. MiM flu A If J1J4 - - 11 nr . i ill i wmi M i (111 Ca.oo a Year, la Advance. " r OR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND I OR TRUTM. Sinjia Copy 5 Ceota, VO,. X VIII. PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1907. NO. 17. JSP TASR HEEL TOT ICS ,lcms GatcrGd from AH STATUS OF PROHIBITION WORK Sixteen Counties Have Licensed Sa- t loons and There Are Twenty Eight Dispensaries. Raleigh, Special. The chairman of the State enti-saloon league, Mr. John A. Oates, will at once take up ' . the work that was so long actively , carried on by J. William Bailey, who retired from the chairmanship at the meeting of the executivo com mittee. Mr. Bailey's report is of special value and its most salient fea tures' are given below in condensed '. form," for the public, convenience: Thereare . sixteen .counties in tli3 .Stet'e' ih'' which' saloons are licensed, .B6.autort, JSiew Hanover, Wayne, vu-.-son," 'Lenoir, Greene, Pitt, Martin, Hertford, Edgecomb, Halifax, Cas . well, Rockingham, Forsyth, Rowan . and Buncombe; 11 of these being in the east. Eight counties, Wayne. '. Braufort, Wilsoa, Lenoir, Pitt, Hert ford, Caswell and Rockingham, havf open dispensaries and saloons. There are 23 dispensaries, in counties of Hertford, Burtie, Craven, Beaufort, Jones, Lenoir, Wayne, Harnett, Pitt, Vance, Franklin, ' Granville, Person, Caswell,? Rockingham, Alamance, Wake, and Haywood. Pitt leads with live dispensaries. Johnston county by vote at Pine Level August 27 re turns to the counties having dispen saries. This is the solution as regards the sale of liquor in this State. It must he remembered that such sale under any circumstances is illegal outside of incorporated towns and that the manufacture of liquor is forbidden by law outside of towns of a thous and population. Over 500 register ed distilleries have gone out of op eration in the State and the number of saloons has been reduced to less than 200- The temperance forces in the State were never so numerous and ' enthusiastic as at present. Vermont, $60,000 Whetstone $16,000 1 & Charlotte, Special. A long dist ance message from Bessemer City brings the information that the two cotton . milk sold at auction there were purchased by Mr. J. II. Mayes, of Charlotte and Mr. JohnM. Miller Jr., of Richmond, Va. The Whetstone was sold to Mr. Miller for $10,000 and the Vermont to Mr. Mayes for $G0,000. These bids according to the terms, of sale, will stand open tor JU days, id, order to get an advance of 10 p$rj cent, provided other purchasers care "to pay more than the prices made. A number of cotton mill men from Charlotte and this section of the State attended the sale. -V'. The tele phone messages states that a number of bids were received before the sale was closed. The Whetstone Mill according-to. the Blue Book of 1907-'OS, manufacturers table damask. It has 43 broad looms. Mr. L. L .Jenkins has served in the capacity of receiver since the mill went into .bankruptcy several months ago. Mn. R. F. Coble has .been general manager and buyer The Vermont Mill makes heavy shirt ing. It has 96 Jooms, 5,000 ring spin dles anT employs -100 operatives. It is learned that the Vermont will not discontinue operations. " It is not known what disposition Mr. Miller will make of the Whetstone. Kenneth Beasley Case. An appeal has been docketed in the Supreme court in the case of 'Joshua Harrison convicted of the abduction of nine-year-old Kenneth l??asley. The case comes from the first district and is to be argued some time next week. Colored People's Corporation. Raleigh, Special. A charter wa3 granted last week to "The District Household-of' Ruth, No. 10, G. U. O. of O. F., of North Carolina." This is . a mutual benevolent insurance as sociation of colored people. The prin cipal incorporators is P. M. N. G. Addie .j. Whitaker, D. W. R. of Raleigh. Rodman's Motion for New Papers. Raleigh, Special. In the Supreme Court W. B. Rodman, attorney for fFe'Southern Railway, made a motion to have additional papers sent up rom the Superior Court, in the $30, 00 penalty suit. Ex-Governor Ay fock on behalf of the State, made & motion to advance the case on tin docket so that it can be heard at an early date. Both motions will be heard later. The attorneys for the State say that the transcript as sent up is complete and there was no oc casion for such motion by the South ern's attorney. . . .. 58 3 Sections of the State Thirty Injured in Collision. Asheville, Special. Passenger train No. 41 on the Southern Railway col lided with an engine on the west bound main line in this city at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, damaging both engines and the combination car. Thirty persons were injured, none fa tally. The more severely injured are: R. Y. Strubble, Fredericktown, 0.; E. H. Jennings, Pittsburg, Pa.; Mrs. E.C. Brownton, Americus, Ga. ; Miss W. A. Collins, Hattiesburgfc Miss.; Elks Feld (colored) Asheville, N. C; Mrs. J. B. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.; Car ris Mclver, Charlotte, N. C. ; R. L Cruikshank, Greenville, S. C. ; J. B. Hardy, Americus, Ga.; Evelin Dicks, Dambarton, S. C. ; J. R. Davis,, Salis bury, ,N. C; W. M. Shears, Atlanta; Miss Alice Holdenburg, New Orleans; J. B. Enslave, Sylvia, N. C; John Sample, Ninety-Six, S. C. ; Mrs. Eliza beth Chambliss, Tuskegee, Ala.; Miss. W. L. Richardson, ,Comvav; 0. Hazel Eckert, Asheville, N. C.; Miss G. B. Eckert, Asheville, N. C. Death in the Game. Apex, Special. A young white man by the name of Powell died at Merry Oaks Saturday afternoon during the progress of a base bail game. Apex and Merry Oaks- were playing and Mr. Powell was the first baseman of the Merry Oaks team While his side was in and he was standing by he suddenly dropped to his knees. He was caught by two of his friends and carried to the shade, where he died in about half an hour, regaining consciousness only once of ter he fell. Mr. Powell was about 23 years old. He worked at the Pan Cake Mills, near Merry Oaks. His relatives live in Virginia, but further than this their whereabouts are not known here. Stokes Sanitarium to be Enlarged. Salisbury, Special. The Wkite-head-Stokes Sanitarium will shortly bo enlarged twenty rooms and ef forts made to grow to the demands made upon it. Twice in its history has it been necessary to expand and never since Dr. J. E. Stokes became the head of it has it been possible to meet the public in quest of treat ment there. In the charity hospital canvass for funds to equip it, Dr. Whitehad is a large contributor, it being certain that the new institu tion will be an aid to the old and not a competitor. Dr. Stokes has . con- 1 tributed very handsomely to , the I health restorer bearing a portion of his name. New Company in Salisbury. Salisbury, Special. Salisbury now has an insurance company the Secur ty Mutual Life Association having been inaugurated here within the past few days and now having be tween 100 and 200 policies to its cred it. The charter was received last week and as soon as the organization had been perfected, it will go to work in the Norwood-Welch block, with S. L. Adcock manager and very likely the Salisbury synonym of success, J. M. Maupin, . as State agent. Life insurance is its aim and it expects to do great business all over the State. Fugutive From Justice Captured. Reidsville, Special. Ernest Mills, young white man who escaped jail in Danville at the time of the delivery last February, when eight prisoners gained their iiberty as a result of the door having been accidentally unlock ed was captured at Spray by Sheriff Eanes. ne was carried back to Dan ville by Deputy Sheriff Smith. At the time of his escape Mills was con fined awaiting trial on the charge of housebreaking. Hurt in a Sawmill. Burgaw, Special. Haywood Ban nerman was very painfully hurt last Friday while working at his saw mill by being struck in the side with no chance for his recovery but later he was resting easy and his condi tion seems to point possibly toward recovery. Bold Bobbery Near Durham. Durham, Special. A bold robbery was done Saturday night just before 10 o'clock when a farmer Mr. W. J. W. Terry who lives near Bahama, was sand-bagged and robbed by a negro. The robber secured what money the farmer had in his pockets, this a mounting to a few cents over $1S, and then took his pocket knife, and half plug of tobacco for good meas ure. It was a bold piece of work and the police believe that they can work up the case. REFORMATORY DIRECTORS Governor Glenn Announces Names of Those Composing the Board. The Governor has announced the names of those who will serve as trus tees for the new State reformatory school, which will be named the Stone wall Jackson Manual Training and Industrial School. The trustees ap pointed are as follows: For six years, Mrs T. J. Jackson, of Charlotte; Mrs. M. C. D. Burgwyn, of Weldon; Miss Eastdale Shaw of Rockingham; Mrs. Sallie Yates Fai son, of Charlotte. Four years: Dr. II. A. Royster of Raleigh ; Mrs. A. L. Coble, of Statesville ; Mrs. Y. N. Rey nolds, of Winston ; Mrs. J. P. Cook of Concord ; Mr. E. R. Preston, of Char, lotle; M George W. Watts of Dur ham. For two years: Mrs. D. Y. Cooper, of Henderson ; Mrs. G. R. Er win, Morganton; Mr. Caesar Cone, o Greensboro; Mr. J. II. Tucker oi A&heville; Mr. Duncan McEoohern, of Wilmington. The News and Observer says of the school : "Governor Glenn has called a meet ing of these trusttees for the third of September. The trusees are to select a site of not less than 100 acres or more than 500 acres, and with the $5,000 given by the State and private subscriptions in hand and as received to provide a reformatory for the do-. tention and reloramtion of the crim inal youth of the State. Officers are to be elected and all the management of affairs to be in the hands of tin; trustees named. "Governor Glenn called the atten tion of the committee appointed by the General Assembly to investigate reformatories to the fact that its" re port must be made prior to September 1st, and he asks that this manner 03 attended to at once." Elizabeth College Has Great Promise. Charlotte, Special. The session of Elizabeth College which opens 011 Sep tember ISth, gives promise of being by far the best. in the history of the s iicci. From th-. apiicalioixS from students now in tlic president's of fice, it is very probables that the en rollment at the beginning of the year w.i be larger thau that attained at any time during 1.-st session. The patronage irom North Carolina will be decidedly larger than ever before. The recent tour of Rev. W. C. Shaeffer in the interest of the school included a visit to 18 61al.es ii ah n these lie found tlx popularity of Eli;;abelh College to be growing One of the t'eau'-.-v-- the next sc--.im tlciLis of s;:ejiiil hueresl i- that the entire junior t:u of last .cai. including the students ot music and exui (!-:s:-.m, .!! return to graduate 'J'ho freshman class will iie unusually l-ir.'e this ye;!r. The faculty will be strengthened by the addition of several now inomljiji-s among tiv.se being Miss li. Adele Al len, of T'ontucky, who wili bo ru riie head of mt department of English, and Miss Maude Shaeffer, who will oc cupy the chair of assistant in the de partment of mathematics, Miss Shaef fer graduated at Elizabeth College several ."ears ago, aud since that time she has been doing post-graduato work, and is well equipped for ler work as a teacher. Prisoners of the Smithtown Raid. Greensboro, Special. Several de puty marshals under the direction of United States Marshal J. M. Milikan left for Dobson, Surry county for the purpose of bringing to Greensboro twelve prisoners for trial at the spec ial term nf Fnitod Sifnfpvi Tiijirir.f court, which begins here next Mon- clay. Ihe prisoners Mere arrested in Tune and July and ten of them have been in jail at Dobson since June 20, the -time -of 'thc'Smithtown raid. The prisoners are: Logan Chambers, Zeb Frazier, James F. Shelton, J. Frank Cardwell, Oscar Smith, John T. Grif 3n, James D. Williams, Oscar Wil liams, John Young, II. J. Lovins and David Wilson. Minor State Happenings. The jury in the case of Major Guthrie, on trial for murder at Dur ham, returned a verdict of guilty, and he will be sentenced to hang. Ed Asbby, who was tried at Salis bury last week on a charge of murder, was found guilty of second degree murder, and given ten years. September 17th has been fixed by the North Carolina Supreme Court for the final hearing of the rate cases. Innocent Men Pardoned. Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn has pardoned Carroll Harris, convict ed at the Wilson court in 1S97 and sentenced to 15 years for manslaugh ter. The Governor says Harris was the dupe of an older criminal and the judge regrets the length of the sentence which was excessive. A pardon was also granted to J. F. Barnes and James Williams convict ed in Rowan in 190G of highway rob bery and given five years on 'the roads. The prosecuting witness has turned out to be a bad man and is now a fu gitive from justice. It seems that the defendants are innnocent. SHOT CLOSE FRIEN Rash Act of a Young Man at AshevjiJe, North Carolina NO CAUSE EOR THE TRAGEDY Hugh Postell Shoots and Kills Almost Instantly IIi3 P.oom-Mate, Ed Ed wards Much Excitement Attend ing the Killing, Which Took Placa in Bicycle Establishment. Ashville, N C, Special. A Sad tragedy occurred Saturday afternoon about 4 o'clock when Hugh Postell, J former street car conductor and well known young man of Asheville, shot and almost instantly killed Ed. Ed wards his erstwhile good friend and close companion, the killing occurring in the rear of the J. M. llearn & Co. bicycle establishment where Edwards was at work. According to the best information obtainable the killing was the result of a slight quarrel started Friday over a trival matter, a matter of one dollar. Powell fired but one shot, the bullet taking effect in Edward's head. As he tired the shot Postell dropped the pistol and ran out of the bicycle establishment, going in the di rection of the French Broad river. A physician was summoned but Edward a was dead in a few minutes. Officers at once started after Post ell and met him in the vicinity of the river. The slayer at the time was headed back to the city. He did not know that Edwards was dead and the first question he asked the officers was "How bad is he hurt?" When deputy Sheriff Poland informed Post ell that Edwards was dead, the prison er broke down and cried like a baby, declaring that Iks "loved him as a brother." Edwards boarded at Post ell's home. After his arrest Postell requested that the officers allow him to go home and "tell the folks." Wheu the pris oner and the officers went to Postell 's home they found ' Postell 's mother there and two of Edward's brothers The meeting was pathetic. Postell spoke a few words o the brothers of the man he had killed and again broke down. - When placed in jail he was on the verge of collapse. Whether there is any motive for the ki'ling aside from that rfpparent on the surface is not known, none, however i;1 hinted at. Postell, while reticent to a degree,, said that he was afraid of Edwards, that Edwards had threatened him-' bodily harm. He avers that, when he shot, Edwards had reached for something, he doesn't know what. Morgan New Traction King. New York, Special. J. P. Morgan has stepped into the arena as the new traction king, dethroning Ryan and Belmont,. The great banker, accord ing to reports current in the best quarters of Wall Street has purchas ed $20,000,000 shares of Metropolitan bonds and will undertake the reor ganization of the local traction trust. His purchase of bonds has relieved at least one big banking house from des perate trouble. Morgan got the bonds at 50. These bonds were issued in exchange for Interborough Rapid Transit stock at the rate of two for one and Morgan gets equivalent Inter borough railroad transit stocks at par. It is paying 9 per cent, and is earning much more. France to I'm sue Warring Trigesmen. Paris, By Cable. The French gov ernment telegraphed instructions to General Drude authorizimr him to pursue a relentless campaign against the warring tribesmen in- the Casa Blanca region and specifically permit ting him to make a two days' march into the interior. He is told, how ever, not to make any campaign in the nature of an expedition. Reduction in Ocean Rates. New York, Special. The Internat ional Merchantile Marine Company announced a reduction in outward; bound first-class cabin minimum rates on the White Star and American lines. Rates on the "White Star Liner Oceanic have been reduced from $105 to $82.50 and on the Majestic from $90 to $67.50. On the four American line ships the rate has been reduced from $90 to $C7.50 . Good Pecan Crop. Austin, Tex., Special. Imports re ceived from various parts of Texas indicate that the pecan crop this fail will be exceptionally good. In some sections the hot dry weather ha. caused the nuts to drop from th-? trees, but the damage is not wide spread and there will likely be an unusually large quantity of pecan? gathered in October. The reported shortage in other sections wi',i likely result in good prices for the owners of Texas pecan forests. SAYS PANIC MAY FOLLOW Comptroller Plant Says in Case Thi3 Should Result From State Legisla tion North Carolina Would Have to Share Its Burden of Responsibility. Washington, Special. The prob able adverse effect of State legislation on the prosperity of the railroads and the people of the country, was the feature of the testimony of Comp troller Plant, of the Southern Rail way, in the North Carolina rate hear ing .case. He pointed out that if a panic should result from the lower ing of passenger rates, the State of North' Carolina would have to share the burden of responsibility. Discussion of this phase of the con troversy was brought about by a ques tion asked Mr. Plant by Mr. Justice, Speaker of the North Carolina Legis lature, as to whether there was con gestion on the Southern Railway linos in North Carolina. Mr. Plant replied that congestion had been relieved to some extent luring the last six months by means of improvements to the Southern sys tem. Asked if he attributed the con gestion to the recent act of the North Carolina Legislature reducing passen ger rates, Mr. Plant replied that the more the rate legislation the less con gestion there would be because legis lation would have a tendency to de crease business in the country as a whole. "I mean to say," added Mr. Plant, "that the greater the agitation against the railroads of the country, the greater the probability of a de erease in general trade." The reason why the Southern Rail way does not increase its facilities for moving traffic faster than now Mr. Plant explained was that the Southern has not the cash to pay for such additional facilities. To get the money for these improvements. It must go into the money markets and sell its securities. "It cannot," he said, "find a market for securities in the face of State Legislation tending to reduce its rates below the point where it can earn the money to pay for the necessary improvements." . "If the rates in North Carolina ar? exorbitant, do you think the Southern Railway Company ought to criticise the State of North Carolina for mak ing rates to what it thinks are prop er, "-asked Mr. Justice. "If the rates arc exorbitant,' replied Mr Plant, "and can be shown to be. I do not believe the Southern Railway would hesitate to consider their re duction." Asked if he thought the railroads and not the North Carolina' Legisla ture ought to fix the rates, Mr. Plant lTpljed that personally he '. believes "tiiere shouTd be a mutual understand ing between . the railroads and" th? public, as he felt that the railroad. and the public were copartners "When one prospers," he said, "the other should prosper, and there shou'd be a mutual understanding and an equitable arrangement as to rates. COURIER JOURNAL BUILDING BURNS. While Flames Enwarp the Building of the Louisville Courier Journal the Editors and Reporters Continue at Work Until Fire Faces Them at All Exits. Louisville, Ky., Special. The Cour ier Journal building was practically destroyed by fire early Friday entail ing a loss of $050,000 in damage to the structure and contents. The blaze started in the top of an elevator shaft, and the cause is supposedly defective insulation of electric light wires. The fire spread rapidly, but the editorial and reportorial forces of the paper stuck to the buijding in the hope that the blaze would be subdued and they could issue the paper. They were caught napping with fire at all the exits and had to be taken out by lad ders. During the fire the third floor collapsed. Four Killed in Auto Wreck. Rochester, N. Y., Special. An au tomobile run by Dr. George Waldron, of Rochester, was struck by a Roch ester & Eastern trolley car at a cross ing near Canaigua Thursday after noon and four persons, Dr. Waldron, Mrs. William Scandling, Mrs. Jane Hobbs, of Hopewell, and Mrs. Kath erine Farnsworth, of Rochester, were instantly killed. Two Killed in Auto Crash. Saunderstown, R. I., Special. W. Waldo Merrill, of 915 Beacon street, Boston, a State street stockholder, and Erie Landstrom of Mattapan, Mass., a chauffeur were killed by the overturning of an automobile which crash into a strong wall at a sharp curve in the road leading to Nara gansett Pier. Four other occupants of the touring car, Mr. and Mrs. Fred erick L. Milliken, of Milton, Mass , their daughter, Miss Rita Milliken and Mrs. Merrill, wife of ' W. .Waldo Merrill, escaped with slight injuries. I Late JVetetj 1 In 'Brief C miiAn uirrrnfl flc niTrnrPT g nil 11 UK HIAI ILfiO Ur liilLKLOl Charles Williams, a negro outlaw who began his career of murder by shooting the Sheriff who sought to arrest him, killed two other white of ficers in Georgia and is being pursued by by a third posse sworn to take hira alive or dead. The International Law Association began its second convention at Port land, Maine. The leading brewers of the country resolved at a meeting to fight the ris ing tide of local option. New Yorkers say all the capital for a railroad from Nebraska to the Gulf f Mexico has been subscribed. Energetic measures are being taken to fight the bubonic pleague at San Francisco. Lack of morals in the French navy is the cause assigned for' recent dis isters by the Senatorial commission Df investigation. The British Paraliament was pro rogued after a long and arduous ses sion. The assassination of the Sultan 0? Morocco was rumored. Presidents Roosevelt and Diaz have offered their good offices to the Cen tral American republics to', arranga for a peace conference. All previous work records by the Panama canal have been broken by Colonel Goethels in July and August. The Comptroller of the Treasury lecides that Government officials must sign all documents by hand, the use of rubber stamp "signatures" being; illegal. Rev. Dr. R. T. Wilson a prominent Southern Methodist minister died near Petersburg. Rev. Robert Smith is dead at Man assas. . ( ' F. R. Fiori a brewery collector was, held up and robbed of $1,700 near Tunnelton. Miss Anna McDonald Duncan and Mr. Charles B. Hendricks were mar ried in the West .Virginia building at Jamestown. Osteopaths in session at Norfolk de clared they would prove A. T. Pat rick not guilt v of murder in New York. Directors of the. Jamestown Expo sition are expected to end the Tucker P.arr social war Friday. George Whitelock of Baltimore created a stir in the American Bar As sociation by introducing a resolution criticising the President for comment ing on the Beef Trust trial a year ago. A movement is said to be on foot to appeal to the President in the tele graph strike. Fiur persons were killed in a collis ion between an automobile and a trol ley car near Canandaigua, N. Y. Prince Wilhelm of Sweden lunched at Sagamore Hill and came away lou.i in his praises of the President. ' Chester B. Runyan, the New Yorker who stole nearly $100,000 blamed his downfall on Laura Carter. Senator Tillman discussed the race question in Wilmington, Del. Secretary Taft continued on his westward journey. i. Radical changes in New York's transit system -are ordered by the Public Service Commission. Secretary Newberry plans to trans fer the historic frigate Constitution from Boston to either Annapolis or Washington. " ' The Earl of Dunmore, the most prominent Christian Scientist in Eng land is dead. ' Canada wants to restrict the num ber of Japanese immigrants. The Joint Army, Navy and Treas ury Board agreed upon a bill provid ing for an increase of pay in ail branches of the service. According to the present program the battleship fleet will not reach San Francisco until May 1, 1908. James P. Farrell, an Irish Nation alist member of Parliament and 4Q others were arrested on charges of holding meetings that caused a riot with the Sinn Fein Society. Matuschenko, the sailor who led the mutiny on the Russian battleship Kniaz Potemkine two years ago, hai been arrested. Governor Swanson denied that h was in any way connected with ths social war at the Jamestown Expo sition. Cyrus Graffin, considered a pooi hermit in Richmond died leaving $75,-000. Samuel Gompers and William Ran dolph Hearst will be the speakers La bor Day at the Jamestown Exposition. Ludwig Hostottle was killed at Par kersburg, W. Va., by a sharp splinter of wood piercing his heart. 1