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fl9 a Year, la AdYanc. , FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " .. SinsJa Copy 5 Casta, VOL. Xi; "PLYMOUTH, nTc. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1908. NO. 19. J WAR CI OURS I OWFR Outlook is For Swift Beginning of Hostilities NLY SMALL NATIONS INVOLVED London Hears News From Several Sources That Two Crises Are Im pending Which May Force Hostili ties in the Near, Future. V London, By ' Cable.-Events which threaten to change the " political face cf Europe are crystalizing with light ning rapidity. Almost Over night the horizon of the Near,, East, which seemed 1 gradually to, be assuming a. peaceful appearance, has become crowded with war clouds. 1 ' News has reached here, from sev eral sources that two definite , strokes are impending which cannot fail to bring matters to a crisis, and perhaps force ah immediate war. One is thej proclamation by Prince Ferdinand, of the independence of Bulgana, f which will incuude Rumelia, taking for himself the title of 'fCzar." The other is an announcement of Austro Hungary of the practical annexation of the provinces of Bosnia and Her zegovina as appendages of the Austro Hungarian crown. Either- action- will be equivalent to the leasing up of the treaty of Berlin while Prince . Ferdinand's courses ... . .. . . . -,t seems almost certain to, precipitate a war between Bulgaria and Turkey. Before these possibilities the . .qtiar-5 rel over the. East: Ru-melin sectibti 'af the Orient' Railway sink's into insig-j; ! mucance. isoui armies are reporiuu, to be quietly and swiftly mobilizing' n?ar- the - borders, -. Bulgarians are -said to be '.buying munitions arid' horses, on an. extensive scale. Bulgarians have faith- in their army, which has reached a high state . of efficiency although it is perhaps lacking in officers and the war, ' for V.. which .Bulgaria has long been sus-' pw4MPrf,Parinf?i could be fought with more advantage for" her -now than when the Turkish government had time to reorganize its forces, , which have become enravelled by the corruption . and neglect of the old . regime. . The Emepror' of Austria,, jt is un derstood, has despatched a letter to the President of France, setting forth his intentions regarding Bosnia and Herzegovinaj ' although the contents of the letter are kept secret, and he ..is sending similar notes to the other powers.' It seems incredible that Emperor Francis Joseph, who always has been - a -scrupulous observer of forms, should reveal his plans to the rulers of other nations before he has com municated them to his own Parlia ment. One explanation is that the letter was not intended for delivery until v'T4uesday. : when identical notes would " be .presented to the other powers. " ' ' ' -1 Austria is suspected of eneourasra ing the " recent Bulgarian-Turkish trouble far her own interests, but the British government has made pro- . posals . to the two countries looking ; ,tp the settlement" of the railway casa, under which the other powers have agreed to give support to the plan, which contemplates the temporary . restoration of the way to Turkey "to save her! face,'" and then transfer ence of the company to the Bulgarian government, i The . English . press expresses sur prise that Austria and Bulgaria should plot against Turkey and asks if the great powers will submit to having obstacles placed in the way of the regeneration of Turkey. , General Wright Selected. Washington, Special. President Roosevelt will, designate General Luke E. Wright, Secretary of War, as the government's official representa tive at- the Southern commercial con-, gress, which will convene in this city December 7th and 8th just prior to the national rivers and harbors conjrress. Roosevelt to Take Stump. Lincoln, Neb., Special. That Pres ident Roosevelt fully "intends to take the stump in favor of the candidacy of Mr. Taft was the information re ceived at Fairview from the East. It was said that the advices cam.i from persons on whom reliance could ' be placed and wore to the effect that Mr. RooseveU is planning to make at least six speedy in the 'course of n trm from the Ailmtie tj the Pac ifie, the cone! ludinr 'J "o be de- livered at S. ous short t-.,.eci.. Bryan, however, rei, comment on the sub if fwith numer- route. Mr, f to make any ALL EUROPE IS EXCITED Prince Ferdinand Declares the Inde pendence of His People and Takes For Himself the" Title of Czar Within a Few Days Austria-Hungary Will Proclaim New Status of Bosnia and Herzeovia All Eu rope Stirred. London, By Cable. In the ancient capitol -of Tirnovo the independence of Bulgaria was. proclaimed Monday with the Czar of the Bulgarians as a ruler. Czar of the Bulgarians is rec ognized to mean more than Czar of Bulgaria, because Jt' is a distinct in timation that he regards his country as having soverignty over all the peo ple, pf that blood in the near East Within a day or two Austria-Hungary which has been working with Prince Ferdinand in this preconcerted plan, will proclaim the new status of Bos nia, and Herzegovina. All ; Europe Stirred. The question . which has been stir ring the whole of Europe more deep ly, than any similar question within the memory of the present generation is," does it mean war? -From all . the capitals come , reports, indicating Jhat it ' means, first of all, another Euro pean congress of the signers of the treaty of Berlin to consider the situa tion and probably to revise the treaty. Turkey caught in a moment of weak ness is the victim of this situation while some international animosities have been stirred up, probably ' no power is willing to make war. Reports from the emancipated Tur kish press to Lonchwindieate that the "young Turks V vjj'iwaUow this bit ter pill as best they Jean. ''and, 'if they .do,: ' naturally the Bulgarians while 'willing, and 'eager,, fof war, will have no causey on -which.; Jo. base the '-be-'jnhingf.o'f. ho'stU(e;:';- From the 'Britishstandpoint the iwhole affajr has bjcteft.1 a- surprise ber vcause'rV'ltb the British', igovernm'it'f elt jt self , with nppareuy.:,...an i;;unaesianaing 01 'JFra'ise.o.;'Bfl3''-visMdJ';tUid complete "friendship with Italy, to be in a posi tion where it dominated . European politics, reserving out of this consid eration the almost dpen enmity be tween .itself and Germany. '" Probably never in the history of Europe have politics taken such : amazingly kaleidsedpic - revolutions as during the past week. 'An entang ling situation will . come when the signatories of the Berlin' treaty meet to consider what action shall be , taken regarding the. violations of the treaty. , Great Britain has served notice that it does not recognize the right of any of the parties to this treaty to violate its provisions with out consulting the others but - Eng lish diplomats know that the confer ence will resolve itself into a scram ble among the. powers to get what is termed in European politics, "com pensating advantages" which Aus tria, backed by Germany, has already obtained. The official statement issued by the British foreign office says: "His Majesty's government cannot admit the right of any power to alter an international treaty without the consent of the other parties to it and therefore refuses to sanction any infraction of the Berlin treaty and declines to recognize what has been done until the views oi the other powers are known, especially those of Turkey which is more directly con cerned than any one else." Wright Makes Three Flights. Lemans, France, By Cable. Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplanist, made two short flights with passen gers. One was with M. Bollee, who weighs about 216 pounds, and the other with M. Peller, vice president of the Aero Club of the Sarthe.who weighs 176 pounds. These demonstra tions of the machine's ability to carry weight were entirely satisfac tory. Mr. Wright made another short flight in the evening accompanied by M. Pellier. Canadian Campaign. Ottawa, Ont., Special. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Canada is now in the thores of the political campaign preceeding the general par liamentary elections on October 26. The nominations will take place a week before election, on October 19, and from now until that date Can adians will have little rest from the importunities of the politicians. Sole Survivor Rescued. Mobile, Ala., Special. A message received here by the collector of the port states that the Belgian steamer Tiflis arrived at Port Arthur, Te.v., and reports picking up at sea a raft having on board Alexander Sjoholm, sole survivor of the. crew of the Am erican schooner Beulah McCabe, and one dead body. Sjoholm reported that his companion died from exhaus tion and starvation. The raft was picked up two hundred miles south west of the Bahamas. MARCH' OF SCIENCE . . . The President Addresses the Tuberculosis Congress PRAISES GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS Great Meeting' of Scientists Adjourns to Assemble Next at Eome Presi dent Speaks. Washington, D. C, Special. The International Tuberculosis Congress, whicfc has been in session here closed Saturday to meet next in Rome. One of the most pleasant surpirses of the closing scenes of the congress was the appearance for the first time during its proceedings of." President Roosevelt. In a characteristic address Prosident Roosevelt paid a notable tribute to the assemblage of so many scientists of intenational reputation. The President spoke in part as fol lows : "It is difficult for us to . realize ' tha extraordinary changes, the extraordi nary progress, in certain lines of so cial endeavor during the last two "or three generations; and ' in no other manifestation of human activity have the changes been quite so far-reaching as in the ability to grapple with disease. It is not so . very -long, measuring time by history, since tho attitude of man towards, a disease such as that of consumption was one of helpless acquiescence in what he considered to be the 'mandates of a supernatural power. . It is but a short time since even the most gifted members of the medical profession knew as little as any .layman of the real cause of a disease like this, and therefore necessarily of the remedies to be invoked to overcome it. "Take, for instance, the work that the United States government is . now doing in Panama. The Isthmus of Panama, which was a by-word for fatal disease, has become well-nigh a sanatorium ; and it has become to because the investigations of certain medical men which enabled them iq, find out the real causes of certain diseases, especially yellow fever and malarial fever, and to take measures to overcome them. The older doc tors here when they were medical students would have treated the sug gestion of regarding mosquitos as the prime source of diseaes like tbfct as a subjeet of mirth. These utterly unexpected results have followed pa tient laborious, dangerous and extra ordinary skillful work' that has en abled the cause of the disease to be found and the diseases themselves to be combatted with extraordinary suc cess. "At this moment in the middle of the great continent of Arfrica there is a peculiarly fatal and terrible disease the sleeping sickness, a disease whic'i if it had been known to our ancestors in the middle ages would have been spoken of as the black death was spoken of in the middle ages as a scourge of God, possibly as something connected .with a comet, or some sim ilar explanation would have been ad vanced. We all know -that it is due to the carrying of a small and deadly blood parasite by ' a species of biting fly. "And the chanpe to control that disease lies, in the work of just such men as, and indeed, of some of the men who, are assembled here. You who have come here, however, have come to combat not a scourge confin ed to the tropics, but what is on th- whole the most terrible ,ecurge of the people throughout the world. But a few years' ago hardly an intelligent effort was made or coul'd be made to war against this peculiarly deadly enemy of the humn race. The chance successfully to conduct that war a rose when ' the greatest ' experts in the medical world turned their train ed intelligence to -the task. It re mains for them to find out just what can be done. "I feel that no g-athering could take place fraught with greater hope for the" welfare of the people at large than this. I thank you all. men and women of this country, and you, our guests, for what you have done and are doing. On behalf of the nation I greet you, and I hope you will un derstand how much we have appre ciated your coming here."' Tennessean's Brutal Crime. Bristol, Tcnn., Special. A special from Johnson City says: L. A. Bay less, a magistrate attacked his brother-in-law, Berney Bayless, while the latter was asleep in bed at his home in this city and almost literally chop ped his head off with fln axe. He then attacked Bnyless' wife, fatal'y wounding her. Turning the weapon upon his own wife, who was in the house, he struck her several blows, inflicting probably fatal injuries. Bayless'' was arrested and half an hour later was found dead in his cell, having hanged himself. THE NEWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FRGM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events, of More . or Less Interest at Homa and Abroad, ., Foreign Affairs. The fleet is nearing Manila and the big celebration will be held. , A total of 50.000 are bpKeveA have perished in the flods in' India. Australia invited President . Roose velt to stop there on his way td' Af rica, but he said it was' impossible. Blaming a" ferry captain for the wreck in which 140 persons were drowned, a Smyrna mob burned the steamer company 's offices. The American fleet is anchored in double column off the Luneta in Ma nila Bay,, but only officers are allowed to go ashore on account of the chole ra. In the South. The Fredericksburg Fair ended af ter an especially successful season.. The Farmers ' Union of Greenville county, S. C, severely' denounces the so-called efforts at night riding. Miss Louise .Lansdale, the actress, has withdrawn her $100,000 breach-of-promise suit against Blaine Elkins. Mr. Grossman; of Manchester, Va., pleaded guilty, of arson and was sen tenced to five years in the peniten tiary. . . Dr. Detre defended his inoculation of Washington children with tuber culin and showed the scientific import ance of the experiments.. W. E. Glasscock, candidate-; ' for Governor of West . Virginia, is ex pected to resign his place as revenue collector. ,. '-. ' The Atlantic Coast Line Railway is giving very low grates -to people from ther Northwest' 'who :de&ir4 to .-coine South' with ai view 'of majifirg homes.' The Brownsville case comes before the United States 'Supreme. . Court on the appeal of one of the negro troop ers who was discharged by the Presi dent. Vice Presidential candidate John W: Kern spoke in Asheyi.lle,.N. C, on Monday .to an audience, of 10,000 peo ple.' He Went ' From Ashe vi lie to Greensboro and Winston-Salem. National Affairs. Governor Crqthers, of Maryland, visited the tuberculosis congress. Commander John B. Bernadon, the "father of smokeless powder,, in the United States Navy,: is' dead. Miss T. B. Small, pf Cambridge, Md., was appointed in the first group of women nurses for the navy. Political. New York suffragettes will try to register and vote. ' ;. Bryan remained at home and said that reports are encouraging. Representative Longworth declares that he never advocated the election of Roosevelt to the presidency in 1916. Judge Taft "hit in high places" in Wj'oming and Colorado winding up the day with a big meeting in the Denver Auditorium. Vice-President Kern, in a speech at Birmingham, Ala., denounced the use of the so-called Cleveland let ter indorsing Taft as a vile stigma. Chairman Mack, of the Democratic National Committee, attacked Treas urer Shelton, of the Republican com mittee, for his alleged trust connec tions. The Scherr faction of the t West Virginia Republicans gave out a statement at Parkersburg, roasting the manner in which Glasscock was named for Governor. Miscellaneous. Six boys were killed in a railroad wreck in Ohio. Attroneys for $e Standard Oil Company have given their side of the bribery charges. Taft made 15 speeches, establishing a two days' record of 31. " An order for .220 steel passenger cars for the Ilarriman lines has been placed. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., donned overalls and began work in a carpet factory. Mrs. Howard Gould made addition al charges against her husband who is suing for divorce. A New York jeweler has lost at least $50,000 in. diamonds by theft, and the amount may be much larger. The American Bankers' .' Associa tion came out squarely- against any bank-guarantee plan.- Lincoln Greene, traffic managers of the. Southern Railway, declared in Atlanta that reductions in the work men's hours were "cruel." Charges that Mrs. Howard ;Gould drank were made in her divorce pro ceedings, which were adjourned. Adequate armor and peace will be arguments before the North Carolina Peace Conference; in Greensboro, Oc tober. 11-17. Three persons were killed by a powder explosion at Spencer, N. C. Bryan issued a statement on his arrival home charging Taft with mis representations as to publicity for campaign contributions. Lewis S. Chanler, when notified of his nomination by Democrats for gov ernor of New York, declared Chair man Conners had "bertayed a confi dence" by outlining a Democratic policy. James II. Vahey was nominated for governor of Massachusetts by Democrats. The League of American Munci- Another Death Added to Tennes seean's Victims. Bristol, Tenn., Special.' A third death was added to the list of victims of Willianm Beals, who at . Johnson City killed his brother-in-law, fatally injured his sister-in-law and his own wife, and then committed suicide, when Mrs. Beals died Monday. His sister-in-law,' Mrs. Bayless,. is still ' in a-critical condition and may not re cover. Supposed Jncendiary Fire. Spartanburg, S.s C, Special. The cotton house of W. A. Wood, near Greer, a crib and a lot of ' farming implements and road machinery were destroyed by fire. Three bales of cot ton were stored in 4 the building, but the fire made such great headway that it was impossible to save them. It is thought the building was set on fire. Five Negroes Drown in the Tennessee Elver. Chattanooga. Tenn., Special. A row brnt containing.,five negroes cap sized in the Tennessee river and all the occupants were . drowned. Three' of the -victims were men and two wo men. The party had rowed across to Moccasin Bend, and while returning one of the Avomen became frieghtenod and in' attempting to jump from tin boat the li?ht craft was overturned. But one of the number could swim. TJie other four clung to him" and all sank. HOTELS AND COTTAGES BURN ED. Fire Raging s.t Winthrop Beach One Woman, Guest of Hotel, Missing. Boston,' Special A brisk fire broke out in the summer colony at Win throp Beach at 11:30 o'clock Fridaj night.' Crest Hall, a' summer hotel accommodating seventy-five guests and. the Ocean View House ara ir flames, and a large number of the cottages nearby are, threatened. .Negro Eurned to Death. Birmingham, Ala.,' Special. A. A. McLenahan, a negro, was burned to death and several others had narrow escapes when fire destroyed the two story building on the southwest -corner of Third avenue and Eighteenth street. The negroes were sleeping in the building and McLenahan was try ins to raise a window when he was suffocated. The flames spread so rapidly that he could not be rescued. One Killed and Others Injured' h Cave-In. Lynchburg, Va., Special. In a cave-in of an excavation' fof an of fice building here Dilley Robinson was buried beneath the earth and killed. Charles Clements sustained fractured leg and injuries about 'th body. Clement Morris and Franli Nicholson were bruised about th body. All the men were negro la borers. Cost of Thaw Trial. New York, Special. The total cost to New York county of the prosecu tion of Harry K. Thaw for the shoot ing of Stanford White has been $54, 837, according to papers submitted -by District Attorney Jerome to Justice Mills at Newburgh.- The purpose of Mr. Jerome's application to Justice. Mills was to have the approaching trial on the question of Thaw's mqnt ?l condition transferred from West chester to New : York; county,. ';,: ; :. v , - SHINING EXAMPLE; ;;- V "I started to tell my, -wife abot ft woman who made her. own fall gown." ."Well?"...,. ;,..V ; . .. : "She capped '.try , story wUh. one about a man who made a niiilion'dot tars.' Louisville Courier Journal. A FATAL EXPLOSIOfj Powder House Blown Up et Spencer, N. C. Shops TWO DEAD : SEVERAL INJURED Two Men Killed and Many Others Injured Thursday Afternoon by Blow-TJp of Powder House st Southern Shops Buildings Wreck ed and Much Property Destroyed. Spencer, N. C, Special. Two mea - j-, -j - - that they can hardly recover and fif teen or more slightly injured, with & destruction of thousands of dollars worth of property, is the result of terrible blow-up Thursday afternoon of the house in which the Southern Railway Company kept stored ita powder and other explosives used in. connection with the work at ita large shops here. The plant is bad ly wrecked and; work is at a stand still for some time. - The dead are Charlie Leyton, aa unmarried man about 45 years t of age, whose body was mangled and charred almost beyond recognition and George Gould, colored. Those believed to be fatally injur ed are: ' . Fletcher Stafford and James T. Gobbel. ; Those slightly injured are: W. F. Kaderly, master mechanic, knocked unconscious ; C. II. Kadie, shop Superintendent; W. W. Kluttz, Ernest-Kluttz, Robert II. Kluttzr George Huneyeutt, C. R. Trexler.' J. W. Crowell, Karl Lentz, Fred Loflin, Will Loflin, E. D. Whitmire, J. M. Ellis and R. G.' Koontz. . There may be others who received minor bruises and contusions, but their names could not be learned. The explosion occurred m 5:30 o'clock and the shock was terrific, being felt for miles around. .The house in which the explosives . were, was a metal structure 8xSxS feet and was practically full of powder, dyr namite, torpedoes and fusees, nearly a car load in all. A caboose standing on the track which ran'within a few feet of the house had caught on fire from some unknown cause and an alarm had been turned in. The Southern's fire company, composed of volunteer men from among the shop force, responded immediately and three men had got a hose in hand and were plying water on the burn ing car when the. powder magazine was touched off. Other workmen, re sponding also to the fire alarm, had" gathered and these were the men who were killed and injured. Leyton was employed in the round house, a short distance from the scene of the explo sion as flue blower, but he had got close enough that his body was bad ly burned and Ins face blown off, death being instantaneous. The ne gro was Leyton 's helper in the round house. Stafford and Gobbel, were two of the three men who were hero ically working to save the road's magnificent shops from being burnedr to the ground: The third man was Koontz, who was more fortunate and escaped with a slight injury to one arm, a splinter or bolt being blown through the limb. Had the awful blow-up been a few hours earlier the fatalities would no doubt have run up in the scores and perhaps hundreds. Deaths Remain at Two. Spencer, Special. Up to Friday night there have been no further fa talities as a result of the explosion of the powder magazine of the South ern aRilway at Spencer Thursday af ternoon at 5:50 o'clock, and most of the twenty injured in the accident are resting well. W. F. Stafford, a member of the fire department, it is feared, cannot recover. It is said both eyes were blown out, his sknll fractured and face and body fear fully lacerated. J. T. Gobbel and Will Loflin are also in a desperate condition. The work of clearing up the debris from the wrecked building was pros ecuted Friday with a big force of men and conditions are rapidly be coming normal, though-the town has been in a decided state of confusioa since the great explosion. The loss to property is variously estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000. All the injured are being cared for at the hospitals in Salisbury and at their homes and the Southern offi cials are doing all in their power to alleviate their suffering. A number of .those-lenst' injured was able to be .out Friday. Since the early morning telegrams and other messages have poured into Spencer inquiring about friends who arc in the employ of the company. - It" was learned that many families. m tpeneer sniicrra greaiiy irom tne damaged. .Several women have been in a hysterical condition since th catastrophe.