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THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. WIL£IAMBTON^NORTI^jCAROIJhIA^ Guard your health. It 1b your moat trainable asset A duty neglected today wields a scourge tomorrow. When New York gets a $10,000,000 stadium K will be almost classical. The old year tried to bring In side whiskers, but the task was beyond Its strength. One example of doing a perfectly sseless thing Is giving a smoker In Pittsburg. Lawlessness Is Instinctive with us. ' Shipping live animals by parcel pqst Is all the rage. Gold fish figure In a case of lease breaking, but not on account of the aolse they make. Out of 12,000 buildings built last rear in Greater New York 5,200 are :las«if]ed as "frame." The pennant winning of 1913 i» be ing conducted around every hot stove in town and country: - The unscrambling of eggs that are drought in by parcel post is a difll :ult Job. Kggs is eggs. With the patenting of "harmless" Hatpins the opportunities for crowds | to gather will bo Increased. In Athens a woman who wears a barge hat in a theater Is fined S4O. IVhy not confiscate the hat? Art English professor stands ready to prove that Pharaoh was a fat old man, live feet seven inches high. Only CO per cent, of the operations for appendicitis are necessary, but no rebate goes to the other 50 per cent. What "has become of the dear old grandmother who used to knit mittens !or the grandchildren? Playing bridge? West Point officials nrrested a cadet tor getting married. Yet displays of rourage by soldiers are not ordinarily n ndemned Flat dwellers will certainly have a toncrete grievance against tho nelgh »or upstairs who moves his cement piano often. The man In Oregon who has been ■entenced to a cumulative term of 800 rears would seem to have a good case for claiming a commutation to a life sentence. One year's supply of coal for New fork, loaded In filly-ton cars, would reach from Broadway to Salt Lake rMty. But what an awful congestion >f traffic there'd be! There Is great complaint against the smoking automobile, but it must be said In KB favor that It does not throw lighted matches and burning stumps about promiscuously. The largest ocean liner In the world will leave Hamburg May 7 on her maldeu voyage »o Now York. She has three electric elevators and a theater snd swimming baths . A western woman hearing her bus- Sand was preparing to buy her a 13,000 automobile, had him examined lor his sanity. Probably she thought it was too cheap a machine. Two thousand dollars was recently paid for n blue cat. Many men have leen blue cats for less than that, as well as pink elephants, and green Iragons, and red chimpanzees. One hoars but little of late of old Doc Fletcher, chiefly because few have anything to practice fletcherlzlng on. A Boston woman had an Iceman Hoed for giving her short weight. The long suffering public worm is turning «t last. A learned man of Boston says Health Is denied to those who wear ihoes —and Boston is so near Lynn ind Brockton. With additional privileges, of course, some additional responsibilities. If mother insists on wearing trousers she will have to put out the cat and wind the clock before going to bed. A woman doctor says that women wdte corsets and hobble skirts 5,000 rears ago. Now we can account for those pictures of women engraved In the walls of ancient Egyptian temples. Johns Hopkins surgeons have dis covered that orange blossoms may be used as an anaesthetic. Perhaps the bride wears them to make the ceremony less painful for the groom. The odorless skunk has arrived to line up with the stlngless bee. the spineless cactus and the seedless :> range. Some get vacuum cleaners as pre* rati but many more get pocketbooks that vacuum cleaners may have been at work upon. Simplified spelling has again come to the front. But this is a free coun try. *nd any amusement not against the laws of the land Is allowed at SCOTI PERISHES 111 THE ANTARCTIC BRITISH EXPLORER AND PARTY OVERWHELMED BY BLIZZARD AT SOUTH POLE, THE BODIES ARE RECOVERED News of Desth of the Explorer Is Bropght to Civilizstion by the Captain of Terra Nova. London, England.—At the Royal Georgraphlcal Society announcement was made of the disaster which has overtaken Capt. Robert F. Scott's ant arctic expedition, resulting in the death of Captain Scott, I)r. E. A. Wil l son, Lieut. H. Bowers, ("apt. L. E. G. Oates and petty officer, E. Evans. Captain Scott's party were found in Capt? Roald Amundsen's hut and rec ords at, the south pole. On the return trip, about March 29, 1912, 11 miles from One-Ton depot, a blizzard over whelmed them. They had Buffered greatly from hunger und exposure, and the dealh of Scott, Bowers and ■ —W+hwm wa#-v4rtually due tothaf. They - died soon after the blizzard swept dotwn on the party. Oates died from exposure a few days later. The death of Evans re sulted from a fall. The other mem bers of the expedition are reported to be in good health. A searching party discovered the bodies of the victims and records. Captain Scott and companions had reached their goal on January 18, 1912,' about a month after Captain Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian, had planted the flag of his country there. Then they turned back toward the bases they had formed on their out ward Journey, but were overtaken, overwhelmed and destroyed by a bliz zard. News of the death of the explorers was brought to civilization by the captain of the Terra Nova, the ship which had taken Scott's expedition to the south and which ljad gone ffgain to bring them back after the accom plishment of their lask. The Terra Nova sailed on June 1, 1910, for New Zealand and the south pole. It was Joined by Capt. Robert F. Scott a few days later at Cardiff. The expedition consisted of twenty eight officers and scientists in addi tion to a crew of twentythreo MOBS RIOT IN JAP CAPITAL Bix Persons Killed and Sixty-Five Were Wounded. Toklo, Japan.—Six persons were killed and sixty-five injured in polit ical rioting here. The situation is se rious. The premier of Japan, Prince Katura, was stoned by a mob in the streets. Ills resignation has been de manded by the people. Mobs attacked the offices of the bureaucratic news papers and threatened dwellings of the ministers. They burned and wrecked police stations, tram cars and private buildings. Detachments of troops patrol the streets. Each newspaper office is pro tected by a guard of fifty soldiers, to whom ball cartridges have been serv ed. They have their fixed for instant use. The minister of the Imperial house hold announces that martial law will be proclaimed if there are any fur ther attempts at incendiarism. A mass meeting was held In lbanya , park. In the center of the city. The mob started from there to attack Prince Katsurn's dwelling. Police, with drawn swords, charged several times, wounding many of the demon - I atratora und drove the mob away. i U. S- Sends Naval Force to Mexico. Washington.—The revolutionary up rising in the City of Mexico caused ' the United States to determine that all this government could do would be to send a sufficient naval force to Mexican waters to afford refuge for foreigners and to observe and report upon conditions as they develop. In accordance with this decision. Secre tary Meyer ordered the armored crui ser Colorado, now at San Diego, to proceed at once to Mazatlan. Another vessel of the Paciflc fleet, probably the armored cruiser South Dakota, also at San Diego, will be dispatched. 25 Indians Will Head Marchers. Washington.—Tammany Hall's con tingent of 100 marchers in the lnaug uartlon parade March 4 will be head-, ed by 25 real Indians, to be brought here from the weat. representing 2." tribes, and each Indian will be garbed In his distinctive tribal dress. Recent ly an Intimation was given that Tam many might wish to have as a fea ture a live tiger, but this was deemed unwise, and the Indian feature was ' substituted. Efforts to have the peace congress take part In the suffrage oageartt on March 3 will succeed. | Mrs. Grover ClevSand Weds. , Princeton. N. J.— Mrs. Frances Fol som Cleveland, widow of former Pres ident G rover Cleveland, and Prof. Thomas J. Preston were married here' 1 The wedding took place In the "Pros -1 pect."' the residence of Rev. John Grier Hlbben of Princeton university, who performed the ceremony. Mrs. Cleveland has made her home in ! Princeton since the former president's retirement from public life In 18S7. continuing to, reside here after his death several years ago. CAPTAIN SCOTT hE3w iFw£ V mm^ m ' m ■ v?i Who Wat Killed While Leading a Revolt In Mexico City. STOCK EXCHANGE CHANGES DRASTIC RULE IS MADE TO PRE VENT ANY "WASH SALES." Wal/ Street Starts to Reform as Bill* to Control It Are Introduced at Albany. New York. —The New York stock exchange adopted a stringent reno!u Hon against "wash Hales." This ac tion followed closely the Introduction in the stale legislature of the bills recommending stock exchange re f»iiris as outlined In the governor's recent message. The board of governors of the ex change adopted the following resolu tion: "No members of the stocjt exchange or anybody connected with a stock exchange firm shall give or with knowledge execute orders for the pur chase or sale of securities which In volve no change In ownership." I'unishment for this offense Is al ready set forth in the constitution of the exchange, under tb> head of "11c titlous transactions." Any# violation of the rule makes a member liable to suspension for u period not exceeding one year. The rule as now adopted Is broad er, In' that It applies not only to a member of the exchange, but to ahy one connected with a stock exchangn firm. DESERTED SHIP IS FOUND No Soul on Board, Bark It Wandering on the High Seaa. Newport News, Va—With sails snugly furled, the lifeboats In the da vits, the galley plentifully supplied with provisions and water, bift with out a vestige of human life nboartf the Norwegian bark Remittent, Rio Grande to Liverpool, was picked up January 19 In raid-ocean by the Brit ish steam Roumanian, according to Captain Clarldge, of the latter ves sel. who arrived here. The strange' disappearance of the Remittent's* crew recalls the famous schooner Marie -Celeste mystery which puzzled the maritime world for many months. The bark sailed from Rio (irnnde October 25 last and never was report ed until found by the Roumanian. Captain Clarldge refused to hazard a guess as to the possible whereabouts of (he Remittent's crew. $1,800,000 Will Be Spent. Washington.—Maj Gen. Leonard Wood, chief or stutT of the army, has discussed at length with Representa tive William Schley Howard the de partment's plans for the enlargement and further development of Fort Mc pherson. Ga. These plans contemplate the expenditure of $1,800,000 for new land, buildings for Inrrraeks and quar termaster's stores, sewers, lighting, water mains and for new walks and roadways. Negro Lynched In Mississippi. Houston. Miss. —Andrew Williama, 35, negro, was lynched by a mob here. Williams is suspected of having mur dered Mrs. John C. Williams, wife of the deputy chancery clerk of this county, who was found dead in her home here. Hej- body was found In an abandoned pit under the house. Bacon to Rap Jamestown Gavel. Washington—Another Interesting chapter will be added to the history history of the Jamestown gavel, now owned by the Atlanta chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution when Senator Bacon uses it at the joint session of the two houses to an uounce the election of Woodrow Wit i son as president. In reply t a letter from Mrs. Sam D. Jones, Senator Ba con said he would use the gavel when the two houses met In Joint session. This gavel Is the wood of a tree that grew beside Patrick Henry's grave. Horses Dash into Woman's Parier. Chicago.— "Well, the nerve of some people's horses! '* exclaimed Mrs. John McCaron. when she rushed from the kitchen to Investigate a crash In the front part of her home and found a team of draught horses tramping on the parlor carpet. The team had run' away and the front of the frame dwelling of the McCarons had offered but alight resistance tb their madden -1 ed Impact. All that kept the horses ' from continuing through the place was 1 the beer wagon to which they were attached. i-' a* •,« ■ ** \ -* ** -as.-• Uali PLANNING THE SUFFRAGIST TABLEAUX ' IK- a 2 I Wjm mmm ■ \ ; ' ~ ■ jj^B 1 V v. i fjfl 1 ~~E£r~:;r While the groat suffragist parade of March 3 in Washington Is passing | along Pennsylvania avenue, tableaux depicting historic Incidents will be pre sented on the south steps of the treasury building. Our picture shows Mrs. (Jlenna 8. Tlnnln (left) and Miss Hazel Mackaye (right) on the steps lay ing plans for that part of the They are In charge of the tableaux. WALSH EXPOSES GRAFT SYSTEM New York Police Captain Con fesses to District Attorney NAMES MEN "HIGHER UP" Civilians Implicated in His Long Story Volunteered to Prosecutor —Will Repeat Confection Before Grand Jury—Expects Indictments. # I New York.—Police Captain Thomas | W. Walsh has dealt the "System" the i worst blow it ever received. Before District Attorney Whitman and other witnesses he made full confession of all he knew of police graft and its alliance with politicians. Believing himself to be dying, and wishing to purge his conscience, Cap tain Walsh, without saving himself, his voice, weakned by illness, taking on the hysteria of excitement, corrob orated In full the statement made by Policeman Eugene Fox, who on Mom day last pleaded guilty and turned 'State's evidence. ~ In the presence of Frederick Groehl, an assistant District Attorney, another man and Mrs. Walsh the police captain poured his heart but to Mr. Whitman. He swore that svery cent collected by Fox In the East 126 th Street Pre cinct had been shared with Inspector Sweeney. Out of every, dollar that Pox brought to him Walsh had given 50 cents to his superior, the collector having first helped himself to 10 per cent, of the total. This method applied to all the money received as the cost of pro tecting illegitimate enterprises, some of which were handled by others. Once a month, Walsh said, he would meet Inspector Sweeney either in his office or In the Inspector's in 125 th street, and there pay him in cash. He could not recall offhand the total amounts thin paid the inspector, but as near as he could figure it he thought it reached somewhere be tween $25,000 and $50,000. Walsh had no personal knowledge of the pay ments from the other precincts in the inspection district, of which there are four, but he gave it as his opinion that each had produced equally large sums, If not larger. He admitted that he had employed Fox to collect "protection money" for him from the disorderly hotels and flats and from crooked saloons. fu his wholesale confession Captain Walsh Implicated a high civilian at Police Headquarters. Walsh said that this civilian re ceived a share of the graft, and that it was matnly through his influence that the grafting methods were per mitted to run along without interfer ence from the powers that rule the department. t DROWNED WHILE COASTING. Vassar Girls' Toboggan Breaks Through Ice of Pond. Poughkeepsle, N. Y.—While five Vassar College students were tobog ganing on Sunset Hill the toboggan i got beyond their control and ran out on the thin Ice of the new artificial lake, breaking through the ice and throwing all five girls Into the water. She of the number. Miss Elisabeth Q. ylod, daughter of Corporation Coun sel John J. Mylod of this city, was drowned, the other four were saved. HOW WILSON WILL BE INAUGORATED —— Programme of Ceremony An nounced by the Committee PROCEEDINGS AT THE CAPITOL Organization of Bsnate, Then Inaugu ral Addreaa— Mr. Wilson to Bpeak from East Front of Capitol- Then Parade and Reception Washington.—All arrangements for | the inauguration of President-elect Woodrow Wilson have been completed by the various committees charged with the duty of inducting the new President Into office. The Committee on Arrangements of Congress, con sisting of Senators (?rane of Massa chusetts. Bacon of Georgia, and Over man of North Carolina, and Repre sentative Rucker of Missouri; Garrett of Tennessee and McKinley of Illinois, have completed the official programme for the inaugural ceremonies lu so far as they relate to the Capitol. On the evening of March 3 the Senate wing of the Capitol will be closed and will not be opened until the morning of March 4. The doors of the Senate - chamber ; will be thrown open at 11 o'clock on , the morning of March 4 to those en ! titled to reserved seats on the floor j of the Senate. Gathering for Ceremonies. The memhers of the Supreme Court | of the United States will enter the ! Senate chamber at 11.45 a. m., and i after being announced will take their seats. The members of the House of ! Representatives will then follow and | take their seats in the space reserved ! for them. Then will follow th« mem i bers of the Diplomatic Corps. President Taft and President-elect Wilson, escorted to the Capitol by the Committee on Arrangements, will en ter the Senate wing at the bronze door on the east side. They will go dlrect j ly to the President's room, where they will remain until the Committee on Arrangements waits upon them and ! escorts them to the Senate chamber. They will occupy Beats reserved for them in front of the Vice-President's desk. The Committee on Arrange ments will occupy seats immediately on the left. The Vice-President-elect will be es corted to the room reserved for him by the Committee on Arrangements. He will then be escorted to the Sen ate chamber, where the oath of 6fllce will be administered to him by the President pro tem. of the Senate. After prayer by the chaplain, the Vice-President will deliver his Inau gural address in the Senate chamber, and will then administer the oath of , office to the Senators-elect. BRYCE NAMED HAGUE TRIBUNE. Will Pill Vacancy Next August Caus ed by Retirement of Pry. London.—James Bryce, British am bassador at Washington, hss been ap pointed by the British Government a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. Washington.—Mr. Bryce's appoint ment as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration is to fill a vacan cy to be caused next August by the re tirement of the Hon. Sir Edward Fry. GAMBLER REVEALS i MUtt GRAFT. James Purcell Gives Amazinf Details of Official Blackmail PAID $50,000, IN TRIBUTE Testifies to Curran Committee That De tectives, Wardmen, Inspectors, Cap tains, Aldermen and Agents of Vice Societies "Got Theirs." New York.—ln the most sensational and comprehensive review of the po lice graft system that it has yet heard the Curran Aldermanic committee listened to the story of James Purcell, a gambler, of seventeen years" experi ence in New York, who was able to give dates, incidents and amounts, and mentioned names that ran from thatof political bosses down to lowly patrolmen collectors. During the sev enteen years Purcell testified he paid $50,000 in graft. * Summed up. Purcell, In his testi mony, declared that he had paid pro tection money from SSO to $l2O a week to "the wardniert of Pottce Inspectors William McLaughlin and Cornelius Hayes. He had not been able to do business with Inspectors llarley and Smiling Dick Walsh. He had paid the wardmen of Captains Thomas, now re tired; Delaney, retired; Marteens. Maude, Captain (lannon, retired; Naughton, Cochrane, Burns and Pat rick F. Crayowho is Charles F. Mur phy's brother-in-law. He could not do business with Captains Nathaniel Shire, retired, or Bernard Kelliher. He mentioned twenty-two-policemen* under the rank of captain, alleging that he did business with all squads with the exception of that commanded by "Honest" Dan Costigan. He had | dealt with Lieutenant Charles Becker, and his man White. He had paid Wil- I )iam Eggers, who once headed a squad ! under McAdoo: He had paid Police i man Cl.lff, who was Commissioner Bugher's man. He had paid Sheriff | Harvey, of Queens, who was a politi cal boss, succeeding Cassidy, sloft a week for running, with the under standing that S6O of it was to go to the district attorney. He had only Harvey's word for this. He paid Agent McCUntock, since out of the Parkhurst Society, a regular fee, and also Agent Britton. of that society, for the en forcement of the criminal law to th» same purpose He had done business with Leader Michael F. Cruse. He hac; gotten the late John F. Murphy to intercede with Captain P. F. Cray to allow him to open up. He had a friend In Alderman "Butch" Lewis, and a backer in Former Alderman Thomas Woods. He was a partner once with Herman Rosenthal, killed by Becker's orders; only Captain Smil- t ing Dick Walsh would not allow that gambler to come (iptown in his pre cinct. Colncideutly it was reported from various sources that the inspectors and some captains in the department had been asked to contribute to h secret fund for the defence of Inspect or Sweeney and the two captain*,, former Inspectors, who were suspend ed by Waldo. Mrs. Thomas W. Walsh, wife of the> captain who Confessed to Whitman, as a witness before Justice Goff, sitting as a committing magistrate in "John Doe" proceedings, gave such clean-cut and incontrovertible evidence of the financial combination between her husband and Inspector Sweeney to protect Fox, the policeman, from Sipp's - testimony that John J. Hartl gan, Sweeney's plain-clothes man, was foreed to admtt he had received $950 1 from Sweeney to deliver to Hbx for that purpose. • ROCKEFELLER HEARING OFF. Almost Collapses and Pujo Ends Ex amination in Twelve Minutes. Brunswick, Oa.—Twelve minutes-, after William Rockefeller had ap peared privately as a witness in the Pujo Money Trust inquiry his exami | nation was ended by a flt of cough j ing and trembling which brought | sharp warning from his physician that j the ordeal must cease or the conse l quence might be his sudden death, j Only four questions had been asked, j and they were answered with great i difficulty in whispers. Not a word of" | information had been gleaned after | the six months' chase and final run i toing down of the financier. The only 1 result was a demonstration that the- National House of Representatives could reach out its long arm and com pel the obedience of any citizen. Chairman Pujo and Samuel Unter myer, counsel to the cpmmittee, were compelled to abandon a victory which was In their grasp through the grave danger that the long-sought witness might die under the pressure of cross-examination. BLIZZARD IM.NEW YORK. Four Feet of Snow In Pulaski and Richmond—Trains Delayed. . Watertown, N. Y.—Northern New York experienced a bliziard and the snow in the vicinity of Richland and Pulaski lies four feet deep. A train due here at ?.30 was fouf/hours late. Two snow plows had to be seat to Its relief. Other trains leaving here were abandoned before reaching their destination. The New York Central has all of its saow fighting apparatus In operation.
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