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THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. WILLI AKBTON, NORTH CAROLINA This la the open season for Turkish iwga sod hot tamales What la wanted la a cold storage m that bears the date of Its sepul tome of thoae new songs would Bake a respectable family phonograph Wash. Pythons have gone up. They now ooot $6 a foot. Isn't that awful, Mabel T Paris may have seen the last of the hobble skirt, but they are still popular In America. The French aviator, who flew 287 ■dies In 185 minutes, bad little time to *l«w the scenery. The San Francisco dog. with a gold hinge on his back leg, wouldn't be safe a minute In Chicago. Noah was more fortunate than j present day circus men. He had no | press agents on his salary list. The soda fouutaln Industry Is traced j as far back as 1562. Surely the soda j till rat has not existed that long. Fashion may decree mannish skirts j tor women, but why masculine when i they talk of embroidery effect? Strang" as It may seem, while beel j and lamb and butter aviated, the price j of chile con carne remained station- I - - Five million rnuakrat skins are mar keted each year, but when the con sumers get them they are variously aamed It Is fervently hoped that walking doea not become a fad. Cold suppers are not the most enjoyable things In the world Sometimea we refer flippantly to | the antiseptic life, but there is no ; doubt about It—the free lunch fork i ought to go An experienced Knglish aviator | thinks bomb dropping at best a game j of chance, but it will never be taken ■p like poker. In tracing the typewriter back to 1714. we fail to find any record show lag when the stenographer took hold of the situation. Aerial deadlines are to be establish ad. That leaves the cyclone cellar as the only place left for the poor In habitants of earth. Chicago, according to the latest eatl nate, has a population of 2,807,628, bat the next wave of crime may re •ace that considerably. Taking into consideration the ad Torse talk agalnat the tipping habit, wa are forced to concede that after all tlpa are grudgingly given. It la a mistake to assume that tour tesy coats nothing. A St. Iouls man, while in the act of bowing to a lady •a the street, was struck by an auta aoblle. Now Is the time for energetic In ▼entors and vendora of bulletproof cloth to be Interesting high Mexican officials In their material for new spring stylea. The New York baseball club has In sored Manager McGraw's life for 1100,000 Might not humanity pre scribe h similar provision for the league umpires? Stockings are not to be worn on the Cleveland bathing beaches next sum Bier, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer A. barefooted bathing beach ought to be worth seeing Selling old letters for $2,000 and f5,600 convinces us that the goose quill and the wand, used by our fore fathers, beats up to date writing meth oda, financially speaking. A little piece of twine, which dropped into the steering gear of the liner I.uaitania, caused 11,000.000 dam age. It sounds "fishy," but tbe '"unard company saya it is a fact. One concern In Atlanta burned S3O, 000 worth of one time fashionable car rtages to make room for the modern anto And yet the horse Is holding his own in price and style excellently well A man In Pennsylvania who volun toe red for service in the Civil war and was rejected because he was too old has Just died. But he established his point, though It took him a long time to do It. Cleveland officials, who declare that tho. fly has been exterminated there, evidently plan to spend their summer vacations in some other state Jast to show that be la a Jolly good fellow still. Sir Thomas Llpton will come over next year and loae an other race for the America's cup. The lowa man who mlaaod train oaaaoctlons and was one hour too lata for bis marriage ceremony abonld ap predate Juet how kind fats was tc LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE Short Paragraphs of State Nswa That Haa Boon Condensed For Busy People of State. Raeligh. —Hon. Geo. Rountree, of Wilmington, accepts the jndgsblp ap pointment from Governor Craig, for the Klghth or Wilmington District. iLumberton>- , At a colored school closing at Fairmont, 11 miles of here, Norwood Dunn shot and killed Char iest House, Dunn, was arrested by Sheriff Lewis and placed in Jail. Durham.—The case of the boundary dispute between Joe Snields and J. W. Neal, which lias b«n before the Su perior court for several days, came to an end when the jury returned a ver dict in favor of Mr, Neal. Raleigh.—A charter Is issued for the Ooean City Coporation of Wilmington, capital $50,000 authorised, and $3,000 subscribed by W. G. Hall, J. K. Steph «n#on and others for a real estate and insurance and brokerage business. Washington.- From present pros pects the coming season looks bright I for a successful tobacco market In j Washington. It is understood that there will be two warehouses in oper ation, and one of them has already i been leased to John C. Lovelace, v j prominent tobacco man of Wilson. Salisbury.—A heavy wind storm J raging In this section of North Caro lina played havoc recently with the Red Cross poultry farm, near Sails j bury. Several poultry houses were de | mollslied and the damage will be I heavy. Smokestacks-, plat-glass fronts and many out-buildings fell under the i high winds. Raleigh.—The Raleigh school board j is preparing for the erection of u | SIOO,OOO public school building for the (ilenwood section of the city, it will , be of fireproof construction, with 10 class rooms and of modern design. An j assembly room will be secured through the use of roller partitions between two of the largest rooms. States villo.—Democratic, municipal primaries have been called for April J 5, and according to precedent this will i j really be the election, the town being so strongly Democratic that none save the nominees of the Democrats over make the race. Candidates for ! mayor, members of the Hoard of Ald- I ermen and two members of the graded school board are to be nominated. Spencer.—lt Is now apparent that u call for volunteers will have to be is sued to get candidates for atdermen In Spencer. A date for a primary ha? been named and there are two can didates for mayor. W. 11. Burton and C. G. Thelling, but not a man has an " Bouncea TUS candldacy Tof aTderm ah, Asheville. -Several of the leading educators of western North Carolina have organixed an educational society, | which will use Its efTorts for the bet terment of school conditions in this section of the state. The first meet ing of those who are interested in the movement was held several days ago, when Prof. W. C. Allen of Waynesvllle was elected temporary chairman. Four Oaks.—A posse with blood hounds spent the day In a futile search for Noah Massenglll, the con vict who killed Deputy Sheriff \V. K. Strickland recently when the latter attempted to arrest him as a fugulivr from the county roads. Masseugill IK still at large, although It is thought he will soon be apprehended. John ston county is aroused over the des perate deed. Charlotte.—One of the lirst appro priations made out of the $36,000 fund for bridges in the county will be set aside, it is said, for the bridge over 1 Paw Creek. It will be of steel with ! stone and concrete abuttments am' j will be of substantial construction. The county will purchase Its own materia' and much of the work will ">e done by | convicts. This undertaking will be ! started in the summer. Gastonla. It was learned that the j present mayor and Board of Aldermen j of Gastonla will stand l'or re-election i at the coming; mnntf lpal election May |5. This information is authentic and will hold water, though nol a single I member of the board nor Mayor Craig | has tnnde any public statement that ,he will be a candidate. It is under- I j stood that they will make no announce j ment of their candidacy and will make ! ! no fight for the offices which they now | I light for in cmwyp cmfwy ppppJJjj j hold. Rocky Point. —The heavy frost throughout Pender county recently j following by the cold wave did con | siderable damage to truck. Some snap j beans that wore protected were saved | while fields that were exposed are kill ed. All cucumbers that are up from the ground were killed. | Dunn.--The people of the commun ity are looking forward to April 11, on which date tbe new school building j will be dedicated. Hon T. W. Bickett will deliver the address of the occas ion. It is rivilly a dedication of tbe i large addition which has been made to the building in the past year. Lumberton Stephen Humphrey, the 14-year-old son of Mr. James Humph rey, who lives 10 miles north of here accidentally shot'and seriously, injur ed himself while hunting. How the accident occurred has not been learn ed, but there is said to be no chance for recovery. Raleigh —Gerken has submitted to the charge of forcible trespass in en tering the room of State Senator Mc- Leod of Robeson county in the clos ing days of the Legislature, and Judge Carter is to pass judgment in the case later In thia term of court He has been held on the charge of burglary. MEXICO PROTESTS TO UNITED STATES > / * PRESIDENT HUERTA AND GENE RAL DIAZ REPORTED AT ODDB. WANTS GREATER VIGILANCE Another Outbreak Feared in Mexico City, Trough Rumors Are Denied. Mexico City.—The Mexican govern ment has made a formal protest to the American government against the shipping of arms and ammunition from the United States to the rebels, and has requested that greater vigi lance be exercised in guarding the frontier. Mexican officials under stand that numerous consignments of war material, including many .'ma chine guns, have been sent across the border, in some cases even at the regular ports of entry, and are now in the hands of the rebels. It is pointed out by the name of ficials that since the rebels control a large part of the frontier, this country Iff dependent, absolutely i for thy lime being on the United States to pre vent the rebels from obtaining sup plies. That the rebels are securing quantities of ammunition appear* to be a fact. Residents of the capital are nerv ous because of cntlnued rumors of I friction between President Huertaand Gen. Felix Diaz, and of plots and in trigues, even to the fixing of dates I when a,new battle may be expected I In the streets or the assassination of lone or the other of the principals. So keen was tho ■ excitement that the president summoned newspaper ■ men to the palace to issue a formal state ment saying he and Felix Diaz were still friends und working in harmony, and that,there was no truth in the street gossip. lltierta's statement wus reiterated by Diaz. Texas.—Eighty-nine were killed and many wounded in a des perate 16-hour battle, Ho miles from Coahulla. A report of the encounter was i brought to Nuevo Laredo, by Garza Rlvas, a federal captain, who was badly woutded, und was confirm ed later by small bodies of federal troops'who followed him. MONTENEGRO VERY DEFIANT Austria-Hungary ;fa Preparing for a Demonstration. London. —The stubbornness of .Mon tenegro in continuing the bombard ment of Scutari, contrary to the wish es of the powers, und the dt la soilness of Servia in withdrawing her iroops beyond the line decided upon us the frontier of the future Albania, If not overcome by more peaceful measures will lead to a demonstration and a blockade of the Montenegrin coast and the ports of Albania occupied by Servia. Austria Hungary Is losing paticuce with her little neighbors, and Is urg ing the powers to take actiou to en force the demands contained in their notes to Servia und Montenegro; and when the naval measures ate taken it is expected this duty will be allot ted to Great Britain, Italy and Aus tria. Russia, although she Joined in the collective diplomatic action, will not participate In the coercive steps. Servia has expressed her Intention of complying with the powers' de mand io evacuate Albania, but has made no movement in the direction, and the Austrian government com- I plaiiib that Instead she Is Bending I more war .material to that territory. Austria insists upon the immediate removal of the Servians Sentenced to Atlanta Pen. Memphis, Tenn. —J. M. aima.m.uuer-. 1 pesldent of the defunct American Trust company of this city, in the United States district court here, en tered a plea of guilty to five federal | indictments charging the use of the I mails to defraud. Upon recommenda j lion of District Attorney Todd. Sims ' was sentenced to serve six years in j the federal prison at Atlanta. The convicted man was so overcome when i arraigned before the bar for sentence that he wept. Summer Hom e Selected by Wilson. Cornish, N. 11. —President Woodrow Wilson has chosen the home of Win ston Churchill, the novelist, to be his summer capital, according to u tele gram received here from Mr. Churc hill, who is now in Santa Barbara, Cal. The message was directed to E. I\ Roberts, manager of the Churchill estate, and contained instructions for getting the place it* readiness for the ; president's occupancy, llarlakenden sen house, as the Churchill property is known. Is a two-story brick struc ture, three miles of Windsor, Yt, Commits Suicide in Department Store New Orleans.-r-Isabel G. Temple, 80 years of age, daughter of n. X. Temple" of Chattanooga, Tenn., com mitted suicide in a Canal street re payment store here. Miss Temple, who came here three weeks ago suf fering from nervousness, was found by a shopper after «he had swallow ed the greater part of a vial of poison and died befor* she could be taken to a hospital. I.llss Temple went with her mother to the public library. The young woman excused herself for « moment and walked in ihe street. SCENE ON THE MIAMI AT DAYTON ' * U-* I Hhß I I * This Is a scene on the raging Miami river at Dayton. 0., where hun dreds of lives have been lost in the floods. OKU ABOUT SOB ~ PERISHED IN FLOOD ROLL OF FATALITIES IN OHIO AND INDIANA IS VERY MUCH SMALLER THAN THOUGHT. j $15,000,000 PROPERTY LOSSj Revelation Comes With Receding | Flood Waters Showing Marvel ous Escape of Thousands. Cincinnati, Ohio.—The flood waters! have now receded sufficiently to' show that the number of persons, drowned in\a!l the affected cities in j Ohio and Indiana may not exceed j 500. While many persons are still' missing to friends and relatives; in-! vesications made indicated that many were safe who had beep thought ! lost. 1 In Dayton careful estimates placed' (he number of deaths at 200 or fewer, I although a meeting of the undertakers J asserted that the total might be 800. | Relief work went on rapidly In Hay ton and ail parts of the city were i reached . Columbus will have the next to the | largest loss of life, sixty bodies hav ing been found in the inundated por-j lion of West Columbus Chillicothe and Tiffin, Ohio, where j there had been reports of fifty or j more dead, each found 18 corpses. Figures from Plqtia give a death! toll of 50 persons. Fremont and Mid ! dletown. Ohio,-each had 14 dead: Mas"! slllon 5, Zanesvllle 4 and Troy 9. The Indiana total drowned receded to fewer than 50. distributed as fol lows: Peru 20, Brockville Hi, Fort Wayne t> and Terre Haute 1 No bodies have been found in West In j dlanapolis, where as many as 200 j deaths were at one time repotted. j At Cincinnati the Ohio, swelled by J Its tributaries north and south, caus ed alarm, and, although the situation j had not yet reached an acute stage, ] reports from neighboring Kentucky j towns Indicated that warning had been issued to the inhabitants toi seek points of safety frohi the rls j Ing water. An Indiana alarm was felt in thc[ valleys of the Ohio, Wabash and White rivers, but ample warning serv l ed In a measure to reduce the panic. Loss of Life at Dsyton Will Not Be Over Two Hundred. South Dayton, Ohio.—Dayton's loss of life probably will not exceed 200. This estimate is based upon a per-' sonal canvass of almost a hundred of Dayton's leading citizens, men of unquestionable judgment and reliabil ity who have been engaged in relief! and rescue work In every section of the city ever since the rising waters Invaded the business section. At Uushville half a million dollars j of damage was done in the business j and residence' districts. At Kokomo i the property loss was estimated at a million dollars and five hundred per sons are living In the second stories of t heli homeß. Similar conditions were reported from Anderson. Marlon. Tipton, Noblesville and Peru. i Conditions at Indianapolis, Fort; j Wayne, Kokomo and other places In central Indiana were the worst in many" years From every part of the state there were reported disastrous inundations. At Peru property damage of "half a million dollars was done by the flood. It was reported. Logansport also was under water, Governor Ralston re ceived a frantic appeal from Connere vllle, lnd.. for aid for many sufferers from the flood. It was said White /ilver had broken over Its banks and great loss of life had ensued. Sweeping up the Ohio valley from the west the third storm in ten daya devastated different sections ■ between Louisville and Cinclnanti. In Ken tucky, southwestern Ohio and Indiana. h|H[^ — - " 1 " ■i I MIENS PAY THE : DEATH PENALTY ELECTROCUTION OF BANDITS FOLLOWS WHEN DRAMATIC FIGHT TO SAVE THEM. SON AND FATHER EXECUTED | Floyd Allen, Leader of Outlaw Band Unnerved as He Goes to Death for His Part in Tragedy. j Richmond, Va.—Floyd Allen and j ' ills son, Claude, the only two of the [ 11i 11kvllle gunmen to pay the death ! j penalty for the Carroll court house ) | murders a year ago. were electrocuted j i in the state penitentiary, after a dra- i | matlc eleventh-hour attempt to save j . them had been thwarted by Gov. j [ Mann unexpectedly returning to the u-apltal, thus jireventing th,. lU>utenant j from acting upon a request j for a commutation. Floyd Allen, leader of the outlaw j band, an aged prisoner, was terribly j unnerved by the excitement. Incident | to the delay of six hours In carrying lout the sentence. / I The prison guards next brought Claude Swauson Allen, son of Floyd, j into the death chamber. Governor Maun cut through the | maze of constitutional questions con-J cerulng the lieutenant governor's fight to interfere in the case of the [Aliens by returning to yij*glnia soil. ! Prom Washington he telegraphed ! here that he would be in Virginia soon, wheni Lieut. Gov. Kllyson was expected to announce whether or not he would commute the sentence of Claude Allen, as urged by Allen sym j • athizers. With Governor Maun again In his j own state, the proceedings before j j Lieut Gov. Kllyson automatically end I j ed. and friends of the condemned men j who worked all through the night ' and who admitted that the last j chance had been lost. They did not I expect clemency from Governor Mann, although It was suggested that he ! he urged to grant a respite. Governor Mann arrived In the city J ! from Washington at 11:30 o'clock, j There was a larg,. crowd around the | station, composed largely of friends j of the Aliens, although there was no i demonstration. Ten policemen and as | many detectives escorted th«> govern- | or to his automobile in which he was I hastily driven to the capltol. He de- ' | dined to see any one, although he | notified the prison superintendent that j he would lie In his office throughout ! the day. Floyd Allen almost collapsed In his ! •leathNcell when Informed that the ex j edition had been delayed. Claude A! ! len. whose nerve never failed hereto- j ; Tore broken down completely. 25,000 Workmen Idle. | Ytmngstown. bhlo.—Fully 25,0001 i workmen employed in various Indus ! j tries of the city are temporarily j ! thrown out of employment as a re j ■ suit of the flood here. Ijoss to th«= ' big' Industries being compelled to shut i down will be very heavy. At East Youngstown the Mahoning river it nearly half a mile wide, and the Penn sylvanla lines through the city and tor a number of miles east are en tircly submerged. Every bridge in the city Is guarded by policemen. Reservoir Breaks. Akron, Ohio. —The big state reser voir south of Akron has broken. Men ou horseback spread the warning Residents of the nearby sections art fleeing for their lives. • Springfield, Ohio. —This city la hi the midst of the worst flood in IU history. The lowlands are under wa > ter. Several hundred houses in the > eastern section of the city have been flooded. Many factories hare baer . compelled to close. PIERPON! MORGAN HAS PASSED AWAY END CAME TO FINANCIAL. KING IN ROME HOTEL.—UNCON SCIOUS AT THE LAST. END WAS NOT UNEXPECTED The Physicians Say That The First Breakdown Came From His Experi ence at Witness Before The Pujo Investigating Committee. Rome. —J. IMerpont Morgan, the American financier, died at tive min utes past twelve o'clock (6.05 a. m. New Yorlt time) Monday. When death of Mr. Morgan was ' seen to be approaching rapidly, Pro : feasor Bastlanelll and Dr. Dixon forc- I ed Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee. i his son-in-iarw and daughter, and Miss 1 Helen Hamiltop, who had been in con ; gtant attendance, to leave the room. Mr. Morgan toward the end showed that he was suffering internally only j by a movement of his right hand. Oth erwise he displayed no signs of vital ity except by heavy breathing. Frequent bulletins were issued dur ing the morning showing that his con- J PIERPONT MORGAN | dition was gradually becoming worse and by 11 p'clock the physicians had ! given up ail hope. Mr. Morgan was unable to asalmil- T ate the artificial nourishment admin istered during the morning and his | physical weakness was extreme. | Heart tonics were Injected but thest i had no effect and for several hours j before his death he was in a state ot ! coma, unable to respond to any que* | tlons or to recognize any of those at ! his bedside. One of his relatives, Mrs. Fitzsim | mon, wife of Rev. Mr. Fltzsimmon j arrived from Cannes and was shown | into the death chamber but her pres | mace remained unknown to the dy- I ing man. Besides the four trained nurses In j attendance, Miss Helen Hamilton wu j of great assistance to the three phy j siclans. Professor (iiuseppe Bastian •lli. Dr. M. Allen Starr and Dr. Geo . A. Dixon. They Muat Not Resign. Washington.—Secretary Daniels o) I the Navy Department announced thai , he had taken a decided stand against | accepting the resignation of midship | men and other naval officers before i they fulfill their contract with th« j Government. The Government regard t itself as having a binding contract with the officers to serve eight years ! including the four years at Annapolis Secretary Daniels said that since 4he j Government was at considerable#ex pe.nse to educate and train thefce of fleers, he believed It should receive a permanent benefit for the expense in Volved. Will Raw Sugar Go On Free List? Washington—President Wilson wil' ; decide if raw sugar snail go on the free llts or carry a small duty in th« now tariff bills. t Congressional lead ers are willing to defer to his attitude j Chairman Underwood of the way* and means committee Is waiting tc hear from the president. Worst Flood on Record Now Feared Cairo, Hl.—The Cairo executive flood committee sent an appeal tc . President Wilson asking for aid foi Cairo and towns nearby. The message | was as follows: "The worst boot | ever known in the Ohio Valley an» ■ Mississippi Valley Is now expected | All previous high water records at ! Cairo south may be broken. We ar i making every effort 1n our power t l take care of local situation, but the • river communities near us should j have assistance. Boats, sacks, footi I and other supplies are needed. Montenegro to Reply in Negative. Centlje.—Montenegro will reply ir the negative to the representation o' the powers, made collectively, thai ftn envoy of the powers convey a cipher message to Erzada Pasha. th« Turkish commander, continuing th Porte's orders to permit the civlliai: popualtion to depart. This informa tion which came from an autborta tive source gives as a reason thai King Nicholas on three occasions of fered to allow the consuls to leave th city but each time the commander o the towh rejected* the suggestions. N ' .Ci. ir-. •
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