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V0L 29 SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1910 Number 24
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attempt to kill the mayor. <
Discharged City Employe Fires Bui- I
let Into Back of the Head of Wil
liam J. Gaynor, Mayor of Greater
New York. Happened on Steam
ship. The Mayor was Preparing to
Leave on Vacation When Fired
Upon?Wound Not Necessarily Fa
tal. Mayor Exercises Remarkable ?
Fortitude. j,
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New York, Aug. 9.?William J.
Gaynor, mayor of New York City,
was shot In tlie head and seriously
wounded to-day as he stood on the
promenade deck of the steamship
Kaiser Wilhelin der Grosse by James
J. Gallagher, a discharged and dis
gruntled city employe. Gallagher
v i- almost instantly overpowered
and arrested.
Tlie shot was fired at 9:45'o'clock
this morning, fifteen minutes beforo
tlie amship was due to leave her
pier at Hobokeu, N. J., and the may
or was receiving Godspeed from a
ror:> of friends preparatory to a va
ition trip to Europe. The bullet
.-truck him behind the right ear and
ranged downward inflicting a danger
ous, though not necessarily fatal
wound. And unless blood poison de
velops, surgeons are hopeful of the
mayor's recovery, although at his
age?59 years?such a wound is es
sentially grave.
(lallagher used a 38-calllber revol
ver and an examination later disclos-,
ed that the first cartridge had miss-1
od fire. This probably saved the
mayor's life for Gallagher, when he
first pulled the trigger, was less
than two feet away. Backing away
silently in his excitement he pulled
the trigger a second time and sent
a bullet crashing into the mayor's
Beck below the ear.
William H. ISUwarUb, commissioner
of streets cleaning and the former''
Princeton football star, lungad for
ir-1 Wits lits-SOO poum s just as Rob
ert A damson, the mayors secretary,
t -k Gallagher's arm. As he did
. second shot pierced Edward's
:,'o inflicting a slight flc*!i wound
on tho commissioner's right arm,!
which remained until- At red for
: urs because of the excitement.
Vnmindful of his wound Edwards hit
t'u man a crashing blow in the. face
<i they crashed to the deck togeth
er Gallagher struggling with tho
strength of desperation and pulling
, >u--ly at the trigger in an attempt
to fire another shot.
when completely subdued Gallagher
ivus handcuffed by a special officer
aboard the ship and he was rushed
through a hooting and threatening
crowd off the vessel into an automo
bile and arraigned before Recorder ,
MeGovern of Hoboken.
1 >uring the struggle with the man
who had attempted to take his life
Mayor Gaynor, though badly wound
id and bleeding from the mouth and
nose, did not lose consciousness. The
impact of the bullet did -iiot even
throw him from his feet but he rais
ed his hands to his ears and, with
his face contorted with pain, he stag-:
1 re* in a daze and leaned limply
i ? - ^ the ship's rail until Adamson
<ame to his assistance. Then some
on drew a steamer chair to his
?nil and into tills the mayor sanK
with relief. A few minutes later he
nived to a state room, where
'lie ship's surgeons temporarily ban
cla-< d the wound, preparatory to his
rei )*nl to St. Mary's hospital. He
we taken there in a special auto
mo'olle.
1!: !y has a wounded man evi
? ore fortitude and cheerful
t did William J. Gaynor to
? ii' evidently thought ai he;
1 :.s Ij' iuv! carried down the com- J
pauloi.way from the ship on ??
~ ii r that his wound was fatal,
r he smiled faintly and said to ,
thosf ctar him:
"Tell ihe people good-bye." To
l is wife and son Rufus, he said at
the hospital later:
"'It is v-.-v strange, very strange. ;
I wonder why he did it.'' But at no
'itnt did he express ill-feeling toward
th<j man who would have killed him.
Youth Marries Old Woman.
Chicago, Aug. 10.?Mrs. Mary C.
Train, 70 years old. of San D!ego,
l'al.. who is reported to be worth
several millions, and .lames Dibs. 23
years old, of New York, obtained a
marriage license to-day. Mrs. Train
paid tor it out of a roll of several
thousand dollars.
DRPHAN BOY BURNED TO DEATH.
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Lost His Life Under Suspicious Cir
cumstances. Fire in Rock Spring
Hotel and Coy Employed by the
Proprietor Suffocated?'Hie Cloth
ing Saturated With Oil.
Wilmington. Aug. 10.?Following a 1
fire supposedly of incendiary origin
i-ar'y this morning at Rock Spring
l.'O'el, conducted by J. C. Holley, Ed- (
ward Cromwell, an orphan boy em
ploy d by Holley, was found to be
suffocated. When dragged from the
room by a fireman the boy was dead.
Investigation to-day by the chief of
tha fire department revealed evi-1
deuces of arson. Oil saturated the
bed clothing, and a can of gasoline
was found. ?.
Holley had insured the boy's life
on'.y two weeks ago for $2,500.
( romwejl came from an orphan asy
lum at Charleston, S. C. He was 19
v.'.irs of age. The boy'a body was
awfully scarred. Tile coroner's Jury i
is Investigating the boy's death on
:k count of the many suspicious cir
cumstances. An autopsy will be per
formed. The suffocating of the boy
excited considerable comment.
Holley is closely shadowed by. of
ficers pending the Jury's verdict.
State Fire Commissioner Young has
been notified of the incendiary ma
terials found in the hotel. Several
other guests had narrow escapes
from being burned alive.
ASHEVILLE MAN IS CONVICTED.1
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Guilty cf Murder in First Degree,
Verdict of Jury in Particu'arly At
rocious Killing In Mountain Metro
polis.
valine, N. C., Aug. 6.?James B. ;
AKiton, 50 years old, who has killed !
at loast three men during his life ,
t.irj vs.-*, ahout C o'clock this -
'u raoon. found guilty .of murder In '
the fii':-: degree by a jury for killing
Floyd r.irCee,- driver of the city pa- i
tro- wagon.
?\VUt 11 the jury, after 40 minutes'
dciibtinioc returned a \erdlct, Alli
son. a slira pale-faced iuan, slightly
crlpplnl received the sentence wit
oul a quiver. Judge Council will pab.s
death sentence -next week.
The murder of McGce * hlrh occur- 1
red .iuly Gth, was one of 'the most
bruia! that ever occurred here. Alll- j
son, after shooting the man In the j
back five times, took a two-pound
sl< hammer and beat McGee's
brains out. While employed by the
cily tureo years ago as night watch
man at the City Hall, Allison killed
a young engineer named Roberts of
Chnrlotte, shooting him while the lat
?fr was under arrest. He also beat
the I rains out of a negro with an
Indian club and shot another in the
back. In all the cases he pleaded
self defense and was cleared. His
pka In this case was the same, but
it was a very slim case. He is th*
fathtr of five children. The trouble
o -curred over a lewd woman to
when he and MeGee were paying at
tention.
RICHEST DOG IN THE WORLD.
Enriched by the Man Who Had Once
Abused Him.
The richest dog in the world Is said
to be "Billy," who belongs to a min
ing i . pnate at Nome. His dogs, of
whom he has several, are fed on the
Best the market affords, and ^sle' p
at night on beds furnished With
mattresses. His favorite and i-: sp
arable companion Is a toe dog,
Known as '"Billy."
On one occasion he was plloti: g his
master and a companion to their ca
bin in tho mountains. The compan
ion was confident that the dog was
misleading them, and, kicking the
intelligent brute, struck off in an
opposite direction. The master,
tiiough equally bewildered, trusted to
his dumb and'faithful guide, who
soon led htm to his cabin; whereup
on, having seen his master sate and
comfortable, the'sagacious animal set
off and rescued the man who had
kicked him.
So grateful was he that, according
to the Rev. L. L. Woods, writing to
Our Dumb Animals, that he present
ed "Billy" with a collar studded with
gold, and opened a banking account
in his name, which will only be dis
turbed to give him an honored bur
la!.?Philadelphia Record.
CHOLERA RAGING IN RUSSIA.
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Terrible Toll of Human Lives In
Provinces of Russia. Laborers De
serting Works. Fear Affecting
Many People Who Flee for Their
Lives?Export Movement May Be
Crippled?Epidemic Continues.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 6.?Russia's
scourge, the cholera, continues to (
spread with most alarming rapidity, |
particularly in the southern mining
districts and in St. Petersburg, where
the conditions are fast approaching
the proportions of the great epidem
ic of 1908.
Figures furnished to-day by the '
central sanitary bureau show that in
the week from July 24th to July 30th .
the latest available complete figures,
there were 150,244 cases Of cholera,
and 6,944 deaths. Of these 4,780 cas
es and 2,233 deaths were reported
from the Province of YekateTlnoslay
and the Interior of the Don Cossacks
ia South Russia. The provincial as
sembly of Yekaterinosfay to-day as
signed $200,000 for the cause.
The desertion of work by the la
oorers (>xionus aiso to tnc raiiroaus
employes and the workmen in the
ports in South Russia, threatening
to cripple the export movement of
grain. Advices from Yekaterinoslay
report that the transport of the
ciops Is at a standstill.
The epidemic continues to make
enormous progress in the capital, :
where the daily average of casc3 !
jumped last week to thirty. Yester
day 1822 cases or suspected cases of
cholera were taken to the hospitals
and there wore thirty deaths. The
hospitals now contain 962 cases of
cholera. The high record reached
in 198 was 412 cases per day.
The outbreak of bubonic plague at !
Ode !>. however, asainst whl< a Aus
tria Rournania, Bulgaria and Turkey
instituted strict quarantines, is
not spreading. Only opp suspe
case was reported yesterday .after a
two-days interval. Gen. Tolmacheff,
tile prefect of Odessa, has thrown a
cordon ' f troops and police around
the Infected ward of the city an;l al
lows no one to pass in or out except
tlie doctors assigned to fight the
Cl.i'Tu .
It is a noteworthy fact that the
ca.-'i 3 of the plague were first report
ed from a bakery, In the same house
in which the epidemic of bubonic
plague started in 1902.
Odessa has been afflicted with a
scourge of rats since May, and the
effective measures taken to kill off i
the ? .onto by the authorities is
blam. U for the present outbreak.
MURDER AND ARSON CHARGED.
Sensational Arrest Follows Early
Morning Fire in Wilmington Wed
nesday and Proprietor of Hotel
Landed in Jail.
Acting upon the theory that Ed
ward Cromwell, 19 years old, who
lost his life in the Rock Spring Ho
tel fire, No. 8 Chestnut street, In
this city, early yesterday morning,
was murdered and the building set on
fire to cov^r up the crime, a $2,500
insurance policy on the life of the
youth furnishing the motive, Dr. C.
D. Bell, the county coroner, yes
terday afternoon swore out a war
rant for J. C. Holly, proprietor of the
house, who was subsequently arrest
ed by Constable W. B. Savage on
the grave charge and was committed
to tho. county jail by Justice Geo.
Ilarrlss, who istued the warrant,
without bond, pending further Inves
tigation, which Is being- made by a
jury under the direction of Coroner
Bell.?Wilmington Star, 11th.
87,000 MEN IN U. S. ARMY.
Gen. Wood Will Use Appropriation
For Sol.'icrs Alone.
The enlisted strength of the ar
my during the present fiscal year
has been fixed approximately at
S7.000 men under the arrangement of
I t.ifc ?-etimates by Ma J. Gen. Leonard
Wood, chief of staff, and approved
by I'res'dent Taft.
Ocn. Wood's plan Is to use the ar
my r.ppropriatlon for soldiers and
materials and make reductions in
| other directions. The new chief of
, staff warns an army of fighting men
equipped lor business, and .says he
Is w!!llr.? to make sacrifices In oth
er v.ays to obtain It.?Washington
Post.
A TRAGEDY IN BENTONSVILLE.
Tom Sutton On July 31 Struck Mitt
Creech a Blow With a Buggy Whip
Which Resulted . in the Latter's
Death. Suton Arrested and Placed in
Jail to Await a Hearing Next Tues
day.
On Sunday afternoon, July 31st, at
the home of Mr. Charley Upchurch In
Bentonsville township Mr. P. M.
Creech, commonly known as Mitt
Creech, was struck a blow by Tho
mas A. Sutton which caused his
death. Mr. Sutton is a tenant on
the land of Mr. \V. R. Snead and
has lived in the neighborhood only
a few months having moved there
from Wayne County. Some time
rgo a Mount Olive merchant secur
ed a warrant against Mr. Sutton for
disposing of mortgaged property.
This warrant was sent to Mr. \V. F.
Crimes who turned it over to Mr.
Charley Upchurch to bo served, he
Jiving nearer to the man wanted for
trial. For some reason Mr. Upchurch
returned the warrant to Mr. Grimes.
Later Mr. Sutton went to the home
of Mr. Upchurch o see about the
matter, v hile there he met Mr. 1
Creech who had been Jlrinking. Yearn
a>:o Mr. Creech was constable of
liis township and somehow in his
drinky condition decided* it was his
duty to arrest Mr. Sutton. He pro
ceeded to do so but Mr. Sutton de
manded to see the warrant. Sir.
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\ i cci 11 u iuttitvL'u IUUI uu uau uu?ui
failed to arrest a man he started to ;
arrest. A skuffle followed in which
Mr. Creech tried to put Mr. Sutton
?n his buggy. At this place Mr. Sut
ton reached for the buggy whip
and struck Mr. Creech across the
foreh< ad with it. The leaded end
made a small dent on the skull. Mr.
Creech wrnt home on his buggy
but in a few hours it was found ne
cessary to send for a physician. On
[Jujsdny . he wrs (yirrled to Wilson
Sanatorium v.ith the hope of sav
ing hi3 life. He dipd Friday morn
ing. Mr, Creech was a man of a
good family and had many good quali
ties himself but strong drink had
ruined him.
Warran's were issued for Sutton's
arrest and Wednesday morning h>
was brou ht here by Mr. W. It.
Snead, who had been deputized to
arrest h!m, and loi ?' in jail to
await the prellmii ary 1 taring next
Tuesday before Squire Z. L. LeMay.
A METEOR SHAKES A CITY.
Falls Out of Cle-r Sky Accompanied
by a Noise Like Thunder.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Auk. 7.?Ac
companied by a noise as loud as
thunder, a large meteor fell in the
?leighborhood of Council Bluffs, this
;i'ternoon, shaking the city and caus
ing intense excitement. Searching
pari leg have been attempting all the
fternoon to locate the point where
the meteor fell, but at a late hour
have been unable to do so. It is
supposed to have landed in the hills
i immediately back of the city.
Hundreds of people heard the ex
plosion and felt the shock, but be
cause the sun was shining at the
time very few saw the aerolite it
t elf. The meteor, which is describ
ed as very large and traveling from
1 northwest to southeast, passed high
in the air and disappeared behind
the hills. Tomorrow another effort
will be made to locate it.
GEORGIA BANS ELECTION BETS.
AnI-Lobfoying and White Slave (31 Ms
Also Pac3 One House.
Atlaj ,'a, Aug. 8.?Petting von elec
tions became illegal ip Georgia to-day
when Governor Brown signed the An
ti-betting bill just passed by the
legislature.
The House pas?< 4 an Anti-lobbying
bl'.l which now go<*s to the Senate.
It nlso passed a drastic "White
Slave" bill, the penalty for violation
of which is imprisonment for from 1
to 20 years. The measure has yet to
Pitss the Senate.
Their Interests Will Not Suffer.
Hon. Ashley Home, of Johnston,
county, was nominated Wednesday
for the Legislature by acclamation
by the Democratic conuty convention.
With General J. S. Carr and Mr.
j Home in the House there will be
something doing for the Confederate
Veterans without a doubt.?Maxton
Scottish Chief.
COL. WHARTON J. GREEN DEAD.
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O i? of North Carolina's Distinguish
ed Sons Passed Away Saturday, |
Represented His District in Con- ?
gress two T?rms.
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tb. m them the'u them theom theoin
1'aj rttex ilk, Aug. 0.?Colonel Whar
ton J. Greeu, distinguished ex-Con-1
gressman, soldier and author, died at I
4 o'tlotk this morning at his home,
fout miles from this city, after a !
brl-.f illness, which was not consid- I
LM'jd serious until shortly before his
d ;?:h. His taking off therefore came I
as r derided shock to his friends and I,
f.i ully. Of his immediate family, on- 1
ly hts wife, was at his bedside. Of ',
t!.<; two surviving daughters, Mrs.
Geo'gc B. Elliot, of Wilmington, ;
forme rly of Richmond, reached here ',
itt noon, while Mrs. Pembrok ? Jones. ,
of New York uud Newport, will ar
ri\ e tomorrow in time to attend her
t.i her' funeral, which \?ill tako
Monday.
Colonel Green was a man of schol
itNy attainments, marked and varied ;
ability and thoroughly cultured. Ho
was a true type of the Southern gen- i,
tlem.v:.
i/uMi f, ui.i ion'; ana illustrious ea-1
rt Colonel Green came Info ln:i- (
ma'? 'lelntlfHia with many men o[ j
large psould, such as Andrew Jack
feor. John C. Calhoun, Jefferson Da- !,
vis, Robert E. Leo, Albert Sydney
Johnson, J. K. R. Stuart and William
McKinley. The deceased was born
February 28, 1831, near St. Marks, ,
Florida, (he only son of General Tho
mas ,T. Green, Texan Patriot, au
thcv of Legislative Enactment which )
fixed boundary between Texas and
Mexico antl participated in the Mex
ican War. He was educated at '
Georgetown TTnlversiljr, West Point,
and University of Vlri.lnla. Afi- t
r radaallon he became associated In j
practice o': law with Uol ct J. Wal- .
ki r. forir <*r Secretary ( ' Twa .:ry,!
. < L? Ii-_; In, i:i V.'a bhse a prai -
ticing before (he Supreme court. Ho ,
was la''r ?< ompelled to abandon the '
legut profession, owing to threatened j
losi of health. At the beginning of).
the Civil War, ho enlisted as a Con
federate private, later he organized 1
a r.r-;i:'ient of which he became col-i
(inei. Hia military record was brll
liant.
J?? 2S^>S Colonel Green married Mis - ;
Either Ellery, of Boston. Two
daughter? by this marriage as enum
erated above, survive. After the
iV atb of his first wife he married j
Mrs. Addle Burr Davis, the widow of I
acting Vice-President Davis, who
succeeded Vice-President Arthur up
on the death of Garfield.
In 1880 he removed from Warren
county to Tokay Vineyard, near Fay
ettevllle, and In 1882 was elected to i
Congress from this district, serving i
two terms in the House of Represen
tatives, where by distinguished ser
vice, ho rounded out a full career.
Here in 1884 he inauguratde the pure
food and drug movement now of na
tion-wide proportion. Colonel Green
w.i- the author of "Recollections and
R'-flections," an interesting autobiog
raphy.?News and Observer.
AWFUL TRAGEDY IN PRINCETON.
A Negro and a Shotgun, Backed Up
By Blind Tiger Dispensation
Cliims Another Victim. John At
kinson the Slayer, Arthur Williams
The Slain.
Princeton, August 10.?On last Sat
urday nicht, Jobi? Atkinson, a ne
Kro, after t.inklr.p: up on blind tiger
, Koods, went to tho home of old
Aunt Caroline Richardson, and ask
<:d the question: "Any one here
that don t like me?" There were
several negroes sitting on tho porch
rit tlio time, it being nearly dark.
They sUw that John had ^ gun and
'.hey all said: "Yes, John, wo all
11. ' i i r> pliei: "Iiore's A
thur Williams, he don't like me,"
, and raising his gun within three
feet of Arthur, fired, shooting him
though tho breast, killing him in
stantly. This occurred within a
block of whore Frank Langley was
killed not many months ago.
John Atkinson had heretofore borne
?i prttly fair negro character. I did
not know the victim, and have been
unablt to find out what led to the
klllii.g, further than to say "but for
? whiskey It would never have hap- i
pened."
Atkinson was committed to Jail by
Mayor C. H. Holt.
MOREHEAD FORCES WINNERS.
Butler Alliance Proves Fruitful In
Republican Convention at Green*
boro. E. C. Duncan Overthrown.
Harmonious End of Contest That
Promised to Disrupt Party?New
Leader Sounds Keynote?Local Op
tion Plans.
Greensboro, X. C., Aug. 10.?The
Republican State convention this af
ternoon named Congressman John
Motley Morehead as chairman of the
State Executive Committee, by unan
imous acclaim, the other candidates,
John E. Carl Duncan and Major J. E.
Alexander, having withdrawn from the
contest after their names had been
placed before the convention.
It was a harmgnlous ending of a
contest, which at one time bore evl
lenco of having in It the germ of
? oflou.s party disruption.
Mr. Morchcad's speech of accept
nco breathed an intensely propres
Ivp find eminently fair spirit. The
keynote of his campaign has been the
abolition of the former referee sys
?m under which the Republican par
ly has betn operated with reference
to Federal appointments, and that
Idea was emphasized in his specch
it acceptance.
The couventlon also endorsed and
heartily recommended the adminis
tration of tho retiring State chair
man, ex-.U.d- Spencer B. Adams, a
ingtng resolution of thar.ka for his
faithfulness and fairness and emi
nent service- being unanimously ad
apted.
The ronv. ntlon was organized for
bn Incss ly the election of Thdmaa
Setr ?, of Ail ? il'e. a- p-,Ttr.::nent
.in. I re reived 73" votes to
fur II. <? of Henderson
>jinty. and tl f'ection was ir.ade
unani i o'.is. T. J. I c-kins, of Ashe
vilte wns elected per:' anent secre
tary.
Fully a. thou ind delafates ar1 here,
and i at:<i!iorinr had to be used
i pa mod ate then . T'ii< r were
hot -h- - ly Settle. T. ' Har
are ve V. S. Lupk. A. K. IW n and
others.
Tli ? i 1 Ight
Chief .Ta ti. Supreme Court ? T. T.
. 1 ??, of Henderson.
Associate Ju-tice?Harry Skinner,
of Greenville, and E. W. Tlmberlakt,
if Wake Forest.
Corporation Co:iiml len?G. M.
Hoover, of Thomasvillc, fid J. H.
White, of Madison.
The platform which was unani
mously adopted. endorsed the
administration of President Taft and
the measures passed by Congress at
the last session, the monetary com
mission and the tariff commission.
A plank declaring for free text
books for State public schools and
declaring for local sef-government
went through with a whoop. The ac
tion relative to the self government
means a reopening of the prohibition
question in North Carolina. which
was voted dry two years ago.
EXPLOSION IN CORN HOUSE.
Disaster Said to Have Been Due to
Spontaneous Combustion.
Granite Cltv, 111., August 7.?Two
men are dead and seven are badly
hurt as the result of n-i explosion on
t!;o -;lxth floor of the eornhouse of
the Torn Prodnets Refining Company
here at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The
V. h floor was wrecked, and it was
alinn'-t half an hour before the men
coulil be taken out.
The explosion was caused, accord
ir g to officials of the company, by
s,>orUmeous combustion, due to the
larpe amount of du: t floating about
tlr coi nnouse.
Committee to Meet To-day.
The special committee, composed
of ex-Governor Tho.-. J. Jarvis, ex
Governor Charles B. Aycock, ex-Con
gressman Theo. F. Kluttz, ex-Judge
A. C. Avery, and ex-Lieut.-Gov. R.
A. Doughton, which was appointed by
chairman A. H. Eller, will meet in
Wrightsviile to-day to see if they
the Sixth District, which has two
men claiming to be the nominee for
Congress?H. L. Godwin and O. L.
Clark.
Five persons were instantly killed
when a Pennsylvania express train
dashed into an automobile on a rail
road crossing rear Cspe May Wed
nesday.