jsmitjjficlb ilefalii. V0L 29 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1910 Number 23 $1.00 per Year Education Good Roads Good Health Progress 5 cents per Copy ASHLEY HORNE FOR THE HOUSE. Johnston County Democrats Hold One of the Largest Conventions In | Recent Years. Stevens, Honeycutt And Nowetl All Re-nominated. L. H. AMred to Be Mr. Home's Run ning Mate. Mr. M. C. Winston Re commended for the Senate. W. L. Standi for Treasurer. Two New Men, E. S. Coats and W. T. Par ker fcr County Commissioners. The Johnston County Democratic Convention was held here Wednes day and was the most largely at tended of any convention in recent years. At eleven o'clock the con vcn ion was called to order by Hon. Clartnce \V. Richardson, chairman Ptmocratic Executive Cimmittee. Af ter prayer by Rev. J. M. Daniel, of Selma, Hon. Ashley Home, of Clay t- n, was called to the chair as tern-, fortry chairman, and T. J. Lassiter j was asked to act ai temporary secre tary. Roll call showed that all the townships were represented by large delegations. The temporary organi 7atIon was made permanent. Mr. Las plter not being present at the time of his election Mr. Allred was called on to act as secretary. In this he was ably assisted by Mr. F. H. Procl'.s. Upon motion of Mr. Ed S. Abell the nominations were entered upon In the following order: Clerk Superior Court. Register of Deeds. pQerm. Tjeasurer. Coroner. Purveyor. House of Representatives. Recommending Senator. County Commissioners. For Clerk of the Court?W. S. Ste vens and Albert M. Noble and George L. Jones were placed in nomination. On the first ballot Stevens was nominated, the vote being Stevens 88. Noble 10 and Jones two, not counting fractions. Noble moved that nomination be made unanimous frhicb was done. For Register of Deeds?Alonzo Bar bt-r, of Elevation, E. S. Edmundson, of Pleasant Grove, Walter M. Ives, of Swithfield, Sam T. Honeycutt, of Smithfield, N. B. Hales, of Pine Lev el, and N. R. Pool, of Clayton were placed before the convention. First ballot?Barber, 21.50; Ed mundson, 23.67; Ives, 9.25; Honey cutt, 47.05; Hales 9.75; Pool 1.8. Second ballot?Ives withdrawn? Barber, 21; Edmundson, 32.71; Ives, ,07; Honeycutt 54.6; Hales 5.06. Tnird ballot?Hales and Barber withdrawn?Edmundson 55.576; Hon eycutt, ?0.475. Honeycutt nominated, getting889-1000 of a vote more than Edmundson. For Sheriff?R. M. Nowell, C. \V. Rtchardeon, W. F. Grimes, Eli S. Tur lington, C. M. Wilson and W. D. Avera were placed before the con vention. Five ballots were taken before a nomination was made, Nowell being 111 the lead on the first ballot and holding throughout till he was given the plum ou the fifth. On the third balli'i votes from Clayton, Cleveland and Boon Mill were given to A. M. faiki", in all 12 votes. On the fouu.Ii ba'.'.ot only Nowell, Grimes, | Avera ard Sanders were voted for. j After fo .r ballots all candidates were withdrawn but Grimes and Nowell. On t.'io fifth ballot Grimes received 49.25 and Nowell 62.75. Nowell nom inated. For "treasurer?W. L. Stancil, Dr. 0. A Hood and Alex Wlggs were placed in nomination. Stancil won 1 on The first ballot, getting 80 votes; j Hood received 18 and Wlggs 6, not j counting the fractions. Fin Col oner?Dr. Thel Hooks was i Dominated by acclamation. F> - Surveyor?T. R. Fulghum and Bo il Lambert were placed before the <-oli ention. Fulghum nominated on first hailot. For House of Representatives Hon. ! | Aohlt-v Home and Mr. L. H. Allred w?-r? nominated by acclamation. Mr. Home talked about declining nomi nation, bui convention would not hear to it. so he accepted. For S-nator the name of Mr. M. C. Wln3ton, of Selma. was recommend ed to the Senatorial Convention to meet ir. Dunn next week. T"ie different districts got togeth er anj <?commended the following for County Commissioners: E. S. Coat*. J. C. Keen, D. B. Oliver, John W. Wood and W. T. Parker. The ? convention accepted the recommen dations and nomluated them by ac-1 clainatiou. Aftf r a session of more than sev en hours the convention adjourned. The most of the delegates had left for their homes sometime befor the work of the convention wao over. AGED NEGRO KILLED AT MILL. Eighty-Two Year Old Fireman Loses His Life By Accident At Avera's Mill. Last Friday afternoon news reach ed here that Wesley Judkins had been ii^tantly killed at Mr. W. D. Avera's Mill, three and a half miles from here. Ho was fireman at the mill and was eighty-two years old. The accident occurred on account of a bolt working loose which helped to hold on one of the balancing pieces on the shaft which ran the two driv-: ing wheels. The engine was running 1 at high speed when the balancing piece dropped down and caused a smashup. The belt broke and knock- j ed the colored man down, then the ] two driving wheels broke into sev eral parts one of the largest pieces s-triking Wesley. It broke his col lar bone and breast bone and ribs on the right side. Others who were near the engine narrowly escaped being struck. The loss is something over two hundred dolalrs damage to* the engine. GENERAL NEWS. Congressman Charles Q. Tirrell died suddenly Sunday at Natick, Mass. Louis Paulhan, the French aviator, has been decorated with the French Legion of Honor. Gen. Jefferson Davis Bradford, on ly surviving nephew of Jefferson Da vis, died Sunday night in New Or- j ?eans. An improved demand for cars and j a consequent reduction of the surplus ? by 9.230 cars was noted in the fort- j nightly statement of surplusages and shortages of the American Railway Association. At least two persons were drowned i and several others had narrow es- j cap'.s from death Friday when a Gov ernment launch used by the soldiers at Fort Scriven, near Savannah, Ga., was sunk in Lazaretto Creek. I. J. Bolton, a Newark, O., saloon keeper, is in jail at Columbus, O., on a first-degree murder charge in con nection with the lynching of Carl Etherington. Bolton is alleged to have placed the noose about the boy's neck. Kis saloon was raided on the day of the lynching. The value of imported manufactur ers' material of the United States for fiscal year just closed, in cluding orjde and partly manufactur ed goods, amounted to $856,000,000 as compared with $671,000,000 last year, $410,000,000 ten years ago and $287, 500,000 twenty years ago, according to statistics reported by the Department of Coramire and Labor. President Taft has practically can celed his fall speaking dates. The only important one left open is that scheduled for St. Paul at the session of (he Conservation Congress, and the President may not fill this. Pres9 of executive business is given as the cause. It was announced at Beverly that the President had se cured Senator Crane's consent to visit the West and make a report on political conditions to him. It Is be lieved the President desires to keep out of the campaign. He will go to Panama in November. Dr. Haw ley Harvey Crippen and Ethel Clare Leneve, his stenograph er, who fled from London after the disappearance of the doctor's wife, formerly Belle Elmore, a vaudeville act-ess, were arrested Sunday morn ing on board the Canadian Pacific li ner Montrose, off Father Point, Que bec, at tlie command of Inspector Dew. ct Scotland Yard, who traveled across the ocean to intercept the fugitives. The man is charged with thj murder of an unidentified wo man, supposed to be his wife, and his companion is charged with be-1 ing an accessory. Cotton Mill Getting Ready. The floors of the Ivanhoe Cotton i M'll have been finished, arrange-1 ni.-nti are being made to build the water tower, the m&chinery will ar rive about August 15th and it will not be long before the mill will be ready to run. METHODISTS AT SELMA. New Church Dedicated On Sunday With Impressive Exercises. Beau tiful Edifice Cost $10,700, and at Its Dedication Bishop Kilgo Preach ed the Sermon.?Debt of $3,500 Be ing Raised a Great Congregation Being in Attendance. The ?new Selma Methodist church wns opened and dedicated on last Sunday, and visitors from Raleigh bring back reports of exercises that were most impreessive, a great con gregation being present, and the v, nole town taking a deep interest. There were many present from near by towns. It was a great day for the Metho dists of Selma, the event marking an advance for them in the dedica tion of the beautiful church edifice, built of brick, costing $10700, the start for this having beeu made a year ago. Everything in the church is com plete, including an excellent pipe or gan, and at the exercises on Sunday a debt of $3,500 was raised, this work having been in charge of Col. John F. Bruton, of Wilson, at the services on Sunday. The church is so built that it can be enlarged by "ie addition of a Sunday School room. At the Sunday School exercises on Sunday morning there was music and the prayer was by Rev. J. M. Daniel, the pastor of the church, while an add i ess to the Sunday School was made by Rev. G. T. Adams, of Dur ham. \l 10:30 there were musical sel 'ctl'uis, taking part in these being Mr. Hubert Poteat, of Wake Forest, Mrs. N. E. Edgerton and Mrs. W. H. Call, vocal soios being given by Miss Anne Xoble of Selma, and Mrs. Le roy Theim of Raleigh, the choir ren<1or'iig other music, pud Rev. R. H. John, of Raleigh, presiding elder, leading the congregation in prayer. At 11 o'clock after Mr. Bruton had rai;ru the $3,500 needed, Bishop John C. Kiigo preached a strong ser mon to the gratification of the large congregation, and then Mrs. N. E. Edgerton presented the church for dedication, this ceremony being per formed by Bishop Kilgo. The sermon at night was also preached by Bishop Kilgo, a very large congregation being present at that time. Thy music was a feature at night, and in addition to those who had taker* part at the morning ser vice there was a solo by Miss Mag gie Whitley. The entire day was a grfa* one for the Methodist of Sel ma. who have shown wonderful en terprise In carrying to success the movement which was resulted in the completion of so beautiful a church.? News and Observer. MONEY IN HIS OLD CLOTHES. Checks Found in Pockets Just Be fore Geiding Pants to Pressing Club. Last week a North Carolina mer chant decided to have an old pair of pants cleaned up and pressed. He laid them aside last fall and had not seen them since. Before sending them to the pressing club he exam ined the pockets carefully to see if they needed mending. In one of them he found four checks which he took last fall from people living in his town. He presented the checks at the local bank and they were all taken readily. The checks amounted to $34.04 and will help out that much these dull summer times. Hereafter he will be more careful in placing away his checks. "Goosing" Causes Trouble. The negro boys here practice what Is known as "goosing" which con sists in punching and pinching each other. Last week Edgar Sanders de cided to have a little fun out of Green Ralford In this way. He had treated Ralford so before and there was no good feeling toward him. The Raiford negro cut the other boy across the stomach a long gash and came near killing him. Ten stitch es were required to sew up the place. The Raiford boy was placed in jail to await trial. Jacob M. Dickinson, Secretary of War of the United States, assisted Friday In Manila at the organization of a national society to fight ?ibercu losis in the Philipines. The disease has been making great inroads among the Filipinos. CONDITION COTTON CROP. According To bulletin Issued By Department of Agriculture Tues day?Figures For July 25, 75.5 Per Ce- t of Normal. Washington, August 2.?The aver age condition of the cotton crop on July 25, was 75.5 per cent of a nor- j Bif.l, aoco'-dlnn to a bulletin of the I cro;> reporting board of the Depart rnent of Agriculture Issued at noon . to-day. The average condition was 80.7 on June 25, 71.9 on July 25 last year 83.0 in 1908, 75.0 in 1907 and 79.4 the ten years average. Compari son of conditions by States follows: 1910. 10-Yr. Avg. I Virgi'i'a .... 80 81 N. Carolina.... 71 80 3. Carelina .... 70 80 Georgia 70 81 ; Florldf 70 83 Alabama .... 71 78 Mississippi .... 71 78 Louisiana .... 69 78 Texas 82 79 Arkansas 73 80 Tennessee .... 76 82 MiReouri 72 84 Oklahoma .... 87 81 California .... 98 SWANSON NAMED FOR SENATE. ________ Gov. Mann, of Virginia Selects Him 1 To Fill Out Daniel's Term In The United States Senate. Hichnoud, Va., Aug. 1.?Gov. Mann I to-day sigurd a commission appoint ing former Gov. Claude A. Swanson, of Chatham, to succeed the late ! John \V. Daniel in the United Stat es Senate. The appointment is for th? unexpired term, which will end March 3 next. There was practically no opposition to the selection of Mr. Swanson for the Senatorship. He was serv ing as a member of Congress when ho was ejected governor by the Dem ocrats a few years ago. He will be a candidate for the full term to suc ceed himself. Claude Augustus Swanson was born March 31, 1862, in the town of Swansonville, Pittsylvania County. Hii parents were John Muse Swan son and Catherine Pritchett. In 1886 he entered the University of Virginia and took the degree of bach elor of law, completing in one year the two-year course. Immediately af ter graduating from the university he located at Chatham and began the V?actice of law and was successful from the start. In 1896 he was nom inated for Congress, and served in thi House of Representatives for nix terms. Mr. Swanson was elected governor of Virginia in 1905 over Judge Lew is (Republican) by the largest ma jority of any governor since the civ il war. | A. H. ELLER AGAIN CHAIRMAN, j Chosen by Acclamation to Succeed Himself as Head of Democratic Party. Raleigh, Aug. 1.?The State Demo j < ratic executive committee tonight re-elected Hon. A. H. Eller ot Win- j | ston-Salem, chairman by acclamation and named W. M. Brock, of Anson ! county secretary in the stead of A. J. Field, who found it impossible to p.-ivate secretary to Governor Kitch I in. The attention of the committee vas directed to the condition in the sixth congressional district, where both O. L. Clark of Bladen and H. L. G-.dwin of Harnett claim the nomi nation for congress and after a lengthy discussion the committee adopted a resolution directing the chairman to appoint a committee of ! five good Democrats to investigate I the situation. The committee will I decide first as to the Jurisdiction of ] I the comm:t*.ee to take action and then as to whether there has been a nomination, who the real nominee is, in any, and if there is none, then recommend what course should be arrested. Thl? action was taken after a Nngthy discussion ip which the ne cessity of Eon;c action to unify the divided forces In the district was es pecially emphasized. The chairman is to announce his committee alter. A. J. Field o'fered a resolution de \ elding that in the opinion of the executive committee the time has como whoa a uniform primary law to all parties and all State elections slii ild be ??liactcd and recommend ed such legislation for the next gen eral assembly. Action was postpon ed as to this until the next meeting of the committee, which will prob ably be when called together to hoar the report of the special committee on thfs sixth congressional district situation. NEGRO KNOCKED FROM TRAIN. One Negro Robbed Another And Pushed Him From Train. Badly Hurt But Ailve at Last Account. Last Saturday night a negro from Jefferson, S. C., was passing Smith field on a north bound passenger trala for some point further north. He had something like twenty-five to i thirty dollars in money. When the train passed Dunn a negro got 011 there and somehow got In conversa tion with this negro and found out about his money. The negro from Dunn induced him to go out on the platform between two cars, and while cut there he asked him to change five dollars for him. As soon as he started to do this the Dunn ne gro grabbed the pocket book and knocked the South Carolina negro from the train to the ground. He was badly hurt t>y the fall. The wounded man crawled to the lumber mill from the railroad and there* stay ed until he was found Sunday morn ing. A six-inch gash was on the right side of his head. His lower jaw bone was broken in two pieecs and the lips cut through. One of his ankles was sprained. He was taken to a physician here and his wounds treated. Train number 80 took him to Rocky Mount to the Rail road hospital. At last accounts he was alive but as the jar caused con cussion of the brain, it is not thought that he can live. So far as we know no one knows anything about the robber. Woman Killed Faithless Husband. Because her husband, Oscar Price, f< rsook her for another woman, Helen Price, colored, armed herself Satur day night with a double-barrelled shot gun and after walking a distance of six miles, found him at another woman's house and shot half his head off his shoulders. This, says the Charlotte Observer, occurred in Lower Providence township, Meck lenburg county. The woman was ac companied on her murderous mis sion by her cousin, Sam Walkup, who called Price to the door, when his wife shot him. Both are in jail. The woman went to the home of her landlord after the shooting and of fered to surrender. Beulah Miller was the enchant ress who lured Price to his fate. After Price was shot his dead body lay where it fell for 12 hours?un til an inquest could be held.?States viile Landmark. VIRGINIA'S CHOICE RATIFIED. Lee Stotue Can't Be Removed? Taft and Wickersham Approve. President Taft has approved with out comment an opinion by Attorney General Wickersham to the effect that there is no provision of law by which the statue of General Robert E. Lee, in Confederate uniform, can be removed from Statuary Hall in the capitol at Washington. In addition to dec'ding the ques tion on a purely legal basis, Mr. Wickersham argues the matter from an ethical point of view, declaring that Lee has come to be regarded as typifying all that was best in the cause to which he gave his services and the most loyal and unmurmuring icceptance of the complete overthrow if that cause. That the State of Virginia should designate him for a itaca in Statuary Hall as one Illus trious for distinguished military service, the Attorney General de lares, is but natural and warranted under the reading of the law. Mr. Wickersham's opinion was | called forth by protests to the pres ident from the department of New [York. Grand Army of the Republic.? Beverly, Mass., Dispatch. The largest Illicit still In the his tory of Alabama was captured near Davidson, In Tallapoosa county, Fri day the plant having a capacity for manufacturing 200 gallons of moon shine daily. The operators were not at rested. I CARLISLE DIES IN NEW YORK. Was Secretary of the Treasury Un der President Grover Cleveland. Had Distinguished Career. Always Consistent Democrat, He Served In Many Positions of Trust. New York. July 31.?John G. Car Msle, former Secretary of the Treas ury. who had been critically 111 for thj past two days, died at his apart ments In New York at 10:50 o'clock to-night of heart failure, accompanied by oedema of the lungs. An inestinal compalint of Ion; standing, which wore down his vital ity, lay behind the technical fact of heart failure. He was attacked last spring by the same trouble, compli cated by an ailment of the kidneys, ant fur a time hovered near death. But his remarkable vitality triumphed then, as it heemed it might even la the Illness which ended to-night. John Griffin Carlisle was born in Kenton county. Ky., on September 5, 1835. He was educated in the public schools, alter studied law, and was admitted to the bar. Always a consis tent Democrat and interested In pub lic affairs as a young man, he rose iroiu :n? Kentucky House of Repre sentatives to the State Senate, serv ed as Lieutenant-Governor, and fin ally graduated into national affairs. From 1877 to 1890 he was a mem ber of the national House, and from 1883 to 1889 was Speaker of the House. He resigned to fill the unex pired term of James B. Beck in the United Siates Senate, from which he again resigned in 1893 to become Secretary of the Treasury under President Grover Cleveland. With the retirement from power of the Democratic party in 1897 he withdrew from politics, and took up once more the practice of law, this time in New York City, where he continued to reside until his death to-uUht. Tin body will be sent to Washing ton to-morrow, and the funeral prob ably will be held from the residence which Mr. Carlisle still retained there because of the many cases he argued before the United States Supreme Court. Burial will be in the family plot at Covington, Ky. A STOCK PLUNGER'S FATE. Frail Little Man Was a Bank Cash ier Who Stoic Half a Million. A frail little man, with grey cheeks and hollow eyes, in whose manner and presence there was noth ing to suggest that single-handed be had coolly lifted $500,000 in bonds and stocks from the strong box of a bank, was arrested to-day in a downtown restaurant, not five minutes' walk from the bank he had robbed. He was Erwin Wider, the missing cashier of the Russo-Chi nese bank. In the Court of Gener al Sessions his lawyer, Leon Gins berg, said that he would plead guil ty, and he was committed to the Tombs in default of $25,000 bail. Ginsberg pleaded vainly with Judge Warren Foster for a lower amount, saying "none of this money is in my client's possession. It was all swal lowed up in Wall Street specula tion." Almost as Wider was arrested the grand jury handed up an indictment against him. The arrest was due to the persistence with which detec tives trailed Wlder's wife. She was in consultation last night with Mrs. Ginsberg, whose husband, besides being Wlder's lawyer, was also his neighbor, and thence she was trac ed to-day to the restaurant where her own husband was arrested. Wider made no secret of his heavy plunges in the stock market. Sitting at his desk in the bank's agency here, he gave orders openly over the 'phone to his brokers, af ter the manner of the Rockefellers, the Keenes and other big market gamblers. Stock Exchange mem bers who eagerly sought his patron age said last night the bank was the only address they knew at which to reach him.?New York Dis patch, July 29. Associate Justice William H. Moo dy. of the United States Supreme Court, has stated that he will an nounce his retirement from the< bench prior to the expiration of the enab ling act passed In his behalf by the last Congress. The act expires the middle of November.

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