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: t ! . n V "! v s 4, J ! H SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 A YEAB. WILSON, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1911. VOL. 17. NO. 152 Wilson Times. THE PRIMARY FOR SENATOR 7 MUCH DISCUSSION AS TO WHETH ER IT WILL NOT INJURE , PARTY OTHER STATE NEWS (W. J. MARTIN.) Raleigh, N. C, July 20 Rev. George T7. Lay, rector of St. Mary's School, tad the misfortune to seriously sprain Lis ankle in a fall last evening on Payetteville street so that he will be confined to his home for a couple or eo weeks with his ankle in a plaster cast. It is learned that W. M. Carter, who was one of the defendants in the million two hundred thousand dollar damage suit of "Ware-Kramer Compa- ry vs. American Tobacco Company here, in which the jury gave damages amounting to $70,000, and in which the charges as to Carter were non euited, hag since the termination of the trial here filed his complaint in the suit for damages he instituted come time ago against The Asheville Citizen and The Raleigh News and Observer, the amount claimed being $10,000 against each newspaper. This suit was instituted on the strength of editorial in the Asheville Citizen and copied by the News and Observ er, commenting on a news story set ting out . the charges in the Ware- Kramer suit as to Carter having as an agent of the American-- Tobacco Company procured a position as sales manager "for Ware-Kramer Company end set about to destroy the trade or Ware-Kramer Company. In the re cent trial against the trust the plain tiffs failed to sustain their charges aeainst Carter and it is on the Etrength of this that he now under takes to press his suit against the newspapers, whose editorials . here "baed entirely on the Question of whether the allegations of Ware Kramer Company were true. There is a considerable diversity of opinion here in the discussion of the probable course of the impending Senatorial contest and the proposed Senatorial primary for trying out the strength of the four candidates with the people. ..The view is expressed 'by somethat there should really be general primary for the party called by. the State Executive Committee be fore the State Democratic convention next July and that this primary should be for all State officers as wel as for the Senator. Against this pro position there is the contention that the executive committee would have no moral right to call such a primary for the reason that the last Legisla ture definitely refused after long and spirited discussion to enact a general State primary has as decidedly detri mental to the interests of the Demo cratic party, especially in the west, j The other solution of the primary problem is that it should be a ques tion for the State convention in July, the convention to adjust the details to assure the complete settlement of the fight at the polls so that there could be no development that would ultimately precipitate this contest in the 1912 Legislature. The advocates of this plan of primary would have it prescribed by the convention that no one be allowed to vote for Senator who does not show that he has just voted the full State Democratic ticket before he offers to take a hand in the primary vote for Senator. The end that all. zealous Democrats, jealous for the welfare of the party and its unifi cation desire especially to see at tained is the keeping of the Sena torial fight from undue influence on the State ticket, especially the nomi nation for Governor, around which the principal State ticket contest will center. They want to see -this Sena torial contest pulled off in such way as will leave the party in standard fighting trim as against the opposing political party, and it is generally re garded as the weightiest problem that the State organization the State Chairman and the executive commit tee has to solve to steer the party through this Senatorial clash and in the end presenta solid and victorious front in the general election and for future conflicts. Hon. M. L. Shipman, Commissioner of Labor and Printing, finds after per sonal inspection into the Cranberry mine accident some weeks ago n which L. C. Tolly, a miner, wa.-s kill ed, that the explosion of a blast of powder that did the fatal worx was due to the effect of the detonation of drills on a blast of powder that had failed to go off with a number of ethers when the fuses were igmted. He savs his experience in the in spection of the Cranberry mines was one to stir the fears of the uninitiated such as he.. Mr. Shipman says the number of visitors in the mountains for the summer - is something im mense, exceeding all previous re cords and that business is good aloni all lines. Cranberry mines are in the new county of Avery, just getting its county government organized, ana Mr. Shipman says affairs are devel oping fine. There will be a primary aoon in Avery on the question of the NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST UTTERS OF IMPORTANCE HAP PENING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY Chicago, July 20. Because her hus band met with financial troubles, Mrs. Ellen Gordon and Katherine Rose, her 5 months old baby, lost their home and lived in Jefferson park for three weeks. The pavilion where they huddled when the rain pelted them too hard, has no side walls. It required almost all of the small income of James Gordon to buy the baby condensed milk. Gordon's wages were garnisheed, and this cost him his place, For 17 nights out of 21 the mother held the baby in her arms all night under the open sky. There is much contradiction r.mong witnesses before the Lorimer investi gating committee as to wnat Jtimes did say with reference to the Lorimer Richmond, Va., July 20. The Sena- tonal contest in Virginia is warming up. Representatives Jones and Glass I are putting up a strong fight, and are losing no time canvassing the State federate army, while my father's kins in the interest of their candidacy, men. some of them, served in the benators Martin and Swcnson, too, are not idling their time, but are in close communication with their lieu- tenants throughout the State and are sanguine that when the votes are cast, after the general primary, they will have a sufficient number to in-1 sure their retention in the Senate. Washington, D. C, July 19. The t-v i i a i x i ximitmein. m agriculture s crop re- port, showing the condition of the principal crops on August 1st, wiU Ka ict-nn,! 9.1s w, -nrcA I August 9th. It will announce also t : i ji j I me yicuuiuwijf c Limits Ul y miu. aiiu rmnlitir nf winter mnoot fhQ a s.ma era of buckwheat, hay and r-e, and stocks nf oats nd K-rlA- in frrmors- crop on July 25th will be issued Wed- nesday, August 2nd, at noon. - Havana, July 20. The process of removing -the water surrounding theiowa the storv of the 26th North wreck of the Maine was practically j rouipiewju yesteruay eveniiig wneu i the water level in the cofferdam had been lowered 18 feet, leaving the WYeck surrounded by islets of mud, small pools and cink holes of green slimy water. The soundings show now a depth in excess of four feet. Wilmington, in. tu., Juiy JO. Mam- festing in a most substantial w.y its conuuence m tne miure oi vv nming- ton, the directors of the Seaboard Air -C J it. r j tit? i une, at a recent meeting m xview x oric, autnorizea an . expenditure oi $200,000 for still further improve- ments at Wilmington, the amount be- ing immediately available. All told this will make about $400,000 spent by the Seaboard in the enlargement and improvement of its terminals at this portjiwiinm tne past tnree years. Several Killed In Train Accident. Pittsburg, July 20. Five trainmen were killed m the derailment of a freight at Bryant Station, from a broken wheel. The dead are: F. Mc Cunningham, of Connellsville, Pa.; Jos. O'Connell, of Johnstown, Pa.; Charles Ivoerson, of Chicago; Mat- thew O'Neill, of Sharon, Pa.; and Sam Mattingiy, or Kittsourg, i-a. - $3fc is ' THE WEATHER T - ... !T P P P Washington, D. C, July 20. For North Carolina: Generally fair except probably local thundershowers to night or Friday, with not much change in temperature; light variable winds. Weather Yesterday Over Cotton Belt. Showers have fallen in all districts, except the Memphis and Oklahoma, with some heavy local rainfalls. The rainfall in Texas occurred in the southeastern and northeastern por tions of the State. The temperatures continue mod erate. The following heavy rainfalls are recorded: New Bern, N. C l.Oo Augusta, Ga. .. .. . 2.38 Alapaha, Ga, .. 1.10 Fort Gaines, Ga.' 1-20 Alexandria, La . . 1-30 Clifton, La. ......... 1.30 Lafayette, La. 1-30 MOnroe, La 1'40 Amite, La 2.00 Melville, La . 2.00 Eufaula, Ala 1.80 Foxt Deposit, Ala 11 Nacodoches, Texas 1-60 location of the county seat the con test being between Elk Park, Monta zuma and Old Field-To-Toe. Ae requisition from the Governor "f South Carolina for the extradition of J. E. Crouch to Williamsburg county, S. C, to answer the charge of breach of trust, was honored today by 4ov ernor Kitchin, Crouch being in jail at Charlotte. THE SHAH DEFEATED FORCED OUT BY RUSSIA-WAS TRY ING TO REGAIN HIS . THRONE RGAIN ESCAPES St. Petersburg, July 20. The rebels headed by the deposed Shah of Per- sia, Mohammed Ali Mirz, have been defeated on the Persian frontier. Mirz has escaped into Russia. SO DIFFEREN FROM HEYBURN. ln ettino- trast tr, Rpnatnr Heyburn, of Idaho, Senator Dixon, of Carolina soldier. Senator Dixon spoke as follows in the Senate on Tuesday "I am a Southerner born. My mother's people served in the Con- army for the preservation of the Union. I think, without a feeling of egotism. I may say that I can some- times feel that I can look on the period of the Civil War with as broad a catholic spirit as any patriotic American can do. Personally I have only the greatest feeling of tribute, feeling of admiration for the heroic i i ji j iv ; -T -m en, w iaiu "u tne lost cause 01 tue iOiiieuuiauj'. , , , wun.- v,; ia " . any mere superb example of devotion to wnai tiiey ueiieveu tu ue a ynuti- Pie an mat wn icn mspire u tu Vw pie of the South from '61 to 65. At - .. ;,-! r wvi. same time me yuixiyixz lux waxxw I? comenuea was ewjmauy ioU&. rememoer twu jreaia a6w viuu6 the battlefield of Gettysburg in com- Iowa: and Brown, of Nebraska. I re- memDer wnen we reacnea tne poiuc oil vtJinJtiiy ruiugts wucm tivncii o r.harsre broke throuerh the Union lines at one place. I told the Senator from Carolina Regiment that was recruited m my wn country ana in wnicn charge some of my own kinsmen laid down their lives. It was with a feel- iT,s af nride that. I told him the story jCf the record of the 26th North Caro- ima infantry which held the record Df both armies. Federal and Confed erate for loss in battle durinsr that entire period and when we reached that point where the bie bronze book I . -. laid open at the little clump of trees J telling on one side the story of valor and bravery and the heroism of the men who wore the gray and on the opposite naee of the bronze the eaual valor and heroism and devotion of the men wno wore the blue, I took off my hat, not metaphorically, by physically for jt seemed to me that we stood on holy ground, if there were any such within the confines of this republic. "At that point in passing I want now to correct a little error I think of the school text and newspaper his- tory of thig country relating to that phase of the civil war. The ordinary school history and magazine refer to that heroic charge of heroic men as the charge of Pickett's Virginians General George Pickett was himself a vireinian. but as a matter of cold fact and actual history the majority of the men who constituted Pickett's division that charged across a mile of open ground in the face of 150 Fed- i erai cannon ana su.uuu niies. weis iNortu Carolinians, auu as i caucu mo attention of the Senator from Iowa to St the record in the bronze book that lay onen there it occurred to me that the maioritv of these regiments that made for themselves names on the page of history were North Carolina regiments. I myself at this time step from what I wanted to say to give public utteranqe to that fact that the men of my own native State may not be robbed of their part in that heroic struggle Renator Dixon recalled that in the past he had made contributions to the Confederate monument at the county seat of his native county and he added, "I did it with a great feel ing that I ' was in a small way con tributing to the perpetuation of the memory of those heroic and brave men. Has Disease Now Unknown. Washington, Pa., July 20. Suffer ing from a mysterious tropical malady l-!clutely unique in the annals cf irtdicine, the wife of the Rev. Wil liam C. Johnston is at the home of her mother, unable to return to t-vr husliand, a missionary in the Camer roon district, in West Africa, noted a? a death trap for the white race. Examination of the blood of Mrs. Johnston has revealed the presence cf germs un'ike any ever seen by eacteriologists. N In symptoms the dis ease is similar to the dreaded sleep ing sickness, epidemic in other pari.s rf Africa than the Camerroon dis trict, yet physicians declare positive ly' that the cace cannot be diagnosed ase one of the sleeping sickne5s Fome of-the. best known scientists In ' the country are studying the case WANT IN CREASE OF 4 CENTS ON C. & 0. IF DE MANDS ARE NOT GRANTED A STRIKE LIKELY Richmond, Va., July 20. If the dif ferences between the machinists and boiler-makers and other trades on the Chesapeake & Ohio are not settle. Twenty-five hundred men along the line from Newport News to Chicago will be involved. They demand an ncrease of four cents an hour. A strike is likely. $10,000 Not Mentioned. Washington, D. C, July 20. B. A. Of Johnson, formerly on the staff the American Lumberman of Chicago, was again called to the witness stand when the Lorimer investigating com mittee resumed its session. Johnson is one of the men who was on the train going from Duluth to Virginia, Minn., when C. F. Wiehe, secretary of the Hines Lumber Company, is al leged to have told Burgess that he contributed $10,000 to the Lorimer election fund. Johnson again told the committee that he was present in the smoking compartment of the car when Wiehe and Burgess were there, and that no such conversation as Burgess described with Wiehe took place. Johnson weighs over 300 pounds. He stated that he "occupied several seats in the smoking room," and when everybody in the room laughed John son also smiled, and explained that he had occupied them "at different times." Johnson was cross-examined. Noth ing of importance was developed In the cross-examination until Senator Fletcher questioned the witness. You appear to be a man of intel ligence and character, and I say this because I want to ask you some ques tions which may appear to be per sonal,'? said Senator Fletcher. "' want to ask if you had been drinking that night on the train." "No, sir, replied the witness. "Had Burgess been drinking?" . "1 do not think so." "How about McGowan ?" "I do not think any one in the smoking compartment had been in dulging." "Mr. Burgess has told this commit tee that a conversation regarding Senator Lorimer's election occurred at that time, in that compartment, between himself and Mr. Wiehe, and you have told us that no such con versation took place," said Senator Fletcher. "How do you reconcile these two statements?" "I do not attempt to reconcile them," replied Johnson. "Could any such conversation have been held?" "Not in my presence. It was so startling as told by Mr. Burgess that if it had occurred it would have made an impression on me." John B. Price, of Seattle, Wash. was the next witness, s Price was another of the passen gers in the train from Duluth to Vir ginia, Minn., in March, 1911, when the Burgess-Wiehe conversation is said to have occurred. Price was in the smoking compartment on the trip. Burgess, Price, Wiehe, Johnson, Mc Gowan and some of the Weyerhauser brothers were present. The conver sation was on reciprocity, jury ser- ivice and a certain waterway improve ment project. "Was there anything said by any one about the election of Senator Lorimer?" asked Judge Hynes, coun sel for Edward Hines. "No, sir." "Anything said by Mr. Wiehe about having contributed $10,000 toward Senator Lorimer's election?" "No, sir." "Were you in the smoking compart- ment when these conversations are said to have occurred all of the time?" "Witn tne exception or aoout one minute, when I went out into the car to see if any baggage was there. "Was there time for a conversation such as has been described between Mr. Burgess and Mr. Wiehe while you were absent?" "I do not think so." On cross-examination by Attorney Marble, for the committee, the ques tion arose as to how witness came to know the names of the men in the smoking compartment, all being strangers to him. "How did you know Mr. Johnson?" "I recognized his picture when I heard his name mentioned." "Where did you ever see his pic tures?" "You mean to say that you recog nized this man whom you had never seen merely by his pictures." "Yes, sir; because I have seen it many times, for Mr. Johnson is the founder of the 'Concatinated Order of Hoo-Hoos,' of which I am a member, and I have been interested in him." "That's a lumber organization?" "Yes, sir." "And you are a lumberman?" Yes, sir." HOT 0Fr of THE WIRES FOUR NERVY ROBBERS. Held Up 300 Laborers and Secure $10,000. Janesville, Wis., July 20. Three hundred Italian laborers on the Chi cago and Northwestern, were held up by four robbers who obtained from them at the point of a pistol $10,000. AVIATORS GATHERING FOR RACE After $50,000 Offered by The London Daily Times. London, Jully 20. Aviators are gathering for a race from London to Edinburg on Saturday for the $50,- 000 offered by the London Dailly Times. REFUSED TO GIVE DETAILS Of His Investigation to the Stanty Committee. Washington, July 20. Senator Al- drich was a witness before the Lori mer committee today. Corporation Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith declined to give the details of his investigation of the steel trust before the Stanley steel investigating com mittee. Train Plunged Into Trestle. Musgekee, Okla., July 20. A pas senger tram on the Midland Valley Railroad plunged into a trestle near Avent today injuring many people. Killed Engineer and Escaped. Buffalo, N. D., July 20. A North ern Pacific passenger train was held up by three bandits who shot En gineer Olson twice, robbed the pas sengers and escaped. Arrested At Side Of Dying Wife. Louisville, Ky., July 20. Clarence Colbert, trailed by detectives for months for forgery, visited the bed side of his dying wife, where he was arrested today. Fell 800 Feet. Berlin, Jully 20. Aviator Heink lo day fell 800 feet &nd will die. Black .Hand Outrage. Chicago, July 20. Failure to pay black hand demands resulted in a bomb wrecking the store, of Vincent Cognatu today. Most Of It Water. New York, July 20 After admitting that the stock of the American Sugar Company had been unloaded on 10,000 women in various parts of the coun try who lost their money by its de cline in value, Washington B. Thomas, chairman of the Board of Audits and head of affairs, was asked the question if not most of the $90,000,000 capital was water. The witness would not answer. "Would you not say that the actual value of the company's property and business is $40,000,000 instead of $90, 000.000?" "I couldn't say off-handed." Congressman Malby took the wit ness in hand and asked him whether Havenieyer and his rival, Arbuckle, did not have a conference and agreed to end the war. "They had some agreement, but I did not know about it," "Was not this agreement reached after the American Company had en tered the coffee field against Ar buckle?" "I believe that it was." "Then the war was ended?" "The competition was not so keen after that." The witness was then made to iden tify a contract between his company and a factor, or sugar seller to the trade from the factor, agreed to sell at the price stipulated by the trust. COWARDLY ASSAULT. Drunken Brute Fires Gun Into Fac of Wife Killinn Her Instantly. Richmond, Va., July 20. Detectives are still at sea on the Beattie case. Richmond, Va., July 20. Police and detectives are hot on the trail of the drunken brute who fired Wednesday night into the machine of Mr. H. C. Beattie and instantly killed his wif who was sitting by his side. Mr. Beattie saw a staggering figure in the road and stopped the machine to allow the party to get out of the way. The man said, "You want the whole road, do you, and you were trying to run over me." Seeing a gun in his hand Mr. Beattie assured him that he had stopped the machine from hurting him. The man raised the gun and fired point blank in the face of his wife who fell over dead. Mr. Beattie sprang from the ma chine, grappled with the man, took the gun away from him after being struck once with it. The man fled and Mr. Beattie with all possible speed drove the machine back to the city. The funeral of Mrs. Beattie will occur today. CHOLERA HELD CHECK FOREIGN STEAMERS DETAINED AT QUARANTINE FEARS SUBSIDING New York, July 20. The cholerti situation Is well in hand. Tho Italian steamer Prince pe Dei Piedmont, haa arrived at general quarantine. Wiley Case Gets Worse For Attorney. General Wickersham. Washington, July. 20. News and sensational developments occurred Ini the Dr. Wiley case. It was ascertain' ed at the Bureau of Chemistry that the Remsen Board, which decided that benzoate of soda is not a harm ful substance in food, is now being paid, it is said, in violation of the same law which Dr. Wiley la charged with breaking. Members of the Remsen Board, who are said to be hostile to Dr. Wiley, are drawing $2,000 annual salary each, $4000 moro apiece than the law allows. What makes this alleged violation; of the law more glaring is that Attorney-General Wickersham himself parsed on the legality of the piy nents and put his O. K. on It, wniie laier he recommended that Dr. WlJer be dismissed for exactly tho same kind of a transaction. The Remsen Board salary matter is to bo brought before the House. Committee on Expenditure in the De partment of Agriculture, which wIU begin to probe the Wiley matter aa soon as Secretary Wilson makes hia recommendations to President Taft on the charges. The Remsen Board, it Is alleged, while their work wag finished more than a year ago, it is still on the pay rolls. When this was called to the attn tion of Chairman Moss, of the com mittee, this morning, he declared that that committee "certainly intended to get at the bottom of the Remsen Board matter at the same time that the Wiley charges are investigated." WHER THEY PLAY TO-DAY. National League- 'A St. Louis at New York. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at Boston (2 games.) Chicago at Philadelphia. American League New York at Detroit, Boston at Cleveland, Philaedphia at Chicago.. Washington at St. Louis. . To Sell Exposition Site In October. Norfolk, Va., July 20. Sale of the Jamestown Exposition property, em bracing all the belongings of the re- ceivership estate, was directed yester day by Judge Waddill in the United States Court, The sale will be made by commissioners, yet to bo appoint ed, and probably will occur in Octo- Lber. The special commissioners who were nominated to the court are: H. H. Kerr, R. H. Baker, R. M. Lett, H. C. Davis and H. H. Rumble. The decree of sale affirms tho right of mechanics' liens to preco. dence of the Jamestown Exposition first mortgage of $400,000, heretofore decided by the court, when the liens are valid. The commissioners of sale, according to the decree, will divide the property, in which is in eluded the site of 226 acres, exhibit end State buildings, into parcels and to offer it for sale both in parcels and as a whole. - jit aJK mm. m. ak M I mw mw TO-DAY'S MARKET & llx, Alfc k 4k ' COTTON. New York, July 20. Cotton opened as follows: July, 13.50; August, 13.00; September, 12.30; October, 1247. The market opened from 1 to 8 points higher. Both futures and spots aro active in Liverpool. New York, July 20. At Boon tho market was as follows: August, 12.77;' October, 12.02; December, 12.01; Jan uary, 12.01. At 3 o'clock the markefc. closed as follows: August, 12.79; September, 12.18; October, 12.00; December 12.01. NEW YORK STOCKS. New York, July 20. Stocks opened weak with Canadian Pacific off 1 1-4; Steel, common, American Smelting and Southern Pacific 1-8; Amalgamate ed Copper, Erie, common and Union Pacific 3-8; Erie preferred, 1-2; Southern Railway, 1-4. The curb H irregular. GRAIN AND PROVISIONS. Chicago, July"20. The opening in September wheat wag 87 1-8; July. 85 1-2; July corn, 62 3-8; September, 63 1-8. IN f ' "II .hi M i sf i; 0 -.. V i: ; a
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