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1896.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
P. H. Mashburn Named for Repre
sentative,' Ji A. Laugh'ridge for
Sheriff Resolutions. - '
The -Republican convention met
in the courthouse Monday at 12:30
o'clock, according -to announce
. ment. J. O. Crawford .was made
chairman and C.C. Lisenbee, sec
retary., Before the convention was
called a Republican caucus was
held, at which a few- Republicans
from the different parts of. the
county were present, and the slate
as made up before hand and voted
for at the Marion caucus Saturday
evening, was given such backing
as to guarantee its going-through
the convention without a hitch.1 It
was really amusing to see the faith
ful Republicans of McDowell coun
ty sit back and hear three or four
men. nominate, the .different candi
dates, and see them nominated by
acclamation. In , fact, the I whole
convention seemed W be in sub
jection to those who had previous
ly made out the ticket. ; . :
John Yancey placed in nomina
tion for the Legislature P. H.
Mashburn. This nomination was
seconded by J. C. Pool, who spoke
at length as to: the Republican Dar
ty making Pink, what he is and
giving him all the wealth that he
now possesses. . Consequently,
though Mr, Mashburn had refused
to run, he was told to run 'and be
could not refuse. In commenting
upon Mr. Mashburn's qualiBca
tions, Mr. Pool declared that "This
year the lowest 16 wn Democrat in
McDowell county can. beat the best
Had in McDowell county for : any
office, except Pin k Mashburn. Mr.
Mashburn was nominated by ac
clamation. . ' , :, '
Chairman' J. L. : Morgan nomi
nated J. A. Laughridge for Sheriff,
and upon themotion being second-
cuiur. xjaugnnage was unanimous
ly nominated.'
Geo. I. White placed in nomi
nation W illiam'S weeney for Regis
ter of Deeds. This nomination,
upon being seconed, was likewise
oiled through the convention by
acclamation. ,Vv '
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. - Ks. o ones arose to .: place in
nomination a man - for ' Treasurer.
His remarks were to ,the effect
- that he greatly appreciated the
long support given him by the Re
") publican party, but before retiring
he wished to tender, to them his
successor, naming W. H. Hawkins
as the man; Mr. -Hawkins was
nominated by acclamation.
A. B. CHalford was nominated
for surveyor in the regular order,
and: was the: next medicine for; the
machine, by unanimous nomina
tion. v "
Dr. Geo. " I. White placed in
nomination B. G. Gettys for cor
oner. Mr. Gettys -strenuously
t)pposed-his name going before the
. convention,:, but - nothing doing.
He likewise was nominated un
animously as scheduled ' a .
For , commissioners only three
names could be heard J. M. Ka-
uiJo, ucu. vv. wjumy ana j.' vi;
lyatt and Dr. White moved that
Mher be nominated, by acclamation,
and it was done in ' the . usual
toanner. .
, The convention went on ;" record
then as being opposed to vote buy
ing, and expressed its willingness
j to enter into the same agreement
A WEEKLY, NEWSPAPER nwnrirn
MARION,
with the Democrats that' was hnA
two years ago. ;
A series of resolutions
fered. by C. C. Lissenhpft
adopted, as .follows:
.We favor the - election of nil
members of the county board of educa
tion, and all other - conntv ffi
direct vote of the people.
.lhe recent enormous intrpA
assessed valuation of property in our
wamy maues tne present tax rate bur
densome to our people; and w f
the,most rigid economy in the adminis
tration oi au county affairs in order
that the present tax rate may be ma
terially reduced. . -
iCWe are opposed to the creatino- of
any more salaried officers forhe county,
and favor the reduction of RaUri
where; it can be done without impairing
We are opposed to the nresent math.
ods of assessing
supervision of a county assessor, and
are in favor of the assessment of real
estate by three good men in each town
ship who know the value of the pro
perty in their township. "
"We are heartily in favor of good
roads, but are opposed to anv Txnd is
sue for road improvements, unless pro
vision is made for an equitable division
of the funds arising from snoh 'rit
among the various 1 townships of the
county,- and unl ess such bond issue is
authorized by "a vote of the people."
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards
1 : J Captured. " v - '
Des Moines, la., Sept. 14Sidna
Allen, leader of the "Allen clan
which shot up the' Carroll county
courtho'useat Hills ville, Va., March
14, killing J udge Massie an3 others,
and his nephew; Wesley Ed wards,
tonight are manacled in cells at the
city jail as, a result of love affairs
which led detectives to them. Both
have announced , their willingness
to return to Virginia without
requisition.
Edwards, for the love of whom
Miss Maude Iroler, . of Mount
Airy, N C. had ; innocently led
detectives to Des;Moines, was cap
tured tonight as he was returning
to his boarding house; after having
worked all day with a paving gang.
Just as he boarded a street car de
tectives and officers surrounded it.
Edwards was trying to escape by
crawling through the front end of
the car, when officers caught him.
The arrest of Sidna Allen was ef
fected earlier in the day
; A visit by Edwards to Miss
Iroler; in her North Carolina home
about a month ago and the acci
dental loss of a letter, put the de
tectives on the trail. The fugitives
had been in Des Moines since April
28. Allen, under the name of
Tom Say re, worked as a carpenter,
and Edwards, under the name of
Joe Jackson; was employed with a
city paving gang. ' ..
Allen: was arrested at the home
of John Cameron at Eleventh and
Locust streets, -where he and his
nephew had been rooming, by
Detectives . Baldwin, Lucas and
Mundy, of Roanoke, Va. The
arrest occurred a few minutes after
Miss Iroler stepped into the Came
ron home to meet Edwards whom
she was to wed tonight, according
to an arrangement made when he
visited her in Virginia.
Unless there is some unexpected
hitch in the plans prepared by Di
rector Waller' Page and submitted
to Postmaster., General Hitchcock
today, actual work on road con
struction under the provisions of
the Simmons good roads bill, will
be started in North Carolina this
week. v - - . v
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xyj int. Bhii INTEREST OF THE PEOPI F fir iLnnwri .
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.N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT.
HAZIN&RESULTS IN DEATH
Isaac W. Randof Smithfiejd is the
Victim Gruesome', Tragic Death
on Athletic Field at University.
Chapel Hill, Sept. 13. Isaac
William Rand, aged, 20 years, son
of O. R. Rand, of Sraithficld, mem
ber of the freshman' class of the
University of North Carolina, is
dead and if our sophomores, -A. H;
Styron, of Wilmington, W. L.
Merriman, of Wilmington, It W.
Oldham, of Raleigh,, and A. C.
Hatch, of Mt. Olive, are under
arrest at Pickard's hotel hero to
night charged with manslaughter.
The sensational affair, which has
stirred staid old Chapel Hill as
nothing has in many years, is the
outcome of a hazing jaunt or little
joy party of the sophomores on
the early morning of Friday the
13th'.
The tragic, gruesome death of
young-Rand,, the most promising
of a bright family of boys, is due
directly to the old system ofjiazing
which for vears has pxistvl In
colleges and likewise w
hich for
years the public has been assured
semi-annually, at least, that it had
been stamped out for all time. '
The sophomores, according to
the reliable evidence, -have this
year been a little more bbistrous
than for a year or so in the past,
this disorder becoming so great
last Sunday night from firing
pistols, etc., that, residents could
not sleep. During the early hours
last night a few of the boys decid
ed lo have a little special exhi
bition and going to the " room of
Rand, dragged him and his room
mate, Robert A. Wcllons, also of
Smithfield, from their beds, allow
ed their petition to put on - their
shoes and while in their night
clothes they were hustled to the
atheletic field where they were put
through a series of stunts.
Near the old entrance to the
atheletic field the haziog party
found an old oil barrel which had
been used for liming the atheletic
field and Wellons was placed on
the barrel. He got through his
stunts without serious mishap.
Rand's time came next. Uncon
scious of the short time of his life,
the youth was hoisted to the bar
rel and shivering in his night
clothes was told to sing. Ho said
he could not. "Sing Home, Sweet
Home, damn you." shouted ono of
the masked men.
.VI cannot sing," replied Rand.
"We will make you sing," came
the retort from the sophomore who
lighted his flash light and gave the
barrel a nush.. The barrel upturn
ed, Rand's feet went forward and
his head backward to the ground.
One old bottle was lying near the
barrel and when the boy fell the
side of his neck struck this bottle
and a gash more than an inch deep
extending from his ear to his
thorax was made.
'l have hurt him," said one of
the mob who again flashed his
light. f v
, ,Yes you have killed him," re
plied Wellons.
The members of the mob then
hastened to pick up the dying boy
and carried him to the gymnasium,
a short distance away, where they
laid him on a plank and under the
pretext of seeking medical aid de
serted the dying boy to tho lone
care of his roommate. Wellons'
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19, 1912.
frantic cries for aid soon brought
A. R. Parsley, a student and - the
college began to bo aroused.
But Rand's bright life was gone.
He never spoke a word after being
kicked from tho barrel nor did it
take long for his lifo blood to
stream out,
Every bit of evidence b being
prepared by the State and private
prosecution and a hard 'fight will
follow to convict the boys,
Appalachian Forest Reserve's First
Payment.
Washington, Sept. 14. Tho first
check to bo signed in payment for
lands for the Annalitrhiari EVct
Reservation by the Secretary of
r f . ...
Agriculture will be made payable
to the. owners of the Mt. Mitchell
tract in McDowell, Buncombe,
Yancey and Mitchell counties.
JXortn Uarolma. Tho amount of
this payment will' be $55,000. The
secretary of the treasury will be
called upon to honor the check
some time this month.
Uuder the law of 1911 which
rcrcatctl tDC National Forest Itcscr-
auon commission, two million
dollars is appropriated annually
for purchase of available lands.
Approximately 300,000 acres of
land in several states have been ap
proved for purchase by tho com
mission at an estimated cost of
$1,000,000.
Lsnds have been approved for
purchase by the National; Forest
Reservation Commission to become
sections of tho Appalachian Forest
Reservation in Tennessee, North
Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and
New Hampshire In North Caro
lina the total area approved by the
commission is 53,985 acres.
. Tho National Forest Reservation
Commission was created by an act
of Congress March I, 1911, which
authorized the commission to ac
quire lands of the watersheds of
navigable streams for tho purposo
of conserving their navigability.
More Room Needed.
At a meeting of the board of di
rectors of the State hospital at
Morganton last week. Dr. John
McCampbell, who has filled out
fivo years of tho unexpired term
of Dr. Murphy, deceased, was
unanimously re-elected superin
tendent of tho hospital for a fall
term of six. years.
SupL McCampbcll's report for
tho quarter ending August 3 1, that
the close of the previous quarter
May 31 there wcro on tho rolls
of the institution 570 men and 705
women, a total of 1,335. Twenty
seven men and 21 women were ad
mitted during tho quarter, one was
transferred and 14 died four tnen
and ten women. Remaining at the
end of tho last quarter wcro 503
men and 778 women, a total of
1,371. MItwill bo noted," 'says
tho report, "that tho total number
of patients, including those away
on probation, is far in excess of
tho number of beds, there" being
only 1,232 available. The demand
for, room is far in excess of the
capacity of tho house and wo arc
now admitting only about half
thoso applying. I am unable to
say whether insanity is on tho in
crease in this district or not, but
tho indications are that it is.?
Treasurer Jonca annual report trill tw
puLlishcd next Treck. ,
VOL. XVII NO. 3
LATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Interesting Reading Matter of
Local and National Affairs
. in Condensed Form.
Joo Gradv, a well known car
penter of Morganton, wis ttrcck
by a freight train Monday night
near Drcxel and fatally injured.
It has just been learned that tK
Southern Railway his appropriated
00,000 for improvements on the
Southern passcngcrsUtioa at Ash,
ville.
Fire which originated from aa
explosion destroyed five autos and
practically demolished another ma
chine in the garage of 'the Meck
lenburg Auto company at Charlotte
Saturday. Tho loss is cstirnited
at about $7,500.
Owing to "the absence from tho
State of Dr. .Iounh. Hrr?A tv,
State geologist, the inspection tour
of the Central Highway, which
was to hfivc begun Mon lay, has
bc,pn postponed. .President Var
ner has reports showing thatptrU
of the highway are yet a long way
from being completed, and that u
another reason for delaying tho
tour. .
Hon. Locke Craig has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address
in Asheville on the night of Octo
ber 10 for the United Commercial
Travelers of America, the occasion
being a special program of enter
tainment that the Asheville coun
cil is arranging for visiting travel
ing men. The . Western North
Carolina Fair will bo in session,
and a special social rocftiegfor tho
merchants and traveling men oa
the night of October 10 is to bo
the climax for entertainment that
is to be provided.
Tore Up The Jail,
Morganton, ScpL 13. Bob
Snipes tho alleged slayer of John
Brittain, in Bar:e county some 10
years ago, and who was arrtsted
in Los Angeles, CaL, and brought
back hero and lodged in jail mado
a desperate but ineffectual attempt
to escape from prison this morn
ing. In some manner he tor a
heavy picas of iron from the cigts
where he wai confined, and after
getting out in the corridor of tho
jail orocccded to demolish every
thing in sight and dog several
holes in the brick walls.
Armed as he was with the bar
of iron and being dejpemte tho
officers wcro afraid to enter tho
building and bo carried 6a hb
work of destruction for several
hours. He was finally however
subdued and placed ur.df r heavy
guard. Snipes is almost a giant
in size and the cago in which ho
was confined was merely a play,
thing in bis hands.
Tho Western North Carolina
Fair to bo held at Ashcvillo O:lo
bcr8, 9, 10 and 11 as adfcrtlssd
in this paper, promises to bo a
most successful aOair and will bo
of material benefit to the agricul
tural interests of this section.
Many folks from this county will
no doubt attend this fair.
The Haywood County Fair will
bo held at WayccsriHe October 1,
2, 3 and 4. Tho catalogue bus orer
700 premiums and OJ arcs c He red
for races by Western North Caro
lina horses. Several aliriicna
are mentioned in an ad. in this
paper.