20 1304 37 1 739 15 1186 3 ; 404 81 368 1 19f1364 5 144 18,i 657 him back, whereupon Tom said, "Well, Chief, I am ashamed to see you, and 1 shore am going to do something sometime to pay for the way I treated you." Chief Laney thinks that Tom remembered his ; promise and male it good by hunt ; ing up Major and carrying him to 1 jail &unday night. j The Cocaine Peril. I Pu'ham tun. , I Some time ago we called attention to tlie continued growth ot the co caine evil in th South, especially amotg negroes, and gave an account of the effect of the drug on mind, body and character. We also called attention to the fact that the traffic in the natural product from which cocaine is manufactured was entire ly unrestricted. The nation is waking up to the extent of the peril and at the recent session of Congress a bill was pre sented which proposed to place the importation and Bale of all narcotic drugs under the direct control and supervision of the Federal govern ment It failed of adoption, but much interest was aroused and it will come later. The evil must be checked and that in the near future. The New York World is an ardent advocate of the measure and states its position as follows: "The illegal use of opium, cocaine and morphine in the United States is steadily increasing in spite of all efforts to suppress it. So good an authority as Dr. Hamilton Wright, an attache of the State department, who was an American delegate to the international opium conference, estimates that of the 400,000 pounds of opium annually imported into the United States fully three-fourths is used illegally, and that a like share of all the morphine brought into the country is consumed by drug fiends. As for cocaine, Dr. Wright declares that while 150,000 ounces are con sumed yearly, only 15,000 ounces are used legitimately. Dr. Wright's figures reveal an evil which, next to alcoholism is the most prolific propagator of vice and crime in this country. The illegal use of narcotic drugs in such enormous quantities is possible only under con ditions which permit of their illegal sale. Pure food and drug act for bidding the sale of patent medicines containing narcotic poisons reaches only a small branch of the evil. What is needed is government super vision over the importation and sale of those substances in all forms and conditions, crude, refined and mixed. Such a measure is the only thing that will throttle a degrading vice which every year claims more vic tims than any pestilence that ever swept the country." Thanks, Bro. Manning, the Wails Are Lp. Hendfrton flold Lff. One of the best weekly papers in the State is The Monroe Journal, R. F. Bcasley editor. And it is one of the most successful as well. As ev idence of this fact Beasley Brothers, publishers, are laying plans to erect a new home of their own for The Journal WHY TEDDY WAS TURNED DOWN. Correspondent Thinks that the Machine Politicians Refused to Let Roosevelt be Temporary Chairman of New York State Convention Because He is an la surgent. Corrnpndn of Th Journal. Washington, Aug. 20. The Amer ican people will recall that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's price-investi gating committee found that no part of the 58 per cent increase in the cost of living in this country in the last 10 years was due to the tariff. Political economists all over the land were sorely puzzled at this report I he phenomenon can now be ex plained. The report of the minority of the committee, recently published, shows that the Republicans made no serious attempt to ascertain whether the tariff was responsible or not Listen to this extract from the mi nority report: "In examining the witnesses we (the committee) scarcely touched up on the territory of the highly pro tected commodities." Lodge, who helped frame the Payne-Aldrich bill and takes the po sition that the ultimate consumer is a myth, saw to it that the investiga tions wero confined almost exclu sively to foodstuffs and cotton, and to the production, distribution and cost to the consumer of wheat corn, beef, mutton and hog products, of which commodities the United States produces a large per cent, of the world's production, and which we export in enormous quantities. As to these articles it may be supposed that, when freed from the influence of trusts and monopolies, the tariff should not cut a large figure except that it nicreases the cost of their production. Do you see the point, Mr. Consu mer? Lodge had been assigned by Senator Aldr.ch to make a report, obviously for campaign purposes, which would absolve the tariff from all blame in connection with the aw ful increase in the cost of living un der our system of excessive protec tion. Lodge evidently concluded that the safest way to accomplish this end would be to avoid asking any questions of witnesses concern cerning the advances in the prices of hichly protected articles, such as the products of the sugar trust, the steel trust, the harvester trust and the lumber trust, all of which con tribute heavily to the Republican campaign fund. The Lodge report gave fifteen rea sons tor increased prices, and found that the tariff was "no material fac tor." This report is being used by the men who voted for the Payne Aldrich bill in the hope it will pre venfr them from being retired to pri vate life. Tariff Increases Prices. Senators Johnston of Alabama, Clarke of Arkansas, and Smith of South Carolina, the minority mem bers of the I)dge committee, find that tho three substantial causes for increased prices are: 1. Tariff. 2. Trusts, combines and monopo lies. 3. Increased money supply. Owing to the tactics of the Repub licans in avoiding highly protected articles, the minority members found themselves without sufficient data to to apportion the degree of responsi bility between these three causes but state "that the two first are the chief malefactors we have no doubt; and they are of our own creation or permission. A Campaign Canard. "Taft will no longer co-operate with Cannon and Aldrich, and Bal linger is to be retired." 1 his is the gist of statements car ried by the Associated Press, and obviously inspired by Republican campaign managers. The information may be accepted as nothing more than a ruse. The Republican campaign managers played the same trick on the public in the last presidential election. The rumor was quietly started that Can didate Taft did not approve of Speaker Cannon. The inference was strong that Taft would not stand for Cannon as Speaker. This false ru mor unmistakably helred Taft in the insurgent districts. Immediately after Taft was inau gurated an attempt was made to de feat Cannon as speaker. The com bined Democrats and Insurgents would have accomplished this end had not the President used all of the resources at his command to perpet uate Cannon as speaker. Taft is not going to read Aldrich and Cannon out of the party, be cause Aldrich and Cannon (and the special interests they represent) will not permit the President to have a re-nomination if he tries it Mr. Taft knows which side his bread is buttered on. Furthermore, there is no reason for discord. Taft Aldrich and Can non, and Ballinger.too, are all work ing to the same end. Their views are in harmony on big questions. No newspaper man can be here in Washington and know his business, and not know that Taft, Aldrich and Cannon are consolidated in a great political firm, and that this oligar chy has never had any serious dis sension. The three men are constantly pay ing each other compliments. It was just a short while ago that Taft eu logized Aldrich to tie skies and re ferred to "Uncle Joe" as being in the Abraham Lincoln type of statesmen. Taft, Aldrich and Cannon, and es pecially Taft and Aldrich, can have no break. They must sink or swim together. Roosevelt vs. Taft Roosevelt will not indorse Taft or the Payne-Aldrich law, in the opin ion of the writer. There never has been any doubt on this point in my mind, and I have expressed the view repeatedly in dispatches since March 4, 1909. But Roosevelt will indorse Lodge, tool of Aldrich and special Senate representative of the tariff trusts, railroads and other New Eng land corporate interests. Nor do I expect to hear of Roosevelt cam paigning for such genuine progres sives as LaFollette. Roosevelt is playing for tho presidency, and is jealous of LaFollette's popularity. At this stage Taft appears to stand a better chance of hauling down the next Republican presidential nomi nation than does T. R. This is be cause Taft stands right with the great corporate interests of tho Unit ed States, and they control absolute ly the Republican machine. Roose velt was turned down in New York because the machine politicians know that Roosevelt is to be an in surgent They feared that if they permitted him to be even a tempo rary chairman he might take advant age of the opportunity to weaken machine rule. The fight may be ex pected to be intensely interesting from now on. Keep a close eye on the political checker board, because a few intimations may be let drop which will show who is really in control of the government of this country. What's This? The Payne-Aldrich law is not now bringing in sufficient revenue to run the government, reports from the Republican press bureau to the con trary notwithstanding. The tariff law, the corporation tax, internal revenue receipts, and all other sour ces of revenue combined, failed by f 3,014,842.87of producing sufficient funds to run the government during the first fifteen days of August. Jlule and Buggy Recovered. The Sikes Company havo recov ered the mule and buggy that one J. W. Rollins drove off on the eighth when he eloped with his step-daughter, who had been married only a short time before. Posters describ ing the turnout, the man and the girl, were sent out over four states by Chief Laney and it was not long before word came from the sheriff at Columbia that the mule and buggy had been captured. Messsrs. V. D. Sikes and Bob May went down Thursday and identified the mule, the buggy and the harness, all of which had been sold to Rol lins on a chattel mortgage. When the sheriff found the property it was in the hands of a man who claimed that he had bought it from another man who answered the description of Rollins. It is supposed that Rol lins and the young woman took the train at Columbia, as nothing had been seen of them. Mr. Bob May brought the outfit back through the country; Notice of Next Primary. There will be a second primary held under the same rules, at the same time and places and with same managers as the first one, next Sat urday, August 27th, in which the following candidates will run: J. V. Trull and B. F. Black, for cotton weigher at Marshville; C. B. Barden and Luther Williams, for cotton weigher at Monroe; J. L. Stewart and M. C. Long, for register of deeds. By order of the Democratic execu tive committee. A. J. Brooks, Chairman.
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