THE ENTERPRISE
Published Weakly.
WILLIAMSTON, N. 0.
The waiters fesr that the new S
cent pieces will be used as tips.
One way to become contented with
your job Is to knock off and go fish
'ng.
A Central park elephant objects to
the paring of his corns with a jack-
Mane.
Louisiana farmers would feel better
about It If they had wanted their land
rrlgated.
A modern physician says housekeep
ing Is the best known cure for nerv
ousness.
Wireless In midair Is the latest Yet
op-ln-the-alr communication Is not
•eally a novelty.
The relchstag has adopted an antl
duellng bill, which Is one way of chal
lenging the kaiser.
Ban Francisco's three mile bridge
will at least be a more tangible won
ter than the Golden Gate.
Now an aviator and his bride are
about to pass their honeymoon In the
\lr. It simply had to come!
It la to be hoped the hot air gener
ated In the campnlgn will not remain
permanently In the atmosphere.
•It will take all of that |1,000,000
gift to break some farmers of planting
■potatoes In the dark of the moon.
The only objection to a 3-cent piece
lathat some factory IB sure to make
* cigar bad enough to fit it in price.
When the half pennies make their
appearance It may become necessary
to get larger toy banks for the chll
ren.
• Potted English sparrow Is recom
mended as a delicacy for the table,
We should prefer stuffed humming
Dressed poultry reached Its maxi
mum when 1250,000 was paid for Rem
brandt'a "Old Woman Plucking a
v„wl."
MacVeagh's plan to make money
■nailer la excellent, but It would be a
more popular Idea to make It more
frequent.
The leaning tower of Pisa continues
to stand, although the vertical
campanile at Venice tumbled down
and had to be rebuilt
That person who smuggled 14,000
|lass eyes Into this country must have
thought that the long hatpin had com
mitted dreadful ravages.
A Philadelphia explorer has gone to
Brail) to take moving picture* of a
boa constrictor. Perhaps some ot
'hem will be Inside vlewa.
A messenger boy In Wall street was
riven 25 cents for restoring f521,000
worth of bonds. How different It t«
In life outside of Wall street!
A Detroit man has secured six certs
damages for being beaten up by a po..
Ilceman. It appears from this distance
Co be a poor way to earn money.
A Boston man has Invented an au
tomatic trombone player. But then
Boston may And relief by treating It
alth baked beans and codflsh balls.
If the Inhabitants of Mars are 12
feet high, as some people think, no
doubt they find It easy to roach the
ilrup pitcher at the breakfast table.
In one of the Denver high schools
girls are being taught how to be good
wives. The lessons will hardly be ef
fective unless they Include the folly
of nagging.
These |re the days when the man
who has time on his bands finds It
difficult to make up his mind whether
to go fishing or watch the excavating
(or a new building.
Somebody might confer a benefit
npon humanity by devising some kind
of r scheme whereby people could
learn how to operate launches before
venturing on the water.
Burgeons have succeeded In grafting
the cornea of a rabbit's eye upon the
eye of a man. It will perhaps be only
natural for him to shy off when he
tees a dog approaching, after this.
Three of Chicago's wealthy batch-
Mors want to adopt babies. They
explain (hat they desire to be fathers,
but do not care to assume the risk of
taking wires. 1 Perhaps they have
never learned that sweet old Bone,
"What Is Home Without a Mother."
Because he had become engaged 4o
seventeen women In Switzerland a
young man of that country has been
sent to jail. What Is known elsewhere
as the summer engagement does not
Sourish amid the Alps.
j, A French aviator says that In two
centuries we shall be crossing the
ocean In airships This will make
people with a regard for their mun :
Cane lives willing to welt Instead of
making predictions of trying It ne«t
summer.
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LAKES-MAST
ROAD PROJECTED
NEW ROAD FROM THE GREAT
LAKES TO 80UTH ATLANTIC
BEABOARD PROBABLE.
A DREAM OF HAWLEY
Sale of Beaboard Means Entrance of
Chesapeake and Ohio Into the „ .
South Atlantic Region.
Richmond, Va. The Carolina,
Cllnchfieid and Ohio railroad has se
cured an amendment to Its charter
from the Virginia corporation com
mission authorizing the road to in'
crease its capital stock from |3o,ootv
000 to 140,000,000. This, It is declar
ed, is for the purpose of further per
fecting plans to get connection with
the Chesapeake and Ohio system.
In railway circles here it is believ
ed that the sale of 210,000 shares of
Seaboard Air Line stock by the Cum
berland corporation and their acqui
sition by a new syndicate which has
come into control of this road Is
nothing more than a plan on the part
of the Chesapeake and Ohio to even
tually take over the Carolina, Clinch-
Held and Ohio, which Is owned by the
Cllnchfieid corporation.
Hy Belling out Its Seaboard holdings
the Cumberland corporation can now
carry out its extension plans, Irrespec
tive of Seaboard Influence, it Is be
lieved. Theße plans call (or an ex
tension from Dante, the northern ter
minus of the C., C. and 0., to Elk
horn, Ky., the southern terminus of
the lllg Sandy division of the Chesa
peake and Ohio. Contract. f?r this
work was let Beveral weeks ago.
With the completion of this con
necting link, a distance of 40 mlleß,
within the next year or two, It Is be
lieved that the way will have been
sufficiently cleared for the Chesa
peake and Ohio to assume active
charge of the Carolina, Cllnchfleld
and Ohio whose southern terminus Is
Spartanburg, S. C.
Behind this project lies the dreairi
of Edwin Hawley for the C. and O.
and Its allied branches in the middle
West to get a direct line from the
Great to the South Atlantic
seaboard, preliminary to the opening
of the I'anam* canal In 1915.
NORMAN MACK I SUES CALL
Meeting of Democratic Officials In
Baltimore to Convene June 20.
New York. —Norman E. Mack, the
chairman ot the Democratic naiioual
committee, announced that he had
Issued a call tor a uicetiug In llaltl
more on June 20 of the arrangements
committee to select the temporary
chairman of the convention. Ttte se
lection of the committee will be plac
ed for ratification before the national
committee June 24.
Among the men whom the arrange
mentß committee will consider, he
Bald, "are Senator O'Qorman of New
York, Senator Kern of Indiana, and
Senatorelect OHle James of Ken
tucky; Representative William Sulzer
of New York and Henry of Texas,
and James Hamilton Lewis of Chica
go. There doubtless will be others."
Urey Woodson, secretary, said he
thought there would be a contest
over the six delegates from the Phil
ippine Islands. This and other con
tests, Mr. Woodson said, would be
disposed of the day preceding the
convention.
Baltimore. —There will be no pack
ing of the Democratic convention hall
with shouters for presidential aspi
rants If the joint plans agreed upon
by the Baltimore committee and the
national committee prove to be ef
fective. Through the distribution of
tlcketß to the delegations by the ar
rangements committee the day be
fore the convention meets and the
rarefnl allotment of seats, -It is ex
pected that bands of shouters can be
kept away.
"I have had a fixed determination
for a year to prevent a packed con
vention," said Chairman Robert
Crain of the national convention
committee.
"The plan of ticket distribution
should prevent their getting Into lm
proper hands."
Striking Walters Raid Banquet.
New York. —A demonstration by
striking waiters of the city outside
the Waldorf-Astoria hotel during the
dinner given by Mayor Gaynor to of
ficers of the visiting German Squad
ron resulted in scenes of violence and
rioting. An army of policemen. In
cluding the "strong-arm squad," pick
eted the streets in the vicinity
throughout the banquet to avert fur
ther trouble, and In two raids upon
the mob the pdllce tfArted away in
*>atrol wagons , 125 prisoners, many
barged with disorderly conduct.
House Btands for Reciprocity.
Washington.—The house voted, 144
to 101, not to accept the senate amend
ment to the metal tariff revision bill,
which would repeal the Canadian
reciprocity pact and fix a universal
duty of $2 a ton on print paper. The
house accepted two senate amend
ments reducing the duty on pljg iron
and certain alloys. The bill again
will go to conference. Majority Lead
er Underwood estimated the reduced
duties on pig Iron and alloys would
result in a falling off of approximate
for *IOO.OOO In wnnue. r> ,
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MARINES LAND IN CUBA
CONDITIONS ON THE ISLAND 80
BAD THAT THE UNITED STATES
TAKEB DRASTIC ACTION.
The United Statca la Determined to
Protect American Livea and
Property on island.
Washington.—Frank confesaion of
President Gomez that he waa unable
to meet the demands of the large
plantation owner In eastern Cuba for
adequate guards against the maraud
era and Inaurrectuß was the factor
that led Captain Kline, commanding
the United States naval station at
Guantanamo, to set In motion the
body of United States marines gath
ered there for Just such a purpose;
Captain Kllne'a actotn In dispatch
ing nearly half of his available force
of marines into the interior of Cuba
gave the signal for the departure
froip Key West to Guantanamo of
half of the second squadron of the
Atlantic fleet, which had been lying
at anchor at Key West for the last
week.
The facts as disclosed at the state
department are that several of the
large American, British, French and
Spanish companies operating planta
tlons and mines in eastern Cuba tele
graphed the Cuban government,
through the nlcade of Guantanamo. a
demand for 100 regular troops for
each of their mlllß and 50 for each
of their cane fields.
POLICE FIRE ON c TRIKERS
Italian Women Started Fight In the
Street* of Newark, N. J
Newark, N. J. —At least si* persons
were shot and many others wounded
by missiles In a street battle hero be
tween 150 striking laborers and the
police. Five strikers, a policeman
and a citizen are at the city hospital,
A group of Italian women, armed
with knives and stones, attacked a
Kang of laborers at work on the Lack
awanna railroad and continued the
flght with policemen who came to
the laborers* rescue. One Of the worn
en was arrested. The blueeoat taking
her to the station house encountered
a body of marching strikers, who ! set
upon him, released his prisoner, and
knocked him down, and were peltinß
! him with stones when a passerby
came to his assistance. * ' '
Woman Saved From Electric Chair.
Boston.—The sentence of Mrs. Lena
Cusumano of Hull condemned to die
for the murder of her husband, frank
Cusumano. was commuted to U* im
prisonment by the executive council.
She declarod that Eftrlco Mascioll
killed her husband without her knowl
edge, that after the murder he tUreati
ened her life and took what money
she had and declared himself the
head of her home. Enrico MaMlolt.
convicted Jointly with Mrs. Cusuma
no, was electrocuted at the Charleston
state prison.
Lynch Won by 4,M0.
Indianapolis. Ind.—Two members
of the administration ticket of the
International Typographical i Union
failed of election, according to an
nouncement made when the la*t of
the ballots were counted. George IE.
Tracy of San Francisco, flrat vice
president, wa« defeated by James M-
Duncan ot New York City by a ma
jority of a few hundred votes. W. H.
McKee of New York, a Union Prin
ters' Home trustee, fell behind the
four high candidates. James M.
Lynch of Indianapolis waa reflected.
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SEABOARD RAILWAY SOLD
BALTIMORE FINANCIER AND HIS
ASSOCIATES PURCHASE CON
TROL OF THE BYSTEM.
Warfleld Saya Bouth'a Position in Sea
board Affairs Will Now Be
Emphaaized.
New York.—Announcement was
made here of the purchase of S. Da
vies Wariield, president of the Con
tinental Trust company of Baltimore
of a large block of stock in the Sea
board Air Line railway, whereby the
control of the railway will pass to
Mr. Warfleld and a group of financial
interests associated with him. The
transfer, it la stated, marks the prac
tical retirement of Thomas F. Kyan
from the Seaboard.
The sale announced includes 90.000
ahares of the preferred and 120,000
shares of the common stock of the
Seaboard Air Line, and was made by
the Cumberland corporation. During
the last year Mr. Warfleld has acquir
ed large holdings of Seaboard stock,
which, with the latest purchase, pass
es control to the group with which he
is associated. In all practlcaly >37.-
000,000 of common and $24,000,000 of
the preferred Btock are outstanding.
According to announcement made,
leading financial interests in the
states traversed by the Seaboard sys
tem are closely identified with Mr.
Warfleld.
TAFT USING STEAM ROLLER
24 Delegates Prom Alabama and Ar
kansas Added to Taft'a Column.
Chicago. Twenty-four delegates
from Alabama and Arkansas were
added to the Taft coTumn by the ac- |
tion of the Republican national com
mittee on the so-called Roosevelt con
tests from those states. All contests
presented before the committee were ,
decided In Taft's favor, and in all but
two of the decisions the action was
unanimous. One roll call test, appar
ently, had shown fifteen anti-Taft
votes. i .
The cases decided were those of
the six delegates-at-large and the two
each lh the First, Second, Fifth,
Sixth and Nint£ congressional dis
tricts n Alabama!, and the (our dele
gates-at large and the two each In
the First and Second districts of Ar
kanssa. •
Commerce Court Stripped of Power.
Washington.—Btow after blow was
given the new commerce court by the
Supreme court of the United States,
which upheld the exclusive Jurisdic
tion of the Interstate commerce com
mission over the Federal rate law«.
The principal decision was announc
ed by Chief Justice White. He was
sustained by the entire court la sub
stance he held that the commerce
court was not to substitute Its Judg
ment for the Interstate commerce
commission in the administration of
the rate laws. .
Banks Were Forced to Wai
New York. —Testimony Intended to
show Upw the power of the New York
clearing house comtnlttee was used to
force a solvent bank to the wall dur
ing the aftermath of the panic of
1907, with the result that the "fair
reputation" of its president was
"blasted." was dramatically presented
before the Pujo committee of the
house of representativea, which la In*
vestlgating the to-called moiiey trust.
The testimony was elicited by Samuel
I Utatermyer, special counsel of the
committea: &&& iMsj*; J.
MARINES Tff STOP
CUBAN RACE WAR
ADMIRAL 08TERHAUS ORDERED
TO HAVANA FROM KEY WEST
> WITH Hl» TWO SHIPS.
CONDITIONS ARE VERY GRAVL
Minister Beaupre Cables Washington
That Situation Has Assumed
Character of Race War.
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♦ Havana, Cuba. —President Go- ♦
♦ mez, on being informed that *
4 American warships had been or- 4
♦ dered to Havana, declined to ♦
4 make any comment. Senor Ram- ♦
4 rez, the presidential secretary, 4
♦ however, said that the president 4
♦ had expressed neither satlsfac- 4
4 tion nor regret on the receipt of 4
i 4 the news. 4
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Washington.—The navy department,
acting under Instructions from the
state department, ordered Admiral
Osterhaus to proceed forthwith from
Key West to Havana with one dis
patch Bhip and one other ship. These
orders were issued by the state de-
partment, after the receipt of a dis
patch from Minister Beaupre report
ing that conditions in Havana and the
Suburb* had assumed the Character of
a race war. • i
It is probable that Admiral Qster
haus, besides the dispatch ship, will
take his flagship, the Washington, In
to Cuban waters.
Minister Beaupre's message said
that conditions in and around Ilava
na had been menacing and there
were anti-negro demonstrations of
large proportions by irresponsible el
ements and that there were clashes
In every quarter of Havana and vi
cinity; He reported that the negroes
were being goaded into violence and
that retaliation might have disastrous
consequences. Americans and othei 1
foreigners and many Cubans, he said,
were very apprehenslv eand desired
the sending of an American war ves
sel.
The state department haa decided
to leave entirely to Rear Admiral
I'sher, commanding tfie Fourth divls
otnof the Atlantic fleet, the disposi
tion of the American marines, who
are to be employed as guards for for
eign owned properties in eastern
Cuba.
CONVICTS IN "GRUB STRIKE"
Nineteen Hundred Prisoners In San
Quentln Mutiny at Dinner.
Saa Quentln, C&l. —A continuation
of the "grub strike" demonstration,
began in San Quentin prison, develop
ed into a riot in the general mess
hall, as a result of which one pris
oner was shot and killed and two
were wounded. 'The dead:
H. L. Lynnwood, a naval prisoner
serying a term of six and one-half
years for desertion and impersonat
ing an officer.
The wounded: Frank Taylor, negro,
serving twenty years for robbery
committed in San Francisco, shot
'through the hand; H. A. George,
struck in the leg by glancing bullet.
Nineteen hundred prisoners were
J sitting down to dinner, when 200 or
300 of the men began a concerted
demonstration. Not content with
, voicing their protests with shrieks
and catcalls, the demonstrants began
j throwing dishes and food about. Some
made a rush for the adjoining wick
en and began hurlnlg pots and pans
around the room. t . ,
j No sooner had the mutiny started
' than the prison bel was soifnded with
| the "lock-up" Signal.
The prisoners were quickly , march
ed to their cells, but .the rioters even
' after being locked up, continued their
shrieks of defiance and kept up their
; shouting at Intervals,
i Warden John Hoyle said that thir
ty or forty of the mutineers would be
severely disciplined. Ten men were
singled out for disciplinary measures
I for the disturbance, but of these only
j four were punished.
I Democrats Gathering in Baltimore,
j Baltimore. —Batlimore awaita the
coming of 1,090 delegates to the Dem
ocratic national convention, the prep
arations for whioh have practically
i been completed. Already the advance
1 guard of boomers for candidates for
| the presidential nomination have now
i pitched their camps on the batte-,
ground and are laying the final plana
i of campaign. With the arrival of Na
tional Chairman Norman E. Mack, the
> official arrangements for the conven
' tlon will. be considered for adoption
later by the arr&nßoments committee.
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Twsnty-Uve Men Killed In Card Game
Knoxville, Tenn.-—Twenty-live men
were killed at Dante, Vs., in a drunk
en row precipitated in a card game.
It is reported that the dead men are
Italians and mountaineers Who made
their'homes at Dante, a mining town
of about 6,000 lnhftbitanta. The fight;
which resulted in so many fatalities
is said to have ensued when the Ital
ians charged the mountaineers with
trying to defeat them at their game
by using unfair methods. Practically
•very man In the game lost his lite.
BEP.R.CMLIFFE
RUN DOWN BY TRAIN
THE LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT'S
MANGLED BODY FOUND BE
SIDE THE TRACK 3.
HOUSE ADJOURNS IN RESPECT
Afte- Brief Services at His Apart
ments In This City the Body Will be
Taken to Louisville, Ky.—Srgincer®
View bf Accident.
Washington.—Representative Robert
C. Wickliffe of Louisiana, was run
4own on the tracks of the Southern
Railway in Potomac park and Instant
ly killed. Mr. Wickliffe had been In
the habit of taking lqng walks daily
and' was taking his' Customary walk
when kllyled. Where he happened to
stray on the railroad tracks has not
been cleared up. The engineer of the
train said he saw the Congressman
too late to avoid the accident. Mrs.
WlckllfTe was appraised of , her hus
band's death while watching the pro
ceedings in the House. The House
later adjourned out of respect to the
memory of the Southern Reßrpsenta
tlve as did Senate also. Commit
tees from the two houses of Congress
were appointed to attend the funeral.
After brief services at his apart
ments here the body of Representa
tive ttflckllfte will be taken-by special
train to Louisville, Ky. r Mrs. Wlck
llffe's old home where further services
will ta held In Christ Episcopal
church. The burial will be la Cave
Hill. . , j
The accident was on the railroad
embankment at the north end of the
railroad bridge over the entrance to
the Totomac park which borders the
river In the southwest section of this
city. Despite a signal at that point
warning against trespassing on the
railroad property there, Wlckllfte was
seen to cMmb the elevation, appa
rently unconscious of an oncoming
train. He was struck and Instantly
killed. A deep gash was cut on his
forehead and the body was badly
crushed.
Asks About the Pure Foed Law
New York. —Alice M. Lake, chalr
mon of the Pood Committee of the
National Consumers" League, made
public a letter she hae sent to Presi
dent Taft, Colonel fcoosevelt, Gover
nor Wilson, Governor Harmon, Sena
tor LaFollette, Champ Clark and Eu
gene V. Debs, candidates for the pres
idency. On behalf of the league, she
asks them questions as to their atti
tude toward the enforcement of pure
food legislation and wants to know. In
event of thfelr election, If they will
do all in their power to uphold the In
tegrity of the food and drugs act.
"We want to know what you will
do,** Says the letter, -en that we may
know what la to be the fate of the
greatest law for the protection of the
home ever enacted In this country."
Floods Are Again Getting Serious.
Washington.—The floods In Louis
iana again have become serious, neces
sitating another appeal to the army
for aid. A message to the "War De
partment told of the breaking of every
protection'"levee west of Bayou La
fourche from LahadleUlle to the Gulf
of Mexico, about ninety miles cover
ing a'most every estate in the vicinity
with water. Major Normoyle, at Vlcks
burg, In charge of the army food re
lief work, was instructed to send ah
officer to aid ,in the relief south of
New Orleans.
Protect People Against Swindlers.
Washington.—The Department of
Agriculture has taken steps ,to expose
land investment frauds and protect the
people of the country against these
swindling schemes. Secretary Wilson
ordered the ooUeotien o d*t»
his department in position to aid such
investors. Bulletins are tp be Issued
warning against certain general prop
ositions. and information will
be given by cortosrohdence upon re
quest.
Shaw Preparing For Sanity Tsst.
Whit® Plains, N. Y—Since HaTry K.
Thaw arrived at the White Plains jail
he haa been spending much of his
time writing notes and questions
which will be used when the hearing
to determine whether be is now sane
is held before Justice Koegh in the
supreme court. He has the same
typewriter he used in 1909 when sim
ilar proceedings were heard. Thaw's
mother and his sister, Alice, formerly
the Countess of Yarmouth, will arrive
here soon and remain until a decision
is announced.
Havana Reported Quiet.
Washington.—Absence of fresh out
breaks In Havana has enoouraged the
state department in the belief yiat
the measures already taken to show
the purpose of this government to
maintain order have been sufficient.
It has been decided that there shall
be no additions to the naval force
now In Cuban waters unless unex
pected developments make them nec
essary. Admiral Fisk will remain
there for the present with the United
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