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ij jj " fc ' ' ', . . f oo a Year, In Advance. PO. COD, FOR COUNTRY AND POR TRUTH. " Slnzi Copy $ Ceatt, VOL. XVIII. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1907. NO. 28, ly s V YOUNG LADY KILLED I A Horrib!e Street Car Accident at Charlotte. N. C FAIR YOUNG LIFE CRUSHED OUT Miss Aileen Kendall, of Shelby, Run Over and Instantly Killed by a Past Moving Street Car Mrs. C. B. Cabaniss Struck and Badly In jured. Charlotte, N. C, Special. Miss Aileen Cabaniss Kendall, of Shelby, was run over and killed by an Eliza beth street ear at the corner of East avenue and' Myers streets Monday night about i) ;4-"i o'clock, and Mrs. C B. Cabaniss, of this city, was painfully hurt. Mr. Cabaniss. who was accompanying his wife and niece, escaped serious hurt by the merest chance. The accident is one of the most distressing- thai ever happened in Charlotte. Miss Kendall had just arrived in (fie city from Raleigh, where she had been a student at the liaptist University for Women during- the fall, and was tn her way home to Shelby. For several weeks past she had been in ill health and was returning- home in order to re cuperate. A niecje of Mr. and Mrs. Cabaniss, she was to spend the night with them and continue her jour ney home Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Cabaniss and Mi.-s Kendall had just alighted from a Myes street car in front of the East Avenue Tabernacle and were start ing across East avenue in the direc tion of South Myers street. After passing around the end of the car they stepped out on the parallel Elizabeth track at the moment a fast moving car bore down on them. The young lady was caught before she could turn, and Mrs. Cabaniss was si ruck -and hurled to one side like a sldhe from a sling. Owing to the fact that the tracks were slipperv. with water, the motorman, Mr. A. L. Maker, could not stop as ."quickly as lie otherwise would had the tracks been dry. It is hardly probable, however, that even it he had that the unfortunate- young lady would have, escaped. She fell under the fender and was dragged by the wooden' running board guarding the -wheels for perhaps 1(H) feet. Life was extinct when the car was stopped, death having: been in stantaneous. Mrs. Cabaniss, while sustaining no broken bones, was ter ribly bruised and painfully injured. Mr. Cabaniss, who was just a little behind his wife and niece, escaped by the: narrowest of margins. A small boy, half a block down the street, said that he beard a man's voice cry out at the moment of the collision, "My (.rod, Avhat has hap pened"?'' There being so much confusion .just at the time. he thought that someone in the car had been hurt. State and Nation Clash. . Montgomery, Ala., Special. The first clash between the Federal gov ernment, and the State of Alabama came when Snlicilor Henry lb Stcg all, of Ozark. Dale couny, was cited under a rule issued by Judge Thomas (J. .Tones, of the Federal court to ap pear and show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt for his alleged misbehavior toward Deputy United States Marshal Pul lum. The alleged misbehavior con sisted of a threat said to have been made by Mr. Stegall that he would have the sheriff of Dale county ar rest the deputy marshal for attempt ing to serve. .on him the papers in the Central of (icorgia case. Mr. Stegall is cited to appear before Judge Jones on December 5 th. Hew Orleans Esciange Opens. New Orleans, Special For the first time since October 2-"th trading in all bonds was 3fmdav permitted on the New Oi leans stock exchange and Monday afUrm-mi New Orleans. Bir mingham, l.iltle Rock- and Beaumont, Tex., street railway bonds were quot ed from 1 to 3 p.iuts higher than the closing bids Orfdur 2."tb. Gccrjia Farmer Fat-ally Beaten. Ameii'.us On.. Special. P.enjamhi J. l.iui.ifo.'!, a prominent planter re . siiling upon' the R lander plantation, near Americas, is at death's door from blows d iiveied with a billiard cue by Mai inn Sims, another farmer Saturday night. 1 ight foot's skull was era --bed and le has since boon unconscious. The a (Tray occurred at :i grocery store ai , Da.-oto and re sulted fr;u a former feud. l,igit ioct "cannot recover. Let opening of congress Brilliant Scene Characterises the Formal Opening of the Sixtieth Session Joseph Cannon Selected as Speaker and John Sharp Wil liams as Minority Leader. Washington, Special.- A brilliant scene characterized the meeting of y the' Sixtieth Congress Monday. Jn Senate and House of Representative there were notable gatherings of the official society of the capital. The coming together for the. first time of the men who have been elected io the Senate' and the House, about one bundled of whom have not liefore served in Congress, made the oc casion one of particular interest. The striking scenes of the day were in the House of Representatives, where the formal selection of Joseph Cannon to again be Speaker of that body and the designation by t he . Democrats of Mr. John Sharp Williams as their leader, were occas ions for ovations for those gentlemen. The vast hall of the House of Representatives rang with cheers of Republicans and Democrats for their leaders, and the Speaker received as warm a reception from members of the minority as he did from his own party. In accepting the speakership Mr. Cannon said in part : "We are today organizing the Sixtieth Con'gress making the one hundred and eighteenth mi lest one into the history of government by the people under the constitution. Our predecessors iii the years that are passed have left to us an example of Wisdom, moderation and courage thai has never failed to preserve the ideals and tin; interests of Republi can government on many crises, whether of peace or war, adversity or prosperity. ''This House is the only institution under our constitution where the will of the people may be expressed with a fairness approximating scientific accuracy. Other departments of the government have lofty and impor tant functions, but to this House alone belongs the peculiar, the deli cate and the all-surpassing function of interpreting and putting in defi nite form the will of the people. This duty we must perforin outrselves. The principles of the past help us to the extent of showing us the points of the compass; but. beyond that we must depend on our own wisdom, our own constancy, our own industry and our own lidenlity to duty." The appearance of William J. Ib-yan on the tloor of the House also was the occasion for enthusiastic cheering by the Democrats. Senate Convenes. The Senate convened promptly at 12 noon. After Vice President Fair banks sounded the gave proeccding--weiv opened with prayer by the Rev. Edward Everet Hale, chaplain of the Senate. Senator La FolielTe was the "first. Senator to be recognized and present ed the credentials of Senator Isnac Stephenson, of Wisconsin. The Vice President ordered thai, the roll of Senators-elect be called alphabetically and they were sworn in by fours, being escorted to the desk by their colleagues. All the Senators-elect were pres ent in the chamber except Senator Baukhcad of Alabama, who is de tained at home by illness. Under the form observed by the Senate neither Senator Bankhead nor Senator Johnson can be sworn in until the death of Senator Morgan and Pettus have been announced and as (he Senate will adjourn in their honor neither of their successors will he admitted until "Wednesday. Train Derailed; Three Men Hurt. 1 Mobile, Ala.. Special. Every car except the -diner in the Louisville & Nashville northbound passenger train was derailed at ?, o'clock Monday afternoon near Dyas Creek. :2 mile.; north of I ".ere and three mail clerks. Campbell, Wharton -and Labon, were badly cut and bruised. The injured were carried to Bayminctte for treat ment. Jamestown Exposition Ends. Norfolk. Va.. Special. The great Jamestown Exposition closed on Sat unlay night with appropriate exer cises. The official reports show that there were 2.800,000 admissions, of which V00,000 were paid. While the finances are not what the lUree- to rs had booed for. yet. il the pi-'P" nvtv c:m be sob 1 for its value, inert will be enough to pay out the debts, with a HUh? !'.,l't for the stockholders. CALL FOR SHOWING Government Will Ask Reports from National Banks. WILL BETTER THE SITUATION Comptroller of the Currency is Ex pected to Issue It This Week and the Revelations, It is Believed Will Aid Matrially in Restoring Confi dence. New York, Special. A eail upon the national banks for a statement of their condition of a very recent date is expected by bankers here to come from the Comptroller of the Cur rency, this week. Four of the live calls required each year by law have already been made, the last having shown the condition of the national banks on August 22d. It is possible that the call now anticipated will have an important influence on the financial situation. It is expected that it will reveal large reserves of cash in the country banks and this will tend to restore confidence among depositors to a degree which will make it easy to resume currency pay ments throughout the country. The banks, even in normal times, usually prepare for a call by strengthening their cash; in order to make a good showing, not only to the Comptroller but to their clients. Their state ments are required by law to be pub lished in a local paper, and they are also forwarded to Washington, where they are compiled by cities and States. The effect, of call for report of condition on a fixed date, which is usually a few days before the call by the Comptroller, is to enable the bank to release cash after the call, with the knowledge that another call is not likely. k In the natural order of things, for about two months. In the present situation, it is declared by New York bankers, the call will show that hoarding is not being done by New York bankers as indeed their deficiencies in required reserves already indicate but that many of Hie interior banks have reserves run ning up to such proportions as forty or titty per cent of deposits. The facts will reach the public for indi vidual banks through publication lo cally and then will come to the public generally through the compilation made by the Comptroller. If large reserves in lawful money in heir own vaults-are revealed gen erally by the reports, it will at once inspire confidence in the strength of the banks and create a' demand which they will no longer be disposed to re sist, after sending in their reports, for the immediate resumption of cur rency payments. -"' Chairman 'Fowler, or the House committee on hanking and currency, made the following statement re specting the outlook for financial legislation in the Sixtieth Congress: ''There should certainly be some remedial legislation and I can assure you that the members 'of . the 'com mittee on banking and currency will bend their energies to that end. What we shall be able to accomplish no man can answer. Hut that there is urgent need for help no man can deny. "At the dinner of the. American Rankers ' Association at St. Louis, a year ago, I predicted that the thing which has happened, must happen unless some immediate action was taken; that there was not a banker in the United States who would not regret it if something were not done. ''At the close of the last session of Congress 1 said that the condition of our tinanccs and currency was such that it would, of necessity lead to the destruction of our prosperity. Killed in Auto Crash. Reading, Pa., Special. Harry 31. Schaeffer, aged 21 years, died here Sunday as the result of injuries sus tained by his automobile colliding with a telegraph pole. He was the son of Charles 11. Seharcffcr, presi dent of the National Union Rank here. Greene and Gaynor Appeal to United States Supro Court. Washington. Special Benjamin D. (ireeno and John F. (iaynor. vho em bezzled nearly ffuOO.OOi) of United State funds at Savannah, (la., have petitioned the Srprcme Corrt for a writ of certiorari in their case, rais ing some international questions up on which they hope to be released from prison. They are now . umUr sentence of four years' imprisonment and a fine of $075,000 each, and this appeal to the United Stales Supreme Court is the last straw of hope that remains to them. NEAR1NGITSCL0SE Bradley Murder Case Almost Ready For Hie Jury SPEECHES OF ATTORNEYS NEXT Presentation of Evidence in Bradley Trial Concluded and Court Ad journs For Day Defendant Says She Is Clad It Is AH Over. Washington, Special. "Oh, I am so glad it is all over at last." These words were uttered by 3Irs. Annie 31. Bradley, charged with the murder of former Senator Artuh 31. Brown of Utah, as she, with a smile, was led away from the .court room to the prison van, which was to take her back to jail. The presentation of evidence bad just been concluded and court adjourned until Saturday, when argument will begin. Justice Staf ford announced that an agreement had been reached among counsel for four hours of argument on each side. This will be completed Monday af ternoon and Justice Stafford said he Would then deliver his charge and give the case to the jury. The testimony of two government insanity experts. Dr. E. 31. Brush, of Baltimore, and Dr. Smith E. Jeliffe, of New York, Avas the feature of the proceedings, as also was the appearance- of Rev. Dr. Utter., of Salt Lake, 3Irs. Bradley's pastor. Both Dr. Brush and Dr. Jelliffe declared that there was nothing in the record of the case to indicate that 3Irs. Brad ley was insane. Counsel for the de fense attempted to impeach the tes timony of these experts by showing that they had been raJled for the government and that as a' matter of course they were testifying in the in terest of the government. Each of them repudiated this, .charge, and de clared that they wonld have' testified to the insanity of Mrs. Bradley as readily as they testified to her sanity had they found hereto dn? insane. Rev. Dr. David I tie r, pastor of the Unitarian church ' of Denver, Colo., who, in former testimony has been referred to as "the priest" and who was Mrs. Bradley's pastor in Salt Lake City, testified to a conversation he had with her in 1900. ' 3rrs. Bradley told him, he replied, in answer, to a question, that she be lieved 31r. Brown would 3Iarry hei "I expressed the opinion," said the witness, "that be never would. But she thought he would. This was a somewhat long conversation and the burden of it had been on my part to encourage her to give up the idea of marrying Arthur Brown. I urged her to give up the idea of suing Brown, but she pleaded for her chil dren, saying that it was right and he ought to be made to do if." During this testimony 31 rs. Brad ley sat with bowed head. "She said," continued the witness, "that when it came to a test and a gun was -pointed at Arthur Brown he avouM accede and marry her. I do not remember her exact words. Sho said Arthur Brown was a coward at heart and if a gun was pointed at him and lie was told lie must marry her ho would do so. 1 told her 1 did not believe Brown "was a coward. I said he ought never to be urged. There should be no compulsion ever used. 'You will lose all your in fluence if you do,' I told her." "Now, didn't you say to her in the course of that conversation You would not do that, would you? and she replied, 'Of course not?' " ask ed Judge Powers. "Yes," said Dr. Utter. "I said: 'Suppose he calls-vour bluff what then? You would not shoot' 'Oh, no.' was her answer." . Dr. Utter said she did led threat en 'o do this herself. "It might have been her brother or her father, or anybody who wa: to bring about, this eompnbio!!," tho witness added. "He, however, hud the idea that 3 Irs. Bradley herself would do it. "She was under tremendous , obsession." continued Dr. Utf a. "was almost unhinged;, and 1 f it. that- she might undertake to threaten Brown." Georgia Tend Ends in Killing Albany, On., Sp-.'cial. J'-ff Spires of 3Iiller county, was shot and killed by Dr. P.. V. Elmore, a prominent phvsieiai!, in the la Iter's drug store at'KesUer. The killing was the re sult of an old feud. Spires entered the drug store, ai d in -tven! ; a a knifo at the throat of R. E. ill-nore. father of the doctor. 1 h-vutemn? to kill him. Before he could put. the threat into execution the younger Elm-no fired, shooting Spires through ihe body. The wounded man died twenty min utes later. The two El mores were arrested. FIVE KILLED IN COLLISION Freight Train Crashes Intc? Trolley Car, Killing- rive and Injuring Twenty. x Waterbury, Conn., Special..----Five factory employes tee re killed s'i the West Main street crossing over the Highland, New Haven & Hart fold Railroad, when an extra Hartford bound freight, train crashed into a trolley car containing twenty-live persons 'bound for the pin iaetorie in Oakvilfe.'' The erfr 'was 'struck with great force directly in the middle and all the passengers were.kliled or. bad ly mangled. Six others were badly injured and had to be carried to their homes. The dead : Sarah Ryan. Annie Corcory. Robert French, Watorville. : -Waller Hayes. Jane Kelly. The seriously injured: Kilty Hanley, leg broken and scalp cut; Margaret 3IelIon ; Jennie Ben son; Sadie Allen: Andrew Lepier. Aside from Kitty Hanley, the oth ers received scalp wounds, broken bones and bad cuts, but it is not yet known whether the injuries of any will prove, fatal. Flagman John Flavin and Conduc tor John Dillon, of the trolley car, weic arrested. The motorman of the car, Charles Leonard, was not held. There was absolutely no chance for the engineer of the train to stop his train in time to prevent the accident. Although he applied the brakes, the engine crashed into the trolley car, smashing it to splinters and throwing the occupants in all directions. Income Tax Test. Columbia, Special. Attorney f.Jen eral Lyon has received notice that an other test would be made of the con stitutionality of tho income tax law. The test is brought up by 3Ir. D. W. Alderman, the wealthy lumber dealer and steps have been taken in com pliance with the recent ruling of the supreme court. It will be recalled that in the case from Laurens county the supreme court hold that the pe titioner could not bring mandamus proceedings under the constitution, but the remedy provided was for tho payment -of taxes ami a suit against the county treasurer. This method has been taken in the Alderman case and the case will probably reach the supreme court on ground not hereto fore passed jipon by that body. WelVKnowon Horseman Dead. Jacksonville. Fla.. Special. Ever ett B. Webster, president of the Na tional Steel ami Wire Company, Avith subsidiary companies at Dekaib, HI., Bayonue, N. J., New Haven, and on the Pacific Coast, died at the Wind sor Hotel here Friday ;ifternoon aged HS years. He was a well-known horseman and was owner of the steam yacht Seneca. He had country homes at Wyvernwood farm, Bever ly. 3I.ass., and at Manhassctt, L. T. His business office in New York City was 114 Liberty street. - Williams Lays Down the Law to Can non. Washington. Special. Representa tive John Sharp Williams, of 31issis-sif.pL-ilie P''.nioc.raJi; minority leader in the House of Represent air e-.hd. a conference with Speaker Cannon on the subject of the minority rep resentation on the .House committee. He told the Speaker that the Demo crats would insist upon an increase in their representation corresponding with the increase in the Democratic membership of the House. ITews in Erief. Senators Ki it red go and 0 amble, of South Dakota; Senator Hansbrougb and Rcpre'-ufative Huil. of Iowa. aH declared ;l':d the people would have nobody but Roosevelt for their next President. Adjutant Oeneral Ainsworth. in bis re-port, said that conscription may be iiec:'ss.arlt! il'A depleted ranks in tho army. President Roosevelt will entertain Admiral Evau-i i-Vulay. as hist honors before the Admiral lakes the licet to 'the Paeiiie. Seventv-nve il-herme-i of the St. Pierre fh' t are believed to imve be-, n lost. ' Ore thousand Moorish t i iVsP.eu who rita-!;'d a French ca:ap were Ix ah-n ; v.Uh - l-!- of 1.2 H). 'don. Sir Henry lV.ward , Co! viiie was killed wh.ih- out on a motorcycle in collision with a friend's automo bile. Sixteen persons perished in a New York tenement house lire. Late ffe'cufj' In 'Brief MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Though Premier Slofypin the- Czar announced to the Douina that he is still suitoerat of all the Russians and that Parliament" is expected to do his bidding. Heir Bebel. the Socialist leader, made an aggressive speech in the flerman Reichstag-. '"' ' - i Prince -von Buelow,. the Oermart ( haucellor, -gave a review of (Jer many's iVivign relations In the Reichstag'. Senator Foraker, of Ohio, an nounces himself a candidate for the Republican nomination for President arid strongly attacks certain Roose velt policies. ' . ' President fioosevelt gave a dinner and reception in honor of President Amador of Panama. 4 The 'treasury received a large num ber of bids for the Panama bonds, this being the last day for subscrip tions. 3frs. Mary Perry, 85 years old. who was assaulted in her. home in Rich mond by Junius Booker, a negro, is improving and she may recover. , Claude 1 1 i II. a Richmond negro suspected of crimiid assault, was or dered released by the Virginia Su-. preme Court, which decided that, the police could not hold a man as a "suspicious character." The immense . plant of the Hope Natural (las Company is ready to begin pumping natural gas from the West Virginia fields. Five persons were killed and a num ber of others were 'badly hurt when an extra freight train struck a trol ley car in Waterbury, Conn. : ; ,(!en. Leon Jast remold. Confeder ate veteran candidate for the Demo cratic nomination for Cove.rnor of Louisiana, is dead. The Reading compai y. in driving a shaft, has struck a famous coal vein. New York Republicans are disposed to resent what they deem the inter ference of President Roosevelt to sidetrack the Hughes boom. . - Th Manufacturers' Association of York. Pa-, held its annual meeting and dinner. The New York mi nisi or who mar ried William Ellis Corey in Mabellf Oilman submitted to a transfusion of -blood at the risk of his own life to save a woman. New Haven, Conn., gave a cordial welcome to William J. Bryan. Not less than 12.000 aliens will sail for home on steamers leaSig New York this week. 3iore interesting testimony Avas of fered in the suit against the Tobacco Trust in progress-in New York. Supreme Court Justice Seabury ap pointed receivers for the New York City -Railway and the 3Iauhattan Street Railway, for which receiver. were named some time ago in a Fed eral court. German Chancellor von Buelow in a speech before the Reichstag de fended himself and the Emperor. 3!"orocco tribesmen invaded Algiers and put to (light a French garrison, but were later driven off. " The Canadian -Parliament was op eneo by Lord Orey. By the collapse of a 20-ton steel girder at a Loudon bridge 20 work men were carried dowiu but only two drowned. Bandits robbed the Bakbarr.i Treasury and killed Hie Minister of Finance. American Amba-s?dor O'Brien complained :: Tokio about- the large influx of Japaue-'c into the United States. Nd le-.:s than -!0 children have been kSdimupcd in Mexico City. " Secretary Or',elvou is expected to issue only :o,m;0..'K'!0 of the new gov ernment debt ctv tsfu ates. President Amor of ,1he Republic of Par.a :n:, arrived in Washington. A mighty religious demonstration marked Thank-giving Day at the Jamesl own expor-i t ion. Dr. Tbom.is.-W. Smith, for HO years physb-ian at IV.-thal Mi'ii .try Academy in Virginia, is dyad. Sc'uincrn liaiiwav iram ;o. -ji which van into PresUmt Spencer's ' car last Thanksgiving T)a killing J him end several humus, ran down three negroes on t he Staunton river bridge. The splendid now church of the 1 Blessed Siimvinent was "dedicated at Ilarrisr.r.hvo' g bv Bishop Van de Vy ver. 7 I 7