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VOL. 28. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. MAY 28,1909. NO. 14
A SAMPSON COUNTY TRAGEDY.
Major Archibald Parker Shot to
Death by Drunken Man. At Park
ersburg Sunday. Rural Mall Car
rier William Bass Shot Up Com
munity While Crazied With Liquor.
Parkesburg, N. C., May 24.?Craz
ed with liquor and on a drunken
rampage of the community, William
Bass, a middle-aged white man, a
rural mail carrier from this place,
shot and almost instantly killed
Major Archibald Bradley Parker, one
of the most highly esteemed citizens
of the county, Sunday aftrenoon as
he stood on the platform of the store
of his nephew, .nr. C. P. Parker, of
Which he had charge here.
Pass, who is recognized in the
community as a terror when he is
drunk, was in an ugly mood Sunday
afternoon and told a Mr. Norrls
that be was going down and kill
Vander Hall, another rural carrier,
pnd arming himself with his shot
gun, he went forth. He also made
threats against Mr. Jasper Peterson,
in the same community. Hall re
ceived word of Bass' condition and
left home to avoid him, the drunken
tnan coming up later and shooting
Up his house. Mr. Peterson was
just driving off with his family also
to avoid the drunken man, when
Bass came up and fired at Mr. Peter
son and his family as they were
driving out of the yard.
Bass then went to the store of
Mr. Parker, which was, of course,
closed for Sunday. He demanded
tha* Major * arker, who was a man
Of 75 years of age, sell him some
ammunition. Major Parker refused
}n a polite manner and calling him
by his given name, motioned him to
go home and behave himself. With
out further warning, Bass threw up
his gun and fired into the elderly
gentleman, the load tearing a hole
the size of a dollar through his left
breast, just abovfe the heart, killing
him almost instantly.
Bass was arrested and placed in
the Sampson county jail at Clinton.
Parker was a prominent and highly
esteemed citizen of Parkesburg.
GREATER THAN LONDON.
New York is Expected to Have Larg
er Population in Twenty Years.
Comparisons are inevitable between
New York and London, the two most
extensively popular cities in the
world. The British metropolis at
present enjoys a pre-eminence in the
number of inhabitants which is se
riously threatened by New York, and
{t is safe to say that within the next
couple of decades London will be de
throned from its position of numeri
cal supremacy.
London, the capital of Middlesex
county, originally occupied just one
3quare mile, and in the course of
the centuries has gradually extend
ed in all directions until parts of
the counties of Essex, Surry and
Kent are included within its boun
daries. The great city has in all
probability attained its full territorial
growth. The yearly increase in pop
ulation is trifling when compared
with that of New York, and It is
certain that the world's greatest city
will be on the shores of 'he Hudson
river within about 20 years. This
can easily be demonstrated by the
comparison of the population within
a given radius from the centres of
the two cities.
A lairly accurate estimate of the
population within the metropolitan
area can be made by taking the cen
sus returns of the New York-New
Jersey area for 1900 and 1905 and
adding the same percentage of in
crease for the four following years
to bring it up to date, and by tak
ing the London census returns for
1901 and the British registrar gener
al's estimate of the population in
J907 and adding the same rate of
increase for the two years since that
date. This will show that the popu
lation within the circle covered by
the New York-New Jersey map is
about 6,000,000 and the population of |
Greater London within the same ]
area about 7,500,000. ?New York J
Times.
Visitor?"What part of prison life ,
is the hardsst to put up with?" Con
vict?"The visitors."?Kansas City j
Journal.
Aa owl with a nest of young will
gather atjout 40 mice a day for her
Offspring.
STATE NEWS.
Wilson and Rocky Mount have been
going after the "blind tigers" of late.
Rocky Mount has seut several to
the roads and Wilson has bound
some over to the Superior Court.
The board of trustees of Davidson
College are planning to raise an
endowment fund of $300,000. The
sum of $75,000 has been offered by
New York parties on condition that
the college raise $225,000.
Seventy-five young men, the largest
class in the history of the College,
were graduated from Wake Forest
College last week. Of the class
nineteen are ministers. Three of
the class?J. B. Willis, O. W. Hen
derson and A. T. Howard?have been
supplying Baptist churches in John
ston county this spring. In the ab
sence of Dr. Aked, of New Vork,
Dr. John C. Kilgo, of Trinity College,
delivered the annual address and cap
itis audience.
On account of ill-health Rev. F. M.
Shamburger has resigned as pastor
of Edenton Street Methodist church
at Raleigh. Rev. W. A. Stanbury has
been appointed to succeed him.
Nineteen young ladies were given
diplomas at the Normal and Industri- j
al College at Greensboro Tuesday.
Dr. Talcott Williams, of Philadelphia,
delivered the annual address.
The commencement at both Peace
Institute and St. Mary's school at
Raleigh were held this week.
The Senate Tuesday afternoon con- J
firmed the nomination of Henry
Groves Connor to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern Dis
trict of ??orth Carolina, vice Thom
as R. Purnell, deceased. There was
no opposition to the confirmation of
Judge Connor. The action of the
Senate gives he office to Judge Con
nor for life.
Judge Connor who was confirmed
Tuesday to be a Federal Judge will
be sworn in this week and be ready '
to hold the May term of the Federal
Court uc. Raleigh beginning next
Monday, May 31. The court was set
for last Monday, but was postponed,
waiting the confirmation of Judge
Connor.
The special tax election for schools
held in New Hanover county May
2ti was carried for schools by a good
majority, only 234 votes being cast
against it. There were 2,218 regis
tered voters and It was necessary
that the measure receive 1,110 votes
to win. It received 1,341. It pro
vides a tax of 12 cents on the *100
and 36 cents on the poll.
MOTHER OF FIVE AT A BIRTH.
Wisconsin Woman Adds to Her
Family Rapidly.
Eau Claire, Wis., May 21.?The
wife of Fay Irish, of Thorp, Clark
county, yesterday gave birth to five
babies, jthree daughters and two
sons. All are alive and well tonight.
There are now 10 children in the
family. The other five were born
separately, and are all living.
No Use Trying.
An old darky wanted to join a
fashionable city church, and the
minister, knowing it was hardly the
thing to do and not wanting to hurt
his feelings, told him to go home
and pray over it.
In a few days the darky came
hark
"Well, what do you think of it by
this time?" asked the preacher.
Well, sah," replied the colored
man, "Ah prayed an' prayed, an'
de good Lord he says to me, 'Ras
tus, Ah wouldn't bodder mah haid
about dat no mo". Ah've been tryin'
to git into dat chu'ch mahse'f for de
las' twenty yeahs, and Ah ain't done
had no luck.' "?Christian Register.
Elephant Scares Horse to Death.
Norristown. Pa., May 24.?Terriffi
ed by the sight of an elephant yes
terday, a horse belonging to Howard
Rlehards dropped dead in the shafts.
The elephant, a part of the Gen
try Brothers show, was being led
through the streets from the Frank
lin Avenue Station to the show
grounds.
Him?"How long should a man
know a girl before he proposes to
her?" Her?'What's the man's in
come?"?Cleveland Leader.
The organ-grinders of Vienna play
only between noon and sunset.
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH.
Baptist University Changes Name.
In Honor of Thomas Meredith, One
of the Founders of the Baptist
State Convention, and Founder of
The Biblical Recorder.
While hundreds of students and
their friends were enjoying the e
vents of the annual inter-soclety even
ing at the Baptist University for
Women last night they were una
ware that the name of the institution
was being changed by the board of
trustees, meeting in the president's
office. The new name is "Meredith
College." Thirteen members were
present, three voting against the
change. Those attending were: W.
N. Jones, president of the board;
John E. Ray, C. J. Hunter, John T.
Pullen, ft. N. Simms, R?v. Livingston
Johnson, Dr. W. L. Poteat, Stephen
Mclntyre, J. W. Bailey, S. W. Brew
er, Rev. A. J. Monerlef, M. L. Kes
ler and J. D. Boushall.
It is understood that the move
ment to change the name of the
school to Meredith College originat
ed in the faculty. For years there
has been dissatisfaction with the
name among many Baptists, and
about four years ago the name by
which the institution was founued,
"Baptist Female University," was
changed to " Baptist University for
Women."
The change in the name was made
last night on motion of Rev. Living
ston Johnson.
Rev. Thomas Meredith, from whom
the school now takes its name, was
one of the founders of the Baptist
State Convention, and founder of the
Biblical Recorder, which he edited
until the time of his death. At the
session of the convention in 1833
Wake Forest College was establish
ed, and at the convention which met
in 1835 the board of missions of the
Baptist State Convention recommend
ed that a school for girls correspond
ing to Wake Forest College be es
tablished.
Mr. Meredith was chairman of the
committee to report the advisability
of establishing such a school as was
suggested by the Board of Missions.
The committee brought in a favor
able report and Mr. Meredith follow
ed it with a strong address.
The resolution was lost, but that
was the first suggestion of what is
now this excellent school in Raleigh.
"It is fitting that it should bear
the name Heredith," said a member
of the board of trustees last night,
continuing: "The change of name
does not indicate a lowering of the
standard. On the contrary, the
standard will be raised next year,
and on through the years to come
as necessity may demand and as
better equipment and larger endow
ment may be possible."
This year closes the first decade
in the life of this great school. From
the first it has been a phenomenal
success and is destined to increase
in usefulness and efficiency as the
decades pass.?News and Observer.
SALOON RAKE-OFF, $7,000,000.
Chicago's Income From License Will
Not Go Below That Figure.
Chicago, May 22.?Every saloon li
cense which was in force April 30
has been renewed for the first period
of 1909. The first trial balance
struck by Ernest Magerstadt, city
collector, today, shows that for the
first time since the $1000 license and
the Iiarkin ordinance limiting the
number of saloons went into effect
in 1905, not u single saloon has al
lowed its permit to lapse. City of
ficials believe that in fuutre Chica
go's income from the saloons will
never fall below $7,000,000 a year.
Thirteen applications for license
are still being considered in the city
collector's office. The money for
all of them has been paid, and some
person will ultimately receive them.
When they are issued Chicago will
have 7151 saloons.
King Goes to Prison.
Boston, Mass:, May 24.?Excep
tions of Cardenio F. King, the pro
moter, who was convicted in Decem
ber of larceny and embezlement,
were overruled by the Supreme Court
today, an" King will be compelled to
serve the sentence of ten years' im
prisonment imposed at his trial.
Uncle Sam's cattle eat $722,000,000
worth of hay annually.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
The Graded School's Final Exercises
Take Place Tonight. Concert Last
Friday Night, and Musical Wednes
day night?Prof. Noble to Deliver
Address.
The closing exercises of Turlington
Graded school began last Friday
night with a concert by representa
tives of the first, second, third,
fourth and fifth grades. A good
crowd attended and enjoyed the ex
ercises by the little folks. In many
respects this is the most enjoyable
part of the commencement exercises,
and this concert this year was no
exception to I he rule.
The musical Wednesday night giv
en by Miss Watson's Music class
was well attended and enjoyed by
those present. All who had a part
on the program, like those last Fri
day night, did exceedingly well and
showed their thorough training.
Last night the contest in recita
tion and declamation took place. The
following pupils, members of the
Jefferson and Columbian Literary So
cieties took part in this content:
Albert McKinley Coats, David Mos
es Wood, Hattie Lillian Coats, Nan
nie Leans Underwood, Walter Rand,
Julia May Canaday, Addle Evelyn
Johnson. Alger Byrd, William Whar
ton, Lalla Rookh Stephenson, Robert
Sanders, Lucy Hjman, Bettle Wat
son.
The exercises tonight will be by
the senior class as follows:
May Robinson Moore, President.
Meta Earie Lunceford, Historian.
Addle Evelyn Johnson, Prophetess.
Isaac Mayo Bailey, Orator.
Julia May Canaday and Robert E.
Parrish.
Then will be delivered the annu
al address by Prof. M. C. S. Noble,
of the University of North Carolina.
The following are the marshals:
C. E. Bingham, Chief, W. M. Ives,
Jr., E. L. Woodall, G. R. Pou, R.
E. Parrish, and C. L. Lassiter.
Busy Stork Brings Five.
Syracuse, N. Y., May 23.?"It is a
boy or a girl?" John Hale, of Colla
mer, asked the nurse
"Four of them are boys and one
is a girl," was the answer thal< made
him gasp.
The quintuplets were all perfectly
formed and seemingly healhty, but in
the absence of sufficient natural
nourishment, it became necessary to
administer cow's milk, and three of
them died as a result. The two sur
vivors are doing well.
Bachelor Hangs Himself.
Pottsville, Pa., May 23.?Declaring
that he found life in a country town
too monotonous, John Bleer, of Val
ley View, hanged himself from a raf
ter in his barn today. He had been
dead six hours when his dead body
was discovered. Bleer was 50 years
of age and unmarried.
Bradstreet Trade Report.
Richmond, Va., May 27.?Brad
street's Sautrday will say for Rich
mond and vicinity: Trade conditions
generally continue unchanged since
recent reports, wherever a change
is noticeable an improvement is
noted. Dry goods and shoes are
quiet. Groceries and produce are
fairly active. Dealers in scrap iron
and Junk report better ordering.
Foundries and manufacturers of steel
and iron castings report inquiries
more active and considerable orders
have been placed recently. Sales In
trunks bags and furniture show Im
provement. A much needed rain has
improved crop conditions throughout
the district; cotton and tobacco plant
ing is well under way; an Increased
acreage of corn Is reported. Build
ing continues active creating a con
siderable demand in supplies. Retail
trade is quiet. Collections are slow.
Inside Information.
A Christian Scientist found his
young son doubled up with pain as
a result of too frequent trips to the
apple orchard, \*here many choice
green apples were to be had. "What's
the matter, Bobbie?" he asked. "1
ate too many apples," said Bobble;
"and, oh! how my stomach hurts"
"Your stomach doesn't ache," said
his father; "you Just think it does."
"Well, you may think so," said Bob
bie, "but I know. I've got inside in
formation."?Harper's.
GENERAL NEWS.
Eugene i'.vblei, an Iron moulder,
apparently Insane, killed Ins wife by
striking her with an axe, at her sis-1
. ter's boarding house iu Norfolk last
j week and afterwards confessed the j
1 crime and cxyic.iet! ? desire to d>o |
A dozen persons were injured and ]
property was damaged $100,000 by a
tornado which struck the town of
1 Italy, Texas, last week.
Nome's gold output this year will
approximate $5,000,000.
Tuberculosis is fast killing off the
1 5000 Indians In New York State.
Creatures like frogs, but white, and
J without eyes, have been found in a
| sandstone bluff neur Denver.
Two men woro killed and o'.o wis
fatally hurt whi n a trolly work fruin
jumped the track, n !nr Uriuid Haven,
Mich., Friday.
The body of Ansel Briggs, Iowa's
first Governor, his been taken from
Omaha, where it was buried 28
years ago. to Andrews, la., for final
Interment. . I
Despite the fact that her brothers
are now rich from their airships,
Miss Katherine Wright has decided
to resume public school teaching at
Dayton, O.
A procalamation was issued Satur
day by President Taft providing for
the opening up to settlement and en
try of about 440,000 acres of land in
flathead, Montana- 200,000 in the
Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, and between
50,000 and luO.OOO in the Spokane,
Wash., reservations.
Former Congressman Babcock, of
Wisconsin, who died in Washington
recently and left an estate valued at
about a half million dollars, showed
his appreciation of the family cook
by leaving that individual $10,000.
The cook had been employed in the
Babcock family for many years.
Gov. Hughes, of New York, has
vetoed a bill passed by the Legisla
ture, which provided for a bond is
sue of $2,000,000 'a provide a pen
sion of $6 per month to veterans of
the civil war, who served for at
least !I0 days and who were enlisted
in the State.
Five negroes were killed in a grav
el pit at Olive Branch, Miss., Satur
day by a cavein.
Dynamiters got $2675 from the
State Bank at Princeton, Kan., Sun
day night.
A 10-pound prehistoric tooth of a
50 to 60-foot animal was found at
Sycamore, 111., Sunday and taken to
Chicago.
The Union Pacific road is report
ed to have ordered 100 locomotives,
and called to work all its skilled
shopmen.
A life term has been given James
Duggan, at Lansing, Mich., for mur
derous assault on State Representa
tive W. H. Schantz.
While watching the shooting in a
rifle gallery at San Antonio, Tex.,
last week E. G. Runyan, a grocer,
of Louisville, was accidentally killed.
WHISKY KILLS THE SEASICK.
Two Cases on German Steamer Prove
Dangerous Remedy.
New York, May 22.?Whisky ad
ministered as a cure for seasickness
caused the death of two nine-year-old
boys, steerage passengers on the
steamer Kaiserin Augusta Victoria,
which arrived here today from Ham
burg.
The small victims became very
sick during the rough weather en
countered last Thursday, and their
parents gave them the liquor, hop
ing to ease their nausea. The chil
dren rapidly grew worse, and al
though the ship's surgeon was sent
for, the younger of the boys, Herman
Schmidt, died on the following day.
The other, James Kassibar, linger
ed until Monday, when he, too, suc
cumbed. Both were buried at sea.
Suicide in Surry County.
Charlotte, N. C., May 24.?I'pon re
ceiving a farewell letter from his
sweetheart Friday last, John Hill, a
young traveling representative of a
Chattanooga, Tenn., medicine compa
ny, left his hotel at Kapps Mill, a re
mote town in the mountains of Surry
county, went to the bank of the
river and sent a bullet through his
brain, dying almost instantly He
was a native of Siloam, N. C., and
a member of a we known family.
The number of world's cattle ts
estimated at 160.000,000 head.
FOUND GUILTY OF CONTEMPT.
Supreme Court Will Sentence Six
Tennessee Men Next Tuesday.
Sheriff. Deputy and Four Resident*
Held Responsible by Court?Failed
to Protect Negro From Lynching.
Washington, May 24.?For the first
time in so serious a case, the Su
preme Court of the United States
will, on next Tuesday week under
take to mete out punishment for the
crime of contempt of the court Itself
and the importance of the occasion
will be enhanced by the number of
the defendants.
The proceeding will take place in
connection with the cases of Sheriff
Shipp and Deputy Sheriff Gibson, of
Hamilton county, Tenn., and of four
other residents of that county, Wil
liams, Nolan, fadgett and May.
These men were declared by the
court to be guilty of an act of con
tempt in combining in March 1905,
in a conspiracy to lynch a negro,
Ed Johnson, who had been sentenced
to death by the local courts on the
charge of rape, and in whose case
the Supreme Cour t had Interfered
to the extent of granting an appeal
which had the effect of a superse
deas. On the night following the
announcement of the court's action
Johnson was taken out of jail in
Chattanooga by a mob and lynched.
There was no resistence on the part
of the jail authorities and Shipp and
a number of deputies as well as
about twenty citizens, were proceeded
against on the charge of contempt
of the Federal court.
The case has been pending ever
since and the number of defendants
was from time to time reduced to
nine. Of these nine, three were to
day found guiltless, while the other
six were ordi red to be brought into
court next Tuesday week for sen
tence.
They will be taken into custody
immediately and will appear in court
in charge of Marshal Wright. The
sentence may be either fine or im
prisonment, or both.
The case is regarded as of excep
tional interest because it is prac
tically the first time that this, the
highest court in the United States,
has ever undertaken to assert its
dignity or to resent acts or words
reflecting upon it.
TIRED OF LIFE AT NINETY-NINE.
Patriarch Drinks Poison, Leaving
Lonely Widow of Eighty.
Detroit, May 22.?"Uncle Billy"
Gray, 99 years old, and the patriarch
of this section, decided yesterday
that there was nothing left to live
for so drank a quantity of Paris
green. After mixing the poison in
a tin dipper at his well and drinking
it, the aged man calmly lay down to
dfe. His 80-year-old wife discovered
him, however, and called a physician,
who vainly endeavored to save "Un
cle Billy's" life. The old man died
late last night.
"Uncle Billy's" widow, who has
not a living relative, says that she
does not know what will become of
her now, although she is left in com
fortable financial circumstances.
Blind Tigers Decreasing.
The Atlanta Journal quotes the
chief of police of that city to the
effect that drunkenness is very much
on the decrease in that city, and
that the blind tigers are growing
scarcer every day. For months pas
sed the Monday session of the police
court has averaged a total of one
hundred and twenty-five cases in
Atlanta, mostly for drunkenness, but
for the past two months they have
come down to seventy-five cases, a
remarkable slump. He says: "I
am satisfied the blind tiger operators
are becoming frightened, for they re
alize they need expect no sympathy
from the courts, anfl they do not like
the Idea of satisfying the State
courts, and also serving thirty days
In the stockade."
The blind tigers decrease wherev
er the authorities enforce the law
and are in earnest about punishing
the men who operate them. It is
a matter of official honesty and
ficlal capacity. Wherever the re
corder or -fiUce Justice, prosecuting
officers aud Hie police work together
with r"?: ;uess rwid xoal, blind ti
gers do not flourish. Whenever they
flourish, the people need a new set
of officials.?News and Observer.
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