THE ENTERPRISE
Published Weekly.
WILUAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA
The father of tha trolley car la dead.
He left a large family.
Let us hope the sign painters will
aot adopt the cubist art.
Currency reform can never make
naoney any more popular.
Philadelphia la trying to get up a
corner In baseball championships.
V —-
Headline aaya: "Aged 83 and Wanta
ft Wife; Owna a Buggy." Alao—la.
v- Sometimes a mere look at one'B
purse will reduce the vacation fever.
-
Poaalbly men are going to raise
whiskers Just to make the women Jeal
oua.
"Without warning," writes a re
porter, "the boom began to creak and
groan."
There will be a terrible run for
serums when they begin to cure
wrinkles.
What will happen when a goat eata
one of those ultramodern explosive
golf balls?
A fortune of a million or so awaits
a man named Brown. He ought to
be easy to And.
By a beneficent law of nature and
trade the watermelon is cheapest |
when it Is best.
In these days when a box Is more oi
less Indefinite, why not Bell strawber
ries by the pound?
No doubt the generous baseball fans
arri willing to give their share of thf
rains to the farmers.
Philadelphia has a school for milk
men, but has to send Its mayor else
where for an education.
The Sunday automobile fatality 1» j
now as regular In Its occurrence as
the Sunday drowning.
Baseball Is a popular sport in the
canal zone, but Culebra cut continues
to do most of the sliding.
Men like to talk about their achieve
ments, while women are content to
talk about their neighbors.
A Danish Inventor has contrived war
machines to be covered by crops. This
will make plowing exciting.
The most fitting punishment for a
bigamist would be a sentence to live
with both his wives at once.
Women are said to be wearing
socks, but doubtless w hat they 0 blush-
Ingly ask ask for Is half hose.
The world must be getting better.
,v The proprietor of a Chicago cafe ad
vertises the fact that he has no cab
aret.
A Denver man with a broken neck
is attending to his business —which U |
not the watching of balloon ascen- j
•ions.
The alarm clock trade ought tc |
. prosper If the police succeed In put j
ting a silencer on tho early morning J
Iceman.
Save your old umbrellas. Some ge- j
nlus has discovered that It Is possl- j
ble to rob a bank with a fractured
umbrella rib.
Now Is the oppartunlty for the scl i
entlst who can develop a mosqultc j
that is ns fastidious about biting as i j
brook trout.
In defending a suit for separate :
maintenance a man testified that hit j
wife always won at poker The dou |
ble significance of this is striking.
As to those counterfeit S2O bills li !
circulation, you never have tho slight j
est trouble in remembering where yoi i
got your 20s, do you?
~' I
It Is to be hoped that, the swatting j
of the fly having been raised to th« j
dignity of a campaign, the usual lan
guage will not be used
s .
New York church has hired a doctot j
and dentist to look after the health
and teeth of worshipers. How aboul
a tailor for the backsliders? ' , |
Another of those useless noises li 1
the language indulged In by the av
erage baseball fan when the umpire
makes a decision that doesn't please
htm.
p. -
A Maryland farmer caught a black
anake In the act of swallowing a cast
Iron rabbit. That explains the dlsa*>
pearance of the caat iron dogs and
deer.
Knickerbockers, such aa the Yal«
hoya have adopted, will' be a great re
lief If they provide escape from the
thralldom of keeping them pressed.
A Greek island, submerged before
the Christian era. has recently com*
to the surface. Perhaps this will
•aggeet diving real estate operations
Acting in an erratic manner Is not
necessarily an Indication that a mag
la in IOTC. He nay merely have bees
prevented from going to the be*
'-SUA && JUilSLffjU • . -k
MANY PERSONS WE
INJUREDJ BK
50 PERSONS ARE HURT IN A RAIL
ROAD WRECK IN NEW
YORK.
FAST TRAIN JUMPS TRACK
ftomt in Serious Condition—Excursion
Trains Roll Down an
Embankment.
Rochester, N. Y.—Fifty persons
were injured, some of them seriously,
when a Pennsylvania railroad excur
sion train was derailed near Sterling
station.
The train was filled with excursion
ists bound for 01ean„ Hock City and
Bradford, Pa.
While the train was running at
about 40 miles an hour, three of the
five coaches left the track, rolling
down an embankment. As it rounded
a curve, the smoking car left the
track, followed by all but two rear
coaches. The locomotive also remain
ed on the track, breaking away from
the train after dragging the coaches
about 200 feet.
Physicians and nurses were rushed
to the scene from Rochester, and oth
er nearby towns, and the most seri
ously Injured were hurried to hospi
tals.
Practically all the injured were res
idents of Rochester.
It was said that District Attorney
E. Cook was refused permis
sion to examine the wreck when he
arrived at the Bcene. Railroad offi
cials had thrown a cordon of employ
ees about it, and Mr. Cook could not
get within 20 feet of ithe nearest car.
After the district attorney had re
turned home a message brought him
word that the railroad men were go
ing to burn the ties for a hundred
yards on both sides of the wreck. Mr.
Cook, accompanied by Sheriff Acond,
rushed..to the spot In an automobile.
They found that the ties had been
thrown together in an adjoining field,
but a railroad man said this was done
to get them out of the way. Sheriff
Acond demanded that the officials re
frain from burning any ties or cars.
2 MEET DEATH IN NIAGARA
Donald Roscoe and Hubert Moore Are
Caught in the Whirlpool Rapid*.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. —Donald Ros
coe, 10 years old. and Hubert Moore,
9 years old, both of Niagara Kails,
weut to their death in a small boat
in the whirlpool rapids, while hun
dreds of men watched, helpless, from
the shore.
The boys were playing In a flat
bottom scow half a mile above the
rapids when the rope holding the
boat broke and they were carried
out into the stream and down the
river.
Until the boat reached midstream
it made little progress. After it pass
ed the bridges the current carried it
swiftly toward the Rapids. The bridge
men did not see the boat until it was
close at hand. Then they called Are
headquarters and two companies of
firemen were sent to save the lads if
possible.
Hundreds swarmed to the river
banks in a vain effort at rescue. The
boys, realizing their fate, stood up as
the boat neured the edge of the roar-,
lng whirlpool and shook hands in
farewell. A second later they were
engulfed l3y a great wave In the rap-
Ids. The boat shot out of sight. One
of the boys was seen for a moment
stniggling in the rushing waters. Nei
'.her body was recovered.
Auto Bandit Woman Arrested
Chicago.—Mrs. Irene Urunner, 25
years old, was arrested as the latest
auto bandit, charged with holding up
a woman's furnishing store. Accord
ing to Miss Elizabeth Foley, owner of
the store, the woman bought a hand
kerchief and while she was being wait
ed on, drew a revolver from a handbag,
held up the owner and two women
clerks and made awav with JJOO. Mrs.
Brunner Is the wife of Joseph J. Brun
ner, owner of an automobile garage.
Spaniards Enraged by War in Morocco
Cerbere, front"
Barcelona say the renewal of fighting
in Morocco, which resulted In violent
rioting at Barcelona in 1909 is again
arousing the Socialistic and Anarchis
tic elements; the situation is begin
ning to be disquieting. A stormy anti
war meeting at Barcelona was follow
ed by a collision between police and
the agitators. Firearms were used oil
both sides, and persons were
shot. Again there were several vio
lent clashes, the police on two occa
sions firing at the mob. j
Blue and Gray at Gettysburg,
Gettysburg, PJa. —The hills of Get
tysburg, where the armies of Meade
and Lee pitched their tents fifty years
ago, are flecked with canvas, harbin
gers of the tented city which will
arise on the battlefield. The army of
Civil war veterans from the North
and the South—4o,ooo in number—are
coming, some few in thread-worn uni
forms and all without their muskets,
hold a Jubilee reunion on the fif
tieth anniversary of the battle. Some
of the scouts are here; the advance
Tuard will bivouac on the field, «
DOWWEY g
W^E
Judge Ueorge E. Downey of Aurora,
Ind., who waa recently sworn In aa
comptroller of the treasury, la the
final authority on all government
pandlturaa. He auccMda R. J. Trace
well.
SSOO EXEMPTION FOR CHILD
INCOME TAX CHANGES ARE PRO
POSED 80 THEY WILL FA
VOR 810 FAMILIES.
Four Thousand Exemption May Alao
Be Lowered to Three Thou
aand Do Kara.
Washington.—An addition exemp
tion of SSOO for each child of a fam
ily In the Income tax section of the
turlff revision bill was determined up
on by the senate finance subcommit
tee, of which Senator Williams Is
chairman, and the change will be rec
ommended to the maJorlty-Cinembers
of the committee. Having determin
ed upon this important amendment,
the subcommittee also is seriously
considering recommending changing
the 4,000 exemption in the Underwood
bill to 13,000.
This, iit is argued, would greatly
Increase the revenue, and with the
additional exemption proposed for
children would not Impose hardship
upon the heads of families. •
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
finance committee, said that the Dem
ocratlc caucus of the senate would be
called, whether the finance commit
tee majority had concluded with the
schedules or not, and that the cau
cus would go over schedules already
approved while the committee was
finishing Its work.
Senator OUle James of Kentucky,
who made the sugar tariff speech In
the senate defending the stand of
President Wilson, has taken a vigor
ous position In the finance committee
against the Imposition of a counter
vailing duty on meat and cattls
WOMEN SENTENCED TO MIL
Most Promlnsnt Militant Suffragettes
in England Given Long Terms.
London. —Six of the most prominent
leaders of the militant suffragettes or
ganisation and one of their male sup
porters were found guilty of conspir
acy to commit malicious damage to
property.
The women officials of the Women's
Social and Political Union are Miss
Harriet Kerr, Miss Agnes Lake, Miss
Rachel Barrett! Mrs. Beatrice Saund
ers, Miss Annie Kenney and Miss Lau
ra Lennox. The man is Edward Y.
Clayton, an analytical chemist.
An impassioned speech in defense
of the outrages committed by militant
suffragettes wns delivered in court by
Miss Anple Kenney.
An Impassioned speech In defense
of the outrages committed by militant
suffragettes was delivered In court by
Miss Annie Kenney.
Her address served to enliven the
proceedings and her concluding words
created a great impression.
"If I have to die to get the vote,"
she said, "I will die willingly, what
ever the verdict of the Jury."
Stronghold of Moros Stormed,
Washington—More details o( the
fierce fighting which resulted in the
complete overthrow of the Moros on
the Island ctf Joly in the Philippines,
was contluired in a delayed dispatch
from Brigadier General Pershing of
the American troopa. General Per
shing says, probably will end outlaw
ry in Jolo for some time. The last
crater stronghold was captured after
hard fighting, the attack being made
by two companies of the Philippine
scouts commanded by Capt. George C.
Charlton.,
Mlsbranded Meats Liable to Seisure
Washington—Probably the most
radical and far-reaching extension of
the food and drugs act since Its en
actment was made when Secretaries
Houston, McAdoo and Bedfleld, charg
ed with enforcing this statute, ruled
that meat anil meat products in inter
state or foreign commerce which hith
erto have been exempted from the
provisions of the pure food law, may
be seised if mlsbranded or adulterat
ed. Beginning at once manufacturers
of meat foods will be required to etna
ply with the food and drugs act
WILSON ISBACKED
OH GIffIRENCY BILL
MAJORITY OF MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE BANKING COMMITTEE
AGREE TO PROGRAM.
THE PRESIDENT IS PLEASED
At Conference at the White' House
Congreeemen Expreee Thalr View*
Upon Meaaura.
Washington.—President Wilson se
cured from a majority of the Demo
cratic members of the house banking
and currency committee expressions
of harmony and acquiescence in the
administration program of enacting a
currency bill during the present ses
sion of congress.
At a two-hour conference held
around the cabinet table in the white
house offices, the congressmen were
asked their views on the administra
tion currency bill. Some of them had
not yet thoroughly examined the meas
ure, but those who expressed opinions
were favorably inclined toward It.
When the fourteen committeemen filed
out of the office and a group of cor
respondents met them, Representative
Glass smiling referred the correspond
ents to the president. Just then Mr.
Wilson himself walked to the door of
the office and talked with the news
papermen.
The president explained that the
meeting was chiefly a get-together af
fair, that naturally some of the de
tails in the bill had brought out con
siderable discussion, but that so far
as lie had observed there was a friend
ly feeling toward the fundamentals of
the administration measure. Mr. Wil
son said, moreover, that the members
of the committee seemed all to desire
action at the present session, but that
they had asked liim not to hurry con
sideration of the bill, BO that it might
be deliberated upon carefully. The
president remarked that he had had no
intention of seeking hasty action and
hoped that by common counsel and
conferences a measure satisfactory to
the party could be obtained.
There was no detailed examination
of the bill section by section at the
conference. It was to urge upon them
the necessity of standing by the ad
ministration measure, subject to any
amendments, that the conference was
railed. There will be other confer
ences at the white house
AVIATOR LOSES LIFE IN BAY
Lieut. J. A. Towera Telia of How He
Clung to Plane and W« Saved.
« Washington —The tragic story of
how Knsign William D. Billingsley was
hurled from a disabled biplane, 1,600
feet in the air, and fell, straight as
a plummeht, to his death in the depths
of Chesapeake bay, was related by
Lieut. John A. Towers of Rome, Ga.,
chief of the navy aviators, who clung
to the hurling wreck that followed his
comrade's course from sky to water
and escaped death, almost miraculous
ly. Knsign Billingsley, in a biplane
that had been converted into a hydro
aeroplane by the addition of pontoons,
with Lieutenant Towers as a passen
ger, left the aviatiou grounds at the
naval academy here to fly to Claiborne,
some eigtheen miles across the bay.
About ten miles down the bay a
gust of wind struck them. Ensign Bil
lingsley was thrown forward across
the steering gear, which was disabled.
The front planes of the craft fell, and
it dropped like a dead bird toward
the water. As It fell thf pilot was cat
apulted out, and turning over and over
his body outspeeded the disabled ma
chine toward the water. Deep in the
bay, the body sank.
When the aeroplane started on its
dive for the bay. Lieutenant Towers
clung desperately to one of the up
rights between the planes. Although
at times his body swung clear of the
rapidly falling airship, he maintained
his hold with his hand and arm al
most wrenched apart.
Australian Cabinet Resigns.
Melbourn, Australia.—The Austra
lian federal premier, Rt. Hon. Andrew
Fisher, and the cabinet have resigned
as a result of the recent elections, in
which the Liberals obtained a majori
ty of one over the Labor party In
the house.
Walking Street, Man la Burned.
Athens, Ga— Allen Fleming is suf
fering from a most unusual accident
which happened to him. Passing a cor
ner of a vacant lot, there was a sud
den, blinding flash and explosion on
the ground at his side and within a
few feet from him. Ke threw out
a hand and saved his face and eyes,
but the arm was burned to a blister
frbm the hand nearly to the shoulder.
It was learned that two hours before,
school boys had plfcced a large charge
of powder in a paper sack and had set
fire to the paper.
Hootman fa Winner of Shoot
Dayton, Ohio. —The grand American
handicap gun tournament was won
by M. S. Hootman of Hicksvllle, Ohio.
Hootman scored 97 out of 100. He
was tied with O. A. Graper of Custer
Park, Hi., and J. A. Blunt of Greens
boro, Ala, but won in the shoot-off,
making a perfect score of 20 targets.
When the shoters finished their first
80 targets, Graper was leednlg -with 78
out of a possible 80, while Hootman
and Blunt had tallied 77 each. By
perfect scores the twe last brought
their couat to t7 oat of It*.
•..'"Jtrx , i ; ;t ft Stiitib.
REAR ADMIRAL GRIFFIN
ffl £ > /'- - ' K' * '.'
Rear Admiral R. 8. Griffin la the
flaw chief of the bureau of eteam en
gineering In the navy department, auo
ceeding Admiral Cone.
FIERCE FIGHT IN PHILIPPINES
FOURTEEN AMERICANS ARE
KILLED IN PHILIPPINE
BATTLE.
In the Llat of Dead Are Captain Tay
lor Nichols, Eleven Bcouta and
Two Regulara.
Washington.—Fourteen American
soldiers were killed In the recent four
days' flghtlug on Jolo Island, the Phil
ippines, when General Pershing's com
mand finally subdued and disarmed the
rebellious Moros, according to a report
to the war department.
On the list of dead were Capt.
Taylor A. Nichols of the Philippine
scouts, eleven scouts and two pri
vates of the regular army.
Captain Nichols was 34 years old
and son of John Nichols of Durham,
Cal. The two regulars, both of whom
were killed in the first day's action,
were Oliver Vllllard, company M.
Eighth Infantry, whose sister lives in
Rhode Island, and Luther Gerhart, of
the same company, '
LABEL NO SIGN OF PURITY
Successor to Doctor Wiley Explains
Deficits of Food and Drugs Act.
Mobile, Ala.—The words "guaran
teed under the food and drugs act,"
on a label are no asiurance that con
tents of a package are pure, according
to Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chief of the
bureau of chemistry, who spoke here
before the Association of American
Food Dairy and Drug Officials. Doc
tor Alsberg was speaking of the limi
tations of the federal bureau under the
federal pure food law, appealing for
closer co-operation between federal
and state authorities, and for uniform
ity of laws of states based on the
national laws.
The food and drugs act,' Doctor Ala
berg asserted, "not only does not give
the department of agriculture power to
act In many vitally important matters,
but actually prohibits its intervention
in many things that call aloud for Im
mediate remedy. The people at large
do not understand the limitations un
der which we act."
Doctor'Alsberg explained that the
word "guaranteed" on a can of soup
or on a bottle of nerve tonic did not
mean that the bureau of chemistry had
seen and analyzed it, but that the
manufacturers put it on simply with
the idea of protecting thfe jobber or
retailer. All that the guarantee leg
end does, he continued, is to make It
possible to prosecute the manufactur
er if the goods were found to be In
violation of the foods and drugs act
Taft Will Preside at Reunion.
Gettysburg, Pa. —It was semi-official
ly announced that former President
Taft would preside over the great
gathering of Confederate and Union
veterans at the Gettysburg celebration.
He is expected to deliver the principal
oration July 4,
Hunting a Rat, Cash Found.
London. —An unexpected sequel to
the recent burglary in the Berkeley
hotel in Picadilly Is the arrest of the
night porter, Arthur James, charged
with being concerned in stealing from
the hotel safe $35,000 and attempting
to murder Gowers, the other night
porter. Movements of a big rat in the
hotel dining room led to James' ar
rest Employees of the hotel In hunt
ing down the rat found its hole un
der the radiator and through it saW
a gleam of gold. There was found more
than half of the booty.
British Ministers Defend Honesty.
London. —For the first time in many
years British cabinet ministers were
compelled to defend their personal
honesty before parliament The attor
ney general. Sir Rufas Isaacs, and the
chancellor of the 'exchequer, David
Lloyd-George, excused their dealings
In American Marooal shares oa the
floor of the house sad the sceoe fat
the Mavcoal affair, which their ene
mies had attempted to magnify into
a scandal rivaling the Paaaata deba
cle, was tease aad dramatic.
SUGAR FIGHTERS
MAKE LAST STAND
FINAL EFFORTS TO CHANGE
SCHEDULE NOW BEING MADE
r IN CAUCUS.
/, .
EFFORTS OF THE SENATORS
Walah «f Montana, Who la Fighting)
Frao Wool Priviaion, Llnoo Up With
Tho Sugar Man.—Ruah Motal and
Wood Schedule.
Washington. Democrats oppose*,
to free sugar, enlivened the senatorial
caucus, beginning their final effort to
change the schedule before the tariff
Mil reaches the Senate (or general
debate. Western and Louisiana Sen
ators were primed to make a titanic
fight against the provision, approved
and urged by President Wilson, which
provides that sugar shall be free of
duty In 1916. Senator Shafroth of
Colorado and Walah of Montana, took
up the contest the schedule was
reached suddenly, late In the after
noon. The metal and wood schedules
were rushed through without much
discussion and the decks were cleared
for the first and most determined
party tariff schedules.. This will be
the acid test for free sugar.. To the
decision of the caucus the Democratic
Senators will be pledged and the pros
pect is that only Senators Thornton
and Ransdell of Louisiana will be re
leased from the binding resolution to
be adopted. There is a possibility of
one other Senator asking for relief.
Senator Ransdell, who is leading the
fight on free sugar, hurried from the
caucus room when it was apparent
.the sugar schedule would be reached
and sent a message for Senator New
lands >f Navada. He wanted all the
Democrats who do not favor the Ad
ministration plan present. Senator
Newlands soon arrivea and immed
iately thereafter the first paragraph
of the schedule was read. Senator
Shafroth of Colorado was the first
speaker. Coming from a beet sugar
State, he made a vigorous plea for eli
mination of the provision for free su-'
grfr In three years. He submitted
many briefs and statistics to support
the claim of the beet sugar manufac
turers that free sugar would mean
the crippling if not the death,of the
Industry.
To Teach the Seminoles.
Miami, Fla. —Despite the fact that
the Seminole Indians have never sur
rendered to the United States Gov
ernment and have never acknowledged
It and always have been considered
the same as a warning tribe and un
civilized, the Government began plans
hero to treat them as wards of the
United States when Dean Spencer,
Commissioner of the Government to
the Florida Indians started for the
camps of the tribes to arrange to as
sist them with their Ashing and alli
gator hunting in the Everglades and
the rivers. Dean Spencer says that
the Seminoleß will be assisted and an
attempt made to teach them sanita
tion, to send the young to school and
to teach agriculture to the elders.
Considers River Commission
Washington. Gilford Pinchot's
plan for a national rivers commission
was Introduced in congress by Rep
resentative Temple, ot Pennsylvania,
as a progressive party measure. Sena
tors and representatives, governors,
of waterways improvement and
conservation organizations and vari
ous government officials would com
pose it, all serving without any pay
To Investigate Beef Situation.
Washington.—Acting upon repre
sentations made by Representative
Kinkhead, of New Jersey, the depart
ment of agriculture Is considering
the dispatch of a department expert
to the Argentine republic to investi
gate the beef situatloa there. If the
inquiry Is made, special attention will
be given to the methods of slaughter
of the animals as nsed by the Argen~
tine packers.
Caucus At Work on ths Tariff.
Washington. Hopeful that thlr
would be the last week of prelimin
ary consideration of the tariff bill,
the senate democratic caucus resum
ed work. Changes in the metal
schedule partly approved, came up
flrfct but the caucus was forced to
close at noon so that senators ossein
hie In the house to hear President
Wilson deliver his address on cur- ,4
rency reform. Senator Simmons,
chairman of the finance committee, .
said that the revision of the income
tax will be submitted later.
Ask Papers In Postponed Case*.
Washington. Resolutions calling
upon Attorney General Mcßeynolds
for all papers In the postponement of'
the Diggs-Caminettl white srave case
and the Western Fuel Company cases,
in the federal courts of California
were Introduced by Representative A
Khan. The resolutions separate, the
first calling for all the papers in the
white alave case and the ether for
the fuel press cations. President Wil
son has called on Attorney General
Mcßeynolds for a statement of the*