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THE ENTERPRISE Published Weekly. WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA Man who rocks the boat will be on Arty. Turkey has nowhere In particular to hot out Spend your vacation and your money well Any hydroaeroplane that turns som •raaulta la too versatile. Something should be done to con serve the parachute Jumpers. The open season for sitting down on lemon pies at picnics is on. A woman suffers more from a freckle than a man suffers from a Bed. Too many people wait for something to come around instead of chasing it ■round. With the weather, as with nearly •verything else, moderation is a car dinal virtue Even the barbers complain of the high cost of living, although they live on shavings. It Is hoped that none of the passen gers on an aeroyacht will be tempted to rock the boat. The Black Hand has demanded |l,- 600 from a minister. Some people think It's the heat. What with recent styles In women's aklrts, men are all getting like the London 'bus conductor. Death notice of Chinese doctor who claims he has discovered the elixir of life will be the next thing. The currency bill to bo up-to-date ahould define money as a medium for the transmission of pleasure. All the baseball teams are now play ing In mldseason form and In some cases It Is nothing to brag of. Of course you know why a famous race horse is named Whlskbroom? It's because he raises the dust. That New York broker gave his heart with his hand to the pretty man icure and she nailed him for life. Women are going to wear diamonds on their hose. If they keep on, men will look when they cross the street. The man who bet that the girl with the new Balkan style bathing suit would not go Into the water at all lost. To start a happy holiday, get vac cinated for typhoid. To end it. get anointed for sunburn and mosquito bltea. Almost any one can afford to buy a hat for his horse for the summer months. Worth labels are not neces sary When there is nothing else to talk about scientists can discuss the ap pearance or disappearance of spots on the sun. A Philadelphia paper complains about the noise In a certain section of Philadelphia. Now. what do you think of that? Among the other needless noises should be classed that made by the husband when friend wife suggests a Joint outing. A flve-year-old boy has matriculated at New York university. At six, if all goes well, he will bo entitled to carry a cane. What hak become of the old fashion ed man who used to say: "Keep on your shirt!" when a mixed assembly became excited? A neurologist says love is a form of lunacy That is the sort of stand usually taken by people who are dead and don't know It. A youth In New York tumbled back ward Into the North river rather than miss a fly ball. Seems to have a habit of getting what he goes ct:er. Dr. Wood Hutchinson says there Is nothing the matter with the Amer ican stomach, it is evident that the doctor never attended a clam bake. If a proposed tax of S2OQ a pound la placed on opium, plumbers will be about the only persons who can hit the pipe with any degree of satisfac tion. Fall styles In women's suits are said to Include hip pockets. It's a good bet the pickpockets won't find them any handler than hand bags. The "luncheon lurch" is said to be a new dance In Washington. Wonder If tt Is anything like the "kitchen sink?" The New Jersey men who killed the cats and then discovered It was bull frogs that were killing the chickens farnlsh another argument against capi tal punishment. A scientist claims to have grown a crowless rooster. That leaves the poor bird with nothing but his strut, provided he still feels like strutting sßfceo he can't crow. ,V . ' " • : v FROM THE !AR HEEL STATE Ihort Paragraphs of llat« Nawa That Has Been Condensed For Busy People of Stats. StatasrUle.—The residence of Re*. J. H. Fesperman, a retired Lutheran minister, was wrecked by Are. The flames undoubtedly originated from a defective kitchen flae. Greensboro.—The arrest of Ben Ha* sel, a negro, who bas been wanted for four years in Guilford county, bas bean made at Coaesville, Pa. A mes ssge to the sheriff here from the chief of police of Yonkers gave the Information. Henderson.—While on his way to Henderson, Deputy Sheriff Royster overtook Lewis Allen coming from Clarksvllle with a buggy-load of Whlsksy. On reaching Wllliamsboro the officer deputised Alex Bullock to assist him In arresting Allen, Durahm. Durham tobacco ware house managers were huvlng to hold off some of the farmer* of the county who want to put their first offerings on the market. The season hai not opened and the local market men are not disposed to begin aelllng yet. Salisbury..—-The annual convention of the North Carolina Lutheran Synod convened at Ladis for a three day's session. Dr. M M. Klnard, of Sails bury, is president of the conference and is present. A number of leading ministers from this and other states are taking part on the program. Mount Gllead. Will Morton, a young white man who lives about two miles north of town, was found lying In the public road near his home in an unconscious condition, either the result of foul play or being run down by an automobile. Lenoir, —The fourth session of the Women's Home and Foreign Mission ary Societies of the Reformed church of North Carolina was called to order lectntly In the Zion Reformed church by the president, Mrs. C.~C. IJost, whr> was re-elected for the ninth consecu tive terin at this meeting. Durham. —A committee of the board of aldermen is now classifying the laws and ordinances of the city pre paratory to having them republished In book form. The laws have not been published for the past ten years, and the result Is that there are many old laws on the books tnat should be eliminated and many new ones that are not in the printed form. Maxton. — Crops in this section era looking well. Corn Is especially tfcod In most places, and more acres have been planted to this crop this season than ever before in this section. Cot ton is having too much rain. In meat It is making a very goad show, but li not making form Cantaloupe % ar« still moving and bringing fair prices. Wilmington.—Postmaster Green has made application to Poetofllce De partment for three additional car riers in the city. An inspector was sent here to make an Investigation and it Is believed that he will make a favorable report. It Is planned to extend the carrier service to Carolina Place, a suburb. Aslit'.vllle. —According to local grapo growers, this season's cro> w.l! ho one of the host In the history of western Nurth Carolina it is sa'.d that the climatic conditions for I'm last several mouth* hav-j been ccn ducive to grape graw.ng am! the own ers of the various vine./:n'l.i lit the weitli'rn dountles of thij stais ura plenum? to pick thi biggest crops lu years. Charlotte.—The hauling of sand on the Stnlesviile road with wagons of narrow tires has had the effect of cutting that Ann thoroughfare in fear ful fashion, say well kliown road ex perts. Mr. David F. Hutchison stated that it would have been cheaper for the township and city authorities to have paid the owners of the wagons hauling the sand a good price than to have the road injured in kucli fashion. Newton.--Sheriff Hewitt lias been appointed as chief marshal for old sol diers reunion to he held August the 14 uud had appointed as his assistants two men from each township in che county. Tills will be the biggeH day of the year for Catawba county. Var ious amusements are being planned for the entertainment of the large crowd that Is expected. The speaker of the occasion hasn't yet been de cided on. Durhain.--Dr. C. Spaulding Stlrrett, the newly elected meat and milk In spector for Durham, arrived here re cently. making the trip from Char lotto in an automohMe. He will take up his now duties at once. He report ed to the county health officer aud went over the local situation. Stanley.—A representative audience of about 5,000 people of Gaston coun ty and adjoining territory greeted Congressman Thomas Heflin of Ala bama when he delivered a splendid bratlon to the Confederate veterans, who were guests of honyr at a big picnic here. High Point. Arrangements are about completed for" beginning work on the new fifty thousand dollar church for the congregation of the Washington Street M_. JE. church-Bids will be opeued soon, and it is expected that work will begin within a month. Asheville •—Asheville is to have a fox ranch, John Drake and his asso ciates having decided to raise Sir Rey nards on Mr Drake's tract of land near the city. Work oft on the property will be sta/4ed within the very near future and the ranch will be slocked with a good breed of foxes HIGH wars TO GUARD ROUTES % STATE DEPARTMENT LEARNS EU ROPE WILL REVOLUTIONIZE * NAVAL POLICY. INVOLVES MONROE DOCTRINE Great Britain to Establish Great Naval Base In the Bermudas and Qer> many Seeks Naval Base. Washington.—Keen interest has been aroused in official clrcrles here by the report reaching the state de partment that Great Britain Is con templating a great naval base In the Bermuda islands. It is authoritative ly stated that the British government has made inquiry concerning the plans of the United States for protection of the Panama canal routes, and It has been suggested that this Indicates an intention to safeguard British ship ping thfough the Isthmus as is done in the Mediterranean. Officials realize that the prorblem raised Is a tremendous one, Involving as it may the very life of the Monroe doctrine and marking, perhaps, a com plete revolution In foreign naval pol icy in the western hemisphere, for It Is expected that if Great Britain changes tier naval policy in American Atlantic waters, other European na tions probably will follow suit, and while these changes may be expected In the Atlantic waters and the West Indies officials likewise realize that with the opening of the canal, the United States must contend with Ja pan for domination of the l'aclflc. The British royal navy abandoned its naval stations in this country about ten years ago, when the United States gave up the idea of the con struction of the Nlcaraguan canal, and set about digging the big water way across Panama, whose approach ing completion bids fair to revolution ise international relations. Apart from Its West Indian stations, the royal navy maintained stations at Esqulmault, British Columbia, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. There was once a plant to strength en greatly the fortifications at Esqui mault, overlooking the strait of Juan de Kuca, in order to make that an Important base, but both these sta tions now have a merely nominal ex istence undor the government of the Dominion of Canada, and are little more than recruiting stationsf or the royal navy. SERIOUS SITUATION IN CHINA British and French Marines Are Guarding Foreign Quarter, Hong Kong.—The situation in Can ton remains serious. The electric lights are cut off and the people are fearful of mutiny. Trains, Junks and other vessels leavlrig the city are packed with refugees. A siege of Canton is expected with the arrival there of General Chi-Kuang, com mander of thft government forces in the province of Kwang-Si, who is moving toward the city with his army. Soldiers are patrolling the streets of Canton as the police there are un reliable. Seventy traitorous soldiers were shot in that city. A reward of $60,000 has been offered for the head of Governor Chan of Canton. Men with guns from British and French warships are guarding the for eign quarter of Canton, where valua bles worth millions of dollars are stored. The International fleet lying off the city has been augmented by the arrival of American, German, Jap= anese and French men-of-war. Sol diers have been sent from Hong KOng to Canton and three naval vessels here are ready to start for that point at a moment's notice with stores and addi tional troops. Explosion Kills 18 Men Tower City, Pa.—Eighteen men were killed and two seriously injur ed In a double explosion in the East Brookside mine of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, near here, by a double explosion ot what is believed to have been dyna mite and gas. Thirteen men died In the first explosion and five met death In the second blast after a heroic at tempt to rescue the first victims. One of the rescuers escaped. Injured 29 Persons to Save Girl, Hammond. —Twenty-nine persona, all of Chicago, were Injured when Mar tin Roy, a chauffeur of the autobus In which they were riding, drove into a culvert to avoid running down four year-old Mary Banko. The bus turn ed over on the occupants, but with one exception none of the Injuries was aerlous. Martin Roy was cut about the eyes and at a hospital here it was said he may lose his sight. The party was returning from a night s outing at a Lake county summer re sort. Riot Followa Demolition of Mosque. Calcutta, India—The demolition of a portion of a mosque at Cawppore for street improvements which had caused indlgnaUon meetings to be held in many parts ot India and Bur ma, led to serious rioting at Cawnpore. A procession of natives carrying black nags visited the mosque and began replacing the bricks of the partly de molished edifice. An attempt to dis perse the gathering resulted In a con flict with the police, who fired a vol ley Into thee rowd killing 13 persons and wounding SO. PROMINENT IN MEXICAN EMBRO6UO \ \ BpwHF 1 """"" ~y If General Huerta la recognized ■■ president of Mexico by the United States, Senor Don Angel Algara, the young Mexican charge d'affaires in Washington, will be named as ambassador. Nelson O'Shaunessy, first sec retary of the American embassy in Mexico, is In charge of American inter ests there In the absence of Ambassador Wilson. Carlos de Pererya. an accomplished diplomat, is acting minister of foreign affairs in the Hu erta oabinet. HURRICANE STRKIES CAPITAL STORM LABHEB BACK AND FORTH ACROSS WASHINGTON, LEAV ING DEATH AND RUIN. Many Buildings Wracked and the Capitol and White House Damaged. Washington.—Like a giant flail, a cyclonic storm of wind, rain and hall whipped back and forth across the nation's capital, leaving death and ruin In its wake. Three dead, scores injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed was the toll recorded in the hurried canvass made when the city aroused itself from half an hour of helpless ness In the grasp of the elements. Out of a biasing sky, under which the city was sweltering with the tem perature at 100 degrees, came the Btorm, roaring from the north, driving a mass of clouds that cast a mantle of darkness over the city. The gale, reaching a velocity of al mott Seventy miles an hour, swept the streets clear, unroofed houses, tore detached small structures from their foundations, wrecked one office building, overturned wagons and car riages in the streets and swept Wash ington's hundred parks, tearing huge branches from trees and even uproot ingf sturdy old elms; landmarks of a century. Washington's well-kept streets, with their wealth of trees, were littered with broken foliage, roofs, debris and dead birds, as if a playful giant had carelessly swished his club up and down the city. As the wind wreaked havoc, the rain came, and in five minutes the temperature dropped from the hun dred mark to between 60 and 70. Then the rain turned to hall and hailstones battered on roofs and crashed through skylights and windows. For half an hour the city, covered, paralysed, under the beating of the storm, every activity suspended. Trol ley cars, street traffic and telephone service were halted, government de partments suspended operations. Heat Wave Sweeps Country. Chicago.—Mid-summer heat, bring ing to many cities temperatures as high as 106 and making the 100 de gree mark common oyer wide areas, extended throughout the central states. Generally described the heat wave extended from the Rocky moun. tains to the Atlantic coast, but tke maximum temperatures were reported from points between Kansas and Ohio. Th« weather bureau temperatures, usu ally several degrees lower than the street level temperatures from Cincin nati and Indianapolis were 102. Engineer Killed; 14« Passengers Hurt. Altoona, Pa. —One man was jellied and 146 passengers and trainmen were Injured, only one dangerously, when a fast express crashed Into the rear end of a passenger train on the Penn sylvania railroad at Tyrone, 16 miles •aat of the city. All of the Injured, ex cepting eleven, who were being cared for in the Altoona hospitals, were able to continue their journey. Both trains were of steel construction, and this is believed to explataKbe fact that there were not more casualties. SOUTHERN GROCERS EINED U. 8. JUDGE GRUBB HOLDS THE CONTEMPT CHARGES HAVE BEEN BUSTAINED. Decree of 1911 Prohibited Any Vio lations of the Anti-Trust Law. Birmingham, Ala. Federal Judge Grubb fined the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association $2,500 for con tempt of court in violating a decree issued in 1911, commanding the or ganization to abide by federal anti trust laws. President J. H. McLaurln of Jacksonville, Fla., was fined SI,OOO. H. Lacey Hunt of Wilmington, N. C., and L. A. Melchers of Charleston, S.'C., were fined SI,OOO each and the costs were assessed against the cor poration and the three individual de fendants- according to costs of' their respective witnesses. The decree of 1911 prohibited any violations oft the anti trust law. A suit was > this year against the Southern Wholesale Grorcers Associa* tion, its president and officers, and many members, but after the trial was on a few days all defendants were expurgated except those named In the decision by Judge Grubb. MARVIN FOR WEATHER CHIEF Chief of instrument Division la to Succeed Willis L. Moore. Washington.—Prot Charles F. Mar vin has been selected for chief of the weather bureau to succeed Willis L. Moore, recently removed. Professor Marvin is now chief of the instrument division. He was appointed to the old signal service In 1884 from Ohio. President Wilson sent hft* nomination to the Benate. Professor Marvin, the new chief of the bureau, was recommended for the place by the National Academy of Sciences. President Wilson was re quested by the executive committee of this body to delay the appointment of a successor to Willis L. Moore until it. had canvassed th£ field and recom mended a man. "Uncle Joe" Cannon Tumbles. Danville, 111.—Former Speaker Jo seph G. Cannon's automobile plunged down a steep bank and alighted right side up In a small lake in Spring Hill cemetery near here. "Uncle Joe" was riding with his daughter, Mrs. E. X. LeSeure. At'„ a sharp bend In the roadway along the lake bank his chauf four missed the brake with his foot and the car leaped off the ten foot bank. The water was shallow, and the passengers easily waded to the shore. Neither Mr. Cannon nor his daughter were hurt. Drops Bombs Around Warship. At the Front. Above Guaymas, Mex ico.—Dldler Massen, from his big bi plane, dropped bombs around the gun boat Tampico, lying In Guymas har bor. ' Four bombs were dropped, one striking within a few feet of the fed eral gunboat. This probably gave rise to the report that the boat had been struck. The French aviator .op erated under heavy fire aB he circled over the town and bay, but returned unharmed. The Southern Pacific of Mexico railway Is beings operated by the Insurgents as far as San Bias. - i CASTRO RETURNS TO LEAD REVOLT •TATE DEPARTMENT HOPED TO PREVENT HIS GOING BACK TO VENEZUELA. 6UNBOAT SENT TO SCENE Former President Is Reported at Cor®, at the Head of an Armed Fore*. Washington.—News of the appeal ance in Venezuela of ex-Prealdent Clp rlano Castro, after his fire years' ex ile, caused something of a sensation at the state department For the paat Are years the department has been keeping Castro under surveillance to prevent his returning to Venexuela. which country has been enjoying * period of unwonted prosperity and quiet since his retirement Department officials supposed the exile was living quietly In the Canary Islands until a cablegram came an nouncing his re-entrance Into the country of his birth at the head of an armed force, while various upris ings in his behalf were reported from 'different points in Venezuela. He waa said to be at Coro. From the legation at Caracas tIM state department was informed of up rising in the state of Tachlra, at Coro and Masuro. Telegraphic com munication between the capital and the disturbed points was interrupted, but the Venezuelan foreign office claimed the revolutionists had been defeated by state troops at all point*. The president had been granted dic tatorial powers, it was said, and men were being impressed for military ser vice. The United States government is represented in Venezuela at present only by a legation clerk, Richard J. Biggs. Minister Northcott resigned and left his post and Secretary Caf fery now is in Washington attached to the Latin-American bureau. " The state department called upon the navy department for a warship to look after American interests in Ven ezuelan waters and the gunboat Dea- Moines, now at Brunswick, Ga., waa ordered to make the cruise. It la calculated that the gunboat can make the run to Lagulra, the nearest point to Caracas, in about six days. TO DISTRIBUTE HUGE SUM $50,000,000 of Government Funds Are to Be Parceled Out. Washington. Secretary McAdoo prepared to distribute twenty-five to fifty millions of dollars of government funds in the agricultural regions of the South and West. The secretary la collecting information as to the rela tive needs of each section where har vesting is now under way or soon to begin, and expects to have the money In the banks in ample time (or the movement of crops. Treasury officiate were confident that the secretary's plan would be a powerful factor in averting or relieving the prospective tightness of money characteristic of the crorp moving season. Much interest was manifested in the secretary's declaration of wllllngneaa to receive prime commercial paper as security for the deposits. This inno vation marks the government's first participation in the commercial soar ket. Elephants in Panic. Winnipeg, Manitoba. —During a se vere electrical storm here a herd of eighty elephants with a circus show ing here, broke loose, wrecked hall of the circus tents and thousands of seats, damaged a number of small buildings and caused a panic in the neighborhood. The elephants were captured several to break their bonds again. Trainers witb Iron bars and pitchforks at length subdued them. No other animals escaped. 23 Hurt in Oust Explosion. Hymera, Ind. —Five men were fa tally burned and eighteen others dan gerously hart In a dust explosion at Jackson Hill No. 2 mine, three miles east of Hymera. It is believed the dust was flred by a "wind/" shot. The mine property was heavily dam aged. Rescuers brought out all the injured miners. Drastic Fernanda at Paaca Conference London. —The allies in demands presented to the Bucharest peace con ference proposed the establishment of frontier standing east from the Stru ma river, river running midway through Rumalla and reaching the Aegean sea 15 miles west of Dedea gatch. This Would leave Bulgaria a coast line on the Aegean sea of less than thirty miles. If these drastic terms are accepted, Bulgaria will la sue from two wars a little larger than when she entered into them, but she will have to abandon & large amount. Delaware Gap Swept by Storm. Srtoudsburg,, Pa. —Stroudsburg and the Delaware Gap were the center of a storm which is said to be unprece dented in this section of the state. Seven and one-half inches of rain foil between twelve-thirty and three o'clock, doing damage estimated at more than one hundred thousand dol lars. No lives have been reported lost. Mauch Chunk, Penargy, Pert land and Bangor also suffered severe ly. Hotels at the Dela«y*e Watar Gap crowded with HH.#, were badly dam-
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