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THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. WILLIAMBTON, N. 0. Among the bumper crops thii year Is that of the aviators. No matter how good a dgar may be Jit is sure to meet its match. ___________ _ ! A contemporary says "there Is bif j (money In nuts." Also a few worms All the average man needs In ordei ■to say something foolish is an audi lence. Gentlemen who are planning to raise whiskers for the winter would better begin. t Having somebody to blame thing* on Is one of the greatest of modern conveniences. ' W » Do you notice that wars always break out in countries with unpro nounceable names? It Is a poor sportsman who cannot J return with his usual bag of "mlstak j en for-deer" guides. Another Indictment against the fly i It Is now discovered that it carries tht j eggs of the hookworm. That Missouri hen that has laid 2GC eggs In 11 months is showing the oth er hens of the country something. A New York girl forgot she wat married, but what Is a little thing like matrimony to a New York girl? j A Connecticut millionaire has mar rled a milliner. Ib there no way to stop 1 this reckless concentration of wealth; ] Over one-half of the world's produo- j tlon of tin 1b consumed In this coun- J try. This Is Indeed a good deal of a country. Ralloon racing deserves greater pop ularity, as the Hklddlng on the hair pin curves is therein reduced to a minimum, A champion football player appears i quite aa essential to the progress of , higher education aa nn endowed chair j of philosophy. Correct pronunciation is a great thing, but the truly hungry man will say "proons" to tho waitress when he wants prunes. A bumper tobacco crop also will make it harder than usual to break _| off that smoking habit next year when January rolls around. Now that they are shooting ducks from aeroplanes, we shall next hear that aviator sportsmen are using skye , terriers for retrievers. It will be tough luck for the victims of rheumatism If the department of agriculture succeeds In making all American bees stinglesa. An English literary visitor has de clared that Chicago Is a "pure" city, i and at last accounts he had not been ' sandbagged by any New Yorker. A man married 11 times, cannot re member the names of two of his I wives. But probably ho can remem- | ber some of the tliingß they said to him. The invention of a gun that will j bring down an aeroplane from a height of 5,000 feet is announced. Hut ! the reason Is not Btated for anticipat ing a sure thing Now tho stage is running to widows. | We have the "merry," the "winsome" , and the "red" varieties to consider, j Which recalls Tony Welter's celebrat ed advice to Samlvel. A Pennsylvania boy, trying to kill a dog. shot a woman's "rat." That J woman's views on tho present style of ; bairdresslng are, despite the attacks of critics, Some nervous people are saying that the war in southeastern Europe \ Is a sign of the approaching end of | the world, but the landlords are ask- j Ing for their rent Just the same. A hotel keeper Is going to raise dl- 1 amond-backed terrapin In his own ho- j tel. How flsh stories do multiply, and j they don't have to be very ingenious to get themselves published, either. That the new side whiskers must curl out in front is the latest informa tion on that important subject. Per haps for use as sweepers when hunt ing for the collar button under the bed. A pneumatic rug has been Invented (or auto bugs to stretch themselves upon while they tinker under their machines. Couldn't something like that be discovered to break the fall of aviators? A chorus girl who wished to Join the "■tars" In their courses was easily In duced to give up S2OO to a seer who promises to Invoke planetary aid. A seer Is out with the announcement that the war In Europe Is a sign of the world's end. But the coal dealers are still doing business Just the same. w 1 The Kansas City woman who paid |M (or ■ husband must be a bull In the market, (or she bid beyond all taown demand employing a price «tsariy speculative U. . , r .JiS&tilAV NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Lstest News of General interest Thst Has Been Collected From Many Towns snd Counties. Kinston.—The snow presipitatlon here several days ago was 3 1-2 inches a record for this early in the winter for many years. Telephone and tele graph companies were inconvenienc ed many telephones being rfut ont of commission and numbers of wires dowa. Durham.—The" trial of Luclua Bowl ing, a barber of this city and Clyde Sanderford, of Raleigh, for the rob bery of John M. Baker of 1600, re sulted In the Raleigh boy being bound over to the superior court. Recorder Graham believes that the evidence tends to show that there was prob able cause that Sanderford got the ; money, but that Bowling had nothlgn' to do with it. Kins ton. —A strange animal that ex cited a colored Btable boy and was la ter shot by him la the woodyard at the home of R. E. Wllklns in Mltcheil i town, the fashionable residential seo- I tion of this city, aroused a great deal Jof curiosity when exhibited on the ; streets. The animal proved to be a ! groundhog, which had lucklessly ap i peared over two months before sehed- I ule time. Kinston. —A stubborn blase, which j required the firemen over an hour j | to control, gutted the main plant of | the Lenoir Oil & Ice Co., In East j Kinston, and did damage to the amount of $15,000 or more. The fire j ; originated in the llnter and burned ! fiercely In the contents of the build- | ing, which was mainly cotton seed. ; \ Tho entire plant was threatened, and { was saved py the Are derpartment j after a mile run. Statesville. —Flom. Benson, of this j town, waß accidentally shot In the leg j ! by Will Watson while hunting rab j bits with a party near Mooresvllle. It I seems that there wore quite a nura- I ber of hunters in the party and Hen- | son was shot Jußt as he killed a rab j bit. Will Watson was standing not | j far from Benson nnd had evidently ! cocked his gun anticipating a shot at j the rabbit when it was accidentally j discharged, the load entering the leg i of Benson just above the knee^ New Bern. One of the garvest problems that local contractors and I builders are having to confront Just j at this time is the scarcity of brick j | and cement. There is much building J j going on In New Hern und vicinity and the condition is growing alarm- ' 1 lug. —The majority of the brick used here Is made within a radius of twen j ty-iive miles of the city and owing j to the scarcity of freight cars tho manufacturers Bay that they are un able to make shipments on time. Waynesvlile. —Considerable building j is going on In Waynesvillo now. The 1 new $25,000 school building on the corner of Haywood street and Boyd avenue, is progressing slowly, owing | : to the inability of the contractors, 11 j j is said, to secure material and labor i The contract calls for a finished job by April 15 nnd the prospects now are that the time will have to be ex ! tended or the construction company will have to forfeit the contract, or n Bum of money in lieu thereof. Raleigh.—Associate Justice Geo. IT. 1 1 Brown discharged Mrs. Ella H. Weath | ers from custody of the Central hos pital on the ground that commitment was Irregular, it being admitted that ! the clerk of court had not made ex j amlnation of the woman. In dis | charging the woman, Judge Orown ( insisted that people committed to asy i luniß should have their sanity deter s mined. The question of sanity was not entered Into by the court, who 1 advised Frank E. Weathers, the hus band, that he could proceed anew II | he desired. Wilson. —The topic of conversation ; here now, is the controversy concern ing the discipline in the Wilson grad ed schools. The local board of edu j cation wili give all the patrons of | the school an opportunity to thorough ! ly air their alleged grievances against Superintendent Chas. L. Coon. Maay j of the citizens express themselves ar i heartily in sympathy with the efll cient superintendent and are fearful | that the outcome of the entire mat | ter will be tho outcome of his resigns l tion. Charlotte. —The automohiie races held at the Charlotte Kair Ground , track recently were exhibitions of speed and skill. There were about I 1,000 people and 80 machines lined I around the speedway. Southern Pines.—A big work is on at Lakevlew In the repair of the dam. The old structure has been torn out, and a concrete wall for the whole length of the dam will replace the earth nil. Several thousand barrels of cement will be used, and when done the job will make the lake a perman ent fixture, no longer subject to de struction from floods. Canetuck.—David T. Bradshaw, the mall carrier from Canetuck to Ar mour, N- C., was drowned In the Cape Fair River at the county line landing thirty-six miles from Wilming ton, where the line crosses Colum bus and Pender county. Lenoir.—Mr. Ernest L. Perkins, of Adako, this county, has been ap pointed farm demonstrator In our neighboring county of Catawba, for a term of two years. Mr. Perkins Is a young man of great promise and a son of Mr. J. T. Perkins, who owns one o( the best farms In this county, situated m the waters of 8L John's river. .. j*. j-ifw . H, ILIW MERGER DECLARED ILLEGAL supreme court shatters the UNION-80UTHERN PApIFIC MERGER. y IT RESTRAINS COMPETITION I V Immediate Dissolution Ordered Even if It Bhould Involve Receiver ship for Properties. Washington:—Edward H. Harrl man't great railroad combination, ef fected after hla titanic struggle with James J. Hill, by which he acquired control of the Southern Pacific rail- I road, was declared illegal by the Su preme court. In a notable decision the court held that the crowning event of Mr. Har rlman's life was an act which the Sherman anti-trust law declares an Il legal restraint of trade. The great Harrlman merger was created when the Union Pacific Rail road company bought 46 per cent, of the stock of the Southern Pacific rail j way system, and this was split asun derby the Supreme court of the Unit ed States as a violation of the Sher | man anti-trust law. Then with the end of the merger before It, the court ! sent forth Its portentous declaration | that "while the law may not be able j to enforce competition, It can reach combinations which render competi tion impracticable.'* Justice Day announced that linanl I mous opinion of the court. Judge Vandeventer took no part In the con sideration of the case, but his per j sonal finding when he was a Judge I of the Utah circuit court, to the effect ' that the two roads were not competl- I tors and therefore no violation of the law had resulted from the purchase } \vnn reversed and annulled. Instead of following the reasoning of Justice I Vandeventer and Judges Sanborn* and I Adams, the court, in substance, ap | proved the minority holding of Judge ! Hook that It was Just as much a viola I tlon of the law for one road to buy ! the controlling stock of a competitor I ns It WHS for a holding company, as In tho Northern Securities case, to buy | Iho controlling stock of two compet ing companies. The circuit court for the district of Utah was dlrocted to supervise the separation of the two roads I The Union Pacific. If the circuit i)roper T may retain control- I nf the old Central Pacific line from Ogden to San Francisco. The decision ! nf the lower court In the attempt to j acquire the Northern Pacific stock and j the stofck or the Athchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railway company, after j wnrds abandoned In the San Pedro, j Ix)» Angeles and Salt Railroad j company, was allowed to atand. A NEW MAP FOR TURKEY Terms Accepted by Allies Said to Be Favorable to Turks. London.—The work of charting a j new map of what hitherto has been European-Turkey began immediately j a?ter the signature of the armistice ' by the plenipotentiaries of the Turks and allies. The comparatively favorable terms ! which seem to have, been offered to i Turkey are so different from the orlg j Inal proposals that they suggest the | Idea thai the governments of the Ral -1 kan l.eague realise that with winter j gripping the country. Turkey has gained an ally which will prove more i fatal to the armies fronting Adrian 1 ople, Scutari and Tehataju than have been the Ottoman cannon, j No adjustment of the Austro-Servl | nn dispute is yet visible. Vienna con | tinues to show pessimism and the j newspapers there maintain their very threatening attitude; but in spite of j this, official relations between St. Pe | tersburg and Vienna seem to have be 1 : thought In diplomatic quarters that * come somewhat more cordial, and It is eventual that Servla will secure a j small mercantile port on the Adriatic > ! sea connected with Servla by rail- I road. I I In the meantime, however, Servla . | has trod on Italy's toes by quartering . | a regiment of the troops which re j cently occupied the port of Durawo , ! In the Italy school buildings there I i . New Orleans Adopt Commission Rule. New Orleans. —The commission I ; form of municipal government has t>een Inaugurated In New Orleans, j Martin Behrman, mayor for fhe past , elglit years, was sworn in for another , four-year term. Under the new form s : of government the mayor Is also I "commissioner of public affairs." Four [ other commissioners complete the or , ganlzatlon: Adolph Q. Ricks, W. B. Thompson, Harold W. Newman and Edward E. LaFaye, commissioners, re spectively, of finance, public utilities, 5 public safety and public property. 'I Cost of Living Not a New Problem. Philadelphia.—According to the au . thorltles at the University of Penn sylvania museum, the high cost of r living and excessive transportation . rates were as much a -problem in Theadelphla, a small city In Egypt. " 1,800 years ago as they are today in the United States. In an ancient * Greek manuscript. Just deciphered by * the museum's experts, a collector of J internal revenue tells of the graft and : excessive profits demanded by the trust magnates and political leaders of thoae days. BEGINNING OF THE ANNUAL THAW » • S2OO,OOO,OOOFORPENS!ONS SUM WILL EXCEED ALL APPRO PRIATIONS OF FORMER YEARS. Unusually Large Appropriation Will Be Necessary at Short Session of Congress. Washington. Appropriations of nearly $200,(100,000 for pensions to vet erans of American wars will bo nec essary at this session of congress. The unusual sum, exceeding all appro priations of former years, will tfe nec cscsury to make up a deficit of nearly s2o.oQft,ooo resulting from the increase | of pensions by the Sherwood bill last | winter and the proportionate Increase I of the general pensions authorized by this act. . „ Estimates by members of congress made indicate the regular pension bill probably will carry about $T 75,0(11,000. This in Itself will be a rjecord breaking i totat. nn thr Sherwood Taw materially ! Increased many pensions. It has not | yet been determined whether the de ficit. of approximately $20,000,000' will be added to the regular appropriation bill or put Into some other measure.' The pension bureau has enough mon ey for the present, but will run short between March 4 and July 1, when I the new fiscal year begins, unieeus It I gets the extra $20,000,000. Unexpected support has appeared among returning members of the sen- 1 ate for a bill to remove the present j limitation upon the pensions to j widows of veterans. The law now j gives no pension to a widow who mar ried her soldier husband after July 27. 1890. BOY STRAN6LER CONFESSES J. Frank Hickey Confesses to Murder: of Three Youths. nuflalo. N. Y. —The accidental killing ! of a man in Lowell, Mass, twenty years af{o was given by John Frank j Hickey, in a signed confession as the t starting point of a career of debauch ery and crime during whichc he mur dered two boy/3 and assaulted many others. Hickey's victim#, according to his confession, were Ed Morey of I.owell, Mass., poisoned wlh laudanum over twenty years ago; Michael Kruck, 12 years old, a New York newsboy, strangled in Central Park In 1902. and Joseph Joseph, the seven year-old son of George Joseph, a mer chant of killed In a sim liar manner, October 12, 1911. Young Joseph disappeared the af ternoon of October 12, 1911. His fa ther, George Joseph, a merchant of Lackawanna, Insisted from the start that the boy had been kidnaped, and a country-wide search was Instituted. The confession was made to Dis trict Attorney Dudley and Chief of Poljce Qilson of Lackawanna. Jackson Succeeds Rayner. - Baltimore, Md. —Governor Goldsbor ough has announced the appointment of William P. Jackson, Republican national committeeeman from Mary land, to succeed the late United States Senator Isldor Rayner. He will serve until the legislating, which meets in January. 1914, fills what will then be an unexpired term of three years. The legislature at that time also will elect a successor to Senator John Wal ter Smith (Democrat), whose term will expire In 1915. Mr. Jackson is 44 years old and a business man. $140,000 Found on City Dump. Kansas City.— Bonds having a face • value of $140,000 together with f cheques and a small amount of cou l pons that disappeared here June 5, l when two registered mail sacks were , stolen while en route from the post l office to the railway station here, t were found on the city dump by three j laborers. The bonds were Waco, Tex f as, city paper, which at the time they 1 disappeared from a mall trolley car en i route to the railway station, were be s ing shipped by the Commerce Trust I company of this city. '. . .. a':. Li UNITED STATES' EXPENSES OVER A BILLION DOLLARS IS ASKED OF CONGRESS TO RUN GOVERNMENT. Estimates Indicate That Sum Will be Required to Keep Government Going. Washington.—lt will cost $823,415. 14 to conduct the affairs of the gov ernment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, according to various department heads, submitted to the | speaker of the house by tho seretary of the treasury. This amount, which does not include any provision for the postal seivice, which is expected to Ibe self-supporting, is an increase of ; $72,078,248 over the appropriations made for the present year by the last session' of congress. Of this In crease $28,312,220 appears in esti mates of the secretary of the navy and s2tM'vr>~97 represents the In crease asked by the navy department lin the for, building; and [equipping new vessels. The estimates I would provide for three new battle ships to be laid down during the year This would make up for tho lapse of , one ship from the two battleships a I year program of the department, caus ;ed by the action of the Democratic i house In providing for but a single j ship at the last sesalon of congress. | Another $20,000,000 or more of the I total increase Is shown In the esti mates for the payment of pensions. The amount asked for is $185,220,000. Last year $165,146,470 was expend ied for pensions. An increase of about [ tho same amount appears in the es timates for public works for the year Preacher Faces Murder Charge. Houlton, Maine.—Rev. Charles Erne llus, a minister of the Lutheran church, is the central figure in a trial here in an attempt to fix re Bponsibllity for the mysterious death of August Jacobson, a prosperous New Sweden farmer, on June 11, 1911 Mrs. Jacobson, the minister's mother tin-law, and her sen, Edgar J. Jacob son. are held as co-defendants with Etnellus. .Tpcobson's body was found by his wife near his home. ,Nearby was a note Indicating that the farmer had taken hto own life and the case was accepted at first as one of suicide. Later the body was exhumed and an autopsy revealed that the man had been shot four times. These wounds. It Is claimed, could not have been self Inflicted. On testimony given at the corner's Inquest, showing that he had quarreled with his father, Edgar Jacobson was arrested, but later dls charged, when the grand ju>y failed to Indict him. Emolius married Ja cobson's daughter .everal months af ter the farmer's death. When detec tives, Investigating the case, claimed to have discovered proof that Jacob son had opposed the minister's suit for Miss Jacobson's hand. Dog Csuses Death. Greensboro, N. C. —Two accidental fatalities were recorded here with the death of Benjamin Clarida and Os borne Smith, the former a well-to-do farmer, and the latter a son of C. A. Smith, a sawmill owner of the county. Clarida stoopped to pick up a rabbit which he had shot when a dog in the chase jumped at him. catching hit foot on the hammer of his gun and causing its discharge. The entire load of shot entered his side. Young Smith was injured while operating a saw at his father's mill. Fast Train Wrecked. Albany, N. Y.—When New Tork . Central train No. 45, westbound from , New Tork, traveling at an estimated i speed of between 50 and 60 miles an - hour, was derailed at Hoffmans, seven . miles west of Schenectady, not one s of the 200 passengers was injured, al • though all were thoroughly shaken up. t The chef of the dining ear, the only i person injured, sustained several brok - en ribs, and la in Schenectady hoapt t tal. The passengers were transfer red to another train. , "v • r TII"' ' *' '1 Trifolfiir rhßaHEft - • 6211 D CONGRESS NOW IN SESSION THERE ARE SCORES OF IMPORT ANT MATTERS THAT MU^T BE CONSIDERED. I . I ARCHBALD WILL BE ifilED Impeachment Proceedings Expected to Be Spectacular Members Biow in Arriving. Washington.—The expiring Sixty second congress assembled for it final work of legislation. In the brief pe riod remaining before constitutional limitations bring It to an end and turn many of its members back into private life, fifteen appropriation bills, carrying over one billion dollars for the support of the government, must be passed; the Impeachment of Judge Archbald of the commerce court must be tried in the senate; many in vestigating committees must con clude Inquiries and make their re ports; and scores of legislative mat ters must be disposed of. Throughout the session, attracting as much attention as the actual work of legislation, will run the prepare-, tory work for the extra session, to be called soon after Presidentelect Wilson takes office March 4. Committees pursuant to this will thresh questions of tariff, curren cy and anti trust legislation, aiming to have democratic policies shaped, and democratic plans made, before the new administration cqmcß into power. it is assured, say the legislative leaders, that there will be no tariff legislation this winter. Neither Is It expected that the currency or anti trust problems will receive much at tention in the house or senate, the principal work of the session being confined to preparation for the Demo cratic administration and the enact ment of seme of the more important bills pending on the calendars Important bills to receive attention Include the bill for a department of labor; the Shpppard-Kenyon bill pre venting shipments of liquor into "dry" states; the Page bill, to give Federal aid to vocational and agricultural schools, and the resolution for a con stitutional amendment limiting a pres id( nt to a single terrfi of six years. These measures have all been debated "before, bojth houses, and have reached the pYimt where action of some kind upon them is expected. PEACE PROTOCOL DRAWN It Will Be Signed by All Parties at Interest. Paris, Fiance. —The Constantinople correspondent of The Tempos gives, under reserve, the main lines oi a peace scheme as outlined by Turkish semiofficial sources. According to this scheme Grcace gets Epiruß; Servia gets oIJ Servlu and Movlpasear, and Bulgaria gets Thrace, following the frontier trom Midia to DedeaghatcU or Karala tut excluding Adrlanople, which runain. connected with Constautinop.e and the Daidanelles. Autonomy Is to bo granted (o Mace donia, with Saloniki as the capital Al bania, minus a par: ceded to MOB to negro and also the provinces, arc placed under the suzerainty of the Balkcns. The final condition is the admission of Turkey to the lialkftn League. $35,000,000,000 Business for Year. Washington—This year th? inter national business of the world wili reach the enormous total oi $35,000.- 000,000, according to a report issued by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The estimate is made on official returns of exports and imports from virtually every commercial coun try in the world. The new figure will establish a record, for It Is four bil Hon dollars greater than the trade in 1910 and more than double that done In 1890, twentytwo years ago. Seven ty leading countries furnished their figures to the government statist!* clans. Only Argentine and Russia reports decreases, both falling off sharply. The United States so far has shown a monthly Increase of $lB/, 000,000 over 1911. Aeronaut Tumbles to Oeath. Jacksonville, Fla —Richard Frayne. an aeronaut, fell 2,000 feet from the air here and was Instantly killed, i Three thousand people saw the acci dent. The aeronaut was thrown from his seat In the parachute Just after he had cut loose from the balloon. His body landed in the driveway of ; the Eregreen cemetery. Physicians i say that every bone In his body was v i broken. Together with Jack Crosby, ; his companion, Frayne started an as- I censlon at the Til-County Fair here. Both men had individual parachutes. Promise of Amnesty to Rebel*. t ' Mexico City.—Convinced that num erous bands of rebels in the states 1 of Durango, Coahulla and southern 1 Chihuahua are contlnulilg their oper i atlons merely because they believe i surrender would mean summary exe ) cutton under the suspension of guar - an tees, Rafael Hernandex. the new . minister of the interior, announced r that he would attempt to sain Cor - them n promise of amnesty. Chercbe - Campos and Benjamin Arguado, offl | cers in Orosco's organisation, are the chief rebel lenders la those districts, ' ~t' ' 1 •!i 1 .. .
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