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$ TA HEEL TOT ICS It, . Items Gathered From All Slavs are Charged with Shocking . . Crime. , . Charlotte, Special-r-A special from Marion, N. C, says: "Deputy Sheriff Cox has just reached here' with 14 Slavs, who are charged with a shock ing murder. Fifteen of these foreign ers came to camp Nd; 5 on the South & Western railroad a year ago and have been at work there ever since, according to rhe officer's ' story tha men quarreled " among themselves Thursday, the .TruhT-of 'the : war of words falling upon the member of the little colony who had been serving as cook. The 14 fell upon thG unfortu nate cook that night and securing him with ropes they led him to a spot in the forest a mile from the camp. There they bound the cook hand and foot and placing him -in an upright position against the - end of ' a fill, the crowd stepped off a few paces and be gan shooting, vusing the cook as a target. The unfortunate man was riddled with bullets. After satisfy ing their thirst, for blood the murder ers dug a shallow trench in the fill and buried their victim . The hastily provided grave and Kie blood on the ground led to the discovery of the crime by a foreman. The dead man was known to have had $100 in cash, but no money was found, on him. Not one of the prisoners speaks English and though court is sonvened, the trial can not be held until an inter preter is secured." ..-. ; The Birth of a New County. Sanford, Special. Pursuant to the statute creating Lee county as amended by the special session of the General Assembly tho officers quali fied and assumed eh arse of the coun- ty affairs Monday. The board of com-"-missioners was organized by electing J. J. Edwards, of Lemon Springs, chairman. Senator A.. F. Seawell was chosen county attorney and Dr. J. P. Monroe, health officer. ; No special exercises marked the event, but a considerable crowd from all parts of . the county assembled at the Mc Keithen Building to be present at the birth of the new county, the Stated ninety-eigth. The. oaths were administered by W. S. Weatherspoon, Esq. The officers are as "follows: T. M; Campbell, clerk of Superior Court; T. M. Cross, reg ister of deeds; B. C Pearce, treasur er; J. C. Watson, sheriff; Dr. H. B. Hoyle, coroner; W. T. Temple, sur veyor; J. J. Edwards, John R. Jones, J. . Fletcher Jones, J. L. Godfrey, J. F. Womble, commissioners. Negro Flung Under Train Salisbury, Special. Monday about 12:30 Will Carr, colored, who says he resides at 105 South Craig street,, this city, tried to board No. 33 as it was. passing south under Fish er street bridge. The negro missed his jump and was flung under one of the coaches. Both feet were badly mangled and there appears little hope of saving either of them. A large crowd gathered at the scene, but Carr was soon carried to the baggage room where Dr. Whitehead saw him. The doctor ordered his immediate removal to the sanatorium. Postmaster at Newtcn. Newton, Special. Af ter several months of waiting Dr. W. H. Ever hardt received notification of the con firmation of his appointment as posta master of Newton. He has been busy filling out his bond, -which is signed by many of the leading Democrats of this place, thus testifying to the high esteem in which he is held by .3 parties. f " Postoffice is. Broken Into. ' Salisbury, Special The "postoffice at Granite Quarry was broken into Wednesday night and a quanity of stamps taken. 'Postmaster Brown has a mercantile establishment in con--nection with the postoffice. and a lot of cheap jewerly is missing; The safe was rolled to the lot in the rear of the store, but not ; opened. Suspic ion points to two strange negroes Much Valuable Property Lost. High Point, Special. In the burn iis of the Southern Car Company much valuable property in the way of patterns and blue prints were lost, the work of the past sixteen years. While the company will get in shape to turn out work in the next month or so it will take several years to get back the patterns and other val uable plates which were destroyed. Mr, Briggs, the secretary ad treas urer, said it was a big undertaking, but the difficulties would bo sur ' mounted in time. Kingston. State Bank to Become a National Institution. Kineton, Special. Monday after noon a special meeting of stockhold ers of the Citizen's Back was held. A dividend of 50 per eent., payable either in cash or stock, was declared. It was also decided to increase: the capital stock of the bank from $59, 000 to $100,000 and convert it into a national bank. The Firt National Brink will be its name. Sections of the State $ Mr. Carr Is Continued."' Raleigh, Special The executive committee of the board of agricul ture met at tho Agricultural Depart ment to consider the matter of the secretaryship made vacant by the death of Thomas K. '" Bruner. Mr. Bruner. has been absent abroad or sick since" last June and Mr. Elias Carr has been looking after his work. The executive committee considered the whole matter of how it was Best to do this work which is so important and which, owins to Mr. Bruner 's ah- .sence and illness, could not, of course, receive his own attention. His desk and. chair were draped in mourning. The committee adopted a resolution regarding its late secretary, in which, after setting forth its regrets at his death in the midst of his splendid work for the State, it says it desires to put on record its very high ap preciation of him as a lover of his State and an unselfish worker in ad vancing the interests of North Car olina, and for. his genial, obliging and generous companioship. The resolu tions also express sympathy with Mr. Bruner 's family.' ' Medical Society Adjourns, j Charlotte, Special. The sessions of the Tri-State Medical Society closed here on Thursday, the following offi cers being elected for the year: President Dr. Albert Anderson, Raleigh. . , First vice-president, Dr. R. C. Bry an, Richmond, Va. Second vice president, Dr. J. E. Stokes, Salisbury. j Third vice president, Dr. W. P. Timmerman, Batesburg, S. C. Secretary-Treasurer Dr. J. How ell Way, Waynesville. New members of judicial council, Drs. E. G. Williams, Richmond; A. J. Crowell, Charlotte, and A. E. Baker, Charleston, S. C. The secretary reported that 57 new 'members had applied for. member- shipm the Tn-btate Medical Society, they being members of the affiliated State societies, and on motion thesa were received into full membership in the Tri-State Society. ! Damage Suit Against Norfolk & Western. Winston-Salem, Special. R. F Overby, of Stokes county, through his counsel, has instituted a $20,00C damage suit against the Norfolk & Western Railway. The complaint was filed in this county, but j the counsel for the defendant companj had the case removed to the United States Circuit Court of Greensboro. The plaintiff alleges that he sustain ed permanent injuries by being struck by a cross tie, hit oy a j box car of the defendant company while in the employ of the Pinnacle Coal and Coke Company in West Virginia, and injured so seriously that he j has been disabled for his work as a miner ' and unfitted for any kind ol manual labor. New School For Negroes. High Point, Special. Rev. A. J. Tate, a colored minister of this city, who has been engaged in work among his race here for nine years, receiv ing the endorsement of white as well as colored people, has jnst complet ed a new school building, known aa Fairview Institute. The building is of brick to the second story and will furnish class rooms and rooms j foi industrial work on the first floor, while the second floor will be used for dor mitories, thus laying the foundation for a good work for the children J his race. Violently Insane. Statesville, Special Mr. Jonah Ryan, a farmer about 50 years j old. is violently insane at his home in Olin township, and an effort .will be made- to get him into the State Hos pital . at Morganton. Mr. .Ryan's mind has been impaired for , some time, but he did not become violent until a few days ago. He has beer a religious 'fanatic for some years. Smallpox in Iredell. Statesville, Special. It has devel oped that there are a number of gen uiris c?es of smallpox in north Ire dell and portions of Wilkes and Yad kin counties. Dr. M. R. Adams, eoua ty physician, returned from thai section, where he had been to meet the county physicians of Yadkin and Wilkes "to examine some suspects. Tht physicians found several cases whick they pronounced smallpox. All these and others have been quarantined and disinfections are being used to pre vent the further spread of the dis ease. , , v Fatal Riot In Pennsylvania. Connellsville, Penn. Special. In a big riot at Dunbar, Pennsylvania, Monday night in which something like ono hundred men and women par ticipated, two men were stabbed to death, ' a score badly injured and a wagon load carried off by the police are in jail awaiting trial. They are mostly foreigners and the riot origi nated in jealousy of boarding Lease keepers. FOR INDUSTRIAL PEACE President's r Letter to Inter-State Commerce Commission ' Mad Pub lic Serious Industrial Disputes in Prospect. ; Washington , , Special. Serious in dustrial disputes in prospect were in the mind of President : Roosevelt when ,he, .wrote a letter to the-inter-State commerce commission "wliich was made public. . He says that ini formation' has reached hioi th'at on account r of the v enactment-of drastic laws, by Congress .". and ,by varioui State,. legislatures, it 'isi regarded aa necessary by railroad companies', io' reduce the pay of their : employes. He points out that; under the law,-.' eith er party may demand the services? of the chairman of the inter-State: coaa merce committee, and; of .' the CJni missioner of Labor, as a board of conciliation. . HeT suggests therefore, that . the inter-State commerce com mission wage conditions ! on .various railroads as 'may "relate, directly o indirectly to th: possible - impending controversy, :. c . Tho' President's Letter. ' ' The full text of V, the Presidents letter is as follows: i.- - - "The White House, j V Washington, Feb. IS, 190S. ; To the inter-State commerce com mission: l am lnlormed tliat a num ber of railroad companies have ser ved notice of a proposed reduction of wages on their employes. One o" them, the Louisville & Nashville, in announcing the reduction, states that "the drastic laws inimical to the in terests of the railroads that havo in the past year or two been enacted by Congress and the State Legisla tures, M are largely or chiefly respon sible for the conditions requiring Re duction. ' Under such circumstances it is pos sible that the public may soon be confronted by serious industrial dis putes, and the law provides that in such cases eillier party may demand the services of your chairman and of the Commissioner of Labor as a board of mediation and conciliation. These reductions in wages may be warranted, or they may not. As to his the public, which is a vitally in terested party, can form no judgment without a more complete knowledgo of ..the essential facts and real mer its of the case than it now has or than it can possibly obtain from tho special pleadings certain to be put forth by eah side in case their dis pute should bring about serious in terruption to traffic. If the reduc tion in wages is duo to natural caus es, the loss of business being such that , the burden should be - and is equitably distributed betweon capi talist and wage workers, the public should know it. If it is caused by legislation, the public and . Congress should know it, and if it i caused by misconduct in the past financial or other operations of any railroad, then everybody should, know it, es-, peciaiiy n tne exeuse or. uninenaiy legislation is advanced asf a method of covering up past business miscon duct by the railroad managers, or as justification for failure to Irreat fairly the wage earning employes of the company. Moreover, an industrial eonflict be tween a f ailroad corporation it j employes offers peeuliar opportuni ties to any small number of evil disposed persons to destroy life and property and foment public disord- er. Of course, if life, property ana public order aro endangered, prompt and drastic measures for their pro tection become the first plmn duty. AM other issues then become subor dinate to" the preservation of the pub lic peacej and the real merits of the original controversy are ncessarily lost from view. This vital considera tion should be ever kept in mind by all law-abiding and far-sighted mem bers of labor oxganizations. It is sineerely to be hoped, there fore, that any wage controversy that may arise between the railroads and their employes may find a peaceful solution through the methods of con ciliation and arbiWation already pro vided by Congress, which have prov en so effective during the past year. To this end the commission should be in "a position to have available for any board of conciliation or arbitra tion relevant data pertaining to sucla carriers as may become involved in industrial disputes. Should concila tion fail to effect a settlement and ar bitration be rejected, accurate infor mation should be available in order to develop a properly informed pub lie opinion; I therefore ask you to make, such investigation, both of your records and by any other means at your com- mand as ; will enable you to furnish data concerning such conditions ob taining on tht. Louisville & Nashville and any other roads, as may relate; directly or indirectly to the real mer its of the possibly impending contro-, versy. " ; - THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Bf&op Ihmcan's Condition Some- what Improved. Spartanburg, S. C, Special. Bish op W. W. Duncan's condition is somewhat' improved. ; : He seems stronger and his mind ! is clearer. He recognized' the members of his fam ily and talked with them. His phy sicians say that while he is. a very ill man there is no immediate danger of tho end. - POLICE- .CHIEF 'KILLED Fayltcvilic, N, C, Witnesses -'''-' . . . --' Sunday KHIing - DEEDfCF A WANTON CRIMINAL For, the Second: Trine Within a' Year Fayeiteville 's First Of ficed is Mur . dered... " kFayetteville N.C., Special For the seeont time in 'a year Fayetteville 's -chief, of police has been murdered. James H. Benton,: the head pf, the police - department of the - city was shot about Tl :30 o 'clock Sunday after noon by Sam Murchison a "negro 30 years old, and died at 2:45 o'clock, living little more than an hour. The murderer was; captured a short time after, the , shooting occurred and is now safely lodged in jail here. The circumstances of the murder are aggrevated and without pallia tion,. It seems that the murderer, Murchison,' had trouble earlier in the day w;th John Raines, another ne gro, and Ida. Moore, a negro woman, which Raines, wound, resulted in his shooting inflicting- a slight flesh and his threatening the life of the jMoore woman. The woman, who lives in the . neighborhood of Chief of Police Benton's home, fled to the latter for protection, ma'king an outcry as she ran. Chief Benton met her at his back door, and, hearing her com plaint, was starting out in search of Munchison wnen the latter appeared on the scene. He and Officer Ben ton exchanged a few words, when the ngro suddenly drew a revolver and fired at Mr. Benton, inflicting a mortal ; wound just under the eye. Officer J Benton j staggered and at tempted to make his way back" into the house, but fell before he reached the door. ) Jack Crosswejl, a lad, hearing the pistol shot, ran! up at once and at tempted to arrest the murderer, but the latter snapped his pistol at the boy and broke; away. Mr. J. B. Underwood next appeared and the negro fled, firing a wild shot at Mr. Underwood as he ran. Charles Ben ton, the 17-year-old son of the wounded man, ran to his father's as sistance as he fell and caught up the laters J revolver) as it dropped from his belt. As the negro fled th youth fired three shots after him, oin of them taking1 effeet as developed after the capture was made. Officer Benton was carried into his resi dence, suffering) great agony, and lingered for a little more than an hour, passing away about the time his murderer was being placed under arrest. j News of the murder and the es cape of the murderer spread rapidly through the city and excitement be came in tense. Sheriff : Watson and his deputies and thirty , police were at oncej at work endeavoring to (track the fugitive, and hastily organ ized posses of citizens were speedily scouring the suburbs in the vicinity qf the scene of the crime. - The cap ture was accomplished by Mr. j How ard Smith, who was. immediately joined by Messrs, George. McNeil,. L. A. Wiiliamsoii and A. S. Hall, and the prisoner wasj then turned over to Sheriff Watson and his deputies. Public feeling; ran high but the sherifi! with orders from Goyernox Glenn to use tho militia was enabled to protect tho prisoner. Ten Killed in Panic at Teheran. . ! -'-:-'.""': Teheran, By Cable. Ten persons were killed anci a score or more wounded ineludi'ng several ecclesias tics, asf a result! of a panic in the main streets here Sunday during the passage, of a religious procession Mu- harram religious festival, held dur- ing the first month of the Mohame- dan year. Priest Foully Murdered. Denver, Special Father Leo Hein richs was shot and killed Sunday by Alio Giuseppe, j an avowed anarchist and priest-hater;, while the priest was administering the sacrament at early mass in St. (Elizabeth's Catholic chueb, I Eleventh and Curtis streets. Kneeling at the altar rail, between two men, Giuseppe pressed the muz zle , of la revolver against the body of the priest, after, receiving from him' the' consecrated wafer, .and shot the priest through the heart; Exclaiming' "Mv God. My God," Father Leo fell prone in front of the altar and died. ' ; . t Bishop Satterlee Dead. i --" - Washington j Special. Right Rev. Henry Yates Satterlee, D. D., tor the past 12 years protestant Episco pal bishop of Washington, died at his residence here' Saturday. He was 65 years old. Although threatened with the grip .Bishop; Satterlee officiated at services .. last Sunday . morning. Shortly afterward his conditio bo came acute and j a physician was rail ed in death quickly- feilowiug. A SLAYER IS SLAIN if.' i I ' '. -. 1" ' " ' " " '' '" I ' :'..! Another Gloody 4 Tragedy, Og curs in South Carolina MURDER OF BROTHER AVENGED While on Their Wayrto a Preliminary Hearing at Lancaster of the Trage dy at Kershaw Last phristmas, GTOver Welch Shoots and Kills the Man Who Slew His Brother, Steve . Welch. . . :. - ' Roch Hill, S. C, Special. Grover Welch, brotJier of Steve Welch, who, with another man. was killed durin a row in a barber shop in Kershaw last Christmas, shot to death Berry Mobley Monday night on ihe train from Camden to 'Rock Hill, just as it was reaching Pleasant Hill, a sta tion nearly midway betwee a Camden and, Lancaster. ' It was the first time that Mobley had been able to be out, he havimr been badly wounded by Steve Welch at the time the latter was Mobley. Both; men were killed by on their way to Lancaster for a preliminary hearing of the Kershaw tragedy. Without warning Welch shot Mob ley , in the back as he fellbetween the-seats four more bullets jwere fired into his body, death resulting""instant ly. It was a cold-blooded! and cow ardly murder and was evidently, in revenge of the killing of Steve Welch by Mobley. j Conductor Boxtell who was vin charge of the train, turned the dead body of the murdered man over to the coroner at Pleasant Hill, while Welch voluntarily came on to Lancaster and gave himself up to the authorities. ) Bad blood has existed between Welch and Mobley since the shooting Christmas and this is the first time that Welch had seen Mobley, and he took advantage of his first oppor tftnity, when Mobley hadj his back turned, to avenge the death of his brother. -'" Both men are prominently connect ed. r . . Young J4an Kills Himself. Gastonia, N. C., . Special. Telling his sweetheart, on whom he was calK ing, that he wanted to ' ' show her a trick," John J. Fry, a young man of this place Monday night pulled from his pocket a pistol and shot himself in the head, the wound resulting in his death. It was an accident, there being no motive whatever or indica tion that it was suicide. About 7:30 in the evening Mr. Fry, day clerk at the Falls House, went to call on Miss Willie Jenkins, daughter of Mr. W. H. Jenkins, at her home in the Jen kins Block. He pulled off! his over coat and walked into the parlor where the young lady was, remarking to her that he wanted to "show her a trick;" Simultaneously he drew from his pocket a pistol and, under ' the full light of the hanging lamp, shot himself, accidentally, it is held by all, in the head, the bullet en ering the right temple and ranging upwards, coming out about two inches above the place where it entered. The skull was fractured in three i different ways, and after lingering without re gaining consciousness the young man died at 10 o'clock. ! Employes and Officials Confer. . Washington, Special. Committees of the locomotive firemen and of the railroad telegraphers employed on the Southern Railway had conferences Monday with General Manager Ack ert on the general question: of a pro posed reduction of wages on the sys tem. The conferences were incon clusive tnd it was arranged to further discuss the matter at a later time. American Car Stalled in Snowdrift. Michigan City, Ind., Special. Tho American car in the automobile race from New York to Paris left Michi gan, City at 145 o'clock Tuesday morning for Chicago and stalled in an immense snowdrift nine miles west of Michigan City late in the j afternoon. Teamsters accompanying the car gave up in despair and returned to Michi gan City. The crew temporarily abandoned the car and went to Ches terton, 3 miles further west, for more men and horses. J - Mr. Thorn Asks For Early Hearing. Washington, Special. Attorney : A. P. Thorn, of the Southern Railway Company, entered a motion in the Supreme Court - of the United States for the advancement of the docket of that eourt of the cases involving the Virginia passenger rate law. He stated that the - opposing council concurred in the motion and asked that a hearing be' had before the end of the term in May. ' c Will Build Dam at Cherokee Shoals. v. Washington, . Special. 'Bills were passed ..by the House Monday per-, mitting the building of a dam,-across Savannah river at Cherokee Shoals, and also authoritizing the -Secretary of War to furnish four condemned cannon and camion J&ails'; to the Con-, federate manumenti association at Franklin, Tcnn: " "? - i- THE END WAS NOT UNEXPECTED Junta Senator From the Palnctt ; State Dies From Effjcis of aa Op eration For Intestinal Trouble. Washington, Special. Senator A.' C. Latimer, of South-Carolina, died here Thursday morning at ; 9 :3& o'clock following an operation for in. testinal trouble several' days ago. Thit members of' his family ,wero at his bedside when the - end came. Ar rangements for the funeral have not been made. ' ' . . Senator Latimer was taken desper ately ill Sunday night and ;was placed.' in Proyidence Hospital, where an op eration was performed. He showodL signs. a of improvement Monday and Tuesday, bu complications ; set io. early and his death soon followed. Senator Latimer's Career : Senator Asbury Churchwell LalU mer was 57 years of age. He was native of. South Carolina, ; having been born in Abbeville county, near the small town of Iwhdesvillc. Hia ' boyhood and ' early manhood C werei" spent on the farm.' His first activt political office was that of county chairman of the Democratic party o ; his county in 1890. rWhen the TitU man movement in South Carolina be gan to take shape in the early 90 rs Senator Latimer allied himself prom inently with the , reformers' and was nominated for Congress,, to which ha was elected over Col. George John- stone, of Newberry. He served in th Fifty-third, Fif th-f ourth, . Fif ty-ixttt and Fifty-seventh Congresses. He was a candidate to succeed Sen ator John L. McLaurin in tho wana campaign of 1902 and was elected by a majority of17,700 over- former Governor John Gary Evans, ex-Con- . gressman George Johnstone and Wil liam Elliott, ex-Senator- John JV Hemphill and State Senator D. S. Henderson. His term as Senator would expire March 3, 1909. The News in Columbia. Columbia, .S. C, ' Special. Thex nows of the death of Senator Latimer is received in Columb"a,' where the Legislature is in session, with evi dence of sorrow and regret on all sides. ' Those opposed to' him politi eally join with his political friends in speaking of him. f Governor Ansel has not as yet been officially informed of the death. As ; soon as he is, he will send a message t the Lgislature, which "will adjourn for the day or night, as the case may be, and appoint a committee , to at tend the funeral. ; '" In view of section 17, of ; the re vised statues, which says a senatorial vacancy occurring during a sitting o a Legislature must be filled by tht Legislature ' on the second Tuesday after the Legislature has organized and has notice of such, vacancy," ifc is likely that the Legislature will have to remain in session 10 days at ter Sunday, the day fixed for adjourn ment, in order to choose a successor to Mr. Latimer. If the Legislature were not in session Governor Ansel would have j the appointment ta make. ; . The death of Senator Latimer is ot great political importance. It is certain that had ho lived he would have had half a dozen opponents in. his campaign for re-election ' next summer. ' t . .. : , .; .'Avowed Candidates. ;. Those alreadV iu the- race against him were, ex-Governor r JrAxn Gary Evans, of Spartanburg; ex-Congressman George Jphnstone, 'of Newberry ; rex-State Senator D: S. Henderson, oi Aiken; Col. John J. Dargan, of Sum ter, and State Superintendent of Ed- ucation O. B. Martin, oi ureenyiue. Governor Ansel was spoken of, but some time ago declared - bis desire tow -offer for another term for Governor. It is also thought that ,E D., Sraitb general organizer for 'the Southern Cotton Association and possibly ex-' Governor Heyward would have beea in the race!' Senator Latimer's death? it is thought, will decide ex-Governo Heyward to run. . - , Prospective Candidates. Among the prospective candidate who have develope for the unexpired term to be filled by the Legislature are Representative E. Marion Ruck er, of Anderson; ex-Speaker of tte House Frank Gary, of Abbeville Senator LeGrand Walker, of George town: Speaker Whaley has bee urged for the, place, but has very positively declined, to) enter the list. " Seaboard t Cuts Salaries. Norfolk, Va.,' Special: W. A. Gar rett, chief executive officer for tho . receivers of the ' Seaboard Air Line ., Rairway, issued the following: "Ef- ' . fective February ; 1st, r all offieiali' ' are working ainder a JQ per cent, eut ' Those getting between': $8,000 :;and $5,000 per' ajmum inelrBivef 'tro . working under an 3 per eent u.,:" , South Garolinai Junior Suuk . rr, tor Passes Away ? :
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