Tee Monroe Journal
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VOL. 19. No. 23.
MONROE, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1912.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
WHAT HtlOSKVKl.T Wll.l. IM.
Out 1 in. a Citiiipaign Tlmt lie Will
Make in Mititiii to Both I"."
lie, Kayh:K Xtillicr In IVwunv
siv K.iiough.
Oyster Ray, N. Y., July
campaign along noil lints w:
sketched In bare outline tonight by.
Col. Koosevoit. As the candidate of!
the now Progressive party for Ihej
Presidency. Col. Roosevelt Intends!
to rmke an appeal largely lo the
firmer end the wag? worker on
Hie ground iliat neither the Demo
cratic or the Republican party Is
attempting seriously in its oan;paisn
to deal with I he fundamental, eco
nomic and social conditions which
confront the country. It Is from
the farmer mid waf.e earner Col.
Roosevelt, finis that he hag obtain
ed hi btmigth In the past. It is
to them that ho intemlti to appeal
now.
Col. Roosevelt says that Senator
Joseph M. Nixon of Montana, who
mnneged his campaign for the Re
publican nomination for President
in all probability would be his cam
paign manager in his fi;;ht at the
head of tlw new party. The Sena
tor's headquarters probably will be
in New York.
The former President hopes to
lead what he terms a people's gov
ernment. Throughout his campaign Col
Roosevelt will contend that neither
of the groat old parties has shown
the adaptability or the Inclination to
take the point of view of the aver
age man who has to work for a liv-'
lug. This statement he intended to
couple with the argument that the
llepiibllean and Democratic parties
are largely under the influence of
bosses and that the time has come
for a new National party.
In this connection the high cost
of living Is to come in for especial
attention. The former President
said he intends to deal with it con
stantly on the ground that, while
to some extent It Is due to natural
economic causes, there are collater
al causes which may be reached and
remedied.
Col. Roosevelt has been engaged
in a study of the platform adopted
In Baltimore this week and of the
Republican platform, and believes
he has found In them valuable cam
paign material. He said neither of
these platforms showed the slight
est understanding of the Boclal and
industrial movement which Is un
der way In this country. They have
taken up, he said the old politics
and the battle cries of other years.
At the Baltimore and Chicago con
ventions, he continued, there appar
ently was no reflection of the move
ment which, as he puts it, all se
rious minded men are dwelling upon
the effort to obtain better condi
tions of life for the ordinary wage
worker. It is his Intention, he
said, to attempt to set forth condi
tions which in his opinion are re
sponsible for the high cost of liv
ing and the measures which he be
lieves should be undertaken.
"It Is gol iwj to be a straight,
strong, hard fought campaign," he
said.
What Tilliiian Said to Airs. Wilson.
Since the nomination of (Sov. Wil
son, thousands have been flocking
to his home to see him and assure
him of their support. The follow
ing Incidents occurred Thursday:
Senator Tillman. Wlllard Salis
bury and John 1. Martin also call
ed upon the nominee. Sena
tor Tillman, as he took Mrs. Wil
son's hi) ml, said:
"I mn sure that you will be the
next ludy of the White House. I
only desire to live long enough to
see your husband Inaugurated."
Of all the assurances fit support
which were voiced through the com
mitteemen of elections made, none
pleased the Governor more than onej
from Kdwin O. Wood, or .Michigan.
"I have in my pocket," he told
the governor,' telegram signed by
six of the most prominent Republi
cans of Detroit. You can't imagine
what they say."
"No," laughed the Governor. "I
can't say what."
"That they will vote for you."
IK iiKM'iatir XoniiiMc fur Vice Presi
dent. Friend, as well as enemies. for
he has Ir'd bis share of both of
Thomas Riley .Man-hall, the itonio
ocratie governor of Indiana, have
s yet b'-cn unable to make up their
inds whether be Is a progressive
"with brakes set" or a conservative
'with a mo.e on. Governor Marsh-
Xrw Ijiw ProMittl.
Tin' lawyers met at Morehead last
week and the bankers the week be
fore. .Messrs. R. B. Red wine and W.
S. Blakeiicy attended, respectively,
the luvMnRS named. Both associa
tions proposed new laws which the
li":.t legislature will be rei nested to
cmict. The bankers proposed that
n department of banking be created
The Did Time Way.
One of our exchanges says that
when pa was young, people saaked
tlidr feet In hot water and took a
few drops of catnip and got well.
Now they have a grippe, take quin
ine and feel sick all summer. Then
they had sore throat, wrapped a
piece of bacon In an old wool stock
ing .tied It around their neck at
night and went to work the next day.
Now they have tonsilltis, a surgi
cal operation, and two weeks in a
hospital. Then they had stomach
trouble and took castor oil and re
covered. Now they hnve appendici
tis, a week in the hospital and six
feet due east and west and six feet
perplndlcular. In those days they
wore underclothes. Now they wear
lingerie. Then they went to a res
taurant: now they go to a cafe.
Then they broke a leg: now they
fracture a limb. Then people went
crazy; now they have brain storms
or are born crazy, we dont' know
which. Politicians then paid good
hard cash for support: now they
send government garden seed In
stead. Yes, times have changed
and we all change with the times.
Thafi progress.
To Tour Kuropo.
Mrs. J. M. Belk and daughter.
Mis Sadie, will tall from New Tork
on Saturday for an extended tour
in England. Holland, Germany, Italy
ana other European countries.
all smiles indulgently and says thai by Lie State with a purpose of more
it is si;: 01" one and half a dozen j !..-- supervision, and that features
of the Oilier, so what's the differ-1 be required to make the bank dircc
t!ice? tors give more direct personal at-
Kithor phrase fits the Hocsier gov- tontion to their respective- han!;s. As
erncr equally well. Like .nearly all; all this will of course relate only
the others who went after the 1312 to the Slate banks, which are usual
ly the smaller ones of the stale. Mr.
Blakeney is of the opinion that it
should be scrutinised very closely
liefore the smaller banks of the
Democratic presidential nomination
Gov. .Marshall came Into the lime
light on a wave of reforri but the
Indiana wave was not so boisterous
as those that broke on the New Jer- State join In the request for its pas-
sey coast and elsewhere; apparently
somebody poured a little oil on it
before It broke. The governor be
lieves in reform in moderation. Al
so ho believes in progressing with
moderation. He docs not beileve
sage.
The Bar Association discussed
and proposed a law that will prac
tically abolish the Recorder courts
of the State, and we are of the
opinion that the people had better
that this great and glorious commoi.t scrutinize this bill before It becomes
wealth Is going to the "demnltlon
bow-wows," In fact he points with
pride to his belief that the country
is Just a little bit better than ever
before.
a law. Something is badly needed
to hasten the work of the courts,
and no doubt the bar association
is striving towards that end. Hut
ithe bill also suggested that soliei-
It required heroic measures oil the; tors be put on a salary basis of
part of his friends to Induce Gov. j $2,000 for each fifteen weeks of
.Marshall to take his presidential I work, and one hundred dollars per
chances seriously and even then he I week or fraction of a week more. Is
refused to allow any effort to be out of all proportion to what sor
made on his behalf outside of ihe.v'ce Is rendered by these officers.
State of Indiana. The judges are to be Increased from
"The presidential nomination Is sixteen nt present to twenty-four,
a thing too big to run after and too ' and the State to be divided into
big to run away from," was his com- three circuits, the judges of each
ment on the situation. "It Is sure
to overtake you if you should hap
pen to bo the man really wanted by
the people."
Horn in Manchester, Ind.. in
1S54, Governor Marshall has spent
his entire 58 years in his native
State. Graduating from Wabash
College In 1873. when he was 21
years eld. he practiced law In Co
lumbia City, Ind., until he was elect
ed Governor two years ago. He
is a member of ninny clubs and
holds LL. D. degrees from Wabash,
Notre Dame and the University of
Pennsylvania. He married Miss
Lois I. Klmsey, of Angola, Ind., in
1885.
In the Llteray State they call
"Tom" Marshall the "Little Giant."
When one sees him for the first time
he wonders why, because there Is
nothing collossal about the slender,
undersized man with sloping should
ers and quiet mien. - His hMr and
mustache, turning from grey to
white do not bristle, his brows do
not "beetle" so one can notice It
and even his violet-blue eyes are
mild. It is In his political history
that "Little Giant" term Is un
derstood. The Governor likes his
friends und he will stand by them
through thick and thin to the last
ditch. When the guhernattonal race
was on two years ago, there were
circuit to rotate only in that cir
cuit. Important suggestions are made
In regard to jury reform. It is
proposed to create a jury commis
sion who shall have charge of the
Jury box and purge the same.
For each term of the superior
court 32 Jurors shall be chos
en. This Is an addition to the num
ber chosen, for grand jury service.
In all cases except, capital cases, the
clerk of court will make up a panel
of 20 names of the 32, and the
challenges shall first be made for
cause. The plaintiff and the defend
ant shall then strike off a name al
ternately reducing the panel to 12.
The law requiring a man to be a
free holder In order to be a juror
Is to be repealed and In addition the
fact that a man has served on the
jury In two years shall not serve as
a bar.
Certain suggestions are also made
for the purpose of expediting the
trial of civil cases. The commit
tee was also Instructed to present
to the legislature the associations
draft of a bill for land registration.
The bill provides for a court of rec
ord to be known as the"land court,"
nnd which is to have exclusive orig
inal jurisdiction over the applica
tions to establish titles and reg
ister land. The court to sit. at Ra-
n number of well-known Indiana j Iclgh. In addition the bill provides
Democrats gunning for It, nnd Mar-1 for an insurance feature to make n
shall had not been heard of. But safe title,
he had friends, and those friends' -' -
urged him to run, told him he was j dug Lived L'lcvcn Months in n Wo
the only man who could "save the man's Stomach,
day." Marshall ran to please his j Washington. July 0. A live frog
friends nnd he was nominated and I that craw led and clawed and croak
elected. ' led lived for nearly a year in the
With O.ivli,,,, Dclcg. ., lUImved p', "f 'rH- V' K,"S' f
Spat Willi W. Mr. -iier. 'Aftcr'Vpducing the woman to a
II. K. (. Bryant In harlot te Ob- Uv Hklfi()i (lip mMy
The North Carolina delegation had '"JX ' t!,"Ur
the best SeaC at the JZ ow preserved In al-
iSr.' .n'lfc cVS? IS. ': ' '- ' t""' b0U'
building Among the qui.est dele- j BWllllowPl, by
gates in the hul were the Tar Heels '
They sa like a lot of wel -organ! el .! . wo
deliberate men, desiring to do what wag MUW livlMR
Was rlklH. j ....... i 1 atn,,.,,-!,
,"JP" TZZl Sl-ltod doctors, but ..,ey-.auhed a.
tier,
Carolina and a Western delegate
amused some bystanders very much.
The North Carolinian's desire to see
Last spring the frog, now rench-
t.... 1... r..ll -....!, In
fair piny rebuked . Western dele- , -
,, i ...... i. ..iis!ie fainted with pain.
Give the I
Two months ago, Mrs. King fle
as we through life
gentlemen a show."
terner in an offensive tone.
"I a m a North Carolinian,
the reply.
"We hnve more votes In ono ward
111 111 V iiiwii lllllll JUII li..Y- in um . ... ..,...., frn,. " Tl,n
whole State, was tho Westerners re-' 1 " " r'
ply. "That may be true," respond-; 11 "u'11, .. , ,,,,,, ,, . ,
,1 the Southerner, "but halt of , , . A,;(?,r:li f 10 , ,,,-VKlr .T,h Jv
,, . .. ,. ,;..ii ... i ,.i, ... 'lie firs: time on record that any
iiieiu inn i Bi'triiit riiiMisii. ui
dares, the frog began to croak. She
! dlstin-'tly heard It many times and
j her relatives bear her out. She came
W18 i to mo iMiiergeiiey nere ami tue irog
was pumped out of Its hiding place.
The frog lived three minutes in a
Hub of water. It croaked and sang
our delegation there!! The greal-srcnt-grandfathers
of those men
helped to free this country from
ICagland. They are real Americans.
Not ono of them eats garlic or
chopsuey."
ItepuldicMiiN for Wilson,
Lansing, Mich. Dispatch, 3d.
"The Issue Is clearly joined for
the people," snld Governor Osborn
today. "It is Wall Street vs. Wil
son. Woodrow Wilson's character,
temperament, preparation and fit
ness Is above the high average of
American presidents. He Is a Chris
tian, a scholar and a fearless citi
zen. "Republicans can vote for Wilson
without leaving their party or bolt
ing. The real Republican party has
no candidate for President this year.
There has been no nomination. The
action of the political freebooters at
Chicago Is not blntllng upon the Re
publican party, even if for the mo
ment they are bearing aloft its
stolen ensign."
The worst thing about taking a
chance is that you can't always put
it back where you -found it.
I creature of the proportions of this
I frog has ever lived In a human
stomach for the period of eleven
m on t !i a.
Slight Ki'iliicilon in Cotton Acreage.
Washington Dispatch, 3d.
The Department of Agriculture's
preliminary estimate of the acreage
planted to cotton In the United
States this year, which by act of
Congress was deferred from June to
this month and hereafter will be an
nounced annually In July, was made
public at noon today and shows the
area planted to ho 34,(197,000 acres
compared with 3(5, 681,000 acres in
dicated by the bureau of wit 1st Irs
revised estimate of last year's plant
ed area.
The condition of the growing crop
on June 25 was 80.4 per cent with
18.2 per rent on June 25 last year
and 80.7 per cent the average con
dition for the past ten years on
June 25.
The report of the acreage in N,
C. is reported at 1,558,000 as com
pared with 1.657,000 In 1911. The
crop condition in North Carolina Is
reported at 83 as compared with
89 last year and a 10-year.average
of 12.
Tho Little llu.v Dm wind at l.nin
l Hon.
Uobesonion.
A horrible tragedy occurred yes
terday morning when, at about lo
o'clock, little William Linkhaw. 12-yiars-old
son (if Mr. and .Mrs. W. I.
Linkhaw, ami Harold Jones, I"-year-old
son of Mr. and .Mrs. W.
il. Jones,Jr..vvire drowned In Lum
ber river.
The Utile Imivs. with James Pope,
'1 -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira
Pope, and Alfr-d IVdn.-au, 1 1 -year-old
son cf Mr. and Sirs. A. A. IVd
liacu.were swimming in the river be
low the Seaboard trestle some '.'
or 40 yards from the saw mill plant
of the Carolina Lumber Co. Howard
Vaughn. 12-ve.ir-oii! son of Mr. and
Mrs. P. C. Vaughn, was also with
thrm. but was not in swimming.
The three little survivors of the
swimming party became so excited
and frightened when William and
Harold went down that they didn't
know what to do and after It had
happened they could hardly tell how
it was. The saw mill, which is not
more than Till yards at most from
where the beys were, was running,
but there are some small oaks and
undergrowth that breaks the view,
therefore the attention of the saw
mill force was not attracted; and
when the little fallows went down
the little Pope boy put on his clothes
and ran all the way home and told
his mother without savins a word
to anyone else, and the Vaughn and
Pope boys left the river, running by
the mill; but after going some dis
tance Vaughn turned back, went to
the mill and told William Roberts,
colored, what had happened. Dur
ing this time the Pedneau boy re
mained on the river's bank near the
place where the boys had gone un
der. Roberts is an excellent swim
mer nnd he sailed right into the
river to rescue the boys, but was un
able to locate them. They had been
in possibly five minutes and the wa
ter Is some 10 or 12 feet deep.
Accidents anil DisaMi rs.
Air ship and railroad accidents
held the boards Inst week In this
country.
The most tragic deaths were those
at Boston of a woman aviator and
her companion, told of in detail in
The Journal.
Paul Hamilton, an instructor In
the army, fell 100 fet from his air
ship at Washington on the 25th and
was fatally Injured.
On Mciday, at Atlantic City, a big
balloon exploded In mid air and
killed four.
Forty-one persons were killed and
between fifty and sixty Injured In a
wreck nt Corning, New York, on
Thursday, when an express train
ran into and crushed a passenger
train on the Lackawanna road.
Twenty-one persons were killed,
thirty fatally Injured nnd many oth
ers hurt Friday nf'ernoon when a
passenger train on the Llgonier Vul
ley Railroad was smashed from be
hind by n double header freight
train at Latrobe, Pa. Only one pas
senger escaped without injury.
At Greensboro, Saturday, train 3li
on the Southern, from Atlanta to
Washington, ran into a freight train,
head end, and killed engineer T. K.
Bench of Alexandria, Va., and
wounded, more less seriously, 20
others, none of whom are expected
to die.
An earthquake at Fair Banks,
Alaska, Sunday caused the death
ol one man.
Four persons were killed and
many wounded on Sunday in a
wreck of interurban cars at Mari
on, inil.
In a riot between lumber
workers near Baton Rouge,
seven were killed. It was a
between union and non-union
( n.wds Hm-k to Sea tiiil Wilson'
Aiwu r to Itrjan.
Sea Girt. N. J.. Dispatch. 3d.
Gov. Voidrow Wilson was given
little time to devote to his person
al affairs or his family today. From
early morning the summer home of
t'ip mall who was nominated as the
Democratic candidate for 2r iddeut
of the Unilid Stales was Ir'.-ivted
w ith visitors - l !iou.i.:ln!s of then..
Regiments of men, women an I child
ren on foot trod down the slimU-ry.
raiuiied on his poivh, climbed on the
brass cannon in front of his r si
d nee and repealed the handshak
ing until the Governor's rigl.t arm
was sore and stiff.
In the midst of all this pres.-ni-day
activity, bit by bit there are
coming to light incidents cf Gov
ernor Wilson's making during the
eonven'ion and iuiinedia'cly prior to
it. Today his secr-tary told the
history of the telegram to William
J. Bryan in answer to Mr. Brvau's
message declaring n;;ainst the selec
tion of Alton B. Parker as tempo
rary chairman of the convention.
"As soon as Mr. Bryan's ni"s
sage became public, even before it
n ached the Governor," the secre
tary said, "the Wilson managers at
Baltimore got Hie Governor on Un
it lephone.
"Don't answere the message until
you hear from nV they begged and
the Governor said he would not.
"Down at Baltimore they rigged
up a rough drr.ft of a reply and
sent it to the Governor. He read it
and banded It to me. It dodged
the issue. Th Governor took it
from my hands. "It won't do, Jo,"
he said, as he tore it Into bits.
"The people expect more than this
of me. It wouldn't be just to them
or myself if I used this. We'll fix
up another one."
"He took a pad and placed It
across his knee and wrote his an
Bwer to Mr. Bryan without cross
ing out a single word he had put
down."
dkatii r .in:i. hum:.
mill
Ala.,
fight
men.
Similiter Diet.
Be discriminating In your eating.
Leave off meats, particularly fat
meats, butter, and all greasy, oily,
heavy foods at least until cold
veather. Knt sparingly of fish or
eggs, if you think you must hnve
animal food. Take advantage of the
fruit, vegetable and berry season. It
was not an accident that such seas
ons come in summer. Drink a lot.
but be careful what you drink. Make
sure that It Is water, pure and sim
ple, and that Its character and quali
ty are above reproach or suspicion.
Drink enough water to supply abun
dant perspiration. It is not a dis
grace to perspire. It is an aid to
health and comfort. It Is nature's
own method of cooling the body and
ridding It of waste matter. Per
spire freely In hot weather. It
goes a long way towards keeping
happy, healthy, cool ami comforta
ble In summer.
Keep the bowels moving regularly
nnd freely at all times, particularly
during hot wenther. Don't use a
purgative except as a last resort or
under the direction of a physician.
Lots of water combined with a fruit
diet for a day or two will usually
establish good bowel action. Then
keep it up regularly at least once,
in some cases twice a day. Con
stipation is the grent American dis
ease. It Is the disease of the lazy,
the Idle, the sluggard, the Indolent,
the sedentary, and the Inactive. In
fact. It occasionally requires consid
erable discretion, will power, and ex
ercise to fight It off, but it ran be
done, and any one who does U will
feel so well repaid this summer tlmt
he will never permit It again.
Full enjoyment of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness is only pos
sible when the people rule at Washington.
The Man Who Pu It (lie (. V. A. X.
l-t lta iii.iri.ilde t urn r of
( mill (l rule- (ciit-ral.
Lincolton. N. C, July 3. Gener
al Itohrrt Fredem-I. l !;. ranking
Coiifjtlerr.lt o!fiir. lhe pelvoaa!
choice of tivn. B ! rt K. Lit- to
succeed him la (...- : was ki'l d
ill battle, a r:ir' I i 'ipi.alist am!
railway promo'.t i i. l one of the
best known liai.Tis (I :!.i v...i- 1m
tween the Slates, died at his Home
in Lincolton laM ui-M. '!!. Ind
eral will le held ia RaU-Uh. tin
arrangements to l.e made later.
General Hoke w
Dr. Michael Hoke;
cr of the late .Mr-
and an uncle of
tor Hoke Smith
is the father of
lie was a broth
llildrelh Smith.
United States Sella
!id Bimoii Smiiii,
Kept Sistcr'M lledy a Year to Die
By it.
London July 5. A weird, grew
soine story of two sisters whose
wish had been not to part In death
comes from Gateshead, where an old
woman was found at the point of
death beside the corpse of her long
dead sister.
The sisters were named Neill.
Both were over 70, and were re
tired dressmakers. At one time
they conducted a flourishing busi
ness. One of their few relntlves
who had not heard from them in a
long time, called yesterday to see
the sisters and failed to get a re
ply to a knock at the door. The
door was broken down and the
younger sister whs found In a state
of collapse, unable to speak, beside
the mummified corpse of the eld
er woman.
A doctor who was called In de
clared that the elder woman had
boon dead at least a year.
Will
The X( giti Pugilist Says He
I Ei I ii-e.
Jack Johnson, the negro prize
fighter and champion, who beat
up a fool white man the otner
day, says he is going to quit.
"I never want to see another pair
of boxing gloves, either in private
or In public" emphatically declared
Johnson while en route to Chicago.
Johnson was in a Imppy mood, un
marked by his fight with Jim Fl; tin
lit Las Vegas.
"If anyone wants to fight me,"
declared the champion, "he will
have to do it not later than labor
day. for on that day following I
will retire from the ring forever.
"That's final. I quit then for good."
Johnson said he had cleared $'.
000 on his victory over Flynn. He
received $:!1.0no from Jack Curley.
the promoter, and won J.l.oon on
betting on himself.
"And Mrs. Johnson won $(1.ii00
betting on lite", remarked the heavy
weight. "She gave odds of three to
one."
all of Atlanta. He is also surviv
ed by his wife, who is a sister of
Judge Augustus Van Wyck, of New
York, and JinUe Robert Van-Wyck.
the first mayor of Lrc.Kr New York
and a son, VanWyck Hoke, of Lin
colton. He is also survived by two dau ;li
ters, Mrs. Alex Webb, of Raleigh,
and Mrs Pollock of Kinston, N. ('.
BRILLIANT SOLDI KR.
General Hoke, during the war,
ranked as one of the most brilliant
officers of the southern Confedera
cy, and after the surrender was
prominently identified with the cen
strueiion and direction of railway
lines and other Industries.
He was born M..y 27. 1S.!7. He
volunteered in the earlv part or"
lStil, his first commission being that
of a second lieu'.c i.i.int.
His promotion followed rapidly.
He was appointed major of the Is;
North Carolina infr.intry early in
lbtil. He was later made major and
lieutenant colonel, and colonel of
the Thirty-third North Carolina in
f ran try. He was afterwards trans
ferred as Colonel of the Twenty
first North Carolina regiment. He
was appointed a brigadier general
January 17, 1863, and was made a
major general on April 20, 18tJ4.
His brigade served in the Army ot
Northern Virginia, in General Kar
ly's division. He commanded his
division at the battle of Cold Hur
ler. He was comniunder of the N.
('. division In 1865. He surrender
ed with General Johnson at Dur
ham station, X. C, April 2(J, 1865.
General Hoke was in practically
alt of the Important battles of the
war. He and his division took a
part In the battle of Plymouth and
raptured that place, lie was also
In the battle of Cold Harbor and
was wounded at the buttle of Chan
eellorville. He wi'.s appointed major general
before be was 28 years old and
was probably the youngest major
general in the war.
According to the siatcment of the
late dipt R. K. Park, it was the
personal wish of General Robert K.
!.ee tlmt Genera! Hoke should sur
ceed him as commander of the Con
federate armies during the war.
RAILROAD OFFICIAL.
At the close of the war. General
Hoke engaged In business in North
Carolina. lie built the Georgia
Carolina nnd Northern railroad (now
a part of the S. A. L. system I ,
from Monroe X. ('., to Atlanta, and
served its president cf that road.
He was also a director of the Caro
lina Central Railroad company, lie
was president of the Cranburry Iron
oi'Ks, of Norm Carolina, and was
actively nnd slices1 fully for many
years In charge cf tins: mines.
lie was urged many times to be
a candidn'e for governor of his
own state mid wan upon several de
cisions practically of'-nd the nomi
nation. He declined thece honors,
pieferrln.i; to rem. .in as a private
citizen. He retired from active busi
ness life some years agj.
huitr for July Term,
The county commissioners at their
meeting last week drew the follow
ing jury to serve at a ten. I of court,
for the trial of criminal cases, be
ginning July 2!;h and continuing
one week:
Raymond C. Griffin. A. .1. Blythe.
J. Mod Maiiess, T. B. Carpenter. T.
D. 1-ce. W. 11. Hill, John A. Win
chester, P. B. Blakeney, S. K. Wil
son, D. F. Keziah. J. K. Henderson,
XI. A. Clontz. C. F. By rum. F. M.
Yandle, Robt. L. Belk. J. A. Ben
nett. T. L. Austin, Lee Mangtim, W.
W. Smith, A. Lee Baucom. W. M.
Haney. H. W. Pigg, W. L. Riggers,
J. C. Richardson. J. F. Williams, K.
O. Bivens, J. K. Hamilton, Sam I).
Helms. S. A. Warllck. T. C. Ku
ban ks, Charles Rogers, W. H. Hor
ton. Aleck Moser, Dr. J. M. Belk,
J. N. Blgham, T M. Crow.
To fumlirintCH for Cotton Weigher.
In regard to the $5 fee requir
ed of you by the county primary
law to help defray expenses of the
election: For your benefit we will
keep a separate account of your ex
pense from the expense of other can
didates and you will only have to
pay your actual expenses, the re
mainder of your money will be re
funded. A. J. BROOKS.
Chm. County Dem. Ex. Com.
Forty-ona people were killed on
the Lakawana railroad In New York
State by a wreck last Thursday.
Lots of charity begins at home
becauss it is too weak to travel.
Ilnil Fourth Viae Wiivliaw.
Waxhaw, July 5. The glorious
Fourth came lo a rough clone y. s
terday afternoon at Union colored
church, 3 miles from Waxhaw, in
which guns were freely used nnd
three negroes were s'iot. It van
to be a throe day lu:riie ite I:) r:ie
funds for the negro church, hut lhe
riot left many things mis dd and un
eaten. As best call be learnt i! Cleft Al
len was hitching tri to go home
when the horse of Br.il Crawford
backed on Cb ve Allen, when Allen
began to curse Crawford end kept
It up after he drove off, when
Crawford shot at him, inflicting two
wounds In the leg mid arm. Allen
shot but missed Crawford.
Crawford's brother entered the
fight and Gus Allsobrooks appear
ed on the scene as a peacemaker,
and was shot by Hud Crawford In
the hand for his pains, badly boring
it. All the wounds are painful but
not necessarily fatal.
Bud Crawford made bis way to
his home near Lancaster, where a
telephone message was sent for his
arrest. L. M. Rhiner of Jackson
township arrested all the other par
ties. It was an ugly affair, and great
excitement prevailed, bringing the
three days picnic to a sudden close.
Whiskey, guns and bad blood made a
rough affair for a church gathering.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, former
chief of the bureau of chemistry of
the Department of Agriculture, an
nounces that he has quit the Re
publican party and will support the
Democratic presidential ticket this
year.
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It takes a mlghtly lMtle shore to
send soma men down hilL