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' ' '" 1 III II Mil 1IIHIIII1I1 II I 1 UN 1111 II HHMPIlf 7 tl. a Year, la Adranc. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. XX. .PLYMOUTH, tf C FRIDAY' AUGUST 27, 1909. I i The Indianapolis Automobile Racing Brings Des truction And Sorrow-Frenzied Speed And Its Results. . Indianapolis, Ind., Special Three more lives were sacrificed Saturday in the mad speed carnival which has inaugurated the great Indianapolis motor speedway. One mechanician and two spectators paid the penalty of their lives to satisfy the extreme desire for speed. The fatal accident came when a National car, driven by Charles Merz in the 300-mile race, lost a tire and crashed through a fence into a group of spectators, spreading death and destruction in the wake of its wild plunge. The dead: Claude Keilura, of In dianapolis, mechanician in the Nat ional car; Ora Jolleffe, Trafalgar, Ind.; an unidentified man. Besides the three deaths, two serious injuries resulted during the day. Henry Tapking, of Indianap olis, was seriously injured in the fatal wreck, sustaining a compound frac ture of his right arm, a broken nose and several scalp wounds. Bruce Keene, the driver of a Harmon ear in the same race, crashed into a post shortly after the National wreck and was badly cut about the neck and head. After the second accident the of ficials decided to call off the 300-inile-race when the leading car a Jack son with Lee Lynch at the wheel had covered 235 miles. Ralph de Palma, in a Fiat, was second and Stillment in a Harmon was third. The race will be declared no contest and the great Indianapolos motor speed way trophy will be raced for again. J TROOPS FIRE ON STIKERS AT Pittsburg, Special. One State trooper and one deputy sheriff and three foreigners were shot and killed Sundav night in a Avild riot at the Pressed Steel Car plant in Sehoen-A-ille, Avliose employes are hoav1 on strike. At least a score, of persons were seriously Avounded, ten fatally. The rioting- followed a day of quiet and broke Avithout warning. At mid night the following partial list of dead and injured AA'as made up from reports received from the morgue, hospitals and several physicians' of fices : The dead: John L. Wilson, State trooper; Harry Exler, deputy sheriff; three foreigners. Fatally injured: John C. Smith, State trooper; Lucclian Jones, State trooper; seven foreigners. George Kitc.h and John O 'Donne 11, State troopers, were seriously injured and one Avoman Avas shot in the neck. . SEVEN CADETS DISMISSED West Point, N; Y., Special. For being involved in the hazing of Ro lando Sutton, a brother of Lieut. James N. Sutton, Jr., United States marine corps, Avhose death at, Anna polis tAvo years ago has just been investigated, seven West Point ca dets were dismissed from the United States Military Aeedemy Thursday by direction of President Taft. The cadets ordered to be dismissed are -John H. Booker, Jr., of " est Point, Ga., first class; Richard W. Hocker, Kansas City, Ho., third class; Earle W. Dunmore, Utiea, N. Y., third class; Chauncey C. Devore, GEORGIA WOMAN SHOOTS Augusta, Ga., Special. In a fit of jealousy Thursday afternoon Elvia Todd, a young white woman about 22 years of age, entered the office of the Central of Georgia freight depot and probably fatally shot Cashier D. Richard Wilson. The voung Avoman claims that she has, ;6r the past seven years been bfatuated Avith Watson, Avho is a young man. She claims that he held out a ray of hope for her until a few days ago, Avhen he "threw her over." ILLINOIS RIVER. STEAMER Peoria, 111., Special. The steamer Fred Swain, Capt. Verne Swain, of the Peoria & LaSalle Packet Com pany, with 25 passengers and 15 sail ors aboard, burned to the water's edge Friday after the flaming craft had been piloted into four feet of wa ter and the occupants had ascaped to the bank of the Illinois river, up J GEORGIA WOMAN MURDERED BY LOVE-SICK SWAIN Dougles, Ga., Special. Declaring! Both started back towards the that he had rathor see her dead than house side by side. Coming to a married to another, William McLeod, branch near the house he let her pre- a farm hand, Friday confessed to Sheriff Ricketson that he murdered Hiss Matte Graham, a Avcalthy and refined young Avoman .whose body was discoVered in a swamp near, her home at Ilokesboro, Coffee county. Goinf into every detail, his state ment is that he left his work and went to the house before dinner. Not seeing her he asked for Hiss Hattie and being informed that she had gone to her field for a melon, he fol loAved and found her,, By a strange freak of fortune Herz escaped from the terrible wreck with hardly a scratch. He fell under the car when it turned a somersault through the air and down into a gul ley near the side of the track. He was in imminent danger of being burned to death but by extraordinary luck he was able to shut off the en gine and thus save himself from a horrible death. Kellum was hurled out of the car and landed in the gulley some dis tance from the twisted mass of steel and iron that once had been a speed machine. The three deaths raises the toll of the speedway to seven lives this week. William A. Bourpue and his mechanician, Harry Holcombe, of the Knox racing team, were, killed in an accident in the 250-mile race Thurs day. Cliff Litteral, a Stoddard-Day-ton mechanician, was killed by being hit by a big racing machine while on the way out to the speedway. On Thursday Elmer Grampton, a 6-3'ear-old boy, was-killed by the automobile of Dr. Clark E. Day, of this city, while the latter was on his way to the speedway for the first day's race. A pall of grief hangs over the city and the more reckless automobilists drive more ; carefully through the streets than they did earlier in the week. The frightful penalty paid for a few broken speed records is greater than was bargained when Indianapo lis threw down the gates of its "greatest speedway in the world." PITTSBURG KILLING THREE Over a score of persons received more or less serious injuries. The riot scene Avas practically indescrib able. Hounted State troopers gallop ed indiscriminately through the streets Avith riot maces draAvn, crack ing the heads of all persons loitering in the vicinity -of the mill. Deputy sheriffs and troopers broke in the doors of houses suspected of being the retreat of strikers, and Avhole sale arrests Avere made. From 9:30 to 11.30 scores of persons Avere ar rested and placed in box cars, as a jail, in the yards. During the early stages of the riot ing I AA'omen Avere conspicuous. Some of them Avere armed, others effective ly used clubs and stones. These Avomen, all foreigners, insane Avith rage, were nyiinly responsible for in citing the men to extreme measures. At midnight quiet reigned in the strike zone. AT WEST POINT FOR HAZING Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gor don Lefebvre, t Richmond, Va., third class; Albert E. Crane, Ha warden, Iowa, third class; Jacob S.-Fortner, Doton, Ala., third class. vIhe action of President Taft and Secretary Dickinson in directing the dismissal of the cadets is accepted by the officers of tho army and the civil officials of that department, as a clear indication of the purpose of the administration to fully support Col onel Scott, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy, in his effort to eradicate the practice of hazing in all its phases from student life at the academy. MAN WHOM SHE ADORED Watson was hurried to the city hos pital, where he was given surgical at- tention, and the unfortunate girl put under arrest. When she A-as arrested she said: "I love the ground Dick Avalks up on, but I will not let him marry an other Avoman. I hope I have killed him." She is being held Avithout bail. Young Watson's condition is consid ered very critical by the hospital sur geons. BURNS TO WATER'S EDGE which the steamer was bound when it caught fire. No lives AA-ere lost but Joseph Case rider, the engineer, Avas burned about the face and body and Charles Reich' eberger, of Peoria, suffered a broken arm. The loss is $35,000. Several of, the passengers lost their belong ings. cede him.. When at her back he caught her by the left arm and cut one side of her throat. She turned and looked him in the face and exclaimed: "Lord have mercy!" the only Avords she ever spoke after the attack. Then he finished cutting her throat and cut her in the side as she fell. . While he loved her he had never told her and if she Avas now alive no motie could induce him to harm her. His only fear is of being lynched. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP 1 Nearly 33,000,000 Church Member in the V. S. 61.6 Per Cent. Pro testant. Washington, ; Special. That the church members in the United' States numbered nearly thirty-three millions in 1906; that there were a billion and a quatrer dollars im-ested in church edifices; that every day eight neAv churches sent their spires skyward; that males formed considerably less than half the total church member ship; that a larger percentage of Catholic males than Protestant males Avere members; that in 16 States the majority of the total church mem bership Avere Roman Catholic; but that of the grand total of churcli members reported for the United States 61. 6 per cent AATere Protes tants and 36.7 per cent Roman Cath olics; these are the salient and con spicuous facts appearing in the proof sheets of a United States Census Bureau bulletin, prepared by Chief Statistician William C. Hunt of the division of population, of the United States Census Bureau. The bulletin will be issued this month. It is iii the nature of an ab stract of the comprehensive report, now in press, giving the results of the fifth census of religious bodies in the united States. It is stated that United States Cen sus statistics of church membership by sex were collected for the first time in 1906. Of the total number of members reported by the various re ligious bodies and classified by sex, 43.1 per cent Avere males and 56.9 per cent females. Among the Pro testants the difference was greater, only 39.3 per cent being males. In the Roman Catholic churches there were relatively mere males, the num ber forming 49.3 per cent of the total membership. Of the total estimated population of continental United States in 1906, the church members formed 39.1 per cent as against 32.7 per cent for 1890, amounting to 6.4 per cent more in 1906 than in 1890. Of this 6.4 per cent increase, the Roman Catholic church is credited Avith 4.4 per cent, and the Protestants with 1.8 per cent, the remainder being divided among all other denominations. It is stated in the bulletin that the total number of members reported by the various religious bodies for 1906 AA'as 32,936,445, of Avhich number the Protestants Avere credited Avith 20, 287.74, and the Roman Catholic with 12.070,142. Of the Protestant bodies the Hothodist numbreed 5,749,838; the Baptists 5,662,234; the Lutherans 2,112,494; the Presbyterians 1,830, 555; and the Disciples of Christians, 1,142,359. Of the total of 3?Q36.445 church members, 61.6 per cent were Protes tants; 36.7 per cent Roman Catho lic; and 1.7 per cent, members of other religious organizations. The rate of increase shown for the Roman CatKolie Churcli is 93.5 per cent, which is more than twice that for all the Protestant bodies combined. The Hethodists reported 17.5 per cent of all Protestant church members; the Baptists, 17.2 per cent. The total number of local religious organizations in 1906 is giA-en as 212,230, an increase since 1890 of 47,- 079, or 28. per cent. The Protestants are credited with an increase in this particular amounting to 27.8 per cent; the Roman Catholic, 21.9 p?r cent; the Jewish congregations, 231.9 per cent; and the Latter-day Saints, 38.3 per cent. The Hethodists reported the larg est number of local organiaztions, 64,701; the Baptists reported 54,880; the Presbyterians, 15,506; the Luth erans. 12.703; and the Roman Catho lics, 12,482. Oilier interesting features of the bulletin are those showing that the total seating capacity- of churches was 58,536,830, an increase over the 1890 United States Census figures of 34.4 per cent; that the rate of in crease Avas practically the same for both Protestants and Roman Catho lics, and kept pace Avith the increase in population; and that $1,257,575, 867 Avas invested in church edifices in 1906. The total amo-jit of debt Avas $108,050,946, of 8.6 yer cent of the total value; of this total the Pro testant bodies OAvned $53,301,254 and the Roman Catholics, $49,488,055. In 16 States a majority of the church members were Roman Catholic; in 29 States. Pi.y.estant ; and in 1, L'tah, Latter-ouy Saints. 'Five Killed and Twelve Injured by Explosion at Gasworks. Geneva, SAvitzerland, By Cable Fi-e persons were killed and 12 dan gerously injured by an explosion at the city gasworks Holiday The ex plosion occurred in the purifying chamber, between the two principal gasometres. A large number of doc tors answered the call to attend the wounded. Avho, later, Avere 'conveyed to the city "hospital in ambulances. Thousands of spectators Avero at tracted by the explosion and it Avaa reported that manv persons had been killed. (Mill Mi Interesting Items From Everywhere. AS THEY ARE ENACTED DAILY . Condensed and Crisply Stated in a Way that Does Not Tax the Busy Reader to Keep Informed. The X-ray as a cure for some cases of leprosy has been demonstrated by the American health authorities in the Philippines, according to Dr. Vic tor G. Heizer, chief quarantine officer in the islands. He says the X-ray is suitable only for specialy selected cases, and is valuable only in the early stages. Sam Ray and Clarence HcCants were killed, and Jeff HcCants was seriously injured in f.n electric storm that passed over parts of Georgia and Tennessee Monday. Four others were less seriously injured. Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh is working on a scheme to re form the world's money. The Cunard Line steamer Lucania was almost burned to the hull by, a fire that broke out Saturday night. She was submerged at Liverpool Sun day night. Surgeon-General Wyman has a staff of doctors investigating pella gra, the Italian disease, which causes insanity, and Avhich has recently been found in America. The medical board of Virginia on Monday created 118 new doctors within the State. A thousand deA'ices have been sub mitted in the mail-tying-machine eon test of the Fnstoffice Department. Commissioner of Corporations Smith has considerable evidence tend ing to prove the existence of a vast water-power conmbine. Goav Haskel of Oklahoma, is hoav prosecuting the United States mar shal and the grand jury who present ed him on the charge of land frauds. Paul C. Collins who Avas shot at j Black Mountin a Aveek ago, . arrived at Hillshoro, N. C, Honday after noon. He AA-alked unassisted from the train to his carriage. Eight' bids came from the Fore RiATer Shipbuilding Company, all un der class 2, and ranging from $5, 747,000 to $5,097,000. The highest price paid for cotton in Montgomery in . So years was reached Wednesday when the first new bale of the season from this county was sold at auction for 30 cents a pound.' On the Island of Crete, the situa tion is still complicated. The Greek flag which was shot down by the marines has been hoisted again by the citizens in the presence of a poAverless military force. What the doctors at Beh'ue, New York, say is a remarkable anmea or loss of memory developed Thursday Avhen a sturdy middle-aged man Avell dressed and to all appearance sane, applied for admission. Questioned by the admitting physician, he could not remember his name, his residence or Avhether he AAas married or single. He had a hazy recollection of being in a saloon early in the day and tak ing a drink. Dr. Charles A. Bakes is President Taft's physicial advisor and athletic trainer. He says in a wrestle the President is very hard to throw and that in the gloves he is decidedly a hard knocker. No surplus fat about his 304 to 306 pounds avoirdupois. Eight box cars left the track near Inman, S. C, Tuesday night without doing any damage save delaying the trains to and from Asheville from four to six hours. The Alabama Senate finally passed all the provisions of the prohibition bill except forbidding the sale of newspapers containing a liquor ad. American bankers are to get one- fourth of the Honkow-Sze Chuen railroad loan. Pinning his last hope on his belief that he would regain his eyesight if he bathed in the sea on the feast day of the Blessed Virgin, Peter Kelly, Brooklyn, found that it failed him, and, concluding that he would never be able to see again, committed sui cide early Tuesday by inhaling illumi" nating gas. . The 'National Red Cross Society hope to sell 50.000,000 stamps next Christmas to aid tuberculosis fights. Reports from all tho fruitgroAving sections of West Virginia indicate a bumper crop of apples and peaches. Acapulco, Hcxico, has been again shaken by earthquake and additional damage has been done. A neAv and vcrv formidable mos quito has appeared in the coast coun- ties 01 lexas. lliey come in swarms and drive farmers from their fields and horses and cattle take to the wa ter and clip their heads under to wash away the pests and get relief. Many are dying of hunger rather than come out and fight for sustenance. ORTH STATE Items of State Interest Gathered from Here ai Told Briefly Negro Firemen at Newbern. Newbern. Special. Colored fire men from twenty-six cities of the State met in their tAA-entieth annual convention of the North Carolina State Volunteer Fire Association in the court house in this city. In Avel coming them in behalf of the city, M. H. Allen paid a high tribute to this organization for its record. When he said ' ' The bravest firemen that I have eA-er knoAA-n Avas a colored man; Avhen he dies the good citizens of Kinston Avill erect a monument in honor of him." In responding to the address F. F. Chambers, A'ice president, said: "We deeply appreciate Avhat the good white people of this State are doing for our uplift. This organization is not for fishes and loaves, but it is our highest aim in life to rescue the perishing, save property and deport ourselves like men." In the after noon and evening sessions much busi ness was dispatched. By unanimous A'ote the association meets next year at Winston-Salem. With 25 companies in line, consist ing of nearly 500 men attired in nob by and varied uniforms, beautifully decorated floats, colored girls singing national anthems, reels, hook and lad ders of various companies, Wednes day's parade was spectacular. The firement Avere lustily cheered by thou sands of citizens. In the hook and ladder race the team from Rocky Mount Avon first prize in its run of 31 seconds against 34 seconds made by the Concord team. In the grab hook and ladder race the team from Con cord made the run in 33 seconds against 35 4-5 seconds made by Rocky Mount. In an exhibition race NeAv bern's hose and wagon team made the run in 33 2-5 seconds. In the grab reel race Thursday the team from Fayetteville Avon first prize. In the reel race Favetteville landed wst prize. The Wilson team won the foot race. The white citizens of Newbern donated hundreds of dollars for the entertainment of the visiting firemen All Dogs to Be Kept Up. Greensboro, Special. Chief of Po lice Neely Wednesday receiA'ed a no tice from the State Chemist 'that the examination of the head of the dog sent there Tuesday revealed an un questionable and virulent case of rabies. Upon receipt of this informa tion a. special session of the Board of Aldermen was called .and an ordin ance was adopted requiring all dogs to be kept muzzled and confined for thirty days, with death as the penalty for all dogs found at large and un muzzled within the city limits during' this period. The chief of police was also authorized to issue notice to all whose dogs are knoAvn to have been bitten by the rabid dog to at once kill the same, this being a provision of a State laAv. The dog had a wide range before being kill&d, and is said to have bitten at least fifty more dogs. Several" of those bitten were very valuable and much beloved bird dogs belonging to prominent sports men t. Gets Five Years. Charlotte, Special. A sentence of five years in the penitentiary was im posed on C. L. Medlin, charged with horse theft, Wednesday. The horse belonging to F. H. Hinson of Clear Creek toAvnship. Mr. L. L. Smith had swapped for the horse after it was stolen, giving Medlin $38 extra. Tnis amount was found on the man when he AA'as arrested and the court made an order instructing the chief of po lice to turn the money OA-er to Mr. Smith, who, of course, gave up the horse. This was the second sentence of the sort for horse thievery this week. Hamlet Man Shoots Brother, Mistak ing Him For a Burglar. Hamlet, Special Chub Henderson, of this place, was shot and seriously injured by his brother, John, here Monday night. Chub had been out rather late and it seems that John AA'as not looking for him to come in at the time and mistook him for a burglar. The bullet entered his thiglv inflicting a very painful Avound. Court House Site Chosen. Gastonia, Special. The board late Tuesday afternoon purchased for $10,000 the lot on South street, own ed by Mrs. E. C. Wilson. It has a frontage of 133 feet and is 250 feet deep. The jail will be built on this lot also, in the rear of the court house. There AA'as quite a diversity of opinion as to the best place to lo cate the buildings. Ganstonia --will, before long, have, septic tank at the outlet of its sewerage mains on vthe toAvn's farm some distance south of town. NEWS for Busy Rea.der Sheriff Watson Addl, tion of Hlici Fayetteville, Specia; A. Watson, of CumbeTi assisted by Deputy J. captured the twenty-nint) whiskey still taken during I istration. The still was foit branch near Carver's Creek, J from Fayetteville. The out was the twenty-sixth coppery tured by Sheriff Watson, t new and Aery complete. K torn from the brick furnact den in the bushes. No one I near it. Meets Death on Marion, Special. Whk the trestle of the CarolhTv field & Ohio Railroad at N? NK yeaW seven miles from here, Barnes age about 40 struck Monday by a train andL ed injuries from Avhich she r short time afterwards. There negro man and a negro womrf behind her. The man and jumped and neither was serioasl jured. It is said they were not an of the approach of the train unti&. was too late to escape. I Barnnm & Bailey's Circus Will Elnda Portion of Winston's Tax. Winston-Salem, Special. By the simple expedient of securing grounds just outside of the city limits, the Barnum & Biley circus, which is booked here in October, will escape paying the $500 license tax placed on circuses by the Wjnston board of al dermen. MoreoA-er, the show' folks hava chosen an exceptionally good site (the fair grounds) just at tho end of the Liberty car line, where the ball park hoav is. They pay $150 rent for one day. The license tax of $150 for a parade wil be paid. At Greensboro Next Time, Asheville, Special. The ' Launder ers' Association of the Carolinas held an interesting session at the Battery Park Hotel Tuesday, heard the read ing and discussion of three interest ing papers, selected Greensboro as the next place of meeting and voted to extend to the Virginia and West . Virginia Associations and the execu tive committee of the 'Georgia Asso ciation an invitation to meet with them there next February. Tiie con-A-ention finished its business and ad journed the sarne day. - v. " Editor King Again Forced to Take a Rest. I Durham, Special.-. -Editor Joe H. King has gone to his old home in Kinston to rest his eA'es. Mr. King had returned to the tripod, but could not see, for all that, and the best that he could do Avas to puncture life every dav as he sees it through' tl" lorgnette of the smart paragraph. He has been his paper's proofreader, telegraph editor, head-line Avriter partly and general foreman for some time. He is missed from the office since he can do none of these things llOAA'. Dr. Battle Operated on Without Ano-' sthetics. Greensboro, Special. Dr. J. T. J. Battle was operated on for appendi citis last week at St. Leo's Hospital. He was not seriously sick with the disease, in fact Avas not so sick but that he could go out to the hospital driving his automobile. He was not placed under the influence of an anes thetic and although local anesthetics were applied the pain was severe, though he stood it well, preserving his composure throughout. He is get ting along nicely. ' Club Organizer Fined $75. Winston-Salem, Special. H. E. Sameth, organizer of the Colonial So cial and Atheletic Club, which was'' disbanded here a feAv days ago, after and existence of several weeks, Avas on Tuesday fined $75 and costs in tho recorder's court on a charge of sell ing intoxicating liquors, 'judgment being suspended on payment of the costs in another case, and a third be ing continued. v Convicts Wanted For the Statesville Aj?4Line Railroad. - StatesvilJ Special. A large dele gation of t yinnciit citizens of Statesville wSfe in Raleigh Monday to appear before the Council cf Statt and urge that State convicts be fur nished for '.work on the Statesville Air' Line Railroad, provision having been made for the State to furnish convicts when the rad AA'as chartered years ago, It is. the purpose to build the new railroad as far as Boonville, Yadkin count a1.
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