Newspapers / The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, … / July 15, 1910, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
HI)t ji m itljfic I ft fief alii. V0L 29 SMITHF1ELD, N. C.f FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1910 Number 20 EDUCATION SMITH FIE LP?UNITED AND ONWARD PROGRESS JUDGE ALLEN IS THE NOMINEE, Wins the Supreme Court Judgeship Over Judge Manning?W. T. Lea And H. C. Brown Chosen for Cor poration Commissioners?Judges Clark and Walker Their Own Suc cessors. The State Democratic Convention met in Charlotte yesterday at noon, Chairman A. H. Eller opened the meeting with a ringing Democratic Speech. Following him tthe tempo rary chairman, Senator Overman, de livered a great speech, the keynote of the campaign to be waged this year in the State. Nine hundred delegates were pre sent and 4000 people were in the great auditorium to witness the op pening exercises. M. C. Winston, of Selnia, was ap pointed a member of the committee on credentials. Walter Moore, of Jackson, was made permanent chairman, and C. C. Daniels, of Wilson, permanent sec retary, > Chief-Justice Walter Clark and Associate Piatt D. Walker were re nominated by acclamation. For Associate Justice Judge W. R. Allen received 526 and a fraction while Judge Manning had 434 and a fraction. Allen's majority 92. For Corporation Commissioner H. C. Brown was named for the short term. For long term Corporation Com missioner W. T. I-ee was nominated on first ballot, the vote being W. T. Lee 527, Judge Graham 313, John H. Pearson 121. '? Ringing speeches were made after the business session was over by ex-Governor Aycock and C. B. Wat son. Keeping Clothing High. Trusts are ostensibly organized to reduce costs of production, but the least danger of low prices throws them into a cold sweat. There is nothing they fear so much. Wool prices, under the Payne-Aldrich tariff which embodies the results of the combine of Eastern mill owners and Western ranch owners, being low, the Wool Trust has diverted from this country to London considerable Quantities of wool shipped from Aus tralia. Besides this, nearly two mil lion pounds of wool in bond has been shipped from Boston to London. It is important to create a scarcity here In order to stiffen prices. During the half-year Boston has exported 3,550, 000 pounds of wool instead of the trifling amount of 170,000 pounds in the first half of 1909. The Boston dispatch recounting these proceed ings closes with the Interesting an nouncement that "it the wool dealers succeed in their present efforts low er prices for clothes will be prevent ed." Of course, there must not be lower prices for clothing; "a cheap coat makes a cheap man.'' as Presi dent Harrison said.?Philadelphia Re cord. Express Extortion. Nobody who has occasion to do business with an express company in the United States comes away from the counter without the sensation of a man who has had his pocket picked. The late attempts to cloak their out rageous charges by doubling, trebling and quadrupling their capitalization and distributing their unearned sur pluses have drawn renewed attention to their unconscionable plundering. Now that it Is settled that the In terstate Commerce Commission has rightful authority to overhaul express rates and bring them within measur able distance of reasonableness, no time should be lost in making the at tempt. The express business is a railroad business in nearly every de tail. It has been surrendered by the railroads, to the vast injury of the community and of railroad stockhold ers. Should the Interstate Commerce Commission fail to deal with express rates so as to temper the atrocity of their overcharges there will be an irresistible demand upon Congress for the establishment of a pracels post service. The cost of living in this country might In this way be material ly rtduced with benefit to the public revenue.?Phialdelphia Record. It is said that under favorable con ditions the olive tree lives to be 4000 years old. ?" \ MILLIONS FLEE FROM THE HEAT Twelve Deaths Have Resulted From I Hot Wave in New York. New York, July 11.?The suffocat ing heat wave still hangs to-day like a pall over New York city, causing scores of prostrations. Twelve per sons have died from this heat in the last 24 hours. Harry Lazinsky a young machinist, tortured by the heat, put a bullet in his heart to ''ay. Nearly a million persons visited the beaches on Sunday to escape the heat. The whole Atlantic seaboard is In the clutch of hot weather, bu? lower temperature is promised. Kentucky Boy Lynched in Ohio. Newark, O., July 8.?Carl Etherlng ton, 17 years old, employed Thursday aight by the State Anti-Saloon League as a blind tiger raider, was lynched "iere at 10:35 to-night, following a I day of almost continuous rioting. I The heavy doors of the Licking coun ty jail were battered down and Ether ' ington was dragged from his cell. J He uas shot, kicked and bruised be fore the street was reached and the finish followed quickly. Etiierington early in me evening I confessed he killed William Howard, proprietor of the "Last Chance" res taurant, and former chief of police I in a raid of alleged "speak easies'' in a raiding scuffle at 1:30 o'clbck this afternoon and narrowly escaped lynching at that time. When news from the hospital that Howard had died passed over the city at 9 o'clock tonight the fury of the mob took definite forn:. Large battering rams were directed upon the doors of the | Jail, and the deputies were power j less. The dcois fell after nearly an j hour's attack. | Crying pifeously, Etherington, a curly headed Kentuckian, who has been serving as a strikebreaker since he was released from marine service three raonlhs ago, was dragged forth. Cries Fall On Deaf Ears. "I didn't mean to do it," he wail ed. His cries fell upon deaf ears. Fearing that the mob spirit would not be satisfied by one victim, Sher iff Linke immediately asked Adjt Gen. Weybrecht for troops to pro j tect six other "dry'' raiders held at the city prison, in another sec ! tion of the town. A hurried guard 1 was thrown out in their defense. The mob, after the first taste of blood, seemed to quiet but it is j feared that they will storm the city prison before the night is finished. Etherington's last moments, while he heard the mob battering down the J doors. were spent in praying and writing a note to his parents, farmers residing near Willisburg, Ky. "What will mother say when she hears of this?" he kept moaning. Hanged in Courthouse Yard. Etherington was dragged through the srteets to the courthouse square and hanged to a tree in the court | house yard. The horrible affair was witnessed I by 5.000 men, women and children. It is believed that Etherington was dwid before he was strung up. The body was left hanging In the court house yaid. Etherington had shot ex-Chief of ! Police William Howard at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. Etherington asked for permission to make a state ment to the mob and as he attempt ed to speak somebody struck him a vicious blow on top of the head with a hammer, felling him to the ground and this blow is believed to be the one that killed him. Attempted Suicide. Before the mob had battered its way into the jail Etherington made ! every effort to set fire to his cot, but his plan was discovered and the | flames were put out.?Courrier Jour nal. Another Man in Trouble. { Mr. Henderson West was brought before United States Commissioner John A. Narron this week charged with making and selling brandy. He was bound over to court. Elder Rom Jones stood his bond. Mr. Weit Is farming this year on the David P I Johnson place about four miles from here. It seems that the Idea of blockading has been in his mind tor ?years as he has several times spok en to people about how it could be | *one. AERONAUTS DASHED TO DEATH Frightful Accident to Big Dirigible Balloon in Prussia Wednesday in Which Five Were Killed?Fell Dis tance of 1,000 Feet. I-eichlingen. Rhenish Prussia, July 13.?Falling through space a distance oC nearly one thousand feet, Oscar Erbsloeh, noted aeronaut and inven tor, winner of the international bal loon race held at St. Louis, Mo., in iy07 and one of the most promis ing of German experimenters in ae rial flight, and four companions, were dashed to death to-day in a field near Opladen. The others killed were Herr Toelle, a manufacturer of Barmen, Engineers Hoeppe and Kranz and the motorman, Spicke. Only peasants saw the tragic end ing of the flight of the dirigible bal loon Erbsloeh, which after a series of unfortunate accidents since its con struction a year ago, had recently been refitted for passenger service. They had observed the balloon a shoit time before as it swung grace fully in the air. Soon it disappear ed in the fog and shortly afterward a loud explosion was heard and a crumpled mass fell like a plummet to the earth. So terrible was the I , , foice of the rail, tne gonaoia was smashed to splinters, the motor was buried deep in the sod, while the five men were crushed and torn al n<o?t beyond recognition. Experts who examined the wreck age afterwards declared that the benzine tank Had burst. The rubber envelope had been torn to shreds and the bow co'lapsed. Our Customs Revenues. I For the year ending June 30 the i revenues from customs amount to | more than $333,000,000, surpassing the j receipts of any former year from ' this source. Over this there is no i little exultation in Administration cir i cles, in that it removes the dread of | a serious Treasury deficit from ex I travagant appropriations and proves | the revenue-producing quality of the | Payne-Aldrich tariff. But these revenues do not represent a full ! year, as the new tariff did not go into operation till August 6, and in j the five weeks before there was a I large increase of importations on the ! assumption of an increase of duties. Besides this, the rise in prices has been attended as a matter of course by a corresponding increase of the revenues upon which the duties are levied. These factors must be taken into account in considering tha customs ,receipts of $333,000,000. This is a prodigious sum, and yet it does not amount to more than one-third of the billion appropriated for next fiscal year. The people who pay these re venues and these appropriations have a good deal more light than formerly on this subject. It is not very long since Protectionist orators and or gans repeated trie pleasant iauie tiiai others than American consumers pay the duties on imports. But the peo ple now understand that they pay not merely $333,000,000 in duties at the custom house, but that the sum is tripled before the articles on which the duties are levied enter in to consumption. While the Govern ment gets the smaller share from the customs, above and beyond all this is the enormous tribute extorted from the people by the indirect ope ration of the tariff to swell the spoils of the Trusts. Of this hidden but most oppressive and iniquitous of all the tariff tributes the custom house returns bear no evidence; but the people feel it no less keenly.? Philadelphia Record. SUCCUMBED TO PELLAGRA. Miss Mary Smith Passed Away At Newbern?Three Other Cases. Newbern, N. C. July 9.?Miss Mary Smith who resides at No. 71 Metcalf street, succumbed to an attack of pellagra at Stewart's Sanatorium ear ly this morning. Miss Smith was carried to the sanatorium Tuesday morning and at that time was suffering intensely, but It was thought that there was some hope for her recovery, but despite the fact that everything possible was done for her, she succumbed to the dreaded disease. There are thrse other cases In the city. DEATH OF NEAL H. NORRIS. 1 Victim Of Deadly Pellagra?Second Victim in Family Within a Week. Mr. N'eal II. Norris passed away at his home on Holloway street yes terday afternoon after ail illness of i several months. The cause of his sickness was rellagra, that myster ious disease which has lately claimed so many victims. This is the second death in the family within a week, both being the result of the same disease. His daughter died last week and was carried to Duke for burial. The remains of the father will be laid beside her tomorrow. Mr. Norris had reached the ripe old age of 76. He was a good man and well thought of among those who knew him. He was a member of the Primitive Iiaptist church. The ' remains will leave here this after noon at 3:20 over the Durham and Southern. There are three sons and three daughters who survive. The sons living here and will go with the body this afternoon and the daugh 1 ters live in Duke, where the burial will take place.?Durham Sun. Some Of the "Luxuries." 1 Among the imports upon which the Payne-Aldrich tariff mongers admit that they raised the duties are silk goods. This they did under the pre tense that silks, like wines and li ' quors, are luxuries and should, pay the highest duties compatible with revenue. Silks are luxuries only when high protective duties make them such. They constitute au es [ sential part of the wearing apparel of millions of the women of this coun try without distinction of race or | color or economic conditions. Under this pretense about luxuries the real object of the tariff mongers 1 was to increase the profits of the Silk Trust by raising the exorbitant Dingley duty of 60 per cent in the value to upward of 70 per cent in i changing the advaiorem to the spe cific rate. During the ten months i ended in April last the imports of silk goods amounted in value to i $28,524,218, which with the duties i added at the custom were swollen in price to nearly $48,000,000. By the i time the goods reached the consumers the import cost was doubled. This is only the smaller end of the iniquity. If it stopped there Amer i ican consumers would have less rea i son to complain, because in paying i the heavy duties they would be con I tributing to the public revenues., But I the tariff mongers admit in theirl sta i tistical exhibits that they increased the duties on silk goods of which the value was $106,742,646. There is where the enormity of this Payne Aldrich swindle is revealed in all its nakedness. Upon about three feurilij fo the consumption of silk Koods (the home production) Ameri can consumers are paying the equiva lent of the Payne-Aldrich duties with out contributing a dollar to the cus toms for support of government. The money extorted from the people by this particular tariff screw flows in? | to the coffers of the Silk Trust. The raw filk being free, much of the tariff spoil is levied upon the Jute and oth er fibres with which a great deal of j the domestic silk production is load ed. The direct and indirect duties thus levied upon American consumers of silks constitute one only of the num erous factors which explain the rise 'n prices and the high cost of living Yet these are "luxuries" forsooth What is an ordinary article of ap parel for the poor In China and Ja pan is made a "luxury" for the mas sis of the American people by a cun ningly devised system of tariff rob beiy. Is It not to gratuitously Insul the Intelligence of the American me chanic to tell him that the silken dress and shirt waist, often loaded with Jute, of his wife and daughter must pay heavy duties as luxuries? ' And does It not aggravate the insult when much the largest share of the duties extorted from him does not go into the public flsc, but serves on ly to swell the spoils of the Silk I Trust??Philadelphia Record. Mr. B. F. Langdon, of Pleasanl Grove township, called to see u.? this week and renewed his sub scription. The present officially-estimated population of Greater London is j 7.537,196. ? 1 n MLn^Kil MTliri I -r"h Bj-lT'l . MAN KILLED AT SMITHFIELD. I Anoher Vicim of the Evil of Intoxi cating Drinks.?Charley Davit, a Farmer, Meets Death on Railroad His Remains Being Scattered Along the Track. Last Saturday night at five min utes after twelve o'clock Charley Davis was killed here by a north bound passenger train. He was a son of Mr. liarney Davis who lives at the farm of Mr. J. \V. Stephen sou near town. Charley Davis lived there last year but was living thia year with Mr. Charley Creech about six miles from here. About every two weeks he has been coming to see his folks to spend Sunday and it Is said would usually get drunk Saturday nights. Last Saturday af ternoon he and his wife walked to town. She went across the river to the home of her father-in-law but Charley stopped here for his usual drunk. He did some trading that night and was seen here and around the depot until nearly twelve o'clock. His brother, Richard, was with him part of the time. Just before twelve ! o'clock his uncle, Mr. Ed Hughes. helped him to drink the last whis key from a pint bottle. It Is thought he drank a good deal of beer also. It Is supposed that at the time he was killed he was trying to cross the railroad. He was in front of the near-beer saloon of Mr. Jesse Daughtry when the train struck him. At that place his teeth and one of iiis bones were left. Xbout fifty yards further one Of his legs and a 'shoe were dropped. The night ope rator at the depot in passing out , saw the shoe a time or two but thought nothing of it, there being only a dim light shining there. La ( ter Mr. Edwards who runs the pump , engine found the leg and the shoe. One of Davis's arms was severed from his body and carried further on down the railroad. Parts of him were scattered all along until near the section house, about half a mile from the depot, the main part of the body was dropped. He was man gled almost beyond recognition. The head was mashed to pieces and tha brains lost out. The fragments were gathered up and Sunday evening they were buried at the Allen-Davis graveyard. Long Tsrm Convicts Killed. I Raleigh, July 12.?Two long term convicts, George Caldwell and John Featherstone, were killed at the state farm in Halifax county Friday as they made a dash for liberty, hoping lo get into a near-by swamp before t the guards could shoot them. They were George Caldwell of Caldwell county, and John Featherstone, of Itowan county. Caldwell was serv ing seven years for assault with in ! tent, to kill and Featherstone seven years for robbery. The latter was a young fellow of good address and neat appearance and escapd within a few weeks after he began his sen tence in 1896, being at large until last May, when he was captured at Jersey City. Labor-Saving Apparatus Cheaper Than Servants. In Madison, Wis., I was the guest of a man of distinction, who probably has an income of $4,000 a year. At supper his young daughter, about; fourteen years old, waited on thej table, and nobody even thought to make an explanation of her making herself useful in this way, instead of depending on a servant, as a family j with one-fourth the income would j have tried to do in the South. Of course where a family does ks own work all the modern con ? veniences are used, and the kitchen in the North and West would be a revelation to most of our Southern women. All the most up-o-date cook 1 ing appliances are used, and the kitchens are so small that nearly all ! the utensils and appliances are with in reach as the woman stands at her stove. Nor do the men expect hot bread for every meal. If ,our women in the South need to learn ' the lesson of depending less on ser t vants, our men in the South need l to learn the lesson of providing bet ter equipped kitchens and dining I rooms and all the labor-saving con veniences that can be had. And these I are at least cheaper than servant*.? i Clarence Poe, in Raleigh (N. C.) Pro t gresslve Farmer and Gazette. DIAZ RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT,, Fop the Sevenh Time the Aged Chief Executive Of the Republic it Honored By His People. Mexico City, July 10.?General Por* firo Diaz, who will be 80 years old on the eighteenth of September next, was to-day re-elected as President of Mexico for a term of six years, this being the seventh time he has been chosen by the people of his country as the head of the national govern ment. President Diaz was first elected President In 1875 to serve a t?rm of four years. He has been President ever since with the exception of four years 1880-84, when Manuel Gonzales was chief executive. Until 1892 the President was chos en for four years; since that time the term has been six years. Cotton Crop Deteriorates. The Indications are pointing out that the price of cotton is to be high asain this year, and that the farmers whose crops are good will again add materially to their bank accounts. There is a general deterioration re ported and this will damage many farmers. The Times-Democrat, of New Or leans has Just had made a summary of conditions, and from these it finds that there is a deterioration in the 'cotton crop, that excessive rains have proved v? ry damaging and that there is a distinct set back except in Tex 1 as and Oklahoma. In its issue of yesterday morning It said of the cot ton crop of 1010: "The reports indicate favorable progress in the States of Oklahoma and Texas and distinct deterioratloa 1 throughout the remainder of the belt. r " ?S. "In the West the fields as a rule1 are clean and well worked. A gen eral rain would prove beneficial. "East of the Mississippi river and In the States of Louisiana and Ar kansas continued and excessive rain fall has multiplied the farmers' dif ficulties, resulting in deterioration over large areas, and greatly increas ing the importance of seasonable weather henceforth and of a late frost. "There has been some abandon ment of cotton acreage, but insect ac tivity appears to have been largely confined to previously infested dis tricts. The Memphis Commercial Appeal also printed a summary yesterday and it also tells of deterioration in the cotton crop, of excessive rains and that the staple is in bad condition. It, says: "A comparison of reports received this week under date of July 7 with those of June 23 show that in the period between those dates the cot ton crop about maintained itself In North Carolina and Tennessee; made Bmall gains as compared with a nor mal in Oklahoma and Texas, and al so deteriorated sharply in other States, the cause of the deterioration being excessive and long continued rains. "Reports show that during the past week rains were general east of Tex as and Oklahoma, making practically the third week of continuous rainfall. There are local exceptions and Ten nessee and North Carolina have not had as much precipitation as other States. There are a few good reports, in this, the rain territory, but they are the exception and not the rule. "Generally speaking, the fields are becoming grassy, the plant Is show ing 111 effects from lack of cultiva tion and on the lowlands much of the fields have been submerged and there has been or will be some abandon ment of acreage. "Some of the damage can not be I recovered, although it goes without j saying that two weeks of bright wea j ther would work a great improve | ment."?News and Observer. Married 19 Years, Have 13 Children. Pensacola, Fla., July 12.?Mr. and | Mrs. T. Barberi, of this city, recelv | < ' from Governor Gilchrist yestar : tiny a handsome spoon bearing the ??.al of the State of Florida. Married 19 years ago the wife is now: only 37 years old, but Mr. and Mrs. Bar berl are the parents of 13 children Six of the children are twins. Gov ernor Gilchrist suggested that the Legislature pass an act allowing the parents a pension. ^ . ,
The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 15, 1910, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75