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i' ; tV .'V a f i8tn-.. Jw ' v. y . ' No. 42. NEW DZnil, CRAVEN COUNTY, N. C. FRIDAY AUGUST 23. 1907 SECOND SECTION. 30th YEAR the rifle tea:.i of :atio::al guard Numrs of. Coniesianls Fo Marksmanship Honos. Go f o Camp Pey ."cElEIITS F03 Correspondent Scooped The Local - Pane r. Strange Accident to Horse : Jluit Fined For Prac tices Dratfctrjr With.-- ' "oat Lk'piiHC. Otber ilaleiuli News of 1 . . - Interest. ' G;: ci'ial Correspondence. . . . . y Jiaieich,; August 20. On Thursday, the ritlo team selected from the Na tional Guard of this State after the rifle practice, at Camp Glenn, More bead City, ten days ago, will leave for 'Washington D. C and from there will go; to Camp perry, Ohio, for the great shoot of Ue 'regular, army. National Guard and Canadian team, this being one of the great events of the year in a military way.' The following are the members, of the team; First Reg , , iment Lieutenant s. H. Coon, Com pany F, Hickory; Corporal C. C. Por ter, Company D, Charlotte; Sergeant George IJvo.lCompany Lk Sergeant O. Witt, Company I, Alternate; Sec ond Regiment,' Sergeant Bf it).' Ross, Company G; Sergeant J. C. Wilkin son, Company M, Maxton; Corporal S. E. Malone, Company B. Ooldsboro; Private A. T. Gibbons, Company C, Aviliiiingtoa; Private W. M." Page, Company " H; Thirdt Rejiment; Ser geant T. D. Edwards, Company M, Durham: Sertreant C. A. KIne. Com pany B, Oxford; Corporal B. F, Crad dock, Burlington; Private J. O. May, . Company D, Louisburg; Sergeant B. . G. Gray,' Company G, Reidsville, al ternate. The three, officers who go with the team are Col. W. L. McGhee ' as Captain; Capt R, G. Gladstone', Company Or Third Regiment; Lieu tenant ,T. R. Orrell, Company C, Sec ond Regiment, Wilmington. ' " B. C. Beckwith has returned here, from Moore County, where he appear- ' ed against a man who was practicing dentistry without license. The man submitted, was fined $25 and costs, ' and quit the business immediately. This morning a curious accident oc curred here. A very tine horse, the property ot a one armed man named Worrell, was being shoed by a black smith, and was tied to a post The animal became excited, pulled the post out of the ground and ran around the block to the principal street, tell, breaking one leg in three places. A policeman was sent for and shot the horse. . . - . .. . ' Your corrcp6ndent was first to an nounce the sale of the Academy of Muslo and property adjoining the Academy to a Charlotte syndicate. It is now formally announced that Mr. T, M. Brown, ot that city is the buyer, the price paid being 136,000. , The property had been offered to the city for an auditorium and city hall at $31,000. Tho preliminary arrangements for the trip over the Raleigh & Pamlico Sound Division ot the Norfolk and Southern Railway, under the auspices of the Ralolgb Chamber of Commerce are being arranged, by vice-president - M. K. King, and the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. .The governor and oilier State officers will be invited .as will also the city officials and rep resentatives of every business organi se ton We. (tie Woman's Club, the vjiM fci-ni 1 societies, ect.. In order to make iUe.a;Ialr thoroughly repre sentative. -The date will be as late In October us possible. The Chamber of Commune will be In charge of the orranr r. dins and the Noifolk and Southern Railway Company, always bo full of spirit and enterprise will do tlio honors, furnishing the train which is to be handsomely decorated by the Helelh people. At Washing ton a 'M will be made on the river and 11 1 ernoon will be very delight fully Kpt'iit, the purty leaving there about dark. Washington Is the near est deep water point to Raleigh and hetiro in of no little importance. Tim railroad traverses one of the fine t na tions f.f North Carolina an la:wH Uirour'i H"im fine towns, nota bly. Gic in i ', i'.-e f'K'iit and largest ti,' ico iniiil t i 1 V world, at which 1 ,; ;, t a 1 '1 i l.i 1 1 f ! and tlie people of I'm? r V Ml lmi;.l: 1 V v.liii !i ina.te. him t ,-lf l.t IllO J;hle , ! t 11 vmUi Inine-'l 1 .1 t i: fytI!a::s u:ill " feast o;il;elo::S: Youcg Insurance Man Anest- cd on a Charge ot Embezzle .ment ' ' . DELLT TO QD liiblnVllit Vlilitl Twe.Jfegro Boys Eide Ite Trouble. They Cent Bk-ytles for b Hour . ' and SeU Them For Fifty Cents Each. ' Deatn of Cotton " MO! Operative. Gate' f ' , City Hews. - ' Special Correspondence. Greensboro," August , 21. At . the meeting of , the Greensboro Lodge, Knights of Pythias,' Mr, O. H. Royster resigned as secretary of the insur ance department pf Greensboro Lodge and Mr.-Frank C. Boyies was elected to succeed him, Mr. Royster resigns because of the increasing duties de volving upon hlm&s general secre tary of the insurance department of the-Knights of Pythias tor North and South Carolina and Virginia, ,. The Pythians will give a watermelon feast at Lindley Park Thursday night and all members are Invited. Two negro boys, named Cicero Wade and , Walter Neeley, rented . a bicycle each from P. A. Doraett, a dealer on Davie street, for three quar ters of an hour, paying fifteen cents eaclv'for' the" hire. After trying the wheels they decided not to take them back, but rode them until late in the afternoon, and sold them for fifty cents. The parties who purchased the wheels, believing that there was something suspicious in such a bar gain, phoned, the circumstances into police headquarters, and were request ed to hold the boys until an officer could be set out for them. . Sergeant Barnes at once went to the scene, and brought them to town and upon mak ing investigation, found that the bicy cles were stolen property. He re turned the bicycles to their owner and Jocked the boys iir Jail. They were given a hearing Tuesday before Mayor Brandts and were bound "over to the next term of Guilfordcounty Superior Court, in bonds of twenty- 3ve dollars each.'1 . James S. Daughan, a young man who has been doing Insurance busi ness here, for some time, was arrested yesterday on a warant issued by Squire J. M. Wolfe, charging him with the embezzlement at Concord, of f 272 from R. B. Raney, general agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Com pany. The matter was brought up before Squire Wolfe, yesterday .after noon, and- as it Is impossible to get the witnesses together before next week, the trial was put Off . until Au gust 28th. William Hilton, a colored restaur ant keeper, on South Elm street, was arrested yeBterday evening for beat ing his wife In a brutal manner. The trouble grew out ot the fact that Hil ton's wife refused to cook a meal' for one of the boarders,, whereupon she and her husband came to blows. In the mayor's court Tuesday Hilton was fined five dollars and costs. The Methodists of Greensboro, have started a movement to erect at White Oak, a church to be known as the Carraway Memorial church. The bull ding will cost In the neighborhood of $2,000 and Is to be erected in honor of the memory of Rer. Paul J. Carra way, who was pastor of the White Oak church at the time ot his death. Mr. Arthur Seawell, aged 23 years of age, died Sunday afternoon at Po mona, where he was an operative in the Pomona cotton mills. Mr. Sea well had been sick only a few days with pneumonia, and his death was unexpected. He Is survived by a father and mother and several broth ers and sisters. The remains were taken last night to Ballis, In Moore county, for interment ' E:.T; pIn j Kews. Centennial, Capt Miller, arrived from r.ay Hlver, with load of country produce;' will taUe cargo of general merchandise. Carl T., Capt. Taylor, arrived from S'.van.sboro, wl:H cargo r.on'io .iund watermelons; will tike out cargo mnr chandlsiB. . liooncr Kc Jones Tay; t ' eral Shi 1 '' t. K. lim.wr 1'. from Coro !' t(''-:i anil p-.i.) me, C '.. V.'!.!'.." ' 1 g on t 1 cf ( 1 ,..::), Cnt . d 1, V' 'l ) ( f ' 1. ry, nr, pTijrG"T: - Tn - -. . . i J I u i . .UitLu to go;;tc:ct jobs Trial of Dr, and Mrs, Rowland For Hurde WillSuelr be i Ai Sept Term of Cout '"E n nnc:i o The CU Confederate Proa Corps . Fast Fasstas; Away. North Caro Una Seconi to bo State at the - ' ' Jastestewa Exposition. . The State's Snrer Service, Teaee Indtltate. Special Correspondence. - Raleigh, August 19. Mention has been made in the papers about the sub letting ot the convicts, for railway work In' Robeson county. A couple of yeari ago Mr. . Bradshaw, secured from, the ftate at the regular rate, about fifty convicts to do general rail way construction work, with him be ing a partner, a Mr. Morrison, who Is from Florida!, - Mr: Bradshaw, who was a veteran contractor died last year, but the contract goes on, the flrmnow being. Wade and Morrison, and in this company, which employs the convicts, the latter being, as in all cases of the kind under the abso lute .control ot the penitentiary, which sends clothes, guards and in every other way looks after ' all that the contractors have to do Is to designate the work to be done. .It. seems to be regarded now as certain that the trial on the capital charge of poisoning pf Dr. and Mrs. Rowland, will be held in September. It was said today by one lawyer not empjoyed In the case, that he would not be surprised if an effort were made to remove It to another county. He went on to say that there was a great, deal of feeling against the de fendants fo Wake and ilsewhere. ' It Is learned that the Stat will make a very strong point as to thy ordering of thatj. deadly drug, aconltineby Dr. Rowland, and that open the claim by the defense that it Is used In practice, and that he had used it on patients, be,--would be. made to show what spe cific use he had made ot that ordered only a few days before the' death of Engineer Strange. On the side ot the Rowlands It will be claimed, it is un derstood, that a' recent medical "pub lication names a dozen or more cases in which aconatine -was used. While there Is now relatively little' talk about this case here, yet Interest In It is not abated and the trial, where ever it may be held will draw a large crowd, and Is sure to be full of sensa tions. The Rowlands are very quiet In Jail. Her sister has been here all the time since the trouble begun and his relatives come up every few days from Vance and Granville countlse, The remodeling of the First Bap-Ust-Chnrch is almost completed and it' Is the present plan to have a cele bration on the second Sunday in Sep tember, in honor of the opening of the. greatly enlarged and beautiful building. 8uch a ceremony has al ready been held In the Sunday School rooms. '. The. crops are ' certainly growing finely now, and the Improvement In cotton Is unabated.' Mr. Thiessen, the weather observer tells me a little rain a needed here and there; A great many people are interested In tho Texaas crop. . A letter from that State dated on hi 15th says the weather since August has been very unfavora ble, and that the crop has gon back ranidly on account of the extreme hrought and very high temperature. A strange feature Is that the boll wee vils are working quite freely In Bplte cf tiie Intense heat and dry weather, this fact surprising the Texans, who say that no sort ot weather from this time on can make amends for the damage done, and that it looks as it even with the best weather the crop well be a million bales short of that lant year. ' v Corporation Commissioner Rogers, has returnel from Suluda, where h went to settle a difference between j !"e Southern Railway and tbe town,! t:. road deulring to place side tracks In the main street, and to unload cars "ere. It la pr-habte that a com pro- ' wi'.l be airan d. Mr. Rogers ys the ihihiii'.i! i'l cf 1-""! !e t. t: f. t , T . i I . 1 1-1 r t t i r( i r is are becoTiy'ng very 1 that t'. vv-tiher Is i are crowd'-d. J I lix.l.s fxtreiiHi'.y cjnc:i.::,jTo " rrcjfa rtr ft J HUkllV ktalll The Warut Weather Is Developing the j Crop Finely. 'Special to Journal. Raleigh. Aug. 20. Cotton haj made considerable growth during the past month, though, as has already been said, it is considerably under the usual size at this date.' The crop li from two to three weeks late.- Some very observant farmers say that, they would call on an average twenty days late, taking the State over. Nobody can be found who expects more than two thirds of the normal crop and in many localities will not be so large as that - : i Death of a Little GlrL, Mamie Volha, daughter 'i Christo pher and Alice Luton, aged four years and ten months, died of conges tive chill last night at the home of the parents at No. 137 East Front St The funeral and burial will be at St Delights Church at three o'clock this afterno n. '.-,' '1. y . ... The little girl was an exceptionally br'f'i and in'ercatirg ch ld,'Io ed by all who knew her, and the uej s of her daath will be a great shock to all the fnen' s I .he fara' y, as tho "ittle one was sick Only fr m Saturday at noon. The tender sympathies of, all, Mends are ".tended to the bereaveofahilly. , Europeans Leave Case BJanca. Special to Journal. Tangier, August 21. All Europeans have left the city ot Casa Blahca, now practically sT mass of ruins, In the battle yesterday 7,000 Moors ; were killed. I"-'- n ; , ; r ;; . v ' Railroad Commissioner flasted. Special to Journal. -'j'.. , I? v ' Atlanta, Ga, Augusl. 21.'-iRailroad Commissioner Jeseph Brown,?was dis charged from office today by the or der of Governor Hoke Smith; The reason is not stated. Plot to Km Two Balers. Special to. Journal. Lisbon, Portugal,. August 21 An anarchist's plot to kill President Fai lures, of France, who is a guest of the royarfamlly and stag jCarlos. It was arranged for them to be killed by a bomb as they rode on the street eglment shall make nlmself "known to Wiley Johnson, of Greensboro, or J. j; Lewis, of Raleigh, in order that the drum corps may be maintained. Today the various State officers, ex cept Governor Glenn and State Super intendent of Public Instruction, re turned from the Jamestown Expos! tion. Auditor Dixon was asked his impression and speaking about last week, North Carolina Week; nt was magnificent North Carolina was strictly in IC I Relieve the week .has given this State a greater advertise ment than anything done In the past ten, years. People were there from a great many other States,' and that when North ' Carolina turned herself loose and they saw what sort of peo ple we were, It made 'the finest kind pf an lmpressloni Governor Swanson of Virginia, said that our State had saved the Exposition and had beaten Virginia to death on her week. I tell you we had a great time. "Secretary ot StateGrlmes said: "I was very much pleased with everything and cer tainly most agreeably surprised at the character and extent ot the Exposi tion, after hearing it knocked so much as it has been. The exhibits by the various States are most creditable and admirably arranged. The histori cal exhibit is particularly fine. The exhibits from our own State are splen did and do credit to us; in fact they are unsurpassed by any State there, I never saw better order in all my life at any gathering. ' During the tour days there was not a single dis agreeable incident." State Treasurer, Lacy said that he was sick part of the time and hence could not see everything, but that North Carolina certainly did herself proud. He said he never saw better order and was delighted with the behavior and ap pearance of thesmany thousands of North Carolinians, who were there, and who made the week so notable. He says that the speeches were good, and that certainly Governor Glenn and Lieutenant Governor Winston, never made finer, speeches in their life. Some one started a rumor that H 1 had been decided to increase the a-ifo . mount to be expended on Use p'ft fori w the crult-er Raleigh from $",,000 to $10,0;ifl. Auditor Dixon say that this Is tint 1 ne, ami that the design wiil bo aolc.t.Ml on the third of ?.: '-r. f , ., (1- -" ,'. 113 have been f ." 1 and la 1 they ore much 1- ' - r H'-n I',' - e t.f the j.'.ris he !;; t -n on v, The ( iTis Will c ! i 1 1 1 TLISfEL . y ... - , J HIGH SCHOOLS List ct Instructors Under The - Ruling of Superintendent of Instrucnon EE.SED Mil'-IE . f i R WI PTE SO Train Dispatchers Hearing; to Take Place Soon. Labor , la . Cotton Fields Likely to be Scarce. v p Supreme Court to Sleet i . Next Monday. Bal- elgh News. , Special Correspondence. ' Raielgh, ' AuguBt 21. Today the State Superintendent of Public struction announced the. names' those who : have - been Issued certificates as teachers in tu new rural 'High Schools. These ha.-a qual ified themselves aa principals of Kuoh schools. .One ot the particular re quirements for the latter" position is the knowledge of latin and tjreek. The list follows:, C. B. Alexander, Matt hew Si; Fred Archer, Chapel Hill: W. Allon, Frankllnton; W. H. Al bright, Liberty; W. F. Allen, Southern lines; W. J. Beale, Pendleton; W. T. R. Bell, Rutherfordton; N. R. Clayton, Chapel 11111; Miss Laura V. Cox, Win- tervllle; Frank Culbreth, Fayetteville; Mar B. Clegg, Crouse; J. Ei. Crutch field, Ullington;-Miss Emma Cul breth Clinton; E. P. Dixon, Liberty, George C. Davidson, Fayettevllle ; J. M. Downs, tSastonla; J. E. B. Davis, Pine Level; J. B. Everett,' Roberson. ville; N. W. Barley, Ailander; B. L. Ellis, Clinton; W.- R. Freeman, Dob son; C. M. Guthrie, Englehartlt; M. S. GUeit, Fonta Flora; R. C. Hollou, At lantic; L. L. Hargrave, Lumlier Bridge Jackson Hamilton, Marsh vllle; (teorge W, Holmes, Henderson; John L. Har his, Lenoir; Holland Holton, Durham; L. P. Hoffman, Lowell; Mis Pearl Johnson, Pittsborp; T. IL King, La- Grange; Alexander H. Koou'ce.' Ro per; Miss Meta C. Liles, Tarboro; S. T. Liles, Williamston; S. G. Lind sey, Dallas; Miss Eleanor D. Mundy, Barboursville; E. L. Mtddleton, Cary; M. F. McCanness, Chapel Hill; H. C. Marshal, Bryson City;- Harllee Mo Call,, Florence; K. H. Mclntyre, Holly Springs; Charles E. McCannese, Trin ity; Miss Ada D. Mitchell, Lexington; Miss Clara M. Pigg, Madison; Miss Mary H. Phelps, Scotland Neck; Lu ther B. Pendergrass, Durham; Miss Susan B. Kenny,-Raleigh; E. M. Raw lins, Raleigh; William Robinson, Wil mington; H E. Riggs. Dobson; A. G. Sherrill, Stanley; A. B. Staley, Pitts- boro; Preston Stamps, Park ton; J. I, SIngletary, Bladenboro; M. Shepard Orrnm; Ef G. SettlemyreKnite Falls; W. a Shlm,"T3ranlte Quarry; B. L Cary, Warsaw; James Templeton Cary; W. W. Woodhouse, Whiteaok; A. V. Wooseley, Pleasant Garden; L. li White, Jamestown; G. B. Wetmoore Woodleaf ; E. L. Wagoner, Whitehead; A. P. Whlsenhunt, Hickory. Among today's visitors was Presi dent E. McK Goodwin, of the State School for Deaf Mutes, at Morganton. He says everything Is in perfect shape tor the beginning pf next session, September 4th. During the last ses sion there were 233 pupils but the next term will begin with 250. There Is now a compulsory law which goes into effect September 1st, and under Uts provisions the parents or guar dians of every deaf mute child must send it for five years to this school, at some point between the ages of 8 and 15 years.; Mr. Goodwin says there are at least 150 children in the State who have never been Inside of a school. Some Pf these are beyond age. The law will be enforced and will be very ValuableTndeed. A very large force of laborers Is getting the track of the Raleigh, and Pamlico Bound Railway In good shape for traffic between here and Wash ington. Next season passengers from Raleigh to Morehead City will go over this road by way of Greenville and Klnston, at the latter point striking the Atlantic and North Carolina dl vision ot the Norfolk and Southern Railway. ' The train dispatchers and trainmen four In number, of the Southern Rail ay, who are charged by the coroner' jury We, with being the cause of tbe falal wreck at Auburn, wi'.l Ivivo a heating in a day or two, it hi e-qn it cil. The warrants l;;ive u-m t (i ' 1 linro, Green nVioro, r 1 1 . "-. fol a. Tho 1 : ! i 1 r 1 GEIIERAL IIEIVS OMilTEOEST Gathered in Short and Crisp Items Containing the Gist ' of World's Doings os Fr.::r. ; mpr fuses Brought to Oar Very Doors. Poll- tics, Fires, Battles, and Govern ment Transactions of the '. . Fast Twenty-Four Hoars : Constitute The News ' Given In This . Colanu. Special to Journal. . : Atlanta, August 22. Railroad Com missioner Brown, who was peremp torily discharged from his position, by Gov. Hoke gmith has refused to leave his place upon the order re ceived. He will take the matter into the courts. , . Pittsburg, August 22. The Carne gie Steel Co.i hat been awarded the contract for supplying the govern ment with 7,000 tons of armor plate for new ships, r Tangier, Morocco, August 22. Ma- lui Haflt, brother of the Sultan of Mo rocco, has organized an army of 15, 000 men and will engage the combined French and Spanish forces at Casa Blanca, and a decisive battle is Immi nent Georgetown, Ohio, August 22. Sen ator Foraker made his speech today formally opening his campaign for political preference. His "Triply to Taft, reference' to disfranchisement laws in the South, and influences ad verse to him were decidedly bitter. Montgomery, Ala., August 22. Gov ernor Comer will call an extra ses sion of the legislature to meet the crista precipitated In . the railroad tight-" "' ;? Pittsburg, August 22. A fire orig inated in the business section of the city about dusk, and is apparently a wide-spread and disastrous conflagra tion. At 10 o'clock the flames were raging uncontrolled, having destroyed more than a block ot Pittsburg's finest stores. " : . . '. :.,'. Philadelphia, August 22. A remark ably bold robbery was committed here at one of the city's most prominent business corners. The paymaster of one of the large factories was knocked senseless and $6000 which was to pay off the factory hands was stolen, Raleigh, August 22. The governor appoints Superintendent J. S. Mann, ot the penitentiary, Rev. Dr. Alfred H. Moment, pastor cf the First Pres byterian Church, here, and Rev. F. J. Murdock, of Salisbury, delegates to attend the national prison association conference at Chicago, September 14 to 19. Atlanta, August 22. It Is said that the railroads of Georgia will not fight the 21-2 cent, fare law, which goes Into effect September 2. ' Argo, of Raleigh, was present at the Inquest, held by the coroner , in the court house here last Monday. Now that the cotton picking season is nearly at band, there is a great deal of talk ibout the latter question. Last year the wages paid coU-m pick era were higher than ever before, and it really looks as if there will be a still further sdvance this year. Thi demand for labor in every line cannot be met. Wages In every department have Increased from 25 to 50 per cent here during the last year or two and now there is a clamor tor laliorera ot any kind.- Provisions have ad vanced, and rents have gone up, and so have property values. Everything Is on the lift The Supreme court, whtcn meets next Monday, to examine applicants iur iiceunB as kiiuiuvjib win vn icn-r-j by the usual large number ot aspir antsand there will be at least tfty coming from three law schools and from various private tutors. - - ,m 11 lnn., The negroes here .have pushed t' work so rapidly on their Masonic Ti a lle that ti.ey will he iU,ie to on ,,,y it by the end of the ye.ir, t'.oe '1 v : in It did not cowl-em ' ' ' J ' A V1': 1 1 " 1 1 " t I er f I ht t : , TIIE U3E OF 3 OLE 0 Situ Subject ot Controversey, on the Matter 0 the Coroners . Inqnest 'r"-: ,-yl- Erfl-EES O ted cm c:ffer Evidence All Develops That Some One Mast Have Blundered. Synopsis of Testimony of All Witnesses . . 1 -. Mack Interesting Evidence ? Produced. Facts of - ' . Trial at Ral- Special to Journal. Raielgh, August 20. The investiga tion-or inquest by Coroner Separk, Into the Auburn wreck today was fin ished at one o'clock. It was full of interest, the feature being the sharp conflict of evidence between some of the railroad men and the dispatchers, as to the use of what is known as the "middle' order" system, on this di vision ot the Southern Railway. This is the system which requires the send lng ot an order to the operator at any station where trains are to pass, in forming him that they are to do so, in . other words are to meet at this point so that he may keep up his red board, or danger, signal until every thing is clear. Some men . testified that this system was not in nse before August 6th, the date' of the wreck, while others said it had long been in use, and that the examiners had im pressed the importance of it upon en-, gineers and firemen at the various ex aminations. , ' The first witness of the day was VictorHargin, "dispatcher at Durham, who. sent to Raleigh and to layton, August 6th, the order for trains to meet at Auburn. ,: He testified that the middle order system had not been In use on this, the Durham division, before August 6th, and so he had not sent the telegraphic order to the oper ator at Auburn that day. Superintendent J. M. Bennett, of the Durham division, said the middle or- . der system, had not been required or prescribed before tbe wreck occurred . but that since that date it had beau prescribed and particular notice given to carry it Into effect - ; D. V. Ferrall, telegraph operator at Mebane, ssM that the middle order system had been 'in use all along, there and that he never failed to obey orders and use it 1 ' J. W. Allison, operator at Raleigh, said that he had since the date of the wreck received middle orders', but had not received them before. - The most intresting witness at the I hearing was engineer Rlppey , who has been on the Southern for thirty three years, thirty years of that time as an engineer. He looked fairly well though he showed signs of the severe bruising he got In Jumping from his engine, that fatal evening. He said he had been an engineer thirty years and had never been up before any one for any cause whatever. He said that he was taken sick from eating ice cream the day of the accident; that he got the order to meet at Au burn and read this to his fireman, cautioning the latter not to forget It, but thefireman, seeing Rlppey, bis chief, in the position he was, sympa thized with him kt the same time, to keep the engine going forgot the or der. Had Rlppey not been sick the order would not have been forgotten by either. Rippey said that the dis patcher tailed to give the operator at Auburn the middle order and so the operator there gave him the white board, to signal that all was clear, this being seen by the whole train crew, six In number. Inquiries were made as to Rlppey's condition aud he Bald that outside of his sore shoul.i , r he was getting on very well. He w t on to say that If the dhu nd l er I 1 given the middle order to Auhui a, there would have been no troul.le, 1 t. ht was net given and the white 1 j turned the train loose; t: at ti.i i die order whole sj i day; not fystem W'sia l,i u- 1 ( f V n 1 i ei,'y f V 1 m hi t. r , art. '.,.-l.) J. , ! -1 J. 1 refill ' A II 1 ,. 1 lO p!:.V :v, :i nt t ( il tl,n ( ; y ly r : ife 1 1 ; , to 1 ! ' ( ' V. Ii I; I'll C;;t i:i-r f A ( I - i i 11. ' il i.l f: 1 ,v ' 1 1 f i ! iiver. a 1 i ' .'! i l-'-'mg r- ' " I 1 7 1 ' ", and 1 . 1 : 1 v ;h -!.!..! ill an 1 t' MjWir
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