0 i ' ' i I I I I i i Vi t X VOL. XXXIV MOUtfl AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1913. WO. 12 I f REFUSED TO EAT HOG MEAT; WAS WHIPPED. Eoad Suprevisor Did Not Think Jew Convict Had Religion. Raleigh. Sent. 13. The trial of J. N. Ni'pevr and Jim J. Johnson, Wake County road guards charg-, T. II. Walls. constable at Apex, il with assaulting convicts, will toldj the court Hi at lie was a in.t be concluded until Monday '. frequent visitor to the camp and ;i.'ght or Tuesday, court adjourn- wan aware of the insu1ordina ing tonight with, a number of tion. IT., stave I at the camp witnesses yet to be called and , ojie night. Mr. Nipper consult all speeches of attorneys to be j ed him on the situation. Dozens made. Then? were no unusual I of character witnesses were put sensations im the. case today, the on by the defence and gave Mes chief point the State bringing out i srs Nipper and Johnson good Wing that Radfrey Jeffrey, a! cliarneterN Henry Bledsoe, a guan Hebrew, was whlirped on one who was used as a State's wit occasion because he would not eat hog meat. He was made to swallow six rations and after he got thk' taste of hwine vowed he loved it, former Sueprvisor Nip per said. As if the burdens of the road authorities were not heavy enough, the grard jury brought an true bills against W. L. Wigcs general rad snpervifior and S. L. Iee, a discharged camp smervis or, charging them jointly with not providing proper quarters for prisoners at camp No. 3 and agawust Lee separately for cruel ty to animals. This indictment Mais the result of a special re port by a visiting committee of the grand jury to the camp ear lier in the week. Sentiment Divided. Sentiment is about equally di vided here between the road au thorities and the convicts. It i.s recognized that if the guards have no jwwer to correct prisou er, road work with wnvicta will le a failure and that the prison ers had as well be turned loose for all the good they will do. On the other hand, many of the persona following tho trial ex press indignation at the stories thie convicts glibly relate. ah? 5iaod irAtaiavvL.also.ear quired about the pay allowed convicts working out costs. The county allows 20 cents a day, claiming that the upkeep of the camjs, the food for the prisoners nnd the excuse of extra guards makes the comity jay twice as much for convict labor as it would have to pay fior free la bor. The County Commissioners! however, said they would inves tigate this matter. Jmlge C. M. Cooke, wliio is presiding over the court, dismissetl the grand jury until the CMoJer term with "God be with you till we meet . .again." In his testimony today Mr. Niitper, who recently was elected supreitnemdent of roatb in Greene County, stated that there had been no trouble at the camp un til Dan Gallagher nad Henry Crawford, two white men, had been brought out. With their coming ensued a lot of trouble, including a conspiracy to seize Guard Ilolloway's gun, shoot Guard Johnson and cause a gen eral delivery. " :t! 'fl Mr. Nipper told the same story a.s related by Mr. Johnson Fri day a,s to the number of blows and prisoners struck, and the rest of his testimony coincided with that otf the other guard. He .statel positively mat the wimo- ping given Dan (.aiiuglier on the! y. F. MeCaulev. the president morning of August 20. l!U2. "as (lf -tllt avilnnah jj.nk wm! Tn,st m no wise responsnble tor liwrpain. (.(Knfiniie,l the h of death late that afternoon. He;i, i ifn) It J.ii,.....! ..nt said five or six blows were ad 1 ministered and that there wen no scratches or bruits on th flanks. Dip Strip in Water. On cross-examination Solicitor ; -N orris nsked il it wen- not a taet that the guar Is frequently dip the ltatlor straji in lay it flat on the sandy watt r, iloor ajid straighten it out by pull'i.g il illiil'T 1 ! : ' r si ne.s ill ortler t" n C the bbi .stillg the III" re i');e witii' i ,i hnitt ing, ! p Wa.l Si ' water and j' d part of t'.i . . '. . ! , ti. ;! the t'll;..s 1 ; "j -1 " I -!l i ! until r f"t t f"r ti a;irhte:i'u. t it Mie purpose if . out. That was n one !! I.'e ntoriilng in que.ti' n, he insisted. The golieiter a. qU"StinesI him ibout Radfrey Jeffrey, a II -brcw, who did not want to eat hog meat because of religious scruples Mr. Nipper did not Unoiw that the prisoner vu any religii, and said he was told that Jeffrey was an Irishman. He suspected that Jeffrey was a He brew. Jeffrey refused to eat for three days ami the supervisor gave hiin a modification of the Lomlogit police treatment in tin? vane of suffragettes and the pris oner, after eating nix rations of ! jirk, swore he loved it. ness, was also given a god char acter. Child Without a Brain. Berlin, Sept. 15. The German medical press records the re markiible case of a child which lived for nearly fouir years with out nf trace of a forebrain. Neuron gists ex tain hut the oast demonstrates tho absolute dependence of human being on the fore or sentiment brain, and shows that a human cannot car ry on the ordinary" provessis noc esary for his preservation with out it. The fish or frog with out the forebrain has greater cap ability than had the child in question. This child revealed no trace 'whatever of this vital brain sevtiou, so its nervous sys tem was absolutely similar to that f a fish, thiwigh the bitter is capaJble of performing all the vital functions neesesary for nu trition and self-defense. The case of the child is e.spee ially noteworthy lMvausc of the long duration of life. In other cases the- brainless life la-sted cnlv for a few davs, and the movements of the child did m differ in any respect i,'in those of a nonnal fluid", l&ihe case under di'ussron child Uvh1 i yt&n, -ppuU- mittmg numerous extensive ob servations of its state. The child remained, in a condition of con tiniuai sleep. Ib arms were flexed and rigid. It wai unable to gra.sp or hold anything 'with its ha mis. From the second year onward the child cried in cessantly, though this Could in stantly be stopped by mere pressure, especially on the head. It was impossible to note, any physical action, to awaken any feelings or to teach the child an v thing. 4 rs Big Sura of Money Stolen Transit in Savannah, Ga., Sept. 11. Cur rency amounting to $71,'JO0, in transit irm the Chaso National Bank of New York to the Savaiir mih Bank and Trust Company and to Brunsw'rvck and Valdosta, Crii., was stolen from a portable safo on the Atlantic Civist Lino train No. 8'J, between Jersey City and Savftjinah. It should have arrived here yesteiilay morning. Its loss bcxrawe kncvn today. Fifty thousand of the amount was consign d to the ftavaunah lJWk aiwl Tru.st Comivmy here. The money was shipped by the Southern Kxnress Co ' "' ' - ' " .... V f New ork on Monday on train .Nil Mi, ot the. Atlantic I oast l.m Railway. "When the steel trunk in which it was supposed to have been shipped was opened it was found tli.it. the money had dis- nupeared. (i,at j .no;v aiMll), t. Prescient. MeCaulev. is that to 1 i.S it ul nionev was st.irted from New York and that i p reached here." T:i Southern Fx press p:ipv li as hurried it- b. 4- St-, ai.nah to uH'.b'rlaV i ' e. i i y of 'I t ni"i-e. ef e i' il: tl s. Com-no-ii 11 e Th ' i :iU on '. . Ut.s'.le f f t''e (Vtl Ti.it shov ii t e'r. i "! d tl ill h.- er s: f h:o1 ; wih. but the ea' 1 . uvbtps i wl.i'li tie iii'ncy wa cont.iine 1 wlin it left N'rw rv.c were si'i rpni The shipu'tnt wn 'ent out ,r N' w Y-rk in Vo dams Ev-I pr'.s C'Tnpinv a'd o iivered the Southern Express Cmnpany i t at Washington, D. C. j Big Fight at Church. 4alihbury, Spt. 13. One. of the longest, if not the longest, sessions of the Rowan County Court since its institution was that today, which began at the UMi-al hour, 1 o'clock, and ksted until after ." this afternoon. There were the usual nirmbt r of minor eases, but the one f chief con cern wai that of the particip ants in a big row at Emm Iaj tist Church, in Franklin Town ship l,Lt 'Saturday. It appears that souii" misunderstanding has existed between certain factions of the congregation and that the pastor, Kev. J. L. Carriek, sum moned those interested to a Church trial last Saturday and everything was progressing finc ly before the Church jury when all at once there arose suine question w.hih could not be peacefully adju.stcd anl s-ver;U iiwludsn' .some of the members of the jury, left the church aud a general row .started outside. In this saline came out with bruised faees, wie with a lacerat ed jaw and still another with one finger bitten lnioft off. In the melee the juiMor attempted to make peace but was powerless. In this, as in the Civil War, brother was arraved against brother, there being five Myer brothers in the difficulty, abnust equally divided. The hearing here today w;w at tended by alniut lK) people f n m the neigUlHrhiwl, and while Sol icitor Craig.' appeared against all of the defendants, Messrs. Haydea (dement, Walt r Wood sort, and' Whitehead Klutz re present d what :.s known, in the c cmrniavitv as tlie "Hig Seven.") while Mchsik. K. Lee Wri-ht. T. Ci I. inn and Stable Li rim represented j tli' other fi'ftjuw. At the e!usi..'t of the evidence ami con-j ar- gti-memt of attornevs Judge Klutz found all guit.lv. The were I). W., J. L., A. E., C. II., and II V Myers, 0. L- Hen dricks, R. Ii.- Pcrryroan, I C: WotnT, R. A. Shuping, and I). W. Wtxnl, aiI all were taxed with a fine of . and costs, except C. U. Myer and P. C. Wood, these two paying $10 and easts to the county school fund. Among the defendants were a number of of ficers of the Church, which is one of the leading Baptist con gregations in the county. First Good Road. Y-ulkinville, Scipt. loth. The '.i.-t mile f good rods tliat Vadkin County has ever possess ed has just been completed near Jonesville. This road is schedul ed to run from tlie Yadkin River ut Klkjn thnmgh Jonesville auid through the TmvnshipH of Buck fsluxals and Knobs to J. P. How ards store near Jennings, Iredell County, a distance of 12 miles, At Howards Store the Yadkin road will connect with the Ire dell County sajl-eby road, giv ing KlHn, Jonesville ami that part tf Yadkin a splendid nwd direct to Ouiroltte way of Statesville and Mooresville. Tho road is being built by lriate subsicrition, which move is headed by ex-Sheriff G. T. Wliite and others. The road was surveyed! by competent engineers a.'ul when gnoltsl will be sand clayed. Did Gypsies Kidnap this Lad? Durham, Sept. 111. A band of gypsies with a small boy that was evidently an American child here Thursday caused a greaj deal of excitement. A local iren tbinan offered the .-.inall child a silver dollar and he inunediatey refused stating that should he take the money the gypsies would take it from him. thus giv ing proof that he was not of g.'pV I I 1. The boy cried piti fully and asked to be taken 1 i ' . j i i - . He was tjuest ioiif-d a.s 1o where his home was and as to his name V ut not ri-niembor eith- er. Con.tahel staittd to take so as to m.ikt' Rm mond Hall the Inly in liand. iutiuiries alxnit him, but before he had time to nialce the arrangements the )and of gypsies had vacated the city, j It is thought here by those who 4 lunoe women are ww the .small bov that he hndithe Unittsl States. been kidnapped fronu some city j by the baid of gyjisies while on their travel. j Unusually Big Crop. Yadkinville, Sept. 13. Th to !acm crsvp in Yadkin this year is omothing enormous. From all indications at jresejit the crop is the largest that IhLs county has had in many years. The fanners were not only encouraged to put out larger crops by the good prices last year, but the season was such in the Spring that plants were available for all who wanted to put out the weed. It veins too that the grade of the tcibaeeo this year will far eX feed thiit of the pa.st few years, this, it is ssiid, is due to the fact th-at no Very hard rains have eume during the growing season to wash the "ginu" fnrn the leaf, and consequently the h-jtf will le heavier as well as of a better grade. The season for cutting tobacco is nw at its height, and the euttirg and curing will occupy several days yet. As another evidence cf a larger crop Mum usual the flue shop of J. II. Mackiie & Sons at thw place has tunnsl. out twire tlu' amtrutrt of flues as in, any year .since, the firm began business here. The working force lu.s beiMi doubled and working over time. Over 50, MK) poinxlrt of flue iron h ive been m.ide into flues and .!d at five cents a pound, which means that Yadikfin farmers luive invested tmore than $2,."K) in flues this yar. The fanners are still more en courag'l at the rate the prices are starting off this yestr. as they are evn higher than hut vear. 12,000-Mile Trip to Make His Chinese Bride American. Philadelphia, September, l"th. Through a 12,000-nnlo jountey to Hwi' Kong, Chins, ana 're- i'rn, Joseph" Ite, the Chinese- in terpreter Hfwhed to the Phil adelphia Immigration Service, hopes to circumvent the United States immigration, laws ' which prevented his intendeii bride from landing in this e country a year iigo. Lee iAiua to marrj' his swei theart, Miss Ah Fong, daugh ter of a wealthy Hong Kong Merchant, and bring her to A meriea. By th'm arrangement he luelieves that the Uirriers which prevent tl the aifenissioit of ML Ah Fong into the United States a year ago will be removed. Itst Sejrtember Miss Ah Fong arrived at Seattle from Hong Kong, a vessel of tho Great Northern Steamship Company. Lee, who luul made the oCH0-mik journey across the continent to greet his sweetheart, was bitter ly disappointed wheat the immi gration inspectors refused her pt-r mission to land. The deject ed lover appealed ttuo decision to the Department of Commerce and Labor, but that department sustained the immigration in spectors. Miss Ah Fong wa.s .sent back to China and Lee returned to Philadelphia to study the im migration laws to discover some loophole whieh would permit the admission of his sweet heart into America. After a year of studying and planning, the mysterious working of the Oriental mind at last de vLsetl n way. The (liine.se Ex clusion Act, under which Mush Ah Fong was barred from this country on her previous attempt to enter, Lee suys ht. has dis covered, applied only to the collie e.btrss of Chinese. By marrying his sweetheart in China and then bringing l,.r to this country he believes that her admission will be -made Ns:ble. An lit w Lee thought the plan worth a trial and did not hesitate over a lit', e matter of a 12.(KM mile journey. la " was granttd a ear's leave of a'1-" i:,e I'l-ai the Immigration . II - left Philadelphia yes l"!- ilui-- l"l:.'r. L'":.'IU' bv teld tile w h ii "1 :i JS hraiiei. o, i:. : I l, t !ee ..t !.C leM Wet k. Lee, who as- . i. a n itiVe of 'a! l'"!'!1 be. ;i e. .1. hee! ell iS ; ! il ! i;e 1 ill- m"e He ti,. elu. wh, at...!i Sel' lee f r .x tMii". o.'j! ! co:i ei-a'.t with clan- s cf the C!iinee V.x- .ien Act and beltcX'.s that u he ntun.s wit!i his bride will have sufficient grounds a test case. Although f-w he for admitted to wealths uier- chants have occasionally found it pev.il !e to gain ad;iilion for their w ives. rortunes Made in Priscn. Fnnn Tit-BiU. i aiinougn moni crianinia ma jth time of their imprisonment i tliat convicts have made such goml iif,e of the hours sjH-nt in jail that they have earned large sums of money to help them with , their sentences while an inmate .of Ohio- penitcnt'ary, studied e!ee I trie it y an electrical street- sweep i ing machine ami other useful ap .'pliaiK'eM that will prolably bring , him a large siuu. Another American convict inadi III big fortune sonic years ago by i inventing a new cellar button 'while he was serving his entenc. ! The ilea wa.s taken ir. by a big !finn in Pittsburg and was very j NlXI'CV-ful. J A man" serving sentence in an Arizona prison invented a new (device for absorbing electricity jfrom the air, and the prison au thorities were so struck with the. iossi'bilities of his invention ihat they liberated him long enough to go to Washington to file an application for a patent. It is not only by invent ing. how ; ever, that prisoners make money, i A criminal, who was sentenced j to prison for complicity in a I murder in Italy recently, had foti of his plays accepted by a firm j of publishers in Rome. All the j pki'ys were written within the tour walls of a gloomy cell. An other Italian convict a brigand who was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment for his evil deeds wrote many clever stories whie he was in jail whieh were ac cepted and well paid for by the editors of several newspapers. A Hungarian woman prisoner who was sent to jail for having begged on her lover to commit a murder wrote a "charming waltz whiUs she was in prison. The t -?. was published ami became so ipidar that its composer made a small trtune out of the sales. ' Probably! the largest staaever made l)y" anyone" while serving V sentence for crime was the a mount earned by a convict who was confined in the State prison at Waltham, Mass. Finding the time hang very heavily on his hands ho determined to set to wcrk to invent something that would not only prove useful to his fellow men, but that would vjarn him enough to keep hinn when he had regained his liberty. After much thought he was lucky enough to hit upon a device which abolished the necessity of a bobbin in the sewing machine. This may sound a simple invrn t:ci to the uninitiated, but it wa., thought so well of By experts th.it its imprisoned sum of $100, 000 for it by a cnpany in New York. Needless to say, he ac cepted the offer. Money from Huerta. New Orleans, Sept. 13. Twentj one Americans, refugees from Mexico, arrived here late today on the steamer Tamaulip&3 from Tampico. All said they had ac cept,, d money from the Huerta Government (o help pay for first class passage. Almost all of the refugees were froan the southern part of the Republic ami their storie.s of the revolution were far different f n in those told by others (who have arrived here. They said conditions are not as kid in the Southern States as had been de picted, and that while adherents ot Zapta had raided raw-lies and taken vme property, Americans in that section had not suffered indignities such as reported fnin I'htr parts of the Republic. Agents of the State Department tonight started tlie refugees U th "ir homes, widely scat?erel over ili. United States." Ering Them "Something.'' Kii.si,.n, S, p, 13. Two tobac co .III :t . IS uee. -T.d 1 V ,i K gl'o in tli" i inity of a silts ware be Lsi- here yesterday readily cm--s :.tcil t pay .-,1..V if lie would bring them "Vomething." He brought th.-m "something." It Mas vinegar. They looked ex ceedingly hour. 'Hie ktims apalod to Chief of Police Mosley, but he was! powerl- ss, f -r the black had only guaranteed to bring them 'Vume-' thu.tr." and he had fulfilled h'J contract. A Wcman Given Life Sentence. Millne, Ga., rVpt. 13th. Jin. Edna Perkins Godbee today whj find guilty of the murder of Mrs. Florence Golbee, wife of htr divorced husband, and seri ttnecti to life imprisonment. At torneys for the defense annouiK.-- 'l that they would make, ajplica tio.i for a new trial. Mrs. Florence Godhcc and her htbanl, Judge W. S. Gixlbee, were shot to death by the con viettil woman on Augu.-t 1. The tragedy oeenirred in the jobbv of I the Milieu post office. M:s. (b-I-jbee was arrotid imm liately, jand later indicted for b tli mur jders. She was p'aeed on trial iThurvlay for killing Mr. Goilbee.' , Few witnesses wer" ex.unined, j their testimony dealing chiefly 'with th details of the shooting. ! The case has excited tlie keen- ' .ui vii TV lltl'llii'l.l. til rt.lt: Mrs. (bxUiee claimesl as a defense that she had long been mistreat ed by her husband before and since his divorce ami that he implied a vile epithet to her as he entered the potoffee on the fatal morning. Her excuse for killing the judge's wife was that. after she began shooting siie waj so excited she dd not knoov wliat she did. The d-ad wuman was from Williamsport, Pa. Tlie verdict was retunu I at !):10 this morning after the jury had been out 13 hours. 'II wo minutes after the jury re turned its verd:t Judge Ham mord sentenced Mrs. (anlbee to remain in the penitentiary the "rest of her natural life." She stood while sentence was pro nounced. Her daughter Sarah' hnflce down and wept audibly, but she was as calm arxl stoic &a she had been through the trial. Prchititicn in Germany. Charlotte OWserver. When it was announced a fenv weeks ago that the Kmperor of Gerra?Eiy J?itl ...'lupcsw . n aibr. stainer, The Olxserver thought it detected behind the ih-ws the cc-ming of sciiH'thinT of still more eiin-ourag'ment to the caiuse of emierance the world over. It is at hand in a cable from lierlin to The Now York Sun to the effect that the Kaiser has officially started a "dry" crusade through out all the States of Cn-rmany. H'w imtnK'tions are revolutionary in the historj- of Germany and have created somewhat of a feel big of consternation. The Em peror has ordered his Secretary of the Interior to take the pre liminary stem's toward the etii actment of a law regulating the sale of wines ami lipiors through out the Empire. This is break ing all German traditions, but the Emperor is in earnest and gives the soundest of reasons for his actions. He says the race for the future greatness and domi nance in tlie world will be won by the Nation "which is mental ly the clearest ami physically the strongest." Tlie proposed plac ing of Genu airy under prohibition the most advanced move in the cause tlutt has ever been taken. Beer and wine are the common tl rinks in Germany ami that coun try has been always held up to the world as an example of so briety although a drinking coun try. The prohibitionizing of the land of the Rhine is a movement that will bring the cause into treiiieiuhuw publicity. It is the greatest stride prohibition has over made. Saws Out of New Jail. Taylorsville, Sej.t. ll Taylors ville has a new jail just comlet eJ and eonsklensl to be one of the best in the Sta'e, hence thero was surprise when it was dis covered this aftermxin about 3 o'clock that Robert Anderson, one ef the first prisoner con fined then in, bad by the aid of two old case-knives- sawed his way out and mad his tape An-d-rson w as ut tl. r a bond t i'ppear lit each t.'-nn of court for trine year ami prove that lie had been a p. .-.!, sober C;t:eU; but a short whiU ngi he "tank ed up" and pr.veded to disturb a religious gathenttg, arid for th's mls.lt -me a n or was awaiting trial at court here rwxt week. love a!on has the pwer to sthkk Uift chord of self that t shall jiass in music mit of th harp of life Jaaio MacDonakl. 3 r I

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