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"... i j: ISDltt craven;, county I , J Largest Circulation of Any Newspaper in Eastern North Carolina.' Happiness and Prosperity " ' ' NEWBERN, a,MONDAlMAY"i; 19U Prici Two Cents ; . . ....... J i .Jwwill r Ll". m iLr'-i Carolina.' ;,.- , a'. :-vy - . ' A" - I yp Volaae 8 No. 101 - Goumi : in an; d u un Guest of Honor at Dinner of Pewter Plater Qub TIEXT PRESIDENT WAS HAILED AS v. , lien , v Mirtgaaw M"j ,,avb- ,SA.:,'j:t'?,-.V'-'-'-;-':!.'!l'-'.,-,'',f'''' '- red in Kkthe State, Tlrf lnl CloTernor Xtfrn tike EecIpleBt ;.r.f Etery iAttoatfon Pto- ' "L-'-.lmWT Sext Komlnee rortjiV: MayiW native l&hJU'Snl IMMrflnlA nAWaimnii tbtvuhn .M' Vt e probably the next presiflent of ' f , h Unite States. Tbougjk . decBtalng P'r '..atawelf to ;(lscti9 In any ftpn voaai , ' 7 ' bffltie in tnto darectlon Governor Wil- on ww't'eferirei to bT tbe'local- new " iapera wvdSlmfoeraiub noml- :,..''iee for tne- presidency 1 1912," and . the 'rnwrti ytfeaenc uest of ,r-'a'ft,s Influence ' Of tl bmwlred w mora : jwomtoen couaitt for nywn to axiTance- 'StataV - t - Several thuee Dr. - Ervin A. Aldor V man, PxesMent -ol Ui Unlveralty of Wlrglnia and leMow-guest of Governor :;,,'.lWllt at Saturday nighf dinner re - ;.vi. Jersey' Chief Executive may be call ;vi.ed:jwidtrequenily' Jn private Governor Kwason'.-waa tolft 'ol-ts.;atrl!hg eaU ;felJment (m; Virginia tot aim lot the pext iDemocratto.fPreaidentlai .nomination. -:?Mi'c While- iWoodrow;:;WUson;lDnor ' ":: , ; cratlo. Club,; rganteed: In Norfolk to ?;);Koom alacandtdacjfor''th Piesdeiicy 'f&n! ':4Bediate1yfoltowtng Ctoveraor WM sAJi .w:;leotWnttO:" tne:,Wg;.pfllce7 .fca ; ''rf New - .o1b; 9 xtndln g ' a t Vt-A ipubJic eoeptlon of fl dlstlngolahetf ".V". ''' TMKp daring Ws atay n Nonfolk, tt , ) waa aubeeiuntlyj determined not to . do hia, .The .Governor bad tome" here as tha fleSt.ot the Pewter .iPtetter ;;;Club and thought it iwould notsba In h ODft torjn ; to- bring out tne- poijtwai v; aide ' etva extent or a pubuc recep . , tkm -to Governor WHsoa 'under auca ausrfcas." Th Presidenit pt th- Wil son Club, however, attended Saturday yJ:.Vgbt?a'dlnirV'V:M?Oif " J . A Governor Wllsoa, whoi arrived' In w the cKy eariy Saturday waa the gueat "f JWbert T Tunstall,. of Forlorn, at . luncbeop irtten Saturday afternoon : at the Virginia Club and attended by .:. mora flian a score of pwmineat peo- : it- )1, including Dr. Alderman, William H. White, of Richmond, Va. president Y 'i:f the Richmond, ,Bredericksburg .and f. Fotomac Hail road ; Bppa Hunton. , -ot f Richmond, ami. Robert Parrish, "of ' Covington, Va On this oocaalob Got ' ernoT V. " son expressed Wa great pi sure -at acala being upon nrmla vraxa h xeeai. Kany Frknsls TI.'- 't Topnlar Ball' ; rentier V.'.ta I ' t? Burled. , fottovnie, I'a.. y..y 1. -Friends and acQUith.iaiu i fi of J. II. Qlliaunen, of Ham-moml, I i rtmniy, formerly- a resj -with t' ' a .Btatlun resp" I .remui was I' ,-d d he f :d connected Pnllroad as 1 at ' tli i a uiai'Ic of t to the y. Great ; : l BOTH; SIDES IKE NEARLY EEADI For Spe4y Trial ef KeNanwra Broth en Chargei With Dynamfthif the tot Aagelea Times Office. . , Los Angeles, Cal., Mar 1. Attorney for. boUt-sides tn the dynamiting case completed axrangementa Satvrdy for' tb early arraignment of John and James McNamafa and Ortie E. Mc Mauigal, The appearance of the "pri soners in oourt will not be deferred latr than next Wednesday, by which time it ta expected Clarence Darrow and acalBtant district attorney W. J. Ford who has been named to assist dis trfct attorney iPredericits,' will have arrived here. Detective Win. J. Bums is also expected here soon. Job Harriman, an attorney for the accused men, said Saturday that Dr. A. Holmes, director of the United States Bureau of Mines, will be one of the, -witnesses called to uplioM the contentions that gas and not an In fernal machine caused the Times build ing explosion. An important development Satur day was the identification of James B. McNanmra as James B. Bryce, by Trebor McOachen, a bell boy who was employed in the Hotel Argonaut, 6an Francisco last September. J. B Bryce, the man who Iff alleged to have purchased the dynamite that destroy ed the Times building, lived in the hotel. James McNamara was led Into the jail office Saturday with a num ber of other prisoners, and according to officials of the district attorney's office,, the lad picked McNamara as the man he had known as Bryce. AXEBICA to swix in blood. Cheerful German Predicts Reign of , Terror and Dissolution. . Berlin, May 1. Dr. Albert Schultz, who has lectured in America and knows VeW the conditions there, pro- phesies dtawter. ta ,tne UnltedLStates twcaune' oitJt -eiKnThdua' inc"rease of non-Saxon population there. "An avalanche of Hungarians.foies Russians, Galialans, Italians, Arabians Greeks, Armenians, Chinese and Jap anese Is descending Into the United States" writes Dr. Schults "carrying with it dirt, disease, vermin and fan moraUty. The bane of this curse is tocreased by the unscrupulous policy of the great American manufacturers and railway and banking kings; They throw out of. employment their best workmen ana put in their places un skilled and cheaper men. By this sys tem muMiHnllUonalrea ruin hundreds of thousands of small, independent em pHoyera besides reducing the .farmers to beggary by reckless railroad 'rates, Dr. Schulti's fbrevlew of America's future It altogether dyspeptic He says he believes '- Alexander Humboldts prophecy that the United States will awallow tWexico and then fall to pieces will be realized and much sooner than most, people expect He asserts that corruption and crime are increasing at las appaHng fate. In America, and the laws that -order the inspection of factories and forbid- the employment of Child labor practically exist only on paper. , " ' 'It Japan beats the United States ra the race to control China as an export market," Dr. Schulti add;, "the United States will atj 'longer be able to support their -masses of southern Europe ah cheaper ' taborers and , th end probably wilt ba a bloody revolu- km and a reign of terror. SLATS TO 8AVE HIS SISTER - Negra Testa Kills' JUa Ha Says Was Nt" . f Attacking Her. Wflmingfcn, DeK May, l.Clahntag that lis MeUdm had "broken 1nt 1 the house and Vas atteiaptlng' 't assault his, sister, JeOn,, Jackson, colored 18 years old,, snot and killed Charles H. Sparrow another" riegro, at Christiana ten miles from bar', Saturday" mom ing. , , . , A, Jacksoa iaya that toeforfc the shoot Ing he warned Bpar'row' out rV the house and dad noi shooi, until the In truder made violent attach ;rPa his sister". He' wenb-upstairs to the" pis tol in Wie hope of frightening, the'1 paan off, be said, but finally was compelled to shoot The bullet struck sBparrow In the forehead, killing him, instant' ,1 ,a ImniMllatoly, summoned a ' .r n .1 tiion surrendered to tlie -. I i p-ster,' a widow, cor - i ' - :,,n of t? a" :!r. lie IIEl'J BERN K FORGERY Jail at Wilmington for Serious Charge NATIONAL BISCUIT CO. Robert Smith In Jail at Wllmlugton for Same Charge for Which He Is Under $100 Bond In This City $25.00 Amount of Check. Wilmington, May 1. A young white boy by name of Robert Smith, son of a New Bern grocer, was arrested, here Saturday afternoon upon the charge of forgery. He purchased some gro ceries from local grocery etore, and presented for payment a -twenty doi lar check, receiving twenty dollars In change. Check purported to be given by National Biscuit Company. The boy is locked up and has wired bis father. It wdll be remembered that young Smith is under bond for the same offense In this city. It is alleged that i-fce'.torged m--itniiKtm .-oj -.M. & J. A. Meadows and New Bern Iron Works and passed checks the seme manner as in Wilmington, buying some groceries and obtaining tahance in money. The amount of bond required for nils appearance at next term of criminal! court in this city is $100.00. WOMAN HER OWN DETECTIVE Causes Arrest of Man for Stealing Honey From Her Home. Wilmington, Del., May 1. A man given his name as Frank Bolman or Bietman, of No. 723 North Seventh street, Philadelphia was arrested here Saturday and accused of the theft of $27 from Mia. Ella Sasse wife of Letter Carrier George W. Sasse. Vfhen arrested the prisoner had $138 in his pockets and a pawn ticket on a Phila delphia loan office for a watch on which $37 had been advanced. Mirs. Sasse said that the accused rented a room at her house about two weeks ago and the next morale g.when he and his wife left, $27 -"which Mrs. SaSses had placed in a small box, was missing. Saturday Mrs. Sasses saw the man on Market treet and followed him until she found -an officer to ar rest him. Bolman says that Mrs. Sasse has made a mistake that he Is a trav eling salesman and came to Wilming ton to go Into the, restaurant busi ness. ' 4 ROCKEFELLER 6XVES $280,000 Generoat to Missions Watch. Carnegie , Thinks Cert Tea- Bach. . New York. May 1. While Andrew Carnegfs was in Plttsbarc telling the Woman' Home and Foreign Mission ary Society that too much money ., is being epent on foreign missions, an nouncement was made here that John D. JRoohefeUer had.elven $180,000 to the i American Baptist ; Foreign Mis sionary Society, and bad alsp sent check for $100,000 to the Baptist Home Missionary Society. These are; the an nual donations of Mr Baokefeller and the amount' Is bajked oa the needi of the two socieues as showti by a report wpealiy tirepared for Mr Rockafel' r.,SockefeIls lntsrsti mission work has been known tor many years and he has given a vast fortune 'to tbs0aptiet assoataltions. Several year ago he donated $250,008 :for' foreign mission work on a special occaston,- Rev. T, N. Skinner, ol Beaufort, eoa ducted aervlces yesterday at HoHy Inocense, near la. Orange, be passed polo i I AFTERNOON Evidence in Watkins Con cluded Saturday HULL PROBABLY BE A Two .More Speeches to be Made by Course! - Watting Is Chanred With the Killing of John Hill i iBunting at Black Moun tain Hotel. Ashevllle, May 1. The case of F. Watkins, charged with the killing of Jiihn Hill Bunting, of Wilmington at itht! Oladstone hotel at Black Moun tain- in August, 1909, will not go to the jury before Monday afternoon.The taking of evidence was concluded this mailing at 10:30 and immediately conuBel began arguing the case. Ar gument engaged the attention of the oonstt ;all day and lat adjournment 8ataurday evening Mr. Craig for the defense and Solicitor Reynolds for the prosecution had not spoke:.. I There -Is a grewt deal of interest In the case and much speculation, it eeelns to be the concensua of opin- ,UajE;w9rail ttte testimony is hi and anep imunizang tne jurors, tn-at tne trial w-111 agailn result in the jury fail ing t oagree. That is the layman's vtlewi. The defense is certain of an acquittal, while the prosecution Is equally sure of a conviction. How ever, the conservative view is that there wiljl be a mistrial. In the event that the Jury fails to agree, it Is probably ithat a motion wdll be made by either one side or the other to remove the case to an adjoining county. The fight at this trial has been just as vigorous on both sides as the first that the pro secution is equally determined to con vict A TWELVE TEAR OLD MURDERER Surry County Youth Convicted With His Father of Killing of Later'g Son in-Law. Winston-Salem, May 1. F. G. Sou thern and his 12 year old son, Her man, were convicted in Surry court, at Dobson, Saturday, for the murder of Southern's son-in-law John Wall at Pilot Mountain, last fall. The senior defendant was given a term of nine years in the. State Pris on at Raleigh, -while the son goes to a reformatory for four months. Mr. Southern 1b ,56 years old, and If he serves hia full term be will be quite an old man when he gams his free dom. Southern and Wall got into a dis pute over the storage of some leaf tobacco In the basemeA of the tatter's home. Wall, was stabbed- and it waa alleged that Herman Wall inflicted the wound that caused Wall's death a tew hours after the difficulty. JAILED ON THE CHARGE OF RAPE White Hoy ot 17 Tears Arrested, for Alleged Assault oa a Nine Tear Old s Mt. Aalry, May 1. A 'white boy, age 17 years was dodged in jail Saturday charged with having committed rape upon the. little nine year old daugh ter of a Mr. Watson. It is said the boy was-; tiM'sonot George Hodges. If the, story as related Is true,, the caseJa a dark bha for the young man. The cbfld "waa brought to' the doctor la this city Isr raatmenth . if I ; This to tits most ' shocking; crime ever eoxDsnitteii Itt SDitry county and st.aotor loots Hka the electric, hair will, find a victim from this county at no distant daiy, Thl-i a borrtble af fair and Is enough to make tiie stout- est heart shudder at the thought of such deed in a cIvTHaed land. OFFICERS CAPTURE BURGLAR, Jaded at Halifax on Serious Charges How He Was Detected. Halifax, N. C., May 1. Detectives of Portsmouth and Emporia, Va., Sat urday morning brought down from Weldon a young, robust negro calling' hfmself John Smith, who is alleged to 1nave broken in the store night before last of Geo. A. Hnx & Co., of this place, taking goods consisting of watches, jewelry, clothing, shoes, etc. An entrance was gained through the transom above a side door. After the robbery many seemed to think there must have been a small boy in the game. The negro was arrested in the de pot waiting room at Weldon, and had a suit case. Detective Field asked him what he had in the case. He replied: "Nothing boss, but some old clothes," When asked to open up, he simply made a break for the door, and- there Detective Hodges nabbed him. About all of the stolen property was recov ered amounting to about $80. The fellow had little time to dispose of the goods. The negro is now in Halifax jail to await the next term of court. Detective Hodges who is in the em ploy of the S. A. L. R. R. Co. arrested in Norfolk a negro by the name of Percy Jackson, who woke jail here some weeks ago. J-aokson was sen tenced at the last term of court to the roads, but escaped before getting there. This negro has a bad reputa tion behind him. being a notorious gambler, and having been in trouble quite a number ot times. ENGINE TURNS TURTLE Accident Happens Four Miles South of Greensboro as Engineer Fen-ell Was Going to Assistance of Stalled Freight Greensboro, May l.-While speed- lag-along the Atlantic I Yadkin track four miles south of Greensboro, Sat urday afternoon at 4 o'clock.a freight engine overturned and pinioned under It Engineer R. B. Ferrell of this city breaking both his arms and one leg and otherwise badly injuring and bruising him. For three hoifrs the injured man lay crushed under the engine, though he never lost conscious ness and waa able to direct the men in the work of digging him from under the sigine and removing him to the waiting train, which brought him to Greensboro after dark, the wounded man was carried to St. Leo's hospital where he was attended by surgeons, the broken bones set and his other injuries attended. The physicians ex press the opinion that Mr. Ferrell will recover. A freight engine had stalled at Climax and a caill was made on Greensboro for an engine to help move the train. The engine was ob tained and Conductor Steve Crojwis and Engineer Ferrell put in charge. with C. N. Conrad as fireman. The engine hod nothing but a tender at tached and was moving away from town at a good rate of speed. Near Vandalia, for some unaccountable rea son, the engine overturned and fell on its rignt side. Conductor ' Crews escaped uninjured and Fireman Con rad only received a Slight bruise on one hand. A HORRIBLE DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Maa Whose Horses Fatally Tramped OTer S Tear Old Boy Instantly .Shot Dead by the Boys Father. New York, May 1. Guiseppi Bou- grocl, an Italian cigar maker, who saw his three year old boy trampled fatally beneath the hoofs of truck horses Saturday night, took summary vengeance upon the drtver, William Krugman, by pouring four bullets from a revolver Into his body. v The driver fell dead from his seat, almost into the arms of a policeman, and a "mob Of 2,000 persons bent upon punishing ,hlm5 first, stood aghast .at toe shooting then set furiously upon the slaiper. Reserves rescued him, an conscious and he was taken to a bos pi tali then: lodged In Jail on a charge of murder. The cbilld died late : Sat urday nigbt i - u ' Admitted NIae Dead. t Beaton, -P.i Way.LWt J now ad mitted (hat the death list in the Mar tins Creek wrack: .wfl auraomt to Btne or ten. ' j ' ( . BIB TRAIN WRECK HI PENSYLVANIA Nine Persons are admitted to be Dead TRAIN WAS GOING FIFTY BILES AN HOUR SToSl of Hie Passengers Were School Teachers From I'tlcu, N. Y., oa Their Way to Washington to Attend Teachers Conven tion. Details. it-aston, Pa., .May 1. Speeding at a rate of fifty miles an hour a five coach special excursion train oi the Belvedere division of the Pennsylva nia railroad jumped from the rails eight miles south of this place Sat urday might, sideswiped an oil tank and hurled the 1 (58 passengers into a forty foot gulch on th west bank of the Deleware river. One body had been recovered at 11 o'clock twenty were missing or dead, and probably fifty injured. Most of the passengers were school teachers, from Utica, N. Y., and neighboxlrg towns and were on thei-vvay to Washington where they wejt to bliend a week uttendinc teai.h6r-g convention, .- .viibm. , indnf. , .-;,- train left the track and shot o,er the bank and the oil from the vnveked tank poured of the debris, Fin- im mediately started in the fifth car and fed by the oiled soon swejrt. through the entire train leaving it a twisted and curled up mass. The cnies of the wounded, howeveT, rang out above the crash, and this brought aid from a farm house that stands within -a stone's throw of Mar tin's Creek ferry, where the train lett. the track. At It o clock the Are was still burning and t..e bodies of the missing passengers and crew were probably cremated. Five hours after the wreck and while a crowd of spectators were gath ered about it a gas tank at the rear of the wreckage exploded, hurling a score of spectators to the ground and injuring three. New York, May 1. At the Penn sylvania railway offices here it was said that the wrecked train was a siecial on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western and was being handled on the tracks of the Pennsylvania. Officials here estimate that between thirty and forty were killed and more than a hundred Injured. This, how ever, has not been verified. At the Pennsylvania offices it was stated that the wrecked train was going to Washington and was trans ferred from the C. U & W. to the Pennsylvania at a small junction point in Pennsylvania The C. h. & W. offi cials had no report of the number of the dead and wounded. CHARGED WITH BRIBERY. Wilmington, May 1. Benjamin W. Conoway, a young white man of Wil mington, Delaware, was arrested Sat urday afternoon upon a warrant sworn out by Ben)amin W. Quinn, of Dela ware, in whlob Conoway is charged with offering to brfbe "Raymond H. Jones at an election, had in the sec ond election district of the second representative district in Sussex coun ty, Delaware. He was committed to Jail and the authorities have wired to Delaware for Instructions. Cono-' way was here about a month ago but became suspicious and went to South ' Carolina. He baa recently lived in dif ferent townk in the western part of Carolina and only returned there Sat'' urdajy. morning, fls was arrested by Constable Savags. He admits thai ha Is, to man the authorities' are after, but says it .he goes to Jail others will have to do so."" Bribery is feiony tn Delaware. Ra says be wlU go bck iwltb requisition papers.---v ? . 1 V -I A Ik) V! . Mr. l 4 -A V T a. -' I: K:' 1 - -o-V: , ' -. ,v. , j ;-:
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