North Carolina Newspapers

f fi ri El f3.M Year, In Adrancc. "' , FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Slnffl Cojy a Ctv , VOL. Xl . - "PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1908. NO. 1G. 31 ,1 Y J IE MAINE ELECTION State Goes Republican But By Reduced Majority PROHIBITION THE LEADING ISSUE Bert M. Fernell, Kepublican, Chosen Governor Over Obadiah Gardner. Democrat Republicans Elect Four Congressmen and State Auditor. . Portland, Me, Special. Although the Republicans came off victorious in the State election Monday, Bert M. Fernald, of Portland, being chosen Governor over Obadiah Gardner, of Rockland. All four Republican candidates for Congress were elected and for State Auditor Charles P. Hitch, of Augus ta, Republican, defeated his oppon ent. At 10:30 returns for Governor from all of the cities and 400 towns aud plantations out of 499 gave: Fernald (Rep.) 6S,300. Gardner (Dem.) 61,010. Same places in 1904 gave: Cobb (Rep.) 70,8S2. Davis (Dem.) 4G.712. t This shows a Republican loss of 40 per cent, and a Democratic gain of 32 per cent. On this basis the Re publican plurality in the" State was estimated at about S,000. The result which was much closer than any of the Republican leaders hand anticipated, showed not only the warmth of the contest, but the popu larity of Mr. Gardne dthroughout thj State, in the cities as well as in the little rural districts, where his fame as the head of the State . grange proved a great vote gainer. The Republicans were on the de fensive throughout the campaign, seeking to hold the State by the usual plurality by answering the various Democratic arguments, which were mainly for resubmission of the pro hibitory law, taxation of the wild lands and reform in administrative 'methods. But little' was said of na tional issues, although the Republi cans, through outside speakers, sough tjt-,, : various points to bring e cjijeets to the attention of the people. , WonnSed Two; Killed Self. Laurinburg, N. C, Special. Enrag ed because his wife, with whom he had failed to live peaceably for. sev eral years, would not go back , home with him, Henry Moore, colored, shot both her and his mother-in-law about 8 o'clock Monday morning, inflicting ugly though not serious wounds on each. Then thinking he had killed them he walked off a short distance and, putting his pistol to his throat, took his own life. His wife is shot through both hands and the right ear, the latter shot striking the skull and glancing off. The elder woman was shot in the mouth, the ball coming out at the lower jaw. Germans Celebrate. Washington, Special. Bennings race track was the scene of a bij; 'German Day celebration under the auspices of the United German So cieties of Washington. " An extensive literary and athletic programme was carried out. The celebration com memorates the anniversary of the landing in America of the first Ger man immigrants headed by Francis Daniel Pastorius, who founded, a colony at Germantown, Pa., in 1GS3. The actual anniversary of the land ing is October 6, but it was decided to hold the festivities earlier this year. Colored Odd Fellows. Atlantic City, N. J., Special. A black cloud is hovering over Atlantic City, occasioned by the invasion of colored folk from all over the land for ihe convention of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, an in ternational negro fraternal order. The convention will extend through the week and the visitors will be en tertained in an elaborate manner. Mexican Veterans. San Francisco, Special. Although few veterans of the Mexican war re main to observe the day, celebrations will be held in several Western and Southwestern cities to mark the sixty-first anniversary of the entry of General Winfield Scott and the Amer ican army into the City of Mexico, September 14, 1S47. The triumph of the American army confirmed by force of arms Uncle Sam's title to the vast conquered" territory of Cali fornia, Nevada, UtahJ Wyoming, Col orado, Arizona an .iivr Mexico. 3 KILLED ; 30 INJURED Passenger Train, on Yazoo & Missis sippi Valley Railroad Jumps the Track, the Chair Car and One Coach Falling Over Embankment, Killing Three Persons and Injuring 30. Memphis, Tenn., Special. Passen ger train No. 314, on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, was badly wrecked near Clarksdale, Miss., Mondday afternoon. Three persons were killed and about thirty injured: The dead : . ' Virgie Graham, wife of Hon. T. JL Graham, of Glendora, Miss. Unidentified girl, 15 years, ticket reading to Memphis. Unidentified woman. Seriously injured: John H. Perkins, of Memphis; Conductor E. E. Sharp; Miss Annie Lubkin; Miss Katherine .McLean, of Lexington, Miss.; Miss A. J. Jack more, of Mattson, Miss.; Miss Hattie West Johnson, of Greemvood, Miss. The train was running at a high rate of speed when at Durham, a small station near Clarksdale, it jumped the track? The chair car and one of the passenger coaches, both filled with people turned over an em bankment and were badly smashed. The wrecked train left.-Jackson, Miss., at 6:25 in the morning and was due at Clarksville.at 1:20 p. m. Log Train Wrecked. Montgomery, Ala., Special. A spe cial from Sampson, Ala., says: By the derailment of a log train of the Henderson-Boyd Lumber Com pany near here early Monday, three persons were killed and twenty others injured, three of whom are not ex pected to live. The dead: J. O. Stephenson, a convict guard. Joe Wise, white laborer. Albert England, colored laborer. Probably fatally injured: Frank Williams, wood boss. Oscar Powell. Will Jackson. The wreck occurred on a trestle at the bottom of a dip. An engine was pushing eighteen cars over new track, which, it' is said, had not been properly tested, when a ear in the center of the train buckled, de railing the entire train. Mr. Kern's Itinerary. Chicago, Special. Governor Has kell, of Oklahoma, treasurer of the Democratic national committee, stated that miscellaneous contribu tions to the campaign fund ranging from .fl to $100 were being received at the rate of $3,000 a day, exclusive of funds gathered by the finance committee. Vice Presidential Candi date Kern spent the whole day at the national headquarters discussing de tails of his itinerary! He left for Indiifnapolis. Mr. Kern's itinerary was announced as follows : Chicago, Jefferson Club banquet, September 17th; Evansville, Ind., September 18th ; Maryland and West Virginia, September 19th-24th, at points to be fixed by the central committees of those States; Mansfield, O., at formal opening of the Democratic campaign in Ohio, September -20th ; points in northern Ohio, September 2Sth and 29th; Saginaw, Mich., September 30th; Birmingham, Ala., October 2d; Macon, Ga., October 3d; Asheville, N. C, October 0th ; Greensboro, N. C, October Cth ; Winston-Salem, N. C, October 7th; Roanoke, Va., October 7th; Finncastle, W. Va., October 9th; Huntington, W. Va., and other points to be named beginning October 10th. October 8th has been left open to permit Mr. Kern to visit his sister near Roanoke, Va. It was in Roan oke that Mr. Kern's parents lived before they migrated West, and he will spend as much time as possible there. . . Honor McKinley's Memory. -Canton, O., Special. Monday was the seventh anniversary of the death of President McKinley and was ob served with every evidence of sor row in his home city. Many tributes were received from prominent men and many Canton people visited the tomb where the martyr President and his wife sleep side by side and left flowers and wreaths. Mr. S. L. Patterson Passes Away. Lenoir, N. C, Special. Mr. Samuel L. Patterson, Commissioner of Agri-1 culture of North Carolina, died at his home Palmyra, in the Yadkin Val ley. He was chairman of the board of commissioners of Caldwell county from 1SS6 to 1S90. He was elected a member of the House of Representa tives in 1890, elected State Senator in 1892 and served as Commissioner of Agriculture from 1S;)3 to 1897. He was again elected to the Legislature in 1900 and Commissioner of Agricul ture in 190."), which office he held to the time of his death. YOUNG LADY KILLED . - . . Awfu! Deed of a Crazy Man in IMcrih Carolina Village TRAGEDY CN THE SABBATH DAY Miss Willie Bnllinser Murdered Sun day Morons While Seated at Or gan Playinj Sunday School Hymn. Newton, N. G, Special-At Startown three miles from this place, the Sab bath peacefulness was broken by one of the most demoniacal crimes ever known in this county. The tragedy took place in the Methodist church about 10:30 while Sunday School was being held, Miss Willie Bullinger, aged about 18 years, being stabbed to death by Lou Rader, aged about 21, a discharged lunatic. The reports that reach here are a little conflicting as to just how the awful deed was clone. One is to the effect that Miss Bullinger was seated at the organ playing for the Sunday school When Rader, leaping across several seats, attacked her with his pocket knife, stabbing ber once in the back and twice in the breast. An other report is that the man waited just outside of the church door and just as she came out committed the deed. But wherever the act was done, the result is the same and the girl lies dead at the home of her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bullinger. The attack was very violently made and it is said that those reaching the couple first could not prevent Rader from giving his victim several cuts. The murderer was arrested at once and is now in jail. He is not sorry for the crime and is reported as say ing that he killed her "because she was a witch." Rader "was last spring committed to the asylum at Morganton, having become violently insane. At this time in his ravings he talked incessantly of Miss Bullinger for several months. He has been at home apparently well and nothing strange was noticed about him until his terrible deed Sun day morning. Saturday afternoon he delivered . a load of wood in Newton and while here purchased a new knife with which he committed the murder. COURT DISMISSES SUITS. Government's Suits Fcr the Enforce ment of the Commodities Clause Against the Anthracite Coal-Carrying Railroads Are Dismissed by the Circuit Court. Philadelphia, Special. Declaring it to be drastic, harsh, unreasonable and an invasion of the rights of- the States, and, therefore, repugnant to the constitution, the United States, Circuit Court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania dismissed the suits of the Federal government to enforce the commodities clause' of the Hep burn railroad act against the anthra cite coal-carrying railroads of this State. Judges George Gray and Geo. M. Dallas filed opinions dismissing the suits and Judge Joseph Buffmgton dissented but did not file an opinion. The commodities clause prohibits rail road companies to thansport. in Inter state Commerce any article or com modity manufactured, mined or pro duced by them or uncfer their author ity. A penalty not to exceed $5,000 is provided for each violation. The case was argued in June, Unit ed States Attorney General Bona parte delivering the princinal argu ment for the government. The effect of the commodities clause if consti tutional would be to confine the min ing of anthracite coal bv the rail roads for use in Pennsylvania only, or compel the railroads to sell all the mining property they are interested in .either directly or indirectly. It is almost certain that the case will be appealed directly to the Unit ed States Supreme Court. Oil Can Explosion Causes Fatality. Pomeroy, O., Special. A can of oil standing near the stove in the kitchen at the home of John G. Roush, in Mason county, W. Va., ex ploded early Sunday and as a result one child was burned to death, and Mr. and Mrs. Roush and three children were so severely injured that they may die. The house was con sumed. Reception to be Genuine. Tokio, By Cable. The fall pro gramme for the reception by the Jap anese to the American fleet, which is due here October 17th, leaves very few minutes for sleep while the ves sels are in port. Official orders. The Associated Press is informed, will in clude decorations and regulations as to the treatment of the visitors. Al ready in Yokohama it has been di rected that during the visit of the fleet, lauterns bearing the flag of the United States shall be distributed and displayed from every bouse and shop night and day. THE NEWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Itcm3 Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad. Foreign Affairs. Gregori, who shot Captain Dreyfus in the Pantheon at the Zola glorifi cation, was acquitted. Grand Turk's Island was devastat ed by a hurricane and many lives are believed to have been lost in Grand Turk, the capital. Tolstoi's birthday was generally observed in Russia. A vast multitude gathered to watch the preession of the Eucharistic Con gress and the prelates were jostled by the mob. Cardinal Gibbons preached an elo quent sermon in Westminster Cathe dral. An Italian official delares the wed ding of the Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins will take place but that the American attitude must mange. . . The Russian volunteer fleet is de clared a failure. Political. Candidate Bryan made a campaign speech at Wheeling, W. Va. Republican party managers regard raft as good as ejected. Thomas Parran told Chairman Hitchcock that Taft would carry Maryland by 10,000. Bryan spoke in Baltimore, Md., to m audience of 25,000 and received juite an ovation. John Temple Graves was notified jf his nomination for the Vice-Presi-iency by the Independent party. Mr. Bryan replies to( President Roosevelt's praise of Taft, and Mr. Taft answers Bryan and declares that he has made himself plain on all the issues of the campaign, and that if Bryan docs not understand him it is his own fault. Anti-Taft negroes in Washington propose to raise a large Bryan and Kern banner. Bryan spent a quiet day at Deer Park and left at midnight for Balti more. President Roosevelt, aroused by W. 7. Bryan's claim of being the Presi dent's heir, wrote a letter pointing jut why he desires the election of raft. Hot fights are in prospect in both ihe Republican and Democratic State ?onventions in New. York. Maine voted Monday and the pro hibition issue is the principal one at stake. National Affairs. The three new scout cruisers, the fastest large vessels in the navy, are :o undergo speed tests off Rockland, Maine. John Mitchell stated that anti-labor detectives have shadowed him for j-ears. Maryland is expected to send a del egation of 400 to the International Tuberculosis Congress. Throughout the South. While he w.ns linvino" n tontli mill. ed, Senator Adam Littlepage, of Lnaneston, w. va., naa nis jow broken. The last man to be hanged in Vir ginia. Lee Strother, was executed at Mauison. Defending his home. Michael Low- en. of Montgomery. W. Va., was kill ed by a burglar. Eleven colored men were arrested in South Carolina for planning to "shoot-up" the town of Ninety-Six. Henrv Harvev. of Roanoke, Va., was sentenced to hang for the murder of Hugh Price of Rockingham. A snnke she received in a mail package bit the face of Miss Grace Perry, of Hinton, YV. Va. James O. X. Reed, assistant pcsl- taaster at Newport News, accused of j embezzling 0,402, was held lor trial. XhUo lfnnnel A. Blevins was walk- in" along a road in Raleigh county, Weit Virginia, with Miss Lucy Browning he was shot down by his rival, Joseph Williams. Altus Flower, said to be the son of Di. R. C. Fiower, had a talk with Mis. Hagaman, who is held by the pouce in Richmond. Miscellaneous. An iron ore deposit, containing 500,000.000 ions, is said to exist m Kew York State. Charles E. Davis has been re arrested on tin- charge of killing Dr. Frederick Rusb'v, at Oms'i. Drouth is causing a suspension of many industries in the Pittsburg dis trict. At Pittsburg, Pa., Arnold Roberts of Mountelair, N. J., a young sales man traveling for his father, Peter Roberts, of Montclair, N. J., drank carbolic acid while sitting on the steps of the Denny Methodist Epis copal church, Thirty-fourth and Lig onier streets, and died at a hospital a short time later. He had been in ill health. The mining town of Rawhide, New, was almost entirely destroyed by fire, and 3,000 persons were made home less. Col. Stewart, the "exiled" army officer will not take the 90-mile horse back riding test as at first ordered. The Penn.5lvay.ia Railroad counts Dn lunning 1,000 trains into the Man hattan Terminal as soon as the tun nels are completed. A New Jersey deaf-mute has sued for divorce alleging too much talka tiveness on the part of his deaf-and-dumb wife. Governor Smith's Father Dead. Atlanta, Ga., Speeial-H. H. Smith, father of Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and one of the best-known educators in the South, died at his home in this city. He was a native of New Hampshire and had lived in various California cities, in Baltimore and parts of North Carolina. Mr. Smith came to Atlanta about fifteen years ago. He was S3 years old. Found Hat Worn By Dr. Rustin. Omaha, Neb., Special. Detectives found the hat worn by Frederick Rus tin the night he was shot. It was found hanging in the hallway of the Rustin home. How the hat got on the hook at the Rustin home no person there could say. "I cannot tell how the hat got there," said Mrs. Rustin. "I had no time to think of such a thing the night my husband was shot. He wore several different hats, and I cannot tell now whether or not that is the one he wore the night of th., shooting.'7 Unable to Locate Husband. Detroit, Mich., Special. The local police have received several telegraph messages signed "Mrs. M. W. Boone," Roanoke, Va., asking about the condition of Mr. Boone, the wo man's husband, who, the telegram explains, was reported to hife been stabbed in Detroit. Mrs. Boone's in formation was received from Detroit by telegrams signed C. R. Wilson. The Detroit police have been unable to locate either Boone or Wilson. Accident on Lake Shore Road. Chestertown, Ind., Special. The midnight special running out of Chi cago crashed info an excursion train on the Lake Shore road at 1 o'clock Monday morning, telescoping the rear coach, killing one person and in juring a score more. The wreck was due to the smoke from the forest fires obscuring the track. On this account both trains were running slow. The regular train following could not see the excursion train and ran into it at slow speed. Two Killed and Two Injured. Sandusky, O., Special. Two color ed men were killed, another was in jured and a white man, name un known is missing as the result of a wreck on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, which made kindling wood of 14 freight cars, be tween Huron and Vermilion early Sunday. The four were riding in a freight car. Preferred Suicide to Hydrophobia. Springfield, HI., Special. Fearing hydrophobia as a result of a bite in flicted by a squirrel suffering with rabies, Fred Peterson, 45 years old, died Sunday of carbolic acid poison ing. He swallowed the acid with sui cidal intent, because, as he remarked Sunday, he preferred to kill himself rather than die of rabies. Five other persons bitten by the rabid squirrel are in Chicago undergoing treatment to prevent possible serious develop ments'. Fourd Dead in a Pond. New York, Special Mrs. Ashton Harvey, wife of a prominent lawyer of this city, was found dead in a pond near his country home at Short n:n XT T Tim wnmnn left home Illll, Xf. V . n 1 in the afternoon to visit a tnenU at Madison, and this wts the last seen of her until a search revealed the body. Sheis believed to have fallen into the pond in 1. iainung spell, but tlie ponce an: jucvisub the ease. vn TTsn FOR HIM. "I've got you down for a eo-.tpl of tickets. AVo're- getting up a rame iu n nnr mntl ff OUT llCigh " "Vnnrt fnr mp thank you. I would ,) imr.w whnt. to do with a poor man if 1 won him." Philadelphia Press. NOW WE CAN FLY OrviHe Wright, the Wizzard of the Air, Performs Wonders FLIGHT LASTS OVER AN HOUR OrviHe Wright Establishes New Eft cords in Aerial Navigation and Fulfills His Contract Witk fh Government Three Phenomenal Flights at Fort Myer. Washington, Special. Orsille Wright, in three phenominal flights at Fort Myer, established new aero plane records that not only asssurcs the success of the official trials be fore the army board, but .indicate that aerial flight is now only a mat ter of development. Two flights of approximately an. hour each, another flight in which two men whirled through the air foe opward of six minutes, were tha lUdiieveraents of the Wright brothers aeroplane. The first flight made ia. tlve morning, in which the machine circled the drill ground at the fort 5S times in 57 minutes and 31 see onc's, was surpassed in the eveninC when a flight of 62 minutes and 15 seconds was made. Not satisfied with breaking all dis tance and time records for a heavier-than-tir itying machine, Mr. Wright took Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm. the aeronaut of the Signal Corps for a, spin around the drill grounds mak ing a new record for a two-man flight. Among the spectators "were members of the Cabinet and high officers of the army and navy. Before the flight, a watch was tied to the seat next to Mr. Wright, and when he saw that he had stayed, aloft for over an hour, the time re quired in order for him to fulfill his contract with the government, h made for " Mother Earth.' Swoop ing down in a sort of "bump-the-bumps" fashion, the machine bore down in the direction of the crowd, which quickly scattered. Raising a cloud of dust as it slid along oa the skids, the aeroplane, which weighs nearly a thousand pounds, came to a stop within twenty feet of the crowd. As Mr. Wright stepped from the seat and removed his goggles, he waa greeted with lusty cheers. Lieutenant Selfridge, who operate! the first successful aeroplane of the Aerial Experiment Association, at Hammondsport, N. Y., was the first to congratulate Mr. Wright. Secrti iary Met calf, of the navy; Secretary of War Wright and numerous army and navy officers, together with en thusiasts from every walk of life, gathered about him to grasp his hand. As three cheers were given. "Wright" calmly gave orders for re placing the machine On the starting track to prepare for another flight. Turning to Lieutenant Lahm, one of the leading aeronauts of the array, Mr. Wright said: "How would yovL like to. go up with me?" It was an invitation that. needed no repetition. With the two men, Mr. Wright ami Lieutenant Lahm, in their plaees, tha start was made at 6:42, the maehin apparently rising from the ground as easily with its increased burden as it had with only the inventor afcoardl As it sped along the road bordering Arlington Cemetery, it came in a di rect line between the onlookers and the full September mcon, serving t recall the famous work or JuJes Verne, "A Trip to the Moon." As the machine completed the firttc round, the motor "skipped" on on. cylinder; but on the sueeeding fir trips there was no evidence that the engine was overtaxed by the fjreaV strain imposed upon it. After the sixth lap, a beautiful landing was made within a hundred feet of tha 'aerial garage," where the machine s sheltered frcm the elements. Aeroplane Break3 Record. Washington, Special. OrviUe. Wright Thursday broke the world record for time and distance for heavier-than-air flying machine whicH he established Wednesday. In a flight requiring great skill on aeeotmt or a 10-mile wind he circled around Ihs drill grounds at For Meyer 5S tira in 65 minutes and 52 seconds, exceed ing the time of .Wednesday's record flisrht bv 3 minutes and 37 scronSs. The flight was witnessed by nearly & thousand people. Indicted Fcr Arson. New Orleans, Special. Julius Upps manager; Abe Wolf, secretary an! treasurer of the Central Class Com pany, of New Orleans, and John Ec-fc-ert, an employe of that coirpny, were indicted by the grand jury oa. the chares of arson in ccnnc--tior with a fire which cbcut 10 lays r.? burned over a portion of t'frre block in the bus'n-. ss sci-lion of w Or leans, causin g' a lss of I ..SdJKJ-'Y. T-r fir? oiiuina'.cl iu the huisding occupicd by the Central Gbss Company.