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14 m i if m m m m m m mm m -m 11 d n $!. Year, In Advance. "FOR GOD, I OR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Slofla Copy 5 Cat, VOL. XVIII. PLYMOUTH; N, 0.. FKIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1907. NO. 30. TAR HEEL TOTICS jt Items Gathered From All Sections of the State Jjj HOSPITAL DIRECTORS MEET. The Fiscal Year End3 With a Deficit of $10,000 in the Support Fund, Due to Several Causes. Morganton, Special. A meeting of the board of directors of the State Hospital was held here with Directors Davis, Caidwell, Tate, Shuford, Mc- Minn, Sawyer and J. K. Norfieet, who was appointed to fill the vacancy -caused by the resignation of Mr. Jos. Jacobs, present. A deficit of some $10,000 in the support fund for the fiscal year end ing December 1st, was reported. This caused by a cut of $5,000 in the -amomt of appropriation asked for, the advance in the cost of wages and supplies and the fact that from the great pressure for the admission -of patients the board filled the hospit al to its utmost capacity. This re sult forced the board to order more admissions in the future, than the funds in hand' will' care for. A committee consisting of Messrs. Shuford, Tate, Armfield and Mc Campbell was appointed to meet with 41 committee of the board of North Carolina School for the Deaf and Dumb upon the matter of a road be tween the institutions. The matter of the election of spe cial wards for tuberculosis patients, for which an appropriation of $5,000 was made by the last Legislature, was taken up, discussed, and upon motion it was ordered that the work of erec tion be proceeded with as early as possible. The superintendent,. Dr. John Mc "Campbell, in his able report, sug gested as the most economical way to relieve the urgent demand for room, the erection of a nurses' home, and the utilization of the old laundry building for industrial purposes, stat ing that the conversion of the rooms used by the nurses on the Avards, the sewing rooms, and one or more of the day rooms into sleeping rooms for patients would make room for about one hundred more patients, and esti mated the cost of the nurses' home I and other changes necessary at $18, 000. He also -suggested the erection of a new colony building for one hundred men, the , cost of which he estimated would be $30,000. - The wards were cvamined by the board and they, together with the other buildings and grounds, Avere found in their usual excellent condi tion. Wants Presentation at Home. Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn has written a very strong letter to the Secretary of the Navy requesting that the cruiser North Carolina shall bo in North Carolina water when the gift of the State to the vessel is pre sented, this to be a silver service, the design for which lias already been ac cepted. The Governor in his letter points out that Capo Lookout is a wonderful harboi', a natural one, hav ing 40 feet of water, and that it is a place of safety fit for a fleet to ride in. It is hoped that the Navy Department will have the cruiser there to receive the -gift. The date for the presentation has not been fix ed, but most probable it will be in the spring or summer 'of next year. Tar Heel Topics. A. charter is granted the Sargent Manufacturing Company, at Char lotte, capital stock $50,000, to make yarns and cotton goods, S. B. Sargent and Edward L. Sargent being the principal stockholders. Governor Glenn accepts the Com pany at Weldon as Company K, Third regiment Infantry, National Infantrj-, National Guard of North Carolina, its Captain is O. L. Bagley, who used to be a cadet at the Agricul tural and Mechanical College This takes the place of the company at Raleigh, which was recently dis banded for inefficiency. Governor Glenn had a hearing on the application for the pardon of Thomas W. Dewey, bank embezzler of Newbern, now serving a term in the penitentiary. Ex-Governor Ay cock and ex-Judge Robinson, of Goldsboro, and two ministers, Dunn and Ferrays appeared in behalf of Dewey, while Solicitor Ward and all the directors of the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, of which Dewey was cashier, opposed clemency, among these being ex-President Cutler, Messrs. Chadwick, Blades, Marks and Street. Location of Orphanage. Statesville, Special. The board of trustees for the proposed Methodist Orphanage for the Western North Carolina conference held a meeting in Statesville at Hotel Iredell. A num ber of matters incident to the launch ing of this new enterprise were at tended to. A committee on argoniza tion was appointed, consisting of Rev. K H. Detwiler, Rev. N. R. Richard son and Mr. Charles H. Ireland, oi Greensboro ; Rev. G. F. Ivey, of Hick ory; Rev. J. A. Glenn, of Charlotte; Rev. J. L. Nelson of Lenoir; Rev. Harold Turner and Rev. Frank Siler, of Charlotte, were constituted a com mittee on 'location, the two last nam ed also to serve as a press or publica tion committe. A number of places were offered to the board for the loca tion of the orphanage, among them being properties in Hendersonville, Lincolnton, Rutherfordton, a tract ol land in Union county, Lowell, Con nelly Springs and Hickory. States ville, as well as several other places, is preparing to offer sites. The loca tion of an institution of this charac ter is regarded as most desirable. The board wishes to obtain a tract oi land easily accessible to the railroad,, of not less than 300 acres, with au option on adjacent property, if possible. Slayer of Eubanks Caught. Speneor, Special. Oscar Gaddy, 1ho murderer of Foreman Charles Eubanks, of Lane Bros. Company, near Lexington, last July, was arrest ed at Cutt, a small station in Tennes see, and is being held for identifica tion. The crime charged to Gaddy was one of the most brutal in the his tory of the Slate. Mr. Eubanks be ing shot dead without warning. He escaped and was chased through the woods, but the race was finally aban doned by the officers. Mr. F. W. Clark, of Lane Bros. Comapny, whe knows Gaddy well, has been summon ed from Spencer to Tennesee to iden tify the criminal. A lynching is fear ed if he is brought back to Davidson county now. Wreck Claims Adjusted. Kinston, Special. Within an horn and a half after negotiations were opened Ilines Bros, had made a full settlement of all claims growing out of a wreck on their Snow Hill rood last Saturday morning. The largest claim was by Amos Fields on account of the death of his son, John Fields, by the accident. The amount agreed upon was $S00. Warren Chamber lain, who lost a leg, received $500 and $100 were paid to Albert Sutton who suffered a dislocated shoulder and other injuries. Therefore oth er smaller claims, which met with the same prompt treatment. In ad dition to this Ilines Bros, pay all medical and hospital bills and burial expenses. Work Begins on Driveway. Salisbury, Special. The first real work upon the Federal driveway se cuered by Senator Overman, calling for an - expenditure of $15,000, was begun Thursday when a squad of hands working for the Southern be gan the tunneling necessary to go un der the track of the railway. The pile driver has been hammering down the pssts preparatory to making the temporary bridge work and the drive way will run under the main line of the Southern. When it has been bcr gun the real meaning of the beauti ful boulevard will be realized. Tar Heel Brevities. It seems to be the belief that Wake Forest College trustees will allow football to be again played there. Some years ago the college' had an exceptionally fine team, which made a good record in the State and out of it, though at that time the game was -not nearly so prominent at at present. Shot His Toes "Off. Mount Airy, Special. Bernie Franklin, son of Capt. S. C. Frank lin, who lives near this city, lost a portion of his right foot by the acci dental discharge of his gun Saturday. The muzzle was resting on toe of his right foot at the time of the accident, the whole load of shot passing through the toes, rendering amputa tion of part of two toes necessary. The young man is getting along as well as could reasonably be expected, notwithstanding he has suffered muck since his misfortune. THE WORK OF CONGRESS Proceedings is Both Houses of a Routine Nature Only. A speech by Senator Tillman, filled with denunciation of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Department of Justice, of finan ciers and "captains of industry," was the chief subject of interest in the Senate Monday. His remarks based on his resolutions directing an investigation by the committee on finance of the recent bond issues by the Treasury Department and of the issuance of clearing house certifi cates throughout the country. "I must confess I have not stud ied finance very much from the books," began Mr. Tillman apolo getically, "my own labors in that di rection having been confined to my own expenses." Mr. Tillman said he did not know whether the criticism of the chair man of the House committee on banking and currency (Mr. Fowler) had caused the Secretary of the Treasury to halt in the issuance of bonds, but a change of plan seemed to have been made and he had not been able to learn how much of the proposed bond issue had been put out. He expressed the opinion that the Secretary had violated the spirit of the law if he had not violated the law itself. "If we are not in the midst of a panic, we are in the midst of a chill produced by the danger of a panic," declared Mr. Tillman. "The Treasury," he said, "has dumped its money in Wall Street, and tjie country has praised the patriotism of J. Pierpont Morgan in aiding' the country , to get a grip on itself. and not let everybody go crazy and precipitate further loss and hor rors on the country." Speaking of a published inter view with the President by Mayor Dahlman, of Omaha, in which the President is Alleged to have said that if he was responsible for the panic he was glad of it as it had brought to view the rotten conditions of the country's finances, he said: "I fear that Mr. Dehlman is in imminent danger of joining the Ana nias Club. Perhaps somebody here will use the telephone and find out about it." Senator Culberson Tuesday intro duced a bill to prohibit corporations from making contributions in connec tion with elections and to provide for the publication of lawful contri butions in connection with elections. The bill is in the nature of an amendment to the law of January 26, 1007, prohibiting national banks and other corporations making con tributions in, connection with elec tions and in addition to the law as it stands he proposes a provision mak ing it "the duty of every chairman, campaign manager or treasurer of any political committee or other per son who received contributions in money or other things of value for or on behalf of such political com mittee, or in the interest of any can didate for a political office for the purpose of aiding or promoting the election or defeat of candidates for presidential and vice presidential electors to file with the clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States a statement in writing shoAving the amount of money or oth er things of value contributed by each person, firm, corporation, co partnership or association, not pro hibited by law, for the purpose afore said." Mr. Culberson stated that the act of January 20, 1907, provides that it shall be unlawful to make money con tributions for political campaigns, but he thought the law should go fur ther and require specific statements, as otherwise it might be evaded. He hoped that the committee on privil eges and elections would use his bill as the basis of an improved measure. Congress Doing Little. It is evident now that Congress Avill not dS very much before Christmas. The House of Representatives has been adjourning from Monday to Thursday and from Thursday to Mon day and will keep it up until it ad journs for the holidays, which will mean until about the fith of January. The Senate is doing a littler bettfr. The Senate is looking forward to a fight on the money question. Sena tor Tillman is spoiling for a row with the Republicans, especially represen tatives of the administration. Clay, of Georgia, and Culberson, of Texas, are ready for a debate. Aldrich, the king of the Senate, blocked the game of the Southern Senators the other day by promising to have the finance com mittee, of which he is chairman, bring in the information desired and make proper recommendations. But, barr ing a lively discussion, nothing is like ly to happen between now and the day of adjournment. WILL NOT RUN AGAIN President Roosevelt Makes an Authoritative Statement REITERATES FORMER POSITION Following Upon the Call of the Na tional Committee For the Meeting of the Republican Convention the President Issues an Official State ment, Declaring That Under No Cir cumstances Will He Be a Candidate For the Office He Now Holds. Washington, Special. In view of the issuance of the call of the Repub lican national committee for the con vention the President makes the fol lowing statement: On the night after election I made the following announcement: "I am deeply sensible of the honor done me by the American people in thus expressing their confidence in what I have tried to do. I appreciate to the full the solemn responsibility this confidence imposes upon me, and I shall do all that in my power lies not to forfeit it. On the 4th of March next I shall have served three and a half years and this three and a half years constitute my first term. The wise custom which limiUflhe Presi dent to two terms regards the sub stance and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate fr or accept another nomination." I have not changed and shall not change the decision thus announced. Leaves Field Clear. It appears that the President had been awaiting the call of the Re publican national convention to af ford proper opportunity for making his position clear and unmistakable and thus leaving- the field clear for Fairbanks, Taft, Cannon, Knox, For aker and other declared or receptive candidates for the Republican nomi nation. The anouncement 'that the Presi dent would not accept the Republi can nomination if tendered, came at too late an hour to become generally known in political circles, but among those who learned of it Democrats and Republicans alike the feeling ivas generaPthat it left no element of doubt in the presidential situation, so far as relates to the thrid term talk and that it definitely eliminates Mr. Roosevelt from the contest. Some Democrats, however, express a belief that a Roosevelt stampede in the Republican convention would shake his resolution, and that he would prove no exception to the historical precedent in that no American citi zen ever refused a presidential nom ination. Florida Delegates For Rcossvelt. Jacksonville, Fla., Special. The Florida Republican State central committee met here Tuesday and de cided to hold the State convention in St. Augustine on a date not later than February 15th for the purpose of electing delegates to the Repub lican national convention to be hold in Chicago June 1G. The committee also adopted resolutions strongly en dorsing the Roosevelt administration and pledging the party to send dele gates from Florida to vote for a can didate who stand for and represents the policies of the administration and who is pledged to their continuance. Boston Goes Republican. Boston, Special. In the closest and hardest-fought election contest which Boston has known for many years, the city went Republican by about 2,000 votes, Postmaster George A. Hibbard, Republican, defeating Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, Democrat, who was a candidate for re-election, the revised returns show the following vote cast: John A. Cloutlmrst, Inde pendent League, 15,871; Fitzgerald, Democrat, 30,051; Hibbard, Republi can, 33,064. News and Notes. Printing pressmen in the job of fices in Atlanta to the number of 170 struck on Tuesday. The Fort Pitt National Bank of Pittsburg suspended. Chairman Harry C. New issued the official call for the Republican National Convention to meet iu Chi cago June 10, 1003. WAS SHOCKING INCIDENT Lady Who Attends Funeral of a Young Man. Supposed to Be Son of a Neighbor, Discovers That the Corpse is That of Her Own Son. Columbia, S. C, Special. A cu rious sensational situation suddenly developed at a funeral in Camden when a neighbor, Mrs. Orre, appeared at the home of a Mrs. Langley to pay her respects on account of the death of Wilber Lewis Langley, a son of Mrs. Langley who had been killed by a live wire while working in Camden for a carnival company. At least Mrs. Langley and her children and relatives and neighbors had been mourning for the dead boy as her son for several hours. Mrs. Orre, how ever, as soon as she went to the cas ket and glanced at the face of the dead youth, recognized Lewis Sowell, her own son by a former marriage. Mrs. Orre screamed with grief and terror and the attention of others be ing drawn more closely to the body it was recognized that Mi's. Orre was correct. A few hours later Mrs. One's discovery was confirmed by the appearance on the scene of Wil ber Lewis himself, who returned home from the country where he had been at work, surprised to find him self being mourned as dead. Preparations were then had for the funeral of young Sowell, which was had at Douglass, near the county seat. Besides his mother vounsr So- well is survived by two brothers and a sister, Mrs. B. Lowery and Mr. Roy Sowell, of Lancaster, and Mr. Lamest Sowell, of Orangeburg. Young Sowell 's death was caused by a shock he received while attach ing a globe to an ordinary incandes cent bulb. He was standing on the damp ground at the time. There have been several deaths in Colum bia in the same manner until a me thod of rigging up these sort of fix tures was hit upon which obviates this danger. November Tobacco Sales. Raleigh, Special. The leaf tobac co warehouse report made up by the Agriculture Department shows that during November the sales by farm ers aggregated 20,620,943 pounds, this being an i.ncrease of about two million pounds over the October sales, Winston-Salem again leads in amount of sales. Wilson continuing to stand second. Thirty-six places file re ports. Greenville comes third in sales, Kinston fourth, Rocky Mount fifth, Oxford sixth and Durham sev enth. Mrs. Longworth's Operation. Washington, Special. Mrs. Alice Longworlh, wife of Representative Nicholas Longworth, and daughter of the President, was operated upon for appendicitis shortly after 10 o'clock Thursday. The operation was per formed at the White House by Dr. Finney, of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, assited by Dr. Sophie Nor- hoff-Jung and Surgeon General Rixey, of the navy. Calhoun Trial Postponed. San Francisco, Special. The trial of Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railways, against whqra the grand jury returned 14 indictments on the charge of offering to bribe su pervisors to obtain an overhead trol ley franchise was postponed until February 1st in order to give Cal houn time to get to. New York on business connected with street rail ways in this city. Everything Quiet in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala., Special. One of the Lowe negroes from the vicinity of Gordo, in Pickens county, where fears have been held for several days that a serious clash would take place between whites and blacks, arrested at Tuscaloosa late Thursday night, was taken back to Gordo. Everything is quite at Gordo. The negroes will be given a trial as soon as possible. News in Notes. General Stoessal will be placed on trial before a court-martial on the charge of surrendering Port Arthur when he could have held it. The wife of Secretary Taft had two escapes from injury or death on reaching Boulogne to board the steamer, President Grant. Enrperor William has returned to London and will devote three days to sightseeing. Thousrh Mr. Brvan's friends are liir, .. ..... x ,. ' control of the Democratic Natitnoal i i . i- xt ... i Committee the claims of Governor Johnson are being quietly presented. Late Je&ejs In Urief MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST t The American schooner Thos. W. Lawson was wrecked by a fierce gale in Broad Sound, Scilly Island on Saturday night; all -on board being lost but one member of the erew. . Lynchburg, Va., was visited by a severe sleet storm on Saturday, put ting telegraph, tlephone and electric light wires out of business and de laying all traffic. x President and Mrs. Rooseelt eail- ed on Sunday to Hampton Roads, where on Monday he gave the word for the sailing of the big fleet t(f th Pacific. King Leopold of Belgium has offer ed New York a Congo museum and the city has accepted. General Kuropatkin,, testifying in General Stoessal 's court-martial, says the Japs ought to have takea Port Aithur much earlier, as it was weak. American naval officers were given a banquet before the sailing of the Wasniiigion and Tennessee from Callao. LVrir. Carafoff, one of the abduct ors of Miss Ellen Stone, the mission ary, vas assassinated in Bulgaria by a Macedonian. Prince George of Greece was mar ried to Princess Marie Bonaparte in Athens The Democratic National Committee d.-uic-d to hold the national conven tion at Denver, Col., on July 7, 1908. President Roose-elt 's : elimination fro mthe contest has stirred the other Republican candidates to increased activity. The Peace Conference agreed to establish a oint court of arbitration for Central America. The Senate passed a resolution calling oh Secretary Cortelj'ou fof complette information concerning Government deposits, bonds, note is sues and clearing-house certificates. Speaker Cannon announced the new house committees on Tules aud mileage. There was a debate in the Senate regarding the custom of executive' de partments sending drafted bills to be introduced in the Senate. The big battleship fleet is now ready sail for Hampton Roads on its trip to San Francisco. The Interstate Finance and Trust Company, of Big Stone Gap, Va., closed its doors, going into voluntary liquidation for lack of currency. William C. Abbott, of Danville, got out of a sick bed, went to his stable and hanged himself. ? The trial of Fred Jenkins for the murder of William Smith was con tinued at Culpeper., The British-American Tobacco Co., claiming ownership, to the 8,750,000 cigarettes seized in Norfolk by the Government in October on tke ground that they were bicng shipped ia viola tion of the Sherman Anf'i-Tmst law, -filed its answer to the information filed-by the Government. - , Ex-Governor Black, of New York, made a sensational attack on Presi-. dent Roosevelt before the New Hamppshire Bar Association. . Governor. Glenn's plan to have the North Carolina rate cases compromis ed failed because the Southern Rail way would not consent to a trial of the new law. -The injunction ease of Styvesant Fish against voting of Union" Pacific holdings of Illinois Central stock camo up for argument in Chicago. Bishop Thoburn, of the- Methodist Episcopal church, was adjudged re sponsible in the libel suit of Dr. Sam eni Armstrong Hopkins, a woman missionary, who got a $500 verdict. . Gen. Frederick Funston arrived "at Goldfield with troops, but martiallaw has not yet been declared. R. P. Easlon, cashrier of a State bank at Ilerscher, III., committed sui. cide in the bank. Miss Annie .Bmkhart, of Pensa cola, Fla., was made' heir to a $75, 000 estate by a peddler supposedly penniless. , - The C'andaiau IV;cific Railroad made the offer to take "what Boston and Maine stock the New York, No? Haven and Hartford Railroad holds. The, reduction", of Territorial votes by the Republican National Commit-' tee is taken as a blow to Taft and to Roosevelt as well. t-'iuunauc auacK on tue 1'anama ca- hal bond issue by a. speech mention ing tne waisa iauure in Chicago.