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VOL. XIX. T PLYMOtFTH, nT.C.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1908. NO. 21.
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k TM IN Tl SOUTH
Republican Nominee Makes a
Number of Speeches
MEETS A CORDIAL RECEPTION
Eon. Willian II. Taf t Makes Political
Campaign in North Carolina and
Virginia Greeted by Enthusiastic
; Crowds at Statesville, Salisbury,
Xexington, High Point and Reids--ville,'.
Ending Southern , Tour at
Pichmond. : . '
Greensboro; N. C, Special. Hon.
William Howard Taft, Republican
candidate for President, -closed his
tour of North Carolina .here. Satur
day..' 'He was cordially received at
all points where ho spoke and his
speeches -were attentively listened to
by Republicans and Democrats.
First Stop at Statesville.
Mr. Taft was up bright and early
Saturday morning;.- His first speech
was made at Statesville at 7:30
o'clock. Several hundred -- people
heard him there. Being presented by
Mr. J. Ehvood Cox, he said :
"Ladies and Gentleman: I am glad
to come into the State of North Car
olina this beautiful October morn
ing; and to receive this cordial recep
tion. Complaint is very often heard
on the part of your people that North
Carolina is not given her part in the
administration of the government.
She is not. She has able men, but as
long- as you are going; to vote for tho
Democratic ticket and the Republi
can party is in .power, I don't see
how these gentlemen who do the vot
ing" cau expect to share in the power.
In other words, let them vote as they
think and then we will wipe out sec
tional lines. It is a great pleasure
for me to come here because I think
I . am the first Republican candidate
for President that ever .came intc
North Carolina on a campaign for
the presidency, and I am here for the
purpose of testifying to, the-South" my
interest in that section, my earnest
desire to unite it with the, North, and
my hope that. the'.Republican party
will beAiilt up in North Carolina, so
that itfruay well have its full repre-
sentatioii in the executive councils of
w"fhe nation. I thank you for vour
kindness in coming- here and I ap
preciate your Southern couhrtesy."
At Salisbury and Greensboro Mr.
Taft said in .part:
"It is a great pleasure to come in
to North Carolina. I have studied
the statistics of North Carolina and
her' marvelous . growth with intense
interest. , I know a good many of
your North Carolinians, and every
time a nian from North Carolina came
into my office in Washington when I
was Secretary of War, he had not
been there more than five minutes be
fore he put his hand in his pocket,
pulled out a paper and began to read
and what he I jad was the statistics
. of the growth of business of North
Carolina, Er that it impressed itself
upon me. For instance, your factory
products in 1900 were $85,000,000. In
five years thev had increased, in 1905,
to $152,000,000. In 1905 you had
- employed 36,000 persons in ;rour cot
ton mills. Your cotton manufactures
had increased from $9,000,000 in 1890
to $2S,000,000 in 1900, to $47,000,000
in 19,05; also that you are second in
rank of manufacture of tobacco; you
are third in the rank of manufactur
ers of lumber and timber products.
You make in one of your cities in tiis
State nearly as much as they make
in Grand Rapids, Mich., in furniture.
I am giving you these figures merely
to point out that unless we continue
to have a protective tariff, most of
these industries will be destroyed and
the wealth that you have accumur
lated has been accumulated by reason
of the policy insisted upon by the Re
publican party in respect to the tar
iff. And yet how many electoral
votes have you cast in North Carolina
for the Republican party? Somebody
may have a better memory than I
have, but I don't recall a single one.
I ask' you, my friedsr whether them
is any reason under the existing cir
cumstances why, if you believe i:i
Republican policies, you ought no! to
vote the Republican ticket? You have
a State ticket and a congressior.nl
ticket that is unexceptional. I am
i;ot going to speak about the national
ticket because 1 have a personal re
lation to it. But the national ticket
is 'a Republican ticket and pledged
to carry -out Republican policies I
submit to those who have stood in
the Democratic party in North Caro
lina that there is absolutely no rea
son now why if they favor Republi
can policies in the nation they should
not vote its they think. Now it is a
great pleasure and honor to rne to be
the first Republican candidate for the
presidency who v'jjs come to North
Carolina in a campaitsu for. that great
of3"e. I have eomo jjMrrcause I
deeply Sy i: p s I pfjt 1 1 the South. I
am anxious .jat itSildwuld take its
place at the council lfV-'rd of the na
tion. I am anxious that you should
exercise the influence through your
able and great men, of whom you have
many, in the same way that Ohio and
Indiana and New York and" Massa
chusetts do. But, my dear, friends,
if you are going simply from historic
tradition to keep voting the Demo
cratic ticket because you think that
your fathers voted that way, then you
are bound to stay on the outside and
look in at others enjoying the power
in the executive . councils of the na
tion. It is not possible otherwise.
Human nature and parly politics are
such as to make that necessary, a;id
I appreciate the homogeniety of the
Southern" people. I know their fam
ily tradition. I know their conser
vatism, and . their -adherence -to some
thing just-out . of respect to their an
cestors; but on the other hard they
are enterprising, progressive, cour
ageous people in everything but pol
itics, and I think it. is time that they
began in politics to show the same en
terprise that they do in manufactur
ing furniture and in reaching out to
develop the enormous wealth of North
Carolina.
-I.iast.of Notable Family Dead.
Galipolis, O., Special. Mrs. Ruth
Early Nash, sister of Gen Jubal
Early, of the Confederate army, died
here last wek. Mrs. Nash was the
Avife of the lat3 Mon. Samuel S.
I Nash , and is the last of the Early
generation of the famous Virginia
family.
Woman Drowns in Wine Vat.
Santa Rosa, Cal., Special. Mrs.
George Colier, wife of a rancher of
Occidental, was drowned in a vat of
wine. She was visiting the winery
on the Colier ranch and had climbed
to the edge of a large vat partly
filled with wine. In some manner
not. known, but probably after'., being
overcome by the fumes, Mrs. Colier
lost her balance and fell in. Before
assistance reached her. she had been
suffocated.
Battleship Ncrth Carolina Accepted
Washington, Special. "Ship and
machinery satisfactory" was the mes
sage; received at the Navy Department
Friday from Captain Thomas C. Mc
Lean, the president of the naval board
of inspection and survey, regarding
the final acceptance trial of the first
class battleship North Carolina which
was finished as the vessel dropped
anchor at the Norfolk navy yard. Tho
North Carolina is a 22-knot ship.
Supreme Court Denies Petition.
Washington, Special The Supveme
Court of the United States denied the
petition for a writ of certiorari in
the case of the Atlantic Trust .and
Deposit Company vs. tho Towii of
Laurinburg, N. C, which was pre
sented last week. The action . was
begun by the town against the trust
company for $9,000 penalty on a bond
executed by the Southern'Contracting
Company as principal and the trust
company as surety.
Bids for Savannah City Bonds
Opened.
Savannah, Ga., Special. Bids were
opened for $2,620,000 cf city of Sa
vannah bonds, bearing interest at
41-2 per cent, and maturing in 1959.
Thirty-four bidders subscribed for
$27,269,000 worth of bonds. The
award of the issues will be made this
week. The Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York will probably
get $1,000,000 of the bonds.
Reforms in Cotton Futures.
New Orleans La., Special. Witt
instructions to make reforms in the
cotton futures contract of the New
Orleans cotton exchange, a committet
was appointed b ymembers of th
exchange. The committee will confer
with farmers, brokers and cotton
spinners throughout the South and
will also investigate the actior of
directors of the exchange in limi
nating stained cotton below middling
as tenderable grades on future cod
tracts.
Southern Aeroplanist Fall3 With Ma
chine, But Escapes Injury.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Special. In an
attempt at flight in an aeroplane Fri
day, G. M. Mallory, of this city, the
inventor, fell fifty feet with his ma
chine ,but escaped with a few slight
bruises. Mallory 's aeroplane wa
partially wrecked. The inventor an
nounced that he would rebuild hit
machine and try it again. This is
the firs!; attempt at aerial flight in th
South.
Plans have been completed toy the
United Wireless Telegraph Company
to erect eleven new wireless sta
tions on the Pacific Coast.
FOREST FIRE DEATHS
forty-One. Known Victims and
' Prcbabty Many More
ENTIRE ULLAGES WIPED OUT
rhe Death List Now" Stands at 41
Other Bodies Recovered Several
Persons Reported Dead Have Been
Found! No Town in Imminent
Danger.
Bay City, Mich., "Special. dis
patch to The Bay City Tribute from
a staff correspondent at Alpna says:
The certified known death list re
sulting from forest fires in Presque
Isle and Alpena counties, stands at
ilf with several people still reported
missing and a growing probability of
severe loss of life in northern Pulaw
ski and Krakow townships in Presque
Isle county, the first indication of
which came with the reporting of six
dead bodies in Pulawski including
those of Mrs. Herman Erke and chil
dren. Two woodsmen found the skel
ston of Mrs. William D. Rose, living
aear Ocqueoc. The woman's husband
was away working and she was alone
in her home surrounded by the forest.
At least sixty families were living
near the shore of Lake Huron in
the northern half of Pulawski and
Krakow townships and practically
nothing has been' heard from them
since the fires. It is difficult to get
into this district as the country is
cut up by many streams and the
bridges have been burned while fal
len trees block the roads in every
direction. " It is said that the flames
swept all through this district to the
water's edge and it is feared more
bodies will be found. Christ C'riger,
a fisher-man, escaped in an open boat
badly scorched.
At Grand Lake, a farmer and wife
and four children are known to have
taken refuge in a boat, and nothing
has been heard from them since. A
dozen school children sent home by
teachers have not been heard from.
Near Posen Mr. and Mrs. Hines are
still missinsr. Of those previously
reported killed the following vere
found in the woods or at their
friends' home.
John Koniecznv. who was reported
dead with his wife and children in
the gondola car at Metz.
Three Nowieki children and Mary
Nowieki, their aunt.
Anthony Wagner, Mrs. Charles
Leihke. Mr. and Mrs. Pachinski and
five of the Duest children, only one
of the latter being killed. The Duest
children fled through the woods while
their parents were fighting the flames
and one dropped behind and was
overtaken by the flames. The others
reached a farmer's home in the
clearings.
Thaw Again Summoned.
Fishkill Landing, N. Y., Special.
Harry K. Thaw has again been sum
moned to Pittsburg to appear in the
bankruptcy proceedings pending in
that city. An order from the federal
court at Pittsburg was served upon
the authorities of the Matteawan
State Hospital for the Criminal In
sane, commanding Thaw to appear in
the Pennsylvanit city. The order is
similar to that served recently upon
Sheriff Lane of Westchester county,
which the sheriff declined to honor on
the ground that Thaw was in the cus
tody of the New York courts. Judge
ArehbaH, however, held that the jur
isdiction of the United States over
Thaw could be exercised as soon as
the habeas corpus matter was dis
posed of. Thaw is now in the hospital
at Matteawan.
Tornado Visits New Mexico.
Clayton, N. M., Special. Four per
sons were killed in and near Clay
ton as the result of a tornado and
cloudburst. Twenty persons were in
jured, three of whom may die. The
new Union county court house, which
cost $40,000, was wrecked and a score
of houses were demolished or torn
from their foundations.
Presbyterian Synod of Virginia Ad
journs. Roanoke, Va., Special. The one
hundred and twenty-first annual ses
sion of the Presbyterian Synod of
Virginia, which embraces the States
of Virginia, West Virginia and Mary
land and the District of Columbia,
adjourned Monday. The next meet
ing will be hell October 14th of next
year at Elkins, W. Va. The only oth
er town that made a bid for the 122d
meeting was Danville, Va.
2 BATTLE SHIPS RETURN
After Llakinj a Circuit cf the Glebe
the Maine Arrives at Ports
mouth, N. H., and the Alabama
at New York The Vessels Cover
ed More Than 35,000 Miles in the
303 Dayu Consumed in the Voy
age. Portsmouth, N. II., Special. The
United States battleship Maine, after
making a circuit of the globe, ar
rived here Monday. As the battle
ship was warped into the dock the
"jackies" on board and those sta
tioned in the yard gave vent to pro
longed cheers. .1
The battleship Maine on swinging
to anchor at the Portsmouth navy
yard ended, together with the battle
ship Alabama, which arrived at New
York, the most spectacular around-the-world
cruise ever made by a first
class modern warship. During the
voyage, which was started from
Hampton Roads and which consumed
308 days, the two vessels covered
more than 35,000 miles.
The battleship will remain at Ports
mouth 26 days for docking and will
then further demonstrate her sea
worthiness by going on the North At
lantic station as the flagship for a
month or two. Following this she
will go out of commission after three
years of arduous service ..
Delight over the home coming was
expressed on the face of every
"jackie" seen. A clever machinist's
mate has prepared a history of the
cruise. It was in the form of a blue
covered pamphlet, giving complete
data of the battleship's perform
ances. It appeared that the battle
ship had steamed a total of . 36.111
miles although the aggregate dis
tance from port to port was 33,292
miles. She burned. about 22,000 tons
of coal and her engines had made
approximately 13,000,000 revolutions.
The parnfmlet notes that in passing
the 22,000 tons of cdal more than
250 shovels were worn out. .'
The Maine brought home before
the mast a large number of short
time men from the other vessels of
the fleet. Seventy of them left as soon
as possible after the ship docked.
"While nearly two hundred of the
men before the mast made the entire
world run, only twelve of the officers
were with the battleship from the
start. The Maine went out from
Hampton Roads under command of
Captain G. B. Harper. At Manilla
Captain Harper reliquishgd com
mand to Captain Porton, who brought
the ship home.
Fatal Fow in F-estaurant.
Washington, N. CC, Special News
was brought to this city of a shoot
ing scrape resulting in the murder of
one man and the serious wounding
of anotherSunday night at Green
ville, about twenty-five miles from
this city. " The shooting took place in
the Paim Garden Cafe run by J. B.
Harper. It seems that A. B. Kittrell
and a Mr. Starkey were seated at a
table in the restaurant when C. F.
White, who had been drinking, at
tempted, to enter the cafe, stumbled
and fell. Starkey laughingly told
him to get up and White mistook
Starkey 's voice for that of Kittrell
and thinking that Kittrell was ridi
culing him attacked him with a
knife. Kittrell defended himself
with a chair and White then drew a
revolver, remaking, "I can reach you
with this," and fired three shots at
him. Two of them took effect in
Kittrell 's body, one just above the
heart and the other in the abdomen.
Kittrell then dropped the chair and,
rushing upon White, snatched tbe re
volver and fired one shot into White's
abdomen. White fell but recovered
and walked to a doctor's office.
Kittrell is reported to have died
shortly afterwards. Sheriff C. W.
Tucker, of Pitt county, arrested
White and arrived in the city with
him, taking him to the Washing! on
Hospital, where he is now held un
der euard appointed bv Sheriff Ricks,
of this city, who has him in custody.
Volcano Begins Raining Ashes.
Basse Terre Gaudelonpe, By Cable.
A rain of ashes falling here Tuesday
from one of the volcanoes of St. Vin
cent Islands has thrown the people
into a panic for fear of a repetition
of the Mont Pelee eruption of six
years ago, which destroyed Martin
ique. Tri to End His Life.
Spartanburg, S. C, Special. Will
Burnett, a well-known young man
who was arrested several days ago on
a charge of riot in taking part in
the mob that attempted to lynch
John Irby, the negro charged with,
making an assault upon a young lady,
attempted, io commit suicide Sunday
at his home in the snb-ubs of the
city by shooting. Ho fired a pistol
ball into the right side of his hend,
inflicting a wound that may cause
death!
ROOSEVELT TO GO ABROAD
The London Times Learns That the
President Will Lecture at Oxford
and Receive a Degree After Eis
African Trip Will Also Visit
Paris.
London, By Cable The Times is in
formed that President Roosevelt, will
visit England after his African trip
early in 1910. He will deliver the
Romanes lecture at Oxford, and, on
the oeasion of the university com
memoration, will receive the honorary
degree of D. C. L., which Oxford
already has bestowed upon Emperor
William.
According to The Times President
Roosevelt also will visit Paris and
deliver an address at the Sorboune.
Neither the dates nor the subjects of
the lectures are yet known.
The Times further states that ac
cording to the present plans Mrs.
Roosevelt will join the President at
Khartoum on the journey north
ward. Alleged Lynchers Dismissed.
Washington, Special. On motion
of Solicitor General Hoyt the Su
preme Court of the United States
Drdered the discharge from custody
Df seventeen of the twenty-seven de
fendants in the proceeding charging
Sheriff James F Shipp, of. Hamil
ton county, Tennessee, and twenty
six others with contempt of the Su
preme Court because of the lynch
ing in 1905 of a negro named Ed
Johnson after the court had taken
30gnizance of his case. Most of the
dismissals were based on the failure
jf the testimony to identify the de
fendants with the crime. Following
ire the names of those who profit by
the -court's order: Paul Pl, T. B.
Taylor, William ' Beeler, John Jones,
Marion Perkins, C. A. Baker, Claude
Powell, Charles J. Powell, A. J. Cart
ivright. R. F. Cartwright, John Var
nell, Joseph Clark, Fred Frauley,
Paul or "Sheenie" Warner, Alfred
Hammond, William Marquette and
Seorge Brown. In the case of Pool
it was stated that he had disappeared
from Chattanooga immediately after
the lynching and had never since
been heard of. ,The court also order
ed the publication of the testimony
in the case taken by Commissioner
Maher.
Status of Foreign Missions Shown
in American Board's Meeting.
'New York. Special. Reading of
repqrts showing the work done at
home and abroad during, the year
and the appointment of committees
and nominations and business, took
up the first dav of the ninety-ninth
annual convention o the American
board of commissioners for foreign
missions in Brooklvn.
Frank JI. Wiggins, treasurer of the
board, submitted a report showing
the financial condition at the close of
the fiscal year. The general mainte
nance of missions, it appears from
the report, involved an expenditure
of $S81,254, or $2,075' more than
during the previous year.-
The income of the board during the
same period was $S37,999. Mr. Wig
gins' figures showed that the indebt
edness was $79,891.
Declines Call to Washington.
Washington, Special. Giving as a
controlling reasons that his work in
Boston, Mass., is unfinished, Rev. Dr.
Alexander Mann, rector cif Trinity
Episcopal church, of that city, has de
clined the position of bishop of Wash
ington to succeed the late Rt. Rev.
Henry Y. Satterlee. Dr. Mann's de
clination w;$s communicated in a let
ter received from him. Another con
vention will be called to fill the va
cancy. (Jets Life Sentence for Killing Wo
man. Opelika, Ala., Special. The jury
in the trial of Uhland Culpepper,
charged with tjie murder of Mary El
Yin ITader, wuo was shot and killed
near Phoenix City several weeks ago,
by a bullet believed to have been in
tended for her father, returned a ver
dict of guilty. Clupepper was sen
tenced to life imprisonment.
Wed at 102; Died at 110.
Seneca Falls, N. Y., Special. Mrs.
Charlotte Decker is (Send here. She
was 110 years old. Her father, God
frey Reals, ws5 a volunteer in the
Colonial army and served until the
colonics were free. She remembered
the year IS? 3, when no grain could
be raised and it was sold for $5 a
bnhel. In Jure "I0). Mrs. Brainard
was married to Samuel Packer, her
third husband, t!i- ulhcr two brina
flrA TT v?3 fhen CP. and Mrs.
(Decker 102. She hacl but one child,
-which died m infancy.
DEMOCRATIC FUN
Committee Publishes Amoi
of Money Received
ALSO DISBURSEMENTS TO M
Official Exhibit of Funds Collected!
the Democratic national Camp:
Committee.
New- York, Special. The De
3ratic national-, committee throi;
Treasurer Herman Ridder gave"
in extended statement of the cont
butions to the Democratic nati
campaign fund up to and includi
October 9th, showing sums of a
JVer $100. Thfl sfntomenf olen cKn-J
receipts and disbursements as fcl
Sows :
Received from contributors of $1
ind over, $90,712.23.
Received from contributors nndJ
tl00, $115,355.22.
Amount left over from Denver cort
rention fund, $42,500.00.
Total, $248,567.55.
Amount disbursed, $225,962.33.
Balance on hand, $22,604,67.
The statement which is signed b
National Chairman Mack and Treas
arer Ridder says that 343 subscrib
sums rero -P,wrv ' Tr
idds:
"The number of contributors t
:he national campaign fund is esti
nated at about 50,000 people and
ibout $100,000 of the whole amount
lohtributed came from the Democrat
c newspapers throughout the United
States. .,
The Congressional ; Fund.
Chicago, Special. The Democratic
congressional campaign committer
made public the list of contributions
of $100 or over. They appregate
pl,744, while smaller contributions
bring the total up to approximately
P20,000.
James Lloyd, chairman of the
congressional committee, states that
in order to complete the work the
jommittee is in urgent need of at
least $15,000. The announcement
continues: -w .....
"The Democratic national congres
sional committee received trior ta
the Denver convention in contribu
tions of $100 and over, the sum of
t3.500. , It has received in sums of
$100 and over in addition to the above
amount for which it makes sneeifia
report on account of the action of
the Denver convention in regard to
the publicity of campaign" funds, tha
following amounts:.
"Congressman R, C. Davey, Louis,
iana, $100 : D. E. Finlev. South Can
lina. $100; E. W. Saunders, Virginia,
HUO; Morris bheppard, Texas, $170;
Jack Beall. Texas. $100: J. G. Me.
Menrr. Pennsvlvania. $100: C "FT.
Weisse, Wisconsin, $110; J. J. Rus
sell, Missouri, $218; Thomas Hack
ney, Missouri. $100: John M. Goode.
Texas, $100; D. W. Hamilton, Iowa,
$100; Champ Clark, Missouri, $220;
G. M. Hitchcock, Nebraska, $100; GL
V. Fornes. New York. $100: T. D.
Nichols, Pennsylvania, $100; Henry
T. Rainey, Illinois, $100; Francis BV
Harrison, New York, $200; Lincoln
Dixon, Indiana, $100; D. L. D. Gran
der, Rhode Island, $100; H. D. Flood,
Virginia, $100; Rufus Hardy, Texas,
$100: United States Senator W. X
Stone. Missouri, $100; Herma nRid-
dcr, Isew York, $250; W. G. Conrad,
Montana, $250; and Democratic na
tional cxnmittee, $3,000. There has
been $3,089 additional received from
individuals and committees for frank
able literature.
English Balloon May Be Winnst.
Berlin, Bv Cable. Seventeen of th
balloons which competed in the in
ternational, race have landed. Foui
are still missing and it is feared hare
been driven seaward. The English
Banshee landed farthest from Berlin
going approximately three hundred
miles. She will be the winner unles
one of the missing balloons has pone
a further distance.
Gets 20 Years For Murder.
Reading, Pa., Special. Abraham
Rosenthal, of Philadelphia, who was
convicted a month ag of the murdei
of Lewis B. Clawson, a wealthy shirt
manufacturer was denied a new
trial in court and sentenced to 2(3
years imprisonmen',. He appeared
as if stunned for a time, but quicklj
recovered his composure. Clawson,
j who was Rosenthal's brother-in-law.
Yas mureded in his office last Febru
ary. Rosenthal fled and was cap
tured in Oklahoma. Rosenthal 13
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