North Carolina Newspapers

a1 -;; ;i-V--.- '--..;--.yr c'.. nr r J If you want to reach the peo- i J pie of (he Piedmont Section t put your ds. in THE GRIT : , tresi GrcnULon "of Any . j ' I ' piper irvtbe County, Excel-v t'; " ! -leni Adrertising Mtdidm. A'-Z'-? j1 ' ISAAC S. LONDON, Proprietor A NON-PARTISAN FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 51.00 A YEAR. VOL. V. , SILER CITY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, look NO. 45. NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS Occurrences of Interest Gleaned From All Secticu of ike Bvsy Tai Heel State ta;!)'"' Givcs to One His life. 1 Speoial.-i-A change of jtlid gallows to Ufo iinprison- ;im;1 of pardons granted to two by (iovcTuor Kitchin was con i;i lv information ffiven out iv a,t the Governor's office, in these instances having b(y;n taken List week. ( inn' h I'Ordcll, of Forsyth county, who. 13,587.307 BALES IN 1908 YALE STUDENT KILLS BOY in : February, 1909, was sent- wYi t bp, hanged for murder in the livsi tV.cice, was granted a cornmuta- fio-i 1 1 l;ls sicntenco to life imprison 3i(::r :i Wednesday, the twenty-sixth of Mi-y.. J. The reasons igiven- by Gov fi:;, i KiSchki for the' commutation i-.; "Commuted -to Spate's i-life imprisonment at hard twelve jurors, the trial ili the solicitor practically and several hundred citi- il:!';u'!vd this commutation, (hat at the time of the 'in1 was under such an un- i in. pulse, that, prisoner pi'isnii I:i1h;V. tcm ;u r ic:i' ! who !.-hoiVii-i. . ! was ii ih-f-:: foui-r. iurr nu'ic P . fri:i: : us-.: n 1 Kii'i r Yr. triv.i i i' ijh-ak intellect, they foar he lui-at ally responsible. He was .c! hy counsel appointed by tho y and inexperienced in try-r-Jwlio tliink that a lawyer of H'ji'-K-e and' with greater ;.'!- 1'ivnaration could have 4 i: s la.-e as to save him b.-r.th penalty. Though the !. ti' ! was published, only one it .'')jettio!i to changing his received and that! by an m I- ttor, which said the f upgro.'" : ' '.s which were granted iV. tii:- 2th of May, arc these: V.'. (IvtTm, of Nash county, t ,t:o November term, 1930, Prospects Tor Good Eoads, Statesville, Special That a portion of the proposed Statesville Air Lino Railroad, from Statesville to Elkin will be built in the near future is al most a crtainty. And it is believed that if a portion of the' road is built, the ultimate completion cf the road will be in sight. At a big railroad meeting held here, the event being the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Statesville Air Lino Railroad - Company, plaiss for the building of the road were-discussed and those who are in a position to know what they are talking about say "something will be doing" before long. A large delegation of Yadkin and Surry, county citizens was present at the meeting and entered into the discussion of the road. The county commissioners of Yadkin will bo pe titioned to call an election to give the citizens of the county; an opportunity to vote on the issuance of $125,000 unconditional bonds to be applied to constructing the road through Yad kin. Several thousand dollars were subscribed towards organizing a con struction company build the road from Statesville to Boonville. Yadkin county, a distance of 40 miles, and if Yadkin votes, the bonds the road will be buih this far. Mr. D. M. Ausley, president of the Statesville Air" Line Company, was at the meeting with profiles pf the road it was surveA'ed from Statesville to Mount Airy some time ago, with esti mates of tie cost of building. It is figured cut that the average cost per mile for thr 23 miles tln-ough Ire dell county, putting it in readiness for the rolling stock will' be between $18,000 and $19,000 per mile and for the 19 miles in Yadkin county the v orage cost per mile will be from $1, 000 to $2,000 more than in Iredell. for ihr i-rime of manslaughter, and 1 ro 12 years in the State's lit -.i .$ on s for conditional par- Eoii'f ; pris. : den: 'T! c .!!-.'!': the solicitor, the pros- r'wjttn-ss'es, all the living jurors .;-.:r. other citizens recommend jTi.e physician who 'was a s, now. thinks the deceased afflic1. d with the hook (hl.l U1.-U IL11UH.S niui ij. ?c-;:!: an 1 .:;:-.! wi:r. c'.lM bi l.a-lV I.qia this opinion then and 5!::(M;t i the .iury, the result would la v l)i. ditfere'it. Prisoner and "' f' t,;- s?.-p:nother to prisoner's (t::ir!:-if. nidicted for (h- Potato Train Starts. Rocky .Mount, Special. The Atlan tic Coast Line bsgan the operation of what is known as the 'potatotrain" on the branch line of the company from Washington to this city. This train has been put on for the past eight or ten years for t!3 handling of the spring crop of Irish potatoes which are raised in great abundance in rhoHart of the State. The sched ule of trv train is to leave Washing ton about the noon hour and to arrive at South llocky Mount ) about six o'clock in time to make the connec- starving i tion with the night and early morning The verdict was ! fast freights out of this eitv. The , ci - - - - r'pr l niinw. I. Z.. . 1 1 . A- : A : the oast, and in addition to the many car loads raised aloijg the lines of the Atlantic toast Line there is quite a large number of boatloads brought to Washington from down' the river ev.?ry clay, where the crop is a larga one as well. Increase Over Previous Year of 19 4 Per Cent Crop Remarkable Tor Its Excellent Spinning Qaulilies and " Cleanliness. Most Valuable Ever Gnmn. Washington, Special Bulletin 100, which has just been issued by the Bu reau of the Census, consists of a re port .on the ? production of cotton m 1908, prepared under the supervision of Mr. William M. Stuart,, chief sta tistician for manufactures, by Daniel C. "Roper, expert cMef of division. v The; present report gives the ag gregate .figures for the whole cotton crop, The finally revised figures for the erop cf !90S, expressed in equivalent J 500-pound bales and including Iinr- ,ers, show a total-produe tion of 13, oo7,306 bales. This represents an in crease over 1907 of 2,211,845 bak?s, or 19,4 per cent. It is the third largest crop ever produced being exceeded only by the crops of 1904 and 1906, and is 978,751 bales larger than the average crop of the last livo years The production reported for Texas 3,913,084 bales, is the second largest recorded, being oxceeded only by thai oi jluo, wnicn was oor,'lu Dales larger. This State showed a falling off m 190 of 44.9 per cent as com pared with 1906, but increased its crop in 1908 by 65.8 per cent over 1907. Texas produced 28.8 per cent of the total for the country in 1903; 20.8 per cent in 1907; and 313 per cent in 1906. The crop in 1908 is remarkabk? for its excellent spinning . qualities . and cleanliness The grade of this crop is estimated to have averaged strict middling, compared with middling for 1907 and strict low middling for 1906. Measured by its yarn produc ing qaulities, the crop of .1908 is be lieved to be the most valuable ever grown. The value of the crop to tha growers is estimated at $681,2304)56, of which $5S3,S14,828 represents the value of the lint and $92,416,123 th j value of the seed. Notwithstanding the iact that the crop was 2,211345 bales larger than the crop of 1907 and that tko spinning qualities of this crop were superior, it has been dis posed of by the growers, at appro xi mately $20,000,000 less than that of 1907. The estimated quantity of cotton scod produced in 1908 is 5,903,838 tons, of which 3,669,747 tons were treated by the oil mills, affording pro Speeding to Recitations In Auto From New Yotk CRy. Joel E. Fisher Runs Down Ten-cnl ' Old Morris Chvistianson at ' Stratford, Conn. POLICEMAN SHOT J -PHILADELPHIA STRIKE r Rioting. Begun by Mobs When New Men Appear. HOSPITALS HAVE 200 INJURED Bridgeport, Conn.-rSpeeding out Stratford avenue in an-eflort to reacli New Haven in time, for their recita tions, Harold Hartwell and Joel Ellia Fisher, Yala Juniors, ran down and killed ten-year-old Morris Christian- son near the new car barns at SurJ avenue, in Stratford? - Young Fisher, whoso, home is inl New York City ancl wnp Uvea at 22 College street,- New y-Xaven. '-Js the owner oTtheautbnofcile -and was driving the car cl :thetima -of the fatality. He was at once arrested by Deputy Sheriff Charles B. Stags. Fisher andilartwell would say noth ing in regard to the accident, saying they wished 'to consult With counsel. Bystanders say that at the time of the accident the men were letting out their car at a fast rate of speed when they passed Surf avenue. As they did so tho. Christianson boy started to cross the road. Fisher, who is said to be an" expert driver, threw his machine far to the right in an effort to go around the hoy. The car awun? upon the law side walk, but in so doing the rear wheels struck the fleeing boy and hurled him twenty-five feet through the air. He 6truck on the back of hl head, and when picked up it was found that his skull was crushed at the base of the brain. Immediately after the accident a call was sent for an ambulance, and Dr. Kraus responded. The boy seemed to be in a dying condition. The ambulance started . for the Bridgeport Hospital, but as the boy became steadily weaker it was stopped at the office of Dr. Blackman, at 1119 Stratford avenue. The lad was immediately placed upon the op erating table, but died within five minutes. Fisher and Hartwell left . New Haven to visit their parents in New York City. In starting from New York City on their return they were delayed by tire troubles, but hoped to reach the university in time for their afternoon recitations. Fisher was arraigned before Judge Charles H. Peck, of Stratford, and held in $3000 bonds, on the charge of manslaughter. Cortez Wheeler, a well-to-Jo farm er, living just over the line, went inad when he heard that Fisher had killed a bey a few rods from where Wheeler lives. Rushing from his field, Wheel er started for the centre of the vil lage, excitedly saying that he would 4- Women and Even Children Join la Attacks That Overwhelm the Po - lice "Well Kill You It Yon Pull That Gun.'! iEAT FLIGHT OF AIRSHIP, FIGHTING THE BEEF TRUST I j Count Zeppelin Travels 850 Miles In 37 Hours. JTrlal Successful But For Contact Y With Tree Crow ci Owner and Nino Person Carrlrd. Campaign to Prevent It Esteb fishing a Leather Monopoly. j Goeppingen. Germany. The Zep- Evldence That Chicago rackerCji dcr Present Conditio!) Will Ulti mately Control Shoe Business. ! Washington, D. C. The lobby end pelin airship, on its way back to ' thVlawyers in chargo of the manltold duets valued at $86,092,583 and disw Lftvenge what he denounced as the doat! ll;f.-,-'i! ! eAffmil lift WOC nairllnnnt , ; . in"K-"'l out id; intentional in its results. Pri?4!- vife served her full time cf sil : i'v. Prisoner was a poor tr.cn. It ,;:ne think his poverty par: It i"fn :;sibl.- for bis neglect. He !;rs ! '; about eight and, a half yt";-'. Advertisement of the applica t.m V ; .TiuTle and no objection, has i'; '; !. Prisoner is pardoned on I.rj.,11 of ?ood behavior. iait p- linsoa of Gilford, county, fned.at ! e January term, 1902, for the ri-irm of secret assault, and sen- wv rl wn years in the State pr; ar-33ona for conditional par- Pi for has served about saven fc'i'.i a i. years of a ten-year sen t?e fr.n waylaying and assaulting '' vith metallic knucks. m- iii-il-Lilosis, and is unable to rk, i lie; physician thinkinar that un rnnnAerncnt he will be helpless DCiOro b.i term expires, and probably not sur ivo it. His prison record has "fen irco'C. ThA anl! r-irdo-i. pwing to his punishment al-rro,1-v f.diired, to his phvsical condi '1; the recommendations filed, rn "' ' if pardoned On condition of food tvior. : Paw Creek Bridge Afire. Charlotte, Special. The .railroad bridge over Paw creek on the Char lotte division of the Southern, three miles south of Charlotte, was discov ered afire Tuesday afternoon about o'clock by passengers in the bia White steamer driven by Mr. Osmond L. Barrinjrer en route to the Catawba, river to escort The New York Herald Atlanta Journal scout cars to Sloan i ferry. The bridge is an old wooden siruclure and anight fire two car lengths from the northern end, doubt less from ashes from a passing train. The blare was burning briskly &en first seen and had no alarm been giv en the whole structure wrould doubt less-have been consumed. As it was a halt was made, aid summoned and the fife extinguished. The damage the bridge was slight as the blaze was detected before it had srained much, headway, triDuteci as to luna ana quantity rs follows: Oil, 146,789.830 gallons; cake and meal, 1,491,752 tous; hulls, 1,330,283 tons, and linters, 165,138, 628 pounds. The world s production of cotton for mill consumption in 1908 is esti mated at 19,574,000 bales of 500 pounds net, comparing with 16,512,- 000 in 1907. The production m tho United States, expressed in net weight bales, was 13,002,000, and rep resents 66 per cent of the total com mercial cotton produced. British In dia, which ranks second, wanton taking of a life by a reckless automobilist. The news that a mad man was loose in the town scared the Inhabitants. He was. captured and put in a straightjacket after a des perate struggle. TAFT SEXDS CONGRATULATIONS. Mrs. Taft Watches Him Press the Key That Opens the Seattle Fair. Washington. D. C. President Taft pressed a gold telegraph key studded with gold nuggets, and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in far-off jjH Seattle was awhir, The spark re- Killed ia Runaway, ti1:-- I-jt, N. C SpecialMrs. J'"'f McKinley Harwood. Bebee, Ki'.o ;vj, a relative of the late Presi- -Irilniley, and who owned a 5um:,i r. j.omo and other vaiuable P'i' !ty :nt Elsie, in Montgomery SU".-'' v,'3s killed in a runaway ace: -Jei;f- on Saturday at that place. Her 2,914,000 bales, or 15 per cent; Egypt, 1,275,000 bales, or 7 per cent, and Russia, 846,000 bales, or 4 par cent. Mpst of the remainder is pro duced in China and Brazil, - while smaller quantities are contributed by Mexico. Peru, Turkey, Persia and several other countries. Not less than 9,000,000 persons are employed in producing, handling and manufacturing American cotton, of whom some 6,000,000 are farmers and farm laborers, 1,000,000 otherwise en gaged with the fibre in this country and about 2,000,000 are concerinfd with it in foreign countries, The value of the goods manufactured from the average American cotton crop is estimated at $2,000,000,000. Of the total quantity of the six leading textile fibres produced in 1903, 18,042,425,000 pounds, cotton constituted 54 per cent, wool 14.5 per cent, jute 14 per cent, flax 10 per. leased by the President set the ma phinery of the big fair in motion at exactly -noon, Coa3t time. Following fast on the spark a message of con gratulation was sent flying across the pontinent, 1 Among those who saw the cere, mony pf opening the fair were many members of the Diplomatic Corps, frlrs. Taft, C. P. Taft, the Senators and Representatives In Congress from (he State of Washington, the Dele gates in Congress from Alaska, the Philippines, and Hawaii, and several members of the Cabinet, MACABTHUfl RETIRED BY LAW.. Leonard Wood Becomes Ranking Of. fleer of the Army. Washington, D, C. Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur, the rank. ng officer of the army, is placed on the retired list hy operation of law on account of age, 'and the grade of lieutenant-general will then cease to exist In the army, General MacAr- hur is now in his home in MHwau' Philadelphia, Pa.; Many furious riots, in which one policeman was ft tally shot and 200 :,or more persons were injured, followed the attempt of the Jtapid Transit JCompany. ta ruff cars for tho first tlate after nightfall since the strike wa inaugurated oil May 20. One hundred or more persons were so badly hurt that they were taken to hospitals, while theothers were car ried away to their hpmes by friends.' The most serious disorders were in the Kensington district, where mauy mills are situated. There were also ugly clashes between the police and the populace in the foreign quarter, in the southern part of the city. Although the nolle force had been increased by thousands by tho swear ing in of special men and the peace officers were rushed In small armlcn to each fresh outbreak as it was re ported, they were powerless against the fury of the mobs. Women and even children Joined the men in savage onslaughts against the crews and guards, consisting -of policemen and firemen, of the cars sent out. Motormen and conductors were pulled from the cars and terri bly beaten. The crazed mobs lifted the cars from the tracks' and skewed them crosswise of tho tracks. Several cars were set on fire, calling out the fire department, which was at high tension all night J not knowing to what excess the mobs might go, and short-handed beca'tase of the assign ment of many firemen to duty on the cars. l The rioiing began soon after night fall, and at the first alarm the trac tion company put a large force of men at work running cars Into the !jarns. By this means sobres of cars' wer eayed from destruction, whole or In part, f The mob spirit appears to haye been aroused by the arrival in" the afternoon of one consignment of strike-breakers numbering 400 men. The strikers and crowds hadboen or derly all day. The only outbreaks were of such trifling nature that 'the city officials and traction officials thought the strike was on the wane. Mayor Reyburn announced that the backbone of thej strike had been broken, and that 3t would be over in a day or two. The appearance on the cars of" 104) of the importer! fetrike-breakers.' was the direct cause of the disturbances. As the working-men and mill band? of that section went home from work they saw these men. Mobs assem bled on every corner, and "Scab!" was shouted at the car crews. Later, stones were thrown and car windows broken all along Kensington and Prankford avenues. WTien six cars in a row turned the corner of Front and Berks streets, a mob of 3000 began to stone them. Five policemen were on each, car. They sprang off and faced the throng. ' Like a whirlwind tho crowd advanced from all sides, driving back the po licemen and boar.ding the cars. A zaob of 8000 attacked a car at Fifth street and Garmantown avenue. The motorman was ducked in a horse trough until he was unconscious. As a squad of policemen advance! the cry went up. "ii -you pun a gun we ii Hill you," - Friedrichshaicn from Bltterf eld, came down in an open field near here. The landing was intended only for oil and a manoeuvre, but the envelope of thV pointed bow of the vessel came into contact with the branch of a tree -and was torn. After an examination kof the damage it was decided to send to Frledrichshafcn for workmen to repair tho damage beforo proceeding. . Count Zeppelin explained that ho did not continue on to Eerlln from Bitterfeld because tho ?.irship hsl lost some gas, and he thought it wiEer to start on the return trip to Friedrichshafen, particularly as the homeward Journey would require from fifteen to twenty hourr. The aeronaut Is thoroughly satis fied with this Journey, whleh is the longest excursion" yt undertaken. The airship covered some 850 miles. Including its manoeuvring, within thirty-seven hours. The tearing of the envelope of tb forward compartment carries no par ticular lesson, except that grtater Care must be taken in steering. The airship left the floating shed on Lake Constance a little after 9 o'clock at night. The objective was Interests cf the Beef Trust are In high gleo because of recent successes In steering their unpopular client' past all legislative and legal obsta cles without a single bump. A complete score of the Trust's vic tories, blessings and mercies .would be very long, but here are a few: of them: The proposed new prosecution by the Government has been aban doned. Recent offerings of the bonds cf the Trust have ben eagerly accept ed in Wall Street at aigiprices. Prices of meats have been advanced again and again and there is no serious complaint. William Lorimer, the he roic defender of the Trust in Con gress, has been elected to the Senate of tho United States by his feliow cltlsens of Illinois, and Jast, but not least, -the movement for free hides In Congress has been defeated. That is, the Best Trust thinks the question is settled, but a game and effective fight for free hides and leather is .still being wased, and there are hopes that Congres3 may yet be Influenced to take another point of view. The most effective- campaign Is that conducted by ex-Governor Douglas, Berlin, where Emperor William i of Massachusetts, who is bombarding awaited the arrival of the count. But the airship got only as far as Bitter feld, some 400 miles from the start Ing place, and there decided to re turn. There were oh board Count Zeppelin himself, two engineers and a crew of seven men. TEXAS TORNADO WRECKS TOWN. Many Citizens of Zephyr Killed and Wounded. Brownwood. Texas. - A tornado ! wrecked Zephyr, a village In Brown County, killing more than thirty per sons, Benously wounding nrty. ana hurting a score of others., Extreme darkness added to the terror of the catastrophe-. The known dead are: B. F. Brown and wife, C. A. Cabler and wife, The odore Cabler,-County Clerk, wife and two children; C. 11. Carter, wife and child; Gibson Cloyes, Mrs. Tom Hart and child, Gertrude Houston. Mrs. W. A. Ramsay and child. M. G. Simmons, wife and three children; Oscar Ware, wife and three children. Among the seriously Injured are Robert Campbell, wife and four chil dren; Dr. Wreen and wife, Professor Cloyes and family and Captain Collier and wife. The storm formed half a mil southwest of Zephyr, and swept down upon the vlllagefCuttlng a wide swath i nlng contracts, the directly through, the residence business quarters. KairW flftv hnna wcrfl npmnl. I lshed. Lightning Btruck a lumber yard and started a fire, ; which de stroyed an entire business block. No effort was made to fight tho fire, as the care of the dead and wounded de manded all the attention. The big etone school building and two churches at Zephyr were rated. KILLED PROTECTING HER BABY, Congress with literature ana argu ments which are causing a greatvtir In the corporation camp. The last brick he has thrown at the meat monopoly Is sensational In th9 extreme. Copies of his statement have been sent to every United States Senator and every Representative In Congress and to all shoe manufactur ers, wholesale Johbars, retail shoo dealers and leather users in the Uni--ted States.' Mr. Douglas declares that ; the shoe manufacturers of this coun try are facing a crisis oven greater than mauy of them realize. Under present conditions it 'does not take a prophet to foretell ' in a general -way what will happen, Mr. Douglas says. The logic of events has already proceeded far enough to ' indicate clearly tha goal toward which we are rapidly traveling. This is no lees than a gigantic trust con trolling the beef packing, leather tan ning and shoe manufacturing indus tries of this country. This trust will, of course, be built around the present Beef Trust. The advantage giwn to the Beef Trust, as the original owner of Jiides, Is so great that competition with it will be hopeless, as 'soon as it 'can es tablish Itself In the leather tanning and shoe manufacturing industries. By ownership and control, through community- of Interest, and by tan- Beef Packers' and . Tru3t has already become eo domln- 1 ant in the sole leather tanning bust- Winatcniem Warekoufe fjbange, Jt hemp 7 p cent and silk lessP iiS Hands. "Winston-Salem, Special. An . i;n portant real estate deal of commercial importance was announced Monday night by which the Gorrella acquire the -Star warehouse for a long term and will move their big tobacco ware as.brought here Sunday moraquartcri, Farmers' warehouse, built Dy coi. a. u. uorreii and u. W. mn. shaw, 2S years ago, and now owned by the Gorrell heirs, will hi converted into retail stores. The Star' ware house "will be named the Farmers1 and the business of the GorreHs will be conducted as' heretofore, (I lirl i(-ll.-nn 1 Jt 1 ' " . v- iu act luriner noire 111 .-Conn. Mrs. Bebee had ' 'i , 7 t(? a neighboring house at 7 Panted horse took fright, throw- f; . i ' u'lUiUi,s uer ne?K ana n- oth ink ier terrible injuries. than one- half of 1 per cent. The relative importance of these fibres has been reversed ; during the past 'century. Flax fiber, which was used to a larger extent than any other in 1800. now ranks fourth, and tne quantity produced is only ahout three put increase of rank times what it was teen, imping wis j eriod the production of wool has in creased about lour-ioia, ana oi cot ton over thirty-fold. several months in the preparation of a report of his observations when with the Japanese army in mancauria. B? his retirement Major-General Leonard Wood, commanding theDe partment .of the East, becomes the ranking omceior tne armyf dui wiiu RELD FOR REGESTER MURDER. 1 : . .- , - L w ... QUICK ROUTE TO ALL POINTS .. . NORTH-SOUTH-E AST-WEST. Through Trains Brtween Principal Cities and Resorts AHordlnf nrst'GiM Aesommodtfloai. . ZUjitit Pullmaii SlitplnJ Cars on ail Through . Tmlrva, DINING CLU9 AN DO 8 9 IB V ATI Of OA For Speed, Comfort and Courteous Employes, travel via tha Sotrthem Railway. j - i . astsa, Bchtdatos tad othsr iatormstion foralshsd Ij adimalag 1 tha n&dershroed i a. Ik VERNON, Trtv. ttm. Agt. J. H. WOOD. DIstrlot Pass. Agent, rw K . onarlott. n.' O. v AthevUla,H. O. -i n. a. iuu&, rasa, Trafflo Mgr., B. B. RABDWIOS, twn'i rasa AgV, WASBUKiTON, D. G. ri HI n Intellectual Stimulants. To all engaged In literary wor, tiiefe comes a time when for the tim being tihe Imagination -flags, ideas eeni to have vanished and all ap peals to aspiration seem to be pow erless. There are well-known cases in whkJh? great writers have had re course to artificial stimuli. Voltaire and Balzac found what they required in coffee. Goethe -preferred burgunay, while (Do Mu and Edgar. Allan i - . MM Poe fled to couoi.- m?neeB woo to Baudelaire what opium was to tne 'author of "The Confessions." In nls rfav Goethe found tnat lnuui- gence in wins Impeded his intellct ttal worit, tor ne oaa ncrrccu- wii. ..frtita fioblller drsnJi more than ;ttsual the Hterary, results -were -aspiorui. THe faults with wnwh bcbiuw uuu been reproached by his critics, Goe the declared were due to no ouwr cause than this. The mixture pi al cohol and aibsinthe in wnicn ue aius- The Man Arrested Jn IjOs Angeles Had Bracelet of ucaa uiri. Los Angeles, Cal. Charles A. Barr, who cava he is a bricKiayer,was ar rested on suspicion of- having strangled to death Laura Jtegeater', twenty-six years old, in Providence, R. I., on May 10. Barr was trying to sell a bracelet to a pawnbroker to obtain money to attend a prize fight when arrested. It is said by the officers that the bracelet has been identified as one worn by Miss Regester when she was murdered. i Poison in Biscuits. Mrs, Cynthia Tarry, of Tottenville, Staten Island, is dead and her hus band was fatally sick. She accU dentally mixed poison lnlier biscuits, Fine ana JtU Term For Land Fraud, Federal Judge Hunt, at Portland, Ore,, sentenced ex-United States Dis trict Attorney Hall to pay a fine of 91000 and. to serve sixty days in Jail for conspiracy to defraud the Govern ment in connection with the Butte Creek Land, Livestock and Lumber Company land fraud cases. ' ; - . NQ COMPETITION IN STEEL, Agreement Between the Corporation and the Republio Company, Pittsburg. Pa.- The Steel Corpora- tlon and Us former most active op ponent, the Republic Iron and Steel Company, navo Teaonea an agreement by which there will be no more war in prices. Announcement is maae here that the two concerns have com pleted a trade involving $250,000 of Ohio property for Pennsylvania' prop erty, each 6ld& practically disarming itself for any ftituro terrltwlal 'ar fare. When tho 8teol Corporation was formed It ; gained possession, among other things, of a. plot adjoin ing the Republic's big mills in Youngstown, through taking the old American Tube Company's "site, . .No secret was made of tho fact ithaVth Corporation etobd ready at a'-tono-ment's notice to produco plan, lor a large rival mill) beside the Republic plant. ' 1 ' ' At the same time the Repatllc held a tract of land; adjoining to Steel Corporation's; plants r.t 6hatn, Pa., but a few mil3 from Youngstown mills, and tho Republic also htldTtbU as a club 'over the head of tne'JCor poration at that? point. ' Pittfield'Car Men Out. , All trade on the lines of hc Pitts- ne'.d (Mass.) ; Street Railway Conv. Lasy was tied Ud following a strike of the 125 conductors and mojtorfnen A demand of th men for an increase cf ono cent- aujhour and. for a ten hour working diy led to the strike. Wife Falls Dead, Then Jealous Has band Shoots JUmself, Fairmont, W. Va. Pavtn Blcklnas, a Lithuanian, shot and killed his wife In Farmlngton, near hero, then shot himself in the head and is dying in a hospital. Jealousy is believed. to have been the cause of the tragedy. Without warning and Just as the wife with her babo in her arms arose from the dinner table the man began fir Ins. Raising an arm to shield the child, the woman received thrco bullets in her arm. The fourth entered her brain. The man then fired the fifth ball Into nls own head and fell znor- 1 tally wounded. The . child escaped injury. ness that it is difficult to locate Inde pendent tanneries. More than thirty tanneries are now said to be under Armour, Swfft, Morris control. Recently reports have been heard that the Beef Packers were becoming Interested in the shoe manufacturing business. It seems clear that the al most inevitable result of continuing the present policy is to throw the en tire leather tanning and shoe manu facturing business into the hands of the Beef Trust, which has, through its slaughtering interests, cantrol of the country's hide supply, and caq dictate prices, Newspaper publishers are taking a ds-jp interest in this matter because the shot msn are anions their largest advertisers, and they realize that U the .Bee! Trust got control of tht busU ness it would no more advertise shoes then than It does sirloin steaks now, Mrs. Graves Dead. " t nlaced his Ihopes ruined nis . i. tn nrfltfi The I brain ana "destroy-1 Mrs. Robert Graves, widow of i T cnt-nev was aesiroj- r . :w . i . Igtsiuua yi i tienry a. ria.ni, mo wetiiiuy raiiroaa -ed by opium. Westminster Gazette c maili died after a long lUness, in New GIRL'S BTRRY COSTS HER LIFE, nuns in Front cf Arrto WWch Had Started Again at Crossing. Lockport, N. Y. Marlon Goerss, nine yuirs old, was killed by An auto mobile driven by narry Hatxim, son . of Sunervlsor Raskins, of the Fifth BOWED UUSTO UAUKUli. Ward; hew CMef of pollc BnUUl . A ' placed Hasklns under arrest. Victims Out In Pleasure Boats When . w.,vin was moloved as a demon Overtaken by a SqualL j etrator for ar local automobile firm. Boston. Mass. Three, and proba- He saya the runabout was slowed np bly Blx, men were drowned in Bos- when the girl and ronr. otner persons ton harbor by the upsetting of pleas- ' started to crosi me su-eei, w w ure craft. Raymon Von Limburg, a it. The party on foot also came to a clgarmaker, of South Boston, lost nls , standstill, and Hasklns sent the auto life when the sloop Lillian A. turned mobile ahead. Just as he did so the gin aanea away iruu iuv wm ."t over In a squall off Thompson's Isl ands. His four companions clung to the bottom of the boat and were rescued. Five unknown men, believed to have come from Brockton, were drowned In Hull Gut by the capsizing of a boat. ran Into tho side of the runabout. I LINCOLN'S SON OVERCOME. ' At Unveiling of Father's. Statue Has to Be Helped From Platform. . j Louisville, Ky. Robert Todd Lin coln, sixty-six years old, president of th Pnllman Sleeping-Car Company. was so overcome by the fctst At the cloio of the ceremonies attendant up on the unveiling of the statue of bis father at Hodgenvllle.thatlt was nec essary to help him to carriage. He Md traveled' irgm unicago u Industrial Conditions Improve. b? present at the services, and had A statement issued by tho Bureau r-lanued to make Jjj Jnt ' :Bt0Q.tJ of Statistics, at Washington. D. C.. Lincoln iarm, Abrahan. Lincoln s Woman Smuggler Caught. A false bottom in a trunk'belong Ing to Mrs. Matilda Chesbrough, of Boston, hid $8000 worth of Jewels and clothing, which are being held at the New York Custom House. showed a eradual Improvement in the Industrial and. traffic bltuatlon of the country. To Siicrccd-Bogcrs. J. II. M-offcti was slated In Ntw York City to shecoed II. H. Rogers as a vlcc-prefeldont of the Standard "ill Company of New Jersey. Corporation Officer Arrested; U. S. JudgO Laeuinba committed io th TomlsiaiKttW York City, thi vico-prostdent of ths United COppei Company and garo Sanford Robinson Ilclnae's persotinl ntiorney, a day ix which to espialn hia connection wluj tho mhislng rec&rds o( Jhe company. Rebels lit Lima Killed. . The rehellioi in Lima, Peru, haa been quelled bM tho Irooi-, about oue hundred persons having been killed or wouude'i. . Pedro Picrola Is among the dead. j : ". - V Young Girl a Suicide Miss Grace C. Stoddard, a student of Syracuse University, committed: suicide at Binghamton, N. Y., by drowning. ENLISTED SOLDIERS TIOXORED, Misi Htltn Taft Usreils Granite Shaft at Gettyiturg,; Gettysburg, Pa. Aa Imposing shaft of granite, ereeted by Cosgrcts to the memory of those of -the regu larly enlisted forces who fell in the three days' fighting about the Round Tops and the Bloody Angle, was un veiled by the President's daughter. Miss Helen H. Taft. while President Taft himself paid tribute to officers and men of the United States Army; past and present. . Farmer Kills Neighbor. Morris Donavan, a wealthy Clyde. N. Y.. farmer, was killed by his friend and neighbor, BcckwlthTrem- per. Tremper.. Donavan and Frexl Hart, an employe of Donavan s, spent - the night in -Tremper s bam. wnere much hard elder was consumed. Roosevelt's Nurse Dead. Mrs, Dora Watttai, Alatty-two, Theodore RoossTslt's babyhood nurse, was burled ta Ntw York City. French Art Crltie Dead. ; Francois Eralls Michel, - French, srtlat and art critic, died in Paris, He y as born in 1823. Eandmarter m Suicide. George Essigke, leader of the West Point military academy band, come mitted suicide, " - . .. . . t . i t . t., -. - -T t I ' r l - - York City. :--wV-'.'-i:: r - j. s . ..