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he. Monroe Journal VOL. XVIIL NO 33. . v V MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER Zi, 1911. ONE DOLLAR A TEAR. . v ANOTHER AVIATOR KILLED. Eugene Ely's Name Added to List of Aviation Victims. Macon, (ia.. Oft. 111. F.ugene Kiy, a well known aviator wa fatally injured t the state fair grounds tliis nftrcnoon shortly after -l o'clock wlu-ii liis aero plane refused to rise after a wn Kational dip and plunged with him 50 feet from the ground. In the presence of nearly eight thousand people lie fell to the middle of the enclosure of the mile track almost clearing the machine by a desperate leap that h made when he realized his pe ril. I Lis IkhIv was broken iu a score of places and he died elev en minutes after the fatal fall. Just before the ei:d he refrained consciousness and muttered. "1 lost control I know 1 am going to die." Fly made a remarkable flight th'w morning, shortly before noon and ascending to an altitude of :!.KH) feet. At 2:4." o'clock lie l-gan bis second flight of the day. rising gracefully from tint-rack enclosure which he circled in a few minutes .traveling :t0 . l i nines mi nour. As no was com .1. .i i i . picung me circle lie made on of hi famous dips apparently to startle the tliousands beneath him who wi re watching him with straining eyes. file bmbkke machine shot d'lWU With trelllelidollS velocity the crowd applauded, thinking that the aviator would rise as he had done countless times before I . . A 1 M - 1 . I 1 jih r.iy scenieti to lose Ills grip on the lever for his machine con tinued it.s downward plunge to the earth. Avenging Brother Makes Ar rest After Thirty-two Years. Richard Ahernathv, a chair manufacturer, was arrested Fri day at his home, near Blacks burg, and later lodged in the Spartanburg county jail, charg ed with having murdered Will iam A. Abbot i. a printer, ou a Sumlay night iu St pti-mber, 17!. George Abbott, brother of the d-ad man. devoted his vears to avmgiiig the crime, and as lu A 1 I I suwpecicti several men, lie lias watched them all for :2 years Abernathy is said to have con fesscd that he murdered the man in 17W. and threw the ImmIv on railroad, where it was run ov er by a train. The prisoner is sixty years old. tie was dazed and would not talk about the case when arrest ed. The supposed motive for the crime with which Abeinathv is eluu-ged were attentions which William Abbott is said ti have jNiid to Mrs. Abernathy, who is sepcrated lrom her liuslwnd She is still living, (feorire Abbott suspected any of a dozen men oi being implicated in the mur der of his brother or of know ing something about it. There were two who were said to be in love with .Mrs. Abernathy and jealous of William Abbott be cause of the hitters alleged friendline ss with the woman. William Ablntt was not quite 20 years old at the time of his mur der. George Abbott is a year old er than Y lUiain. Rode Over a Hundred Miles To Find Belk. Deputy Sheriff Jule Griffith did a piece of work Thursday afternoon and night in the re arrest ot (ins Belk that for cool ness and swiftness would put him in the eligible class to become a Texas ranger had be lived in that eounrty a few years back. Belk had departed the jurisdic tion of the court in a contempt uous manner while his ease wns pending trial, and the court or dered that he be retaken, no matter what force whs necessa ry. Deputy Sheriff Griffith re marked that he didn't need any help.got young Carl Krauss anil an atitomobile.and set' out on his quest late iu the afternoon, lie eame laek at twleve o'clock that night and the indicator showed that lie had driven a hundred and nineteen miles, but he land ed bis man in jail. Belk has the reputation of being a dangerous gun man and is said to be the best pistol shot in the county. H is too much familiarity with pds tok that keeps him in the courts, i He has m vir shown any reluc tance in using a gun, and the man who goes for him when he is moving out of reach is gen erally sllpjwsed to lie taking a -ky job. Mr. Griffith got on ii.u-k of (ins in Buford town ship and kept the trail to 1 'age la ml. Here be learned by accident that Belk had gone five miles below to spend the night with a crowd at a shingle mill. Mr. Griffith pot a local officer to pi lot him to the shingle mill. Leav ing the machine and the officer he went to the bouse in which the men were eaiiMed and saw Belk sitting near the door and doing the talking. The offi cers hand was on his shoulder before be knew any one was aWut. lie whs told that he was to come back to Monroe right then, and he remarked that he had quit North Carolina for good and would not go back a live. Mr. Griffith remarked that he could take his choice of the condition that he wit go ing back in. but that be was go ing back right then. A few more words of like tenor and Itelk came back. The warrant was not any good fire miles the other side of the South Caroli na line, but the officer had some kind of magnet that attracted, for he came back with the ob ject of his quest, as stated. Hardware Store Robbed. The Heath Hardware store robbed last Thursday night. was The mind of the thieves was centered on pistols, for so far as the Hard ware people are able to tell.noth ing else but a small wheelbarrow load of pistols was taken. Now if a Sherlock Holmes were work ing this ease on his method of olmcrvation and deduction it would be an easy matter to iden tify the thieves, lie would just find somebody who had an un due fondness for pistols ami pro ceed to investigate him. Between 15 and 20 tols wrce taken as well as Im- judged. They swiped whole stock that was in shelves and show cases. T were all comparatively eheiii pis can the the lose pis- tols as the company keen their filler grades in n more secure place. Kut ranee to the store was made by means of the man hole in the roof-in the rear of the building. The robbres made their way over the Belk-Bundy building now in course of erec tion, across the roof of tlm Dillon furniture store and so to the roof of the hardware build. uig. Two or three years ago the store was robbed bv means of the same entrance. Helpless Mother Sees Baby Swal low Poison. Mrs. George Griffith of Phila delphia wits forced to remain helpless in bed while she saw her la-months old I why toddle to a table in the bedroom, swallow two strychnine tablets and prac tically die ln-fore the mother's very eves. The mother is hcl ideas from Pa ralysis. In attempting to allevi ate her suffering her physician is lining strychnine. The ' habv. playing around the room, thought tne strychnine was candy. She swallowed two tablets before the mother could make a sound to summon aid. To the Members of Central Meth odist Church. Next Saturday is work day for the Children' Home. We are all asked to give the results of one day's work to the support of the orphans. What we have heretofore subscribed, or lwtid. was to the building fund. This we now ask for w for the sun- port of the institution. Let each member brmir a contribution next Sunday to church and put it in an envelope and mark it "For Children's Home." J. II. Weaver, Pastor. Two Orphans at the Dixie To night. Three full reels, one of tin most exieiiNive motion pictures ever exhibited, a new picture, clear and life -like, full of excitement. An opportunity to see the world's greatest play made into the world a area test movuur picture. Let the children see it. Don't forget tonight. WALL STREET'S VIEW. Says Holding Movement is Hav ing Its Effect and That the Downword Point Has Probably Been Reached. New York, Oct. 21. The down ward lurch in prices, which has been more or less continuous dur ing the last six weeks, apparent ly met a resisting point around the nine-cent level. This in a great measure has been due no no doubt to a heavy demand from the short interest, whose enormous paper profits were too tempting to be longer ignored. Factors of equal importance, how ever, in checking the receding tide were the increasing demand from spinners and the smaller and less urg-nt offerings of the Southern planters. Having fi nanced their more pressing obli gations through sales of early pic-kings growers are daily show ing an increasing reluctance to press for sale at going ((notations the balance of their crop, and this attitude is gradually but sure ly relieving the market of one of the most potent influences a gainst J 'rices. The rapidly in creasing demand by spinners is. tti be sure, due to immediate Heed, but lis we recently sugges ted Would be the ease, the nine cent level is inducement enough hside from all other trade fac tors to warrant heavy commit ments for future requirements. This would certainly appear to Ik- good business policy. A tre mendous decline has been scored ami cotton is now sellinir lower than at any time in three vears. and although a further decline is quite possible, still, it is more or less problamatieal. Granting. however, that lower prices will yet be witnessed, the fant remains that raw material purchased at the present level of values can he converted at an almost assur ed margin of profit birge enough to permit of goods being stored until such a time as general bus ness conditions improve suffici- ! eut.Jv t'j warrant the merchant ie liberally restocking his depleted shelves. hiiropean spinners appear to have availed themselves of th decline in prices without waiting for lower levels, 1'or exports to date are in excess of last year, and more than half of the' cot ton ginned so far has been sent to seaport points for shipment to Knglish and other foreign spin tiers, i he only thing hkelv to becloud a most promising outlook for Knglish manufacturers is the Chinese situation. If it be true that orders in the Lancashire district are Wing canceled be cause of this, spinners will natur ally pursue a more conservative buying policy, but up to the pres ent there are no signs of a slack ening demand for siot.s. Headers of these advices will realize that this is the first time in nearly two years tliat we have been able to speak encouraging ly of cotton; and while we do not think that the time has vet arrived for committing oneself solely to the long side, we do think that around the present level it ought to have more friends. Henry (-lews & Co. Predicts Low Temperature. Washington, Oct. 22. Low temperatures will prevail over the entire country for this week, according to a bulletin issued by the weather hm-ctui timiirlif Frosts are predicted for the in terior of the Gulf States the Ohio vallev and tbera i probability of snow in the fip..nt Luke region. 'There are no indieiitiims ut the present time of a dwturbanee in the Gulf of Mexico or the West Indies," says the statement. An area of low barometric pressure of great magnitude of the British Isles will UN) vp east ward and cans-' storm v woithcr over Kurope during the next sev eral davs. "In the Tinted States the tem- irfVttlllr.. iliieinir tlu usnk u ill nv. erage low from the Rocky moun tains to the Atlantic eoam and there will be froat on Monday in the interior of the Gulf states and in the Ohio valley and by Tuesday or Wednesday in the middle Atlantic and elevated re gions in the South Atlantic States." ' Not in the Circes Trust. The dohn F. Robins. in i Big Shows ('unbilled which is :.i Li bera on Monday, October ''th. is the only show of magnitude that has put fallen to the I lattd ishmeiit of the circus trust. There Li no danger that it is going to for should it do so it would only strengthen the syndicate juid weaken its own good name and merit. The trust has uiade all possible overture to Mr. Robin son but in vain, lie has oidv had to laugh at both threats and promises. Should the octiipus of a trust ever succeed in gettuig the Robinson show within their fold they would then control the world of tented aggregations. Without it they can only dictate to the three shows they now con trol and their jwwt-r is so limit ed that they can only dictate to these and cannot direct the move ment of the others as tin v would like to. When one considers th-reputa-tion of the independent show and that of the ones in the trusts tiie wisdom of Mr. Robinson Li -'Hit's apparent. Of the three syrdieat- cct shows two ot them are op cd under the titles of !ii i: have long since passed awy rat vh.. i'roii the successes they made this world. The prime movers -j: the trust are n.en who unt.l v-vi-nt years were wholly unlae as; the show world and whov ; llUHlic elevation has heell of sudden and uncertain natu: -. Tin- Robinson show has been a fixture in the tented aggregation ot this country lor Si vears. Its per fection has thus not been sudden but one of a steady, healthy and permanent growth. It is the re sults of the work of many genera turns and the experience that bail thus been gained the people of the present day are profiting by. Long before any of the Medicat ed shows were ever thought of the Kobinon show had establish ed a ivpiit;:nn that the weak ly organized trust vonM like to strengthen itself with. Kvery possible thing that could thought of to harass a r p.rnble show has been resorted to )y tin syndicated shows to anii'iy their great independent adversary. Trouble at A. & M. College for Colored Youth. Greensboro, Oct. 21. Follow ing a rupture between students and faculty of the Agricultural ami Mechanical College for th- negro race, President Dudley to day issued an order exjH-lling ev ery member of the senior and junior classes of the institution who did not report for certain work that had been assigned them for the ; The result Is that thirty nn .oers of the two higher classes have already left the institution, and others are ex pected to follow as soon as they can pack their clothing and fur niture. About 75 students are affected by the sweeping order. Tonight there is no indieati'.'ii of an agreement that will result in the reinstatement of the expell ed sOidcn1s and the impression prevails that the negroes w;ll have to go. The cause of the trouble was a recent order of th- faculty providing that students of the institution should iu the future work in the college shops and on the college farms on Satur days. Heretofore the day has been one that the students were at liberty to use a they eh.ise. Some worked in busiinss piuc-s mid hotels in the city iitid earn ed money to help pay their way iu school. Other took the day as one of rest and recreation. Horse Killed Himself. A horse belonging to Mr. Drake Slarnes committed invol untary suicide hen- Saturday. The animal was bitched in the lot below Little's stable and was eating corn from a box in the ground. Becoming startled at something it. reared hack on the halter and broke it with su'-h force that it fell clear backward on the ground and struck its head violently on the ground. The blow was so hard that the horse could nof get up, but with the aid of some men, finally stag gered to its feet, but quickly dropped over again and died. The horse was a fairly valuable animal and was alKiut ten years old. Preacher Chu-ged With the Mur der of His Fiancee. ReV. Cl.iT -nee Ricllestill. p;s tor of a fashionable li.tpt'st church at Cambridge, Mass.. w;is amstrd Friday on charge of having poisened a youut: woman to whom he had been engaged, lie hail become engaged to anoth er young woman and was to U married on Oct. M. The murder ed girl. Miss Linncll. was a stu dent in the Boston conservatory of music and was nineteen yea us old. Her death was caused by cyanide of Ktasium. sent her iu a package, and taken by her to remedy "an embarrassing physical condition", as the pap ers put it. It was found that the preacher had bought a qtum ity of this drug, saying that he wanted it to kill a dog with. When arrested he was stepping at the home of the young lady whom he was engaged to. lb had denied this engagement when talking to Miss Linncll. When the niothre of the dead girl heard of the arrest she said that she thoiicht they bad the right man bid that she believed that In preacher wits wrng mentally- "Mr. Richtson. whom I loved as a son, even before he b eam.' formally engaged to Avis, was seized often bv attacks which he '" had at our house," she said. "Al !S though they did not appear s-- "i'iii'is he seemed to I't't in n lilnli. r !y nervous state and he was olt- ell forced to leave the table be en use of them. He worried of this trouble so much that once he broke his engagement with Avis, giving his physical condi tion as the reason. II is engage ment was renewed, however and Avis firmly believed she whs engaged to him when she died." Avis was a singer in the Hap tist choir when Mr. Ricbesou as sumed the pastorate there four years ago. She was only fifteen years obi but the new minister showed marked attention 1 ind within a few 'entl.. her was culling nt the hiiuiell home. "At filst I objected." said Mrs. liiniull, "but only because I thought Avis too young. I lik ed Mr. Rieheson and thought him en admirable young man and fi nally consented wlo-n Avis told me that he loved her and that they were engaged. The wed ding was set for last October but Mr. Rieheson a attacks troubled him until he broke the engage ment, saying he would renew it if he found his physical condi tion warranted. He became en gaged to Avis again but they had never set n date after the first, I believe." Bickett Leading the Fight. By the efforts of Attorney -(! n cral T. W. Bickett. the States of North Carolina and South Caro lina mid Virginia, through their Attorneys General, have entered before the Supreme court of the I'liited States a request 1o be heard in opposition to the fake plan of reorganization of the Tobacco Trust to comply with the court's order that the company be dissolved. A similar petition was filed on behalf of the Independent Man ufacturers Association of th" I'ni ted Statis. Both petitions ask have to file written obj-c lions to the tobaeeo trust's proposition for disintegration already in the hands of the court. The three attorneys general say their states rais- 2ti0,0O0,0(i0 pounds of leaf tobacco annually and that the hundreds of thous ands of persons engaged in the industry there are vitally con cerned iti the di..olut'.n of the "trust" ns ordered by the Su preme court. They say they have made acareful study of the dis solution plan submitted to the court, which iu their opinion is fundamentally defective in that it d'M-s not restore free competi tion. While not allowing the peti tioners to intervene, the court in an order replied th.it they will be given an opimrtunit v to pre sent their objectioi.s to the plan and will be beard it the hear ing on October :10. It also says that writen objections, briefs or memoranda desired to be pre sented to the court must be han ded in before the beginning of the hearing. A SUNDAY RACE BATTLE. Oklahoma Town Scene cf a Bad Day Negro who Killed Offi cer Killed in Turn. Coweta, Okla., Oct. 22. VA Suddeth, a negro, was shot to death tonight by a mob of citi zens who had armed themselves following a battle this afternoon between blacks and whites iu which Suddeth killed J. D. Bea vers, city attorney, ami wounded Carmen Oliver and Stiller Thoinp son. white men. Both men have little chance to live. The troubfr started yesterday afternoon. A telegraph operator named Swazer was walking with a young woman when Kd Ruse, a negro, in pa-ssing pushed the girl from the sidewalk into the mud. Swazer struck at the ne gro and another white inaii.whoso name is being kept secret, seiz ed idise and Swazer beat him with his fist. Today Ruse hail been walkin the streets with a louir knife in his jKieket. seeking the man who held him. When Citv Marshal Hart ordered the negro to give up the knife Ruse shot at him. At that instant Kd Suddeth ran out of a house across the street and opened fire, instantly kill ing City Attorney Beavers and wounding Oliver ami Thompson, all of whom were passing and had taken no part in the trouble. Suddeth took refuge in a near by bouse, which was bombarded with guns and revolvers by sev eral white men. The house was set afire and Suddeth fled. He was shut but not fatally injured. He was taken to the water tank, a rope placed alkout his neck ami he was swung up. It was then decided, however, that to kill him would precipi tate a general race war and he was cut down. He was placed in a vacant building ami guard ed, but later it was determined to take him to jail. As be was being lifted into an automobile, which was to take him to the jail in Wagoner, a moli riddl-d him with bullets, probably fifty shots tak'ilig effect ill his body. Coweta is terror stricken to night and it i feared an out break is inevitable. There are 1.2(H) persons in Coweta, one-third negroes. The county is popula ted largely by negroes and it was said that if the blacks were Dis organized they could bring 2,000 men into town before morning. Negro emissaries have hurried out. to surrounding settleiii-'n's with the avowed intention of get ting enough men to wipe the town off the map. They declare they will set fire to every house. The sheriff's of Wagon r," Musko gee and Tulsa counties, have sent help. They Paid Their Fare. liast Saturday the Seaboard hauled a special train of fakirs and side show people from Ra leigh where they had been en gaged at the State fair, to Char lotte, where they are engaged in faking people" this wee k. The cirowd were riding tin two block tickets, one carrying fifty four and the other seventy-five." Then was a long train of theni with their belongings, and the con ductor had a pretty had time finding out whether or not a lot of them were beating their way, as it looked like there were a good many more aboard than the two tickets called for. They were piled iu the aisles and seat's like Nardiucs and they slept a giod part of the way." At Wad es I hi ro sH-cial agent Horace Moore got on the train and be gan to s:rt out the ones that had tickets and those who had none. Then there was a flurry in fakirdom. After he had lined them up and counted nose- Mr. Moore found that there wen- sev enteen who had no tickets and weiv simply beating their way. He demanded fare and when approached one fellow remark ed that he had no ticket and he did not exjK-el to get any and he'd like to know what any body was going to do about it. Mr. Moore remarked. "You d-m scoundrel, I'm poing to put you in jail at Monroe." Thereupon the fellow paid bis fare. At Mon roe Mr. Moore held up the train nd made the whole push that had no tickets jwy their fare to Charlotte from Raleigh. 4
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