North Carolina Newspapers

nii'iiii''!F't:'' if V'. ( Yer lo Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " SlagI Copy 5 CaU VOL. XVIII. PLYMOUTH, N, C FEIDAY, JANUARY 31, i908. NO. 3 8. IN GRIP OF BLIZZARD ;Wavc of intense Cold Sweeps Oyer New York City SNOW FALL OF TWELVE INCHES First, Snowstorm of Importance This Season Visits New York, Tying Up ;;BttsinM . and .Demoralizing-Transportation. i-. fftew . York, Special. New York is digginself out of a foot of snow. The thoroughfares of the millions - are piled high with drifts that im pede the progress of man and beast -and tha.t have tied up street car and vehiclo traffic. r Friday night the temperature was . falling slowly and the snow promised . . ,'to. stav for another dav at least. ; Thursday night continued until past .. - rioon Friday and even after the snow J -i fall ceased a -half gale kept the air thick, with flurries that filled the 4 ;; walks as fast as they were cleared clogged tlie wheels of traffic and blinded . the skippers off shore. The storm was the first of impor tance of the season. Much suffering has been occasioned, there has been ,?the usual toll of deaths exacted; and i" the monetary damago must bo reck oned by; thousands of dollars. Th3 :u'ow' was accompanied by moderate temperature and in its early stages it - was welcomed by the honest part "of the 35,000 .linemployed men in . the tity. Alt' who sought employment " 'from last midnight on, found it read Uy'and at good wages. Even with .ill who.'-would work, the streets in the outlying sections could not be , ?Wpt open. ' Friday night the charity societies had their hands full. The bowery bread .lines were extended for blocks farther than at any time before thi3 ' winter and at an early hour it was v said that the Bupply would not near ly meet the heed. . . ' , The free lodging houses were pack . ;ed and the. Salvation Army and kind red organizations were working he roically, toinimize the effect of the sudden shift from spring to freezing winter weather. During the day the '; .thermometers registered from 26 to .'''ill'. T A 1 - 1 . ? 1 i aecune lowaru miunigm. -A number of accidents and four fatalities jjvere" credited te the storm's account. ..rQne man was frozen to fleath ? near ' an ' East - Twenty-third ttreet' '.lodging house from which he had been ejected. A Grand street merchant succumbed to heart disease ter 'battling with the snow and wind. In Woodlawn' ' Cemetery a special, policeman died while digging path to a newly-made grave. A livil war veteran was another victim if hpiart disease caused bv exposure. The storm gave the new public ser vice commission its first opportunity to witness the transforation com panies' struggle with the elements. Bennettsville Fire-Swept. Columbia, Special. A $100,000 Sre occurred at Bennettsville, Marl boro county Friday morning, wiping Out the principal business i section Jf and many of the best residences. Tho - town is practically without fire pro tection and it was impossible to check the ames! The fire started in the big Skye Hotel, where there were many narrow escapes from death. Col. J. J. Iieckart, president of the Benn ettsville & Chcraw Railroad, saved his life, by jumping from a window, sustaining a broken leg. Fiye Die in Fire in Baltimore. . Baltimore, 'Special. A fire which started early during a howling gale, in the brass foundry of J. Register's Sons Company, was only checked af- - ter causing tnc neatn oi o nremeu, more or less serious injury to 22 oth ers and property hps of a millioi'. dollars. All the killed and most of the injured were caught by the fall ing walls. r To Meet Railroad Men. ' Washington, Special One of the most important conferences held on road questions held in recent years will take place here Monday. On that js day President Roosevelt will confer with the operating vice presidents of - some of the leading roads of the country, who have been invited to come to Washington for that pur pose. The proposed legn.i'-ation of pooling agreements will be one of the subjects disuu-fcJ. STORM DAMAGES VESSELS Belated Steamers Bring News of Shipwrecks at Sea and Possiblo Loss of Life as Result of Severe Storm Which Swept the Atlantic. New York, Special. Tales of shipwrecks at sea and possible los3 or trie are the echoes of the recent severe storm, that were brought to port by belated and tempest tossed steamships. " n - Fears that an unknown three mast ed schooner, with her crew, havo been lost in the., storm off the Dela ware capes are1 expressed by officers of the steamer Manna Hata, which limped into harbor from. Baltimore. The schooner was seen .struggling in the trough of the sea off the Dela ware capes, and when " the Manna Hata, which had been blown off her course, neared the locality where the schooner was last sighted riding out tho storm, many pieces of a wreck ed vessel and quantities of arilraod ties were" seen floating in the water. Hata further reports that the Win ter Quarter shoal lightship probably has broken loose from her moorings as the light vessel was not sighted in its accustomed position. . Two Barges Missing. The Italian steamer San Giovanni reached here with Captain Morse and the crew of five of the oil barge Matanzas, which with two other bar ges, the- Fall River and the Grafton, in tow of the tug Concord from Philadelphia for Boston, broke adrift during the storm and for hours was at the mercy of the waves which wrenched off the rudder and oponed her seams. The Matanzas was fill ing rapidly when the Italian mer-r chantman hove in sight and rescued captain Morse and his crew. The barfes Fall River and Greton are still missing. The battered superstructure of trans-Atlantic liners, arriving here were mute evidence of the assaults of raging seas encountered in the storm, while incoming vessels in the coastwise and lesser trades all re port incessant battles - with waves that kept the decks in a smother of spume and spindrift and . knocked angrily "at the battered hatches. The Dutch steamship Prinz Willem V, from West Indian ports, arriving Sunday night, had a turbulent trip. The hurricane atruck the Prinz Wil lem V on January 23d and the waves smashed the decks, carried away the life boats and loosened the steering gear. The steamship was stopped: for S hours while repairs were made. X. The White Star steamship Georgic, from Liverpool showed the effects of a rough voyage. Captain Thomas Kidwell, of the Georgic, died from pneumonia during the voyage. Outlook in Phillipines. Washington, Special. Nine years after the battle of Manila Bay, Sec retary Taft records the results of the American occupation of the archipel ago and forecasts the future of the Filipinos, in an enhaustive report transmitted to Congress by the Pres ident,, with a letter written by the Chief Executive, commending in the highest, terms, the jfSecretary's con clusions. The President declares that ruin would have followed the adop tion of" any other policy towards the Philippines than that outlined by William- McKinley and carried forward through these nine years, and asserts triumphantly that there is no bright er page in history than that dealing with the relations between the strong and the weak in these islands. He adds that the Filipinos "have yet a long way to travel before they will be fit for complete self-government. Three Killed by Explosion. New York, Special. Three men were killed instantly and five others seriously injured by the premature explosion from an unknown cause of dynamite in the Bergen Hill section of the Pennsylvania tunnel, at Home stead, N. J., Sunday. The dead are: Robert Aitken, Joseph Cova, Leo. H. Mackerly. John D. at Colored Church. Augusta, Ga., Special. John D. Rockefeller occupied his first Sunday morning in Augusta this winter in listening to a sermon in the Taber nacle Baptist church (colored) by Rev. C. T. Walker, the "black Spur geon." "Walker got out of a sick bed to preach when informed that Rockefeller would be one of his con gregation. The oil king was accom panied by his physician. Dr. Biggar. After the sermon Rockefeller held a conference with Walker in the lat ter 's study, when he "made a very cr.c:ou3 donation to the church." CONGRESSAT WORK Senate Tackles Trusts. The Senate spent over an hour is discussing a resolution offered bj Senator Hansbrough, of North Dako ta, directing the Department of Com merce and Labor to suspend its in vestigation into the affairs of the In ternational Harvester . Company, which was ordered by a resolution oyer a year ago. During the discus sion Senator Hansbrough declared that the "harvester trust" is attem pting to control the selection of dele gates to the next Republican nation al convention and is especially plot ting to defeat him for re-election. The resolution was finally referred t the committee on agriculture. The criminal eode bill was again consiedered for over two hours and at 4:40 the Senate adjourned. In offering his resolution Mr. Hans brough explained that there exists between the several departments a certain courtesy or comity which makes them desire to act in harmony and for the reason the Department of Justice is holding back on its pro ceedings while another department is under direction, to make an investi gation of the trrust it contemplates to prosecute. The resolution called forth a storm of protest dining which Mr. Hans brough declared that the Internation al Harvester Company is taking a hand in politics in North Dekota and is trying to capture delegates who are to represent that State in the Re publican national convention. "Not alone that," said Mr. Hansbrough, "the edict has gone forth from this monopoly that I am to be defeated for the Senate of, the United States because I had the temerity to offer a resolution to investigate it." "The political fortune of a man is a grain of sand compared with the injustice that may be wrought by an institution "of this kind. I accept thi3 challenge and am ready to meet it. If the people of my State desire to have this monopoly control their State they do not want me as their representative." Senator Bcveridge declared thai, this statement of the activity of the " harvester trust" was more import ant than the reason to stop the inves tigation of the trust. Mr. Beveridge declared that be could not understand how the investigation could effeet the action of the Department of Jus tice. If the Department should se cure more information against the trust than the Attorney General now has that would only assist in the prosecutions. House Still on Code Bill. Rapid progress was mado in the House of Representatives in the con sideration of the bill to codify and revise the penal laws of the United States. The only amendment of any importance whbh got ' through was one by which Mr. Oillie James, of Kentucky, making it a criminal of fense undei heavy penalty, to falsify government crop statistics, the object of the amendment .being to protect tho cotton and tobacco growers from speculators. Over fifty pages, of the bill were disposed of. The amendment was adopted with out division. The penalty prescribed under it is a fine of $5,000 and im prisonment. The House passed a bill providing for the holding at Salisbury, N. C, of terms of the United States district and circuit courts. Execpt for a political speech by Mr. Kimball, of Kentucky,, the pro ceedings were so monotous that at no time were a hundred members in their seats. Awards Not "Equitable." Senator Stone, of Missouri, pre sented statistics of government de posits in national banks to show that the distribution of money during tho recent currency stringency was not " equitable" as contemplated by the law governing the Treasury Depart ment. (He declared that the W'est and South were discriminated aaginst while New York .and Boston were favored. His speech was on his reso lution pending in the Senate direct ing a committee to investigate and re port the facts in these transactions. Mr. Stone read from official state ments showing that on August 22d, 1907, there was deposited in national banks: $143,2S2,r93, and on Decem ber 3d, 1907, $222,177,750, an increase of $79,S31,0S9 in three and one half months. He found that this increase deposited was distributed so as to give New England an increase of 47 per cent over the former amount placed there; the middle States an increase of 94 per cent; the Southern States 35 per cent; the middle West ern States 37 per cent; the Western States 10 per cent, and the Pacific Slates 9 per cent. . "Thnsft increase found." he said, "show a startling condition in tho I deposit of money in the different sections and show to my mind an in-J dLTcrencc to, and an utter failure to I observe the requirements of the law." Big Dificit Threatened. The urgent deficiency appropria tion bill occupied the attention of the House to the exclusion of all other business. A surprise was sprung when Chair man Tawney, of the appropriations committee, warned the members that the contry was confronted with the certainty of a $100,000,000 deficit un less the estimates for the next fiscal year should be cut down materially. The urgency dificiency bill carries a total appropriation of $24,074,450. Able to Meet Obligations. Mr. Tawney declared that he deem ed it his duty to call attention to tho necessity of keeping expenditures within the estimated revenues. "I do not make the statement for the pur pose of exciting alarm," he said, "or for the purpose of exciting any apr prehension in the mind of any one regarding the ability of our govern ment to meet all of its obligations now existing or that this Congress may create." Girl Shoots Out Sweetheart's Eye. Winstoii-Salem, Special. Near Ad vance, Davie county, Sunday evening, Charles Hege, aged 20, was accident ally shot by his sweetheart, Miss An nie Lovengood. The girl was handling the lover's pistol, and, not knowing li was loaded, pointed at Hege, pulling the trigger, the ball entering his left eye and coming out above the tem ple. Physicians say he will recover, but the sight of the eye is destroyed. New Rate Help3 Mines. Reno, New, Special. A new joint freight tariff on ores was put into ef fect by the Southern Pacific, Oregon Short Line, Sai. Pedro and tributary roads, and is being received with great favor by mining operators. The tariff applies to ore, concentrates, matte and iron fluxing ores. The rat varies from $2.50 to $12.50 a ton, ac cording to shipping point and value Ox product. Violent Storm at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Special. A violent storm with unusual features for the winter season swept over .the city Sunday night. There were vivid flashes of lightning and heavy thun der and for a short time rain fell in sheets, while the wind of terrific ve locity raged. The barometric pres sure was exceptionally low, 29.12 inches indicating the storm center in or near the city. Orange Crop Will Break Record. San Francisco, Special. The or ange crop harvest of California now in full season, in quantity and qual ity promises to break all previous records. The fruit exchanges of the State estimate that the total output of oranges will reach S0,000 car loads, about 9,000,000 boxes, or 1, 350,000,000 oranges. The harvest; will last until July 4th. Rairoad Cuts Salaries. Baltimore, Special. Ten per cent reduction in salaries of officers and employes of tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad, who now draw over $1GG monthly was announced. The busi ness depression prevailing through out the country is assigned as the cause. At the same time notice was served that all employes may evpect to have wages lowered if the depres sion continues. Try to Dynamite Tobacco Factory. Clarksville, Tenn., Special. An at tempt was made to set fire and dyna mite the loose tobacco factory of tho Ilaycs-Sorey Tobacco Company, local representatives of the Italian Regies. Two negroes. Tony Allen and Walter Watkins, alias Frog Eye, were killed while trying to escape from one of the night watchmen. One other ne cto escaped, but is thought to have been wounded. Cotton Ginnc:1. 10 337,007 Ealcs. Washington, Special Tho census report issued shows 10,337.G07 bale: (counting round bales as half bales; ginned from growth of 1907 to Jan. lGth, compared with 12,176.190 last yrar and 9.S.W34 in 1906. The num ber of active ginneries is 27,370. The move for the repeal of the law which forbids the paralleling of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto mac railroad is popular in the Virgin ia Legislature. "Any woman can marry any man she wants," -: asserts Gertrude Ather ton. Every day seems to bring some thing new for the men to worry about, whlr.e3 tho Washington Pest. THE N. LEGISLATURE Proceedings in Detail of Both Houses of the General Assembly. Election April 28th. In the house Monday night the State Prohibition bill was fully dis cussed and passed, fixing April 28th as the time for the election. Several changes were made in the original bill. In the Senate the special order was the passenger rate bill. Burton of fered an amendment that after next January the corporation commission shall have full power to fix rates. Graham, in charge of the bill, said the State faced a condition and not a theory, and that after full hearing the committee on railways had re ported this bill. He declared he was willing to yield anything for the Democratic party. He opposed any preference of independently owned and operated railways as he thought the courts would not uphold this. He said the bill was drafted by the Council of State and not by himself. (It has been published as Graham's own bill). He opposed the section providing that the rata for any leased or otherwise controlled road shall be controlled by that railway which ope rates it. He declared that the rail way men were going to be a factor in this year's political campaign, and, that if the rates were lowered so thac their wages were cut the political complexion of North Carolina will be changed. He declared the railway agitation had done good, as there is now better service and schedules than before the rate legislation. Buxton offered an amendment thai the railways pay not over $17,500 for costs of rate litigation. Buxton said Judge Long had made a mistake in imposing the $30,000 fine on Southern Railway. The Supreme Court had made the first correction of this and now the Legislature is to make a sec ond correction. He believes the State would lose its case in the United States Supreme Court and that the railway would win. Turner said he would be delighted if the Legislature would adjourn with out passing a bill, and Klutz, who said he favored the bill, said rest and confidence were needed, and that after all .this agitation a Governor was needed who could be silent ir seven languages. The House met at 11 o'clock and Rev. W. Woodall, pastor of the M. E. Clinch, offered prayer. Bills were introduced as follows: By Peele: To better pay the clerks of court of Scotland count-, and to regulate the speed of auto mobiles there. By McMackin: To amend the law regarding salaries of officers in Co lumbus county. By Davidson": To amend the char ter of Murphy. By Gillian: To protect banks which issued scrip. By Harris: To provide for loca! tax election for schools at Raleigh. and to increase the pay of the pen sion board of Wake. Grant presented a resolution ask ing the Governor to furnish to the House his correspondence with the railways regarding the rate matter, and also information as to whethei his visits to Atlanta and other points out of the State were made in an official capacity, at the expense of the State, or if not, at whose ex pense. Winborne made a motion that the resolution be referred to the com mittee on public service corpora tions, and this course was taken. Acts Ratified. A number of bills were ratified, in cluding the following: To amend the charter of the Mon testa Trust Company, of Henderson county. To amend the charter of the North Carolina Savings Bank and Trust Company. To allow a change of site of Rutherford court house. To allow the commissioners" to make Wilmington a gateway port. To protect game in Richmond county. To allow the Town of Rockingham to pay commissioners for a bond sale. To amend the law regarding, sale of liquor in Rutherford county by making it complete. To amend the stock law in parts of Pitt. To give Ashe two additional terms of Superior Court. P.Ionnt of Washington, asked to be allowed to introduce a bill pro-' hibiting banks from lending money to their officers. A resolution had been adopted Friday that after , Saturday no bills could be introiluceu without unanimous consent and the House refused to suspend this rule, and so Elonnt's bill was not enter tained at alL high mmm Miss Gladys VanderbHt Weds Foreign Nobleman WITH UNPRONGUNCABLE NAME .T Wedding at Vanderbilt MansionjT New York, the Most Brilliant that Has Taken Place in That City ia Years Number of Guests Limited to Aboui 350. New York, Special. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cor nelius Vanderbilt, was married to Count Laszlo Szechenyi, a young Hungarian nobleman, in the Fifth avenue home of Mrs. Vanderbilt at noon Monday. The wedding was probably the most brilliant that has taken place in this city for several years. Although the number of guests was limited to about 350, main ly relatives and immediate friend of the two families, there were in cluded Baron Hengelmuller von Hen gervar, the Austrian ambassador to the United States; James Bryce, the British ambassador, and several of the prominent members of New York society. Outside of the Vanderbilt home a great crowd of the curious public gathered, hoping for a glimpse of the count and his bride and watching tho arrival of the guests.' The was no disorder for the streets surrounding the Vanderbilt residence were patroll ed and kept clear by a force of near ly 100 policemen. Police lines were drawn across 57th and 5Sth streets between which two streets the house stands and the uninvited public was not permitted on the Fifth avenue sidewalk in front of the house. They gathered in large numbera- in the square in front of the Plaza Hotel but their curiosity was satisfied only by witnessing the arrival of the count and the guests. From 11 until 12 o'clock the guests arrived in a procession of carriages and automobiles and on foot. Prompt ly at noon the wedding ceremony was performed in a large drawing room of the Fifth avenue house in which a boAver of palms and arbor of orchids had been constructed. Be neath the arbor a temporary altar was erected and in front of this the ceremony was performed by Monsig nor Michael J. Lavelle, rector of St. Patrick's cathedral. The bride was escorted by her elder brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt, down an aisle, bordered with palms, en twined with great abundance of or chids to the altar. Count Szechenyi was attended by his brother Count Lionys Szechneyi. The ceremony of giving the bride away was performed by Corenlius Vanderbilt. The wedding chorus from Gaul's cantata, "Ruth," was sung by thirty boys of the St. Patrick's chancel choir, attired in snrplies and red cos socks, accompanied by the organ and assisted by the cathedral's male quar tette. The bride wore a gown of ivory satin with embroidery, point lace and gwlands of orange blossoms. Her veil was of point lace caught with sprays of orange blossoms. She car ried a shower bouquet of orchids and jrardenias. Monument to Eandall. Augusta, Ga., Special. Patriotic organizations and private citizens of this city are arranging to erect a me morial shaft to James R. Randall, au thor of "Maryland, My Maryland,' to be placed between those of Hayne and Wilde on Greene street, the fash ionable residential thoroughfare. The Birthday of the Kaiser. Berlin, By Cable. Great public re joicing marked the observance Mon day of the 49th birthday of William IT, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia. Celebrations were held in Berlin and throughout the empire. Emperor William was born Janu ary 27th, 1S59. and succeeded to the throne on Juno 15th, 1SS0. He mar ried the Princess Victoria of Schles-wig-IIolstein-Sondoiburg , Augusten burg and has seven children. The crown prince, Frederick Wiiliam, was born in 1SS2. Tires Boom and Burns To Death. New York, Special. Despondency because his wife had left him, and had him haled to court charged with non-support, is alleged by relatives to have caused Gaetano Berdardone to end his life by setting fire to his lit tle home on the top floor of a tene ment in the lower East Side. A 17-months-old baby perished with him.