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THE ENTERPRISE Puhltahad Weekly. WILLIAMSTON, N. 0. v Vacation over, the cnaae of the eln aire dollar la resumed A man may be a weather prophet and still pay hia debts. Soon It will be time to do the Christmas shopping early. Chicago Is now worth $2,601,2(19,088, and not In watered stock, either. It Is a good railroad that manages, to retain the respect of the blase va cationist Switzerland prohibits kissing In public, but that is not much of a de privation. Cornell's historic clubhouse was de strayed by fire, but the college yell was saved. Another Invention needed Is s non skid apparatus for women who get ofl the car backward. Everybody seems to be running for something or other —a train or an of fice or a policeman. A New York man recently died of old age at 26. It takes money to dls of old age so early In life. There are still old-fashioned souls who contend that aviation Is flylnc In the face of Providence. On the other hand, how would the women like It if the men never scold ed about the feminine fashlonsT The actress who played the Heading role In "Is Marriage a Failure?" Is su ing for a divorce. She knows now. A chauffeur who killed a man was "censured" by a coroner's Jury. A slap on the wrist probably seemed too se vere. Anthracite will fall short only 6,- 000,000 tons this fall, they say. An thracite Is a good deal like the Michi gan peach crop. A New York newsboy wat struck an the head with a bomb that failed to explode. Reyond question he didn't tiiow It was loaded. Aviators are showing a distaste for meets In which they are killed In con siderable numbers. Glory and life In surance hardly suffice. It took four Chicago policemen the best part of an hour to kill one mad cat; which Is rather tenacious, eve£ for a nine-lived critter. When some means whereby a mole cule can be seen Is perfected. It will j be possible to find the man who walk ed off with that umbrella. "I'd die If I'd stop work." declares i Long Island chauffeur who has fallen 1 heir to $37,000 and refuses to quit his Job Many will die If he don't. Up to date no Rurbank of the kitch en has succeeded In producing a sat- ' lsfactory vegetable substitute for the porterhouse steak of commerce. —— A handle for Bafety razor blades haa been designed so that they may be used as kitchen knives. Rut who wants to shave with a kitchen knife? German scientists have discovered i way to make artificial daylight. Lady shoppers will not have to wait 'or a clear day to match dress ma terial. Approximately 26,000,000 persons will bo eligible to vote In the United States next November, Including the tnan who Is too lazy to make up lis mind. Somebody has discovered how to "age" wine by giving It electric treatment. All that Is necessary now Is to train spiders to Bpln cobwebs up on the new bottles. If the sun's rays can be stored In vegetation in unlimited quantities by the nitrogen method the anthracite trust Is going to be severely Jolted one of those centuries. Philadelphia Is "trying out" women as street car conductors. Philadel phia Is historic and In every way worthy, hut never before has been rated as adventurous. Members of the women's party are planning luncheons In order to cap ure the men. The women are es pecially delightful when they remem jer that ancient saw, "Feed the jrute." Some Ingenious person has Invent ed a handle for safety razor blades, so they can be used for paring pota toes, trimming—er—excrescences, or for other purposes that will occur to the thrifty housewife. . The baby bueau of the department )f commerce and labor has been start ed. But the Innovation cannot make the babies more important than they already are in their own eyes or in those of their families. At Venice, Cal., policemen will carry needles and thread, powder rags ind manicuring utensils for the use of the ladies who may find it necessary to use such things In a hurry. We san hardly believe that this la one 5f the first results of the California ■romaa's rise to political sowar. (400,000 SPENT FOR CANDIDATES CANDIDATES FOR DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION TELL WHERE THEY GOT FUNDS. RYAN CONTRIBUTED FREELY Woodrow Wlla'on Spent $208,192 In Hl* Successful Fight for the | Nomination. Washington.—Upward of $400,000 was expended In the efforts of Oov. Woodrow Wilson, Oov. Judson Har mon and Representative Oscar W. Underwood to gain the Democratic nomination for president this year, according to testimony presented to the senate campaign contributions committee. William F. McCombs, who managed the Wilson campaign, and his aide, William McAdoo, accounted for $208,- 193. Of this sum, $85,800 was contrib uted, according to Mr. McCombs, by "Cleveland S. Dodge and Prfnceton friends." Questioning developed that the "friends" were Cyrus H. McCor mlck of the International Harvester company; David R. Jones, Thomas D Jones and Edward W. Sheldon, all of whom, Mr. McCombs said, had been trustees at Princeton when Mr. Wil son was president of the university. Of the $160,946.35 expended In the Interest of Governor Harmon, Hugh L. Nichols, lieutenant governor of that state, told the committee $77,000 was contributed by Thomaß Fortune Ryan. Mr. Ryan also supplied $35,- 000 of a fund of $52,000 collected for the advancement of Representative Underwood's candidacy. Mr Ryan will be a witness before the commit tee this week. Senator John A. Rankhead outlined to the committee expenditures In be half of Representative Underwood." The eontrlbut'ons mentioned In his statement were: Thomnß F Ryan $35,000. Joseph Auerbach $7 500. R R. Bertram $2- 500. J H. Woodward $2,500, small contributions amounting to $2,000 bringing the fund up to $52,009- TEDDYS ASSASSIN TALKS "I Failed In My J_lfe'e Work," Says John Behrank. Talking to Reporter. Milwaukee, Wis,—John Sehrank, the man who tried to slay Col. Theo dore Roosevelt, stared at a group of newspaper men who stood outside the door of his cell at the police station here, and aase-ted that his, l'fe had been wasted because Roosevelt will live "Suicide?" he said, with a note of wonder in h'« vn'ce: "I never thought cf It. 1 did not expect to survive Theodore Ttoosevelt more than ten minutes. 1 thought the mob would Ivrich me That, of course, wns of no rOTtseouenee to me The work of mv ll'e would have beep finished If T had nut a bullet tn th« heart of the man "•ho is seeking a third term as pres* Ident "Thev tr'l mo | have fal'»d Well. I enrinooe mv llf« Is \v*»«ited I shall never hove another opportunity. T have done mv be«t. More than that no man can do. Some men must be failures. 1' T am chosen to be one of them, what can 1 do alwiut It?" Sehrank slept during part of the n'eht though bis guards awakened him frequently to ask questions. His answers were at times Incoherent. He reiterated his statement that he had 1on«r ago determined to kill Mr. Roosevelt. "From the time of the Republican eonventlon In Chicago." he said. "I knew that 1 must kill Roosevelt. This Is not a personal affair with me. 1 have acted for America." Then Sehrank repeated his asser tions that he was led to conclude that the death of Roosevelt wns necessary to avoid Civil war. John Sehrank made a new confes sion to the police. He declared that It had been hlB Intention to keep shootlug at the ex-president until ab solutely certain that he was dead, but that the crowd frustrated him. The police are convinced that Sehrank Is a maniac. They are mak ing a rigid investigation of his past life to see if he had any accomplices, but are convinced that he acted alone In his attempt to kill the. former pres ident, after following him In appearance Sehrank la short, stout and shabbily dressed. The most remarkable part of his features is his eyes. They are red-rimmed, blue and watery. At times they have a wild, Incoherent look and at others he gives a meaningless stare, aa though their owner Is unconscious of what is going on around him. In his confession Sehrank said that he expected to be torn limb from limb after killing Roosevelt. , not think of escape after ward," he said. "I did not think there was a chance in the world, 1 expected that I would be torn to pieces before 1 would have time to Are at myself, even If 1 had planned suicide. "My Intention was to shoot repeat edly at Roosevelt until I knew he wag dead, and by that time it would hav« been too late for me to do anything to myself or -ar jnyaelf. "Sulc'de—that la a coward'a death. Now I am ready to die." MRS. CHARLES A. DANA Mm' 4-" Mr*. Dana, wife of Ihi publisher of the New York Sun, recently returned from hor wadding Journey abroad •ha la a woman of graat culture and beauty and la tha daughter of C. T. Ladaon of Atlanta, Oa., who made mil* llona In Cuban landa a few years ago. WILL TEST PUBLICITY LAW SUIT AOAINBT GOVERNMENT OF FICIALB FILED IN NEW YORK CITY. Petition Chargea That tha Law la Unconatltutional and Pray* for an Injunction. New York. —Suit to teat the right of the government to enforce the Federal luw of August 24, 1912, requir ing newspapers and periodicals to publish their circulation figures twice a year and Imposing other publicity requirements, was filed In the United States district court here by The Journal of Commerce and Commer cial Bulletin company, publishers of the Journal of Commerce. The suit Is directed against Post master General Hitchcock, Attorney General Wlckersham, United States District Attorney Wise and Postmas ter Morgan of New York. The peti tioner charges the law Is unconstitu tional, and prays for a temporary In Junction restraining lta enforcement until final adjudication. It also r» quests that the defendants be reqiiirt'd by subpoena to answer. Hack of the action, according to Robert C. Morrlß of counsel for the complainant. Is the American Newspfr per Publishers' association. The as soclatlon decided recently to file a test suit, and the Journal of Commerce, Mr. Morris said, In filing Its petition, has the sanction and co-operation of the association. The petition alleges there are up ward of 25.000 newspapers and period Icals In the country affected by the law. It charges that the law Is void because It violates the Federal Con stitution and particularly the first and fifth amendments, and abridges the freedom of the press. The law Is char acterlzed as of no benefit to the post office or any other department of the government, Inasmuch as obedience by the perldocllas and newspapers would not "aid or assist In the opera tlon of the poßtofflce department or In the carrying of malls or the regula tlon thereof.'• TRAIN WRECKER CONFESSES Tom Tankersley Says He and Two Others Opened Switch. Atlanta, Ga. —Tom Tankersley, a simple-minded youth of 18 years, Is locked up in the Fulton county Jail, having confessed to participating In wrecking the Syrffiheru train near Cor nelia last week when two Jives were lost. According to the boy's confession, he and two others, whose names he does not remember, are responsible for the wreck, and their motive was to rob the mall after the train was ditched, but no robbery was attempt ed, he says. When the train came dashing In. their nerve for robbing the mall van ished, and they fled In fright. Mra. Eddy'a Will Void. Boston. —A trust estimated at $2,- 000,000 created by the will of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Christian Science church, for the ben efit of the denomination, was declar ed void by the Massachusetts supreme court. The court, holds, however, that a charitable trust has been created, and that new trustees may be appoint ed to administer. The trust wjus to have been administered by the di rectors of the mother church In Bos ton, but the court decided that the trust provisions were nullfled. Noted Mountaineer Slain. Eliljay, Qa.—Charley Tipton, a not ed mountaineer moonshiner of the north Georgia mountains, is dead. A coroner's jury has been unable to clear up the mystery of Just when and by whom he was killed. The general Impression here is that* Tip ton, who was kpown as a desperate character, was shpt to death by moun tain clansmen who had some hidden grievance against him. Tipton was famous In this section tor hia exploits aa a moonshiner. He had bean fre quently arrested for illicit distilling. REBELS KIDNAP - RICH AMERICAN JOHN T. CAMERON SEIZED BY MEXICAN INSURGENTS AND 18 HELD FOR RANSOM. EXPRESS RIFLED BY BANDITS Wealthy Texan Taken When the Reb els Held Up Paaaengar Train Bouth of El Paao. El Paso, Texas. —Rebels held up a passenger train 160 miles south of this point, on the border, rifled the mall and express car and kidnaped John T.- Cameron, a wealthy stock I broker of El Paso. The train was allowed to proceed south. Cameron was on his way to pur chase cattle to be imported Into the United States. It Is believed he Is held either for ransom or to prevent further stock shipments from the dis trlcts held by rebels. A Mexican pas senger also was held by the rebels, who molested no others, according to the report. Opening of the Mexlcco Northwest ern railway after a lapse of traffic for a week, caused by destruction of the road by rebels, makes known large recent losses by the company. Aside from the destruction of many trestles on the line, a train of twenty four cars of choice lumber, destined for the United States, was burned. Federal troops continue to offer no protection to the railway, remaining In the larger towns, say passengers arriving here. Some significance Is at tached to the departure to the state capital of Gen. Antonio Rabago, the commander of the district Laredo, TexasJ —Thirty-eight Mexi can rebels were executed by Feder als at Esperanza, Coahulla, according to William Jennings, one of the own ers pf the Blocker ranch near Muz qulz. Mr. Jennings said that when he left the Federals were In close pursuit of a rebel band of 100 suppos ed to be retreating toward the Rio Grande. SLAYS HUSBAND; KILLS SELF M. A. Crosby of Adel, Qa., Shot Daad by Wife, Who Commlta Suicide. Adel. Ga. —The dead bodies of M. A. Crosby, cashier of the Bank of Adel, and his wife were found in their bedroom by their six year-old son. The woman was lying on the floor with a 38-callber revolver tightly clasped In her cold fingers and a bullet througlt her barln. Crosby was In the bed with the covers still drawn over him, and had met his death by a shot In the right eye. The little lad. fearful, ran to neigh bors' and, upon discovery of the trag edy, the coroner's Inquest was held. The verdict held that both had come to their death at the hands of Mrs. Croßby. Budden Insanity on the part of the woman caused the tragedy Is the only solution that intimate friends can offer. She had been somewhat despondent for some time because of slightly falling health. The couple lived happily as far as Is known. The will of the dead man was found in a buerau drawer. It left everything to his wife and children. Mr. Crosby was raised In this com munity and has been the cashier for the Bank of Adel for a number of years. Mrs. Crosby was raised at Arlington. Ga., and was a Miss Colley before her marriage. Red Sunday In Houaton, Texas. Houston, Texas. —One man was shot to death In Houston, one committed suicide, another Is believed to have been fatally wounded and In an affray at Huntsvllle, near Houston, one man was killed. Floyd L. Buckingham was killed at a rooming house here In a pistol battle with a squad of police and detectives. Joseph R. Free, a detective, was wounded. Free and oth er officers were sent to arrest Buck ingham who, it was reported, was cre ating a disturbance. E. A. Mlchenor, a policeman, killed himself following a quarrel with a young woman. At Huntsvllle Ed Asley, a merchant, was shot to death by D. Harris, a youth. Harris surrendered. 30 Convicts Terrorlxa Wyoming Town Rawlins, Wyo.—A battle raged In the state penitentiary. Locked inside the walls with hundreds of mutinous prisoners, 'a few guards fought des perately to restore order and prevent a wholesale Jail delivery. Another battle was In progress at the Bame time In the hills south of Rawlins, between a posse of citizens and from twenty to forty escaped prisoners. Two men were killed in the streets of Rawlins, and two convicts were re captnred, following the escape of from ten to thirty prisoners. Targic Prelude to Naval Review. New York— Ensign Andes Haldley Butler, U- S. N., appointed from Lou isiana to the United States naval academy, from which he was gradu ated last spring, was drowned In the Hudson river, while returning with three fellow officers to his post on the battleship Rhode Island in the line of the great Atlantic Armada, at anchor here for presidential review. I In another accident on the nver, six sailors from the'battleship Maine res cued eleven parsons from drowning. • f AaSsafe:' *.t. . ...« c •' GASTON DEL FRATE MA. 4Vw 'fl Slgnor Gaaton Dal Prat a, diplomat and noted mam bar of the Italian bar. reeantly visit ad America. OIL LETTERS WERE STOLEN THIEVEB BECURED STANDARD OIL LETTERB PUBLISHED BY HEARST ARCHBOLD SAYS. Praaldont of Standard OH Company Daclaraa Lattara Contain Nothing Subject to Juat Crlticiam. Washington.—The authenticity ot the majority of the letters recently made public by William R. Hearst purporting to have passed between John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil company, and members of the house and senate was freely admitted by Mr. Archbold before the senate commit tee investigating campaign actlvltlles and expenditures. Those letters, of which fac simile photographs have been published, ware in almost every case identified by Mr. Archbold, with the statement: "I undoubtedly wrote that." These Included letters to and from Sena tors Hanna, Foraker, Quay and Pen rose and former Representative Sib ley of Pennsylvania and Representa tive Grosevnor of Ohio. Many letters Mr. Archbold said he did not remem ber, but he recognized handwriting and signatures and admitted their genuineness. The president of the Standard Oil company, recalled by the committee, after making his showing In August, that he had given 1100.000 to the Re publican campaign fund of 1904, ad - mitted that the receipt given by Cor nelius N. Bliss for the sum had been destroyed by himself and H .H. Rog ers, now dead. "It was not a thing of pleasure to ' look at," said Archbold. He said he had not been able to find a book en ! try of the amount on the books ot i the Standard Oil company. Mr. Archbold declared the letters | made public by Hearst had been stol- j en from the files of his office; but he , declined to name those whom he BUS pected of the theft He Bald he be lieved the letters contained "nothing that Is subject to Just criticism," and that they were "such letters as a man in a position like mine could write to! men In representative positions." Mr j Archbold presented four new letters j that he had found as the result of a search of his files, the only ones, he Bald, "that had escaped the thieves.' j REBELS MAKING THREATS Will Be Shot if Found Operating Any Trains in Mexico. El Paso, Texas. —Rebels warned of flclals of the Mexican Northwestern railroad not to attempt the road and warning also has been issued that American railway men will be shot If found operating trains Railway men testified thus before the senate committee here. Mexico City.—Six American rail j way conductors who were taken pris j oners recently at Sain Alto, in north em Zacatecas, would have been shot If Antonio Manoz. a rebel chief, had not made a timely appearance. The conductors' captors declared their be lief that an American army had In vaded Mexico and proposed to wreck vengeance on the prisoners. As Munoz knew differently, he caua ed the proposed execution to be stop ped. One of the conductors Is named McNabb. He li 60 years of ag* " —■ To Withdraw Marlnaa. Washington—United States ma rinea and sailors now In Nicaragua can be withdrawn In about a month according-to a report from Rear Ad mlral Boutherland to the navy depart ment. Tha admiral Is of the opinion that complete order will have been re tsored throughout the Central Amerl can republic in that time. He an nounced he was sending Colonel Pen dleton and Majors McKelvey and Reld Into various districts of the country to see that orders providing for gov eminent control are actually In force Tax Inheritance $3,150,000. Albany, N. T—A cheque for $3,150. 000 waa received by State Comptrol ler Schmer In payment of the advance Inher'tance tax on the estate of th« late Col. John Jacob Astor, who per Ished on the Titanic. The temporary tax was paid at this time In ordei to obtain a 5 per cent, rebate allow ed by law If the tax la paid within six months after the death of the de cedent This rebate la equivalent tc $155,000. The temporary tax repre sents an estate valued at about S7B. 008.000. . . THE U. OXMEETIHG OIOBEB THREE DAYS SESSION IN BALIBBURY ELECTION OF OFFICERS. ARE ENTERTAINED BY ClfV Tha Entire Municipality Did Ita Beat to Qlva Pleaaura to the Vlaiting Lad lea From All Over tha Old North Btata. Salisbury.—The Daughters of tha Confederacy closed their convention here after one of the most success ful sessions of tha state organlzar tion. Salisbury tried hard to make tha visit of these prominent North Carolina women pleaaant lor them all. A number of social features had been arranged for them, and insofar as the city could, they have been made to feel like they were honored gueata of the municipality. The convention met in the Grubb Theater, Btate Chaplain Miaa Hetty James, opened the aeaslon with pray er. This was followed by a vocal solo by Mrs. Earnhardt, and the body went into business session at which a large amount of routine business was disposed of. At 2:30 another business session waa held, and 5 o'clock the delegates were taken over the city in automo biles. At 8 o'clock the final session journed. was and the convention ad- At the election of officers the fol lowing were named for the coming year: Prealdent, Mrs. Marshall Williams, of Fa 1 son; first vice president, Mrs. John 8. Henderson, of Salisbury; sec ond vice president, Mrs. M. O. Win stead, of Rocky Mount; third vice president, Mrs. Leo. D. Heartt, of Dur ham; recording secretary, Mrs. Theo Thrash, of Tarboro; corresponding secretary, Miss Winnie Faison, of Fai son; treasurer. Miss Margaret Ether ldge of Belma; registrar, Mrs. Robert Darls, of Loulsburg; historian, MISB Carrie Leazer, of Mooresville; record er of crosses, Mrs. W. M. Creasy, of Wilmington; chaplain, Miss Ifetty James, of Wilmington. State Chamabr tf Commerce. Charlotte.—X wiah to bring to the at tention of the people of North Caro lina, the vital question now before the business Interests of the state, which has reference to the perma nent organization of a state chamber of commerce, having as its primary object the general upbuilding of our commonwealth along agricultural, industrial and commercial lines. permanent organization of the cham ber will take place at Raleigh in the near future. The meeting will con vene at 2 p. m. in the chamber of commerce rooms. Every business in terest and every city and town of any importance in the state should be represented at this meeting. Large Number of Hookworm Caaaa. Ralelglu—The quarterly report of I)r. J. A. Ferrell, state director of the hookworm campaign, shows that dur ing the past three months the gener al practitioners of the state have treated 2,512 persons and that the six district directors in the county free dispensaries have treated 14,560, a total of 17,072 for the three months ending September 90. These with the 81,658 make a total of 98,730 persons treated to date. To date 148,393 mi crosocplc examinations for hookworm Infection have been made. Fifty-four counties have made local appropria tions to make possible the free treat ment. Long Staple Cotton In Mecklenburg. Charlotte.—A meeting of long staple cotton growers of Mecklenburg county was held several days ago. Many farmers were present to discuss the cotton situation of the county and the advisability of the production of long staple cotton in this section of the oSuth. Mr. R. O. Alexander, a (well known cotton merchant and a man posted on the cotton conditions and situations throughout the United States made a helpful address. Cleebrate the 119 th Anniversary. * Chapel Hill—The University of North Carolina celebrated with appro priate feativltlea the one hundred and nineteenth anniversary of the laying of the oornerstone of the first building of the university. The long academic procession, the meeting in Memorial! Hall, rich In ita commemorative tab lets in honor of illustrious alumni, sev- i en short addresses by younger alum ni, the reading of telegrams of con gratulations from alumni all over the country, these were the features of' the celebration. Four Hazers Are On Trial. Chapel Hill.—The trial of R. W. Old ham. A. C. Hatch. W. L. Merriman anc A. H. Styron, the four sophomores charged with manslaughter In con nection with the death of I. W. Rand, began in Hillsboro, Monday, October 14. Unusual interest is attached to the trial because it is the first blow by the state at the practice of hazing, and because of the wide prominence which has been given to this hazing 'episode. A large number of .studenta will hare to go to Hillsboro as wit-
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