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r A Evening Vol. 1. Statesville, N. C, Tuesday Evening, November 17, 1908. No. 366 Death of Smith Senator Carmack Did Jot Shoot is Investigated BELIEVED MAN WAS MURDERED MOY WOUNDED BY HIS FATHER. Traveling Representative of White Oak Coal Company Was. Victim ot a Murder Most Foul Remains Sent Home to Richmond Look ing for Evidence, r ristol Carried by Senator Carmack on the Day of His Death Had Been in the-Hands of His Enemies for Two Hours Before Coming Into the Officers' Possession. Raleigh, Nov. 16. A coroner's jury is today investigating the death of W. E. Smith, traveling represent ative of the White Oak Coal Com pany, ot Richmond, Va., whose body with neck broken was found in a 50 tot pit of the rock quary east of the city Sunday evening. Evidence is meagre as yet, with nothing to show definitely whether he lost his way and fell into the ex cavation which has no guard of any kind to prevent such accidents. A police officer identifies Smith as the man who asked him toward mid night Saturday to show him the way to Capital Square, having lost his way near the Governor's Mansion on Blount street. He did not appear to be drunk then, although,it is said, there is ev idence that he had been drinking heavily here for several days. The coroner will continue the in quest several days to await the . search of evidence. A Foul Murder. 7 Raleigh, N. C, Nov. 16. The 'po lice developments today established the fact that Dr. Elbert W. Smith, representative of a Richmond, Va., coal company and son of F. M. Smith, of New Hope W. Va., whose body was found in the city rock quarry in the outskirts of Raleigh yesterday, was the victim of one u. worst murders in the kistory of the city, lie left his hotel Saturday night and Jt is believed he was mur dered in the city "and his body car ried to the quarry for concealment The body was taken to Richmond to day. .- ' . ; ;.,.! " IO Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 17. Will A Percy, a well known lawyer, made the startling statement yesterday chat Senator Carmack never fired" the pistol he carried on his death walk and that young Cooper, who is alleged to have been shot by Car mack, was in fact wounded by bul lets from his father's revolver in tended for Carmack. Percy says the son was behind Carmack and the' father in front, jach being so near the other that their victim was powder-burned by the father's shots. That the cham oers of Carmack's pistol had been ared means nothing, says the law yer, for the weapon was in the hands of his enemies for two hours before it was turned over to the officers; and besides, Carmack's hand still aeld a cigar he had been smoking. Services were held in honor of senator Carmack in many churches throughout the state. i in Mr. Gompers SAYS HE WILL NOT PAY FINE. President of the American Federa tion of Labor Declares That if Found Uuilty in ""Government Contempt Proceedings he .Will .go to Jan Rather Than Pay or Allow Federation to Pay for Him. Six Men Meet Instant Death IN A MINE CAGE ACCIDENT. Because of Break in Machinery the Cage, Occupied by Ten Men, Plunged From Near the Outlet to the Bottom of the Shaft Those Not Killed had Narrow Escape. Beulah May Fink Dead. Little Beulah May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Fink of Barber was born on April 3rd, 1906, and fell asleep in Jesus Nov. 14, 1908, aged 2 years, 6 months and 11 days. The funeral was conducted Jby the pastor, Rev. Theo. C. Parker, from Lebanon Lutheran church, and the little body was laid to rest in. the nearby cemetery, to await the resur rection morn. Little Beulah was a most lovable childand was the joy and sunshine of the home. Being the only child, the hopes and hearts of the fond parents were entwined about her. Ii.it her aviour loved her more than they, rnd He has taken her unto Himself. . ion m Caloria Bottle. Red-Hot drinks without fire! , Ice-Cold drinks without ice! Jeweler Henry has on exhibition ia his window a number of the cel ebrated Caloris bottles, a new de vice for the sick room or campers outfit. One of these bottles is guaranteed Mr. W. B. Waters of Wilmington vas in the city last night. - I Mr. C. B. Stephenson of South Bend, Ind., was in the city last night. HjT t xt mi i X 3 ivir. xv. v. xnarpe spent yesieiuay Newton on " business connected with his insurance agency. Mrs. A. L. Coble went to Concord ast night to attend a meeting of the trustees of the State Reform school Mr. Carl Sherrill returned to Davidson college today, after having oeen at his home since last Friday. Mr. W. J. Turner returned to Mt. Airy yesterday, after having spent Sunday with his father, Mr. W. D. Turner. ' Mr. W. L. Funk of Richmond, and ais young son, Martin, arrived last aight for a visit with relatives in ohiloh township. Mrs. C. B. Greene and Miss Rosa Greene are' expected to arrive in the city tomorrow" for a visit with Mrs. J. O. Purnell. Mayor H. P. Grier went to Char lotte this morning to attend the convention of mayors that is now in session and will last through to morrow. Mrs. J. W. Gray who has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. F. E. Bradley and Mrs. R. E. Armfield re turned to her home in Charlotte yesterday. Miss Annie Ardrey of Mecklen Iburg county and Miss Ethel Wilson of Asheville who have been the guests of Mary Kennedy at Hous tonville were in the city yesterday en route to their respective homes. " 4 0 fr Denver, Col., Nov. 16. President oamuel Gompers, at .today's session jf the convention of the American eceration of Labor declared that if he were found guilty and fined in .tie contempt proceedings against aim at Washington he would. go to jail beiore he would pay his fine or before he would allow the federa ion to pay the fine for him. This statement was made during a iiscussion of the report of the com mittee on the treasurer's report. The .ommittee recommended that imme diately following the adjournment jf the convention, the executive .ommittee shall take up the proposi tion of placing its funds where they .nay be removed from danger of at tachment. . beveral suggestions were made, ne being that the funds be deposit ed in Canada and another that cer iiicates of, deposit De taken out in -ome other name than the treasurer. D. G. Ramsey -of the electrical Yorkers, declared: "We had a chance aj place our funds beyond reaeh of Obe who would take them, but we et it pass on November 3d. The 'iily way to protect bur money is to hange the laws.'' Mr. Gompers warned the delegates nat it a way were found to hide the unds, the courts would thereafter jjoiiit a receiver not necessarily to j secure in some way the hidden fund, mt to get the money being contributed. Jy request Mr. Gompers explained the status of the Danbury hat case. Labor Menaced by Courts. "Our standing is menaced by the ourts of law," he said. "The mat er of the application of the Sher nan anti-trust law to unions has eached final adjustment by the Uni- tea ftiates bapreme court. No mat ter how the Danbury case is decided that will not altar the status one bit. 'he United States supreme court has aid . the final word and the iaw of this country is that labor organiza tions of this country are now con piracies and combinations In re straint of trade. I "Under the Sherman anti-trust law honest business cannot be con ducted, much less honest straight ard labor organizations. With reference to the case against me in the District of Columbia, I want to say that I will never consent that the American Federation of Labor shall ever pay one cent of fine for me. I Pittsburg. Nov. 16 Six imn vere instantly killed, another was dangerously injured, and three others had narrow escapes from injury or death in a mine cage accident at Ell-worth mine So 1 located in Washington, county, late today. Tne mine is owned by the Ellsworth Loa! Company, of this city. Because of a break in the ma chinery, the cage, occupied by ten men, several of whom vrtre 1 mine officials, plunge 3 from near Meba s Son Chicago Man is Denounced Has Confessed WIFE TELLS A PITIFUL TALE. TELLS HOW HE MADE ,$700,000. She is Not Yet Twenty Years of Age.' Her Husband's 111 Treatment Com menced Almost on Day of Her Marriage About Two Years Ago He Heat Her Frequently and Lock ed Her in a Hoom. London, Nov. 16. George Nesbit Armstrong, Mme Melba's son, has been divorced by his wife, formerly iluby Otway, after twenty months' of jnhappy. union. A curious circumstance is that any one reading the reports of the suit in this evening's London papers would never be able to identify the respondent as the son of the famous juiiAa uuuiicu xnis snows wnat a Lierson with a big ''pull" can do with the impeccable press here. Ruby Armstrong, not yet twenty, told a pitiable story of violence and infidelity on the part of her husband He Handled Worthless Paper and Asks That he be Punished at Once Was Classed Among Chica go's Most Prosperous Man of Business. he Outlet tO the bottom of the She said lle began to quarrel with . J ill - "1 J 1 . .if. ,i: ,.f OQftf.,t 1 I LL1 111 uoc wuum two montJ 9Ua.ll, i UISD ' KJL iUircii. 4 4G Murder is Pronounced Insane. Newton. Nov- 9. Lon liader vl?o' it will be remembered, or u ly stabbed to doat Mips 'Willie 3d li -eer ia the Baptist church it Startown last summer was Saturday pronounced by a jury o be insane and it eapable of onducting his defence and will ecommited to the hospital "for he criminal iiiS int' there to re nain until his meLital condition s restored to It normal order' if uch is ever, the case when he will e brought back h re and placed n trial for the murder of Miss Bollinger Ilader's insanity has developed ince his incarceration, to a wil ily demonstrative stagp, At the irehminarv trial and when he tvas first placed in jail he was ei ientand seemigly calm, talking sensibly on any subject except uhat of the murper ,bat recently his iustiMity has taken the foyn of wild utterenaces i i tl e nature of relfgious exhortat ocf. It is not expected by many that his condition will ever be any better. o Negro Boy Found With His Skull Fractured. Iurham,N.C., Nov. 16 -W il lie Hall, a young colored boy, was brought here last night on the Norfolk & Western train with a tracked skull, sustained in some way on the railroad. use after their marriage. Thev wpnt to :exas, and- there he beat her an ocked her up in her room. Later hey went to Australia where her nhappiness became intensified. On their return to London early his year Armstrong was thrashed by n irate husband, a Mr. Hoffman, nan, who found him with Mrs. Hoff lan at the Hotel Metropole. Hoff men also demanded $35,000. Armstrong confessed to his wife nd she immediately began suit. He it in no defense. Mme. Melba arrived in London eslerday from Cardiff, Wales, and er son is with her. She regards am as an injured innocent. A Correction. Ti . I 1 . m -m. it seems tnai tne Jiascot was m irrov wrhen it stated in" its superior ourt report that Mr. Everett Smith, the well known driver for the Ire dell Livery Company had been put under bond for his appearance at the next term of court. Mr. Smith was wanted as a witnes in an unimportant case but he had lot been summoned and for that rea son was not present. He states that he would certainly have been on hand if he had known that he was wanted and those who know of the prompt manner in which he meets iU trains at the depot will believe him. For many years he has served in his present capacity ' and it is his nrrmri rpp.ord that henever had a passenger lose a train. COTTON MARKET. Local Market. Prices paid at wagon: The Strict good middling don't want to go to' jail, but I wiiif QOy jfa( purchased a ticket 03 Good middling ..9.05 ..9.00 MRS. G. A. ALLEN DEAD. aot tamely submit to the Federation fch raiiroa(j beyond the place he Was Mother of Mrs. l?rank Siler For merly of : This City Irs. Siler Was With Her Mother Whn Death Came. A telegram was received in this to keep any liquid cold in the warm- I city yesterday announcing the death est of weather for 84 hours or hot of Mrs G. a. Allen mother of Mrs. under the most chilly circumstances for 30 hours. Mr. Henry would be pleased to have you call and inspect these. of Labor being mulched for me.' Mr. Gompers declared that the de cisions of the supreme court had but one object, namely to tie the men of labor in their right to work or their I right not to work. "These decisions," he said, ''will esult in fettering them for all time to come. Belongs to no Party. "I am not in touch with the Dem ocratic party; second, I am not a was found. He was discovered Stains and Tinges. Middling.. .... 8 ...... 67V2 The market was firm. milk warm. Frank Siler Whose husband was for merly pastor of the First Methodist church -here. I'i Mrs. Allen died at Forsythe, Ga., Thev are erand for Tteeping baby's ana her daughter was with her when Democrat, and, third, I owe allegi i end came. ance to no party. I am a traae Mrs. Allen visited here frequent- unionist, ly while her son-in-law was located "When the Democratic party made in Statesville and waff well and fa- our contentions its own ' said Mr. vorably known. Mr. Siler is now pastor of a Meth odist church in Charlotte. J. -OM : 9.09 . .8.93 . . S.S 8 . . 8.S5 Blackburn Not A Democrat. It gives us pleasure to announce that the. report that E. Spencer Blackburn was making Democratic speeches in his new home of Oklaho ma is a mistake. Quite the opposite is the fact; he is whooping it up for the G. O. P. as never before. The Democratic party has quite as many burdens" as it 1 more. Greensboro Record. "it would not only have With the Sick. Mrs. W. F. Hall who was operated on Sunday at the Billingsley, hos- i li.itai is imnrviner slowly. can carry pernaps - ."',, Miss JNiary j-ewis waa ccmcu. Anderson, S, C, bescause of the se- Gompers, desert them. If Bmn elected with the hosts . of organized labor back of him it would have giv en spirit to human freedom." in an unconscious state by a train man and picked -up. He was taken to the Lincoln Hos pital and treated. The serious ness of his injuries cannot be j told for a day or two. 4 OI I Negro Shot Five Times in Abdomen. Wilson. Nov. 16 Ton'ght an unknown neg.Q was shot five times in the aldmea on the outskirts Of he citv by another ganton where they both reside last Ruffin Jnisni; dj -ttev- iir -uai Juno, im mediately took tne train ior mis city. the Henry New York, November 16. Spots closed quiet at 9.35. December ...... . January .... Maich. . .......... May. ...... . o Chicago, Nov. 16. Peter Van Vlissingen, a real estate dealer for years classed among the first of Chi- .ago's prosperous and reputable ousmess men, today confessed to saving forged notes and deeds, more .nan $700,000, and a few hours af ter his arrest, on his own urgent ap peal to be punshed, was sentenced to .he penitentiary. " - . The arrest, the indictment, the confession and the sentence were the work of less than four hours. Taken in the niidst of business rom-his office desk at 172 Washing ton street, shortly before noon Van- lissiugen, a venerable looking man, appeared before the court and in tears confessed that for from 18 to 20 years ne nad oeen securing, money through the sale of forged docu- raents and that, though he had ought back many of these spurious instruments without detection, at east 250 people would lose an ag gregate of more than $700,000, ; hrough the paper which he had not yet rendered. . Used Ingenious Devic6. in forging notes, he declared, he aad perfected an unique device. This onsisted of a plate glass desk top, o arranged "that by an electric light thrown up from beneath he could eadily trace from originals forged signatures on to worthless paper. Throughout his arrest and sentence .he prisoner made no effort to de- i rend himself. Asked if he had anything to say jefore sentence was Imposed, van vflissingen, bowing his head, replied, "Only that I be given my punish- jient at 06.' His term in the penitentiary wa; axed as indeterminate from 1 to 14 years. Van Vlissingen, who Is about 45 ears of age, was married February 1, 190 7, to Mrs. Jessie Roosevelt Blend, who was described at the time as a distant relative -of Presi dent Roosevelt. The bride 'was a daughter of Wilton C. Blend. Van- Vlissingen had been a bachelor liv ing-at the Calumet club. He was known as be.mg of a philanthrope disposition. 0 m Off for Asheville. Rev. Dr. J. R. Scroggs, pastor of the Broad Street Methodist church, Rev. H. H. Robbins, pastor of the Race street . church and Rev. T. E. Wagg of the Statesville "circuit left this morning for Asheville to attend the annual conference" of Western North Carolina which convenes in the Central Methodist church to morrow morning. Presiding Elder J. N. Huggins left last night. The lay delegates from Statesville district Conference are Messrs. Jas. F. Anderson, of Statesville; W. J. Irvin, of this county; G. F. Ivey, of Bride and Groom Here. Mr. John H. Dale and Miss Han- i nie Benfield were married at Mor- They are stopping at aegio.saidto George The wounded man ib at a hos ingratitude but cowardice to pltal here but 1- not expecceu 10 house on Center street. If " Brian had been recovt r. v There are a number or circum- He assailant escaped and has stances that seem to indicate that it . t uaa Th a might have been a runaway mar- shooting accurred over a woman. o o riage. New Telephone Directory. Mr. SomeBlg Pigs. J. J. Rhyne of Olin township Constipation causes headaches nausea, dizziness, languor, heart Mr. Mills MVres. Mr. N. B. Mills has moved his office from the basement under the Slan Clathing Company to his new block on West Broad street. The store room is nearly ready for occupancy tmt is not leased as yetr - Mrs Jhn Nabors has been serious ly ill at her home on 10th street for the past week . ... - -rious illness fo Neville. her cousin Mrs. The Iredell Telephone Company thinks he is this year's' champion- Dalnitation. Drastic physics, gripe, , Annual Reception. The young ladies, of the States ville Female college gave their an nual reception in the library at the college last night. - The room was artistically decora ted and refreshments were served. A number of Davidson college I students yWere amongthe guests. has issued a new directory . for the use of its subscribers. It contains a complete list of all subscribers and the various connec-toins. . o - A License to Wed. ' The register of deeds has issued a narriage licehse to-Mrr Green Brown and Miss Emily. Myerl. Both are residents of Union Grove township. ship pig raiser. Last Saturday he butchered two that 'were nine months old and they dressed 601 pounds. . : 4 o , ' ' air. Deifz Moves. Mr. L. C. - Deitz has moved his place of business from tne snopr t near the Iredell Livery Company stables to the old Dietz stand oppo site the First Presbyterian church. sicken weaken . the t owel . ana don't cure. Doan's Regulets act gerftly and cure constipation. 25 cents. Ask your druggists o ; Oak Grove SchooL The school at OakGrove, on the faylorsville road opened yesterday, Miss Lizzie Foster is teacher and there is an enrollment of 82 pupils. Hickory, and P J. Moore, of Cald- -well county, and these will also at tend. " V Prof. D. Matt Thompson and Mr. E. G. Gaither, of Statesville, also ex pect to attend the Conference, they being members of official boards. This year's session promises to be a busy one. From the time the first meeting is called to order tomorrow morning until the assignments axe read"just before adjournment, a. heated discussion on questions relat- ng to church and missionary work will be kept up. - It is not expected that there-will be many changes in the appoint ments for this district. L Rev. T. E. Weaver of-Stony Point has served full four years and will be changed to some other pastorate. He is the only pastor that is now closing his fourth year. It is not' thought that their will be any changes in this city. The Elcriemoh Clmn. Mrs. Eugene Morrison will enter tain the Elcriemoh "club next Fridayr- The guests are invited to assemble at 3:30 o'clock. v K4 n
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