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Demented Father Shoots Daughter.
Asheville, Special. Enraged at his
lf-year-old daughter,- Nellie, because
of a harmless school girl prank, Dr.
C. 0. Swinney, who recently came
here from New York, fired two shots
at her, fatally wounding; her, and
then turning the revolver on himself,
he placed the muzzle in his mouth
and pulled the trigger, dying almost
instantly. Badly wounded as she was
with two bullets embedded in the
skull, Miss Swinney ran from the:
room, and upstairs to the principal's
room before she fell. The tragedy
occurred in the reception room of the
Normal and Collegiate institute, a
large girls' boarding school in this
city, where Miss Swinney had been a
pupil for the past session. Just what
occurred prior to the shooting is not
known, as there were no witnesses,
and the girl, while still conscious,
could give but a vague, account. -. Dr.
Swinney, who up to a few years ago
had been a prominent physician in
New York city, has for some" time
seen in poor health, and of late,' it is
alleged, his mind has been unbalanc
ed. When Dr. Swinney called on his
duaghtcr at the school he was shown
into the reception room, and a few
minutes later his daughter came down
and went into the room, closing the
door behind her. She sat down at the
piano, her father sitting beside her.
Half an hour later girls and teachers
were startled by fourshots ringing
out, and a second afterwards Miss
Swinnev, with blood streaming from
the woiwiJs in her head, came rushing
from the room. In a few minutes
the wildest confusion reigned, school
girls and women teachers running here
and there, but Miss Robinson, , the
principal, speedily restored order and
"hastily summoned a physician. Miss
Swinney was desperately wounded
and there is little chaiTce for her re
covery . Ihe room in which t lie trag--edy
occurred showed signs of a hard
struggle. Chairs were overturned,
and the piano stool, with one leg
"broken, was lying in the middle of the
room. The father was lying on the
floor at one side of the room, face
downward, with the revolver, with
four chambers empty under him. The
attempted murder and suicide were
evidently deliberately planned, as be
fore goings to the school Dr. Swinney
bought a revolver and two rounds of
cartridges at a pawn shop. Although
it is said his mind has been unbalanc
ed foe .some time, he had never been
violent and his family were totally
unprepared for the dreadful tragedy.
He was the father-in-law of Dr. J.
A. Sinclair, a prominent dentist of
this city, and since his -turn from
New York a few weeks ago. Dr. Swin
ney had made his home with him.
On a Large Seals.
Charlotte, Special. The Southern
Hard Yarn Spinners Association held
. a meeting in the city last week and
spent a. large part of their time dis
cussing the curtailment proposition.
It was found that half the spindles
represented had been idle for some
'months past now, and the meeting
passed further resolutions regarding
curtailment, which, when it was voted
to keep their actions secret, are un
derstood to provide for continued
curtailment on a large scale. Resolu
tions were also adopted regarding the
disposal of 3'arns on hand, which are
selling for about half last year's fig
ures. The meetings were secret.
Mrs. E. C. Murray Dies Suddenly.
Burlington, Special Mrs. E. C.
'Murray, of Vincent, ten -miles north
of Burlington, died at her home Wed
, atesday. Death was sudden, and it
was supposed that heart failure was
the cause. She leaves a husband, E.
Clay Murray, several daughters and
sons, among whom are Mr. W. A.
Murray, of Mebane.
Kicked in Face by Horse.
Monroe, Special. The six-year-old
son of-Mrand Mrs. R. B. Redwine
had his nose bone broken, from the
skull and the plate of the skull brok
en by the kick of a horse late Thurs-
day afternoon. The boy was taken
to a hispital in Charlotte, Drs. Press
ley and Gibson, of Charlotte, and
Ashcraft, of Monroe, performed an
operation and it is thought that the
littlo patient will be well soon. The
face was badly lacerated and he will
bear a scar.
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A Peculiar Case.
Raleigh, Special. A peculiar se
qual to a remarkable pardon ease
transpired at the executive office of
Governor Glenn in the absence of the
Governor on his eastern Carolina pro
hibition campaign. . Ed. Hester, col
ored, appeared there to report that
his brother-in-law, Henry Bryant, an
escaped convict, had com9 to his
house in Oberlin Friday night and
that the officers could get him there.
Being questioned, it developed that
Bryant had come home with both
feet cut off, his story being -that he
was working for a railroad in Roan
oke, Va., and was run over by a
train. Private Secretary Arrington
had a telephone conversation with
the sheriff of the county and they
decided it would be best to leave the
negro alone. On being assured that
his brother-in-law would not be
molested. Hester objected strongly,
saying that in that event Bryant
would be left on his hands. He in
sisted that the officers of the law
take him in hand. A remarkable
phase of the case is that Bryant was
granted a pardon by the Governor
March lGth anjl thereafter it develop
ed that the negro had escaped on
March 2d, two weeks before the par
don was granted. There was a repri
mand to the officer for not reporting
the escape and the pardon was revok
ed. Bryant was convicted at the
spring term, 190G, of stealing chick
': ens on a wholesale scale. He had a
, big cave In a railroad cut where he
, kept his 'chickens until disposed of.
j The cave was furnished for living
and nearly a hundred chickens were
in stock. The city has been infested
by chicken thieves for some time and
this "find" stopped" it largely for
quite a while. Governor Glenn offers
a reward of $50 for the arrest oi
i George Goodlet, colored, charged with
wife murder in Asheville April 11th.
The sheriff of the county reported
that the negro had fled the county
and asked for the reward to be offer
ed. Syrian Peddler Jailed.
Gastonia, Special. Joe Moses, a
Syrian peddler, was before Magis
trate T. H. White, havhig been ar
rested near the Ozark Mill on a war
rant sworn out by Miles P. Bell
charging him with attempted crimin-
: al assault on Bell s wife, Mrs. Mat
I tie Bell, who is a daughter of James
.Holland. It is charged in the war
frant that Moses came to the home of
! Mrs. Bell, who" lives about four miles
I west of Gastonia on the Bessemer
I City road, while all the other mem
bers of the family were away and
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umuo inaecem proposals iu ner auu
laid hands upon her; but she escaped
from his grasp and ran to the home
of her father, about a quarter of a
mile away, screaming for help as she
went. The Syrian escaped at the
time, but was located at Gastonia
and placed under arrest.
New Enterprises.
The Orinoca Telephone Company,
of High Point, is granted a charter
$5,000 capital, with C. E. Spnrgeon,
W. A. Motsinger, W. E. Swain and
others incorporators, to establish and
operate a telephone line between
High Point and Davidson.
There is also a charter for the
Bailey Lumber Company, Bakers
ville, capital $25,000 authorized and
$5,000 subscribed, by Isaac Bailey, J.
M. Bailey and others.
The Tar River Light and Power
Company, of Wilson, is chartered to
take the place of the Carolina Light
and Power Company, capital $1,000
subscribed and $150,000 authorized,
the shareholders being M. T. Wil
liams, F. A. Woodard, P. L. Woodard
and others.
Another charter is to the Cren
willo Drug Company, of Oxford, capi
tal $10,000, by E. H. Crenshaw,' A.
H. Williams, W. L. Long and others.
Jim Smith is Not Guilty.
After delibrating for twenty-fom
hours the United States Court jury
Saturday afternoon returned a ver
dict of not guilty returned a ver
ing Jim Smith with conspiracy in the
murder of Revenue Officer Hendricks,
in the Smithtown section of Stokes
county, on December 20th, 1907. Pre
viously Smith had pleaded guilty to
the charge of illicit distilling, and for
this offense Judge Boyd sentenced
the risoner- to serve four years in th
Federal prison in Atlanta.
ANOTHER FOR CHARLOTTE
Plans For Bis Mill to Spin Extra
Fine Yarns.
Charlotte, Special. For the pur
pose of spinning a very high grade of
combined yarns in fine counts, from
60s tolOOs, two-ply, in warps skeins
and cones, there is now in process of
organization another large cotton mill
to be situated somewhere in the en
virons of Charlotte. Those interest
ed in the movement are the following
named: Messers. W. W. Hagood, H.
C. Henderson, W. A. Watson, Paul
Chatham, H. C. Sherill, J. L. Sexton,
John R. Pharr, D. II. Anderson,
Thomas J. Lillard, Mrs. M. K. Hunt
and others, with some out of town
atockholdersl ; The authorized capital
stock will' be $250,000, with $100,000
or $125,000 paid in.
North . State News Items.
That the county commissioners will
be liable to indictment for failure to
comply with the mandatory provision
of the "constitution of North Caro
lina, Section 44, Article 9, if they
fail to levy a sufficient special tax
on property in -their respective coun
ties to maintain at least a four
months public school term is the
feature of a lengthy special letter
being sent out by State " Superin
tendent of Public Instruction J. Y.
Joyner to the commissioners, county
superintendents and boards of educa
tion. He asks st he latter to see to
it that the necessity of a levy of this
special tax is ' fully impressed on
the commissioners and that the com
missioners be furnihed with accurate-
estimates of the , amount of
special tax necessary for this Pur
pose. He gives instructions in de
tail as to the method of ascertaining
the amount necessary.
Everything Printing Company, of
Greensboro, changes its name tothe
Harrison Printing Company. A. L
Fairbrother continues as president.
The Summerset Undertaking Com
pany, of Salisbury, eapital $50,000
subscribed, $25,000 authorized, is
i?.rtered, the incorporators being
T. W. Summerset and others.
A charter is granted the Anson
Brick Company, of Wadesboro, capi
tal $10,000 authorized, $1,500 sub
scribed, by R. J. Beverly and others.
. Wilmington's New Bank.
Wilmington, Special. The Ameri
can National Bank of Wilmington,
recently authorized by the Comp
troller of the Currency, organized by
the election of W. B. Cooper, presi
dent; George O. Gaylord, viee presi
dent, and T. E. Cooper, formerly of
Mullins, S. C, cashier. The directors
are Maj. John D. Shaw, Rockingham;
V. Sibury, Holly Ridge; Herbert Mc
Clammy, W. B. McClellan, Cuthbert
Martin, George O. Gaylord, A. G.
Warren, J. J. Hopkins, T. E. Cooper,
Owen Fennell, G. W. Huggins, J. T.
King and W. B. Cooper. The bank
will have both a savings and com
mercial feature and exercise a dis
cretion under the national banking
laws. The chief executive officers
will be bonded in $50,000 each, with
other officials in proportion. Busi
will begin May 1st .
- Craven Names County Officers
Newbern, Special. In the Demo
cratic county primary held last week
E. M. Green was nominated for the
House of Representatives witli a
majority of about 000. Lane, the
present register of deeds, was de
feated by S. II. Fowler. F. S. Ernul,
the present treasurer, won out over
three opponents. All other county
officers were nominated. The only
special interest was over the offices
of register of deeds and treasurer
and hard work was done by all
candidates for these offices. The
vote polled was rather large.
Revenue Cutter Goes to Float British
Steamer.
Norfolk, Va., Special. The. United
States revenue cutter Onondaga left
Friday for Ships Shoal, five miles
from Cobb's island on the eastern
shore of Vrginia, to assist in the at
tempt to float the British steamer
Glenaen. which stranded while mak
ing for the Virginia capes.
Alleghany Republican Convention.
Sparta, Special. The Republicans
of Alleghaney county held a very
harmonious convention here Tuesday
for the purpose of electing delegates
to the State, congress'onal and sena
torial conventions Resolutions were
passed endorsing the administration
of Roosevelt. Taft was endorsed as
being their choice for the next presi
dent; Judge Spencer B. Adams was
endorsed for State chairman. The
delegates to the congressional conven
tion were instructed to vote for Mr.
S. G. Parsons, of Ashe county.
41 DIE IN COLLISION
frightful Railway Accident in
Australia
GREAT SUFFERING RESULTED
Australian Trains Collide Killing
Forty-One and Injuring Sixty Oth
ers Fire Almost Consumes Wreck
age. Melbourne, Australia, By Cable.
Two trains from Ballarat and Bendi
?o, respectively, collided late Mon
day night at Braybrook junction,
about 8 miles from Ilelborne, 41 per
sons being killed and CO injured. The
Bendigo train, with two heavy en
gines, erashed into the rear of the
Ballarat train. Five ears of the lat
ter train were wrecked. - The wreck
age took fire and was almost com
pletely consumed. Many . of the
bodies were unrecognizable when re
covered. The Bendigo train suffered but lit
tle 'damage but the two engines were
piled on top of the rear coaches of
the other train. Terrible scenes fol
lowed the accident, many of the in
jured being caught in the wreckage
and with difficulty rescued. It was
a long time before doctors and nurses
arrived on the scene and as a conse
quence intense suffering prevailed
among the injured.
For Release of Thaw.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Special. The
first step in proceedings looking to
the release of Harry K. Thaw from
the State asylum for the State in
sane at Matteawan, was taken Mon
lay. James G. Graham, of Newburg,
appeared as Thaw's counsel before
Justice Morschauser, of the New
York Stat? Supreme Court at Whito
Plains, and applied for an order di
recting the superintendent of the asy
lum to permit Thaw to sign an appli
cation for a writ o habeas corpus.
The order was promptly issued and
it probably will be served at once.
According to the usual procedure in
such cases Thaw will sign the appli
cation for a writ of habeas corpus
which will then be submitted to a
justice of the Supreme Court for a
hearing to determine whether he
shoultf be released from the asylum
as sane. Probably this hearing will
be held before Justice Morschauser
at Poughkeepsie. This method of ob
taining the release of a prisoner at
the State asylum is usually taken
when the State lunacy commission is
unwilling to declare that the prison
er is sane.
Young Man Kills Hi3 Sister.
Winston-Salem, N. C, Special.
News reached here of a most deplor
able tragedy near Germantown,
Stokes county, when Oscar Tut
tle, aged 22 years, son of Mr. John
II. Tuttle, a highly respectable citi
zen and a prosperous farmer, shot
and killed his sister, Miss Mollie, who
was 2S years old. The brother en
tered a room where his sister was en
gaged in making the bed and without
warning shot her in the back with a
single barrel shotgun, the'entire load
taking effect. Death resulted
instantlv.
Abstainers in Session.
Hudson, Mass., Special With the
celebration of high mass, followed by
a parade through the streets of the
village, the thirty-second annual
convention of the Catholic Total Ab
stainence Union of the archdiocese of
Boston was opened here Monday.
Plans will be made for the extension
of the temperance work of the union
among the Catholics of Boston and
vicinitv.
Cypress Lumber Company Closes
Down.
Albany, Ga., Special. The Red
Cypress Lumber Company, at Preto
ria, near here, a $400,000 concern, is
being closed down .the purpose being
to go into liquidation. The big new
pine mill has already closed down and
the big cypress mill closes down at
once. Over 400 employes will be
tin own out of work.
Excitement Among Negroes.
Spartanburg, S. C Special There
was great excitement here among the
colored people over the report that a
4-year-old colored girl had been crim
inally assaulted by a colored man.
Hundreds of negro men and women
gathered at the house where the al
leged assault is said to have occur
red and the negroes, with several po
lice officers, instituted a search for
the man. A physician was called in
and after a consultation with him it
was learned that no crime had been
committed.
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
Doings of Our National Law-Makers
Day by Day.
The agricultural appropriation bill
which Avas reported to the Senate by
the committee on agriculture pro
vides for a number of important in
vestigations. 5 he bill as reported to
the Senate carries $11,612,146, an in
crease of $133,310 over the amount
of the bill as it was passed by the
House.
The Senate committee recommend
ed an appropriation of $10,000 for
co-operation between the Dpartment
of Agriculture and the reclamation
service in demonstrating the feasi
bility of crop production on lands
under the latter service. Another
item of $10,000 Avas recommended for
the purpose of securing hardyr forage
plants from Siberia for use on the
northern portion of the great plains
area.
Of the-appropriation for demon
strating the best methods of -jneeting
the ra-ages of the cotton boll weevil
$10,000 is. made immediately avail
able. An amendment A-as made by the
committee to the provision in regard
to fixing definite grades of grain so
that such grades Avhen fixed shall be
come the official standards for the
grading of grain.
' Vreeland Measure Lost.
The House committee on banking
and currency voted to lay on the
table the financial bill offered by Rep
resentative Edward B. Vreeland, of
New York, as a substitute for the
Aldrich bill and decided to report
favorably the bill recently introduced
by Chairman FoAvler, providing for a
currency commission to consist of 43
members, 11 members of the Senate,
11 members of the House and 21 oth
ers. Avho must be citizens of the Unit
ed State.
The action of the committee Avas
taken late in the afternoon, after a
meeting lasting all day. Representa
tives Vreeland appeared before the
committee and made a long argument
in favor of his bill, saying he thought
it would be criminal negligence for
Congress to adiiurn without passing
some measure of protection in the
eArent of another panic this fall. He
did not, hoAA'ever, think that a panic
was imminent. sS'r. Vreeland said
tha-, his bill was an emergency meas
ure only, and he favored the appoint
ment of a currency, commission to
consider a permanent hanking and
currency law.
Naval Bill is Reported.
After consideration of less than
two hours the Senate committee on
naval affairs Monday reported the
naA'al appropriation bill to the Sen
ate. It carries $111,546,549, an in
crease of $7,579,031 over the amount
of the bill as it Avas passed by the
house.
On the battleship construction pro
gramme the Senate committee adopt
ed the policy of the House, making no
change in the provision for tAvo ves
sels. The President's message advo
cating the construction of four bat
tleships Avas not considered, as it Avas
known that the committe Avas unani
mously opposed to that programme.
Concerning the construction of col
lier:! a provision Avas ineoroprated in
the bill that one should be built on
the Pacific coast, Avhich means tare
Island Navy Yard. An appropriation
of $1,800,000 was made for the pur
chase of three colliers contracted by
rhe Fore Kiver Shipbuilding Com
pany. Other important amendments
Avere made as follows:
Amendments to Bill
Increase of 20 per cent in the pay
ot officers of the naAy and civilian
professors and instructors at. the
naA-al academy, and of 10 per cent
in the pay of the enlisted force,
$3,553,909; an increase of the pay of
professors of mathematics, construc
tors' corps and civil engineer corps
to equal that of officers of the same
rank in the medical and pay corps,
$10,450.
For public works, additional ap
propriations Avere made as follows:
Portsmouth, N. H., $90,000; Nor
folk, "Va., $200,000; Puget Sound,
$140,000; Pearl Harbor, HaAvaiian Is
lands, for naval station and dry dock,
$1,000,000; Charleston, $32,000; ma
rine corps, $05,000. The appropria
tion for the marine corns, exclusive
of public works, aggragtes $021,143.!
Tire in Alabama Town.
Eutaw, Ala., Special. Fire which
broke out in the store of the Eutaw
Drug Company did damage estimat
ed at about $40,000. Every building
on the block fronting Prairie street
and running from Boligee to Clinton,
was destroyed. There was no insur
ance. The stores burned were: C.
Jean-, F. P. Jarvis, "William S. MaAv
and J. H. Harris, B. D. Palmer, Har
Avood' & McKinley, T. G. Lamb. V
ery stable; "Y. W. Holly, D. VY. Duncan.
FOR PUBLICITY BILL
Prompt and favorable Action
Strongly Urged
CONGRESS SHOULD PASS LAW
Petition Signed by Committee of the
National Fnblicity Organization
Will Be Preoented to the Senata
and Hctise.
"Washington, Special. Congress is "
urged to action on legislation requir
ing the publicity of campaign funds
"m a petition Avhich will be presented
to the Senate by Senator Culberson,
of Texas, and to the House of Rep
resentatives, by McCall, of Massachu
setts. The petition is signed by a
committee of the National Publicity
Organization and respectfully asks
the Congress to enact at the present
session a suitable laAv for the pub
licity both before and after election
of campaign contributions made to
national committees to be usej in in
fluencing the approaching election of
November 3d, 190S. .
' ' The association has limited the
scope of its efforts to securing pub
licity of contributions made to nat
ional committees and Congressional
committees formed to influence in
more than one State elections where
members of the national House of
Representatives are to b chosen ;
and to promote by all appropriate
means State legislation designed to
accomplish in every State the same
purpose of publicity.
Co-Operation Necessary.
"It is thought that the wisest
method of preventing election cor
ruption through money contributions
will be not through national laws
alone nor through State laAvs alone,
but through both methods; each co
operating and not conflicting with
the other and both making the best
and most effective system. There can
not be any doubt of the poAver of
Congress to do what Ave propose, nor
any doubt about the power of the
State to provide the additional regu
lations desired.
"The National Publicity Bill Or
ganization is non-partisan and hopes
that the efforts to secure the bene
ficial laws so much needed will -not
become invoh-ed in the controversies
of political parties. But it is impos
sible to OA-erlook the fact that the
present minority party will impose
upon the majority party the weighty
responsibility for the failure of any
legislation, if such failure shall en
sue. To avoid such a deplorable poli
tical issue, should not the members of
both parties unite in postponing all
propositions in which there may be a
sincere division of sentiment and in
passing through Congress without
further delay a bill upon Avhich all
cordially agree?"
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Four Men Killed.
Warrensburg, Mo., Special. Three
men arc dead and another is fatally
Avounded as the result of an attempt
of ofiicers to arrest F. 0. Hawes: The
dead; ' j
James Ryan, city marshal.
Night Watchman BasLashan.
F. O. Hawes.
The wounded:
Night Watchman R, P. Pullock. '
HaAves, 22 years old, son of a John
son tounty farmer, was -returniat
homo or, a Missouri Pacific traia
from n trip to a neighboring town,
and it is believed, suddenly lost hia
mind. His actions were noticed by
the passengers, and "Warrensburg of
ficers Avere asked to meet the train.
City Marshal Ryan and the two
watchmen met Hawes as he got off
the train and attempted to arrest
him. Hawes drew a revolver and be
gan shooting. At the first shot Mar
shal Ryan fell dead. Other shots
followed, and Night Watchman Bas
bashan fell dead, shot through the
lungs. Night Watchman Pollock was
shot in the abdomen. Hawes was
shot and killed by a negro porter.
Negro's Body Found Hanging to
Limb.
Fort Worth, Texas,' Special. A
special to The Record from Atlanta,
Tex., says; Jasp?r Douglas, a negro
Avas charged in a warrant sworn t
with having criminally assaulted hia
step-sister, a girl of 12 years. Sun.
day morning his body was found
hanging to the limb of a tree neai
this place. The 'erdict of the coro
ner's jury was that Douglas eame to
his death at the hands of unknown
persons.