fe . WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1909. , NO. 5.
HEATH KNEUJFME BIEL
Senator Elkins Says That The Bill As
It Now Stands Will Never
Become a Law.
ia r" —
If Washington, Special.—Senator El
r of West Virginia Tuesday
|, t Bounded what is believed to be the
♦bath knell of the Payne tariff bill
Ik its present shape, when he declar
ed in the most emphatic terns that
V a'bill aa-$>"the
•gp
a law, and that if necessary
? Senate would remain in session
PSwBtil Christmas, if required to do so,
to get a bill more acceptable to all
sections of the country. This is Che
opinion also expressed by many other
Senators. They maintain that a close
analysis will show that such a bill
as that now proposed would he most
harmful to the interests of the South
and that, as millions of dollars of
money belonging to Eastern capital
ists are invested there, such a hill
will never beeome a law.
Objections to the Bill. %
Among the objections set out are
that it increases the taxation on the
necessities of life, and that those ar
ticles actually required by the poor
man will come higher to him.
That the maximum and minimum
features of the bill are loosely drawn
and, if placed in operation, would
be both burdensome to the Ameri
aud otherwise be hurtful Ameri
can rtade relations.
That the drawback provisi<gas of
the hill will work out injuriouslv to
the wheat raisers of the great Vfest,
and otherwise be hurtful to Aemri
can industries.
That the inheritance tax provisions
interfere jvith tl«e State laws bear
ing on the same subject.
That the bill is lacking in any reci
procal features, which tvould enable
♦he United States to make favorable
trade arrangements.
That the system of valuation based
on the American wholsesale market
price is of doubtful wisdom, and will
work to increase duties.
That too much has been done to
wards reducing raw materials with
out corresponding reductions in the
duties on manufactured articles, as
in the base of free hides and boot*
and shoees.
That the countervailing duty of
petroleum is still detained in the
new^ieasure, as it exists in IK# Ding
That tea is taxed and beer allowed
to escape without additional taxation.
The storm of opposition to the biM
has already broken in the House,
and, though the Senate will have no
opportunity to consider the measure
for possibly a month, there are al
ready signs indicating that when that
body finishes with it, its best friends
will not be able to recognize it.
Aldrich Opposes Bill.
Senator Aldrich objects to the bill
because he does not like the maxi
mum and minimum features, the in
heritance tax, and other equally un
satisfactory parts of it. He especial
ly opposes the inheritance tax clause
because in his opinion, it would con
flict with any of the State laws bear
ing on the same point. He is also
strongly opposed to a tax on tea and
coffee.
Senator Aldrich’s opposition came
as a surprise to his colleagues in the
Senate and to President Taft. It is
practically certain that the Senate
finance committee will figure very
largely in shaping up the measure
when the Senate gets hold of it, and
■as Senator Aldrich is the chairman
of this committee what he says with
respect to his opposition is taken to
mean that there must be a consider
able amount of rebuilding before the
Senate will agree to pass it.
The outlook is for a hard fight in
the House, especially from Southern
Representative-, and an equally hard
fight in the Senate from those mem
bers who think the bill, as it now
stands, would not be acceptable to
the people of the country generally.
DEPRESSION DOES NOT EFFECT THE DAM.
_Washington, Special.,. — Chairman
• Goelbals, of^fhe isthmian canal com-]
mission, who is about to return to
Panama, said Friday that the three
hundred feet of embankment of the
rebuilt Panama Railroad line which
Thursday’s dispatches from Colon re
port had settled about' thirty feet,
■was a mile and a half from the Gatun
dam, and therefore, has no direct
bearing in connection with the con
struction of that portion of the ca
nal waterways. The settling occur
red at a place where the re-located
road is being constructed over a
swamp. The road is being raised
from a height of 6 feet to 95 feet
above sea level.
“Unless there is some unforeseen
difficulty such as labor trouble or an
eqidemic of some kind. I feel confi
dent that the canal will be opened by
January 1. 1915,” said Colonel Goe
thals Friday. “I was originally an
advocate of a sea level canal at Pana
ma. That was at a time when I
formed iny judgment upon what
seemed to be the demand of com
merce and from general information
concerning conditions that would be
encountered. Going to the isthmus
about two years ago, observation and;
careful study convinced me that the
construction 'of"a sea" level canal
would involve expense so great as to
make it impracticable and at the
same time would result less satisfac
torily because of difficulties connec
ted with its maintenance.
“Since that time everything that
has come to my attention has
srengthened my belief in the advan
tage of a lock canal.”
Colonel Goethals declared that re
ports of engineering difficulties that
would be met on the isthmus have
been greatly exaggerated.
“There is not a single thing in con
nection with the lock canal,” he said,
“that can he called unusual beyond
the question of the magnitude. En
gineers have performed similar work
elsewhere. There are no doubtful
poblems. If I knew of anything that
might jeopardize the stability of this
work after its completion, or make
doubtful its successful construction,
I would promptly make a report on
it, hut there is nothing of that kind.”
President Taft FViday again told
Colonel Goethals that if the great wa
terway can be completed by the close
of 1913, he wanted to see that feat
accomplished. Colonel Goethals, al
though not thinking it likely of ac
complisfiment, told the President he
would put every force to work to ex
pedite matters to carry out the Presi
dent’s ord*rs. Colonel Goethals left
II ashington and will sail from New
York for Panama Saturday.
A CRISIS NOW REACHED IN THE BALKANS
__ Paris. By Cable.—It is held in offi
cial circles that the Balkan situation
on account of the irreconcilable atti
tude of the Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment, has now reached a most
and that the next few
^«S^^^iIl decide between peace and
war. The efforts of Great Britain,
Franee and Russia to present a for
mula for the settlement of the dif
ficulty acceptable to Baron von
Aehrenthal, the Austro-Hu«garian
minister of foreign affairs, having
failed, Austro-Hungary is expecting
forthwith to deliver an ultimatum at
Belgrade. After this, if Servia re
fuses to make * complete surrender,
no doubt exists in Paris that Aus
tria-Hungary will dispatch an army
. the Servian crown prince.
KIDNAPER BOYLE IS LANDED BEHIND THE JAIL BARS
Mercer, Pa., Special.—Heavily ma
tuteled to Sheriff Chess, and guarded
by several detectives, Jaimes Boyle,
one of the kidnapers of little Billy
'Whitla, was brought here Friday
from Pittsburg and lodged in the
Mercer county jail. His wife, it is
0«id, will be brought here from Pitts
burg and the couple will be formally
oraigned on a charge of kidnaping in,
* few days. Boyle feared violence
on his arrival in Mercer, and on the
journey from Pittsburg asked Sheriff
Chess if he thought the crowd would
bans. him. The prisoner looked
greatly relieved when he saw only a
scattering of people at the Mercer
station. Boyle was hurried into a
waiting bus and taken to the jail
where he was locked in a cel! on the
sfvoond tier. Aij armed guapd was
placed in front of Boyle’s cell, and a
patrolman will be stationed outside
the ;fail all night. Sheriff Chess said
that the jail would be guarded until
the trial of the Boyles was over.
The officials questioned the prison
er about his wife’s identity but other
than to say that there was no ques
tion abou* the fact that he was mar
ried, he would say nothing.
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CASTRO TO FIGHT FOR MIS LOST POWER IN VENEZIJF1A
Paris, By Cable.—Cipriano Castro,
former president of Venezuela, left
Thursday morning for Bordeaux. At
the station Senor Castro confided to
a small group of Venezuelan admir
als his intention of re-establishing
his power in Venezuela by a revolu
tion, should this be necessary. After
entering the car he leaned from a
window and spoke with an earnest
ness and passion which left no doubt
that he was convinced that he was
another Napoleon returning from
Elba to reeonquer his country. “Like
Francis I, all is lost save honor,”
Castro declared, “I am going back
to Venezuela. My country needs me,
and my mission is there.”
“I believe that God and destiny
call me back to Venezuela. I intend
to accomplish my mission there, even
though it involves revolution.”
THE NEWS W Htlff
Hems of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM BA WTO BAY
I4r« Items Covering Events of Mon
or Less Interest st Home ui
▲broad.
Near Green River, Wyoming, Wed
nesday, a train ploughed
Mrs. Jessie Culberton, of Vincen
nes, Ind., was, in the absence of her
husband, taken from her house into
a shed Wednesday by a strange man
and woman, who poured carbolic
acid down her throat and tjed her
mouth shut, then left her. She could
barely tell the tale.
A rathar severe tornado passed
over parts of Texas Wednesday and
over parts of South Carolina Thurs
day morning, killing several persorib
and doing much damage to property.
Two negroes in Asheville, N. C.,
fought a duel with razors last T-ues*
day and both came out cut within an
inch of their lives.
The Montgomery Advertiser fig
ures it up that President Taft, with
in the last nine years, has traveled
202,114 miles, excelling all others
who ever arrived at the White House.
Captain Mueller and his five com
panions in the balloon America were
found safe near Pasadena, after
landing in the mountains. It was
thought that they had floated out on
the ocean.
A 20-year-old widow, who re
married, has been awarded the estate
of her first husband, amounting to
$20,000, in Brooklyn, in a suit
brought against her by his relatives.
Five months after the husband’s
death a child was bom, and, although
the plaintiff’s contend that it was
dead at birth, the young woman
proved by the testimony of a nurse
that the baby lived a minute and
therefore she was entitled to the full
estate.
Joe and Isliam Taylor and Lewis
Jenkins were found guilty of first
degree murder in the Skipwith mur
der and arson case at Powhatan. Va.,
imtl John BrcmuTUgnilty of murder in
the second degree. All are negroes.
Brown got 15 years in the peniten
tiary and the others will die in the
electric chair.
The Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia decided that voters may pay
their poll tax. which is essential to
qualification, in person, by messen
ger. by check or by postal order.
The National Association of
Liquor Dealers will test in the Unit
ed States Supreme Court, the pro
vision of the Byrd law, of Virginia,
which requires a license of $500 for
salesmen selling liquors by sample.
Willie Whitla identified the Cleve
land suspects as his kidnappers, and
his father said he knew John Boyle,
the man, but refused to talk of the
woman prisoner.
The anthracite miners will ask
President Taft to arbitrate their dif
ferences and V^ll not strike April 1.
F. H. H. Richardson, of Elmira,
N. Y., accused of embezzling $300,
000, comjKtted suicide in Harris
burg Weanesday.
Portsmouth, by the annexation oi
its suburbs, is now the third city in
size in Virginia.
The penalty in Virginia for kid
napping is death or in the discretion
of the jury, it may be imprisonment
from 8 to 18 years.
Henry A. Wise, a member of the
well-known Virginia family, has been
appointed'United States District At
torney for the New York district.
Washington Affairs. >
The Inaugural committee has a
surplus of $6,000 left from the Taft
inauguration fund.
Republican insurgents are fighting
the proposed special rule to cut off
amendments to the Payne bill in the
House.
The Senate Finance Committee is
framing a practically new Tariff bill
of its own.
President Taft hRs already chang
ed 14 of the policies of Mr. Roose
velt and is considering a number of
other changes.
Senator Aldrich is said to be op
posed to all kinds of special taxes j
and would so adjust the rates as to
raise the revenues required from
customs duties.
The new Senate committee hopes
to point out means by which the
Government can save millions.
Minority Leader Champ Clark
made a vigorous attack on certain
features of the Payne bill and out
lined the position of the Democratic
members on tariff legislation last
Thursday.
Chairman Payne completed his
elaborate defense of the Tariff bill
Wednesday.
License was issued for the mar
riage of William Mangum, a white
carpenter, to Middie Hayes, colored^
in Washington city Thursday. A
Negro is to officiate in the ceremony.
Twenty-nine persons died from
pneumonia in Washington last week,
many of them as a result of the
stormy Inauguration Day.
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HUNTING?
^ _ * * —Oartrim by W. A. Rogers, in the New York Herald.
THIRTY-TWO ILIONS SIGHTED
WHERE ROOSEVELT WILL GO
Despatch From British last Africa Tells of the Good Pfts
pects For Big Game—Great Plans For a Wel
come to the Former President.
Mombasa, British East Africi—
Mombasa is preparing already to Wel
come Theodore Roosevelt, and ais
coming has given a decided impeiis
to the interest in the present huit-v
ing season.
The Governor of the protectorate,
Lieutenant-Ccrionel Sir James Hayts
Sadler, is arranging a program of
welcome and entertainment for the
distinguished visitor, but ih spite of
these arrangements the greeting to
Mr. Roosevelt will be more to the
great sportsman, whose fame is well
known to local hunters, than to the
former President.
East African sportsmen were high
ly7 gratified to learn that Mr. Roose
velt had refused the offer of the au
thorities to grant him a special hunt
ing license that would have permitted
him to kill game to an unlimited ex
tent instead of confining himself to
the two elephants, two rhinoceroses,
two hippopotami, etc., of the regular
license. Lions and leopards a'fe
classed as vermin and consequently
no license to kill them is required. «
The white population of Mombasa
has heard much of Mr. Roosevelt’s
personality, and in a joking way fre
quent references to t^e “ big stick”
are being made.
The rains are late t r, and a
heavy fall is expectet regular
time for the ‘‘big raip Fom the
end-of JgRusiiL
The prClippers' i< _ is
season are considered" Many
of the settlers in th ying dis
tricts, realizing the increasing inter
est in the prospects for sport because
of the coming of Mr. Roosevelt, are
voluntarily sending in informatian
about the movements of game.
According to a dispatqh received
here a record group of lions, number
ing thirty-two, was seen on the Nandi
plateau recently at a point about fifty
miles north of Port Florence (the
Nandi plateau is on the west side of
the great Rift Valley). Among them
are three huge males. Four families
#of giraffes, have been seen at Makin
du, 200 miles inland from here on
the line of the Uganda Railroad, and
elephants have been seen at Elbur
gon, 475 miles inland on the railroad.
R. J. Cuninghame, a noted English
big game hunter and field naturalist,
who is to be guide to.and general
manager of the Roosevelt party, has
been here for some time completing
the preparations for the trip into the
wilderness as well as the shooting
and collecting excursions along the
line of the railroad. He is selecting
and hiring native porters for the ex
pedition. He takes only experienced
men who are known to be courageous
and to possess great physical strength.
The “safari” kit—in other words, the
camp equipment for the work in the
open—is arriving from London, and
all will be in readiness when Mr.
Roosevelt arrives. The railroad car
used on the line as far as Port Flor
ence by other distinguished visitors
to Uga’nda„such as the Duke of Meck
lenburg, the Duke of Connaught, the
Duke of the Abruzzi, Joseph Cham
berlain and Winston Spencer
Churchill, is being refitted for the use
of Mr. Roosevelt.
Everything points to a successful
stay in British East Africa and Ugan
da for Mr. Roosevelt. The natives
are peaceful, game is plentiful and
the people of Mombasa are waiting
eagerly to extend him a welcome.
TAME HUNTING, SAYS ANOTHER.
Captain Smiley S&v* Many Hunters
Made Tdons <luw-Sf>y. '
• San Francisco, Cal.—Captain A. J.
Smiley, who is said to have served
with the.Irish Brigade in the Boer
war, says that the hunting grounds
where ex-President Roosevelt plans
to spend his vacation are nothing but
a huge game preserve, and that the
hunter will have a tame time. The
captain claims to have hunted over
this ground many times, and he as
serts that the lions have been shot at
so often they have become gun-shy.
The Duke of Manchester, according
to Captain Smiley, is said to have shot
over the country which Roosevelt
will traverse without bagging any
game. Smiley says he has written to
Roosevelt suggesting that he go to a
portion of Africa where elephants
could be met in droves.
MESSINA’S UNBURBED DEAD.
Estimated at 60,000 and It May Take a Vear to Find
All the Bodies of the Earthquake Victims.
Rome, Italy.—The General in com
mand at Messina, who is in charge of
the removal of the dead, estimates
the number of bodies still awaiting
burial at about 60,000. Most of them
lie several feet deep under the rub
bish from fallen houses.
The work of clearing the debris
from the streets is proceeding very
slowly. Not more than 200 bodies
are removed and buried on any day
when the work is harried on without
interruption for twelve hours. The
prevailing bad weather is hampering
the work greatly and often stops it,
as the rain changes the debris into
soft mud, which the first sunny d^y
hardens to the consistency of cement
The soldiers and workmen have to
break this with pickaxes instead of
clearing it away with shovels. Of
ten a week passes without any bodies
being extracted, and at the rate at
which the work is being done more
than a year will be required before
all the victims in Messina are buried.
For some unknown reason the
Government wants to keep this a se
cret, and an attempt to send the story
by wire some days ago failed, owing
to the activity of the press censor. It
is probable that the Government now
realizes its mistake in recalling too
soon the greater number of soldiers
and sailors engaged in the work of
burial. r
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DR. LYMAN ABBOTTS SEVEN RULES
ON WHAT MAKES AN IDEAL WOMAN
Brooklyn.—“To be an ideal woman,” said Dr. Lyman Abbott, in |
a sermon in the Central Congregational Church, “the feminine type
I represented in each individual must:
“1. Discard all shoes the size of which makes walking well nigh im- |
| possible.
“2. She must not consider her hands when it comes to a question
1 of work. I
“3. To obtain red cheeks, the ideal woman must take exercise and
B pass by paint and powder.
“4. She must not be the servant of the dressmaker and milliner. They
| are her servants, , ‘
“5. She must not change her styles at the dictation of men in Paris.
“6. Her home must be her palace, because in it she has developed a
love of beauty and shown she knows how to create it.
“7. She must be industrious, sympathetic, energetic, enthusiastic,
motherly and a true friend.”
Continuing, Dr. Abbott said:
“A woman’s idea of modern industry isplayingbridgewhist morn
ing and night. Her idea of modern life is to be supported by some one
else.
“The ideal woman does not consider work unwomanly. She be
lieves that whatever concerns her husband concerns her. If the ideal
woman’s family finds fault with her cooking, she does not blame the
I cooking. She blamqs the food, and changes it.
“Woman was meant to be man’s companion, and if the idea were
I properly carried out there would be no affinities.”
—j——Mimu ■■■ ■■■ uiwrow—
Russian Drugged and Left to Per
ish in a Roman Boarding House.
Romo, Italy.—The body of a Rus
sian, Vladimir Tarasoff by name, was
found In a trunk in a boarding house,
locked up in the trunk, it is believed,
for twaaiy-tbrge*days. . .
A medical examination indicated
that the man, who was about thirty
years of age, had been drugged and
placed in the trunk, and that he had
died of suffocation. Two Russians
visited Mm shortly before his disap
pearance. There is no clew to their
identity. __ .A __
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Proof That He’s Nearsighted
Unfits an Oyster Bed Watchman.
Trenton, N. J.—The Civil Service
Commission received its first request
for the removal of an officeholder
here. It came from an oyster grower
. jfejsgJL wfeo objected to a
watchman, saying: “He isnTt a good
watchman because he is nearsighted.
A nearsighted watchman can’t do the
work. I know he is nearsighted, be
cause if he wasn’t he could see his
own father and brother stealing my
oysters right along.” The watchman
says complainant is merely sarcastic.
NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS
Occurrences tf Interest Gleaned From All Sections of the Bvsj
/ Tar Heel State
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' Jfe^r Interest in Good Roads.
i^xipgion, Special.—Discussion of
good roads, bonds and special road
tax .goes on apace in Davidson. Sines
the recent visit of the Davidson
fanners to Mecklenburg there has
been a remarkable increase in good
roads sentiment. Leading farmers in
various sections of the county are
publi^jing letters weekly in the local
pres^ advocating bonds, for roads. At.
the road question. This is partly due
to the condition of the highways sit
this time. The roads were newer worse
and indeed are well-nigh impassable
in places. The Davidson farmers seem
determined to do something and it
would not be surprising if under a
law applying to Davidson, a bond
election is called at no distant date.
The Dispateh, which sent the Da
vidson farmers to Mecklenburg, is
now carrying on a popularity contest
in Davie and Yadkin counties for the
same purpose—of sending 45 farmers
from those counties on a trip to
Mecklenburg to see tlie roads there.
Burned. With a House.
Weldon, Special.— Fire Saturday
night completely destroyed the hand
some country dwelling known as the
Whitehead place, near Weldon, and
owned by Mr. W. B. Drewry. The
occupants of the house, Mr. and Mrs.
Will Carroll, and their four-weeks
old baby, barely escaped with their
lives, and a colored bov, who slept
in the barn was burned to death.
When Mr. Carroll awolte the bed was
on fire and his wife’s hair was burn
ing. Clasping the sleeping infant to
her breast, Mrs. Carroll fled from the
room in her night robes, followed by
her husband. The night was cold and
for several hours they were exposed
to the night winds before help could
arrive. Mrs. Carroll is prostrated.
The body of the colored boy was en
tirely consumed only his heart being
left in a charred condition. The build
ing was a splendid two story barn,
| newly remodeled, with metal roof and
was valued at $2,500. It was insured
for $1,500.
Parents Desert Child.
Asheville, Special.—An interesting
' to flip r^e
teution of the police of tits1 city. The
deserted is a haby girl two or three
weeks old and the victim of the evi
dent plot at desertion is an old ne
gro woman named Lillie Jackson. It
was just dusk when the man, having
every appearance of a high-bred
gentleman, told the old negro that he
and his wife had been suddenly call
ed away for a few days and giving
other plausible excuses requested that
the woman keep the child until their
return. The man gave the woman $3
in money, a quantity of clothing for
the babe and also some prepared baby
food. He left and since that time
has never been heard from. The wo
man took good care of the child and
is deeply attached to it. It will be
turned over to one of the charitable
institutions till a home can be found
for it.
Dr. Elliot at Greensboro.
Greensboro, Special.—In an ad
dress before the students of Guilford
college Wednesday Dr. Charles W.
Eliot, retiring president of Harvard
university, denied that competition
between endowed and State educa
tional institutions is hurtful. He
said competition everywhere helps
and promotes growth, adding ‘that
is why protection to American in
dustries is harmful to those very in
dustries.” Dr. Eliot’s subject ’ was
“Public Spirit the Virtue of Free
Men.”
Death Due to Drink.
Burlington, Special.—The lifeless
body of Dolph Faucette was found
Monday morning in a barn near his
home, about six miles north of Bur
lington. The verdict of the coroner’s
jury was that death was due to ex
cessive drinking. W. M. Beekom
was found asleep in the same room,
and near the body of Mr. Faucette.
Death by Assassin.
Wilmington, S]>ecial.—Jerry Big
ford, a young white farmer and store
keepei1, living near Freeeman’s, Col
umbus county, was murdered Mon
day night by an assassin, who fired
upon him through a window of his
hqme, where he lived alone. The
sheriff w'as notified and with blood
hounds traced the supposed assassin
to and across Cape Feax river, where
Cleveland Russ and Stilmore Russ,
brothers, were arrested, one of the
number being a rival of young Big
ford for the hand of a Miss Squires
of an adjoining county, whom the
dead man was to marry Tuesday.
Government Seizes Flour.
Raleigh, N. C., Special.— Acting
under instructions from U. S. Inspec
tor Wagner, the United States mar
shal here_ha3 just made the first seiz
ure in this State of flour for violation
of the government regulations of The
pure food department. The ssei.*:ure is
for short weight, the flour put up by
the Riverton Mills, Virginia, as “six
teenth barrels” weighing only ten
pounds. The seizure was from the W.
C. Brewer Company, at Wake Forest,
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Y .M. C. A. Convention.
The sixth annua] convention of the
Y. M. C. A.’s of North and South
Carolina, held in Charlotte, N. C.,
and one of the most successful of the
entire series, came to a close Sunday
night at a meeting held for the spec
ial benefit of the delegates. A meet
ing was held for these ia the morn
ing wad in addition there were ih« —
usual special services for men and
boys at other hours. At the meeting
Sunday night talks were made by
Messrs. R. H. King, of Charleston,
S. C., Julian M. Smith,, field secre
tary ; James E. Johnson, secretary of
students’ and boys’ work; J. S.
Kluttz, office secretary of the inter
state executive committee ; D. L. Pro
bert, secretary of the Charlotte Y.
M. C. A.; P. M. Colbert, secretary
of the Y. M. C. A. at Winston-Salem;
E. E. Barnett, secretary at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill; L. P. Hollis, of Greenville,, S.
C.; G. C. Huntington, of Charlotte,
and Dr. George J. Fisher, of New
^ ork. Unanimous was the sentiment
expressed that the meeting had been
far more than worth while. “It has
more than fulfilled our expecta
tions,” said* many. General regret
was expressed that the meeting which
had been so fruitful in results and
so pleasant bad, like everything else,
to come to an end at last. Before
adjournment, suitable resolutions
were passed expressing ranch grati
fication at the cordial reception and
splendid entertainment of the body
by the citizens of Charlotte.
Ex-Police in Jaill.
Durham, Special.—Albert V. Sor
rell, the ex-policeman, who is being
sued by Henry F. Edwards for $10,
000 damages for allienating the af
fections of his wife and destroying
the happiness of his home, is now in
jail. He was arrested on a warrant
for bond and bail to sustain the ac
tion and being unable or unwilling
to give bond in the sum of $5,000 he
Was committed to jail late Tuesday
night. There he has remained since
then. This combines a civil and a
n VI m inol O/lfiOM * 1_rf> r AAA 1 t
r aeeounf the bond has not been giVen.
Sorrell is worth all of $10,000. but
since his person is attached in this
later action he cannot get to his prop
erty to secure his bond. He and his
advisers are unwilling that his
friends should take up responsibility
of probably having to settle die dam
1 age suit and he went to jail.
Family Has Harrow Escape.
Fayetteville, Special.—The family
of Oliver Thratt, a tracker and in
ventor, living on the outskirts, Tues
day morning narrowly escaped a har-»
rowing death, when between 1 and
2 o’clock the father was awakened
hy a burning shingle falling on his
hand. The household was aroused
and made their escape just in time,
for as they fled from the building the
roof came crushing in. They were
housed and clothed by kindly neigh
bors. It was afterwards learned that
the $600 insurance policy, which was
burned with the house, expired at
noon of the same day.
State Boundary Question.
Washington, Special.—The Su
preme Court of the United States
granted the petition of the State of
North Carolina for leave to file an
original bill in that court, for a de
limitation of the boundary between
that State and Tennessee at the
crossing of the Tennessee river.
Gets Good Lift.
Salisbury, Special.—John Ridge
way, a blacksmith by trade, is now
in Salisbury collecting amounts ag
gregating $20,000 to which he has
fallen heir by the estate of his broth
er, illiam Ridgeway, who died re
cently in Alabama. The two brothers
came to America from England in
1884 and had been separated since
that time.
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N. C. Senators on Important Com
mittees.
Washington, Special.—In the new
committee assignments in the Senate
North Carolina fares well. Senator
Overman is placed upon the new
committee to be known as Conserva
tion of National Resources. This will
be an important committe. Senator
Simmons goes to the Finance Com
mittee to fill the vacancy caused by
the retirement of the venerable Sen
ator Teller. This committee has
charge of all matters pertaining to
revenue and taxation as well as fi
nance, currency and banking.
Will Unveil Monument.
Salisbury, Special.—A monument
in honor of the Rowan county sol
diers in the Civil War will be un
veiled^ by the Robert F. Hoke Chap
ter, United Confederate Veterans, of
Salisbury, on May 8. The shaft,
which is the result of eight years
of hard work by the chapter, will be
erected on Innis Street, one of the
principal thoroughfares of Salisbury.
An elaborate program is in prepar
ation for the event.