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VOL. 28. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. JUNE 11. L90?. NO. J 5
MANNING FOR SUPREME COURT.;
Durham Attorney Who Becomes As
sociate Justice Was Nominated for
6uperior Court Judge in 1896 But
With Rest of Democratic Ticket
Was Defeated, and Has Represent
ed His County in House and Sen
ate With Ability.
Hon. James Smith Manning, of Dur
ham, one of the State's leading attor
neys, was yesterday morningi commis
sioned by Governor W. W. Kitchin
to become an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of North Caro
lina to fill the vacancy in that court j
caused by the resignation of Associ
ate Justice Henry G. Connor, who be
comes the United States Judge of
the Eastern District of North Caro- j
Jina by President Taft's appointment. |
The commission was made out yes- !
terday morning and was sent to the
new justice at Durham. The announ
cement of the selection of Mr. Man
ning created no surprise, for his ap
pointment was expected immediately
that Governor Kitchin received Judge j
Connor's resignation, which came to
his office on Monday while he was
away in Asheville, as the Governor I
bad given out that immediately he |
received the resignation he would
make the appointment.
Mr. Manning is fifty years of age, j
a man of the highest character, held
in esteem throughout the State, and j
with an experience of twenty-six |
years at the bar. He is the son of |
the late Hon. John Manning, one of j
the State's foremost lawyers, who |
was for many years Professor of Law
at the University of North Carolina. |
Puring his career he has devoted him j
self closely to the practice of his
professsion, and has taken a high
stand, being learned in the law, a
well equipped, earnest and vigorous
advocate. In 1896 he was nominated
for judge of the Fifth Judicial dis
trict, but in common with the rest
Of the Democratic ticket in that elec
tion he was defeated, leading his
ticket. Twice he has represented
Durham county in the General As
sembly, once as a member of the
House, and at the last session as a
member of the State Senate.
Mr. Manning was strongly endorsed
by members of the bar throughout
the State, who urged that he is emi
nently fit for the position, is worthy
of the high honor and as well equip
ped for the duties as any other law
yer in the State. Governor Kitchin
ard Judge Manning are close personal
friends, and during the campaign for
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor he was the manager of Mr.
Kitchin's interests. Governor Kitchin
regards him very highly, and his
opinion is well set out in the words
of the commission issued yesterday
which reads "reposing special trust
and confidence in your prudence, a
bility and learning in the law, do
by these presents commission you
as Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of North Carolina to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Henry Groves Connor, late Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court."
The appointment of Mr. Manning is
until his successor is elected and
qualified and hence is for the re
mainder of Judge Connor's term,
which expires in 1910, Judge Connor
having been elected in 1902 and the
term being for eight years. If Judge
Connor had remained in the Supremo
Court and his term expired next year
thcie would have been the nomina
tion for the office at the Democratic
Slate Convention, and this will be
the same with regard to Judge Man
tling, the nomination to be made at
the next meeting of the Democratic
*l?tate Convention.?News and Obser
ve f 4th.
Mr. Robert Leach Dead.
His many friends here learned yes
terday, with the deepest regret, of
the death of Mr. Robert Leach, which
occurred at Birmingham, Ala., on
Sunday night. Mr. Leach, up to
some time ago, made his home in thlf
city. He was well known and held
In high esteem here. He was the son
of the late James M. Leach, and a
nephew of Miss Dixie Leach, of
this city.
The remains will be brought to
Plttsboro and the funeral will be
held there at half past four o'clock.
?News and Observer, June 8.
?'You say you and your wife got
parried as a Joke?" "We did."
"Who Is the Joke on?"?Louisville
fpurier-Journal.
MAN KISSES GIRL HE SLEW. I
CI e V e i a n d Man Tells Remarkable
Story of Killing Sweetheart.
Cleveland, O., June 5,?A kiss for
each death-dealing bullet that he fir
ed into the body of his twenty-two
year old sweetheart, Edward T. lie
Grew dei lares he pressed to the lips
of Mrs. Lena Peters, whom he kill
ed with six revolver shots. In a
confession made to Police Captain
Stauck tonight, McUrew said:
"I had made up my mind to shoot
her. This morning she made me fu
rious. I pulled out my revolver and
began firing.
"After the first two shots 1 leaned
over and kissed her. Then I shot
twice more. She was lying still, but
1 heard her say: 'Please don't shoot
any more, Edward.' I bent again
and kissed her.
"The next two cartridges would not
explode, and I had to reload. Then
1 fired at her two more times. When
I kissed her lips after that I knew
she was dying."
State News.
The North Carolina Teachers' As
sembly will meet at Morehaed City
June 15th to 18th inclusive. Head
yuarters will be at the Atlantic Ho
tel, where accommodations are being
arranged for a very large crowd.
Winston-Salem aldermen have lev
ied a tax of $300 per annum on
' near-beer" dealers. It is said the
"near-beer" (oiks will resist the tax
of $1,000 per annum levied by Char
lotte aldermen, on the ground that
it is prohibitory.
An agitation has been on in David
son county to hold an election to
vote on an issue of $500,000 of bonds
for good roads. But a defect having
been found in the law the election
cannot be held until after another
session of the Legislature?in 1911.
During the past month there were
440 prescriptions* written in Greensbo
ro for whiskey and 28 for beer, mak
ing a total of 468 prescriptions. These
prescriptions were divided among 69
physicians, an average of nearly 7
prescriptions to a physician.
Mr. Z. P. Smith, who has been
elected editor and general manager
the Greensboro Daily News, which is
to be the successor of the Daily In
dustrial News, announces that the
new paper will make its appearance
Sunday morning, July 18.
During a storm which passed over
a portion of Rowan county Saturday
afternoon a horse belonging to Mr.
Q. A. Litaker was killed by a bolt of
lightning. Mr. Litaker was on his I
way to Salisbury with a load of eggs
when the animal was killed. The
occurrence happened about six miles
from Salisbury, on the China "rove
road.
OPPOSITION TO THE BELL.
Company with $15,000,000 Capital
Is Chartered.
Charleston, W. Va., June 4.?The
National Telephone Corporation, of
Pittsburg, with a capital stock of $15
000,000, has been chartered in this
State for the purpose of owning and
leasing telephone liues in West Vir
ginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. This
company is said to have secured op
tions on or control of the principal
independent telephone companies of
the three States, and will later con
struct trunk lines across the conti
nent in opposition to the Bell. The
concern is backed by New York, M
concern is backed by New York, Bos
ton, and Wheeling capitalists.
Eric Ellington a "Star."
Annapolis, Md., June 4.?There are
175 members in the graduating class
of the Naval Academy who received
diplomas today. There are ten
"star" men in the class, one of these
being Eric Ellington, of Smithfield,
N. C. The other North Carolina
graduates ar^Lee Payne Johnson, of
Concord. N. C.; Henry George Coop
er, of Oxford, N. C.; Augustine
Watchman Reiges, of Wilmington, N.
C.
Clayton Wants Pythian Orphanage.
Clayton, June 8.?Clayton lodge of
Knights of Pythias tonight instructed i
their representatives to offer to the
Grand I?dge in session at Henderson
vlUe $6,500 in cash and the choice of
two sites of twenty acres each for
?he location of the Pythian Orphanage i
at this place.
NEW BUILDINGS AT HOSPITAL.
Two for Tuberculosis Patients and
Four Cottages for Farm Superin
tendent and Attendants to Be Add
ed to the Hospital Buildings in
Raleigh.
The State Hospital Commission
was in session here yesterday and at
the meeting plans were perfected I
and contracts let for the erection of
eix buildings in Raleigh, for installing
plumbing and heating, while an order
was passed for purchasing the furni
ture and equipment for the new build
ings in Kaleigh and in lloldsboro.
Of the six buildings to be erected
here two are to be for tuberculosis
patients, one building for males and
one for females, while the other four
buildings are to be cottages for the
farm superintendent and the attend
ants. The two buildings for the tu
berculosis patients are to be built
largely of wood and glass, so as to
get as near to out-of-doors condition
as possible.
The six holdings, which are to be
erected as soon as possible, will cost
about $12,200, the contract for the
buildings having been let to Moser
& Adams, of Raleigh. The heating
is to be put in by the American Ma
chine and Manufacturing Company, of
te, and the plumbing by Peck
ham & Peckham, of Chattanooga.
The commission also arranged
about the buying of the furniture for
the buildings being erected, the beds,
bedding, etc., and this matter was
placed in the hands of Mr. J. H. Wed
dington, of Charlotte.
There were present at the meeting
here yesterday, of the commission,
Mr. Charles A. Webb, of Asheville,
chairman; Messrs. W. A. Erwin, of
?ham, and J. H. Weddington, of
Charlotte, the absentees being Dr. J.
W. McNeill, of Fayetteville, and Mr.
E F. Aydlette, of Elizabeth City<?
News and Observer.
MUST CUT OUT WHISKEY.
Sixty Thousand Employes of Carne
gie Steel Company Must Sign
The pledge.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 7.?The sight
of one of his old employes going to
work in an intoxicated condition
caused Henry C. Frick to consult
with the various steel men of this
city, with the result that a temper
ance pledge was drawn up, which
workmen will hereafter be forced to
sign before being employed.
Mr. Frick was taking an early
morning stroll and walked past the
works of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany. A white haired man who had
ago, lurched across the street and
staggered through the gates leading
to the shops. Mr. Frick sent the
man home in a cab and later in the
morning conferred with the directors
of several steel companies with
which he is connected. The result
was the drawing of an agreement
whereby all prospective employes
must take oath to abstain from the
use of intoxicants. Sixty thousand
men already employed In this city
will be forced to sign the pledge.
Slow Literary Production.
"They say that Stevenson frequent
ly worked a whole afternoon on a
single line."
"That's nothing. I know a man who
has been workii g the last six years
on one sentence."?Boston Trans
iriu.
Torrey Meetings at Winston.
Dr. R. A. Torrey, an evangelist of
world-wide fame, called the success
or to Moody, will begin a meeting at
Winston-Salem on the 20th, under
the auspices of the local churches.
It is unusual for Dr. Torrey to hold
a meeting in a small city, as the de
mand for him in the larger cities,
where his audiences number thou
sands, is always great.
At Winston Brown's warehouse,
which will hold near 5,000 people,
will be arranged for the meeting. An
immense choir will have charge of
the music under the direction of able
musical directors.
Dr. Torrey has conducted great
and successful revival campaigns In
all parts of the world?'in Japan, Chi
na, India and Great Britian. It is
said he does not depend op excite- '
ment or sensationalism, bue bellev- i
Ing that "My word shall not return <
unto Me void," he pr^vhei the word
with simplicity and power.?Ex.
HIS QUEER SALOON SITE.
Tennessee Man Dodges Prohibition
Laws on Mountain Top.
Bristol, Tenn., Juno 5.?W. P. J
Conger, of McMinnville, has found a
spot ou the top of the Cumberland
Mountain, in Sequatchie county,
where the State prohibition law,
which becomes effective July 1, can
not touch him. rie is now having a
saloon erected there.
The spot is eighteen miles from
McMinnville, and there is no school
house within four miles of it. It is
reported that Conger has leased all
the land for four miles around in
order to prevent the erection of a
sehoolhouse.
Ten or twelve barrels of whisky
and a lot of case goods are now at
McMinnville awaiting transportation.
General News.
Alexander K. McClure, prothono
tary of the Supreme and Superior
Courts of Pennsylvania, and for many
years a prominent figure in politics
and Journalism, died Sunday at his
home in Wallinford, Deleware coun
ty, aged 81 years.
The Pennsylvania Railroad people
are making ready to destroy some
25,000 worn out wooden freight cars,
and they are also preparing to order
steel freight ears or steel underframe
ears to the number of 35,000. This
is a move in the right direction, and
points the way to what all the rail
roads must do in the long run.
South Carolina has quite a strin
gent anti-cigarette law. It makes it
unlawful for any person, either by
himself or themselves, to sell, fur
nish or give or provide any minor
or minors, under the age of 18 years
with cigarettes, tobacco, or cigar
ette paper, or any substitute there
for. The penalty is a fine not ex
ceeding $lu0 nor less than $25, or
imprisonment for not more than one
year nor less than two months.
President Taft and Secretary of
the Navy jueyer, both of whom were
married quite young, hurled a bomb
into the ranks of the 1,300 and more
midshipmen of the United States
v last week by declaring that
henceforth not a one of them shall
be allowed to marry. This does not
mean that no man who is now a mid
shipman shall ever marry, but that
henceforth no prospective admiral of
the navy may marry until he shall
have received his commission as an
officer. The first commission issued
is that of ensign.
President J. G. Schurman, of Cor
nell University, will leave for Europe
on June 15, to attend the Darwin cel
ebration of the 350th anniversary of
the University of Geneva, and the
500th anniversary of the University
of Leipzig.
The chief justice of the Supreme
Court is Melville W. Fuller, and the
associates justices are: John M. Har
lan; Edward D. White, Louisiana;
Rufus W. Peckham, New York; Jo
seph McKenna, California; Oliver W.
Holmes, Massachusetts; William R.
Dajf, Ohio, and William H. Moody,
Massachusetts.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, probably
the first woman to be graduated as
a physician in this country, now is
88 years old and is living in quiet
retirement in Hastings, England. She
was received as a student in the
William Smith College, now affiliat
ed with Hobart Collage, Geneva. N.
Y., after a dozen medical schools had
refused to admit her. She received
her medical degree in 1849.
A Terrible Lake Accident.
Mandeville, La., June 7.?Lake Pan
chestrain, in the vicinity of the
steamboat landing, was dragged to
day to recover the bodies of the
persons drowned there, when the
steamboat Margaret crashed into the
wharf, smashing It, crushing the life
out of five persons and throwing 200
into the lake. Besides the five kill
ed in the crash, five bodies have been
taken from the lake. It is not knowp
how many are dead, possibly 20.
An Uncomplimentary Estimate.
"No," said Mrs. Tackpoint, "I
Jont' want woman's suffrage. It's
liable to cause embarrassment."
"In what way?"
"Suppose the average woman's hus
band is running for an office. If
ihe doesn't vote fo.* him It will cause
comment. And if she does vote for
him, how Is she going to satisfy her
?onsclence?"?Washington Star. ,
RAVING MANIAC SLAYS FIVE.
Pig-sticker Suddenly Goes Mad and
Thrusts Knife Into Man Standing
Near Him?Panic-stricken Employ
es Flee from Room Only to Be
Chased by Raving Murderer and
Slain on the Stairways. Five Meet
Death at His Hands.
Boston, June 5.?A frightful trage- j
dy was enacted in the plant of the |
North Packing and Provision Compa
ny at East Somervllle about 2 o'clock
this afternoon, when John Murphy, J
a "pig-sticker," suddenly became a j
raving maniac and ran amuck more
than a hundred of his fellow-workmen
killing five almost instantly, fatally
wounding three others, and slashing j
several more lo a leaser extent be
fore he was overpowered.
There was a panic among the em
ployes in the killing room, on the
seventh floor, when Murphy began
his deadly work.
All hands rushed for the doors,
with the maniac in close pursuit,
brandishing the razor-edged knife,
about ten inches In length, which he
used in his work of ending the lives
of the pigs.
He struck down two more, in ad
dition to I)r. Hayes, both the latter
dying as soon as they fell.
Down the stairs he pursued the
crowd of yelling workmen, slashing
viciously as he overtook first one
and then another. Three more men
fell victims to his deadly thrusts, and
expired on the landing.
An Italian grabbed an Iron bar go
ing down the stairs and knocked
Murphy to the floor with it, but he
was up in an instant, and cut several
more before another blow from th?
bar stretched him on his side and the
knife dropped from his hands.
But he was still conscious, and,
staggering to his feet, ran into the
hamsmoke room, on the third floor
of the building. Here he was unable
to breathe, and as he tried to get
away from the suffocating place he
was jumped upon by a dozen men,
borne to the floor and secured.
Some of the workmen were so en
raged by the fearful scene that they
had witnessed that they lost tnelr
heads and administered a severe beat
ing to Murphy before the police could
get him away.
Murphy has acted queerly of late.
His wife, the mother of three chil
dren, says that for some days he
had been complaining that his fellow
einployes were daily throwing mis
siles at him while he was at work,
and that some of them were talking
behind his back, criticising his meth
od of disposing of the pigs.
It was noticed by the workmen in
the hog-killing room that the man
was moody, aud for several days he
had taken advantage of every spare
moment to put a keener edge to his
deadly knife.
BOY QUADRUPLETS LIVE.
But Th?lr Very Little Sister Ex
pires at Her Birth.
l'lttsburg, June 5.?Three boys and
a girl were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Tutter, of Third street, Ran
kin, this morning. The girl died an
hour after birth, but the boys ap
parently are healthy, and Dr. W. H.
Gordon thinks all will live.
The combined weight of the in
fants was 16 pounds. The mother
is 25 years old. Her husband Is jan
itor of the Kankin Croatian Church.
Canal's Laboring Army.
Washington, D. C., June 5.?A re
port of the Chief Quartermaster for
April shows that the number of em
ployes actually at work on the Pana
ma Canal in April was 26,835. Of
this number 4355 are "gold" employ
es and the remainder are on the
"silver" or labor roll. The Panama
Railroad force numbers 6078 and the
railroad commissary force 786. Thus
the total number at work, both on the
canal and railroad, is shown to be '
33,699.
i
Nearly 32,000,000 Acres.
The crop report bureau of statis- I
tics of the department of agriculture
estimates that the area planted In I
cotton this year. Is about 95.6 per i .
cent, of the area planted last year
equivalent to 31.918,000 acres, com
pare-' with 33,375,000 last year. The i
condition of the growing crop May i
25, was 81.1 per cent of the normal 1
conditions as compared with 79.7 last I
year and 81.4 a t?n-year average.
FLIGHT 11,000 FEET.
Balloon Maxes Second Highest As
cension in United States.
Albany, June 5.?The second high
est flight In the United States v.as
made by the balloon Massachusetts,
which left IMttsfield, Mass., at 10:25
a. m. and landed at Guilderland, Al
bany county, at 2 p. m. The highest
point reached by the instruments,
was sligh y more than 11,000 feet.
This has only been exceeded by
the balloon the Heart of the Berk
shires, which reached an altitude of
12,200 feet in October, 1908. The
flight was made today under the
most discouraging conditions.
Once Rockefeller Overpaid.
Cleveland, June 7.?So well are the
careful?not to say close?business
habits of John D. Rockefeller known
hereabouts that receipt of a check for
$76,573.14 In payment of a water bill
of $15, nearly caused the village clerk
of East Cleveland to fall dead.
Rockefeller's summer home. Forest
Hill, is located in East Cleveland,
and the check in payment of his
annual water rent was mailed from
New York. Evidently a clerk got
the envelope mixed, and someone
who got a $15 check in place of one
for $76,000, doubtless was even more
surprised than was the village clerk
of East Cleveland. After recovering
from his surprise, the village clerk
mailed the big check back to Mr.
Rockefeller.
Blows His Family to Bits.
Oregon City, Ore.. June 5.?In a
fit of Insanity today, at -arquam,
Bert Garrett exploded a charge of
dynamite under his house. The
house was destroyed and Garrett, his
wife, and five-year-old daughter were
killed.
ELEVEN VOTE LOCAL TAX.
There Are Now Only Five Counties
in North Carolina Without school
Tax Districts.
The Department of Public Instruc
tion was notified yesterday that four
townships in Granville county and
seven in Randolph county, had just
voted special school taxes.
There are now in the State only
five counties in North Carolina in
which there are no local tax school
districts, either rural or town. These
counties are Graham, Tyrrell, Yan
cey, Alleghany and Green. Burke
county has no local tax district out
side of Morganton, the county seat.
Chowan county has just reported its
first rural local school tax district
carried, though Edenton and some
of the other towns of the cwnty
have special school taxes levied.?
News nd Observer.
Travel in New York City.
New York, June 6.?How New
York grows is shown in the returns
of travel on the subway and elevat
ed lines for 1907 and 1908, furnished
by the Interborough Metropolitan rap
id Transit Company to the Public
service Commission, and made pub
lic tonight. Sales of tickets in tha
subway increased from 182,559,990 iu
u09 to 220,991,212 in 1908. For the
same period there was a decrease of
more than 15,000,000 passengers car
ried on the elevated lines, but the
net increase would seem to confirm
a recent statement of Theodore P.
Shonts, president of the company,
that the amount of travel in New
York City was limited only by the
ability to provide conveyance.
At the Altar.
"Will you have this woman to be
your lawful wedded wife?"
"That's what I 'lowed I would."
"Will you love, honor and obey
bt-r?"
"Ain't yon got that switched a
round. parson?" said the bridegroom.
"John," said the bride-elect, "don't
you reckon Ihe parson knows his
business? Answer the question!"
"Yes, sir," said the bridegroom
meekly. "I reckon I'll have to."?
Atlanta Constitution.
Father?"It's near midnight, and I
:an't see why Anna's fellow hasn't
sense enough to go home." Little
Willie (in the next room)?"He can't
go, papa. Sister's sitting on him."
?Town Topics.