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Hit Li'i--Su .VL in i I iv BECOME THK RrVRF. "NEW ENGLAND"- I HI- I.NDl STRlAl. ! CX At HiLL CENTER OF AMERICA M .Far the Progress o the Piednont-Mountain South. VOL 5. NO. 24 "f ust in Everything" SHELBY. N. C, TUESDAY. MARa H 1914 ' '0 thr 1 rd.'. V. tiir C.u pv LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY S EM 1 - WEEKLY , NOT PUBLISHED L A DAILY SHOP. IN THE SOUTHERN STATES MURDER TRIAL THIS WEEK; LIGHT DOCKET; JUDGE LONG PRESIDING Ught Docket, Except for Mur der and Rape Cases Crowds Attend JlTtY HAD -NOT YET FOl'N D TRI E HILL IN MCRDER CASE Trial of Blackuburg Box Will 1 'rub ably Not Take Place Be fore WedneMta U.urt with Ju convened yesterday morning Ixmg presiding and Suhc- lUir Newland prosecuting. The name of the jurors, although previously published, will appear again m h'ri day's Highlander. The criminal docket is exceedingly light, the cases being summarized m the list (below I oi' those in jail, awaiting trial. The chief cases are those against the Itlacksburg lioys for the King's Mountain murder and the alleged rape by Harrison Collins of Miss No vella I'avis. Miss Davis is a daugh ter of Mr. J. Davis of the Ella Mil!, Suoth Shelby. The grand jury had not yet return ed a true bill when thus paper went to press, although it is believe! that that one of more of the boys will lie tried and that the rase will come up about Wednesday. Names of the law yers in the i nse were published in Friday's Highlander. Hotel-de-Cleveland Occupants The following are in the Hotel-de-Cleveland awaiting trial at this term of court: Boh Bridges, tieing of dusky hue and not wanting to wait or take time to bother the coal man, alleged to have appropriated to his own use, some coal belonging to the Seaboard. Hookey Winn, John Haynes and Char lie Goode, all of the raony race want ing some meat, not possessing the wherewithal and botng hungry, al aleged to have decided that there were some chickens that could be appro priated to their use without any one being the wiser, but their surmises proved to be false, they falling in the clutch of the law before they got to eat the aforementioned meat, -which appeals bo strongly to the sons of Ham. Plato Bonner, colored, charged with imbibing two much joy spirits, becoming, too happy to stay ,' on the streets, awaiting trial for be- inir -rtrnnte .urNi WiwvKtu "I ',, Ctl nnito Haynes and Irym bonnahue, both 1. ? . . t . 1 UL 1 I- ' I i wrote, cnargea wim Dreutung inw a hardware store at King's Mountain. John Leytoa, white, fighting. Diana Bridges, colored, fighting. The four men, J. Z. Bell, H. E. Davidson, Jas. Whismant and Fulton Whisnant, charged and held on the charge of being principals and accessors of the King's Mountain negro murder. Har rison Collins, white, charged with rape. MARION ROSS WINS AT UNIVERSITY University, Chapel Hill, N. C, Mch. vSl. In a sharp contest held here Monday night by the Dialectic Liter ary Society for the Fresh-Soph de date, Mr. Marion Ross, Jr., was unan imously chosen to represent his class. Mr. Ross is a splendid debater, this being the second debate he has made this year. The final debate will be held Apirl 15. The Good Roads Institute held un der the auspices of the Department of Civil and Highway Engineering of the University and the North Car olina Geological and Economic Sur vey began Tuesday morning and con tinued for three days. The Institute was under the supervision of Dr. Hyde Pratt, the State Geologist. There were forty-two county road engineers and superintendents who attended the meeting. Messrs. Eddleman and Broadway attended from Cleveland county. In speaking of the sand-clay roads before the Institute Wednesday morning Dr. Pratt referred to the splendid work of Mr. Eddleman of Cleveland county and said that the road between King's Mountain and Shelby was one of the best in the "Wanderlust," in the title of a book written by Solicitor Robert R. Reynolds, of the Class of 1906 of the University, copy of which has been received by the University Library. It in dedicated to (). Max Gardner of Shelby and Bernard M. Conlon, and the book is a story of the-exper iences of its author as encountered in extensive travels to this and other countries. DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY MAY 16. CONVENTION 25TH At a meeting of the county execu tive committee of the Democratic party held in the Court House Mon day it was decided to hold the coun ty primary on the same 4ate as the state and congressional primary, May 16, and the county convention on Sat urday, May 23. The registration books for the primary will be opened on Saturday, April 25th and will re main open until May 16th at 12:30 o'clock p. m. The polls will open at 1:00 o'clock and remain open until sundown. A full list of registrars for the var ious precincts will be given in the Highlander on Frid iy of this week. YOl N(; ' JI NK DEALERS" ACQUITTED MY RECORDER The Shelby Reorder'- i the -..tTt' of an u. teres : . -.c Saturday evening, w her. i igt -f Shelby's young War.nt!t.t Siiwrsteins which'1 were bef.ire the bar t answer i harge of illegal transact!'.- v. a- . or i ...v,. h old j j nk . They ranged i'i nge from to fourteen and came i t a ..';.!.vr of Shelby's tiest families It seems that junk- old 1 rn- lino type nieta! easting-, and the l.ke had mysteriously disappears! from their proper place.-.. Box cars had been alleged to have been rifled -looted-- and junk taken therefrnni. A well-digging machine had been strip ped of its brass fixtures; the owner replaced these and had hoisw-d it on a ts.x car to ship away, when In! and behold' the fixtures were swiped be fore the car got away. Some people thought there was a gang "f little "fagan-," which operat ed on the "quiet " However, when the case came to trial the recorder discharged them. There was no e idence against them. It seem-- that tney had U-en doing much "trading" among one another and that much of the- stuff which they had sold to the legitimate local deal er m junk had been "found" bv the boys. Will. VKT KF.CKI VK ( ALLS FKOM JACK FROST The Weather .Man Says Spring Weather is Coming But So Is Jack Washington, March 22. A gradual return this week to normal Spring temperatures, with generally fair skies, was predicted by the Weather Bureau tonight for all parts of the country East of the Rocky Mountain.1?. "There will be frost the first part of the week, however," said the bul letin, "in the East Gulf and South Atlantic States, except Southern Florida. "There is nothing to indicate mark ed storm activity over the country. A disturbance of moderate intensity will appear in the Northwest Wed nedaay .Qr 'Thrlradayiicjwse.the Middie .States 'iiear tho end of the wek; this disturbance will be attended by local areas of precipitation and be followed by o change to cooler weath er in the Northern States." RAILROAD MASS MEETING AT ST. PETERS SCHOOLHOUSE A Citizen's Mass Meeting for mu tual information on the proposed Railroad Bond Issue is called for the coming Saturday night at St. Peters' School House in Upper Cleveland. The meeting is for INFORMA TION only and not with the inten tion of influencing anybody. The intelligent citizens of Upper Cleveland are chiefly desirous of finding out the FACTS at issue. They can be depended upon to do the rijffct thing, once they know the facts. Both sides of the question are re quested to come out. ATTORNEY GENERAL HELPS In some places in North Carolina the undertakers, doctors and midwives are not reporting births and deaths. They do not seem to know that the new vital statistics law means busi ness. In several of the counties the death and birth rates, according to the first's month's reports, are so low that they are absurd. For instance, the returns from Robeson county for January show an annual death rate of only 3 per 1,000. whereas-, from the death rate elsewhere, it would seem that it should be at least 24 per 1,000. Word has been sent to all the undertakers, doe-tors and midwives in Robeson and other counties in the same plight that two weeks will be given them to report all unreported birth and deaths, after which a thorough of ficial investigation will be made by the State Board of Health for unre ported births and deaths; and that when such are found, prosecution will be made at once. The Attorney General has been con sulted on this matter, and he is heart ilv in accord with the new law. He has asked that all the data for the first half dozen prosecutions be laid before him, so that he can give them his full attention. After that, he will act as general consultant in such work whenever needed. JUDGE WEBB TO DELIVER SPEECH BELWOOD RALLY The coming Friday AFTERNOON an invitation of the Belwood Rail-' road club to sneak to the citizens of Upper Cleveland in general and the Fallston-Bclwood district in particu- lar. He will explain the proposed bond issue for a railroad through Up- per Oeveland. Everybody is invited to come out .nH ttA thiH hio- rllv. .TiifJoA WaKh will aloft cnAalr of t.1 .. 1 1 nlirht Kit 1 A-ail3tvu i i ion J II I 1, L, UUL tiic uittlll meeting is the Belwood rally. ' I NEGRO ATTACKS YOUNG GASTON COUNTY WOMAN Ncrtajnh Scared Negro ay Df Followed Net-'ro to Outskirts of j (lEHtoma Hut lxst Frail j ,ast-.r, Hon is Ma-, I irred i hi - ity ei the arv: al- I i temp'd M;ss Emrc.i I three mil- i Dixon, w h' from (,ast. The atta red t) i- aiternoei. 1 . x 1 1 had gone to r !.o.-'.e for watw L.o ke i h: r. He e her clothe"!, but ri arcing for help had a, oinplisheri Mi the spring r.eai h when the negio ;, choked her and to when she began he fled bef.-te he nis purpo.se. Officers were irnn.i-diately notified and bloodhound-- were rushed to the scene. They followed the trail to the out.skirt.s of loist.ana I ut there lott it. Miss Dix.o. -he oulJ not iden tify the i.egr... IV ight officers are endeavoring to apprehend the crin: inal but at the tune of going tl pres ; had found no ,-lui Miss lhxoii i about !') year.J old. and lues with her mother. The at tack left her iiiii 'HiM lous for a time but when she came to hersvlf the nt gro had gone. Her brother lives about a mile distant He was immediately notified and otlicers m (lastonia were then sought. Talking to the chief of police ef (iastoma Saturday night the High lander learned that he was notified of the occurrence about an hour after it hail occurred. He immediately rushed to the scene, and with dogs followed the trail close into tiaston ia, but there the dogs lost' the trail.' He says that every effort is being made to apprehend the negro. He states that the negro was described to b4m as In-ing of medium buiW; dark complexion and he wears a mul- tache. RAILROAD CLUB IS ORGANIZED AT BELWOOD Forty Members Join the First Nig , rr-Beeking Information tfF?i': the Belwood section of t3v listou-Ct-ivood katfKiXd -district dtf last Friday night organized a rail road club for information. Forty members joined. Mr. P. L. Peeler was elected pres ident and Mr. Thad C. Ford, secre tary. Speeches were made by Esq. J. G. Hoyle, Mr. A. G. Higgins and Mr. P. L. Peeler. The club was organized for the purpose of obtaining information to get the facts The people of that section are de sirous of doing the right thing for their community and for the whole county. They do not want to be mis informed or misled in this important issue, hence their eagerness to join clubs, organized for the purpose of finding out the full text, meat and matter o the election to be held on Saturday the 11th of April. The club is desirous of embracing in its membership all of the fair minded and public-spirited citizens of the district. THE FRANK CASE Williams Bums, the world-famous detective, who has conducted success fully some of the greatest cases in the criminal annals of the country, has personally taken charge of the in vestigation into the murder of Mary Phagan, for which Leo Frank, factory superintendent, was convicted. Mr. Burns gives out long interviews each day and the papers revel in the mystery of the hunt. Burns claims that all murderers leave a foot-print, and he says he is on the right trail, and will shortly submit facts which will convince everybody as to the guilt of the girl's murderer. Burns was interested in the case, it is said, by- the friends- of Frank. The motion for a new trial will be based on additional evidence, and it is not at all unlikely that Frank will be cleared. His counsel claim that the preju dice against him tecau.se he is a Jew, and the popular clamor for a blood sacrifice of some kind for the brutal crime, resulted in his conviction un fairly. The Journal comes out in a lengthy editorial demanding u new trial, and hundreds of persons are seconding the motion, including various Atlanta ministers. Frank was convicted largely on the testimonv of the neero floor sweep er who admitted complicity in the crime and who swore to lies on the witness stand, finally repudiating a sworn statement he had made ill previous hearing. Charlotte Newt. Worldly Wisdom "In choosing a wife one uld ver by appearances.' "That's right. Often the pret iet jpirls have the least money." B' Transcript. Rurai Demontratin ..Did you water thc forns in , . ' x. drawing room, Norah?" ton the the "Yes, mum, Dont ve hear wntl ftrinnirv f n Hie nr met ? fos- t I - ' ' " ' - - I - t"n Transcrip. THREE MILES OF FINE ROAD HI I FT IN "NUMBER .s" 1 t rati Koad h l. i id in x 1 forked .f N't Th h.t The that . J 1- ! ge -re,! M- ' d, ! Hous. neieht meet .t Iter at' rh pul I I num red t- ile-l gle mule !. - . ha-..: . (I, ., givt scrap, rs. pa 1 1 k t the imi".; burn, in hand- . guide and -ut I:. ! - eshnit ' t.I.i and th, d up A : t. r au t., k was li : of !', gr st ret. hed be the or ogres; hed an-: I II kH ed and una. -I e t he .aim I ri : . e and un .;:.t. :..'.. of No. 8 tounshm. Now the (iriggs. 1 lei'n. I . .1. ... kins' ami others of we tern No. s requesting that eastern No. - ,1mm over and take a look. At the ame time they invite tin county and Piedmont section to see what co-operative elf.irt -communitv enterprise- can do. bursted blood vessel itrsi im; her hoy Rutherford Woman- Kunawa; Bo the Cause of Her Demise in ( harlot te Mrs. Ralph Shotwell died i" the Presbyterian Hospital at Charlotte and her body was brought to Ruth crfordton and buried in the ceme tery Tuesday afternoon, the funeral services bcino- conducted hv Tfv C. ijt.-O'NeeJ, oftthe Southern Baptist TThiBcltf'-iR,15astuii asifcU'f by ). r. d. ICankm, of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Maggie Coral Wallace Shot well was born December 5th, 1890. Her parents died in her infancy and she was raised by her maternal grandfather, Mr. George Washington Goode. She was married to Mr. Ralph H. Shotwell Thanksgiving Day, 1909, and died March 16th, 1914. She join ed Mount Vernon Baptist church in her girlhood and lived a sweet Chris tian life. The rupture of a blood vessel in pursuit of her baby, Nathan Shot well, two years old, who had wander ed from her Charlotte home toward the deadly street car track. This oc curred Thursday, March ""lfctK Phy sicians were summoned and she was removed to the hospital all in vain. She had given her life for the child. The boy, with a five-year-old sister, Leona, is left to the bereaved fath er and husband. The Sun. STATE NEWS In Moore county tho commission ers have decided to name a bank as county treasurer arid save the county the expense of maintaining that office. A law passed by the last legislature at the instance of Mr. Henry A. Page, the member from Moore county, and which applies to about 17 counties in the States, pro vides that county commissioners may select a bank to keep the county funds and abolish the office of county treas urer. Mr. John F. Ieeper. chairman of the Gaston county board of commis sioners, died Friday morning at his home in Castonia, in his ts'ird year. For years Mr. Leeprr had been prom inent in Gaston county affairs. He had been register of deeds, had served in the Legislature and :-.s deputy collector of internal revenue under the last Cleveland administra tion and for '2 or more years had been chairman of toe board of com missioners. Three negro children, aged three, six years and thirteen months, were burned to death in Union county Fri day. They were left alone in a two room cabin while their parents were away at work and the house caught fire and was burned before they could be rescued. The bodies of the chil dren were found in the rear of the dwelling, after the walls had fallen in. The older child was holding the baby in her arms and the three-year-old was holding to its older sister. LOST ON THE MONROE On the ill-fated steamer "Monroe," which went down in Chesapeake Bay. was a big shipment of goods from the Henrietta and Florence Mills. The mill company has filed cleaim for damages. Bi? Singing at Sandy Plains. People of the county are requested not to forget the Uld Time Singing, crhdnled for March Z9th new Sun rnv te fifth in the month. Capt. O D. Pric- v-ill nreside, assisted by other capable leaders. ENGI.A N I ) HEREAFTER WIFE DE F WITH MEXICO DIRECT KING GEO. FEARS A CIVIL CONFLICT Hk Mo.-vK l'vnr,sd; If His Ottuer- Not To HeM-n Their M U M MM Ml I IN I l-tt r r m is Hu- Mown.- m... Ih. Hills . ,,,; ,.! H. las. T'.. b.cv, . l'ag. t lit . .-i kmc f .1. Ight .1 1 h; f thf. : 1 1 1 v i reel 1 a: -i months th. . n! i," Arni Not listen. .1 all the ofl'ic, r--i heir reMgtii- : .a r of high st;nai u niv wa.s otft red i..a!d n.- i... kmc .i l!l(ers 1 ' -I'llf this ;,p,,r 1 1 f u- ed to ris-oiisal t ion- A gent i al oft; ing in the regular the post (it' , ommander-m chief of the l ister volunteers. When he declined the otft r the war otneer inlttrmed him thai hi.-, refusal meant the severence of his i.innection with the army. He persisted, and the authorities offered the post to another officer, said to be a frientl of the general now in command at Belast, who accepted A denial was issuel today of the re parted mutiny of the Dorsetshire reg iment. There has been no diminution in the activity of the Ulster army. (Tf flcers of the so-called headquarters tt(-ffr on -duty .at Ortups.vnn, now.,the center o the Ulster movement, today were busy taking the ranges of the various mils and otner strategic points of Belfast Ixugh, which the estate overlooks. Uniforms Distributed The military administration will be gin the issuance tomorrow of the drab colored field uniforms to a spe ciay service corps of 4,000 men, espec ially organized, as mobiletriking force for the first attack, in event of hostilities. A sufficient number of motorcars are available to transport at least 2,000 men with rifles and ammunition from Belfast to any threatened point in Ulster in three hours. Ulster awaits with curiosity the next move of the war office, pending which the situation remains unchang ed. Absolute order prevails, in the city. Eighty special service "minute men" on duty at Craigavon, marched to the Presbyterian church at Belmont early today, taking their hospital corps and ambulance men, even the surgeons but leaving 50 men behind to guard the rifles and patrol the es tate while the others prayed in the pews behind Sir Edward Carson and other leaders. Sir Edward tonight said he had received letters of sympathy and en couragement from the United States. Replying to the statement that the troop movements were purely precau tionary in consequence of the dis covery of an Ulster plot to raid the military depots, he said: "There never was the least inten tion to take any provocative or ag gressive action, now will anv be taken." " I FINAL EXTENSION IN HIGHLANDER'S The attention of every contestant in The Highlander's big. booming contest, is called to the EXTENS ION of the club bonus offers for ONE MORE week positively the last week in which the scale of clubs now in force will be allowed. Next week we will either have no club offers on, or they will be consid erably lower. The club offers now on afford a grand opportunity for anyone in the contest to work hard in the few re main! ig weeks of the contest and land a big prize. Clubs must be mailed before mid night next Saturday, the 28th. Here are the OFFERS now on: This week ending March . X. a ?100-club wins 900,000 EXTRA votes. This week a $7b club wins 600,000 EXTRA votes. This week a $50 club wins 350,000 EXTRA votes. This week a $25 club wins 100,000 EXTRA votoe. This week a $10 club wins 30,00 EXTRA votes. tti-f.iitorv r ra n gc nirnl- rr Made i!h the -late I ep,irt mi ni UH I N T ( Y. ( H N . K CI I'D! K V K. gard.d as If... ' o'ist r o! owia';s i t T a Hit n l I . the . a;.:tal .) M ..I -: 1'.. -. h i '.: '' i '- : . that - V. ! ... ugh -: . a hen lo'itish t ' V the the t ! : .' tnh..ah ,., t.:- ul re- idt nt tilt It to establish , on. nca-This- n , ,,( r,.ga it g m any degr . lion oh the n.!,--:i: 'lei t . It was poo. Arm ri- an consuls . -miliar slat u- t.tv. a: l: -h ..: he it.. ti 't w:'h him. 1 - "O-;- t It Ut - al re ogrn-!i-t gt.vern ut that ail 't I iiet' o ..i . .py a the Huerta gov emtio nt. In other parts of Mexi- ti w here the Hritish government has no consular otlicers Secretary Bryan ha- undertaken to continue the pres ence of having consuls to look after lintish interests. British Consul Perceval, stationed at Galveston, who has been at El I'aso in connection with the effort to ascertain facts regarding the death of William Benton will leave El Paso tonight oi tomorrow on his return to Galveston. A new version of the Ben ton tragedy reaching officers here is that instead of tieing shot, as was at first reported, Benton was stabbed to death in General Villa's office. The body, this report says, was multilated, then buried in the neighborhood cf Juarez, instead of at Chihuahua as Villa has claimed. --Vhe" ih renort of the commission appointed by General Carranza to in vestigate the killing of Benton has been furnished to Secretary Bryan, it will be transmitted to the British government, which then will deter mine whether reparation skill be de manded. Another promise from Carranza to respect foreign life and property was received today through Consul Sim pich, at Nogales. Carranza has in structed General Gonzales to permit Dr. Ferguson, an American, held in Sonora to consult with the nearest American consul. ' LATE ITEMS Harrison Collins, charged with the crime of rape, is to go on trial today. It is a grave charge and conviction carries with it the penalty of death in the electri chair. Shelby nad Gastonia each lost out in their debate series. Gastonia sent Ernest Warren and Miss Reid to ar gue the negative side of the Initiative-Referendum question at Shelby against Wiseman Kendall and Dur ham Moore. Gastonia won here. To Gastonia Shelby sent Sam Bostic and Jeff Moore. They won on the nega tive side. To go to the State Uni versity it was necessary for a school to win both sides of the question. Henrietta Mills Openings. We call attention to the ads, announcing the millinery openings of the two big stores of Henrietta Mills Nos. 1 and 2. They are among the largest arid finest in this section of the Statfe and their millinery and dry goods depart ments take front rank. OF SPECIAL OFFER GREAT CONTEST REVISED SCHEDULE OF VOTES IN CON TEST TFRIOD "C" March 11 to March 2!) 3,000 8,000 15,000 30,000 'r yrs. yrs. Yrs. 10 yrs 100,000 25 yrs 300,000 PERIOD "D" March 29th to End of Contest 1 yr. . 2,000 2 yrs 5,000 1 yr I 10,000 5 yrs 25,000 10 yrs 75,000 Opportunity at some time KNOCKS upon every man's door. It is knocking upon a thousand doors today. Few can hear the knock until it is too late. It is NOT too late for any contest ant in The Highlander's great con test to GET BUSY NOW and win that fine Ford autf Nothing Venture, Nothing Gain It is -the old case of "Nothing Ven ture, Nothing Gain," over again.
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