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PLYMOUTH, N 0.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1908.
NO. 37.
Year, In Advance.
COLD AND DISTRESS
Many Points Suffer From the
y Severe, Weather
NEW YORK LIKE ARCTIC LAND
The. Hudson Above the Terry Paths
ia Almost Closed Ambulances
Kept ea the Bun in the Big Town.
New York, Special. Ice-bound con
ations still prevail in New York.
.With .continued cold weather trafiio
may be Stopped to all but ocean
liners. Ferry boat operations are al
ready badly interferrcd with. The
Hudson river above the path of ferry
traffic, is almost closed. The contin
ued cold has added enormously to the
suffering. Allover town ambulances
are again kept busy caring for the
i victims of the cold and accidents due
1 to the snow ajid ice on the sidewalks
and streets. '"'
v , Crushing and crunching down tho
?ay under pressure of wind and tide,
the vast ice floes piled up Monday
against dozens of vessels on quaran
tine, smashed several crafts violently
together, snapped anchor chains and
wept a number of vessels seaward
for considerable distances. Like an
arctic pack, the minature bergs filled
tlinpper and lower bays. After an
how's Vork, the government boat
"Flower with health officers on board,
finally butted its way through the
jam in tbe el-annel, and the inspec
tors managed to reach the anchoraed
craft. ' '
SLEET STORM IN ATLANTA. ,
Wire3 Arc Out of Commission, Car
Service Stalled, and Streets Block
- ed by Fallen Trees. ;-"
' Atlanta, Ga., Special. Owing to s
slest storm, which started Sunday
and grew worse during tho night,
wires of all descriptions are out of
commission, electric . car lines are
stalled and streets aro blocked with
fallen trees. No serious accidents or
loss of life has been reported. All
day Atlanta was shut off from com
munication with the outside world,
hut an emergency telegraph office
"was opened at Howelis station, thrco
miles from the city, where two wires
were, patched up. The telephone and
theijjlegraph companies have been
f11fr,f"nest lers- The Western
fj "ported seven miles of poles
doVn between Atlanta and Macon.
The Postal Telegraph and Cable
Company was also seriously crippled.
Rain continued to fall Monday, but
it did not freeze. Monday night the
temperature is again falling, but no
further damage is anticipated, as the
rain has about ceased.
Spartanburg Tied Up Again.'
Spartanburg, S. C, Special. The
deepest snow in several years fell in
Spartanburg and throughout tho
county Sunday night and Monday
morning, covering the ground to a
depth of six inches. In the upper
section of the county the snowfall
was considerably heavier than here,
the entire country around Landrum
and Inman being under seven inches
of snow. In valleys the snow nieas
tires several feet. The snow also
catne on one otf tho coldest nights
of the season, the temperature being
22 degrees. The ground being already
frozen, not having thawed since tho
sleet storm of Friday a week, the
snow, stuck hard and fast. Snow be-gan-Q
ailing Sunday at -midnight anil
fell unremittingly until 9 o'clock
? Monday morning. A cold biting wind
from tho northeast accompanied the
" snowstorm, causing the snow to beat
under tho door sills and through tiny
openings in the windows and in many
stores and residences the snow was
banked up. Many roofs leaked, caus
ing much damage. Tho street rail
way company has suffered from the
frtorm and for four hours not a car
was in operation: ' Many of the cars
left the barn early in ,tho morning
but. stalled after running only a
short distance. During the afternoon
, sleet and rain fell by turns and if the
bad weather continues during tho
night another hard freeze is expected.
Snow Deepest in Many Years ai
AshevillJ.
Asheville, N. C, Speeial--The deep
est snow for many years covered tho
ground Monday. Snow began falling
at miduigITt Sunday night aud at
daylight Monday morning the ground
was covered to a depth of six inches.
The snowfall continued durir.g tho
mousing and at noon seven inches of
snow lay on the ground. Tho elec
tric car system has had hard work
maintaining its schedule?. A tele
phoaie message from. -Marshall said
there-were seven' inches of snow
CONGRESS GETS BUSY
Doings of Our National Law-Makers
Day by Day.
Tariff in the Senate.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, ad
dressed the Senate in advocacy of
his bill to create a permanent tariff
commission. The Senator was accord
ed a careful hearing by both the Re
publican and Democratic sides of the
chamber, and afeo by the crowded gal
leries. Senator Beveridge spoke for an
hour and a half, and when he con
cluded his , remarks, Senator Culber
son, of Texas, remarked that the
Senator from Indiana was to be con
gratulated because in some degree at
Jeast,,he had joined the army of tar
iff revisionists. He said that it had
been announced in the newspapers
that a decree had been issued on the
Republican side that the tariff could
not even be inquired into at this
time.
Senator Newlands then discussed
the general subject of the tariff, de
claring that the law should provide
for a gradual reduction of the tariff
so that no duty should be over 45
per cent.
Mr. McLaurin declared that the
tariff would always be a political
question. "The fact," he said, "that
we are told the tariff must not be
revised : before an election is an ad
mission that it is political."
Senator Scott pronounced himself
to be a "stand-patter." He believed
the present Dingley tariff had done
more for this country in the past ten
years than any law ever enacted.
Mr. Stone, of Missouri, declared
that when William Jennings Bryan
is elected President and .when Con
gress is in control of the Democratic
party, then and then only, would a
conservative and genuine revision of,
the tariff be begun.
Appropriation Bill Up.
The sections of the urgent deficien
cy appropriation bill relating to exe-
cutivo . departments were reached in
the Senate Mr. Bacon, of Georgia; in
quired concerning the operation of
tho law prohibition executive depart
ments from incurring liabilities for
which appropriation ia not made.
Mr. Hale explained that the law of
1906 had made such a prohibition but
he added, there is an exception in fa
vor of the War Department and Navy
Department This exception he hop
ed would bo done away with.
Senator Clay, of Georgia, condem
ned the appropriation of between $4,
000,000 and $5,000,000 for the Navy
Department in this bill for purposes
not provided for by law.
Mr. Hale declared that there always
had been deficiencies and that there
always will be. He regarded them as
inevitable.
Mr. Clay persisted in his opposition
and said that he would not be sur- ,
prised to see the appropriations for
the navy reach $175,000,000 annual
ly, according: to the rate of increase,
going on now. He also predicted
that within 10 years the expenses of
tho Postoffice Department would bo
increased to $225,000,000 a year. All
of the deficiency appropriations com
plained of in connection with unau
thorized expenditures were retained
in tho bill.
Pension Bill Reported.
Tho House eommitteo on approp
riations reported favorably the pen
sion bill for the fiscal year ending
June 30th, 1909. The bill as report
ed abolishes the pension agencies at
Augusta, Me., Boston, Buffalo, Chica
go, Columbus, O.; Concord, N, H.;
Des Moines, Detroit, Indianapolis,
Knoxville, Tenn. ; Louisville, Ky.;
Milwaukee, New York City, Philadel
phia, Pittsburg, San Francisco and
Topeka and consolidates them in one
central distributing agency at Wash
ington. The bill as reported carries a to
tal pension appropriation of $150,
S69.000, which is $174,000 less than
the aagregate estimate the exact
sum saved by the consolidation of
tho agencies.
There was paid to 967,371 pension
ers in the last fiscal year the total
sum of $133,030,894; and the total of
pensions that has been paid for all
wars and for the regular establish
ment since the foundation of the re
public is $3,593,015,732.
"There is now living," says the re
port, "no soldier or soldier's widow
of the revolutionary war aud there is
no pension soldier living of the war
of 1S12 but at the end of the last
fiscal year there were on the roll 553
widows of soldiers of that war.
Deficiency Eill Passes.
The senato passed the 'urgent difll
cieney bill, carrying an appropriation
of over $24,000000. The large defi
ciency, appropriation for . the navy
brought out considerable discussion
,ui lint subject ui excui,w depart
ments making expenditures not pro
vided for in appropriating.
The deficiency appropriations for
the Panama canal gave rise to Dem
ocratic criticism of the publication
of a paper by the canal commission
at Panama and incidentally Senator
Teller declared that he believed tho
lock canal at Panama would some
day be declared a failure and that a
sea level canal would take its place.
The senate devoted two hours to
consideration of "the criminal cod
bill and at 4 :20 p. m. adjourned.
Killed His Man in Cold Blood.
High Springs, Fla., Special. J. T.
Chester, a restaurant keeper, was
shot and instantly killed here by his
step-brother, W. H. Temple.' Both
men are prominent and the killing
caused intense excitement. Temple
shot Chester five times while he held
him around the neck. Temple was
arrested and taken to the Gainesville
jail.
More Work of the Night Riders.
Hopkinsville, Ky., Special. Five
hundred night riders, Sunday night
galloped into Fredonia, cut off all
wire comumnieation, put the citizens
under guard and then a detachment
went out to the farm of former Pop
ulist candidate Governor Gardin, and
set fire to two barns containing 50,
000 pounds of valuable tobacco. The
offense of Gardin is not that he is a
member of the Night Riders' Associa
tion, and the Society of Equity.
Fifteen Years For Manslaughter.
Rome, Ga., Special. The jury in
the case of Jack Strange, charged
with the killing of Blake Patterson,
last November, returned a verdict of
guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Strange was sentenced to 15 years im
prisonment. The men 'were both
switchmen --and quarreled over a
young woman to whom both wer
paying attention.
. Thaw May Be Free Soon.
Matteawan, N. Y., Special. Dr.
Lamb, superintendent of the State
Hospital for the Criminal Insane, said
that if after 30 days or so it is his
belief that Harry K. Thaw is sane,
it will be within J the province of the
hospital authorities to so certify to
the court and recommend his release.
A commission in lunacy or other pro
ceedings would not be necessary, he
declared.
Pacific Decrees Are Promulgated.
London, By Cable. Decrees restor
ing constitutional government, re
extending immunity from prosecution
to members of the Cortes, releasing
deputies arrested by former Dictator
Franco and restoring the freedom of
the press were gazetted in Lisbon,
according to dispatches. Correspond
ents all agree-that Lisbon is quiet
and now, believe that danger of fur
ther disorders is over.
Big Car Plant in Burned.
High Point, N. C, Special The
biggest fire in the history of the city
in dollars and cents occurred hero
Sunday night when the main plant of
the Southern Car Company was de
stroyed by fire, together with all ma
chinery. The losses between $80,000
and $100,000 and covered by only
one-third insurance. There were
were twenty-three ears worth several
thousand dollars each almost ready to
sr. out, and these were also destroyed.
The origin of the tire is now unknown,
Leaves Fortune to Hampton Normal
Pittsfield, Mass.,- Special. By th.
will of Miss Alice Byington of Stock
bridge, which was filed for probat
here Saturday, the Hampton Norma
and Agricultuarl Institute, of Hamp
ton, Va., is given $210,000. Th
Normal and Industrial Institute, o
Tuskegee, Ala., is given - $50,00(3
and the Mount Herman school fo
boys at East Northfield, Mass., $25,
J03.
Fire Damages Florida Towa.
Tampa, Fla., Special, Fire earl;
Saturday morning destroyed the bus
iness portion of Wauchula. Amonj
the losers were the City Bakery, Pre
vatt & Swindell, A. C. davel's stort
A. & T. Millinery Company's store
Whitehurst's pool room, Pittman'
furniture store, Norman's store, CSt;
Restaurant and Kelly's shoo sto
The Peace River Hotel, in cours
of erection, was damaged to th
extent of $1,500, but was saved b;
hard work.
A full jury of women In Colorado
has Just found that the plaintiff
town did fit, announces tlie New York
World, although the defendant was of
tho masculine order. A striking
man's-rights victory in a woman's-
ENDING OF FEUDIST
ludge Hargis, of Kentucky, is
Slain By His Own Son
CAREER OF BLOOD AND MURDER
The Most Infamous Figure in the
Feuda Which Have Disrupted
Breathitt County, Kentucky, For
Many Years, is Shot and Killed by
His Own Son, Following a QuarreL
Jackson, Ky., Special. Former
County Judge James Hargis, for
Many years member of the State
Democratic executive committee, ac
snsed of complicity in many killingi
md a prominent figure in the feuds
ffhich have disrupted Breathitt
;ounty for several years was shot
md instantly killed in his general
store here aboue 330 p. m. Thursday
by his son, Beach Hargis. The son
3red five shots in rapid succession
it his father, who fell dead while
lis clerks were waiting on custo
mers. The exact cause of the mur
Jer has not been learned, but it i3
supposed to have been the result of
lifferences which have existed be
tween father and son for some time.
The two men are reported to have
had a severe quarrel several nights
igo, when the father, it is alleged,
ras compelled to resort to violence
So restrain his son.
Young Hargis, it is said, had been
Irinking heavily of late. He came
into the store in the afternoon and
was apparently under the inuence of
liquor. Judge Hargis, it is said,
spoke to his son about drinking and
3 quarrel resulted.
Father and son stepped behind a
counter, when the son, after a few
minutes' conversation, drew a revol
ver and fired five shots. Four took
sffeet, Judge Hargis falling dead.
The young lady stenographer and the
customers in the store fled in fright.
Young Hargis was arrested and
placed in jail. He was raving like a
maniac and the officers were compell
ed to drag him to jail.
Judge Hargis has been for years a
prominent figure in Kentucky in po
litical end criminal circles. He Las
figured in the courts in the mountains
for years on account of the murders
of Dr. Cox, Attorney Marcum and
"Jim" Cockrill. Judge Hargis was
the political leader of the Democrats
of the tenth district and was regarded
a-s the "boss" of Breathitt county.
For years his sway was not opposed
but young Hargis and Marcum had
the temerity to oppose Hargis in a
law case. From that date he was a
marked man.
Judge Hargis had been on trial at
various time for complicity in the
muder of Marcum, "Jim" Cockrill
ard Dr. Cox, but had been acquitted
on ail the charges. He was recent
ly foiced to pay a judgment of $S,OO0
tD Mrs. Marcum in connection with
the death of her husband.
Judge Hargis disposed of this, th
last of the cases in which he had beer
invoivid, when he paid the judgment
c the court. Mrs. Marcum had sued
Judge Hargis and others for $100,00(
alleging that they caused the deati
of her husband.
The Hargis-Cockrill feud had its
inception in a political contest. Th
Hargis' had long been dominant it
Breathitt county, where they con
ducted a general store and a lumbej
business and were generally active
The bi others, James, Alexander anr
Albert were good business men anc
accumulated a fortune.
Tea Killed in Mine.
Port nood, N. S., Special Six coa
miners and four loaders were crushet
to death as the result of an cxplo
sion in the Port. Hood mine of tin
Port Hood-Richmond Railway Coa
Company. Whether the explosioi
was due to gas, lire damp or gunpow
der remains to bo determined by i
coroner's jury.
Second Primary in Louisiana.
Baton Rouge, La., Special Tbe of
ficial count of Louisiana's recen
Democratic primary elections issuer
Democratic primary elections issuei
Friday night, shows that a secont
election will bj necessary for four of
fices. These are Lieutenant Gover '
nor, State Auditor, Attorney Genera 1
and Registrar of Land Othees. 1'au
Lambremon and J. J. Bailey will b
the contestants for Lieutenant Gov
crnor. J. -Y.-Sanders wos the con
'tests for Governor by a plurality o:
MRS. YARMOUTH IS FREE
After a Hearing in Chambers Last
ing Only Thirty Minutes London
Divorce Court Grant the Decree
Asked for by the Countess of Yar
mouth, Who Was Formerly Miss
Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, Sister of
Harry Thaw.
London, By Cable. Sir Birrel
Barnes, president of the Divorce
Court, granted the Countess of Yar
mouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw, of
Pittsburg, a decree nullifying her
marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth.
The ease was heard in private. At
the time fixed for the commencement
of the proceedings "every one not ac
tually engaged on the case was ex
cluded from the courtroom. The
case was practically undefended and
the hearing lasted for only half an
hour. The Countess, attired in a
fashionable black gown, was present
but the Earl of Yarmouth was not in
court.
Only four witnesses were examin
ed. They were the Countess of Yar
mouth, her maid, a doctor appointed
by the court, and an American law
yer who proved the marriage. The
Countess gave evidence in support of
her allegation that the marriage had
never been consummated and the
maid testified that the Earl and the
Countess had been living as man and
wife. According to the evidence of
the doctor the Earl of Yarmouth was
capable of consummating the maiiagc
but that this did not affect the alle
gation that the marriage had not been
consummated and he pointed out to
the judge that it was within the dis
cretion of the court to annul the mar
riage if it was proved that it had
not been consummated.
The Earl's lawyer satisfied himself
with pointing out that the evidence
of the doctor removed the stigma
placed upon tie Earl by the evidence
of the plaintiff and that there were
no grounds upon which the Countess
could have sued for divorce.
The judge pronounced his decree
annulling the marriage without com
ment. In the ordinary course o
events it will be made absolute in
six months.
PUBLIC PRINTER SUSPENDED.
Stillings Deposed Temporarily While
Congress Is Investigating the Gov
ernment Printing Office.
Washington, Special. President
Roosevelt temporarily suspended as
public printer Charles A. StilKngs
and appointed William S. Rossiter
temporarily to fill the duties of that
office. The action as explained of
ficially, is to facilitate the investiga
tion now being made of the govern
ment printing office by Congress.
Mr. Rossiter is now chief clerk of
the census office. Just as the Presi
dent's action in suspending Mr. Sell
ings was being announced, a com
mittee of labor leaders of this city
called at the Wfcite House and pre
sented to the President resolutions
adopted by the Central Union here on
January 20th, last, charging Mr. Still
ings with violations of the 8-hour law
in the government printing office.
Resolutions by numerous labor or
ganizations in various cities charging
violation of the 8-hour law, discrimi
nation against veteran soldiers and
the widows of soldiers, and violations
of the civil service law had been sub
mitted to Congress and the President.
Mr. Stillings is from Boston, Mass!,
and was appointed public printer in
1905. He had been general manager
of his father's printing firm in New
York and at various times manager of
the printers board of trade of this
city and of New York. Mr. Rossiter
and had connections in New York and
Washington before assuming office in
the Census Bureau in 1890.
Judson Harmon a Candidate.
Cincinnati, O., Special.Judson Har
mon declared that he. was as much
in the race for the Democratic nom
ination for President as he ever was.
He arrived home from a trip through
the South with "William J. Bryan.
Mr. Harmon said the chances for the
election of a Democratic President
were good.
Fourth Pan-American Conference.
Washington, Special. At a meet
ing of the governing board of the
Bureau of American Republics pre
sided over by Secretary Root and at
tended by neaily all of the members
in this city, it wa? decided that the
fourth Pan-Ameiiean Conference
should be held in the City of Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic, May 25th,
1910. The date was selected to com
memorate the achievement of inde
pendence by the South American re-
BIBJPIIS
President Roosevelt Answers
Charge of Playing Politics
GIVES REASONS FOR HIS ACTS
Cfcief Executive Characterizes the
Charges as 'False and Malicious,"
and in an Exceedingly Lengthy
Epistle to WiHiaon Dudley Foulke,
of Richmond, Indiana, He Enters
Into a Detailed Defense.
Washington, Special. - President
Roosevelt has made answer to th
recent statements that he has mad
use of Federal patronage to further
the presidential interests of Secre
tary Taft. The answer is in the form-
of a letter addressed to William Dud
ley Foulke, of Richmond, Indinan,
and includes a letter from Mr. Foulke
to the President suggesting the need
of such a statement.
The President begins by character
izing the charges as "false and ma
licious." He follows this with an;
analysis of all appointments sent by
him to the senate for its action to
show that in no case has the proxim
ity of a presidential contest influenc
ed his action. The President's let
ter to Mr. Foulke in part follows:
Tho President's Letter.
The statement that I have used the
offices in the effort to nominate any
presidential candidate is both false
and malicious. It is the usual imagi
native invention which flows from a
desire to say something injurious.
Remember that those now making
this accusation were busily - engaged
two - months jtgo in asserting that I
was using the offices to secure my own
renomination. It is the kind of .ac
cusation which for tho next few
months will be rife. This particular
slander will be used .until exploded,
and when exploded those who have
used it .will promptly invent another.
Such being the case, I almost question
whether it is worth while answering;
but as it is you . who ask why, the
answer you shall have.
Since the present Congress as
sembled two months ago I have sent
to the Senate the names of all the
officials I have appointed for the en
tire period since Congress adjourned
on the 4th of March last, that is for
11 months. Excluding army and navy
officers, scientific 5tperts, health of
ficers, and those of the revenue cut
ter service. I have made during this
period about 1,352 appointments sub
ject to the confirmation by, the Sen
ate, 1,164 being postmasters. Of
these, appointments in the diplomat
is and consular services and in the
Indian service have been made with
out regard to politics; in the diplo
matic and consular services more
Democrats than Republicans having
been appointed, as we are trying to
even up the quotas of the Southern
States. In nomlating judges I have
treated politics as a wholly secondary
consideration, and instead of relying
solely upon the recommendations of
either Senators of Congressmen, have
always conducted independent inquir
ies myself personally through mem
bers of the bench or the bar whom I
happen to know, or through Attorney
General Bonaparte, Secretary Taft,.
who was himself a judge, Secretary
Root, because of his great experience
at the bar, or Senator Knox, who
was formerly my Attorney General.
In a number of the other offices
chiefly assistant secretaries or heads
of bureaus here at Washington, but
also Governors of Territories or mea
holding peculiar position such for
instance, as that of commissioner of
education in Porto Rico and also in
a few other cases, notably those of
marshals in certain of the Western
States, but including various officers
also here and there throughout the
Union, I have either felt that the po
sition was of such a character that
the initiative in the choice could only
with propriety come from me or from
one of the Cabinet officers, or else I
have happened to know of a man of
such peculiar qualifications that I de
sired to appoint him on my own ini
tiative. The President goes at length int
all his appointments, and shows that he
has in no instance shown a purpohe
to further the interests of any can
didate, but. has had only tho good of
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