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SENATOR BRADLEY -IF KENTUCKY, DEAD v ' DISTINGUISHED REPUBLICAN AND FOR FORTY YEARS IN PUBLIC LIFE. SERVED IN THE UNION ARMY MRS; ;MARK THISTLEWAITE Ran Away From Home to Enter Into .the Struggle of the: Civil War at the Age of 14. Washington. William t O. Bradley United States Senatorvfrom Kentucky, died here at 9:45 p. n: after a linger ing illness $y&9A$K& Senator Bradley. was one of the most distinguished Republican leaders of Kentucky, in his generation. "J An orator of unusual ability, .for, 40 years lie had been prominentbeforei th people or nis state and the- nation. Born in 1847. he was only 14 years of age when War Between The States was declared. Twice- be ran away from home to Join ' the Union army, only to be taken from the ranks toy his father because of his , extreme youth. As a page of the lower house of the Kentucky Legislature he at traded such attention that at the age of IS a special act was passed hy the Legislature, enabling him to practice law. if he proved Ms qualiflcati6ns be fore an examining committee. He satisfied the committee of his quali fications and made law his profession. raced with a strong Democratic majority in his state Mr. -Bradley often suffered defeat for office. Twice he was defeated for Congress and four times for United States Senator after receiving the nomination of his party. In 1SS7 he was defeated for Gover nor, hut Teduced the Democratic ma jority of the preceding gubernatorial campaign from 47,000 to 17.000. It was this showing that led to bis prom inence as a vice presidential candi date the following year. In 1S95 Senator Bradley was elect ed Governor of Kentucky. Victory again settled on his banner in 1903, when a Democratic Legislature by eight votes, after a deadlock finally elected him to the Senate. Tls term' would have expired March 3, 1915. His last speech was delivered on May 6, when he spoke against the repeal of the PapJfraa Canal toll ex emption law. : JURY SAYS BECKER Vujrw.lwialte iih brtde f tte wy. W, Vle-Preidet jttarsfcatt PART OF F LEET W BE BROUGHT BACK BRYAN CONFERS WITH MATS OVER -TAMPtCO CONDITIONS. DIPLO- OIL INSTIGATED GRIME EX-POLICE LIEUTENANT AGAIN ADJUDGED RESPONSIBLE FOR C ' -GUNMEN'S WORK. MAY DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR NO NEWS OF THE CONSUL Fate of Consul Silllman at SatHIo Remains Unknown No Reply Regarding Parks. METHODIST HAVE ADJOURNED. In Session 18 Days the -Quadrennial Annual Conference Closes. Oklahoma City, Okla. After being In session for 18 days the quadrenial general conference of the Methodist Kpiscopal Church, South, formally ad journed. The selection of the place for holding the next conference has been entrusted to a special commit tee named for that purpose. It Is gen erally believed that either Richmond, Va., or Atlanta, Ga., will be chosen, both cities having extended pressing invitations. Despite the fact that strenuous ef forts were made to clear the decks of all business at night session, ad journment came with many petitions, memorials and resolutions still, on the calendar. The majority of the dele gates will remain in the .city for a day or so. numerous board meetings hav ing been called to meet immediately after the adjournment of the con ference. Interest in the last sessions cen 'ered in the decision of the ;confer- ene to not again submit to tTie an nual conference the question of chang mg the name of the church; the ad optfon of a committee report recom mending stricter regulations of evan gehsts traveling within the hounds of the conference and the" adoption of tiie resolution that both sides have 1r'-ir years consecutive jurisdiction in the various mission fields. At the afternoon session the com mittee on education recommended 'hat $105,000 be raised annually, to be spent at the discretion of the board of education and that all money Que the theological ; department, of anderbilt University 'to June 30, 1914, b" paid. ';. Washingta. The general slacken ing of tension in the Mexican situa tion resulted in the consideration at the Navy Department of plans to withdraw a part f the fleet on the east coast of Mexico. Acting Secre tary RoosWelt said he hoped within a week to have four battleships, five destroyer and a tender on the way north. Another important aevelopment of the day was a conference called by Secretary Bryan with British Ambas sador Spring-Rice and Minister Van Raphard of The Netherlands to con sider conditions in the Tampico oil fields. Protests, it was reported, had been received from oil operators that Federal officials had negotiated trans fers of the American leases to British and Dutch oil men. Some protests that British and Dutch holders might suffer since the Constitutionalists as sumed control followed. An under standing was reached that transfers made during the siege of Tampico would not be recognized. Secretary Brayn said the state de partment had no advices of any ef fort to collect contributions from for eigners in Tampico. No official information was forth coming in the case of Private Samuel Parks. The, state department is still without reply to the note in which it demanded information about Parks and. characterized his reported exe cution as "a hostile and unfriendly act." The war department, however, re ceived a copy of an affidavit made by A. W. Bland, in which he repeated a story told him by an alleged eye witness of Parks' death. The affidavit sets forth that Parks was shot to death by firing spad on order of -a Mexican , commander. Bland said the name of the eye-witnes3 must not be revealed because he would be killed if it were known ' he had g$ven the information. Detectives Assert Innocence. Atlanta, Ga. Declaring their only Time "his been possibly the public announcement of our belief in Leo 'rank's innocence," Daniel S. Lehon siut!iern manager for William "urns, the detective, issued a state mnt here defending himself and fel low operatives of the charge of using improper methods in obtaining affldav i(s which were used in an effort to ob tain a new trial for the factorv uner lutf-ndent. Mr. Lehon, was indicted for subordination of perjury in connec tion with the case of Frank. Prisoner Now Faces Death Unless He I Pardoned, or the Court Interfere. ixvw I or. Twelve -men decided for the second time that -Chutes Becker was. the arch-corisplraiqrjne-e&Mibletor the Rosenthal murfir? which" nearly two years "axo-- awolrrf XTm X-x ' .... .... . ' - T i vim. w a reauzauoiuoi corrup tion in the police- department and opened a new era of police reform. Becker, one a police lieutenant. was round guilty of murder in the first degree. , Only a pardon or inter ference again -by the Court of. Ap- peals can save him from following to tne eelctric chair the four gun men who shot Herbert Rosenthal, the gambler, early on the morning of July 16, 1912. The Jury decided that the gunmen were Becker's agents. One ballot decided Becker's fate. It was taken almost immediately af ter the jurors returned from luncheon at an uptown hotel where they went when Supreme Court Justice Samue Heabury had finished his charge. It was unanimous for conviction. Tears streamed down the foreman's face as he announced the decision ind tears t j ... . ' . .. bluuu ia me eyes or several otner jurymen. They had agreed that the corroboration which the District At torney failed to present at the first trial tq support the stories of Rose, Vallon and Webber, the three accom plices who turned informers, had been furnished by new witnesses at the second. Beckers counsel announced that he would ' appeal and gained a week's stay for the preparation of his future campaign. The defendant was grant ed a short meeting with his wife and his brothers and then was taken back to his cell in the Tombs. R0BERY TAFT; ... m . ;..':-vSi &: I o t MELLEN SUGGESTS , FFflFRII Cil 1 , - FORMER RAILROAD PRESIDENT ' ' .. . iSAYS GOVERNMENT RtBULA J TION IS SOLUTION. 'Monopoly must comem HISTORIANS GET II LETTERS STATE HISTORICAL COMMISSION RECEIVES VALUABLE COL LECTION OF LETTERS. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Robert Taft, elder eon of the former preeidemYfe soon to marry Miss Mar tha Bowers, daughter of the late So licitor. General Lloyd W. Bowers. Mr. Taft Is a graduate of Yale and the Harvard law school and is a practising attorney In Cincinnati. HUERTA TO RESIGN IF IT IS1CESSI1RT AUTHORIZES HIS DELEGATES TO 8UBMIT RESIGNATION IF FOUND BEST. WHO WILL BE SUCCESSOR? Huerta's Move Not Surprise in Wash ington but Causes Speculation as to Who Will Succeed Him. Becker and his wife were talking j Washington. Gfleral Huerta has shortly before 5 o'clock in a room authorized the Mexican mediation del- adjoining the sheriff's office when a court attendant . announced that the jury had reached a verdict. Mrs. Becker was not permitted to accom pany her husband to the court room. Newspaper men, court attendants, counsel for the defense and District Attorney Whitman and his staff were the only other persons allowed admis sion. The defendant's two brothers. Jackson and John Becker, the latter detective lieutenant, hurried to a side entrance whefe they stood await ing the verdict. Great Tunnel Complete. Spartanburg, S. C Sandy Ridge Mountain, near Dante, Va., the last great barrier in the construction of the Elkhorn extension of the Caro lina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway, was pierced, according to a message re ceived from there. In the bowels of the arth, 1,500 feet below the surface, the two ends of the Itunnel, which had been started simultaneously from both sides of the mountain, were join ed. So accurate were the engineers' calculations that it was necesuary to deviate scarcely a hairsbreadth from the course sur? eyed to form the junc tion. Th tunnel, more than 8.000 feet long, has been bored through solid rock. Work has been under way day and night almost constantly since June 1, 1912. ' At times the ; progress has been slow, but when the greatest expedition has been made about 125 cars of rock have been removed daily, Roosevelt it Retting. Oystpr Eay, N. Y. To all appear arups 1lieodore Roosevelt has recov '" 'i entirely from the effects of his 'riP info the South American jungles. 1 'iur days -at Sagamore Hill have b "'"iglit hack his full measure of s,r"ngth. As he sat on the broad Tanda of his home he appeared to '"' as fit physically as before he went away. The colonel held a long coun nl of war with a few political asso 'iates. The political outlook in .New ork antj Ohio was taken up. Cornell Wins With the Oare. ''haca, N. Y. Cornell 'Varsity and frfsliman eights clearely demonstrat P'I their superiority over the Princeton and Vale crews here by capturing both u mile events. The 'varsity race, which was started first, was delayed "ntil almost nightfall by the choppy condition of the Cayuga Lake course. '" '"is evont Cornell got the jump, bat. "' "in fPPt Princeton pressed into 1,,nf At, the one mile point Cor n"l drew ahead of the Tigers, leav ,ne Princeton nd Yale to fight it out k"r second place. Assembly in Session. WaEoner. Okla. The Rev. F. Brown of Marlow, Okla , va? elected moderator and the &4th general as sembly of the Cumberland Presby terian church formally organized here, Addresses welcoming the delegates to Wagoner were delivered. Has Not Offered to Resign. Mexico City. Provisional President rl&erta, in the course of an interview, said: "The Mexican peace delegates have no instructions to offer my re signation at the conference at Niagara Falls." The president spoke with energy, standing erect and emphasiz d his words with a characteristic gesture. Prior to this the actiong minister of foreign "affairs, Esteva Ruiz, had. declared that the' Mexican representatives had been given ample powers" by the government , ' -i. Suffragettes Start Fire-. Aldershot, England. A great brush fire., declared by the -authorities to have been the work of militant suffra eettes. encircled the royal pavilion in Lon yalley where King George and Queen Mary .are - In - residence in the center of a great army; of, Britisbr troops. Several battalions of infantry and reeiments of cavalry subdued the flames. As their majesties left the royal pavilion two women dashed in front of their carriage waving a ban- rr wfth-. t.he' words "tvoltes ior women," u :' , ,JI PUSH ANTI-TRUST MEASURE. is The Administration's Program Started on Way in House Now. Washington. The administration anti-trust program was definitely start ed on its way to the statute books when the house, with legislative ma chinery working under forced draft, completed consideration of the Coving ton trade commission Mil, and laid that measure aside for final passage. The final vote on the bill will be taken after the house has considered the Clayton anti-trust bill which was taken up immediately and the admin istration railroad securities bill. House leaders count on having all three measures out of the way and up to the Senate within three weeks. Objects to Government Ownership. Washington. Representative Monta gue of Virginia in a speech on the question of classifying corporations and requiring a uniform system of ac counts, as part of the interstate trade commission work declared that arbi trary requirements of uniform account- ins: was likely to cause "confusion worst confounded." "I look upon ef forts to project the power of this Nation into the individual accounting of corporations in our several states," he said, "as one of the moat imperial istic steps that this nation could pos; sibly take. You would perilize the bus iness of the nation. You would peril ize the initiative of business." egates to submit his resignation in case such a course is necessary to a settlement in peace negotiations. This was stated positively in oisnaicues from a thoroughly competent d.plo matlc source in Mexico City to one of the foreign representatives here and confirms intimation given by friends of the delegates here. According to this information from Mexico City Huerta at first author ized the delegates to discuss only the question of the Tampico conflict lead ine to the American occupation of Vera Cruz. Later the Mexican dicta tor, it is explained, came to recog nize the necessity of a broader set tlement and then convened to the del egates assurances that he was pre pared to step down should this course be found necessary by them. The problem causing chief concern to diplomats in Mexico City now is that of the form of administration to be established during the interim be fore a constitutionally elected presi dent could assume office. No intima tions concerning the name of a pos sible successor to Huerta were con tained in the dispatch, this subject being one in which it would be neces sary to consult opinion of constitu tionalist and other leaders in Mexico. The information that the Mexican delegates had been given provision al Vauthority to submit the resignation of Huerta did not occasion great sur prise here as close friends of the Huerta government's commission broadly intimated that definite elimi nation of the dictator probably would be one of the first fruits of the Niag ara Falls conference. Vor Economy and . Efficiency There ihould be One," Says Mellen to . Councilor Folk. jWashlngton.-An, Absolute, monopoly 4tran9pottation , undet government 1 SuTatitm -und pmVofc'taljntt$i d ty harlea 3. Mellen, orejrett; dent of the New Haven Railroad, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, as a solution of the American rail road problem: ' ,yTo get efficiency and economy,.' Mr. u .Mellen. .said, "there must be. a menppoly. and this "monop- oly is certain to be the United States Government" - -A moment later Mr. Mellen remark ed "every time a railroad official comes to Washington' he has to take off his hat to some government of ficial." Mr. Mellen appeared to have recov ered entirely from his fatigue when he appeared before the commission to resume his testimony. He respond ed to questions fired at him by Chief Counsel Joseph Folk promptly, never hesitating a second for a word. He told at length the story -of his steam ship transactions with ChaTles W. Morse. Concerning these Mr. Mellen explained he felt it desirable to confer with Colonel Roosevelt, then Presi dent of the United States. He told the President he had received an offer of $20,000,000 from Morse for the New Haven steamship holdings and felt in clined to accept it, because, thus the New Haven would be able to turn the property irto cash. Mr Roosevelt, he said, apparently was anvious that Morse should be checked in his ambition to acquire a monopoly of steamship lines and urged Mr. Mellen n6t to sell. Mr. Mellen said at that time he was apprehensive of the enactment of a law by Congress to prevent railroads from owning or controlling water lines, but he was assured by Mr. Roosevelt, that so long as the law re mained as it then was, the New Haven need have no fear about its water line holdings. As to the acquisition of New Eng land trolley lines, Mr. Mellen said he proceeded on the theory that trans portation might better be handled on electric lines than on steam roads. He had been convinced that the diver sion of much of the traffic of steam roads to electric lines would be more economical, rates lower, and service generally more satisfactory to the public. Doings and Happenings That ' Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple Gathered .Around the State Capital. Week's Decisions of Supreme Court. Opinions in 19 appeals were deliver ed by the Supreme Court. It is ex pected that the,' arguments for the term will be concluded in a few days and that the Supreme Court wiU ncc-m-plete deliveries of opinions soon and adjourn. In Sprague vs.- School Commission ers from Wake the court holds that school commissioners of Raleigh can not under the Constitution issue $50,- 000" bonds for new school buildings as necessary expense", after the election on the question ordered by the Legis lature has failed to receive a. majority of the qualified voters, although it did get a majority of the Totes cast. It was hoped that there being compul sory education the "necessary ex pense" could be construed as allow ing the bond issue. The full list of opinions delivered by the court follows: Drainage Com- A AIR CFI FRRRIIflll : .The -State Historical ' Commission has received a gift of an exceptional ly valuable collection of letters! and papers of Nathaniel Macon to be kept in the fire-proof cases of the commis sion in the new state building.. The collection is a gift from Miss Laura Alston Alston, of WarreUton. There are 60 or more letters written to Ma con, most or tnem wniie ne was iu the United States Senate, which treat public affairs most interestingly from the viewpoint of the historian. There are letters in the collection from Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Governor Branch and others Secretary R. D. W. Connor of the State Historical Commission is rapid ly perfecting the program for the un veiling of the monument to the North Carolina Women of the Con federacy to be unveiled in Capital Square here June 10. The nresent plan is to divide the ceremonies between the city, audi torium and the monument, the exer cises to begin at the auditorium at 11 o'clock. The monument will be presented to the State hy Chairman J. A .Long of the Monument Commis sion, and Governor Craig will accept it for the state. The details of the unveiling ceremonies ' will probably be published within a day or two. The commission that procured the monument as the gift of the late Ashley Home consists of'J. A. Long Roxboro, chairman; R. D. W. Con norj Raleigh, secretary; Henry A. London, Pittsboro; Mrs. F. M. Wil- PARADE MOST SPECTACULAR. FEATURE AS REVIEWED BY ' V1CE-PREI8DENT-' . ' ' MARSHALL WANTS HONESTY. City Thronged With 75,00a People- Who Enjoy May 20 Observance " With no Mishap. ampton. The late W. H. S. Burgwyn of Weldon was also on the commis sion up to the time of his death. The monument is the work Augustus Lukeman, of New York. of REBELS STILL ADVANCING. Now Cost of Living Effects Preachers. Kansas City, Mo. The effect of the high cost of living on home missions was pointed out in the annual Teport of the executive committee of home missions, presented to the fourth gen eral, assembly of the Southern Pres byterian church here. It was assert ed that where a missionary could live for ?800 a year ten years ago it now costs him more than $1,200. ' For lack of funds the committee has on Its hands 260 homeless churches and at least 275 other places where or ganizations might be effected. Sick Men at Vera Cruz. Washington. General Punston re ported to the war department that the sick rate among the soldiers at Vera Cruz is 1.49 per cent and among ma rines 1.46. There are 41 soldiers in the hospital and 19 in their quarters, while among the marines the sick total 45. The general said that there was no malaria in the camp. The war department, upon General Fun- ston's request, is preparing to send to Ver"a Cruz apparatus and chemicals sufficient to render water portable for the soldiers. Panama Locks Safe. . Washington. The great steel locks in the Panama are as strong and as safe as engineering skill can make them and there is not the slightest danger to life and property in their use notwithstanding the disclosure of Attempted fraud, in the supply of prop er metal for their construction- This statement was made at the Isthmian Canal offices when attention was call ed to criminal presentments found by the grand : Jury- in 'Pittsburg against flvjt -steel makers on a charge of at tempting, to tornlsjlnfertor ;;ateriaL Four Starving Sailors Rescued. Boston. Four survivors of a boat load of 15 who escaped in the third boat of the freight steamer - Colum bian, burned at sea May 3, were pick ed up by the United States revenue cutter Seneca 40 miles south of Sable Island, according to a dispatch receiv ed here from the cutter. The dispatch of Captain Johnston of the Seneca follows: j "Ten a. m., 40 miles south Sable Island rescued lifeboat with officer Robert Teire, Sailors Kendall, Btang- err Fireman Michael Ludwigsen, sur vivors of 15. Oiler George Hull died tenth. Peter Triel today. Others be tween. All died exposure and hun ger. Short allowance biscuit and wa ter. Eating biscuit crumbs and boot leather when rescued. Saw ; three steamers first two days, none since. Much rain. Fine today. All under doc tor doing well." Having Occupied Tepic, They Mov on Guadalajara. On board U. S. S. California, Mazat lan, Mexico. (Via Wireless to San Diego, Ca. An army of 5,000 Consti tutionalist's 'having accupied Tepic with a loss of 400 killed and an un known number of casulties among, the Federals has begun its! adWjance,-.-,-4)n Guadalajara. In advance of the mov ing troops, a flying squadron of ..cay alry is.j.,working destruction to the Huertpa lines of communication, ifs main object being the crippling of the railroad from Manzanillo to Guadala jara. The capture of Tepic was accom plished after a bloody struggle. Al though the losses of the Federals are uncertain it is known 200 were taken prisoners. Mazatlan is in a state of panic. The rebels are closing in the the terror of their approach is augmented by the presence .in the ranks of 700 Indians in war paint, whose excesses in the event of the city's fall it is feared the leaders will be unable to curb. More dismal to the contemplation pf the average citizen is the prospect of the sacking of the city by the Fed erals when they are fe-Tced to retreat, as seems inevitable. It is the general belief that they will not give up Mazatian to General Obregon without first wrecking the city. Government Buys Mt. Pisgah. Washington The National Forestry Commission approved the purchase by the government of the Pisgah Forest tract of the Vanderbilt estate near Asheville, consisting of about 86,700 acres at $5 per acre or a total cost of $433,551.30. The tract contains most of the Van derbilt estate, the Vanderbilt family retaining only about 400 acres about Buck Spring Lodge and about 11,000 acres around the family home. A member of the commission stated that he considered the Pisgah Forest Charlotte, Without unpleasant in- cident of note and under weai weaui-, . er conditions, more than 75,000 people y t fmm rihartotte and territory withlit missioners vs. Home and Farm Asso- 100 miles and more. took, part m ln piationy Washington bounty, Affirmed ; greatest celebration, the anniversary a of the signing of.,, we aewwuows Declaration. ' - o- 1 - Th dawn found the cit. streets ... " . 1,. nllea wren, visitors uu xc6u i special trains irom Piedmont Carolinas added their quota until the city was one soiia jnaes- yu humanity when the time for th& pa- X rade arrived. The size of tne crowo Y has been variously estimated, Iromt ' ,i 4.n A thA ftHr ,,v--. ine Ultra coneruB w ",yr"r - j extreme. Some estimates have V run - ' - as mgn hjs ou.vyv, .. , (J t as 60,000, but according to thce jaml-' liar with large gatherings, tsj.uuw ap , ? nearea to cover me crowu. , 7 It was a larger crowd than was here when President Taft was th . gueet of honor, and larger ban whetf Vice resiaent Aaiai oievew wi -here years ago on a similar occasion. Narrowed down to its final analysis, it was the biggest assemblage of peo- i - - pie ever seen in Charlotte. It .wasalso; one of the most orderly. There were; very few disturbances among r the" h throngs of sufficient importance ?-to demand noliee attention, and with, twa or three exceptions here were jioaojj;-; -v 1 J x- J i.l nt if ft ' d A- ClUcaus miu luene nno uvi. v rious nature. - , The presence and address of 'Vice" President Marshall was alone a. fee ture far beyond the ordinary., The 1 -distinguished representative of . the - v UIUIVU OUIVCB' VCH'V T n-bUi uu - hit. Marshall -added her amiable charms , to the magnificent occasion. The vice president won the hearts of the clti- izens when he asked for tickets to $ iYia Vioeohall era me gnd ha rw.fMITlfod A box just behind the catcher's posi- tion. He rooted for Charlotte and r seemed to greatly enjoy the game. This one incident aione -servea ri to ) show the people of Mecklenburg ana r adjoining counties that they had the- right kind of a man in the important J 1 1 IV. TTU.J CI.I.h .1, Kfl'flll(I I11HI-M 111 IIH I llltJ.ll l.1.rtT EI1V eminent. . , Second only to the presence of the i vice president was the magnificent parade which took place between the ?; hours of 11 and 1 o'clock. This was ' ' , conceded to be the best event of its nature ever witnessed in the state. Spraguevvs.: ' ' School Commissioners, Wake, reversed; Rhodes vs. City of Durham, defendant's appeal affirmed, plaintiffs appeal dismissed; Bond vs Pickett Cotton "Mills, Guilford, affirm ed; Raleigh, Charlotte & Southern Railway vs. Mecklenburg Manufac turing Company, defendant's appeal no error, plaintiff appeal error; Cau sey vs. Seaboard Air Line, Randolph, no error; Uwharrie Mining Company vs. Candor, Montgomery, affirmed; State vs. Johnson, Avery, new trial; Fisher vs. Toxaway Company.Tran sylvania, affirmed; Myers vs. Norfolk & Western Railway, Wilkes, no error; Hooper vs. Hooper, Henderson, new trial; Wallace vs. Barlow, Wilkes, no error; Burris vs. Starr, Catawba, in plaintiff's appeal no error, defendant's appeal no error; State vs. Shaft, Bun combe, no error-; Lance vs. RusSell,' Buncombe, modified and affirmed with costs against the plaintiff; Wynn vs. Grant, Buncombe, no error; Myers, vs. Asheville, Affirmed; Schas vs. Life Assurance Society, Bun combe, new trial; Belk vs. Vance, Buncombe, no error. Compare Farm and City Labor. "What is the labor problem in your home county or town?" "What sug gestions have you to offer for the im provement of labor conditions in your particular vicinity?" These topics were furnished an economics class of 40 University students by Dr. C. L. Raner. head of the department of economics and correspondent of the Unitd States Rural Organization Ser- liams, Newton; Col. J. Bryan Grimes, vice, as a basis upon which to gather Raleigh; Capt. T. W. Mason, North- some first-hand information relative tb labor conditions in North Carolina. The investigations embraced some 30 representative North Carolina coun ties. The findings unfolded by this investigation are of general interest for the twofold reason of the general conclusions arrived at and the detail ed content of the papers presented. Virginia Man Killed. Charlotte. Dillard Hooker, a young white man, aged 21 years, of Suffolk, Va., was shot and killed at 5:30 p. m. by H. O. Williams, a farmer of; Char lotte township, the shooting taking place at Williams' home. Williams fired five times at Hooker, four of the five balls taking effect in Hooker's body. One ball pierced his left lung, one his right thight, one his. left fore arm, one grooved his hight thight The killing, it Is said, was the re sult of a trivial argument in : which Hooker ordered Williams from house. Mediation Outlook Bright. Niagara Palls, Ont. Before attempt ing in any way to deal with the Con stitutionalists forces in Mexico, the' three South American mediators let it be known that they are content to pro ceed to a bi partite agreement be tween the United States and the Huerta Government. The mediators have not regarded the absence of) del egates representing' General .Carranza as a serious detriment to their efforts to settle questions which led to the landing' of American forces at Vera Cruz. Extracts of B. & L. Report. The forthcoming annual report of Commission of Insurance James R Young on the growth of building and loan associations in this state for the last fiscal year will show gratifying advancement and improvement. The showing will be -that receipts the past fiscal year aggregated $7,756,599, compared with $6,912,616 the grevi ous year and that the assets of the associations aggregate $11,071,156, tract to be the most attractive forest compared with $6,912,616 the preyi in the countrv and although the nrice ous year. There are 288,333 shares in was high he declared it was the cheapest property yet bought for for estry purposes. The commission took up with Gov-1 ernor Craig a proposition to have him secure legislation to have the State of North Carolina co-operate with the federal government to make the Pis- ah Forest a national game preserve. The government will retain the name Pisgah Forest given the tract by the Vanderbilts. force compared with 243,544 the pre vious year. There were 18 new asso ciations formed the past year, making a total of 138 association in the state. Confer Honorary Degrees. Wake Forest College conlferred the following honorary degrees: Doctor of laws on N. Y. Gulley, dean of the Wake Forest Law school; W. J. Mc- Glothin, professor of history in South ern Baptist Theological Semipary at Louisville; Henry Wood, professor of German in Johns Hokpins University. The degree of doctor of letters was conferred on Clarence Poe of Raleigh, editor of The Progressive Farmer; Henry Jerome Stockard, professor of English at Peace Institute, Raleigh, and Gustavius Arvid Hagstrom, pres ident Bethel Academy and Theologi cal Seminary at St. Paul, Minn. Governor Offers $100 Reward. Governor Craig offered a reward of $100 for John T. Cox of Stanley County, "he being a fjjgutive wanted on the charge of killing Deputy Sher iff Dan T. Tolbert near Badin recent ly when the officer was attempting to arrest him and A. E. Cole on the charge of selling whiskey. Cole was arrested and testifies that Cox fired the fatal shot. Craia Commutes to Life Sentence. 1 A. W. McLean and Judge Walter Neal were successful in their efforts with Governor Craig to procure a commutation to life imprisonment for W. T. McKenzie sentenced in Robe son County to die in the electric chair June 12 for the killing of his brother- in-law Peter Jones. Both men had been highly regarded. McKenzie was a rural mail carrier and mail of good habits. The Governor explains that habits. Cabarrus May Have Creamery. Concord. Interest has been arous- . ed in the establishment of a creamery for the farmers of Cabarrus. The mat-. , ter is being agitated and not only the 11 farmers but a number of -business men have evidenced interest and stat ed they will take stock. ' For some time creameries in other sections have been securing a large 1 supply of cream from the farmers in this county. Lately the supply has increased to such an extent that the -supply of butter and milk on the local . market has hardly been sufficient for 1 the demand. Milk routes have been established in various sections of the county to tike the cream to creanv . eries at other points. Re-Opened Lenoir Bank.) Lenoir, '.The First Nation al Bank opened its doors for business again a few days ago at 11 o'clock, after being closed two weeks pending an examination of its affairs by Na tional Bank Examiner J. K. Doughton. At a meeting of the directors L. L. Jenkins, president of the American National Bank of Asheville and of the First National Bank of Gastonia was elected president of the local in stitution. Lamar C. Pegram, formerly assist ant cashier of the First National Bank of Gastonia was elected cashier. There I was almost an entire reorganization of the board of directors and of the; official staff. Hapgood to Press Association. Announcement has been made that Norman H. Hapgood, o? Har per's Weekly, is to be the orator for the annual- convention of the North Carolina Press Association, to be in session at Wrightsville Beach June 24-25. It is a notable fact that a straw ballot as tO; the preference of the editors of the state as to who should he invited to deliver the ad dress, taken some weeks ago by.Pres-1 ident Clarence Poe, with eight to ten editors of National reputation, result ed in favoT of Mr. Hapgood. Comment. on Marshal's Speech. Washington. Vice-President Mar shall's declaration that one of Amer ica's ills "is that there is tooi much science in the so-called educational system and too little God Almighty" occasioned comment in Washington. The statement was made at a church gathering here. "There- is this thing wrong in many pf the churchesL" said the vice . president, "that because church and state are separate and the state makes the schools the church feels itself absolved f ronr any ' duty In the education, of youth ' Use Confiscated Cotton. . Juarzez, Mexico. The cotton con fiscated by the Constitutionalists after the battle of Torreon will be manu factured into cotton cloth in the Mexi can mills and disposed of instead ol being sold in the raw state, if the plans of the rebels are brought to completion. The Spanish refugees from whom the cotton was confiscated have procured an injunction from the United States Courts preventing the shipment of he cotton through th,e United States. An effort to arrange a compromise failed. House of Commons Disorderly. London The sitting of the House of Commons was suspended in con sequence of the persistent disorder liness of the opposition members who thus succeeded in forcing an adjourn ment, the. motion for which had just been defeated 28$ to 176. The scene in the House followed series of blt ier speeches by. Andrew Bonar Law and other Unionists 4n which theyj de nounced Premier Asquith for his; re fusal to acquaint the House of Com: mons with the terms pf his amending hllj to he Irish hpm rule bill. Map of Soils is Ready. Dr. B. W. Kilgore, state chemist and director of the soil survey and test farm work, says the soil map for Bladen county is just completed, mak ing about one-third of the state now surveyed and mapped as to types of soil. The work is now being pushed in Wake, Union and Rowan counties. It is-estimated that 10 years will be required to complete this work with the co-operation of the state depart ment of. agriculture and the United States- department as now organized for the work. This map. of the soils is being fol lowed upV by the department with analysis of the soils and with spec- Little Time at Biltmore. Asheville. The sale of the Pisgah Forest holdings of the late George W. " Vanderbilt and the annnouncement that the Government, the purchaser, will take immediate possession of the holdings, together with the mailing : of ? notices to the members of many of the departments to the effect thatr their services will not be required after the first of June, gives rise to; the belief that Mrs.. Vanderbilt will" discontinue many of the departments of the Biltmore estate. Only the man-5 sion will be reserved. ' Secretary Daniels in Raleigh. Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Mrs. Daniels arrived in the cky a few jai experiments on all new types of days ago from Charleston, S. C, where on the night before Secretary Daniels delivered the annual address at the commencment of the College of Charleston, following commence ment addresses at Davidson College, I soil as to the best means of culti vation and crops ' best adapted. Spe cial bulletins as to these are being issued, that on the "mountain soils being afready ouand being Used to great advantage pjt the farmers .of tne and at the Charlotte High School. I moup tain .sections of the state. There Secretary Daniels lett in tne alter- are- four other special Duuetins now noon for Goldsboro to visit his mother in. the press as to special soils in dif ferent sections of the state and these are calculated to be- of great benefit to farmers, truckers and others. going by automobile, and left Golds boro' that night for Washington. Mrs. Daniels remained for' a few days. Build Septic Tanks. Wilmington. At a meeting of the property owners of Wrightsville Beach held in the rooms of the Cham- beir of Commerce recently, it was de- cided to install a system of septic tanks for the disposal of sewerage at . a cost of $5)00. Work will begin at an early date. The system has been approved by the state board of health and also .,by the local board. This .,- system has heen made necessary on account of the ' increased number of cottages" at the beach in order to pre- vent the contamination of water. . Freight Rate Hearing May 19. Governor Craig issued a procl&ma- Commisaieners in Anson County. The -"Corporation Commissioners tion ordering another extension of the j were in Anson County recently making date on which the 'reduced instrastate investigations at Wadesboro and An- freight-'rates provided in the Justice sonville as to passenger stations,, act shall be operative, the new. date Wadesboro. has a contest on with the fixed being July 19. This extension, Winston-Salem Southbound, Seaboard like those- that have preceded it since I Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line as the original date named in the bill, is 1 to the building of a larger union sta- at the request of the special commis sion; Judge M. H. Justice, chairman. In order that the commission may have time to complete the investigation necessary for the commissioners to I finally pass. - thn, and at Ansoriville there is the question of the location of a new sta tion, the demand being that the Wins- jton-Salem Southbound- move Its sta tion . from, the present location.' with out the town to another station. D, .and D.' Boys Celebrate. - fThskrlnttA I VinanlolnHa In thcr iau. . nrauon parade was tne company pf cadets from the Deaf and Dumb TnstI- ? : tution at Morgan ton, under the com mand of Major VS. Birck formerly , Of New York. -This'ls thfi .flrst com- pany of the kind to be recognized by tne r eaerai. government ana iurnisn-- - J lil. t J I -K.. 4 V... .k ing they made here, 'they are; doing ,' splendid ; work, their -drilling ability being the equal apparently, of West Point .cadets, of . the same grade,; ' There are 265 te th schoolr "A St 4 t 5 -i )
The Siler City Grit (Siler City, N.C.)
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