North Carolina Newspapers

THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. . WILLI AM BTON, N. C. IT BMMMH Mo Chines* revolutionist wears at •ay rate a pompadour. What has become of the oid-fasb •oued open-face applebutter pieT The autumnal colors are much finer than those of the gaudy billboards. The Chinese revolution seems to knee got beyond the control of the police. rbe effort to render haslng safe and sane continues at various edu eat lonai institutions. China's Infant emperor writes mar velous compositions for one who bss lust begun his schooling. No true lover of nature ever goes around declaring. In sepulchral tones, that life Is a vale of tears. Japan's population Is Increasing st the rate of 600,000 a year, and the surplus must go somewhere. If goat's milk Is a cure for Inebriety, ■a Is ssserted, one would never guess It by studying bock beer signs. Hoopsklrts are announced as uue lo return. But fashion, like politics, baa Its rumors that never come true. The Kings county. New York, Jail to characterized as a "disgrace." Most iBIIS are open to the same criticism. A baby has been killed by a hot _ bag- This comes from departing from the established and recognized cold bottle. Football fatalltltes have been leas frequent this year than usual. The game Is In danger of losing Its popu larity. A New York Janitor laughed so hard st a Joke which his daughter told that he fell dead. As usual the Joke is sup pressed. And the worst of It is. the war be tween Turkey and Italy doesn't seem to be good even for klnematograph purposes. The man who killed himself after six hours of married life apparently was satisfied that a little often goes » great way. Magazines that are shipped by freight are at least congratulating themselves on not being completely ildetracked. A ykjung actor has married a widow worth $15,000,000. It was about time %at the male sex of stageland was *cognlzed. Violinist Kubetlk has fled from Chl rago because It was too noisy here "or him 1 Need It be said that he has rone to St. I^oulsT Football Is not all wasted effort. ixJts of the pale-browed ordinary stu lents get excellent exercise In giving he college yell. It's our notion that everybody will Save to have his liver regulated and m good working order before the mil lennium can Come. A Seattle clergyman preached from i coffin in the streets and was "pall »eared" home. Seattle must be ,a wu-d town to wake up. Statistics show that In nearly all sases the college girl, when she mar rles, stays married Probably she itarts out by giving her husband a 'lvld description of tho hazing stunts ibe has partlclpaated In. A song writer has been ordered to jay $2 a week toward the support of Sis child. Now we may expect an Indefinite number of new "rag" ■pasras. A Chicago paper suggests that only light reading should be carried by the aeroplane postmen.. It Is grimly ap propriate, however, that a lot of it foes to the dead letter office these lays, A New York young man has enter ed Harvard with six trunks, 20 suits ind 10 pairs of shoes. Nobody, how nrer, has gone to the troublo of pre llctlng a brilliant future for him. Mary Anderson sa.vs that any work s preferable to a stage career. But successful people usually speak In this itfaln. Even our great financiers as rare us that being a millionaire is tothlng like as easy as it looks. An Asbury Park cook Is reported to »aee had her $1,500 worth of diamonds itolen. This looks like a deep scheme .o attract all the cooks In the country » the Jersey resort next season. TSwst the ants!" cries a scientist. Jgy. savants—mayn't we keep one lit Te Insect for a pet? " There are some women who never *ange their minds. Just as there are mm men whose autofaoblles never weak down—because they don't own ostomoblles "Hoopsklrts are Inevitable." says a aahlon expert. The only redeeming feature of a boopeklrt Is that It can •e used as a parachute in case of aa aeroplane accident. FROM THE TAB HEEL STATE Column of Parsoraphe That Have Been Collected By the Editor From Over the Btate. Ralolgh.—A charter was issued for the Hunter Drug Company, Warren- Son, capital »10,000, by W. A. Bur well and others for general drug business. Washington.—Effective December 1» Brevard and Southern Pines will bo made depositories for postal sav ings funds. -b ywrostfo shrdluouou uuuuuuuu Raleigh. Blewltt Fails was the icene of the fifth murder in less than ilx months. The man killed was Elan ler Hendrlckson, a Swede. The man who did the killing was Will Logan, i negro gambler, who has been lying around the falls some time. Raleigh.—Governor Kltchin offered i reward of SIOO for the arrest of unknown parties who attempted to wreck a passenger train of the Caro lina &. Northwestern Railroad at creek, Gaston county, Sep tember 19. The railroad company has i reward outstanding of S3OO. High Point.—The police of this cKy ire determined to rope in all the louf srs, both white and colored, who hab tually hang around the depot and tho Jarrell corner at all hours of he day and night. Several arrests have been made during the last few lays of this class for drunkenness ind loafing, and the citizens generally feel tinder obligations to the police 'or the riddance. Southern Pines. —Mr. Henry A. I'age, Sr., of Aberdeen, purchased the Marlboro farm from Mr. Kd McCall, consisting of 1,500 acres and will go In for farming on a large scale. This plantation was first owned by a com pany in which Mr. Page and Mr. Mc- Call were stockholders. This sum mer, however, the other stockholders •old out to Mr. McCall and now Mr. Page has taken It over. Raleigh.—Editor J. J. Farrlss of The High Point Enterprise says that there Is every Indication that the rail road bond election for the Randolph & Cumberland Railroad, Cameron to Winston-Salem are sure to carry in this section. Tho elections come off December 2, nlong the routo of the road throughout RandSTph and Gull ford counties. High Point township Is voting SIOO,OOO toward the road. Charlotte—A strenuous campaign Is to be waged against the house fly in Charlotte for the next week. This Is a good movement and a similar crusade should be waged in every Dther city. The anti-tuberculosis com mittee of Winston-Salem has been disseminating anti-fly Information In this community for the past year ot more and Its campaign along this and kindred lines has been productive ol much good. Wilmington.—The annual election >f officers of Cape Fear chapter, llnl ted Daughters of Confederacy, took place at the regular meeting and the old officers with the exception ol Mrs. Juanlta Davis, who declined tc the office of president again In her place, Mrs. lllchard Price, whi hns been tho efficient recording sec retary was elected and shtf will bf Installed at tho Janaary meeting. Th office of recording secretary will b« filled later. Spencer.—While coupling cars or the Spencer yards preparatory tc making a trio on the road Edward Broady, a well known young man, lost i hand by having It caught between the earn. Ho was given prompt at tentlon by Dr. H. L. Monk, of Spencei nnd rushed to the Whltehead-Stokes sanitarium in Salisbury for treat ment. He was caught at an unguarded moment and his hand was almost sev ered from the arm by the Impact oi the train. Lenoir. —Mr. G. M. Goforth, who lives a mile northwest of town, hat Just finished gathering a crop of peat from a plot of land on which grew a good crop of wheat and rye the past season. About a year ago the wheal and rye were sown and the crop har vested the latter part of June. In July the same land was planted ir peas and a good crop gathered leaving a fine crop of vines to be turned un der for the benefit of the land. This land is now in better condition than it was a year ago and two good cropi have been harvested from it. Raleigh. Two prisoners wer« brought In from Lee county to sorv* terms in the state's prison. They were Willie McNeill, colored, to servo thre« years for killing his father; Charles O'Kelly. white, to serve eight yoar» for larceny. Henderson—Henderson had the larg st tobacco breaks of the season al the numerous warehouses. A great deal of tobacco was sold at eact warehouse and prices were the high est that they have been for years The tobacco is good quality and much of it the regular gold leaf for which this section Is noted. Kalelgh.—There is to be made k vigorous campaign in North Carolina to secure Its jote in the Democratic National Convention for Governot Judson Harmon as the nominee foi the presidency. Wilson.—The law-abiding cltlzenf of Wilson are proud of the fact thai in Kon. O. P. Dickinson they have an excellent executive—one that "hewi to the line, lets the chips fall wher they may." Knowlhg as hto does th law It Is a matter of Impossibility for the disciple of Blackstone to get him tangled up 1b what he concedei to be his dutv . BANKERS APPROVE THE HUTCH PHI REFORMATION OF MONETARY SYSTEM OF THE UNITED ' ■ .. M f: STATES APPROVED. URGE CONGRESS TO ACT Dealing With Question a* an Eco nomic Problem Asked for by American Banker*. New Orleans. —With but one dis senting vote the American Hankers Association gave Its unqualified ap proval to the proposed Aldrlch plan' for the reform of the monetary sys terp of the United States. Congress was urged to deal with the proposition an an economic ques tion/outside the domain of party pol itics. Confidence was expressed that "the high purposes actuating the na tional monetary commission assure the working out of the details In ac cordance with the sound principles stated In the plan, In such a manner as (o gain the confidence and support of all classes." Following the election of officers, the thirty-seventh annual convention of the association came to a close. Detroit wan unanimously chosen on the first ballot us the convention city In 1912. Hoston, Atlantic City, Chica go and Jacksonville, Fla., gave notice that they would ask for the conven tion In 1913. Vice President William Livingston of Detroit was ejected president and C. H. Hutting of St. Louis, vice pres ident. The convention then adjourned. BEATTIE IS ELECTROCUTED After Confessing Young Wife Mur derer Pays Penalty of His Crime. Richmond, Va.—Henry Clay Beat tie, Jr., went to his death tho Belf confessed murderer of his young wife, although the confession was not made public until four hours after ho had paid the toll exacted by tho lnw. He maintained to the end the remarkable nerve he had exhibited since first he was accused of killing his wife on the lonely Midlothian turnpike last July. His last expres sion was a smiling sneer when ho ob- Hcrvod the chair that was to launch him Into eternity. The confession was made public In the rotunda of a down town hotel hy the He v. Henjamln Dennis, one of the ministers who had labored with Heat tie to repent. As a matter of fact, 11 was acknowledged by the minister. Heattle first admitted his guilt No vember 9, the first day after be en tered the death chamber. The extraordinary document fol lows: "I, Henry Clay Heattle. Jr., de sirous of standing right before God and man, do on this, the 23d day of November, 1911, confess my guilt of tho crime charged against me. Much that was published concerning the de tails was not true, but the awful fact, without the harrowing circumstances, remains. For this action, 1 am truly sorry, and believing that I am at peace with Ood and am soon to pass into His presence, this statement is made." MORSE LEAVES U. S. PRISON Banker Moved From Federal Prison to Fort McPherson. Atlanta. —Charles \Y. Morse, the New York banker who has been in the Atlanta Federal penitentiary for many months, left that place, not as a free man, but to go to the army hospttul at Fort McPherson. Col. J. T. Van Orsdale, In command nt Fort McPherson, received a com munication from Washington order ing him to prepare for Morse's trans fer. The orders from Washington did not state the length of time that Morse would be kept In the Fort Mc- Pherson hospital, simply requesting that accommodations be prepared for Morae, who would be kept under med ical supervision during his stay. It is Bald that the former banker is in curably afflicted with Brlght's disease and it is for this reason his transfer Is permitted. Tar Party Sentenced. lJncoln Center, Kan, —Two of the three men charged with complicity in th etarring of Miss Mary Cham berlaln, a school teacher, John Schmidt and Sherrill Clark, were found guilty of assault and battery by a Jury while A. N. Slmms, the third defendant, was acquitted. The Jury was out for nearly thirty hours. Sentence was deferred to permit at torneys to argue for a new trial. The court imposed sentences of one year each in Jail, the extreme penalty, on the four confessed assailants. More and Better Babies. DesMoines, lowa—As a part of the campaign to increase the physical welfare of the people of the state Dr. Margaret Vaupel Clark of Water loo has been selected by the club women of lowa to vtalt Europe to learn how to rear more perfect ba bies. Doctor Clark will sail from New York and will spend a year In the study. "Perfect baby contests are to be arranged and mothers l» each part of the stateg Iven instruc tion on hew beat to care for their babies. SENTENCED ■ ■■ ... i M ■ i i tCopyricbl. »IL> \. TO AID COTTON GROWERS DEAL ARRANGED AT CONFER ENCE OF FINANCIERS AND GOVERNORS. There Will Be No Interest Charge. Fund Placed Through State Committees. New York. New York bankers who liave been conferring here for the last few days with representa tives of the governors' . conference and Southern cotton congress, an nounced that they had raised a fund of 150,000,000 to be placed immedi ately In the cotton belt states for the purpose of handling tho cotton crop of 1911 and enabling growers to par ticipate in any rise In the market. The negotiations were conducted on behalf of the South by Gov. Km inctt O'Neal of Alabama, Senator Dal ley of Texas, who has been advising his colleagues as to the legal aspects of the proposition; E. J. Watson, the president of the permanent South ern cotton congress and commission er of agriculture of South Carolina, ami Clarence Ousley of Fort Worth, Texas, representing the governor of his state. The bankers who will furnish the fund, according to the statement, are heuded by Col. Robert M. Thompson of the brokerage firm of S. H. P. Pell & Co. of New York. The finan cial support of several of the strong est banks in New York has been 4lv6n to the plan, the statement con ttnues. The plan proposes to advance the grower $25 per bale upon ills cotton, haßed on the market value at the time of the loan. No Interest will be paid upon the loan, the only charge being II a bale, which Is regarded as a le gitimate minimum charge for expense of grading and handling. The cotton is not held nor taken from the chan nels of trade, but is placed at the beat advantage. Tho grower Is given the right to designate the day of sale prior to January 1, 1913, Details of the plan are yet to be worked out. It has been decided, how ever, to place the fund through state committees named by the governor or commissioner of agriculture of a state, and these committees shall be empowered to sell when cotton has reached 12 cents and compelled to sell when It reaches 13 cents regard loss of advice from the growers. Pro vision against any violation of the Sherman anti-trust law is contained, the promoters believe, In a clause empowering each committee to name the day of sale In event the market climbs to 12 or 13 cents. $700,000,000 fcr $1,000,000. Washington.—Alfred Merrltt of nuluth, Minn., first president of the Ouluth, Mlssabe and Northern rail road, who styled himself a "lumber jack," unacquainted with the meth ods of the "money trust," told the house steel trust Investigating com mittee that through loans of less than $1,000,000 from John D. Rocke feller, he had lost his holdings In the Mlssable Iron mines, and the rail road properties now owned by the steel company estimated to be worth $700,000,000. Women Barred From Juries. Sacramento, cel.— Attorney General U. S. Webb ruled that women can not serve as jurors in this state, the question having been raised as a re sult of success of the equal suffrage constitutional amendment. "Under the common law," says Webb, "a Jury consisting of twelve free and lawful men and under the same law women were not eligible to Jury duty. I think our code did not change the common law rule. Suffrage to woman has not affected the queatlou of ellgi-. bllity for Jury aervlce." They Want Roosevelt. Youngston, Ohio. —A call for the foremost citizen of the world, "Theo dore Roosevelt," to bear the standard of the Republican party in the strug gle lor the presidency next year, wa.>- voiced at the banquet of the Garfield club of the nineteenth eongresaional district of Ohio. John J. Sullivan, for mer United States district attorney, was the speaker who named Colonel Roosevelt for the nomination of hla party. His speech met with almost unanimous approval, ' ' . « i' PRESIDENT CARERES KILLED Aaaaaalnatlon of Presldant of Domin go Uahera In a Revolution in That Country. San Domingo.—Tho president of the republic, General Ramon Caceres, has been assassinated. The president was set upon by a small band and killed while riding in his coach on a public road. So far, nothing has developed to indicate a rising. The country Is quiet. Washington.—President Caceres of the Dominican republic was shot as he left the house of Leonte Vasquez In San Domingo City, where he had made lie died half an hour later In the American legation, whither he was taken. The first shots of hlB assailants, Lulz Tejera and Jaime Mote, Jr., according to ad vices received at the state depart ment, were not effective. The wounded president first sought shelter in a stable adjoining the American legation, but his assailants pursued him thither and, in closing in upon him, fired more shots. Friends of President Caceres dragged him in a dying condition to the American le gation, where he died. The assassins fled to San Cristobal. Charge Endicott reports that the city is quiet, and is patrolled by guards. Minister Russell, who represents the United States in the Dominican republic, is now at his home near the city. He has arranged to leave for Havana,( whence he will cross Cuba to Guantanamao. If no commercial steamer Is at hand, he probably will be transported to San Domingo by one of the naval gunboats now at Guantanamao. President Caceres' somewhat stormy career is recalled by officials here, who are familiar with the peculiar Domnlican temperament. It Is rumor ed that the president himself was the slayer of the redoubtable old dic tator, Hereaux, in 1899, m he alleged. In self-defense. It Is likewise known that relatives of the former president always cherished a dealre that the death of their kinsman be avenged. MANY FOREIGNERS KILLED Maaaacrt of Mlsalonarlea and Others Has Occurred In Bian-Fu, China. Pekln. —Chinese officials confirm the report that a massacre of for eigners, as well bb Manchusfl has oc curred at Slan-Fu. The legations be lieve that the report will prove true. There were forty foreigners In Slan- Fu, and many missloneries In the smaller. Shen-Si towns. Up to the present only Chinese reports have been received regarding the massa cre. There has been no telegraphic or postal communication with Slan-Fu for mor than three weeks. The Swedish missionaries, Messrs. Sandberg and Erlckson, arirved here from Tien Tsln. They said a tele gram had been received from south ern Shen-Sl, announcing the murder of Mrs. Beckman, a school mistress, and five foreign children. Many Chinese gills in Miss Beck- Ingdale's school who were mistaken for Manchus because of their big feet, were also reported to haw been murdered. A German, Philip Man ners, who Is in the Chinese postal service, was among others killed. Cummins Is Convicted. New York City.—William J. Cum mins, the former Tennessee promoter and recent directing head of the Car negie " Trust company, was found guilty of the theft of $140,000 from the Nineteenth Ward bank by the jury before which he has been on trial for the last five weeks. He was remanded to the Tombs. Cum mins seemed stunned by the result His altitude throughout the trial was one of apparent assurance and cheer fulness. Melon Growers File Complaint. ' New York. —Melon growers of Flor ida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina and northern commis sion men who handle their products appeared, through attorneys, before the interstate commerce commission here and asked for lower freight rates on 125 Eastern railroads. The farmers declare that by rate discrimination the price of melons has been made unduly high everywhere Krest of Cin cinnati and Buffalo. A special com plaint is made against the Pennsylva nia railroad. INVESTIGATION OF EXPRESS RATES t : INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM MISSION IS HEARING CASES. RATES PROHIBITIVELY HIGH Alleged That Express Companies Make 38 Per Cent. Annually on ; 4Mb Plant Valuation. New York.—Criticisms and reme dial recommendations, ranging from mild to radical, were presented to the Interstate commerce commission at the opening here of a series of hearings to be held throughout the country in investigation of the ex press business. The magnitude of this business was brought out by Attorney Frank Lyon, counsel for the commission, who said that the combin&tion ex press companies operate more than two hundred and seventy thousand miles of railway and do %uslneas through 31,828 stations. He placed the cost of operating the express plants at f27,000,000, the operating net income at $10,000,000,--or a trae tlon over 38 per cent, on pltait valu ation Congressman David J. Lewis of Cumberland, Md., one of tho first wit nesses, declared that government ownership would ultimately prove to be the only logical solution of the express business. He had abandoned the idea, he said, that a parcelß post would give the required releaf. "Express rates are prohibitively high," he continued, "being sixteen times the freight rate —$31.20 per ton for express and $1.90 for freight. Par cels post schemes, per se, Impose a rate of 8 and 12 cents a pound. At 8 cents the cost would be $l6O a ton or five times the average express charge, and eleven times the Euro pean parcels post. Above three pounds, the express companies now give much lower rates than propos ed by the parcels post, and below three pounds they give rates as good." Contending that there should be a more natural ratio of express to freight charges. Mr. declared that there was a margin of profits made by the companies, ho thought, on which the interstate commerce commission may operate to give re lief to business inter , its without jeop ardizing the investments and operar tions of the express business. To remedy some prevailing condi tions, Representative Lewis sug gested : "Fast service is now provided by the railways. But the main need la an articulation of the country and suburban points with the railways: which may be accomplished by ru ral delivery agency. Express railway contracts should be secured by the postal department to obtain low rail road rates. Cheap capital and a pub lic service motive, both of which (he nation can certainly provide, is nec essary. Unification of express plants with the postal system is needed to secure simplification of methods and fullest economically feasible exten sion of collections and delivery." Several shippers who were witness es emphasized their objections to the regulations under which express com panies accept goods, especially against the clause of "owners' risk" and "value asked and not given." Rockefeller's Methoda. Washington.—Further details of the high finance methods of John D. Rockefeller In the ore fields were giv en before the Stanley steel investigat ing committee, and, as a result. It la expected that the oil king will be summoned as a witness. Resuming the story of the alleged •"trimming" of the Merritt Brothers, builders of the Duluth, Bessaba and Northern railway, by Rockefeller, Leonidaa Merritt took the stand. He corrobo rated much of the testimony of hia brother, Alfred, who preceded him. and who told - how Rockefeller, in calling a loan of $420,000 on 24 Hours' notice, had acquired control of prop erty it was estimated to be worth more than a half billion dollars. Doubt Feasibility of Cotton Plan. Dallas, Texas.—A lukewarm recep tion of the announcement that New York bankers are ready to advance $50,000,000 to farmers on a cotton holding plan, was accorded in inter views by cotton 'men-. In several of Texas' leadliig citizens: While some favored the object, nearly all express ed doubts about the possibility of making arrangements that would snlt any considerable part of the cotton producers. Cotton middlemen gener ally said the project would not be accepted. Alabama Cotton Crop Increases. (Montgomery, Ala. —Reports reoef ed by Commissioner of Agriculture Reuben F. Kolb from practically ev ery county of the state and from va rious sources in each county, show that Alabama's cotton yield this year will exceed the yield of last year by 168,200 bales. The statistica include the crop up to November 10 and are to be included in a bulletin which the department of agriculture expects to publlah within the next ten .days, showing the production of counties.