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CONCORD, N. C TUESDAY JULY 15, 1913.
J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher. NO. 299
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ERDMAN LAW IN1 ACCORD
WITH AGREEMENT '
TO
WairH Arerted tk 8tyik ".t tka
Traliaau--Hoa .Wlll Paf i Biil
This AfttrBoom.-FTMide&t Wfl
6iin It at Oact and Vum Kediatr'
on. ' Trylaf U Xak Canpaijf
Capital Out ol BryaVt SUUmant
MuHiaU 8UU Befori tha Ceuii.
Washington, July " 15.VTI wa )
greased in the Hons fwr-tUe iinueil
iate passage - thia -afternoon of tli
NevIiitida.aineBdineut to the Erdmaa
law in aeeordahcewith the agree-
' nx ut -whieh averted the . tlireatened
trainmen's strike. Pre.dtient Wilson
will sign tbe bill and immediately an
nounce the name of the mediators
agreed upon by himself and bis cabi
net today. i-u. feStK ri.:?
Republican Congressmen are plann
ing to make' eampaign. material out
of Secretary Bryan's statement tliat
his salary of 12,000 a yesr is in.
sufficient, . '
'A -With .Colonel Mulhair dkect tew
timony approaching n end the Sen
ate lobby committee h.-pcJ to' decide
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ed- a femarkabe- to? la wycis present
tlmt they sat all thitfongbli long Hi
' intently watching the witness and li&
toing'tlosely ,to the tales and nf
"won! that tht ;iritne8sstttti,"th
brief eroBS examinaon that aeeom-
pnnied some of thetn. -":'. . ' "
, Tl e threatened rnpture between ibe
'v senate' and house committee apparent
ly ended today with a friendly agree
icnt subscribed1 to by ; both sides.
Under this arrangement, the senate
committee will finish its examination
'' of Mnlhall before he is turned over to
the house; it will also pu in the rec
' oid all tbe Mulhall correspondence it
" cares to. j -"
. The ' House, lobby investigators,
- armed with copies of Mulhall papers,
ore too busy today to begin hearings.
' Ttiev held an .informal conference
atid read over, the ecrrespondence.
" Th8 National Association of Manu-
facturei8 refused lo turn their papers
' over ts requested until .a burglar
; proof safe is, f urpished. ' -i
me perplexing qumuun i -v er f .progress tliev are uiaknif
pe: ti.it attorneys to cm.- eMnS'tf j under tlie leadrs'i; of Prtthei
lain. The National. A:oc.ilun '"''SWrtill. T'.uy have )mi.l otr the in
Manufacturers indieated that it -Wdcbtediie-i on their parsonage an-.'
attempt to break down his story by ma4''B.i!w'fli;tiar improvements on'
. ull"i;iii(t revense as-his motive- i lieir chuielt at a cost of several hun
Mulhall waa-on the Ftand"C"t ' sw-J di3il dolliirs. Tlw parsonage- and,
bonis yesterday: ; Itt .that lime iifarVeltiireh make an ideal home to -Vetli-GOO
letters,; telegram and scraps of , dihtn in this old college town.
mc.Tioranda 'was indentlfled Vby hifu ; St. PikiI's Church was recently ded.
. with hardly mor tha glance. : II , i,oted h- Kev. W.. K.-.Wai'e, the pre
reinembeted s fcppareptly.. the .. first siding Elder. ' This' flmrch Las just
- natoea of meinbers'f; Congress, of , paid off a Cvhi of scleral years stand
le-ar Kditii:it.'f laborjeaders and in and l'v cjnyreiratioii is cilerin,
iindt rlings of-seiBl'etaties to congress-1 upon the work of " improving an.
men end.of al Hie mctt be bad work-.beautifying th; property. The Cob'
ed. with thmighjl year o most ac'- tSpiiiis Ciureh,' i' handwme nev
-tivo campaigning- in- manj parts of brnk edifice, is one of -t lie finest conn
tV ountrv,tf-His nerfetfiutiMe Bee'i trv churthea in the eoni'e ence. an
ST. 8WrTHTNS DAT. ,
; II It Raina Today. Torty.Daya of
- Bain Will ToDow. . .
. Washington. J uly 15. - AHhongh
, , being scientists-rthey scorned the
' superstition, . some of " Uncle Sam's
'best weather. sharps Curiously enough
marked down today " brand otjveath
' , er for reference during the next two
' score days. - '
This is St.' Swithin'a Day Ancient
" Enslisli legends have it that if 'it
rains today there will be forty .days
- ot tain lo follow, and that if .it re-
mains clear there win follow for forty
" davs of clear -weather. There was
St. Swithin 'air right; -baclt in the
dava of long ago and tbe legend is
older than the hills.; Tbat eems to
. be as far; aa it goes, for one. of the
" ruthlessly unromantie weather bureact
sharps today looked up thi 'dope for
- - the same day -for twenty years bacK,
' and bad this to say:-vnr-rt' J:""
"St, Swithin ,f alia in month m
which more rain falls here Wash.
ington than during any other period
' erds show- thatj taking the'- average
for twenty years, of the forty, daya
which follow July 15, the .; greater
.'part were" rainy when St. Swithin's
Dav was a tine did day.5 -There nevet
liave been forty consecutive days of
ram or clear weather, following,. !t.
"Swithin'8 Day; a far as t air learn.
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Mr. Bryan ia Btmii By Orit
elsmt. "
Wasbingtonr- sly l5-See-retary
Bryanstimg by . he
criticisms of his lecture Btate-.
ment that bi salary is insudl
cieut, it is announced would
issue a statement explaining,
his exact meaning. ; He will
deny that die meant that gov
ernment ofiiciaU should have
higher salaries and will ex
plain that what he intended
was to convey the impression
t hat the cost of his expenses in
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' keeping a home it Lincoln and
'here forced him to add to his
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IALTSBUBT DISTRICT ;.'' ,
'. 'i CONFERENCE H1XT week!
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To B EjAi ia the Handsome Metho-
dirt CXutck at Meant Pleasant'
.'.' .The. Salisbury, district confeienee
will.be held ia tli Methodist church
St JU.PIesseniyul 22-24. JUr. V.
B. War will preside. The legate
fijrni .t!.e Mt -Pleasant charge are:
T. F. Sbinu, P. Widenbouse, R. L.
HHall, J. U Petrea, Nathan Krim
minger, with the following alternate:
J.'H.W; Eudy.'J. H.. Port, J. 4).
Baugh and O. , Sliinn. ,
,'JTho Salisbury; district is a la rye
and growing one, ' It baa 8379 mem
Ws, .1.078 joined the church id this
Hairkt hat jear.'' The church prop
prtyMS valued at 1229280,. Last year
tue. distrwt paid for miiusteriaL sup
port 20.511.82, and for missions. $8,.
271311. Tbe total received for all pur
pose in the district "last" year- was
48.877,i2.; The women in their mis
ttktiar)' oiganieat ions have 89 tne u
bers and raised last year lor missions
!,048,;i. being ' fY21 '.per ' ibtvcber.
There are in the district 63 .Snnda.v
schools, with 8.339 members, raising
UM yea lM,482.3.Xv Tl: Salisbury
district is oidy one of the twenty-;two
distfuts irt North' Carolina.
!We copy ' theV following .from the
North Carolina -Christian Advocate:
-We take great pleasure in present
ing to Advocate readers cuts of our
church and parsonage at Mount Pleas
ant, ti gether with an opportunity to
Iw k into the face of the pas'. or, Rev.
r.rF.'Sherrill. -The people of Ml
Pleasant are noted for their lo.valtv
d sci.l and we a .e u. t s irini.scil Ui
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tV :ngreeation eontemplates" pnttip;;
ii quartered ak circular' .pw.
Friendship has made an, order' for
provementa." A 'diadem churcii with
class - f ooma will be erected . by .the.
Center Grove congregation as soon as
the people can decide upon the lo
cation. ',
Five missionary societies have been
organized this year. Altogether it is
a note of progress which comes to us
from the Mount Pleasant charge, and
tlie peopi f Mt. Pleasant will keep
open houses to the Salisbury 'District
Conference . which is to - meet there
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DEATH Or ME. W. H. THOMPSON
Occurred Ealy This Morning at Rose
mary, N. C Was Member of Large
, Birmingham Contracting Finn. .
A telegram was received here this
morning stating that Mr. W, ' H.
Thompson, of Birmingham, Ala., died
this morning at Rosemary, C. Mr.
Thompson had been r in 1 declining
health for some time but until a tew
days ago when he went to Rosemary
he continued to Jook alter his va
rious business interest. His condi
tions business interests. His eondi-
rival at Rosemary and his death, as
above noted, occurred early thi
morning.
Mr. Thomnson was a member or
the firm of T. C. Thompson & Bro
larse contractors of Birmingham, and
was active ia the management or, the
Arm 'a. business. He was well known
in Concord and throughout this sec
tion, having spent Considerable time
there when bis firm was building the
large textile plants at Kannapolis,
fillt, iT.'Ci Thompson armed here
last night and deceived the message
announcing hia brother's death, this
morningij Mr: Thompson . left i this
afternoon for Charlotte in automobile
with Mr. M. L.. Cannon and will go
from there lo Rosemary to acoom
pany the remains to Birmingham. ,.:
Miss Inex Milbolland Married. '
London, July 15.-Misi Inefs Milhol
land's marriage ia confirmed, by the
family but they refused to say who
is the ..husband of the famous New
York beauty- snfrraaeUe, t. Mms Mil
holland annonnced that" he husband
is Eugene Boissefein, of Amsterdam
Holland, i- It ia said that she was
married last Friday- - The groom is
wealthy, and met his bride last win
ter.
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righting in China, :
Washington, July 15. Firece Bght
ing : bet ween ; northern - government
forces and insurgents jn tKiangsi
province, China, is "reported to the
State Department., Many; foreigners
in the troubled cone,' but it is re
ported that there is- no ant i-foreign
sentiment. Six war ships, of differ
ent nations are near the place of the
revolution.-. ;-'"..; n -
Conference of .rarmera' Ingututee.
Raleigh, July 15. Preparatory to
holding i institutes ; thfoughotit the
State, farmers' institute workers
nrxmed a conference here today. It
will eontinne thnmghout Friday, dis
niu no vtrv iK.i'i'il i rtnoil Ol IHim
Jug and houo keeping. . '
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IN OLD VIRGINIA.
Some Observations of Rev. W. T. Al
bright, Who is Off on His Vaca
tion. -
On the morning of. July 4 T left
Concord on No. '44.- and coruini; liv
way of Lynchburg and Koanoke.
reached this. Catawba Valley, on Sat
urday, tlie th, "about 12 o'clock. This
is a very beautiful and fertile part
of Virginia, about ten or twelve miles
west of Roanoke, bs the bird (lies, sit
uated in Botetoiirte county. Tlie
nights are pleasant, this being among
the mountains, a part of the Blue
Ridge chain. The seasons are some
three weeks later than in Cabarrus.
The farmers' raise corn, wheat, oats
which, are now- being harvested)
buck wheat, hogs, cattle, fine horses
and boy and girls of the fine robust
mountain type.' Mn thii! valley are
to be seen some very valuable farms
especially for grazing. I judge from
observation that' three-fourths of the
cleared land is in orchard grass, tim
othy or clover," and 1 never saw finer
pastures or fatter and, sleeker cuttle.
The rca 'six-gallon' milker is said to
be found here, though I can't- vouch
for tins myselt. , . -
But the country is remote from
railroads, and is lacking in good
roads, and church and school advant
ages are not what? one would wish,
though there are churches anil public
schools supposed to-be-within reach
of every family The great task ot
the church and school seems to me
to be to give the coming generation
large and better view ot lite.
Four and a half miles up the valley
to the west is located Catawba San
atorium for the treatment of tuber
culosisa State' institution; tOne half
the Cost of each patient is born by the
State and the other half by the pa
tient himself. They are prepared to
care for about 120 poients anil are
full of their capacity practically all
the time. It seems that Dr. Fricd-
marin might have been welcomed here
for I am told that, notwithstanding
the orieir air treatment anil fine mm
eral water, besides, the liest of care
from, nurse and physician, they,, do
not get well. ' ' r
But I must close this letter by say
ing that I am enjoying immensely my
vacation. Horse-back: nmng, hum
ins.v'.aiui "mouniain-ciHTiniiig, aim
drinking mineral water-are my daily
occupations. ' T
I am at the home ot. tny bro(her-in
law, Mr. Robert F,..Lee. .,
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- Ilaymakertowni Va.. R- Fi D.- No: 1,
ulv 12 1911 " "'
' The' .Wiynesville Courier ." coimcs
with an announcement by rublishorl
fi..Ct Briggs that lie has sold it to
Messrs' R. B. Wilson and II. M. Hall,
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lattcr businc manager of Tlie Rocky j (c). '- ti Issue $2,800 in preferred
Mount Transcript.
,' Where the $aliabory"District Conf
Methodist Parsonage at Mount Pleipant.
CAPTURED CONFEDERATE
FLAG IS RETURNED.
Yankees of a New York Regiment -
Give Back North Carolina Ensign.
(iettysburg. Pa., July 12. H. M.
Fitzgerald, a member of a New York
regiment during the war, came into
the North Carolina camp today and
asked J. Irving if it was true that
Company. A 'b flag had been captured
in the first days' battle here. .It was
lost ia tli morning.' In the after
noon the stall was recaptured witu
alt' of the flag clinging to it. That
half that is in the possession of the
onipanv, has twenty-seven bullet
bullet holes in it.
When Filtzgernld came into the
North Carolina camp and said he had
the other half of the flag, and would
be glad to return it, joy was unres
trained. General Julian b. t arr, ol
Durham, Col. Shakespeare - Harris,
Gen. Wade Hampton's private cour
ier, Marse John Henry Currie, Cap
tian Houston, and Uncle Henry Hob
son. with his inseparablei comrades.
J. Ii: Hodges and J. B. Foard, got to
gether under the big oak ana Began
to celebrate the return Of the flag.
So iovous were things that the Tar
Heel Pine Tree brought from Wil
mington was trampled, down, and the
Tar Heel ensign was waved until it
oked as if it had tieen through the
war. ; .
(The late Mr. W. B. Bradford, of
iMs county, brought the other hair or
the fiaa home with him irom tne war.
H nr r.ed it hurlilv as a relic ana h
was.m his possession wuea u uibu.
hut members of the local camp of
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Confederate Veterans state ; that it
as lost when tlie Braeirow nome was
est roved by fire a few years ago.
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. Mrs. Linn Sues for 116,000.
Mrs. Maifsfie Linn, admin iatrator- of
her late husband, Edward Linn, of
Lnndis. has entered strit in the eum of
$15,000 against the Cannon Manufac
turing "Company ai jvannapoiis ni
the T. C. Thompson Company, the lat.
mill last November, ,Mn Linn w
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stantly killed by n.Jarge. piece
tpnbef striking bis Jiead.
. ' Marking, Confederate Graves. ,
Chattanooga, Tcuum July' 15." -A
philanthropist whose name has not
h.n 'made Dublic recently donated
mntim?. anflleienL' ta provide bronze
tablets to mark the. graves .of,-more
than '1.000 Confederate , soiaiera , in
the cemetery here, olhejwt of these
t.Kt.t. r nlaeed ixaVTJis graves
of the soldiers have been Awnarked
since the original wooden head posts
rotted away yeafsgori '. : ''..'-''", ; '
1 t"mtartntte Medical' Journal eonv
stock. Dr. W. 0. Nesbit is president.
"unt fthe tha herhusband as held in Georgia today, when a suc
flc" i .. .. c.: .i. ...t,...win inJcessor to Senator Augustus O. Bacon
a eariieiuw v
erence Will Be Held Kext Week
i GOLDSBORO MAN LICKS
SIX STATE SOLDIERS
Guardsman Down at Morehead City,
It is Alleged, Insulted Lady at
Beach Sunday.
Goldsboro, July 14. J. W. Jones, a
local contractor of this city, taught
a half a dozen soldiers down at More
liead City a lesson yesterday that they
will not soon forget. '
Mr. Jones went down to enjoy a
dip in the ocean, accompanied by his
wife, and while in bathing a soldier
approached Mrs. Jones, who was
alone at the time, and demanded that
she take a swim with him.
Mrs. Jones refused this request
whereupon the soldier roughly grab
bed her by the arms and tried to take
her in the water.
Mrs. Jones st-rea-med and at this
junction Mr. Jones appeared upon the
scene and demanded of the soldier to
release Mis. Jones, stating that she
was his wife and he would not submit
to her being thus insulted. The sol
dier hurled a few curse words at Mr.
Jones and a few moments later found
himself scrambling up from a right
swing to the jaw, which for a short
time put the soldier out of commis
sion
Going over to the bath house the
soldier gathered together live of his
comrades and immediately returned
to where Mr. Jones was standing on
the beach and renewed the trouble,
striking him on the side of the head,
and tlien for about ten minutes it
seemed as though a cyclone had
struck the beach, for, outnumbered as
he was, six to one, Jones was more
than a match for his opponents, and
soon they were about as surprised a
bunch of rowdies as ever gathered to
gether, one suffering a broken jaw
bone while the others were nursing
discolored eyes and swollen noses, and
at the first opportunity took to their
heels. '
Senator Bacon la Unopposed.
Atlanta, Ga.. July 15 The first
United Stares benator
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succeed himself at a recent Demo
cratic primary, is unopposed for re
election.
'. First New Cotton Sold.
New York. July 14. The first bale
nf mtton of the 1913 crop was sold at
auction on the New York Cotton Ex
ehanm tdav fo 20 cents a pound,
The money sroes to charity. The bale
wniirhine' S05 ooundg. aa raised at
Lyford, Cameron county, Texas,- and
was shipped inrongn nousiun. j
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Mr.-J. O. Harkey of No. 7 town
ship," will leave this evening for
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Richmond -wnere ne win aceem
iposition with the street car company,
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TOREST HILL NEWS. ,
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Mr. Georf i Ridanho r Goes Back to
Sanatorium. Mr. Mabry Better.'
Personal And Other Noes.
Mrs.' Jno. PolU and children have
retained to their home in Fort Mill.
S: (' after v 'wit ins at the home of
Mr. II. C. Rainier.
Mrs. Mack' Foster ha returned to
her home in Greensboro, after impend
ing several weeks here with her pn
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. R. Wood.
Miss Carrie Petrea, who is attending
King's Rnsinewa College in Charlotte,
spent Sunday here with her parent.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Petrea.
Misses C. W. and Vic Widenhoiisc.
Jason Fisher and I). W. McLemore
spent yesterday in Charlotte, travel
ing in Mr. McLemore's machine.
Mrs. C. W. Sidex and children.
Misses Ida snd Lillian Side, have
returned from a week's visit to rela
tives at Graham.
Mr. J. E. Wright. f flip Irdimi
Refining Company, upent Sund.iv in
Concord with friends. Mr. Wright
will move his family to Concord thi
week from Cliffside.
Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Robbius have
returned from r two weeks' vacation
trip spent with friends and relatives
in Newton and Waynesville.
Mrs. A I her t Sliinn and children, of
Salisbury, are spending this week at
the home of M. mid Mrs. C. II. Wal
king. Mr. R. I). Mabry. who underwent
an operation tor app-iilieiti at toe
Presby!-'ii!i Hospital in ' Charlotte
last week, is reported as improving
very nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Smith and chil
dren are KpfMiding ten days in Wnyii-
esville at the home of Mr. W. A.
Stone.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bangle and
Miss Netta Watkins, of Charlotte,
spent Sunday in Concord with their
parents, Mr. and M,-s. C. H. Watkins.
Mrs. C. O. Ridenhour and Mr. Geo.
Ridenhour went over to Charlotte
yesterday, where Mr. Ridenhour will
re-enter the Presbyterian Hospital
and undergo an operation for apjien
dicitis. Mrs. R. P. Lett, of Favetteville. is
sending a few days here with her
sister,. Mrs. U J".. Cook. Mrs. Utt
was called he.re..bv . the death of her
mother. Mrs. Le-vina Buie. -
Mr. W. A. Wilkinson is spending
the day 4n Clwrlntte-oa bmuneHS.
Mrs. Joe MeCommons and children
have returned from a two weeks'
visit to relatives at Mooresville.
Miss May Crouch has returned to
her home here after spending three
weeks in Charlotte at the home of
Mrs. R. G. Bruton.
Mrs. Mitchell Clontz, o f Greens
boro, is visiting at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Charles Settlemire, on
North Church, street.
Mr. P. A. Bangle, of Charlotte.
spent a short while here last week
ith his sister, Mrs. G. W. Petrea.
THERE WILL BE NO
STRIKE OF TRAINMEN.
Both Sides Agree to Arbitrate Their
Differences. White House Confer
ence. "
Washington, July 14. Representa
tives of the 80,000 conductors, and
trainmen of eastern railways who
have voted to strike for higher wages
and managing offieeis of the railroad
agreed at the White House today to
submit their differences to arbitra-
ion under the provisions of the New-
lands-l layton act, whiv-h President
Wilson and congressional leaders
promised to make law by tomorrow
night. In the meantime no strike
wiM be declared, 'officials of the em
ployes brotherhoods agreeing to an
armistice until Wednesday night
This victory for arbitration over
the strike was the result of a two hour
hour conference at the White House
between President Wilson and con
gressional leaders, both Republican
and Democrats, the presidents and
managers of tbe railroads and repre
sentatives of the Brotherhoods of
Trainmen and Conductors. The
ag cement not only averted, tempor
arily, at least, the strike which
threatened to tie up railroad traffic
generally in the east, but smoother
out differences of opinion as to the
composition of the board of media
tion and provided a permanent com
mission to deal with, railroad dis.
putes. -:
And Only Grape Juice Served,
Asheville, July 14. Strange as it
may seem, there were eight hats left
at the Grove Park Inn, following tbe
opening banquet Saturday night. This
is strange from the fact that it is re
ported that nothing stronger , than
grape junce was used at the banquet
ctherwise it wonld not be hard to ac
count for their being left behind. The
management of the inn has no use for
the hats and tbe owners can get them
by calling for tnem. ' J f 1
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Cotton Exports. ,
Washington, July , 14. A special
census crop report today . rave tbe
following estimates for cotton con-
sup ion during Jnnef 1 - ri
Consumed, 466,914 ' running bales.
In manufacturing establishments ; on
June 30,' 196,657 bales, and in in
dependent warehouses 61119 bales.
Imports, 8,023 equivalent 500-pound
bales; exports, 223,921 tunning bales
Spindles active during June, 30.057,-
910.
FOURTH EffCUTO :
REACH AKffiM
18 BEING HELD, IN THE STATE -.
CAPITAL TODAT. ' ;'-
Presidents of Fear SaUroad ansT
Traffic Managers Meet Governor
And the Corporation Commission. :
Litt.'e Accomplished This Morn-
inj. Will Meet Again at 2.30.
Conference Was Arranged by Cor
poration Commission.' Rail road I
Wanted Governor Craig Present.
Raleigh. July l.V In the fourth ef-'
fort i each an agreement in the in-',
t-rstat f eight rate controversy, the ""
presidents of four railroads and a
nun.ber of traffic managers met in .
conference with the Governor and
members of rtie corporation commis-'
sion at 11 o'clock todav. The rail
roads have offered what they claim to'
h? substantial reductions, and believe"
that an acceptance of them bv the
State will put an end to the com
plai.n. of North Carolina merchants.
Presidents Finiey. of the Southern,
Harahun. of the Seaboard. Hix of the
Norfolk Sunt hern, and Porter, of the
( liiichlield. are here.
When the cm:f erence recessed at
noon it was announced that nothing
had been accomplished, though the
matters at issue were in formally dis
cussed. The conference resumes at
2:30. It is believed that there is lit
tle likelihood of an agreement this
afternoon. The Governor made it
clear that lie sat with the commission
by invitation of the railroads. The
Governor invited the council of . Stale
to meet in the conference.
The conference is said to have been
arranged by the corporation commis
sion at the request ow tbe railroads
which wanted Governor Craig pres
ent. It is believed that an adjust
ment of the question as suggested bv
the commission as acceptable to the
people will not be acceptable by the
railroads, which countered with an
other proposition.
CABARRUS COUNTY
VBTERAHS.lt RECORDS
Being Secured by Mr. G. E. Kcstler
With a View to Publishing Histori
cal Sketch.
Mr. G. E. Kestler has been for a
long time taking an interest in the
part Cabarrus played in the Civil
War, devoting his time to securing
data concerning the soldiers who vol
unteered from Cabarrus. As a re
sult of his efforts Mr. Kestler has
secured a number of records that will
be of interest to the people here and,
provided he receives the co-operation
of the veterans and the sons of
veterans, he hopes to be able to issue
historical sketch of the Cabarrus
veterans and the part they played
reto great struggles between the
States. Mr. Kestler s record, so far
obtained, shows that 1,500 men vol
unteered from this connty to the Con
federate army. He has not yet been
able to secure the number killed. He
is working on this part of the record
now and any information bearing on
the subject will be welcomed by bim.
There is a movement . on foot to
organize a camp of the Sons of Con
federate Veterans here . and, if the
organization is perfected with a large
enrollment, it can be of valuable ser
vice in securing and issuing the his
tory of the Cabarrus veterans.
COLORED CHILD IS
BURNED TO DEATH.
Horrible Death on Monday Near the
Morehead Place. " -
On Monday afternoon about three
o'clock, a grand child of Jane Berry,
colored, who lives on Mr. W. D. Har
ry's farm (the old ;Morehead place)
was so horribly burned that deatb re- ,
salted in less than two hours.,; , The ,
woman left thetwo: children, aged
two and four , years at the - house
wliile she worked irr the field. Th
older child in some' a.V 'got a kero-
sene oil can,;, poured ' the contents on
the ' younger onV and stuck a match
to it. The child, covered with names.
tried to run to its grandmother, but
soon fell. It was so badly burned ;
before heir could reach it that, as
stated,' death soon ' 11 resulted. ' The
child's mother lives in Winston
Salem. - i -'' ' '
. The Wdkes-Barrt Tragedy.
WUkes-Barre, Pa., July 15. Four ,
men in a boat who were seen on the
lake at the time Johns and . Alice
Crispell were near the -boat house
have been located, but no evidence
connecting them with the tragedy baa
been unearthed. There 'unexpected
to" be no progress m hi ease until
the habeas corpus ' proceedings in
Johns case, tomorrow. - -
-One of Mi1.. Walts' first Jacts aa col.
lector was the appointment Of N. L.
Cranford, of Winston-Salem and part
ownerjjof the Journal as deputy col
lector and chief clerk of the stamp
office; in Winston-Salem, to succeed
Hafry E. Nissen, whd has held the po
sitioii for "several years. The salary
of th ' chief lerk its $1,400 a year
tad his assistant 1,200.-