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'IOME: North Carolina, H& People. Their Progress and Development in Education, Happiness and Prosperity
Volume 8 No. .102.
NEW BERN, N. G, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1911
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jAWGOR SUFFERS
S6.0Q0.00Q FIRE
Hundreds Are Made Homeless and
Nearly all of Business Section
Destroyed
CITY IK OUR MARTIAL LAW
Flames Cause Great Damage
of Fire. One LifVLbst Buildings are Blown up to '
Prevent Spread of Fire. Other Towns As
sisted in Extinguishing Fire.
Bangor, Me., May 2. Property val-
ued at wpwaird of 6,000,0OO was de
. strayed, hundreds of people made
- (homeless, and almost the entire busl
Bess flection of tbe city devastated
; during the first six hours of a con-
. flagaration which raged here Sunday
y night
, . 'One life Is. known to have been
lost, an unknown man iwho was
:; kilted by falling wall. ,
. Y Mayor Mullen called out the local
aaUbnal guard and placed the city
v- v under mfartlai rule. -Portland Lewis-V-'
ton, Augusta, OJdtawn, Brewer, and
; every other city and town within the
. reach were asked for help and sent
- It .
' i, ; ' ;. Already a score ol buildings have
been blown wp to an effort" to check
, " the flamesand dynamite Is still be
' ' ' tag liberally Veed. '
-sr-v The ftre started, in Am toy shed of
J.. Frank Green, in 'Broad street anil
' ; In. a short time was (weeping through
the oity In ft northwesterly direction.
?.-, Half an hur. tter the- first alarm
'..had been sounded,, nearly a dozen
; buildings were In flames and the fire
vriw eating Its way northerly up Hie
i? Broad and Exchange streets on elth-
".., r side of Kenduakeag Streato. In its
thway, wre1nk,'otttc buildings.
hle public library and other atruc-
tares, ail of which were reduced to
' ' ashes. t ,,
. ',4: The city, was 'sdon shut oft from
:--;4. telepbunto conmranlcaUon . by the
burning f the central office of the
T'vN.''BniKlsM'llephoM.N;:aad..i''7Ble
- trai Compnny, and calls for add from
Portland, Ltwlston, nd AuguoU was
f . ..sent 'out by the1 wire chief of the
- company, who climbed a pole 'and cut
k in on a trunk line. The. telegraph
v ctotnfany'i office were both burned
dnrlng the earty stages of the coU
flagaration but later they established
-I tenjpoxary omoe xuteide. the Are tone
and communication was resumed,
On of the few buildings to escape
deenj0on was ,th ottyj ball. ,. ThU
waa in ttve direct path of the fire, but
the flames leaped over it and It was
hardily scorched. The 'city . ball Is. at
the Juncttotf 'ot ' Broad, -fitsits and
Hammond streets. At tthto point the
flames crossed (he KendusVeag ai
continued along both sides of - the
stream. : '... j ' ;: . v
A ts burned north, the path,
ltnictioa grow wider, while sparks
t tomiraeraLle fires, many of them
a conaldorable di; lunce from the main
An iiniootii.il i "nipt was made
. i v V 'i of the'- flame
1 1-:'" "in"!, in-
in Maine City. Rapid Spread
toulldlnga, located in a tniangle form
ed by Hammond and Central Btreets
and Kenduakeag stream, but the. fire
bridged the chasm and continued with
unabated fury.
Help from outside cities began to
arrive soon after 9 o'clock, the Au
gust a department being the first to
arrive, and it was assigned the duty
of saving the residential district, it
possible.
Among the buildings burned during
the early stages of the Are were the
Haynes & Chalmers building, the
Hodgklns block, the Fishe buildings,
Faiirbanka & Co's. bulldilng, and the
Bangor Public Library. Then follow
ed the telephone office, the postofflce
the office of the Bangor Daily News
the Morse Oliver block, a seven story
structure In which was located the
offices of the Bangor and Aroostock
Railroad, the Windsor Hotel, and sev
eral churches.
Falling in their attempt to stop by
dynamiting the buildings at the junc
Won of Hamond the Central streets.
the firemen took their stand further
to the north and preparations were
made to blow up other buildings and
make a wider breach.
In all sections of the city people
moved out their belongings and burr!
ed to places of safety. Many were al
ready homeless, and with churches
and public buildings fn ruins, there
were few places where they could be
cared for.
Telephone and telegraph operators
stuck to their posts and sent out in
formation and falls for help until
they had not a moment to spare to
make their escapes. The Associated
Press operator, in the Postal Tele
graph office, sat at his key sending
and receiving messages While the
lire raged hardly 50 feet away from
him- In the postofflce building.
' Bangor, next to Chicago, Is the chief
lumber depot in the United States.
The city is on tbe Penobscot River,
which taps the forests of ftaine and
brings to the city logs and sawed
timber..': v
The city , has a population of 20,000
and -Is 60 miles from the mouth of
thr Penobscot, dying at the bead of
navigation. There is deep water
oommrvunlcatlon ' wfth the sea, and
many' stipe clears annually for for
sign port end tm the coastwise trade.
. Th Kenduskeag, stream, so-called
empties Into the Penobscot at Bangor
dividing the city the sections of which
are Connected with bridges. Bangor
k connected with Brewer on the oth
er side of the, Penobscot by a bridge
1,800 feet long, '
i 'The 'fleet permanent settlement at
Bangor, was made ti 1769. 'The .place
was known a Kenduskeag (dentation
until, 178? and then or four years it
was called Sunbunr. when the name
was changed to. Bangor. It was ehar
tiered a city in 1834 and It is stiU
Koverned under It ortetnal charter.
Th locality is given a-one of the
most probable location of the myth!
cal city. Nornmbega. a name, which
I1NF0RTII
NATE
WOMAN ENDS
Bin
Used Rifle to Commit The
Rash Act
BECAME A MOTHER
SHORTLY BEFORE
Miss lela Barrlnpton Victim of Don
bly Shocking Tragedy Was 22
Tears of Age and Daughter
of Well to Do Farmer
Details.
Albemarle, N. C, May 2. A doubly-
shocking tragedy occurred three miles
out from this place when Miss Lela
Harrington took her own life. A twenty-two
calibre Winchester rifle was
the instrument used by the young
woman, shooting a hole clear through
the bead, the ball entering just oet
the rli;ht ear. There is more or less
mystery surrounding the affair and
the coroner has been notified, and will
make an Investigation. Miss Barrln
ger became a mother just before she
conMniitteed the rash deed. She was
found lying on the floor with tht
rifle still grasped in her hands. She
was placed on the bed but only lived
a few minutes after 'having begn found
No one was present when slie gave
birth to the child, neither did any
one see her shoot herself.
The young woman had been living
in Albemarle up to two months ago,
where she was employed iln one of
the cotton mills. She was 22 years
of age. She was a daughter of Mr.
Tyson Barringer a wall-to-do farmer
who lives three miles out from Albe
marle. She was at her father's house
when the tragedy occurred.
ND SPECIAL COURT FOR CRAVEN
Up to noon today the reports re
ceived by this paper from the var
ious wards in this city and places
outside of New Bern point to an
overwhelming defeat for the "Special
Court for Craven County". In every
ward in New Bern a big majority of
the votes were against this bill.
A phone message, received from
Vanceboro stated that about 75 votes
had been cast up to that time and
that only one vote, was for the "Spe
cial Court". The Farm Life School
had had only 10 or twelve votes cast
against it in Vanceboro precinct.
The reports from Cove Oity and
Dover indicate that a majority of the
votes there will be against tbe Spe
cial Court and for the Farm Lifd
DONT FAIL TO VOTE FOR TIE
FARM LIFE SCHOOL
TO CARRY THE FARM-LIFE SCHOOL
THERE MUST BE A MAJORITY OF
THE REGISTRATION.
If you have not already voted be sure to
get your vote in before sun-down and cast
; it for the Farm-life School.
This is the most important matter the
County has voted on in many years.-
'-Vote and get your friends to vote for the
Farm. life School. ; , y -o . . :
A GREAT
EDITOR LOSES
HIS MINI
Stilson Hutchins to be Exam
ined May 4th.
WIFE SAYS THAT HE
CANNOT CARE FOR SELF
Founder of StXouIs Times, Washing'
ton Post, Washington Times and
Prominently Connected Willi
Other Big Papers Pro
moter of LInoljpe.
Washington, D. C, May 2. A pe
tltlon to have adjudged insane Stil
son Hutchins founder of the St. Louis
Times, Washington Post, Washington
Times and once prominently connect
ed with the Des Moines, Iowa State
Journal Dubuque Herald and St.
Louis Dispatch 'was granted here to
day the writ being returnable May -i.
Mr. Hutchins is a multi-millionaire
and was an organizer and chief pro
motor of the Mergenthaler linotype
company.
The petition was filed by Mrs. Rose
Keeling Hutchins his second wife, a
Baltimore woman whom he married
In 1900. She recited in the petition
that for many months past Mr. Hut
chins has been paralyzed and is of
"disealsed and unsound mind." Be
cause of his mental and physical con
dition she says, Mr. Hutchins is un
fit and incapable of managing and
properly caring for himself and his
elstate. It is claimed the estate is
worth between $3,000,000 and $4,000
000. Mr. Hutchins formerly was a
member of the legislatures of New
Hampshire and Missouri.
School. Only one vote had been cast
for Special Court up to two o'clock
iln Dover.
The majority of votes iln the cky
of New Bern are for the Farm Life
School. The miain danger In this prop
osltion lies in the fact that this bill
requires that In order that the bill
become a law that it shall receive a
MAJORITY OF THE REGISTERED
VOTES. It is therefore every man's
duty if he has registered, to vote on
this proposition. Every vote not cast
on this proposition will count as
vote against the school.
Craven County should have this
school and if you have neglected to
vote, go and do so at once. The
polls are open until Sundown.
NO VERDICT
IN CASE OF
F. C. WINS
Solicitor Will End Argument
Today
POLICE SEARCHING
FOR A WHITE
Aiicmpu'U to criminally Assault a
Fourteen eYar Old Girl LaH
Mglit The Police Have De
scriplion and Hope to
Hate Him Soon.
Asheville, May 2. The police are
searching for a white man who it is
alleged attempted to criminally as
sault a 14 year old girl in the Jfont-
toru avenue section of the city yes
terday evening about 7 o'clock. It
seems that the girl, whose name was
Dalton was in the woods wiith sever-
al smaller children when t lie man at- i
tacked her. He threw her o the ',
ground, but her screams and the
cries of the other children aroused
the neighborhood, and the man made
his escaje. A description of the man
was given to the poldce and they hope
to nab him soon today.
The trial of F. C. Watkins will be
concluded. All arguments have been
made, with the exception of the ar
gument by Solicitor Reynolds. He
will conclude early this morning and
the case will go to the jury before
noon. ''
WARSHIPS KKADY TO SAIL
Third Division of Atlantic Fleet Will
o to Southern Haters.
fhiiaueupnia. .May Active pre
parations are being made at the
Philadelphia navy yard for the sail
ing of the third division of the At
lantic fleet.
The battleship Minnesota was tow
ed to midstream this afternoon and,
it is expected, will sail tomorrow
morning for Pensacola, Mobile Bay,
and Galveston. The Mississippi and
the Vermont will follow shortly after
the Minnesota which is the flagship
of the division.
The Idaho will follow the other bat
tlesips on Thursday. All have been
repainted and reequipped.
Man Rescued (Jirl From 18 Inch Wel
Oriska, N. D., May 2. Marie Smith
fell down a well 22 feet deep and IS
inches in diameter and the only way
there was to save her was for some
one to go down In the well head
first
H. R. Olson voulteered to do it. He
rescued the girl from death, but th
strain was so great that blood burst
through his chest and left arm. How
ever, he is not seriously hurt.
A rope was tied to Olson's feet
and five men lowered him into the
well. When he had seized the girl he
yelled and the flvei quickly pulled
the two to the surface. The girl
weighs 160 pounds and her drenched
clothing added to the burden Olson
carried.
BEAUFORT NEWS.
Beaufort, N. C. May 2. Beaufort
is taking on new life, great many im
provements going on, several large
manufacturing enterprises being es
tablished, a new ice plant is being
erected, great many new dwellings go
ing up.
Beaufort will have accommodations
to take care of a large number of
euimmer visitors. The Inlet Inn, Beau
tort's new hotel, is now completing
tlftrty-ilve new additional rooms.
Fishing here now is fine and every
thing fives promise to a bright and
LEWIS WEST
TO DIE ON
JUT 5TH
Wilson Desperado Who Kill
ed Deputy Sheriff Mumford
NORMAN LEWIS' END
COMES ON MAY 12TH
Lewis Killed Chief of PorJle Stallings
of Spring Hope He Appealed to
Supreme Conrt but That
Body Found no Error
Details. Raleigh, N. '., May 2. The elec
trocution of Lewis West, the despera
do who killed Deputy Sheriff Mum
ford and wounded Chief of Police
Glover of Wilson, last February is
set for next Friday, May 5. West i
now in the death chamber of the State
penitentiary. There will likly be no
demand for executive lemrncv.Wests
meteoric career is a familiar chapter,
Af,er nis falaI onsaught upon Wilsons
officers, he escaped and was raptur
ed at Maxton by Chief of Police Dun
lap and was tried at a special term
of Wilson Superior court.
On the following Friday, May 12,
the electrocution of Norman Lewis,
negro who killed Chief of Police Stal
lings of Spring Hope, is to take place.
Lewis appealed to the Supreme Court
but that body found no error in the
trial.
The only other electrocution now
si t is that of a man r.ained Murphy,
of Kancey county, who was recent
ly convicted of killing another man
for refusing to give him a drink of
his Cliirsimas liquor. The date is
June 110. An appeal was noted to the
Supreme Court, but the case has not
yet been docketed. It argued it will
come us the week of May 8.
Exposriit
hll.I.KI)
1NSAXE
SOLDIER
Sergeant on Way to I'liilippines Jump
From Train Found Dead 4 Mile
From Track.
Ogden, Utah, May 2. While tempo
rarily insane James H. Robbins, a
sergeant of the United States army,
on his way from Fort Ethan Allen,
Vermont to the. Philippine Islands,
jumped from the window of a Union
Pacific train, 35 miles east of Evan
ston, Wyo., yesterday and eight hours
later was found dead four miles from
the track.
Although the train was running at
a rate of 30 miles an hour when he
crashed tli rough the Pullman window
it is believed e escaped uninjured,
His death probably was due tn expo
sure as he was altired only in his
underclothes and trousers.
When found the body bore indica
tions that Robbins had been in water
up to his shoulders. Robbins wife and
four small children were on the train.
THREE MAY DIE OFBI RX S
Editor and Two Lawyers Probably
Futully Injured Fighting Fire.
Pineville, W. Va.. May 2. While
fighting a fire here J. J. Swope law
yers and editor of the Mountaineer
and J. H. Gillmore and R. W. Cook,
attorneys were deangerously and pro
bably fatally burned.
The fire which originated l-i the
residence of H. L. Taylor, cashier of
the First National Bank, destroyed
also the residence of A. D. eBavers,
deputy United States marshal; R. A.
Keller, cashier of the Citizen's Nation
al Bank and State Senator W. H. H.
Cook, and a hotel owned by Mrs. Eva
Luok. The loss is $20,000, partially
covered by insurance.
The flames were held In. check by
a bucket brigade and the courthouse
a large hotel and a number of iwtfv
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