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V0L 29 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1910 Number 23
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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Second ballot?Ives withdrawn?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withdrawn?Edmundson 55.576; Hon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.