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The r MES SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 A YEAE. WILSON, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1911. VOL. 17. NO. 131. Wilson . . , 1 V CORONATION NOW'NE AR FIEST OP ROYAL ENTER TAINMENTS TO BE GIVEN NEXT FRIDAY IN HONOR OF KING GEORGE ENGLAND GETTING READY London, May. 8. King George to day attended the races at New Mar ket, ending the year's mourning. This event marks the opening of the coronation festivities. London, May 8. With but five days intervening between an expectant British public and the first of a long line of royal entertainments and celebrations, beginning with the Fes tival of Empire on May 12th, includ ing the Coronation on the 22nd of June, and closing with King George' presence at the laying of the corner stone of the Welsh National Library at Aberstwyth, July 15th, all England is busy donning the gala attire with which it will greet the hundreds of thousands of spectators, among whom will be numbered the crowned heads of Europe, their retinues, and delega tions from every nation of the world, besides thronghs of wealthy sight seers, who are even now flecking into London by every boat and train. Judging by the elaborate prepara tions and the earnest assurances of those in charge of the festivities, the coming pageants will eclipse any thing attempted in modern times and vie with the festivals of the ancients in splendor, cost and attendance. For months and months thousands of British subjects have been at work preparing for the great events at an expenditure of many millions of dol lars. London is to be decorated as it never was before. There are to be parades, receptions at the royal court, horse shows, friendly contests between the military of visiting na tions, entertainments by the elite of England, and decorations that will astound the visitors by the lavish magnificence. Despite the fact that the Coronation is to be the piece de resistence in this long list of events there are very, very few who will witness the actual ceremony. This no doubt will prove a keen disappointment to many who have been led to understand that the actual ceremony of crowning the King and Queen will be open to all who have the price. Such is not the case the coronation proper will take place within the sacred precincts tt Westminster Abbey, with only mem bers of the royal family of England and invited guests from among the crowned heads of Europe as specta tors. A seat within the great ca thedral cannot .be bought for love or money. The plebian visitor need not be dis appointed, however, for he will have many opportunities to gratify his curiosity relative to this country new sovereigns. Five times during May and June their Majesties will drive through the streets off London that all who have money for the price of seats of vantage may see the eminent personages. ' : ' . " " i THE WEATHER 1 Fair Tonight and Tuesday Warmer To-Morrow. ' Washington, D. C, May 8. For North Carolina: Fair tonight and Tuesday; rising tempertue Tues day. Moderate west and northwest Grinds. Weather Over Cotton Belt. Some local rains have fallen in the Wilmington, Savannah and Atlanta stricts. Moderate temperatures. Raleigh Highs Defeat Wilson. Saterday afternoon the Raleigh High School defeated the Wilson High School five to one in a very pretty game. Farmer, for Wilson, was not effective Saturday, being batted freely while C. Williamson, for Raleigh, was in the box with the goods. Raleigh scored in the third. Norris was hit by a pitched ball, Hill sacri ficed, and Norris scored on R. Wil liamson's single. Hunter followed with a hit, and then Busbee scored both with a two-bagger to left. Raleigh scored again in the seventh on hits by C. Williamson, Denton and Norris, and also in the eighth on a hit by Busbee, a steal and a two-base hit by C. Williamson. Wilson scored in the ninth. Score by innings: R. Raleigh .. .. .. 003 0001105 Wilson 000 000 0011 Summary Two-base hits, Busbee, C. Williamson, Belk. Sacrifice hit, 4 Hill. Stolen bases, Hunter and Bus bee. Sacrifice fly, Belyin. Bases on balls, off C. Williamson ..1, off W. - Farmer 0. Hit by pitched ball, Cham pion and Norris by W. Farmer. Left on bases, Raleigh 3, Wilson 3. This is the third game played be tween these two schools. Wilson won the two previous ones. METHODISTS WILL MEET. Three Branches of Church Will Be Represented At Chattanooga. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 8. Begin ning today and continuing to May 12, the joint commission, representing. three branches of Methodism will meet here to consider important questions. - ; Under different names there are nineteen separate denominations of Methodists in America, and the total membership is nearly seven million. The twenty-seven commissioners who will meet here this week represent about 6,000,000 Methodists. They were appointed by the Methodist Protestant 'Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the M. E. Church, to consider the question of unification through reorganization. Nine commissions have been appoint ed by each of these three churches. Faison's Maiden Speech. f Washington, D. C, May 8. Repre sentative Faison, , of the Third Dis trict, made his maiden speech in the House Saturday in advocacy of the farmers' free list bill. He showed the great benefits that will accrue to the farmers of the nation - if this measuie that takes from the dutiable list the articles that he uses becomes a law. Dr. Faison made a strong speech, and his telling points were frequently applaud e. Tlbere was much Interests in the Initial appearance of the new North Carolina member In action on the floor. It Is no exaggeration to say that Dr. Faison measured to every expectation of his friends. He spoke without notes and with as much ease and composure as one of the old vet erans in debate in the House. The hew North Carolina Congressman has an excellent voice, and is one of the few members who can be heard dis tinctly in all parts of the hall of the House, which is noted for its bad properties of acoustics. . Patents Granted Tar Heels. f - Washington, May 8. Messrs, Davie fe Davis, Washington patent attor neys, report the grant last week tc litizens of North Carolina of the fol owing patents: . . W. C. Briggs, - Winston-Salem, en 'elope-mactiine; E. Goczenbach Ireensboro, engineer's valve; W. T lulledge, Monroe, maifcbag catche -,nd deliverer; B, W. Kincaid, Wilson separator; ,P. -Price, Price, rail-Join upporter; W. E. Wine, Wilmingtor ocomotive ash pan. BATTLE TO THE DIE IS CAST SAYS MEX ICAN OFFICIALS. GEN. COSIO TO CONDUCT WAR - PRES. DIAZ WILL FIGHT Mexico City, May 8. The die is cast. It will be now a battle to the death and when the conflict is over Diaz will still be President and more firmly entrenched than ever. The revolutionary situation was thus summarized today by high of ficials of Mexico. Diaz and' his ca binet are in complete unity. General Cosio will conduct the war. A defense of the capital will be made first and then a systematic campaign. The White Cross has or ganized a field service. Madero's Troops Almost In Mutiny, El Paso, May 8. Metiny is threat ened among Madero's troops because of his decision not to attack Juarez. A resumption of peace negotiations is extremely doubtful. Fleet Watkins Sentenced Asheville, N. C, May 8. Fleet Wat- kins, charged with the v murder of John Hill Bunting, of Wilmington at the Gladstone Hotel, Black Mountain, on the night of August 6, 1909, and conyicted last week of manslaughter, was Saturday afternoon sentenced by Judge Webb to 18 months in the State Prison. The defendant gave notice of appeal and bond was fixed. Practically the .entire morning' Sat urday was taken up with argument by counsel ' on the motion of counsel for the defendant to set aside the verdict on the ground that one juror, J. W. L. Arthur, went into the juror box prejudiced against the defend ant and. that, when challenged by the counsel . for the defendant as to whether or not he had formed and expressed the opinion that the de fendant was guilty of the crime, he retained his seat. Judge Webb then stated that ne felt constrained to deny the motion for a new trial. Judge Webb then imposed a sen tence on Mr. Watkins of 2 years In the State Prison. A few minute.0 later, however, the sentence was re- duced to 18 mhths. Judge Webb intimated to the defendant that he would cut the punishment to 1 year, if the defendant would accept the sentence. The defendant, however, was not inclined that way, Teeling that if he was guilty he would serve whatever time the court was inclined to impose. Discriminatory Fee. Raleigh, JN". C, May 8. In the . case pending some time before the Cor poration Commission involving the right of the Norfolk Southern Rail road Company to charge a wharfage fee at Washington and New Bern for freight taken by steamboat compa nies at Norfolk and delivered at these Carolina points for shipment Inland, notable to Greenville- and Kinston. the Commission nds that the wharf age Is discriminatory as compared vrtth Elizabeth City, Belhaven anr AIoTehead City, where no wharfage i charged. If levied at one point th commission holds the fee should b' evied at all other wharves of th' ompany where like conditions , exisi Tie petition was principallyby th .ake Drummon Transportation Con any. Middlesex, N. C, May S. Middlesr ill continues to grow. Brick stor ave replaced those burned last wi "T and the - Middlesex Supply Coi xny has just let a; contract for vw $8,000 brick . store room. Oth , - jw buildings are going up. HOT OFF OF DEATH THE WIRES CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY IS FIRE-SWEPT. MEMORIAL FOR MRS. EDDY, DIAZ SHIPS GOLD. OTHER NEWS OF TODAY Fight On To Restore Racing Albany, N. Y., May 8. The fight to restore racing in New York opens this week ,and promises to be a warm one, os the sentiment among the horsemen is united to have this sport restored. Public opinion is divided. Dynamite Plot In Paris. Paris, May 8. A dynamite plot was discovered here today to kill scores of government officials. Sev eral arrests were made. Cregihton University Fire-Swept. Omaha, Neb., May 8. Fire today swept Creighton University located here. The loss is $100,000. Light ning caused the blaze. Russia and Japan Agree. St. Petersburg, May 8 Russia .and Japan have agreed on their attitude regarding China's activity in Man churia. Plan Memorial For Mrs Eddy. Boston, May 8. The - ' Christian Scientists today planned, .to raise a huge fund for a memorial to Mrs. Eddy, which will probably .be erected in this city. Militia To Hunt Down Murderers. Charleston, W. Va., May 8.- Aroused by ten killings in the coal fields, Governor Glasscock has au thorized the organization of two ad ditional companies of military which will hunt down the assassins. - Diaz Has The Mazuma. New York, May 8. The U. S. assay office has received $10,000,000 in Mexican gold coin received by the International Banking Company for melting into bullion gold. It Is re1 ported that the gold was shipped by President Diaz, of Mexico. - Excavators Bribed Guardian of The Mosque of Omar. London, May 8. A letter received from Jerusalem states that the Mos lem Sheik, the guardian of the mos que of Omar, was given $25,000 to permit the explorers of the Anglo- American syndicate to excavate be neath the sacred rock upon which the mosque stands. The Turkish govern or, the writer says, received a far greater sum. The Moslems were so incensed that they threatened to lynch Sheik. The excavators are supposed to have obtained sacred relics hidden by the Jews before Jerusalem was sack ed by the Romans. Dies In Quest Of His Hat. Buffalo, N. Y., May 8. An effort to recover his hat, which had been car ried away by a gust of wind, cost John French his lilfe. The hat was carried beneath a high pile of lum ber. To reach it, he had to move dightlly a plank at the bottom of the pile, causing - several thousand feel f lumber to topple over upon him. Killed Over Bowl of Soup. Columbia, S. C, May 8. Walte andifer, aged 22 years, was shot an istantly killed and Mrs." Cora Be nger dangerously wounded in tfc tter's restaurant here Saturday a rnoon by Ernest Grimsley, a coun4 nvict guard, following . a dispu -r a bowl of soup. Sandifer wa? ILS. NOTTS NTERVENE NO TRUTH IN STORIES THAT GEN. WOOD PREDICTED INTER VENTION REMOTE POSSIBILI TY OF AMERICA SENDING ARMY IN MEXICO. Washington, May 8. Stories print ed to the effect that General Leon ard Wood, chief of staff of the army, at an informal gathering of members of the House Committee on Military Affairs on Thursday, expressed the opinion that intervention in Mexico was inevitable and that it would take 200,000 American troops to patrol the troubled republic, brocght no little chagrin to administration circles. Official delials were put out from a number of sources and care was taken to express anew the administra tion's position that intervention is a most remote possibility. One of the President's callers went so far as to quote the President as saying that "blood would have to be so deep in Mexico that a man could wade through it," before the American army would cross the borderr. General Wood himself and Secre tary of War Dickinson were particu larly bitter in denouncing tbe cir culation of stories of intervention at this time, declaring that they consid ered them calculated to work infinite mischief, to endanger the lives of Am ericans in Mexico hy inflaming the natives to murderous assaults and even to plunge the two countries Into war. "It Is like poisoning a well," said General Wood. Secretary Dick inson was even more emphatic, through all of the conflicting reports as to ' the American attitude there stood out the fact that intervention in Mexico can come only through the act of Congress. President Taft, conscious of the constitutional restrictions as to in vading a foreign country and thereby committing an act of war, has time and again made the declaration that he would lay the whole matter before Congress if the time should ever come for intervention by this coun-J try and that the possibility for ac tion would be placed squarely up to the Congress. Congress leaders, it can be stated, are of the same opinion as the Presi dent as to intervention and matters in Mexico would .have to reach an extremely desperate stage before Am erican troops were ordered across the line. The fight is Mexico's and the United States proposes to keep hands off unless unwarranted outrages shocld be perpetrated against Ameri can and other foreign interests. Dr. Pickens Acquitted. Asheville, N. C., May 8. The Jury In the case of Dr. Clarence Pickens, a prominent young dentist of Weaver ville, charged with the murder sev eral months ago of Jerome and Fur man Capps, Saturday afternoon re turned a verdict of not guilty. It was in evidence that the Capps boys -waylaid and attacked Pickens; that they had him down and that he shot Jerome first and then killed Furman. Commemorate Anniversary of Per ry's Victory. Wasington, D. C, May 8. Presi ient Taft has appointed Rear Ad niral Charles E. Clark, representing he navy ; Nelson A. Miles, repres enting the army, and former Speaker T. Warren Keifer members of a ommission to commemorate the ictory of Commodore Perry on LaKe Tie in the War of 1812. Congress has appropriated a large lm for a memorial in Put-In-Bay. Mr. W. S. Whitson left for Orlanda is morning. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST MATTERS OF IMPORTANCE HAP PENING THROUGHOUT THE 3 COUNTRY Charleston, W. Va., May 8. Wil liam Cook, aged 38, a miner living at Burnwell, committed suicide Saturday by throwing himself in front of a switch engine. His head was cut off. Domestic trouble and no employment are said to have furnished the mo tive for his act. Annapolis, Md., May 8. The clos ing exercises of the first class ap pointed to the school of marine en gineering, established in 1909, will be held at the Naval Academy on May 11, Winston-Salem, N. C, May 8. Dis trict Attorney Holton has instituted a friendly suit against J. G. Grant and the North Carolina Railroad Company to remove a flaw in the title to a lot in Burlington, on which the government desires to erect a post office building. The agreed purchase price is $8,500. Fairmont, W. Va., May 8. George Dehaunt, a blower at the Fairmont window glass plant, met a fearful death Saturday when he fell Into a pit of molten glass. In his fall he came in contact with a lot of broken glass that split his skull, tore out an eye, cut off an ear, and almost sev ered one arm. Sharpsbcrg, Md., May 8. John Da Launey, son of a local hotel man, was badly burned Saturday when the ; bed in which he was sleeping took fire from an overheated stove. The lad's father heard his screams and arrived in time to save the boy's life. Raleigh, N. C, May 8. The North Carolina Farmers' Union has pur chased outright the stock of The Carolina Union Farmer and hereafter that interesting organ will be under control of the State organization in stead of a few men who have hereto fore owned the stock and who have been publishing the paper. Waif Now Heir to $50,000. Baltimore, May 8. Search has be gun here for a man who as a baby boy in 1876 was left by an unidenti fied woman in a police station, and if he is found approximately $50,000 will be turned over to him. His moth er, who is dead, is said to have be longed to one of the most prominent families in Maryland. Two relatives of the woman, one of whom gave the name of Mrs. Annie Fos3, and Attor ney Thomas Hughes are conducting the quest Farmville, N. C, May 8. The young men of Farmville have recently or ganized a german club, and their annual May dance will be given on . Friday evening, May 12th, in the Planters' warehouse. Music will be furnished by the Wil son " Orchestra. A musical concert will bo given from 8:30 until 9:30 for the benefit of those who don't dance but like to hear good music. The" ladies are especially invited. TODAY'S MARKET COTTON New York, May 8. Cotton opened this morning from six to ten points down. January, 12.75; March, 12.84; May, 15.35; July, 15.75; August, 14.81; October, 12.88; December, 12.77. At twelve o'clock the market was higher. January, 12.79; May, 15.43; Julyy 15.53; August, 14.92; October, 12.91; December, 12.80. The market closed: January, 12.78; March. 12.87; May, 15.42; July, 15.50; August, 14.91; October,. 12.91; De cember, 12.84. Spots in Wilson, around 15.00. 1 i t : it I - 9 . .1. I il