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TAR HjESL TOPICS
Items Gathered from AH
Two Electric Power Plants.
Hickory, Special. It is much ki
evidence that Hickory is to have in
the near future two electric power
plants, 6m having just been charter
ed unedr the name of Horseford Pow
er Co., with capital stock of $125,
C00 wiheh is to ievilop electric power
at tin: Odell Shoals ft. the Catawba
river two and onr; Lalf miles north
of the city, the property ' being that
sold by order of court Saturday, Sep
tember, 7th, which wa3 bought by a
local company with a view to having
it developed as soon as possible. This
property is considered among the fin
.est unoccupied in the State. The
Sherrill Shoals -one and a half miles
ast of the Horseford property on
the same stream is to be developed
hy the Water-Power Electric Com
contracts for the development of
pany for which the majority rf the
same have been already let. Col. M.
E. Thorton the company's most act
ive member left a few days ago for
New York where he will join some of
his business associates, who are in
terested, in the development of the
jaroject. The development of these
sUtfais means much to the city and
the surrounding country. Power can
ho furnished at much less cost to our
manufacturers.
The "Work i3 Accepted. ....
Grensboro, Special. Thursday
night the executive committe of tho
"board of directors of the State Nor
mal and Industrial College were in
session here for the purpose of ac
cepting the work done during the
summer by John T. Hunt & Co., who
have been engaged in building an an
nex to the Spencer building and com
pleting the work on the Students
Tbuilding. The company completed
the work according to the specifica
tions in the contract September 1st,
and the committee accepted the work
-finding it measuring up in every res
peet to the requirements laid down
in the contract.
Store Burned to Ground.
wHope Mills, Special. A few minutes
after 9 o clock Thursday night fire
was discovered in the store of L. C.
, McDuffie and before any assistance
-could be got the flames had gained
sucu headway that it was impossible
to extinguish them, although the store
might have been partly saved had the
, No. 4 mill had steam so as to force
7 the water. Mr. MeDuffie had just
' begun some extensive repairs, such
as painting and remodeling; and ha
had also quite a lot of new fall goods
which had just arrived. He had some
insurance though not sufficient to
cover the loss. No cause of the fire
, is known.
Hanged Himself in Barn.
High .Point, "Special. Some time
Wednesday night at Abbott's Creek,
. kjne rniles from this place, Hand
sodenhamer, a white man 35 year3 of
age, got out of bed, went to barn on
the lot and hanged himself from one
of the joists. He retired as usual
and was not missed until this morn
ing, when his son found him cold hi
death. The reason given fr his rash
act is that he was involved in a law
suit about a horse. He leaves a wife
. and five children. '
i Greenville Has Enormous Tobacco
Sales.
Greenville, N. C, Special. The
Greenville tobacco market had a re-ord-breaking
sale Wednesday. The
banks here paid out nearly $35,000
for the days sales. Farmers are de
. lighted at the good prices their to
bacco is bringing.
Dicharges 150 Men.
Spencer, Special. The Southern
Railway Company discharged 150 of
its employes at Spencer pursuant to
a general cut which it is learned cov
ers the" entire Southern system. It
is understood that the reduction of
the force is made necessary by ad
verse legislation and in order to meet
expenses. The curtailment applies to
all departments.
Bridge Tumbles In.
Troy, Special. A few days ago
the approach on the east end of Bur
ton's bridge across Little Pee Dee
river, about five miles south of Troy
fell in while Dan Allen was crossing
in a two-horse wagon loaded with
lumber.,; The driver and team fell a
distance- of fifteen feet. Mr. Alltn
received serious internal injury and
probably will die. The mules were
not seriously hurt. The bridge had
isn recently repaired and wa.-
tMmgkt to be in a safe condition. A
rotten piece of timber that was
.thought l)y the workmen to be sound
tells thfiary
Sections of the State
Last Bxaminat&n. '
Raleigh,. Special. Directioas to ap
plicants ior high school teachers' cer
tificates were mailed from the State
Department of Education to all thosa
applying fer certificates and to coun
ty superintendents. Another exam
ination will be held at tho county seat
of every county October 11th and
12th. This .will be the last one of
the year for high sohoei teachers.
These certificates are valid for three
years and subject to renewal without
examination by the State Board of
Examiners, upon terms prescribed by
the board.
All applications for this examina
tion must be filed with the State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction on
or before September 30, 1907.
Questions for the examination are
being prepared by the State Board of
Examiners and will be in the hands
of the county superintendents in am
ple time for the date fixed.
Tho examination will cover the
usual high school subjects including
history, State, national and general;
English, German, composition and lit
erature; advanced mathematics,
algebra and geomatry; civil govern
ment theory and practice of teaching.
In "addition to the subjects men
tioned above, examinations will be
given in physics, agriculture,, Latia,
Greek, French and German. To teach
any, of these subjects the teacher
must hold a certificate covering the
same and no applicant may become
principal of a public high school
whose certificate does not cover one
of the following :La tin, Greek, French
or German.
. Items of State News.
State; Superintendent Joyner says
that the last examination for high
school teachers will be held in every
county in the State, October 11th and
12th, at the respective courthouses.
He says that a great "many are need
ed and that in fact not over half these
schools have as yet secured princi
pals. The pay f o teachers is not
less than $40 a month and in some
cases exceeds $100. Some of th
principals get $1,000 for eight-
months school term. Those who pass
examinations can serve in any pub
lic school. At the first examination
which was held in July there were a
good many applicants but not so
many as were expected and some fail
ed to meet the requirements. The de
mand for teachers of all kinds was
never so marked in the State as at
present and the better salaries which
are paid are proving a very decided
attraction in some sections. '
The Tennessee Coal. Fields and
South Atlantic Trans-continental
Railway Company has changed its
name to the South Atlantic Trans
Continental Railway. This is the line
which is applying for fifty convicts
under a new State law, and which
desires to speedily build about fif
teen miles of road near Waynesville
in order to reach some very exten
sive, forests.
A special, worker is engaged in the
office of the Secretary of State copy
ing reports regarding Onslow county
to replace those destroyed by fire.
Desparate Negro Captured.
Fayetteville, Specitl. Archie Mc
Lauchhn a desperate negro convici
of Cumberland county, has been ar
retted at Kingstree, S. C, an! Sher
iff Watson cnt down after "uinr; last
week. MoLavchlin was one of four
convicts who escaped from the chain
gang camp a year or two ago, pre
eured arms in some way, fled to a
swamp and bad a pitched battle with
a posse who surrounded them during
whieh McLauchlin and one of the
posse John Autry were wounded.
State News Items.
Early next year Raleigh will be In
the way of getting a great amount of
electric power from Buckhorn Falls.
Another charter is to the Edge
mere Manufacturing Company of
Concord, whieh will make yarns,
quilts and other cloths; the capital
stock being $25,000 and W. M. Green
wood, New York City, being the prin
cipal stockholder.
Increese of $6,000,000.
Charlotte, Special. Magistrate J.
W. Cobb who has been at work on
the city tax books for the past few
weeks and who has just about com
pleted his task, was asked by a re
porter to give an estimate as to the
value of the taxable property in the
city of Charlotte. His reply was
"About $17,000,000,. an increase of
about $0,000,000 over last year. This
means, "he continued" "that if all
the taxes are collected, the city tax
collector will handle about $170,000.
CONTRACT FOR BIG MILL
Ordway & Co., of Winston-Salem,
Will Build the Dam and Building
of the Treasurer Cotton Mill at
Statesville Two Mills to Use One
Dam.
Statesville, Special. The Turner
Cotton Mill Company of which ox
Lieutenant Governor Turner of
Statesville is president which will
build a mill and a small village at
East Monbo on the Iredell side of the
Catawba river, has let the contract
to Ordway & Co., of Winston to build
tb dam across the river and to put
in the foundations for the mill build
ing. The dam will be 1,000 feet long
and will be built of concrete. The
old dam which now furnishes powder
for the Monbo Mills will be torn
away and both mills will get their
power from the new dam.. The river
bed at this point is of solid rock and
S an ideal place for a dam. The Ord
way people are shipping their fixtures
to Barium which will be the ship
ping point of the mill, and will gj
to wrk on the dam in a short time.
They expect to complete the woik
before . Jonuary 1st,
Mr. Turner is now negotiating with
the brick manufacturers to have the
brick made for the mill building.
They will be made on the site of t'h
mill and it is probable that a contract
will be made in a few days. Part of
the cottages may be built of brick.
The Turner Cotton Mill Company
has a paid in capital of $125,000.
Fire Lives Imperiled.
Black Mountain, Special. An ac
cident occurred here about 10 o'clock
Saturday night by which four young
people came near losing their lives.
Two young men, Bascom Burnett and
and Ze'b Suttle and two young ladies
Misses Lettie Buchanan and Mary
Jamison were sitting on the balcony
of the McCoy building occupied as a
store and hotel when part of the bal
cony gave way and crashed down up
on the sidewalk which it overhung.
The youny ladies escaped with slight
to the ground together with the
wreckage and "both young men were
seriously although not fatally hurt.
The young lodies escaped with slight
injuries but were badly shocked and
bruised.
Tile Factory.
Raleigh, Specinal. A manufactory
has been established at Raleigh of
fine tiles and it is intended to go into
art work along this line. The brick
business has been more important
here this summer thnn ever hefnvi
The Denitentiarv has a larfe nlunt
CT- I
and so has Carolina Press Brick
Company and the Johnston Brick
Company. The output has been heavy
at all these plants and much new ma
chinery has been installed. Another
company here makes brick on the
copper mine property on the Raleigh
& Southport Railway a few miles
south of here. The demand for all
kinds of building material was never
so great as at present.
Negroes Fall nt Abont Woman and
Shoot Bach Other.
Wilmington, N. C, Spaeial. Late
Tuesday evening in the northern part
of the city Albert Jones, a middle
aged nesro was shot and fatally
wounded by Sam Glover, who was
also wounded in the thigh. They had,
previously auarreled over a woman
and Jones had made at Glover jgib
an axe. They live in the same viein
ity in Brown's alley. When they
went home from the lumber-mill
plant where " they were employed
(jrlover went in his house to get his
pistol. When he came out the door,
Jones opened fire on him, the bullet
entering his thigh. Jones received a
wound in the back, ranging upward
the bullet penetrating the intestines.
Warehouse Company Chartered.
Raleigh, Special. A charter is
granted the Cabarrus County Ware
house Company, mainly to store cot
ton its warehouse to be at Concord.
The capital stock is $100,000 and
John P. Allison and others are the
stockholders.
New Enterprises.
A charter is granted the Horseford
Power Company, of Hickory, which
is to develop electric power at Horse
ford Shoals on the Catawba river, the
amount of capital stock being $125,
000. A. A. Shuford and others be
ing stockholders.
A charter is granted the Goodwill
Telephone Company, of Stokesdale,
the amount of its capital stock being
$10,000.
The peoples Savings Bank & Trust
Co., of Randleman, is granted a char
ter, (the capital stock being $59,000.
25 DIE IN A WRECK
A Misunderstanding of Orders
Results in Awful Catastrophe
MANY PERSONS INJURED BADLY
Excursion Train on the Concord
Division of the Boston & Maine
Railroad Crashes Into a Freight
With Terrible Results.
White River Junction, Vt., Special.
A fearful head-on collision between
the southbound Quebec express and a
northbound freight train on the Con
cord division of the Boston & Maine
Railroad, four miles north of Canaan
station . early Sunday, due to a mis
take in train dispatcher's orders and
from a demolished passenger coach
ihere were taken 24 dead and dying
and 27 . other passengers, most of
them seriously wounded. Nearly all
those who were in the death car wero
returning from a fair at Sherbrooke,
Quebec, 160 miles north.
The conductor of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
plenty of time to reach a siding by
the night operator at Canaan sta
tion, receiving, according to the su
perintendent of the division, a copy
of the telegraph order from the train
dispatcher at Concord which confus
ed the train Nos. 30 and 34. The
wreck occurred just after the express
had rounded into a straight stretch
of I rack, but owing to the early morn
ing mist neither engineer saw the
of her 's Lead light until it was too
late.
The List of the Dead.
Those identified up to 6 o'clock at
nisht were as follows:
Timothy Shaughnessey, Castle Bar,
Qebec.
Mrs. Shaughnessey. $ '
Miss Annie St. Pierre, .Verte, Que
bec. Fred M. Phelps, Ochiltree, Texas.
Mrs. A. E. Warren, Haverhill,
Mass.
Mrs. F. C. Blake, South Corinth,
Vt.
Mrs. Maragret Largy, Manchester,
N.H.
Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sherbrooke.
Miss Barrett, Manchester, N. H.
Miss Alvira Giron, Nashua.
Mrs. Webster, a dresJmaker living
in Massachusetts.
J. L. Conron, Somerville, Mass.
Infant child of Irving Gilford, Con
cord, N. H.
Mrs. E. L. Brisgs, West Canaan,
N. H.
John G. Duncan, Bethel, Vt.
The unidentified include a boy 4
years old, a man 40 years old, a wo
man oi 30 years, a man of 55, and
four others. .
Those Seriously Injured.
Tho most seriously injured, who
were taken to the Margaret Hitch
cock Hospital at Hanover, N. II., in
cludes an unknown boy with both legs
broken, arm torn out and head in
jured, dying. The other known in
jured are: Mrs. S. Saunders, head
and back injured; Mrs. C.1 N. Saun
ders, Nashua, wounds on head; Miss
C. Saunders, Nashua, contusions on
face ; Miss D. Saunders, Nashua, in
ternal injuries; Fred Saunders, Nash
ua, shoulder injured; Mrs. Hester
Saunders, Br'octon, Mass., head and
baek injured; Charlos St. Pierre ,lsle
Verte, Que., internal injuries; Arthur
Jacques, Millbury, internal injuries;
E. A. Batchelder, Senaerville, ankle
broken; Philip Gagnon Sherbrooke,
internal injuries; John Barrett, Man
chester, N. H., head and breast in
jured; Miss Abby Jansen, Nashua,
DroKen irontal bone.
The southbound train was made up
at Sherbrooke, where it picked up
two sleepers from Quebec and two
more on the way down. It consist
ed of the baggage car, passenger
coach and smoking ear in that order,
with the sleepers in the rear. The
train left .White River Junction at
3:50 a. m., 40 minutes late and fol
lowed 20 minutes later by the Mon
treal express over the Central Ver
mont. The Quebec express is known
as No. 30 and the Montreal train os
No. 34.
Meantime a northbound freight
train known as No. 267, had arrived
at Canaan, IS miles down the road,
at 4:10 a. m., on time. According
to W. R. Ray, Jr., division superin
tendent, J. R. Crowley, the night
train dispatcher at Concord, sent n
dispatch to John Greeley, the night
operator at Canaan that" No. 34 was
one hour and 10 minutes late. The
order which Conductor Lawrence, of
the freight train, showed after the
accident distinctly states that No.
30 instead of No. 34 was an hour
and 10 minutes late. Cojiductbr
Lawrence, believing that he had suf
ficient time in the hour and ten min
utes to reach the sidetrack at West
Canaan, four miles beyond, before
No. 30 reached it, ordered his train
ahead. The superintendent declared
that the accident was due to the mis
take in placing a cipher after ths
three in the number of the tra?,
instead of a four. . .
DR. MURPHY DEAD
Head of Ncrlh Carolina insane
Hospital Passes Away
A MAN OF RARE ATTAINMENTS
Superintendent of State Hospital
Succumbs to Illness From Which
He Suffered a YearWas Fifty
Nine Years of Age and Had Been
at Head of Hospital Sines Its Es
tablishment A Noble Man Gsne
Sketch of His Career.
m Charlotte, N. C, Special. Dr. Pat
rick Livingston Murphy, for 25 years
superintendent of the State Hospital
at Morgamton died Wednesday niorn
niag at 11 :3Q o'eloek at his home in
MorgantoH afiter an of a year.
Da'. Murphy was 59 years of age.
Ho was born on Qetobar 26, 1S4S i'a
Saxapson county near Cliik&n, and
there spent the younger part of his
life. lie was the Ron of the late Pat
rick Murphy and bfore her marriage
his mother was Miss Eliza A. Faison
He was ed-ueated at the Bingham
School, wtrifh- was thou at the Oaks
afterwards at Me Vane.
When Genvrai Stoneman nt the
close of the war, dashed through , the
mountains and made his raid .frora
Greenaboro to SalisbHry the cadet
corps was ordered into the field t
meet him: but that was the only mili
tary ervic that Dr. Murphy ever
performed.
Educational Advantages.
Later he went to school to Coloael
Tew, at Hrlbboro. His medical edu
cation was completed at the Univer
sity of Virginia, but after reoeiviagf
his degre thee he studied several
vm.t nuirt nf ffi TTnivwtitv if
MarylaBd. For several years he prac
ticed ffiedmne m Sampson county
aad frm there went to Stanton, Va.,
where he served some time as assist
ant pfeysiaran at the Western Insane
Asylum. While in Staunton he re
eeived the appointment to the super
iatoadentcy of the hospital fer the
rnsae at Moranton and since that
time kal mads Morganton his homs.
Held Many Honors.
Dr. Murphy was a member of the
board of medical examiners of Nort'i
Carolina and one of the board of di
rectors of tb School for the Deaf
and .Dumb at Morganton. He was at
one time the president of the North
Carolina Medaeal Society and an offi
cer in tke American Medico-Psycholo-lojjical
Association.
Marriage in 1878.
He was married to Miss Bettie
Waddella Bumgardner of Augusta
county, Virginia. From the marriago
there are four surviving children.
They are Miss May McKorkle Mur
phy, Mr. William Alexander Murphy
Mr. James Bumgardner Murphy, and
Mr. Robert Livinston Murphy, Mrs.
Charles Williams, of Wallace, N. C,
a sister of Dr. Murphy also survives
him.
The death of Dr. Murphy was not
unexpeeted. H has been ill for the
past year, and last September was
taken to Baltimore during the past
year he was operated on several
times and was finally sent btoe by
his physieians, there to ndre. The
cause of his death was pancretitis.
His beloved wif and eHildrrei wens
at his beclside when the end earae.
An Alienist of Hifh ifcerit. .
WhHe Dr. Murphy was an alipibt
of very high merit he- was wonder
faly endowed with eommoN seasa
and as a praetdfial administrator had
so superior. In tfe management of
tfee Hospital he conducted th? -affairs
f the imiMH?t iHstitutien st -as to
excite seanine admiration. At fch
head of this st State institution
whieh he has controlled since, it was
founded in 1$3 and whiok under hits
has reeeived mwe than 4.000 patient;
Dr. Murphy mst successfully and ad
mirably managed it. He stood in the
first rank amour frb eminent men of
his profession and reflected honr
upon the metrical fraternity and upon
the people arnonr whom he was born
and raised. In person like his father
he was tall of statue, sinewy and ca
pable of lonr-eontinued exn-tion. Al
though delieate in his early youth
in his more mature manhood he was
vigorous and full of health.
Account From Morf anton.
Morganton, Special. Dr. P. L.
Murphy superintendent of the State
Hospital here, died at 11 :30 o-clock
Wednesday after a year's sickness.
His death was not unexpected. At
his bd side were all the membsre of
bis family, hin wife and four children
The board of directors were in ses
sion at the time death oceurrcd and
adjourned for one hour, Messrs'. J.
P. Sawyer and C. H. Armfield bring
ing in by appointment at the expira
tion of that time a stiitablo tribute.
which was adopted. The St.nfe flag v
on th main hospital buildin? wa
placed at half ma.st. Dr. Murphy wfts
50 years ef a-re and had been superin
tendent of $te Hospital since it was
opened January 1863.
A DEATH TRAGEDY
Railroad Man's Perfidy is Dis
closed By Acciderit
AE INNOCENT WOMAN DECEIVED
Close on the Death "of Capt. J. W
Joyner, of Kooresviiie, Comes a
Terrible Tale of His Marital ,Bela- ,
tions Though Having , a Wife,-E6-Was
Engaged, It is Said, to a
Young Lady Living Near Char
lotte and Was to Elope to the West
With Her.
Winston-Salem, Special. Conduc
tor J. W. Joyner, of local freight No.
1 9, was ias'tantly killed in an acei
dent on the yards at Moorosville
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The crew of the train was emgaged
doing some shifting at the time of the
accident and Captain Joyner was
clinging to the side of a ear when he
was struck by a telegraph pole. He
was knocked loose and fell under his
train and his life was crushed out.
The body was shipped to Charlotte
where it will be prepared for burial
by J. M. :H'arry '&;:v' The wife o
the deceased left here for Charlotte
aoompanied by Captain Smith.
Many persons who were intimately
acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Jovner and were cognizant of the re
cent troubles that have arisen be
tween them express the belief that
the sudden death f Mr. Joyner was
a kind act of Providence. They go
even farther than that and say it is
really a blessing in disguise to tha
widow. It has been known for two
weeks to intimate friends of the
couple that their married life was not
as happy as it appealed upon the
surface.
About , two days ago Mrs. Joyner
was to meet her husband at Moores-
ville and spend the nighty wijth-bint
Salem on the train leaving "here 2:15
o'clock, but instead left on tCe 5 '
o 'clock train. , When, she arrived at
Mooresville she -found that her hus
band was not : there, having golie
down to Charlotte on the first train,
after finding out that his wife was not
on the train. He thought that sbe
had decided not to come. While iti
Moorsville, so it is stated, Mrs. Joy
ner learned that Mr. Joyner had bcea:
going to see a young lady in Chak
lotte quite frequently; in fact, spend
insr almost every other night in Char-
lotte. She Jearned the name of tho
youn? lady'and left on the next traia
for Chorlotte' to investigate. '
She, learned from the lips of the
young lady that she was engaged to
be marrined to Mr. Joyner on the
J 0th of September, having promised.
to forsake father, mother and home
for him. The father and brother of
the wronged voung woman were high
ly indignant and it was all that they
could do to refrain from dealing1
with the man who bad only a few
days before had been tha idol of their
daughter and siator. They took the
most sensible eourse, however, andl
forbade Mr. Joyner s ever making
soother shadew in their doorway and
wrote him several sharp letters.
Told of Courtship.
The young lady, whose narae is
Mis Bright MCoixl, daughter of Mr.
P. M. McCord, who Hves just outsidfl
of Charlotte on the Mooresville divis
ion of the Southern, told Mrs. Joy
ner all about her eourtship ', and in- ,
tended marriage to Mr. Joyner, so it
is st-atcd. She wid that sue and Mr.
Joyner ware to be married on the
10th of September and g West. Mr.
Joyner was to quit the Southern and
take a similar position with a West
ern railroad. The parents of the
young lady had given their consent
to the marriage, it is said, but it is
not known whether Mr. Joyner in
tended to carry out the obligations or
was just trying the affections of tha
young lady. He had stated to a num
ber of friends here that he expected
to railroad in the West after Septem
ber. Lenoir Votes For Bonds.
Lenoir, Special. Lenoir crowned
herself with the highest honor yet be
stowed by voting bonds for water
works, sewerage, and street improve
ments, voting .80,000 . for water and
sewerage and $20,000 for street im
provements. On account of this bo
iug an off day for election quite a
number of people were disqualified:
from voting on ,aeount of not paying
tfixes pervguslo May 1st. Only 210
registered J The vote stood 149 foe
street improvement, 144 for water
and Eoe rage, and 14 against water
and sreet. . . ,