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THE Monroe journaj PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. VOL. 20 No. 10. MONROE, X. O, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1914. ONE DOLLAR A Yfc FKEK TOLLS LAW KKPKA1.KI. House Passes President Wilson Hill Aniiil Dramatic Scene Sieeh of C hamp Clark tin- All Absorbing Topic No Tally Division Declares Ho. ALL AUOVXD WAXHAW. ('leaning tip Dny Now Ilaral Route. Walter Stark Horn tu Texas with ;mh1 WMhh for Umg Stay Mr. Honors tJets an Auto. Waxhaw Enterprise, April 1st. The Sims bill to repeal the frw : . t,l:lfrii town- tolls provision of the Panama Canal Act. was pased by the House of Rep resentatives late Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 248 to 162. The part ies split up on this measure. Speak er Clark, Leader I'nderwood, and He publican Leader Mann, all opposed President Wilson's desire that the bill be passed, but they fought in vain. Champ Clark's closing speech was the dramatic event of ho de bate. Speaker Clark, closing debate against the repeal, disappointed those who exported him to attack Fresident Wilson. He disclaimed any personal Issue with the Presi dent, declared he believed Mr. Wil son was actuated by the highest pa triotic motives and that there was no breech in the Democratic party. He argued at length against the President's contention and declared that "the amazing request of the ' President for a repeal, like the peace of God, pnsseth all under standing." He disclaimed any per sonal issue between the President and himself and that if the president had reasons which were not utterly untenable and whicn com rel him to make this request," lie had not given them to the House. He differed with the President's statement that toll exemption was a mistaken economic policy, ' but ad mitting dispute on that point, pro posed that the exemption be suspend ed two years. He contended that the president was mistaken in his view that the exemption was repugnant to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. WOULD RATHER FIGHT. "We want war with no nation said the Fpeaker, "but rather than surrender our right t'. complete sovereignty over every S'luaro foot of our globe-encircling domain we will cheerfully and courageously face a world in arms." He attacked the nttitudj )f house democrats who have led the president's fight for lha toll exemption repeal. Referring to pun lished declarations that his opposi tion to the president was the "open ing gun of his fight for the nomina tion in 19 16," the speaker declared he had told all to whom ne had spoken about the 191 G situation that If the president's administration was a success Mr. Wilson wojld bo re- elected, and if It was a failure, "the nomination wouldn't be worth hav ing." As to his own fu'ure the speaker insisted ho could 1)3 happy without the presidency or Uvj speak ership. NO PERSONAL IjUn. "There is no personal lssu be twoen the president of the United States and myself," began Speaker Clark. "I trust there never will be I have at no time uttered one word of criticism of th president. At no time, so far as I am informed or he lieve. has the president said one single word of criticism of me. "I have never for one moment en tertalned the opinion that President Wilson Is actuated by other than the highest patriotic motives. "I do not believe that Prerldent Wilson has ever entertained any oth er opinion as to the conduct of those of us who find It necessary to differ with him on this measure. Presi dent Wilson does not desire a breach in the democratic party. I do not de sire a breech in the democratic party and there is no breech. MAKES THE BEST OF IT. Speaker Clark said that "if we have entered into an engagement which forbids us to manage our own affairs then we must abide It, how ever foolish or unnecessary that en gagement may have been." "Whatever may be the differences of opinion representing the merits of the case, I do President Wilson honor for his act," said the speaker. "If I were In his place and believed as he believes, I should do as he has done. Moreover, I have such confi dence In the president that I have not the slightst doubt that, If he were in my place and believed what I believe, he would do as I am doing. But I do not and cannot endorse his judgment In this matter." In suggesting that the canal act be amended Instead of repealing the toll exemption, Speakekr Clark said: "Most assuredly the 'mistaken-ee-onomic-policy' reason of the presi dent is untenable and fades away be fore the stubborn facts of our histo ry. "As that is a disputed point, why not amend this bill so as to continue the present law with the exemption section for two years or suspend It for two years? By amending the bill either way we control the situa tion. If the exemption from tolls should turn out to be a mistaken economic policy, we can repeal or modify It; but If we pass this repeal bill, control over our own canal, built on our own soil with our own money is gone from us and our heirs 'for ever and forever.' " Sneaker Clark departed from the text of his prepared speech to do clare dramatically: "I would rather see the Tanama Canal walled up than to give the British people any control of it, It's ours forever, for better or worse." ATTEMPTED TRAIX ROBBERY. ship and Kate Marsh of Wadesboro, will close Friday. April ll. witn com mencement exercises and an address bv Dr. H. Q. Alexander, president of the State branch of the Farmers Union. At the close of business March 1. 1914. Cotton Weigher J. A. Wam ble has weighed 5.818 bales of cot ton as compared to 5,403 to March 31. 1913, a gain of 415 bales. And still there is a quantity of cotton in the country yet. About u bales were marketed here last week. Mr. J. Walker Nisket, who moved from thj Tir7.au neighborhood to Dobyville, Ark., some twenty-five years ago, died at the home of his son in Gav. Okla.. on aiarcn ism. Before leaving this country Mr. Nis bet was married to Miss Sarah Hob nson, a sister of Mrs. W. W. Nor wood of Waxhavv. She died several years ago. Mr. Nit-bet had many boyhood friends in the Tirzah com munity. The Civic League met yesieruuy at the Waxhaw Millinery compan.v and arranged for clean-up day and for the prizes to be given. The clean up contest opens April 23 and closes May 1st. The meeting was wen at tended and the members are very enthusiastic over the work to be done this year. Mr. Hobert Aldridge, son of Mr. Milas Aldridge of tho Flint Kidge community, died last night of paral ysis. He suffered a stroke eight years ago from which he never re covered. He was 33 years old. Tho funeral will take place this after noon at the Pleasant Grove cemetery. Mr. Walter Stack, well-known to a great number of people in this sec tion, left last week for Texas. Some people are afraid of Walter Stack or they talk that way. Walter is a good shot and he totes a good pistol. But they say he has gone to Texas. To the neoule who are afraid of him this must be good news. Some of them will probably hope that he crosses over into Mexico and joins the army. Of course when stories get started they increase lvvolunie and interest as they go, but people who talk on matters exciting and so on say that Walter Stack had sever al young men In this town ship mark ed for slaughter. They say that since ho has been tried twice for his life he Is moro dangerous than ever. Those who are afraid of him have grave apprehensions lest ho should become dissatisfied with Texas and return to his home near Tratlesville and there devour all his enemies. Mr. J. H. Rogers has traded for an automobile. Mr. Rogers used to be opposed to automobiles, but time perhaps has a soothing effect upon his animosity and he Is now more kindly disposed to the machines. Mr. Rogers did" not buy the machine outright hut traded some fixtures with another fellow and got the au tomobile to boot. He has not brought It home yet. It is down near Win gate and Is slightly indi.o:ed but it is a good one all right nnd It won't be long till Mr. Rogers will he burn- ng the wind along the fine roads of Union county. There is pretty heavy tax on automobiles. The new route from Waxhaw it is understood will be in operation in a very short time. The route will sup ply a great number of people wno now are very inconveniently situat ed for getting their mails from other routes. The route winds about and zigzags here and there to reach out of the way places. Route No. 6 leaves axhaw on the Providence road and follows this road to Ebenczer church, colored, then to U. A. Davis', then via O. M. Sanders' place to the Capt. J. J. C. Steele, place, then with the Monroe and Lancaster road to ' Herman church, then past the Tracy Weir and the old Caskey places to Bethel, colored, church, near Tirzah, then to the Ellison Simpson place and out the new road to J. R. Simpson s then down the Potter road to Cane creek at tho Huey foard, then by J. J. Har key's, R. T. McCain's and Banks Mc Cain's to the McCain road at tho Doc tor Baker place, then with McCain road to J. Harvey Starnes' place, then with the Potter road to H. Mac Har- key's, then with the new public road by J. N. Bigham'B, J. J. Godfrey's and by Lun Craig's, colored, to the Monroe road at the Walker school house and with said road to Waxhaw. More than 100 families along this proposed route have petitioned for the service and It is practically as sured that the route will be estab lished just as soon as it can be rush ed through. The route will greatly benefit Waxhaw. Don't miss the big 6 -reel show at The Rex Theatre Saturday. Show open all day. Greatest picture ever shown. Sea their ad. in this paper Mcl-aiiHn for (iovernor. Lancaster News. John Lowndes McLaurln, one time member of the lower house in the state legislature, attorney general member of Congress and United States senator, and now state sena tor, since his enforced retirement by the people from the exalted station he occupied, is an avowed candi date for governor. He has given out a recent interview in which he enounces thut he will support Blease for United States senate and in pay' Ing a tribute to the governor, indl cated that Bleasism. so-called, "will be ai issue in the approaching gt bernatorial campaign." Captain Cason's Train was Boarded Thursday Night and Three Bandits Attempted to Rob the Express Car but Were Driven Off by Express Messenger Fletcher. Messenger Wounded Robbers Boarded Train While It Slowed Up at Scene of Wreck. Train No. 11, which left Monroe Wednesday night in charge of Capt. W. E. Cason of this place, was held up at Comer yesterday morning by bandits who attempted to rob the express car. The story of the holdup is thus told by The Atlanta Georgian: Bloodhounds, followed by Sheriff W. M. Davis and a score of armed deputy sheriffs, are on trail of the three masked bandits who made a daring attempt to hold up passenger train No. 11 on the Seaboard Air Line Railway two miles south of Comer, Ga., Thursday morning at five o'clock, and who were driven from the train after a re- i t ii i 1. t-i r Tnii-l v. noc ttTV.:,.t,ll voiver uaiue in wmcn n. j. r leicuer, ut iu. nov murium street, a young express messenger, was wounded in the left arm. Fletcher repulsed the trio of bandits single-handed, and shot a revolver from the hand of one of them, and is supposed to have wounded his man. Shcrirr Davis came Irom Atnens witn nis pacK oi hounds within half an hour after the robbery was report ed, making the trip in an automobile. He collected his posse of deputies and immediately took up the trail. It is proposed to scour the hills of Clarke county within a radius of ten miles of the robbery. The bandits are be- lived to be in hiding in the mountains. A faint trail of blood along the railroad tracks gave the dogs the scent. The blood is supposed to have come from the wound suffered by one of the bandits in the battle with Fletcher. AT SCENE OF WRECK. The attempted holdup occurred at the scene of the wreck of the two Seaboard freight trains last Saturday. The track is in bad condition at that point, and trains had been given orders to slow up when passing the wreck Engineer Ab Garrison was driving his locomotive at not more than ten miles an hour, and was pulling up a s-tecn hill, when the three bandits, masked, and each car . i ml rying a revolver, swung aboard the express car. ine dawn was just breaking, but there was not light enough for the members of the train crew to see the bandits climbintr aboard the train. ... Young Fletcher, bending over f.is desK at one end oi his express car, neard someone nammenng on me sieei door. A voice demanded that it be opened. Fletcher refused, shouting that it was against the rules to allow anyone in the express car, and then turned again to his work. BREAK INTO CAR. There was a crash as the bandit broke the small glass door with the butt of his revolver, and then a hand slipped through thte ODeniner. unlocking the door, and slid it back, The robber did his work swiftly, and before Fletcher hardly realized what was going on the figure of a man was framed in the doorway. The next instant there came a sharp demand: "Hands up! Fletcher turned, slipping his hand into his hip pocket. where he carried a revolver. One bandit had entered the car and leveled his weapon straight at the boys head The two others, with drawn revolvers, stood at the door The two men in the door trained their guns on rletcner. who returned their fire, while the first bandit left his revolver lying on the floor of the car and ran to the door, clasping his hand and screaming with pain. v Pt7hpt ntr.pr tinnp- tour shots, lerked tne Dell rope and as the train began to slow down in. response to his signal, he walked slowly- toward the bandits, firing the last two remaining shots in his revolver. The bandits returned his fire, without hitting him again, until the train had come almost to a standstill and men could be heard running from both ends of the train. Then the bandits leaped from the car and vanished into the woods alongside the track. None of the members of the train crew nor the pas sengers knew anything of the attempted holdup unti thev rushed to the express car and found Fletcher, rap idly becoming weak from the loss of blood, standing in the doorway and clicking the hammer of the revolver on the empty cartridges. As soon as the train came to a stop J. D. Bundy, the train flaerman. leaped from the rear coach and, withou waiting to inquire what had had happened, ran down the track about a quarter of a mile and placed torpedoes to warn approaching trains of trouble ahead. Later, when he returned to the train, he said three men had passed him. walkine rapidly down the track. The bov was made as comfortable as possible unti the train reached Atlanta, where he was taken to the office of Dr. Charles O. Smith and his wound dressed Dr. Smith said the injury would not prove serious. CONDUCTOR TELLS OF HOLDUP. W. E. Cason. conductor of the train, declared Thurs day night that the first he knew of the presence of the bandits was the sound of five shots fired in rapid succes sion, followed by the sudden stopping of the train. Cason said he was in the rear end of the train when he heard the shots, and a moment later the train came to a stop. (Continued on page eight) After Three Month f Work The lUinking Regions I'mlt-r the New l,nw are IMIned and the Reserve t'ltie Ivocated. Monroe Falls In to the Richmond District. The committee, headed by Secre'a- Houston and Secretary McAdoo, hich was charged with the duty of locating the twelve regional reserve anks and their respective districts nder the new banking law, yester- ly announced their decision after hreo months of hard work. A great manv cities were no cioum uisap- poinled in not being chosen, our neighbor. Charlotte, being among hem. Richmond and Atlanta were he two selected nearest to us. The tichmond district comprises the Dis rict of Columbia. Maryland, Virgin- North and South Carolina, and West Virginia. The Atlanta district comprises Georgia, Florida, Alabama and part of Tennessee. The reserve cities are as follows, each witn tne surrounding cuuiiir embraced: 1, Boston; 2. New York; Philadelphia; 4, Cleveland; a. tichmond; 6, Atlanta; 7, Chicago; St Louis; ! Minneapolis; Hi, Kan- as City; II, Lianas; J.', saurrau- isco. The national banks in each dis- rict are compelled to join in fur nishing capital for the reserve bank of their district, and State banks and rust companies are permitted come in if they wish. The capitalization of the reserve banks runs from about four and a half million, that of Minneapolis and Atlanta, to twenty millions, that New York. KKsFUYK HAXKS l.OT.lTKD. to of Villa Says He Hasn't Taken Torreon Washington Dispatch, April 1st. Reports that Torreon had fallen were definitely uenioa ny v.enerai Villa late today. Hi3 telegram was based on a message of congratula tions "on the fall of Torreon" dis- nntched to him yesterday by Col. Fidel Avilla. chief of arms of the gar rison here. General Villa replied as follows: Gomez Palacio, April 1. 1914. Colonel Fidel Avilla, Jefe de Las Ar mas. Juarez. In reply to your message I wish to state that while 1 have taKon a part of the city of Torreon, the struggle Is not vpt completed. I expect to obtain a triumph, of which I will ad vise you. (Signed) GEN. FKAXCISCO VILLA. Details of the struggle reached here today were brief and snoweu that the relative positions of the contending forces have not changed to any extent the last five days. Whether the forces of General Joa nuin Maas, marching to the relief of the Federals at Torreon, nave yei engaged those of the rebel general. Monclove Herrera, sent to meet mm, was not known. No confirmation was received of the rumor that a train load of the soldiers of General Maas was blown up by a dynamite mine. The column under command of General Maas was said to number 4,500 men. To meet him, it was re ported, General Herrera was detail ed by General Villa. An engagement between these forces was expected hourly. Miguel Diebold, Mexican recterai consul at El Paso, made public a telegram from General Maas reading: "Reported fall of Torreon untrue. Deny al such reports. The message was dated today ana purported to come from Satillo, just east of Torreon, by way of Eagle Pass, Texas. t ni.sTi:r.ni:i.i's mki i i.. v, l-a t Friday Was a Kid Letter lay in the Capital of O.ir SUter ('utility "lkwn Siif." Pageland Journal April 1st. The first field day for the Fchools of Chesterfield county was held at the county sej;t last Saturday and the largest crowd ever assembled n the county In the inierest of schools was in attendance. A shower about dawn caused some to stay at home, but from all parts of the coun ty the people came until the .-herilT of th county said, "ther'1 are thirty- five hundred people here." Others uessed twenty-five hundred, at any rate, it was some crowd, to use the best Knglish, and the balmy spring nir made possible the joy and glad ness of tne day. i ney were mere from every walk of lii'e. from the lit tle tot to the gray-haired veteran. From far a:;d near, on buggies, wag ons, trains, automooiSes, and Horse back they came, and it was past the noon hour before the crowd had ful ly g ithered. Many beautiful and appropriate ilo;:ts were r.rranced by the schools of the county, and the parade, which formed at the Chesterfield high -chool building and passed up main street to the court house, was fully half a mile in length. A number of of the floats were bedecked with the school children, and the. oilier chil dren prest nt marched in twos in the parade. Chesterfield wen first prize for the best float; Pageland won sec ond. P.est decorated wagon, $3.00 cash. by Pine Clove; second, $1.00 cash. by Wamble Hill. Schools having floats or decorated wagons were: Center Point, Chester field. Cheraw, Pine Grove, New Hope, Vaughan, Orange Hill, Ruby, Pee Dee Pageland, Wamble Hill, Montrose, Ilav Springs and Mt. Croghan. The recitation and declamation contests for high schools were held in the court house Friday night. Rec itation first, a five dollar gold piece by Miss Elizabeth Home of Cheraw ; second, a book of poems by Miss Jes sie Quick of Pageland. Declamation first, five dollar gold piece, by Hugh Knight, Jr. of Mcilee: second, a book of poems, by Edward Wright of Cheraw. The Rockingham band furnished music Saturday. Hey nnd ('Igaivttes A Miuriage. Wadesboro Ansonian, April 1st. Tho attention of the police officers of the town and county has been called to the law which prohibits the selling or giving of cigarettes cr cig arette tobacco or papers to boys jn der 17 years of age. Every officer of the law is required to find out of any boy under 17 years of age, who ia seen smoking cigarettes, where the -e were obtained cr who aided in obtaining. Hoys failing to give In formation are guilty of a misdemean or and may be lined hy t!ie court or imprisoned not more than 2 years. Mr. Walter P. Paiker and Miss Lcssie ISroadaway of liurnsvillo township, were married Sunday af ternoon, the ceremony being per formed by Esq. J. W. Thomas at his residence. Mr. Parker is a son of Mr. and Mrs. 1. W. I.r!;cr and is a successful young farmer. Hh bride Is an attractive youn;; lady, a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ifrcadaway. lioth belong to prominent families and have a host of friends to wish them a long and happy life together. Polkton has turned on the light and Lilesville will do so in a few weeks; get busy Morven, Ansoii"i'le and Peactiinnd. Cliwdnft of College Hill School. Lancaster News. The closing exercises of the above school under the control of Prof. C. A. Plyler as principal and Misses Elulla McNeely and Ilessie Helms as assistants will come off on Thurs day, April 9th. Exercises in the fore noon by a part of the pupils, dinner at noon. Address by Messrs. B. C. Ashcraft and Ney McNeely, both of Monroe, in the afternoon with the best of the "wlno" at the end by our excellent superintendent of educa tion, Prof. R. N. NIsbet. There will be some exercises the night before beginning at 7:30 o'clock by the pri mary grades and a part of the higher grades. Everybody is cordially in vited and especially to bring full bas kets of something for the inner man. On Thursday, April 9th, specifica tions nnd plans for. remodeling our school building wil be exhibited. lilils for the contract will be received till May 10th, when the contract will be let out. Any party or parties who wish to seo the specifications and plans must be on hand Thursday. Fell From Sky Scraner nnd I.Ives, Wilmington Dispatch, 31st. Though he fell from midway of a 40-foot derrick on top of the 10-story Murchison National Rank building through steel beams to the fourth floor, a distance of 80 feet, today at noon, Frank Daughtery, steel worker, will recover after a long stay in the hospital, was the statement tonight of the attending physician. Roth his arms and two ribs were broken and he also received severe bruises about the body. The accident was witnessed by a large number, as the man's ascent on the tall derrick had caused crowds on the street to direct their eyes to ward him. He is a young man and his home Is in New York. The Motor Curs and Their Cost. Charlotte Observer. Over one million motor cars are now being operated in the I'uited States and production schedules for the current year have been estimat ed at 375,000 cars. These figures in the April World's Work take ac count of the fact that, as the pop ulation of the United States is a hundred million in round numbers, this country has one car for every hundred people men, women and children. The value of the 1914 au tomiles, an Increase of 75,000 in number over 1913, will be approxi mately $500,000,000. If all are sold, therefore, it will mean an automobile expenditure for this one year of $5 for every person in the I'nited States, The World's Work figures do not in clude expenditures for repairs, fuel, second-hand machines, storage, etc. We have undoubtedly thrown a con siderable of our industrial nnd com mercial energies into the mannlac ure, sale and upkeep of automobiles with a swiftness al.no-st beyond belief. Tyler tilT.iuldnughter of lYeMdent Loses Office. Norfolk, Va., Dispatch, 1st. Miss Mattie R. Tyler, granddaugh ter of John Tyler, tenth president of the United States, today surrendered the Courtland, Va.. postoffice which she had held for 16 years, and turn ed over its affairs to R. A. Williams, appointed by Postmaster General Burleson from Civil Service. Mr. Williams bore the endorsement of Representative E. E. Holland of the Second Virginia District. Miss Tyler refused to surrender the office when Mr. Williams present ed the commission after Miss Tyler's return from Washington yesterday. Mr. Williams telegraphed to Wash ington for Instructions. Miss Tyler today received a telegram from th Department directing her to turn the Courtland office over to Mr. Wil liams and this she did nromntlv. Splendid music by the Monroe Or-1 chestra, with good pictures, at the Mr. W. H. Belk of Charlotte spent Hex Theatre tonight, Wednesday here.
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