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'it $ lift dPlftlilt' if " ' ' ' ' ' . : i tlL a Year, In Advance " FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " v; St agta Copj 3 Casta, VOL. XX ' PLYMOUTH, N, 0.. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1909. NO. 8, Y TP r A: NdRTH STATE NEWS NOTES Items of State Interest Gathered from Here and There and Told Briefly for Busy Readers. Held Farmers Institute. Hillsboro, Special The Farmers' . 'institute held here Monday will long be remembered by those who attend ed. Two meetings were held in the forenoon, one for men and one for women. The afternoon meeting was a joint session with an attendance about equal to the attendance at the two morning, sessions. There were 15G farmers and 76 ladies who lis tened with the closest attention to all that was said and to the demon strations that were given. The farm ers of Orange are rapidly becoming aware of the benefits derived from contact with practical experts and were eager to take advantage ofjhe opportunities afforded them by the Farmers' Institute. The men's meeting was held in the court house and the women's meet ing in the Baptist church. Mr. T. B. Parker, of the State De partment of Agriculture, and Prof. C. L. Newman, of A. and M. Col lege, addressed the men in the morn ing, and Prof. S. B. Shaw and Prof. J. S. Jeffry in the afternoon. The subjects discussed were Soil Preser vation and Improvement; Rotation and the Production of Animal Foods. Special emphasis was given the neces sity of more live stock on North Caro lina farms and the necessity of an accurate knowledge of the founda tion of fertilizers. Professor Shaw's address should have been heard by every farmer and farmer's wife in the State. He so plainly brought out the pleasure and profits to be derived - from a home garden as to stimulate a strong interest in this necessary adjunct to the farm. Professor Jeffrey's address on Poultry Feeding embraced a dis cussion of the, principles upon which feeding poultry is based, and select ing and preparation of the best foods, as 'Well as how judicious feeding may lessen poultry diseases. He made it plain that the importance of the poul try industry was not appreciated and that every farmer could, by bestow ing a little more care and attention to fowls, vastly increase the home food supply and have enough left over to bring a handsome annual in come. The crowning feature of the day was the address, by Mrs. Sue Hollo way, of Goldsboro, who, with Miss Josephine S.' Evans, of Raleigh, con ducted the ladies' meetings. The, County Teachers' Institute was to have been held here Monday but' those in charge very graciously gave way to the Farmers' Institute and attended the ladies'- meeting. Mrs. Holowell 's address had for its main feature the home training of the child and the effect of this home training when they enter school. The mother often leaves for the teacher training that can be given only at home. Mrs. Hollowell emphasized the necessity of other training than that which may come from books, espec ially moral, physical and hygienic. Mrs. Hollowell has a most forceful way of reaching her audience and ex erts a magnetic influence upon all who hear her. Miss Evans, who presents the sub ject of Domestic Science, has a car equipped for the purpose and in addi tion to lectures, gives practical de monstrations of cooking. The value, and composition of foods is explain ed as well as combination of foods that will give best digestive and nu trative effects. Horse and Auto Collide. Durham, Special Frank Carver, the 13-year-old son of Mr. II. L. Carver, of Rougemont, was painfully hurt Sunday morning shortly after midnight by an automobile which col lided with his horse. The young fel low was driving home with his uncle when the big machine ran under the horse and upset the. vehicle complete ly. Both occupants were hurt. ( "Shooting-up" Town Ends in Con viction for Murder. Wilmington, Special. William Bass, a rural mail carrier, charged with the murder of Major A. B. Par ker, a prominent business man of Parkersburg, because the latter would not sell him ammunition on Saturday while on a drunken spree and engag ed in shooting up the village, was Tuesday found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. A plea of insanity had been entered, and an appeal was taken to the Su- " preme Court, bond being fixed at ; $15,000. Heartrendering Accident. Durham, Special. Miss Frances Sue Watts, a Trinity student the past year, writes to Durham friends a most thrilling and withal deplorable ex perience in witnessing two of her friends drown recently. The party of thirty-eight had started out on a launching trip and spent two hours skating at Irvington. On their return the engine became unmanageable on account of the gasoline and in their efforts to get it right the gasoline caught and exploded a lantern. This started a fire on the boat which was then in wate rsixty feet deep and one mile from shore. Perfect panic re sulted. The prow was burning fierce ly and spreading while every minute had the ghost of death by explosion. They could not move and the men fought fiercely for the extinguishing of the flames.' Every moment was threatened with a stampede and final ly Miss Jannette Dudley leaped over board. She was followed by Mr. Clarence Gray, who tried to save her. The young boys swam after them but could not reach them and for an hour the two struggled in the waters of the Rappahannock within call of the boat which was utterly helpless and at a standstill. The boating party answer ed their cries with cheers and after half an hour, both went down. The ebbing tide carried both bodies far from the boat and it had to anchor to prevent a further, drifting. For hours other boats passed and the sig nals of distress could not be conveyed to them. The men had fought down the flames and the wet clothes used in smothering the blaze left the party without protection. Late in the morn ing a boat bound for Baltimore was signalled and it took on the party of thirty-six. A search for the lost ones began and they were found two miles below the place. Mr. Gray was from Saluda, the home of Miss Watts, an dwas said to have been one of that towns most popular young men. But the barest facts without , a circum stance of detail, have reached the newspapers of either Virginia or Maryland and the tragedy occurred a week ago. Private Laws Out. Raleigh, Special. The Private Laws passed at the 1909 session of the General Assembly have just been completed, the work being done by Messrs. E. M. Uzzell & Co., State Printers and Binders. The volume, which contains 953 pages, is issued in the same hand some and durable style as the Public Laws. The publication of these laws have been very speedy this year, ex celling all past records; and this is a matter which has given great satis faction to the State officials and the public, as well as reflecting great credit upon the State Printers" and Binders. Picnic at Davidson. Davidson, Special. Visitors, guests and strangers of all sizes, ages ami conditions had and enjoyed "the freedom of the city," Thursday. Dav idson has kept open house and big words of ''Welcome" written on can vass and uttered with tongue and voice, have bidden all comers to par take freely of air and water and then of food for the inner man. Cold soft drinks, cold, gushing Avell water, ap petizing lunches and refreshing ices all were at hand in easy reach, some of them for the having and others for the gold dust. Gaston Farmer Loses His House by Fire. Bessemer City, Special. The home of Mr. Albert Mauney, about five miles west ' of here on the Kings Mountain and Cherryvillc road, was burned to the ground Monday. A part of the household goods was saved. No particulars as to how . it happened were obtainable Thursday. The house was comparatively new and the loss is considerable. Boy Mysteriously Attacked. Lenoir, Special. Tuesday after noon some excitement was ocasioned here when John Clarke a boy about 15 years old, was found in a semi conscious condition on the ground near Phillips Bostic's lemonade stand right in the business section of the town. It seems that the boy had been asked by "Uncle" Phillips, as he is familiarly known here, to stay at his stand just a few minutes while he went to a store a block or two away to see about some lemons. When Uncle Phillips returned he found John lying on the ground. AGED LADYMURDERED Body, of Miss Lydia C. Newman, a Well-to-Do Maiden Lady, of Sum- .ner Township,, Was Found Dead Near Her Residence Skull Was Crushed With Bludgen and She Had Been Dead For Several Days. Greensboro, Special Miss Lydia C. Newman, a maiden lady, who lived alone in the Burnett's Chapel section of Sumner township, was found dead Saturday within three hundred yards of her residence. Her skull had been crushed by a bludgeon and she had evidently been dead for several days. She was last seen Tuesday morning, when a neighbor observed her going in the direction of the cow lot. Coroner Wood summoned a jury and held an inquest Sunday after noon, but no evidence was secured to throw light on the tragedy. There appears to be no doubt that the ob ject of the murder was robbery, but it is not known whether or not the murderer procured anything of value. Miss Newman was possessed of con siderable property and at times had large sums of money in her home. About two years ago her dwelling was burned and she was robbed of about $1,000 in cash. Miss Newman had a number of rel atives in te community, but always insisted on living alone. Her dead. body was discovered Saturday by a rural mail carrier. Automobile Highway Selected. Atlanta, Ga., Special. The officials of the New York to Atlanta automo bile highway completed their deliber ations here Saturday night and an nounced the selection of the route which will be followed in the good roads and reliability run between the two cities next October The New York Herald's experts de cided to adopt the road leading from Sew York across Staten Island, to Perth Amboy, to Philadelphia, to Gettysburg- across the historic battlefield down through the beautiful Shenan doah valley, through Lexington and Natural Bridge to Roanoke. At Roanoke, Va., the Atlanta Jour nal's scouts took up the choice of roads and selected from Roanoke to Greensboro or Winston-Salem, to Salisbury, to Charlotte, to Spartan burg, to Greenville and on to Atlanta. The route was chosen after the scout cars of The Journal and The Herald had covered over 4,000 miles of road and is believed the best one available. The scouts say that both the capital to capital and the Bristol routes will'be built, but in their judg ment at present there are too many ferries and too few bridges to justify the selection. The route selected "is about 1,135 miles long and before the big contest begins next October, a sign board will be erected at every cross road to guide the drivers in the race. Heart Pierced by Bullet. Salisbury, N. C, Special. A terrible tragedy, whether suicidal or acciden tal is not positively known, occurred at Organ church, this county, about 12 miles southeast of Salisbury, just before noon Sunday. The particulars as learned here late in the afternoon are as follows: Mr. Henry Kluttz and family had gone to Lutheran Or gan church to worship, leaving a young son, Clarence, aged about 20 years, at home, he having been com plaining of feeling unwell. When the family returned from the servces to their home they were horrified to find the1 young man lying across the bed in his room dend with a rifle ball through his heart and the weapon, a small rifle, lying by his side. Death List Increases. , New Orleans, Special. With defi nite reports Saturday of 13 additional deaths as the result of the hurricane in Texas and Louisiana Wednesday, the death list Sunday night totals 41. Alson six previously reported missing are still unaccounted for. Dispatches confirm the report that Maurice P. Wolfe, his wife, six children and ne gro servant had been drowned at Christian Bayou. Most Successful Flight. Washington, Special. Orville Wright, at Fort Myer Saturday even ing, surpassed all previous j:erform ances of the Wright aer6plane in the matter of speed and in the shapeli ness of his turns. Wilbur Wright, who closely watched his brother's flight during every inch of his pro gress, ealuculated his average speed with and against the wind, at 47 miles an hour. One of his circles at full speed was estimated to be within a diameter of 150 feet an automobile could hardly do better than that at the high rate q "cd. 1 STATUS 0FJ0TT0N CROP As Viewed By President Harvey Jor dan of the Southern Cotton Asso ciation. v,?; Atlanta, Ga., Special. The follow ing official bulletin was issued on Sun day by President Harvey Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association: "The present outlook for anything like a normal production of cotton for the season of 1909-1910 is worse than any year since. 1903. Reports which have come to meSl'rom all parts of the cotton belt from reliable sources, and the result of personal observation during the last thirty days, indicate a yery serious condition of the cotton crop, especially in the territory of the southwestern states. The long, and as yet unbroken, drought in Texas, ac companied by unprecedented hot weater, covering the largest produc ing counties of the State; make it im possible for the crop there to recover normal conditions, evn under the most favorable weather, hereafter. The same conditions have largely pre vailed in Mississippi and Louisiana. In every State, except Texas, there has been a voluntary, decrease in the cotton acreage by the farmers this year. ' 'In all the states east of the Mis sissippi the fields are generally gras sy, and many thousands of acres have been abandoned and the fields plant ed to corn and peas. Crab grass has sapped the vitality of the cotton plant, and absorved to a great extent the commercial fertilizers. Black root and boll worm in the eastern states and boll weevil in the south west are contributing to make the sitation all the more critical. There is not a sufficient supply of old cot ton in the South today to last the southern mills until Octobe first. I anticipate that the forthcoming Aug ust condition report, by the bureau of cotton statistics, to be issued August the 2nd, will reflect the deterioration of the crop in July, by several points under the very low June condition re pprt. In most sections of the belt the cotton plant is small and grassv. and in other sections too full of sap and weedy. These conditions forecast a small yield compared to that of one year ago. "The failure of the peach crop al ways forecasts a shortness in the pro duction of the cotton crop, such as the case this year. With consumptions assuming enormous proportions, and the production of the cotton crop in dicating an nnusual shortness, it Is impossible, at this time, . to predict with any degree of accuracy where the maximum price of spot cotton will reach. That we are now entering up on an era of very high prices for the coming season, there is scarcely any question of doubt, and the slower spot cotton is marketed at the opening of the season, the asier it will be to maintain high prices.'' Storm Loss Increases. Houston, Tex., Special Other than to Add several hundred thousand to the monetary loss, Friday night's despatches from the - storm-swept coast sections of Louisiana and Tex as and into the interior for miles add but little to that already told of the hurricane of Wednesday which rival ed in intensity the storm of 1900. The number killed is conservatively esti mated at 25, twice as many nfore oi Jess seriously injured, and the prop erty loss is estimated at approximate ly $1,000,000. While belated reports may add to the list of casualties and the property damage, other than to isolated points, communication has been restored. Late despatches add the towns of Rock Island, Wharton and Weimer to those which suffered to an extent from the sweep of the wind. At Rock Island nine of the largest build ings were either razed or partially wrecked, the damage being estimated at $75",000. Fifty houses were blown down at Weimer and the property loss will approximate $100,000. Whar ton suffered more than from the storm of 1900. Rattlesnake's Bite Fatal. Hendereonville, N. C, Special. Pinckney Stepp, the 14-year-old son of Mr. John Stepp, who lives about six miles from this city on the Polk county line, was bitten by a rattle snake Thursday evening and died Thursday night. Pinckney and his brother were get ting tanbark near the edge of a field. When going near a large stump the boy was suddenly struck on the outer side of the ankle by a monstrous rat tlesnake. The brother succeeded in killing the snake and hurried home with Pinckney, who in the meantime became very sick. The neighbors were called and all remedies known to the mountaineers were put in use. It was four miles to the nearest tele-, phone, and required seversl hours be fore a doctor could reach the house. When the physician arrived the young, fellow was in a sad state, and died two hours later. This is the first person who has been fatally bitten by a snake this season. Details of Terrible Storm Which Swept From One End of The Gulf To The Other Whole Towns Desolated Lower Coast Suffers Heavily. Houston, -Texas, Special. The West Indian hurricane, which 'swept from one end of the Texas Gulf coast to the other Wednesday, claimed a toll of 12 human lives, fatally in juring four others and seriously wounding 16, according to the details of the storm, which began to arrive here late Thursday night. Whole towns were devastated and the wreck and ruin to property will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Trains, from 12 to 15 hours late, crept into Houston Thursday and freight trains are lost throughout the stricken district. The territory around Bay City seems to have been the centre of the storm, which moved southwest from Galveston. For' four hours there a 70-mile wind swept across the coun try, carrying everything, before it. About 50 per cent, of the business section was damaged, including the opera house, one bank, the court house, the new high school building and the city jail. In the jail, the eages were left standing and the pris oners were exposed to view but were safe. Velasco, a small town near Bay City, is reported demolished, but with no loss ' of life and none injured. Every building was unroofed or part ly demolished and the town Thursday was in four feet of water. People es caped in boats from Colorado river, a mile away. The loss will total thousands of dollars and in some districts reports state that the storm was worse than the disaster of 1900, which devasted Galveston. Eagle Lake seems to have suffered on a parity with Bay City, but very few houses escaping the fury of the 3torm. Along the Brownsville road from THE WRIGHT BROS. FLY FIFTY-FOUR MILES AN HOUR Washington, Special. In two short flights in the Wright aeroplane Wed nesday afternoon at Fort Myer, Va., Orville Wright closely approached the world's aroplane speed record, attaining an average velocity of 54 1-2 miles an hour as computed bv Wilbur Wright, who held the stop watch on the machine for half a doz en rounds of the course. On the first flight the air craft re mained aloft only 1 minute and 39 seconds, the aviator being forced to descend by losing a cog wheel on the magneto after making his second round of the course. On his necond flight, after the cog had been replaced FREIGHT TRAIN GOES THROUGH A. C L. TRESTLE Goldsboro, N. C, Special. Consid erable excitement was caused when it it was learned that the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad bridge over Neuse riv er between this city and Dudley had given way under the weight of a pass ing freight train, and in a short while several hundred peoole had gathered upon the scene and were greatly re lieved when it was learned that by a miracle all the crew had escaped and nobody was killed or injured. The freight, which was composed of some 40 loaded cars, had one of its cars got safe across the river, but was approaching the bridge, the con sequence is that one of the worst ma terial wrecks ever seen in this terri tory is now piled up at the above CLOUDIK R T CAUSES DEVASTATION IN MINNESOTA Duluth, Mum., Special. Following the terrific rains of Tuesday, Wednes day night's cloudburst caused a scene of devastation in Duluth. , The loss it is computed, will reach $1,500,000. Three lives were lost. Two chil dren were swept from their mother's side in Ninth avenue, one body being lost in a sewer, and another child was lost in Keene's creek at West Du luth. PITCHED BATTLE BETWEEN New York, Special. A pitched bat tle was fought in Brooklyn Thursday between immigration inspectors and a band of 24 gypsies who were being deported to South America. The trouble had its origin in the refusal of the gypsies to board the steamer Verdi, which was to take them to Buenos Ay res. In the heat of the melee several children of the band were injured by reason of their parents using themas shields. In several instances the parents pushed the bodies of children against the inspectors who were try ing to drive them from a tug to the Kingsville, in parts, the desolation was nearly complete. Corn fields were swept to the ground and harvesting will have to be done by a hay rake. The cotton, however, withstood the storm well. At Elcampo, the electric light plant is wrecked, all elevators are badly damaged and almost every church in town is either demolished or wrecked. In the oil fields around Markham, derricks were blown down and wells stripped of their machinery. Six prisoners escaped from the jail at Richmond when the windows had been blown in and while the guards were ' repairing the damage. At Palacios Mrs. Hogan and chil dren were injured under the falling brick walls of their home and were later extricated by workmen.. Their injuries may prove fatal. At Galveston Bay the situation is not as bad as at first reported. No part of the railroad bridge, which spans the arm of the bay between the island and Virginia Point, was wash ed away, but some 50 feet of the structure was thrown badly out of alignment by a huge barge and other small craft, which were washed from their , moorings and pounded against the piling. A special from Houston says while the city suffered a property loss, es timated at between $50,000 and $75, 000 this entire section from a crop standpoint hasbeen benefitted in a most marked degree by the storm. The cotton crop in central, south and north-middle Texas was in a dis tressing condition on account of the drought. Wednesday night's rain ex tended from the Gulf to the lowr part of the Panhandle right through the cotton belt of central and middlo eest Texas, and farmers are elated over the probability of good yields. 'A New Orleans special says eigh teen persons dead, and sixteen seri ously hurt, and property damage ex ceeding $1,000,000 is the grim record resulting from the destructive sweep of the hurricane along the Louisiana and Texas coasts. the aeroplane swiftl" circled a dozen times around the course, which i3 five-sixths of a mile in circumference. Certain changes had been made in the gearing of the motor and. propel lers to give the machine a higher speed. The Wright brothers had de cided to give this speed change only a 10-minute trial Wednesday, and the aviator brought the aeroplane to the earth after 11 minutes in the air. The Wrights signified that they would be through with their work at Fort Myer by next Wednesday, the day that the time limit expires. They do not anticinate that any extension of time will be necessary. scene. The engine and some twelve cars got safely across the river, but the derailed car took to the river, off the high iron bridge, and 24 other cars followed it, piling themselves one upon another over the bridge and into the river. The scene is something appalling to look upon. The 'steel bridge has given way under the fearful strain and while no lives were lost the dam age will be heavy upon the railroad company. A great number of the ears were loaded with lumber, which is now piled up pell-mell' in the river and vicinity. It will be weeks before the wreck can be cleared and in the meantime the passengers and other traffic will be transferred on a gaso line launch. The entire hillside became prac tically one great waterfall. The sew ers, already overflowing.,' were' inade quate to carry off the rushing wa ter, and the streets and avenues quickly turned into torrents of water three feet deep. Twenty or more houses were wash ed away along small creeks in the city suburbs and several narrow es capes from drowning are reported. INSPECTORS AND GYPSIES steamer. One little girl was uncon scious when the vessel sailed with the gypsies. The gypsies believed they were to be returned to Russia, their home and when they realized that they must go back to South America, which coun try they had just left, their rage knew no bounds. The women fought with more fury than the men. One ragged dame used an iron camp kettle whenever she get within reach of a hostile head. When the Verdi, sailed, her unwill ing passengers were huddled astern, Bussing their wounds.
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