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1ft T) s .4 "a IM I! I M II ' Tr i nun i - ii m i'i " """ ' " .'. " im i i i i i nin i m mmm .i ' S"""'" ' T'l""' "' '"'''''""M''WMM''""Tr''TI?'l Yr, In Advanc. , FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Stntf Copy a Cta, VOL. XIX. - PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1908. NO. 25. 1 NORTH STATE Occurrences of Interest Gleaned TW Heel Thirty Years for Jap. Newton, Special. Henry ; Yamo " kuchi, the Japanese showman, who killed "his fellow showman and countryman in Newton October 11th, was found' guilty in Catawba Su perior Court of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced by Judge Murphy to thirty years in the peni tentiary at hard labor. Sympathy was very strong for the accused man throughout the trial on account of the general belief that the quarrel ' which brought on the homicide was over the cruei treatment of the two little Japanese, girls by Kikuehi, ihe (man who was killed. The bearjng olhe little Jap on the witness stand -., also Helped' him. He did not plead self-defense or endeavor to explain bow he came to shoot the man , in the back, only claiming that he was so much excited that he could not remember how the killing eccurred. . He was ably defended by W: C. ""Feimster, of Newton, and W. K. Self, of Hickory. ' A Lonnie ' Rader,, who killed Miss Ballinger. in. the StartQwn Baptist J)L church in September, was declared 7 insane -by a jury and sentenced to the department of criminal insane in the Sfate penitentiary. The Governor's Thanksgiving Procla mation. Raleigh, Special Governor Glenn's thanksgiving-proclamation was is sued last week as follows : ' ' We have much for which to be thankful ; no pestilences or famine or other dire evil, save rains and floods in certain districts, have visit ed our people ; -but with this one ex ception our crops have been abund ' ant, bringing fair prices; and in spite of a'' panic producing distress in other States North-Carolina to a great extent has been entirely free from want, employment paying profit able wages, Not a single instance of xnob violence has occurred during the year, but all have acquiesced in and' obeyed the law. Tremendous progress has been made along all lines of in dustrv tad thrift. The State is out kof (ejtanchprosperous and aggressive business activity. Jiiducatninally we have made greater advancement than ever before and are spending in the education of ouf youth as large a per cent., according to the value of our property as any State in the Union." , A Good Showing. Raleigh, Special. B. C. Beckwith, of the State board of internal im provements, the duty of which is to inspect and report upon the various State-aided institutions, railways, etc., says that everything is progress ing without trouble at these and that there are no complaints as to manage ment. Most have been inspected and all will be by the end of the year. The - number of pupils at the State school for the white blind and the school for colored blind and deaf mutes reached 350, 25 more than ever before. Next Thursday the contract will be let for" the 5,000 library building at the school for the white bliil. It will face to the south and will be between the main building and the auditorium. Handsome Euiiaing for- Payetteville. Fayetteville, Special. At a meet ing of the executive committee of the Southern Life Insurance Company here last week, it was decided to im mediately erect a handsome build in"1 for homo offices of the company at the corner of Hay and Burgess streets. The building will cost $30 000, and will stand directly opposite the Federal building to be ' erected soon. North State Notes. Charters are granted the Burgra haw Company, capital $125-000, the North State Realty Company, $150, 000, and the Burgrahaw Inter-urban Company, $500,000. All these com panies are intended to develop the three towns of Burlington, Graham, and Haw River. The purpose is to connect these by an electric railway, furnish power and heat and to de velop real estate at all the points. R. W. - Bishop, patent attorney, Washington, D. C, reports the issue of the following patents on the 10th instant to residents of North Caro lina Mail box, J. T. Denny, Cromar tie; safe, L. N. Davis, Charlotte; cul tivator, Al J. Compton, Cedar Grove. The Governor offers two rewards, each of $50, for murders at Durham whore thjave have been four honii eules in tTit?- three months, one T f (IP r h H ,v. -'Mojiri 1 1 who killed 'vifo with the other HAPPENINGS From All Scctious of th Bvsy State : Four Convicts Pardoned. ( Raleigh, Special. Governor Glenn pardons conditionally four convicts as follows: Edward Horton, larceny, Durham" county, nine years, the Gov ernor not believing him guilty and having no,, confidence in the prosecu tor; John Atkins, larceny, Stanly, one year, on account of his age and good behaviour in prison; William Davis, Beaufort, larceny, one year, he having been seriously and perman ently injured on the chaingang; Wil liam Wilcox, secret assault, Mitchell, four years, because if guilty he had great provocation, the. prosecutor having wronged him fearfully, caus ing him and his ,wife to separate. The Governor refuses pardon in six cases : - William Lay. larceny, Cataw ba; J. C. Black,' Jr., forgery, Colum bus; Charles Horey, larceny, Sun combe; Ernest Murray, assault, Dup lin; Horace Welton, highway robbery, Buncombe ; William Zeigler, gamb ling, Mecklenburg. Thanksgiving Day Orphans' Day The good people of North Caro lina have chosen Thanksgiving Day as a time for special offerings to the orphans' home of our State. We have abundant cause for grati tude to God. Can we in a better way express our thanks to Him than by heartily joining in to care for and train aright homeless, orphan child ren? When, impelled by a spirit of grat itude, we do for "those little ones, does the great Father of the father less not accept it as done for Him 7 At present the demands upon and needs of the orphans' homes of North Carolina are unusually large. The Thansgiving offering will be a great factor in enabling these institutions to continue their beneficent work. The cause appeals to our sympa thies, to our reason, to our sense cf justice. - We, hope even a larger, number of our people will unite this time in the interest of this work and that the gifts will be, in all respects, greater than any of the offerings of former years. We believe the in terest of our people in this cause ia deepening and we look for even more liberal support to our orphanages. Apology Met With Bullet. Asheville, Special. James 'Moody, son of ex-Congressman Moody, shot and probably fatally wounded Dave B. Vausrhnr a traveling salesman, at jWaynesville early Thursday evening. The affair occurred on the main street just at dusk. The difficulty leading up to the shooting is not definitely known, but is is stated by eye witnesses that Vaughn stopped Moody on the street for the purpose of apo logizing for an alleged insult that Moody called Vaughn a d d'rascal and immediately shot him, and then made his escape before he could be apprehended. The bullet penetrated the abdomen. Bystanders picked up the wounded man and medical aid was given him. Later several physi cians were called to the wounded man from Asheville. Big Snow in Haywood. Waynesville, Special. Sunday morning Waynesville and' Haywood county are in the grip of another seemingly premature snowstorm. It commenced Saturday about noon and continued until about 10 o 'clock p. m. when it turned into a rain. For two hours the rain came down, when it turned into a regular northeast snow storm which raged the remainder of the night. Sunday morning it was snowing fiercely with about three inches upon the ground on a level and some ten inches in the mountains. Big Fire at Henderson. "Rendorson. Special. The second largest fire in the history of this town for thirty, years occurred bun rlnv morninc at 4:30 o'clock, when Parham Bros.' four-story brick build ing bagging factory was totally de stroyed, with its adjoining buildings on Wyilder avenue. By strenuous efforts the residences on the opposite side of the street were saved. Receiver for Daily News. Greensboro, Special. In"" the Unit ed States Court Judge James E. Boyd named W. I. Underwood a receiver of The Daily Industrial News, the appointment being made on the petition of certain creditors presented to the court by G. S. Bradshaw as attorney. The receiver is ordered by the court to continue the publication of the paper, and he is "directed to employ any and all necessary help in the advancement of his trusts." The subpoena on the bankrupt corporation is made return able next Saturday. A PLAIN CASE OF MURDER Investigation Into Death of E. W. Smith, Whose Body Was Found in Old Rock Quarry at Raleigh, Shows That He Was Foully Mur dered, Being Drugged and Robbed First. Raleigh, Special. Much interest centered in the case of E. W. Smith the man whose body was Sunday af ternoon found on one side of the State granite quarry, a mile east of the Capitol and directly in front of the National Cemetery. The inquest was held by" Coroner Separk and the jury went to . the quarry. It v;as found that when Smith registered at the Yarborough House Eriday even ing he had ov&r $G0 including three $20 gold certificates; also a gold watch and a diamond ring, and that on his person when the body Avas found there was only $1. It was as certained that he was at the hotel Saturday evening and got his room key and this was found in the pocket of" overcoat, which, with his coat, was. found on a bush on the south side of the quarry, high above the level of the water near the edge of which the body was found. There were footprints near the place where the body was found and these "were not made by such shoes as Smith had on. The body had been in water for it and what clothing was on it, name ly, underwear, shoes, trousers and shirt, were wet, while the coat and overcoat were dry. A police officer was accosted by Smith Saturday night near the " Baptist University, and Srsith asked to be shown the way to the Capitol, saying he did not know the town. The tenderloin dis trict is between the city and the quarry. The prevalent belief has all the while been that Smith was dop ed, robbed, taken to the quarry and thrown in to give the impression that it was a case of suicide, this idea be ing further carried out by the placing of. the coat and overcoat upon the bush. The coroner's jury has not return ed its verdict, but its members think the case unquestionably one of mur der. They found the tracks of a one horse carriage within a few yards of where the overcoat and coat were on the bush. There the vehicle had been turned. The order book of Smith was found by the jury. This had evideutly been put at the place for it was not there Sunday, where hundreds of in quisitive people were looking every where for anything. It is suspected that one of the numerous hackmen, the "night-hawks" as the.v are call ed, can tell a story about this affair. Private Teachers "Gather. Wilson, Special. The fourth an nual meeting, of Primary Teachers Association of the State commenced here Thursday, over one hundred members being in attendance. - The morning hours were devoted to ob sevation of the Wilson graded school and the work in the various grades there was watched with much inter est. In the afternoon jn the audi torium, Mr. F. A.'Woodard deliver ed an address of welcome in a most felicitious and happy manner. The response was made by Miss Bet tit Sands, of Greensboro. Annual Library Meeting. Greensboro, Special. The first ses sion of the annual meeting of the North Carolina Library Associatior was held in the Carnegie Library here last week. In the enforced ab sence of the president, Mrs. f Annie Smith Ross, of Charlotte, the meet ing was presided over by the vice president, Miss Annie Petty, libra rian at the State Normal and Indus trial College. The address of wel come was delivered by G. A. G rims ley, chairman of the board of trus tees of the Greensboro Public Li brary Association. Yeggman Wants" Pardon. Raleigh, Special Attorney J. C. L. Harris, representing J. T. Leonard, one of the five men convicted in Fed In.t. Mav of dynnmit- n"- and robbing the postoffice at nrmr, will nttemnt to secure his par don, claiming that the other four men have confessed in the Atlanta penitentiary and said Leonard was not with them. . State. News Items. Monday night an unknown negro was shot, five1 times in the abdomeu on the outskirts of Wilson by an other negro, said to be George Ruf fin. Tbo 'wounded man is at a hospi tal here but is not expected to re cover. His assailant escaped and has not yet been apprehended. The shoot ing "occurred over a woman. A father and two children from Johnson county went to Raleigh tc be treated by Dr. Shore for mad dog hitps Onfi child was thrown down by a dog and its face bitten in a leniuic manual. THE CUBAN ELECTION Gomez, Liberal Candidate, Elected President By Largo Majority. Havana, By Cable At the closeNf an election which was conducted with great enthusiasm and complete ab sence of -disorder, it appears practi cally certain that General Jose Mig uel Gomez and Alfredo Zayas have been chosen President and Vice Pres ident respectively of the new Cuban republic, with strong liberal ma jorities in the Senate and House. Throughout the 'island, according to the reports, an extraordinary heavy vote was cast, vastly in excess of that cast in the August election where 182,000 failed to vote in a total registration of 450,000. This was especially so in Havana v City, where the vote probably will reach 66 per cent of the registration against 49 per cent in August. The heavy vote was due, not only to the prevalence of fine weather, but the strenuous efforts made to bring out the silent vote. The slow incoming of the returns is attributed partly to the heavy vote and partly to scratch ed ballots on Representatives. In complete official returns from the precinct of . Havana indicated that the city was overwhelmingly Liberal. Few returns have been received from the provinces but estimates give the island to General Gomez by from 25,000 to 30,00. The Conserva tive leaders generally admit the de feat of their party. Negro Kills Eight.. Okumulgee, Okla., Special. Eight persons were killed and ten 'others were wounded Sunday in a fight be tween James Deckard, a negro des perado and officers. The dead. Edgar Robinson, sheriff of Ok mulgee county. .-- Henry Klaber, assistant chief of police of Okmulgee. Two negroes named Chapman, brothers. Three unidentified negroes. The wounded: Steve Grayson, Indian boy, probab ly fatally beaten Victor Fair, chief of Sioux, shot through shoulder; De puty - Sheriff, arm broken. Seven others, slightly wounded. President-Elect Taft Invited to Spar tanburg Banquet. Spartanburg, S. C, Special. President-elect Taft has been invited by the chamber of commerce to be the guest of Spartanburg upon the oc casion of a banquet to be given No vember 20th, celebrating the build ing of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad to this city. A com mittee of citizens from the chamber of commerce, the city council and the board of trade will go to Hot Springs and extend the invitations. The banquet will be attended by the Governors of five States and the presidents of half a dozen railroad systems. Taft Renders Tribute. New York, Special. While can non boomed, awakening patriotic memories of those sailor and soldier heroes who died in British prison ships in the revolutionary war, the prison ship martyrs monument at Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, was dedicated with impressive ceremonies Saturday in the presence of President-elect Taft, Secretary of War Wright, Governor Hughes and thou sands of people who thronged the knoli on which the tall doric column stands. . Mr. Taft made the oration of the occasion and' after the cere monies left for Washington, where he will meet President Roosevelt. Pushing Work on C. 0. and O. Road. Spartanburg, Special. The con tractors are pushing the work ort the C. C. and O. Road. They are re ceiving steam shovels and all sorts of road machinery and the noise of the blasting is like the cannonading around Charleston in iJ64fT5nTy it is not so constant amidangerous. Passenger Train3 Collide. " Jacksonville, Special. Passenger trains Nos." 39 and 10, of the At lantic Coast Line, came together in a head-on collision near Camden, a small station about ten miles from this city Saturday morning, killing James A. King, of Sanford, Fla., and Alenxander A. Bell, of Palnlka, both negro mail clerks, and slightly in juring several others. A relief train was sent out from here and the dead and injured brought to Jacksonville. The trains, it is said, had orders to meet at Camden, but No. 30 ran by with the fatal results. COUNTRY LIFE IMPROVERS Meet in Washington and Will Soon Start on a 'Tour in the Southwest Washington, Special. President Roosevelt's project for the "tiplift" of.the farmers and the improvement of country life will receive an im petus from the meeting here of the members of ..the "uplift',' committee. The "uplifters" have already spent some time investigating rural con ditions in the States south of Wash ington and east of the Mississippi river. The committee will leave Washington for the Southwest, their itinerary including stops in Tennes see, Texas, Arizona and California. Botli the Northern and Southern States of the Roey Mountain group will be visited. Returning eastward the "uplifters" will hold hearings in nearly all the States of the C'en tral West. The committee will re turn for a final hearing in this city on December IS. Monday the com mittee met with the delegates of the thirteenth annual meeting of the American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers. Some of the lead ing agricultural authorities of the country are in attendance at the con vention and they will probably be able to give the "uplifters" some valuable pointers. The sessions are being held at the National Hotel. Ihe New Stamps Are Now on Sale. Washington, .Special. Uncle Sam's new issue of postage stamps was placed on sale Monday, at many post offices,, but the. demand has beeir'so srreat that at some, .offices the old se ries will still be sold until the sup ply is exhausted. Stamp books con taining the new stamps have been sent to all the large offices., The de nominations of the new stamps, which are officially known as the "series of 1008," are of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (; 8, 10, 13, 15 and 50 cents, and $1. The Postoffice Department says that the $2 and $5 stamps will be discontinued after the present sup ply is exhausted. On the one-'cent stamp is the head of Benjamin Franklin in profile" from Houdon's bust. All the other denominations bear the head of George Washington in profile from Houdon's bust. The border designs of all the denomina tions are identical, the head being an ellipse on end with laurel leaves on either side. Above the head are the words "U. S. Postage," below it the denomination. The size of the stamps is the same as that of the stamps formerly on sale. Seven Perish in a Burning Dwelling in Manitoba. Swan Lake. Manitoba. Special. The home of E. W. Care v. a farmer living a few miles south of here, was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Carey, live fhilfli-pn and a Miss Grace Pierce, a school teacher, who was staying over night with the family, perished in the flames. Mr. Carey was so badly in jured that he cannot recover. The fire was caused bv Carev lijrhtinar the kitehin stove with coal oil. The oth er occupants of the house who were asleep were sultoeated in tueir beds. Credit Bureau Organized at Wilming ton. Wilminffton. Special. There was a meetino- here of a larse number oi the Wilmington jobbers in the rooms of the chamber a commerce lor tue nurnose of onranizinjr a credit bu reau and clearing house to be affili- ted with the national organization! with hpndouarters in Chieasro. Tut object of the organization is the in terchange of credit information be twppn merchants of other cities. Sa vannah, Charleston, Jacksonville and niluM leadinsr Southern ports liavti already organized similar bureaus and write that they are working well m those cities. Ete Iron Sales After Election. 1 Birmingham, Ala., Special. Ala bama iron manufacturers sold 50, 000 tons of pig iron in the first 24 hours after the election and inquiry for a large tonnage is in hand. The iron sold is to be delivered during the first o'iaiier of the coming year. Sis Deaths 'Result Trcm Accident. Pittsburg," Special. Six mer were instantly killed, another was danger ously injured and three others had narrow escapes from injury or death in a mine cage accident at Ellsworth mine No. 1, located in Washington county. The mine is owned by the EilsworOi Coal Company, of this city. Because of a break viu the machinery the cage, occupied by ten men, sev eral of whom were minn. officials, plunged from near the outlet to the bottom of the rdiaft, a distance ol 2S5 feet. FAVOR FREE SUGAR 1 1 - " Tariff Commission May Make Philippine Product Free BEET SUGAR GROWERS OBJECT Secretary of War Wright Goes on Record Before House Ways and Means Committee as Favoring Free Entry From the Philippines. Washington, Special. The allega tion that the so-called "sugar trust' controls the price paid to the grower and the price charged the consumer of sugar, the Secretary of War put ting himself on record as a champion Of free entry for Philippine sugar and the general "stand-pat" attitude of the beet-sugar growers who ap peared before the ways and means committee of the House, were the features of Monday's hearing on the revision of the tariff as it, would af fect sugar. Secretary of War Wright was pres ent at the hearing. Chairman Payne asked Secretary Wright if he eared to make any remarks. """ "We are now having an investiga tion made in the Philippines regard ing the cost of production in the islands and other matter relating to the question," said Mr. Wright. "From what I have heard, the prin cipal objection by the beet-sugar growers to the admission free of ditty of Philippine sugar lies in the danger that their market will be inundated by the Philippine article. "It is not possible that the Phil ippine islands could supply the actual increase in demand for sugar, year by year, in the United States." Chairman Payne indicated that the possible action of the committee with regard to the sugar schedule would be to recommend that a certain amount of Philippine sugar be admitted free of duty each year and that the pres ent tariff be imposed on any above that amount. He said that the men ace, if any, was from the Cuban su gar, which enjoys a reduction in the tariff of 20 per cent. "The beet sugar people say that the American Sugar Refining Com pany has no interest in their fac tories," said the Secretary, referring to the so-called "trust." "Yet three years ago they said a trustee under stood to represent the American Su gar Refining Company, owned 51 per cent o fall the beet sugar factoties. That may be the reason why the beet sugar industry in this country has not grown, rather than the importa tion of Cuban sugar." Col. D. D. Colcoeky on behalf of the Louisiana cane-sugar growers, said that the methods by which "the trust" names the price which it would pay the grower were unfair and "damnable." Says Cannack Did Not Shoot. Memphis, Tenn., Special. Will A. Percy, a well known lawyer, makes the startling statement that Senator Carmack never fired the pistol he carried on his death walk and that voim"1 Conner, who is alleeed to have been shot by Carmack, was in fact wounded by bullets irora'lus lather's revolver intended for Carmack. Percy says the son was behind Car mack and the father in front, each beinar so near the other that their viftim was powder burned by ihe father's shots. That the charmbcrs of Carmack 's pistol had been firedi means not lung, says the lawyer, tor the weanon was in the hands of his enemies for two hours before it was turned over to the officers; and be sides, carmack 's hand still held a ciear he had been smokinsr. Ser vices were held in honor of Senator Carmack Sunday in many churches throughout the State. Persia's Constitution. St. Petersburg, By Cable. The reported promulgation of a rescript abolishing the constitutron of the Shah of Persia is not credited. A petition for such a rescript has 'h"A presented to the Shah, but it is thought that he will not issue itt thereby precipitating the country in to a revolution. Captain and Three Men Perish. Norfolk, Va., Special. The four masted coasting barge Independent lies sunk near Hog island, off the Virginia Capes. The disaster was re ported by the Merchants and Miners Steamer Gloucester, in from Provi dence. The crew of the barge is re ported lost. The Independent sailed Thursday from Newport News, Va., in tow of a Lunckenbach tug for New England. She was coal laden. Captain Burnett, of Norfolk; and a crew ofythree men are those suppos ed to have perished when the Inde pendent went down Saturday night faisias ixay, colored. ;