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VOL 30
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911
Number 27
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
EDUCATION OOOD ROADS GOOD HEALTH
PROGRESS
FIVE CENTS PEE COPY,
bad WORK OF MAD DOG
HE bites wife and two chil
dren OF MR. CHARLEY LEE.
He Attacked Child and Mrs. Lee
Went to Her Assistance With
Baby in Her Arms. The Dog
Then Caught Hold of Baby and
Had to Be Prized Away.
Last week a dog belonging to Mr.
joe Parker, of Four Oaks, went mad
&nd did considerable damage before
he could be subdued. He bit sever
al hogs and a cow, worth seventy
five dollars, belonging to Mr. Char
ley Wellons, all of which have since
, died.
The dog went to the home of Mr.
Charley Lee, a mail carrier, and
atttacked a little girl by getting hold
of the calf of one of her legs. He
held on and tried to tear her flesh
all he could. Mrs. Lee, with baby
in her arms, ran to the dog to beat
him away from her daughter. He
th&n turned loose the girl and caught
the baby by one of its feet. Mrs.
Lee and another woman tried to get
the dog away from the baby, but it
seemed they were about to fail. Fin
ally one of them took the dog’s
tongue and twisted it while the oth
er prized open his mouth from the
foot of the child. Mrs. Lee is now
in Italeigh with the two children
for treatment.
PARISIAN JOURNALIST
BEATS PHINEAS FOGG.
Paris, Aug. 26.—Andre Jaeger
Schmidt, the Parisian journalist,
drove an automobile to The Daily
Excelsior office at 9:02 a. m., official
ly completing his circuit of the
world in 39 days, 19 hours, 43 min
utes and 37 4-5 seconds.
Jaeger-Schmidt started from Paris
at 1:45 p. m., July 17, to beat the
63 day record of M. Stiegler of the
Paris Matin. Jaeger-Schmidt could
have arrived at his goal in Paris
two hours earlier if he had not stay
ed at Cherbourg after midnight for
a supper given in his honor by a
number of journalists.
MORE COSTLY TO KEEP SWEET.
Price of Sugar Soaring Again and
Grocers Tear Their Hair and Gasp.
New York, Aug. 30.—Grocery cir
cles here showed concern today over
the high prices now prevailing in the
sugar market. There was another ad
vance in granulated during the day
to 6.25 cents, representing a full cent
rise in the last few weeks and the
highest level in many years. Qoming
at the height of the canning season,
this advance is of vital interest to
consumers all over the country. It is
attributed primarily to a poor sugar
beet crop in Europe, following pro
longed drouth this summer. To make
matters worse, the Cuban crop, which
furnishes the bulk of raw material
for American refiners, also proved
short, and prices began to soar.
Far-sighted dealers bought large
supplies some months ago, leaving
the market almost bare of stock, and
raw sugars in consequence have made
new high records, while many opera
tors in the street predict that the end
is not yet in sight.
Two Young Men Rob Store.
Two young men were before Jus
tice M. G. Gulley, at Clayton last
Monday for robbing a store Saturday
night near Liberty Cotton Mill. The
store was run by Pinkney Glover.
The entrance was made about mid
night. The young men raised a
■window and pulled apart the iron
bars which were placet? in front of
the windows for fenders. One of
them went in between the bars
which they had bent apart. It is
said they helped themselves freely
° soft drinks and cigars. The ar
rests were made Sunday afternoon.
Clair Ferrell and Jim Hill were the
two young men. Each gave a hun
dred dollar bond for appearance here
at September court.
Another report says these young
rhen w'ere drunk and went to the
Store hoping to find more intoxi
cants and probably knew but little
df W’hat they were doing.
trerman scientists, who are excava
ting in Babylon, believe that they
have discovered the ruins of the
Tower of Babel.
GOVERNMENT WEEKLY
WEATHER REPORT.
Washington, Aug. 29.—In the East
ern States of the cotton belt the
weather during the week ending yes
terday was mostly favorable although
the rainfall was generally light and
it was still dry in some sections, ac
croding to the National Weekly Wea
ther Bulletin, issued to-day. The
weather continued partly cloudy, with
frequent showers in Louisiana, Ark
ansas and Mississippi. Dry weath
er prevailed in Texas and Oklahoma
the first of the week while good
showers and cooler weather came the
latter part over most of these states.
Conditions by States follow:
Virginia—Precipitation about nor
mal in north and above normal in all
other sections, except extreme south
eastern. Sunshine above average.
North Carolina—Scattered show
ers, some good local rains in south
ern and central portions. The tem
perature above normal. Sunshine
above normal.
South Carolina—Temperature and
precipitation about normal, most of
rainfall occurring at close of week,
accompanied by gales on coast. Sun
shine about normal.
Happenings at “Wildwood."
Wildwood (near Clayton), Aug. 30.,
—Misses Julia and Lovie Austin have
been entertaining a party of friends
at "Wildwood,” their lovely coun
try home, near Clayton, during the
past week. The guests of honor
being Misses Virginia Kendall, of
Goldsboro; Allie Bailey, of . Kenly;
Mabel Brannam, of Clayton; and
Messrs. Hugh Page and Elmo Gattis,
of Clayton and Dr. Floyd G. Gower,
of Gowersville.
The week has been very pleasant
ly spent in picnics, parties, hay rides
and fishing excursions.
On Monday evening a large party
of friends were delightfully enter
ui;i.;d by the hostess. Games and
conventional discourses were enjoyed
oy a.i present.
At 11 o’clock the guests were in
vited into the dining hall, where a
most delicious four-course luncheon
was served on tables decorated only
as the delicate, artistic hand of wo
ma.» can do such things.
The following-named young people,
in couples, were in attendance: Miss
Virginia Kendall with Mr. Elmo Gat
tis, Miss Allie Bailey with Dr. F. G.
Gower, Miss Mildred Barbour with
Mr. Hugh Page, Miss Gladys Bar
bour and Mr. Saxe Barnes, Miss Lil
lian Baucom and Mr. Jesse Austin,
Miss Mabel Brannam with Mr. Guy
Penny, Miss Elsie Penny and Mr. Roy
Baucom, Miss Carmen Gattis and Dr.
J. H. Austin, Miss Meta Baucom with
Mr. Parker Rand, Miss Julia Austin
with Mr. Devan Barbour, Miss Lovie
Austin with Mr. Ronnie Ellis.
Most exquisite music, vocal and in
strumental, was rendered during the
evening, and all who were present on
that glad, delightful occasion are yet
fond in ther praises of their hos
tesses, Misses Austin.—News and Ob
server.
PRESIDENT WILL VISIT
24 STATES ON NEXT TOUR.
Beverly, Mass., Aug. 28.—Twenty
four of the United States will be
visited by President Taft on the
swing around the circel, according to
a partially completed schedule an
nounced to-day. The President will
start on September 15, and with the
exception of five States and Arizona
and New Mexico, he will pass
through every Commonwealth west
of the Mississippi. Included in
the 24 are Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illi
nois, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kan
sas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, South
Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Maryland.
Among the big towns and cities
the President will visit are Syracuse,
Erie, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis,
Omaha, Kansas, Denver, Cheyenne,
Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Seattle,
Spokane, Wallace, Idaho; Butte and
Billings, Mont.; Deadwood, Aberdeen
and Pierre, S. D.; St. Paul and Min
neapolis, Milwaukee and Pittsburg.
The Charlotte Observer says that
prohibition prohibits just like a sif
ter holds sand. And the police court
demonstrates that regulation regu
lates just like a sieve holds water.
—Richmond Virginian. *
HARRY ATWOOD HOLDS RECORD.
His Flight From St. Louis to New
York the Longest Distance Ever
Traveled by Man in Heavier
than-air Machine.
New York, August 25.—Sailing se
renely over. New York’s myriad wa
ter craft, its ferryboats and ocean
liners, Harry N. Atwood, the Boston
aviator, arrived in New York in his
aeroplane to-day, the first man in
history to travel as far as from St.
Louis to New York by way of Chica
go, in a heavier-than-air machine.
Atwood’s safe landing on Gover
nor’s Island, after flying from Ny
ack, N. Y., above the Hudson Ri
ver, through a fog which made him
dimly visible to the million eyes
that watched him, was a notable in
cident in the annals of aeronautics.
He not only broke the world’s re
cord, covering 1,265 miles in an air
line, or perhaps 100 more miles with
his- detours, but he flew all the
way in the same biplane, and with
no important mishaps.
Atwood’s flight is comparable only
to that made by fast trains, for he
covered the distance in an actual
flying time of twenty-eight hours
and thirty-one minutes.
Distance covered in air line, 1,
265 miles.
Total distance including detours
around New York and otther places,
1,365 miles.
Started from St. Louis 8:05 A. M.
August 14.
Finished Governor’s Island 2:38
P. M., August 26.
Flying time for entire trip, 28
hours 31 minutes.
Number of flights en route, 20.
Average distance of each flight,
63 1-4 miles.
rseais previous worm s record Dy
101 nPles, not crediting him with
the extra 100 miles which he claims
for detours.
'io-day’s trip begun at Nyack, N*.
Y. twenty-five miles north of For
ty-second Street, New York, at 1:52
P. M.; finished at Governor’s Island
at 2-38 P. M.
Flying time for to-day’s trip, 46
minutes. x
WILL RECOMMEND A
RURAL PARCELS POST.
Washington, Aug. 28.—In his annu
al report to congress in December,
Postmaster General Hitchcock will re
commend the establishment of a par
cel post service on the rural mail
routes, a crystalization into law of
the proposed increase in second class
mail rates, the enactment of a pro
posed law providing for a radical
change in the system of compensat
ing railways for transporting mails.
SUIT OVER OX COST
LITIGANTS OVER $1,000.
Whiteshurg, Ky., Aug 24.—The
celebrated ox suit that has been
fought for years in the County Court
here between the Mason boys and
Jesse Cook, Rockhouse citizens, has
been settled, the Mason boys winning
the suit. Though the ox was worth
less than $40 the case has cost each
party more than $500.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A
GOOD WOMAN AT DUNN.
Last Sunday evening Mr. H. N.
Bizzell and bis wife started to church
and on the way Mrs. Bizzell stop
ped to see a sick lady. There Mrs.
Bizzell died suddenly in a chair
where only five minutes before she
was apparently in good health. Her
unexpected death was a shock to the
whole community. The funeral was
preached Tuesday afternoon at
Dunn Baptist church by her pastor,
Dr. W. P... Cullom, who was assisted
by Rev. T. H. King, of Smithfield.
The remains were interred in the
town cemetery about 5 o’clock in
the presence of a large number of
friends and relatives. She leaves
a husband and two sons and two
daughters. Mr. James A. Bizzell,
professor in Cornell University, Itha
ca, N. Y., and Mr. Lawrence Bizzell,
who has charge of the Dunn elec
tric plant, are her sons. One of her
daughters is the wife of Mr. Claude
Grantham, of Goldsboro, and the
other lives at Falcon and is the
wife of Mr. Julius Culbreth. She
was reared In Johnston county, her
maiden name being Katie Underwood.
She was a sister of Mr. J. D. Un
derwood of Smithfield.
STORM DOES DAMAGE
SEVEN LOSE LIVES IN GREAT
STORM AT CHARLESTON.
Furious Wind Blew Nearly One Hun
dred Miles An Hour.—Tide of 8
Feet Inundated Low Quarter of
City.—The Damage $1,000,GOO.
Charleston, S. C., via Summerville,
S. C., Aug. 28.—As the result of a
freak storm which struck this city
and Savannah last night and which
reached hurricane proportions, Char
lesion virtually has been isolated
for 24 hours. Seven persons are
known to have been killed near here
and property losses, it is estimated,
•will leach $1,000,000.
The storm reached the proportions
of a gale about 1 o’clock yesterday
afternoon. The wind velocity increas
ed from 48 miles an hour at 1:25
P. M. to 94 miles at 10:20 P. M„
when the wind guage was put out of
adjustment.
At noon to-day the wind was only
brisk and the sun was trying to
shine. The rainfall was more than
two inches. The disturbance was re
ported to be west of Charleston and
working away.
The tide was something over eight
feet during the storm, three feet
short of the record of 1893. Consid
erable damage was done by the wa
ter in the low sections of the city,
necessitating the removal of many
persons from their homes. The wa
ters have caused washouts on the
approaches to the union station, pre
venting the operation of trains.
Alonzo Coburn, an engineer on the
Charleston division of the Southern
nanway, was instantly Kiueu oy ny
ing timbers. A Mr. Smith, of Colum
bia, and Motorman Cutter, of the
local street railway system, were kill
ed and L. D. Kintworthy, of St.
Stephen’s, and E. B. Hill were se
riously injured when a trestle col
lapsed. Two unidentified women
''ere drowned when their home was
Hooded and several negroes are re
ported among the storm victims.
Great damage is feared for the
rice and sea island cotton industries
by the rise of the tide. Not since
the cyclone of 1885 has the water
front here suffered so severely.
NAME GORMAN FOR GOVERNOR.
Primary Returns Indicate That Dem
ocrats of Maryland Have Nomi
nated Late Senator's Son.
Baltimore, Md., Aug. 29.—Returns
from to-day’s Democratic primary el
ection in Maryland indicate that
State Senator Arthur Pue Gorman,
son of the late United States Sen
ator Gorman, will be the nominee of
the democratic party for governoi
at the November election. Mr. Gor
man’s opponent in the primary was
State Senator Blair Lee, who had
’.e support of Congressman Tal
bot and Gov. Crothers and the so
called progressive element. To-day’s
primary also determined the nomina
tion for attorney general, comptrol
ler, memoers of the Maryland sen
ate and house of delegates and the
State central committee.
Our Oldest States.
Admitting New Mexico and Arizona
to Statehood is somewhat like intro
ducing one’s great grand aunt to the
family. How old civilization in this
part of the new world is nobody can
even guess intelligently but compar
ed to Santa Fe and other settlements
of the desert our one-time oldest
city, St. Augustine, is only of to-day.
Before the Spaniards came in the
16th century there were the Pueb
los, whose arts and culture may have
been 1,000 years old and they liv
ed on the ruins of other peoples
whose potteries and buried cities
may have been coeval with the pyr
amid builders or older yet. Irriga
tion works are going to deliver val
uable finds to the archeologist and the
history of mankind will be changed.—
Knoxville Sentinel.
“Wasn’t that elopement story a
highly colored one?’’
“I should say it was. The father
was purple with rage, the girl red
with apprehension, her chum green
with envy, the minister white with
fear the fellow showed a distinct
yellow streak, while the whole wed
ding party were blue at the out
come.”—Baltimore American.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANK
TO BE IN GREENSBORO.
Washington, Aug. 28.—Postmaster
General Hitchcock to-day designated
Greensboro as a depositary for pos
tal savings bank funds. This is the
second first class office to be es
tablishro in North Carolina, Wilming
ton having been designated a few
days ago.
It was announced at the postoffice
department that the large offices
are proving such a success that it is
expected that, all of the 426 first
class postoffices will have been de
signated by the end of September
and that the 5,000-odd thirdclass of
fices will be well under way.
Pou’8 Good Speech.
The Washington correspondents
and the papers are still talking about
the great speech made by Ed. Pou
or. the president's veto of the wool
en schedule. His speech was short
but many people regard it as a
masterly effort. Soon after the pres
ident’s veto was read Mr. Pou ask
ed permission to address the house
for five minutes. He began his
speech by saying it was significant
that no one had dared to speak in
defense of the present rates on
schedule K of the woolen schedule.
He said that the democrats had been
attempting to revise the tariff, sched
ule by schedule, a plan which Pres
ident Taft had said would prevent
log-rolling. "It cannot therefore
be urged that the veto of this bill
should be sustained because the bill
has any relation whatever to anoth
er schedule,' said Mr. Pou. "No
rnena or the administration can of
fer such objection to revision of
the wool schedule, for we have
been revising the tariff in exact
accordance with the wishes of Mr.
Taft.” Then Mr. Pou pointed out
that the constitution of the United
States provides that whenever the
president shall fail to sign a bill
he shall return it to congress, to
gether with his “objections” to
the measure. Then Mr. Pou pointed
out that this veto message contain
ed no “objections” to the bill which
had just been returned to the house.
“In substance the president admits
that it may be a good bill. He does
not say the import duties are too
low; he does not say that the rates
fail to cover the difference in cost
here and abroad. The only objec
tion offered by the president con
sists of his own lack of information.
This is not a veto message, it is
a plea in confession and avoid
ance.” Continuing, the speaker
said:
I here is one schedule in the
Payne-Aldrich lav* which has no
defender on this floor so far as
we have heard up to this time. It
: has often been charged that sched
! ale K in the Dingley law was writ
i ten by an agent of the woolen man
i ufacturers. One thing is certain,
i these rates are indefensible, and an
; other thing is also certain, and that
is the influence of the woolen
manufacturers was strong enough tc
have schedule K in the Dingley bill
brought forward and incorporated in
the Payne bill with little change. In
this very measure the president him
self condemns the unjust rates in
the Payne law. He shares the be
lief that many rates in the present
schedule are too high and in excess
of any needed protection for wool
grower or manufacturer.’ ’’
Mr. Pou said the people had suf
fered and struggled to have the out
rage corrected. He said that when
the president made his famous Wi
nona speech that there was not a
man in the United States who be
lieved that Mr. Taft would veto a
bill which levies a duty of forty-nine
per cent on woolen goods and cloth
ing and a duty of twenty-nine per
cent on raw wool.
“The president expresses great so
licitude for ‘more than a million oi
our countrymen engaged in the pro
duction of wood and the manufacture
of woolens.’ ”
Mr. Pou was warmly congratulat
ed when he closed his speech bj
members of the democratic side ant
by a few republicans.—RaleigI
Times.
The clock in the tower of Trinity
church, New York, is 100 years old
Rust and age have played havoc witl
it. It is to be replaced by one o
modern make, having four dials
each six feet in diameter, with num
erals inscribed in stone.
SMALL BOY CRIED FIRE
STARTED PANIC iN CANONSF-URG
MOTION PICTURE SHOW.
Twenty-Six Dead, More Hurt.—Twen
ty-Five Were Seriously Injured
And Thirty Sustained Minor
Wounds—Terrible Scene.
Canonsburg, Pa., Aug. 27 —Twenty
six dead from suffocation; 25 serious
ly hurt, and 30 suffering from mi
nor injuries.
That is the amount of human toll
exacted by an inexcusable panic at
a moving picture show in the Can
onsburg opera house Saturday night.
The moving picture machine develop
ed a sligh1- defect. It sputtered a
bit. A small boy shouted “Fire!”
at the same time starting for the
narrow exit. Botus Dubrowski, a
foreign miner, a giant in proportions,
jumped from his seat and ran wild
ly for the same exit. In a moment
there was a fighting, struggling mass
after him. At the head of a nar
row stairway which led to the street
the foreigner tripped. As he rolled
down the stairs he swept others
from their feet who were awaiting
their turn to enter the theatre, and
soon there was an indescribable mass
of human beings at the foot of the
steps battling like madmen.
The bodies clogged the way. The
men walked over them and fought
for positions of safety until, over
whelmed by the height of the mov
ing mass behind, they too were
crushed down to death.
It was all ended in a few min
utes. Firemen, policemen and cool
headed citizens untangled the human
j mass. The unhurt and those slight
ly injured were pulled Irom the
top of the pile. Next came the more
seriously hurt. Then the rescuers
came to the silent forms of those
who had reached the fata, stairway
first. One after another the vic
tims, many of them women and small
children, were carried to the side
walk. All had been suffocated.
Manager Ferguson endeavored to
stop the panic. Accompanied by his
wife he went to the stage. Calling
loudly to the frightened people to
follow, he lead fully 300 to safety.
Of the 26 dead, 13 were children,
seven of them pupils in the public
schools. To-day it was decided to
postpone for a week the opening of
the schools.
Arthur McPeake was passing the
building when the bodies began to
pile up at the door. The young man
rushed to the rescue and was in
the act of dragging a body from the
pile when a man came shouting
down the stairs. He struck McPeake
on the back and the young man’s
neck was broken. Sydney Rittiger
was at the performance with his fi
ance, Miss Lulu Fisher. Before en
tering the building they had stop
ped at a jewelry store nearby and
Rittiger had bought the ring that was
to have been used at their wedding.
Both were killed.
Will Lane, an employe of the
Canonsburg pottery and a member
of the volunteer firemen’s organiza
tion, hastened to assist firemen
working at the pile of bodies at the
entrance, when he came upon the
lifeless forms of his two children
lying beside his unconscious wife.
Many other heartrending tragedies
were enacted during and following
the awful panic.
It developed to-day that there was
no flash in the operating room of the
theatre. Manager Ferguson of the
opera house explained that when the
film broke a bright light was thrown
on the screen. The frightened boy
imagined it was fire and unconscious
ly shouted out the death knell of
more than a score of people.
FIFTEEN KILLED
IN GREAT STORM.
Charleston, Aug. 10.—Additional re
ports from the country surrounding
Charleston received last night brings
the list of dead as a result of ,the
terrific storm of Sunday night up to
fifteen. This list is expected to be
enlarged wrhen reports are received
from the more remote sea islands.
Conservative estimate places th»
property damage in the neighborhood
of $1,000,000.
! The Madrid telephone company*
, though the principal one in Spain,
- with stations in nineteen leading
cities, has only 3,795 subscribers.