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h i i-. ..r i -, f items Gathered t from All I BIG POWER HOUSE BEGUN. Structure Will BeaConcrete Buildi ins of Large Proportions and a Beautiful Site Has ' Been Selected ror Its Location ; ; Salisbury, SpecialThe Whitney Company, unhurt by, the panicky pcr Im1 thaVsweeps the country and lays . ff the biggest' -concerns of theland, Wednesday. beganihe :f auhdaments of I he f'bigf?&use 1 from winch is to be sent a current equal to 46,000 horses iaUdyeytheJpiemont section of North' Carolina. The lordly concrete building will stand in its stocking feet, 150 feet high, 9Ct feet wide and 260 feet long. At no place along the river could, its location have been selected with an eye more directed to the beautiful and just above the gorge where mil lions of gallons of water lash through in short seconds, it affords a pictures-, spier view haj; oUP, H. Hanes, of Winston, once predicted would draw European's here to see that wizardly triumph oyer crude, but wonderful nat ure. , : The power house is the beginning . l' 4-1-1 r Avirl r I ' l-i r iinnnl l-inn n r L" dirt to remove, of course, but six steam shovels are tearing that out in a hurry and next week 20,000 poundo of dynamite in one section, will mark !he great final blast along the canal t hough there will be touching up along this route to last several weeks yet. A trestle is to be drawn and the-last vditeh dug up near the head spates. The 20,000 pound shot, touched off by electricity, will shake ihe earth and paw out all the muck needed to make the canal wide en ough to bear the stream upon the turbines. There" are to be six of these great lower producers and from the crest i)f the dam to the tail race, there will he a fall of 130 feet. The flumes or tubes, are 700 feet long and 12 in diameter lying in such a way as to give terrific pressure upon the wheels which are 130 feet below; A derrick has been raised and the current of i he river is being changed by a cof fer dam to enable the work of ex cavation to begin. The railroad has "been extended from Whitney below Palmer mountain where the power house is to go up and is daily carry ing materials there for the building of ftbe dynamo house and all neces sary aids to it. 3Trom now pn the work will pro ceed steadily, rapidly, and the T. A. Jillespie Company, doing the develop ing, will b ready before July 1st, to meet all contracts made or pros pective. s Prisoners Badly Burned.' AsheviUe, Special: Two men in Hie city prison were badly burned this 7vruk by the use of , a disinfectant to relieve them of vermin. J,t seems that .fni:i'Kmb.m .ity ioeMP(wnen a cmi wat, wu I fie janitor uisiuxctiaun behind the bars alleging that they were disturbed by 'vermin. The dis infectant taken from a barrel thai had been in use for months was given them and subsequently liberally ap plied. Presently two of the men un derwent a. burning . sensation which continued until the men were with ing -in agony. A physician was sum moned and one of them sent to the hospital nnd the other to his homfe. The men were1 baclly burned and blist ered by the fluid and suffered intense raiu. - . , v : ; . i zl i? j;ninKnitant Ho mpn I'or a Hew Church. Lyiiville, SpecialIThe membership . i'he Elk Ridge and Ash Gap Metho chnrches has - just purchased a wost desirable building : site from (Jriffis Bros, at Roberson' Fork, ron which they will erect a new house ot worship. hTe two" congregations haye rp.f.nntlv Ron solidated. The Oak Grove . V - V. 1 t 1 ll. church is not to-be. included me the consoiiuaiion, as ai -a- v-v"-tv'" AsheviUe Citizen' Drops ; Dead. : Asheville, SpecialAr. ! John 'G. Tw aa 70 vears. a well known and'ni-hlv esteemed resident of this city for nut street at 10, o clock , fuesaay morning. Deatn.waS - piix,o. . t was Doru iur. ma. chusetts, but came New. York; He 1 T4LfR- HEEL TOPICS the past 20 years, droppea , uee - o p "T-a to " JltoSJ ItoS.- will be abolish- in fmnt nf'his house on Chest- I . . . , . , n oflf rt.'--oVl5-I 'fti'it ---ftTiraHnvtftrritftrv.- of connectca; wnii iu ""3, for back, salaries..,, of thU, city" for' a-nnmber..or a. - and at his death was a ;lar-e owner i : . -i TnoinjBO intPTesis - y--.' . I . 4- TV' i -V." , Sections of the State 1 Pired By An Enemy. Asheville, vSpeciakThe . residence of Jesse Sumner iu Limestone tewn ship,s 12 miles from Asheville was destroyed by fire' about 3 Q'clock Thursday morning. Particulars - of the burning of the dwelling were not obtained-here further than that'.fbn family saved absolutely ribthing.it could not be, learned , whether or not e was of . incendiary 'origin. It is thought here, however, lhat ' tlie house, was burned by one xf Sumner 's enemies. " Francis Sumner j . son of Jesse Sumner, who - killed Charley Powers at Ardens last . New Year's with his father, are in South Carolina. Francis Sumner was convicted of manslaughter or the killing of Pow ers and sentenced to the chaingang. He1 appealed;-and -the case will be ar- j gued before the Supreme Court next week. It is said that when the family was, awakened the house was all in flames , and that they just had time to leap from bed and rush out of the structure before .it went in with crash. . a . Iorth State .-Notes. Governor Glenn's Thanksgiving pardons to long term convicts of good, penitentiary record go to Edward Martin, colored, Rockingham county, I sentenced or life for burglaryand twenty years :. for murder. Both were sentenced in iPi. A company has' been organized at Weldon ai)d . tendered to the Gover nor to- take the place of Company K, Second Regiment, which was disband ed last week. As yet the Governor has not acted in the matter. The Clayton Manufacturing Com pany, which makes cotton yarns ana goods, is authorized to increase its capital stock to a hundred thousand dollars. Fire in Twin City. Winston-Salem, Special. Fire broke out in the A. F. Messick Gro cery Company 's building at -3 :40 o'clock Thursday morning and for an hour the flames raged furiously. Tha Winstonia Hotel is located in tha satoe building "and flames spread, to the5 hotel portion, damaging the rooina and furniture to the extent of $4,000. The damage to the' stock, of groceries is estimated at $7,000. The ' fire Vis supposed to" hve been caused by rats and matches?"' There were a ; large number of guests in the hotel and one or two of them hadv narrow escapes from death. The entire building: was filled with smoke in a short time "and it -was with difficulty that some of the guests on the fourth floor found their way out. .The guests were self composed, which fact probably pre vented the loss of life. The loss was fully covered by insurance. Suit for Damages. T hag ffled laint Ayith the , , of-the SuDerior Court on hk $5,000 damage suit against Alder man W. T. Brown. .' The plaintiff al leges that while out driving with his wife, Alderman Brown ran his auto- i moDiie into me uuggy ucuuu uy Mr. and Mrs. Tavis, and that the wife was thrown across the dash-board with terrible force as a result Mrs. Tavis sustained seri6us injuries, from which she has not yet fully recov ered. The case may be heard at the December term of Forsyth 'court. Both sides will be represented. , by able counsel, v . , . -; 'J- Orerr to Close Down. ' Centreville. Soecial. On orders from headquarters the iron ore mines at Nunelly, closed last week and the furnace at Goodrich will suspend ope ration December 15. No cause is giyr en,' but is believed tfyat the shutdown will be only temporary. A large fprre of men is employed at the mines and it the furnace and the pay roll has XV. iM' been la , . Raleigh Firm. Fails. Raleisb.' Special. The , large , do- partment store, of Sherwood, Higgs fr. rii ' of. Raleiarh. was closedMonday morning f On the door appeared a-no- largest creditor is ;H. ,B, 1' ClaflinT of Ne York for ten Ithous - , , ' The assigrimcnl those on the in-- to this city irc , p. . tjriorltV.'in .payment -of ther Stated that Supt. George. - has, peen acuvcij . . . .m i,a . iinj lrnA nf .tho TTnvfit.tRville M. E.; : CONFERENCE ENDS I Reading of the Appointments Winds Up Profitahla.Ses3ian. l Greensboro. . Special. The annual conference of the Methodist Protest ant churchj closed here ; Monday. v The session was - ons of . interest andf was harmonious throughout. 5 ,V Appointments were .read as fol- Alamance , C. Lassiter. , Alb'emarle-rTpTlJ'e supplied. Andersonr-C' J. Edwards. . Asheboro T.;vM. J6bnson. 7 Asheville J. Williams.- Broad :I?iver-5r E. McSwait j IuncombeG Jj. Curry. BurlingtonWjlliam Porter,' i Caldwell.TJnsupplied.; 'ChathamW. D. JReid. ChesterfieldUnsupplied. Cleveland -H.. B. Thompson. vConcord B. A. Braswell. Davidson J. H. Hulin. .. DentonG. L. Reynolds. Fairfield W. E. Totten. - : Fairview T. F. McCullock. , Flat' Rock A. L. Hunter. -; Forsyth E. T. Lowderraiik. Gastonia T... A. .Williams. ,. Graham C. L. Whitaker. Granville--T. W. Holmds. I Greer-shoro T. J. 'Qgburn. . Greenville and Spring Church W. O. Foreman. . ' 1 Guilford O. A. Htehfill. Halifax W. L. Harris. Haw River J. R. Hutton. Fnderson A. T. Dixon. Hi?h Point J. D. Williams. Iivey W. A. Lamar. - La Grange J. F. Dozier. ' Lebanon: J. H. Morton. ; fibertyr. W,. Frank. Lumberton J. A. Burgis. '"T Littleton tJnsupplied. 'r Mebane R. ' M. Andrews. Mecklenburg T. A. Plylen Mocksville T. H. Matthews. Monroe H. D. Garman. i Mount Herm a n O. P. Ruth. Oak Ridge W. R. Xoudermilk. Orange- Unsupplied. Pinnacle and Mount Zion W P. Kennett. 7 Rancilcraan J. H. bowman. Randolph W. R. Ashburn. Richards J. H. Stowe. Roanoke C. L. Whitaker. . Rockingham H. W. Bras well. Rocky -Mount R. W. Taylor. &axapaw W M. Pike. Stanley. O. Lindley. St; Paul- C E. Mz-Raer, Tabernacle H. L. Powell. Moharrie--W. J. Hackney. West Ledjngtori Edward Suits. Whynott J. A. Ledbetter. Winston-Salem G. T. MiKoway. Winston-Balexn Circuit Unsup plied v. Taboro W. G. Bethea. Superannuated J. W. Heath, 'P, D. Moore, W. C, Hammer, W. C. Kennett. J. N. Garrett, C A. Pick ens. G. E. Hunt. - Without appointments, at their own request J. J. York, J. H. Tur ner, C. A. Cecil, G. H. Biggs. OLoah to the seminary C. E. Forlines; Editor of Our Church Record J. F. : McColloch. : In hands of the president J. H. Abernethy, J. R. Newlin, J. T. Dunn, J. L. Giles. ( Educational work S, Simpson. After the reading of 1 the appoint ments the conference arjourned sine die.' , V One Effect of Scarce Cash. Raleigh, Special. Letters received from several persons who had ar ranged to come South for the. winter say that owing to the money string ency they will be forced to change their plans and stay at, . home this time. Raleigh, like V Charlotte (Wil mington, Henderson, Fayetteville ana perh aps some other towns, has cer tainly, stood' stout : against the storm, Srip comes iv '? 11 1 . 7 v -1 , banks, and IS' bandied in- checks and is sent for collection . ba?'iks of issue. A lot of t1,; rip is ver; "cheaply v pried.- a nee there is danger of its boi1 nterfieited. A bank official hp' : ;d he heard' it stated that in St".!' foide of North Carolina a numb'-; forgeries or counterfeits - of serif Ave been 'alrpnd11' V?Afptpd. Coast' Line to Retrench: Wilmington, Special. -It is stated I nere that effective December lst,fol I lowing ax general policy J of retreneh- ment, the FayetteviUe district of the the , system : -placed, under.. thejuns- - diction of Supt. E. Phenneger, witJi 11" la 'IlUT B. dis- trict. :wlll he made one - of the train masters that have been alloted. to tne enlarged Richmond .district :'. a FI VE KILLED IN COLLISION Freight Train Crashes Into Trolley Car, Killing rive and . injuring ft Twenty. ' f Waterbury Conn., Special.-Fiye factory employes v were ' - killed5 at the West. Main "street! crossing fpter f the Highland, New Haven -frartford Railroad, when, an" extra Hartford bound freight train crashed - into - a trolley " car containing : twenty-five persons'bound for : the -pin factories in Oakville. The car was struck with peat force directly in the middle and ill the passengers were" kliled or ad iy mangled. Six others were badly, injured and had ta be carried to their homes. The dead : Sarah Ryan. Annie Corcory. : ; , s Robert French, Waterville. . ..Walter Hayes. Jane Kelly. The seriously injured t ; Kitty Hanley, leg broken and scalp 3ut; Margaret Mellon Jennie Ben son; Sadie Allen ; Andrew Lepier. Aside from Kitty Hanley, the oth ars received scalp wounds, - broken bones and' bad cuts, but it is not yet known whether the injuries of any pill prove fatal. Flagman John Flavin and ' Conduc tor John Dillon, of the trolley car, iveie arrested. , The motorman of the 3ai Charles Leonard, was not held. There was absolutely no chance for the eugineer 'of the train to stop his train in time to prevent the accident. Although he applied the brakes,' the 3ngine crashed int the trolley car, smashing it to splinters and throwing the occupants in all directions. . Income Tax Test. Columbia, Special. Attorney Gen 5ral Lyon has received notice that an other test would be made of the con stitutionality of the income tax law.. The test is brought up by Mr. DW. A.lderman, the wealthy lumber""dealer and steps have been taken in com-. pliance with-therecefnt-ruling of the supreme ourt. It will be-7recalled that inthe case from" jGaurens county the supreme court held tharthe pe titioner could, not bring mandamus proceedings under, the - constitution,, but the remedy provided was for the payment of taxes and a suit against the county treasurer. This method' has, been taken in the Alderman case and the case will probably reach the supreme court on ground not heretor fore passed upon by that body. , WelVKnowon Horseman Dead. Jacksonville, Fla., Special.rEver- ett B. Webster, president or the Wa- ett B. Webster president ot tne JNa- f marrying BrQwtt( j nred tional Steel and Wire'Company, Tvith.Hhe to..jpiVa mx ,thi i(lpa , Rn;n ' subsidiary companies at Dekalb. 111., Bayonne, N. J., New Haven, and" on the Pacific Coast, died at the Wind sor Hotel here Friday afternoon aged 38 years. He was a well-known horseman and was owner of ' the steam yacht Seneca. He' had country homes at Wyvern wood farm, Bever ly, Mass, and at Manhassett, L. T. His business office in New York City was 114 Liberty street. Williams Lays Down the Law tx Can- non. Washington, fepeciaL Representa tive John Sharp Williams,, of Missis sippi, the Democratic minority leader in the House of Representatives, had a conference with Speaker Cannon on the subject of the minority rep resentation on the House committee; He told the Speaker that the Demo crats would1 insist upon an increase in their representation corresponding with' the increase in the Democratic membership of the House. News in Brief. . . R0;W TTUfT.o-(Jand Cfamble f So'ath Dakota; Senator Hansbrortgh and Representative Hull, of Iowaall declared that the people wtuld nave President. . . . ' ,1 ') w J J A aw- v w w . - - Adiutant General Ainsworth, in liis, report, said that . conscription may be necessary to fill depleted ranKs, in-tne army. ' , - . . , - - President "Roosevelt 1 will entertain Admiral EvanFriday, as last honors before the Admiral takes the ; fleet , to tne r acme. : c r . . Pierre lost. ; One . tnousana . Moorisn, iriom wno .altacKea.a rrencu beaten'Oit wiin a iossoxvxuu. , , is:' Gen. ' Sir Henry ? Edward Colvilie WaS ' Willie .UUi uu .tuiuvvviyj v in collision with a friend's automo bile; tyt-:-, V ? ;r:n shooting Spires, through the- oody.; Sixteen persons perished Unfa JScv. j The. wounded man;died twenty min isiisMt Bradley Murder Case Almost c Ready For, the. Jury SPEECHES OP ATTORNEYS NEXT v Presentation' of Evidence in : Braidley, ' Trial Cohdnod f and Conrt :;'A-" ' jonrns' For Dajr Defendant -Sayi i , She Is iGlad It Is Ail Orer. r it tuimugiuH, opeciai. - : Ufl, 1 v ami' J so. glad it is all over at last." These ' ' words were uttered by Mrs": Annie M. , . Bradley, charged with the rmurder,;o former Senator Artuh M. Brown of ; : Utah, as she, with a imile, was led - away from the court room to " the prison van, which , was to ' take her " ' back to jail..; The presentation of eidence had just been concluded :and r. court , adjourned .until Saturday when ; V arguments will begin. Justice Staf- ford announced that aji agreement had been reached among counsel for four hours of argument on each . side. This -will be completed -Monday ' af ternoon and Justice Stafford said he would ' then deliver his charge and" give the case to the jury ' ' ' y The testimony of two . government insanity experts, D E. ;M. Brush; of Baltimore, - and Dr. Smith E. vjeliffe, i of New York, was the feature of the' 4 proceedings, as also was the appear-. anco of Rev. Dr. litter,, of Salt Lake, -ti Mrs. Bradley's pastor: Both1 .Dr. ; Brush and Dr. Jelliffe declared that , there wTas nothing im the record - of the case to indicate that, Mrs: 1 Brad- ley was insane. Counsel far the de fense attempted to impeach the te& -. timony of these experts ' by showing ' ' that they had beei called - for the ' . government and that a a matter of -; course theywere testifying in the in terest ofthe governments , Each of them repudiated this charge and de- clared that they would have testified , to- the insanity of Mrsl; Bradley; asv readily-as they testified to her, sanity had they: found, her- to he' insane: Rev. Dr. David Utter, pastor of the Unitarian church of Denver Qo6. i who in , former testimony has been reierred tor as -the priest and who was J Mrs. Bradley '.s pastor in Salt ; t Lake, City, testified to ' a conversation ' he had iwith, her in -19T)5. , Mrs:: 'Bradley fold him, he replied in answer to a question, that she be-' r s lieved Mr.;Browni would Marry, her. ; "I expressed" the; opinion,', said, v the witness, 'that, he never .-would. . But she thought he 'would. This: was V a somewhat . long conversation land. : . the burden of ' it .had been on my' part :. w encourage;- ner rogive up me iaea her to vgive up the idea of . suing Btown, but she pleaded or her chil- -"1 . , T . ... - .' -m . ' aren, saying mat it was "?rignt ana he ought to be made to do it." During this testimony Mrs.' Brad- " ley sat with bowed head. it Sh&, saidV, t continued the witness. 4 ' Hhat when it came to a test and a , , gun was pointed at Arthur Brown he would accede and marry her. I. do . not remember her exact words. ; She ; , said Arthur Brown was a coward at, Mm and h'e was told he mxtst marry neart anat u af gun was pomtea -at her he would do so. I told her I did not believe Brown was a coward. I said he ought never to- be urged.';' There sh ould be no compulsion every used. 'You will: lose all your in fluence if yon do,' I told her." -' r the course of that' conversation;' You would not do that, would 1 you f and she, replied, 'Of course not?' " ask- ed Judge Powers! , wYes" said Dr. Utter. . "I said: 'Suppose he . calls yewnr bluff what then? ;You, would not shoot! ' Oh, : no was her answer." . ' , Dr. Utter said .she did not threat- en,Ao do this herself. "It might have been her brother or,-her: father, - or. I anyooay wno was,ToDnng aDout tms: -i "xief nowever, naa ice iaea inai liirs. IsTBradley-herself rwbuld faji?jSSb&: M 1 C . ,. . - ' was under tremendous oDsession," vuuuuuvuui, unci,-. s, waa , nAiAiwai., nnhinged;, and 1 felt that .she , might -undertake to 'threaten Brown." : i , Georgia Tend Unds ihKilling. ' . Albany, Ga., SpeciaL Jeff -Spire3, px Miller county,, was shot and killed 1 otanC6ld feud.' 4 Spires entered the druff store, and 'presented .a knife , at;tbe tnfoat,of R R Elmore, father I ;of th e ?d ocfor, threateningto kill him,'? xciuic , ujc tuuiu jju, cue ? . amk - I execution the younger Elmore flred NEARI V varuaMe" city property . arrested.-. v.- r
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