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"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
VOL. XJ.
PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24, i909.
THE PRESIDENT IN CHICAGO
One Round of Enrapturing Scenes He Enters
Heartily Into The Felicities Ail The Day
And Retires Late To His Car.
Chicago, Special. President Taft,
during a stay of twelve eventful
hours in Chicago, plunged with a will
into the long program of entertaining
that awaits him on his long Western
and Southern itinerary. With perfect
weather and crowds that fairly
fought to catch a glimpse of the
Chief Executive, this, the first city
to be visited, set a high mark of en
thusiastic welcome to the President.
From the moment he stepped off
the rear platform of his private car
until he rtired late at night on board
the train which will take him to Mil
waukee in the morning the Presi
dent's journeyings of thirty miles or
more over the city 's streets and park
ways led him through lanes of massed
humanity that wore kept open with
the greatest difficulty.
Beginning with an automobile trip
in review of 150,000 school children,
four deep on either side of the park
boulevards, the President's day was
replete with incident. He attended
and spoke briefly at a. luncheon of
the Commercial Club, viewed an ex
hibit of ambitious plans for the im
provement and bcautifieation of
Chicago, attended the regular Nat
ional League 'baseball game between
the Chicago champion "Cubs" and
the famous New York "Giants;"
dined quietly with the Hamilton Club
at the Congress hotel; made a notable
address to a mass meeting in Orches
tra hall in the evening, and as a finale
attended for, a few minutes the ball
of the American Bankers' Associa
tion. Mr. Taft was deeply impressed by
the greeting of the school children,
each one of whom waved an Ameri
can flag and sang and cheered as he
passed.
At the National League grounds
the President saw his biggest base
ball crowd. More than 30,000 people
were present. The President sat in
one of the open sections of the double
decked stand and thoroughly enjoyed
a brilliant game in which the two
greatest pitchers of the learue, Math
ewson, of New York, and Brown of
Chicago, faced each other. New
York won, but ; the crowd had some
compensation in cheering the Presi
dent, who remained to the end and
waved a farewell to the throngs..
Taft Denounces the Law's Delay.
Chicago, Special. Speaking with
great earnestness to a mass meeting
in Orchestra ball Thursday night,
President Taft declared that no ques
tion before the American people to
day is more important than the im
provement of the administration of
justice, and announced his intention
of recommending to congress the ap
pointment of a commission to take
up the question of the law's delay
in the federal courts. The president
said he hoped that the report of this
commission,' when rendered, would
serve also as a guide to the States
of the Union in effecting remedial
legislation.
Recalling that is was in this same
hall during the campaign of a year
ago that he faced an audience of more
THE SECOND STRIKE ENDED
Pittsburg, Special. The second f
strike of workmen employed at the j
plant of the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany, which was declared Monda.v,
was brought to an abrupt end Friday.
The climax was remarkable in the
history of industrial disputes. Hav
ing notified the foreigners that they
intended to march into the mill carry
ing the Stars and Stripes, 2,000 Am
erican workmen who were not favor
PLOT TO KILL SAN SALVADOR'S PRESIDENT DETECTED
Mexico City, Special. Charged
with being implicated in a plot to
'kill President Figueroa, of the repub
lic of Salvador, Gen. Jose Dolores
Preza and Gen. Da mas Copinel are
behind prison bars in the capital of
that republic, according to letters re
ceived here Friday. The writer stat
ed that on the Gth of last month a
big religious and civic fete was held
WESTERN UNION STOCK BOUGHT BY RIVAL COMPANY
Boston, Special. It became known
Thursday that the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company has
acquired nearly $10,000,000 worth of
New York Telephone company stock,
owned by the Western Union Tele
praph company. Papers covering the
purchase were signed Wednesday.
The New York Telephone company
is the largest and in some respects
the most important of the subsi
diaries of the American Bell Tele
phone company. Of its $50,000,000
stock, C4 per cent., or $32,000,000 is
than 1,8C0 workingmen and made one
of the crucial addresses of his candL
dacy, the presideut assured his hear
ers that ho had not forgotten his cam
paign promises and the platform
declarations of his party.
Mr. Taft devoted the entire firsl
part of Lis speech to the subject oi
labor.
The President on the Tariff Bill.
At Winona, Minnesota, Friday the
President in a speech made the most
important utterance he has made
since his occupancy of the White
House. He was in the hotbed of the
"insurgent" movement within t he
Republican party, but defended the
Payne tariff bill as the best
measure ever passed by a Republican
Congress and hence the best tariff
bill the people hare even known.
The President boldly asserted that
the insurgents, who voted against
the bill, had abandoned the Republi
can party.
"Was it the duty of the member of
Congress who believed that the bill
did not accomplish everything that it
ought to accomplish, to vote against
it? " asked the President.
"I am here to justify those who an
swer this question in the negative. I
am not hereto defend those who
voted for the Payne bill, but to sup
port them." '
"Ther3 is nothing quite so diffi
cult," said the President, "as the dis
cussion of a tariff bill for the reason
that it covers so many different items.
The meaning of the terms and the
percentage are most difficult to un
derstand. The passage of a new bill,
especially where a change in the
method of assessing the duties has
been followed, presents an oppor
tunity for various modes and calcu
lations of the percentages of increas
es and decreases that is really most
misleading, or really throws no light
at all upon the changes made.
"One way of stating what was
done is to say what the facts show
that under the Dingley law there
were 2,024 items. This included duti
able items only. The. Payne law leaves
1,150 of these items unchanged. There
are decreases in 654 of the items and
increases in 220 of the items. Now,
of course, that does not give a full
picture, but it does show the propor
tion of decreases to have been three
times those of the increases.
Taft Favors Postal Banks.
President Taft devoted his princi
pal address in Milwaukee at the State
fair Friday to the subject of postal
savings banks, which he strongly en
dorsed before a large and enthusias
tic gathering that overflowed the
grand-stand. The President said
that the postal savings bank plank
in the Republican platform bound
everybody who calls himself a Repub
lican. "The great usefulness of the
postal savings bank is the great en
couragement to thrift on the part of
those who ,are just wavering in the
balance whether they shall save the
money or use it, because they do not
know where they can put it safely."
SINGULAR TURN TAKEN
able to the strike, assembled early at
the McKees Rocks end of the O 'Don
ovan bridge and cheering enthusias
tically started toward tke big plant.
When the foreigners saw the great
body of men determined to return to
work these, too, fell into line and en
tered the plant. Anticipated disor
der failed to" materialize and the
strike was over. It is believed now
that the trouble has been settled.
in the capital. It was planned by a
number of men, it is said, that the
President should die on that day.
While the fiestas were in progress
government detectives arrested and
imprisoned a number, among them
General Preza, who was commander-in-chief
of the Salvadorean and Hon
dinrean forces when they fought
Nicaragua in the war of 1S97.
owned by the American Telephone
company.
Contrary to the general impression,
the transaction just concluded does
not involve any settlement of the
long pending suit between the Ameri
can Telephone and Western Union,
judgment in which was recently re
turned in favor of the Western Union
for approximately $5,000,000.
Practically speaking, therefore, it
will be fully two and one-half years
before the American Telephone com
pany enters into actual possession of
the entire $10,000,000 of New York
Telephone stock.
WASHINGTON NOTES
With a .22-caliber bullet imbedded
in the center of his brain, fired there
with suicidal intent more than two
weeks ago, Frank Blaine left the
Casualty Hospital in this city Wed
nesday, discharged as cured. He said
he suffered no discomfort other than
pains in the head and neck, and he
talked rationally at all times. The
surgeons at the hospital who watched
him closely said they detected no ill
effects from the bullet in his brain,
and it is their belief that he will not
suffer from it in future years. An
X-ray photograph of the young
man's head showed the bullet im
becVled in the center of his brain.
"Free Sunday" for so many years
the hope deferred of "Jack Tar" in
the United States navy is about to be
come a realty. Acting Secretary
Winthrop issued an order having the
object in viey Wednesday. Its pur
pose is to reduce the work aboard
ships on the Sabbath to a minimum
consistent with requirements of the
service, to the end that the day may
be generally observed as a day of
rest.
Conditions at the Western peni
tentiary of Pennsylvania at Alle
gheny have been found so distress
ing and so intolerable as to require
the immediate removal of all federal
prisoners whose transfer is practi
cable and to demand the most se
rious consideration of the proper pub
lic authorities. This is disclosed in
the report of C. II. McGlasson of the
department prisons and prisoners to
the attorney general.
Rear-xdmiral Daniel D. Stuart,
who was promoted through the re
tirement of Rear-Admiral Sperry
September 3, will be transferred to
the retired list September 15. He
is a native of. New York and was
graduated from the United States
Naval Academy in 18G9. lie has
served practically all around the
world. After serving at the New
York Navy Yard he went to Cavite
for duty at the naval station in Jan
nary, 1899. lie went next on duty
at New York and his latest assign
ment was as commandant of the navy
yard at Norfolk.
Considerable damage was caused
by fire about 2 o'clock in the morn
ing at the bakery of Ferdinand Pries
ner in the rear of 47C L street, south
west. The night's baking of several
thosand loaves had been finished and
the employes had gone to bed. The
proprietor was awakened by the
sound of crackling timber and gave
the alarm. The fireman were quick
ly summoned, but the fire burned for
nearly an hour and several thousand
dollars damage was caused, including
the loss of about 3,000 loaves of
bread.
Additional appointments of census
supervisors by President Taft were
announced Wednesday by Census Di
rector E. Dana Durand. Among them
is that of Ernest Madison Du Pre,
a wholesale commission dealer at
Columbia, S. C, to be supervisor of
the seventh South Carolina district.
The appointment, of John J. Stump
as supervisor of the fifth Maryland
district, followed a vigorous fight
against him because he is engaged in
the retail liquor business in Mary
land. He has had. experience, how
ever, which was regarded as entirely
fitting him for the duties of the
place.
The light house tenders Hibiscus and
Oleander will carry President Taft's
party down the Mississippi river next
month. The Hibiscus has been order
ed to accompany the Oleander pro
vided the Mississippi's channel will
accommodate a vessel of her draught.
The Oleander is now at Key West.
Tales of great suffering and the
serious situation in the flooded dis
trict of Mexico, as told in telegrams
received at the state department from
American Consul General Hanna,
brought forth another appeal from
the American National Red Cross so
ciety for funds with which "to sup
ply our unfortunate neighbors of
Mexico with the ncecssities of life."
The great loss of life and destruction
af property is even greater than was
at first supposed and it is predicted
that great physical suffering will pre
vail among the homeless during .the
fall and winter if ample relief is not
afforded.
Formal announcement was made at
the Department of Justice that Act
ing Attorney General Ellis has ad
dressed letters to Governors Hughes,
of New York, and Stuart, of Pennsyl-
vania, calling their attention to toe
results of the investigation of the
Pressed St-eel Car Company strike at
Pittsburg and submitting evidence for
such action as the State authorities
may wish to take.
GULF PORT STORM
Wreck and Ruin in The Wake
of Equinoctial Tempest
WATER HIGHER THAN FOR YEARS
Storm That Has Lashed the Waters
of the Gulf of Mexico Into Fury
Swoops Down Upon Cities and
Towns in Its Northward Path and
the Howling Gale That Accom
panies It Steadily Increases in
Force.
. Memphis, Special. Fragmentary
reports from points in southern
Louisiana and Mississippi evidence
that a severe tropical hurricane was
sweeping along the Mississippi-Louisiana
gulf coast Monday night damag
ing shipping, wrecking the more frail
structures and seriously impeding
railroad traffic. New Orleans, appar
ently the center, was cut off from
communication at 4:30 in the after
uoon. At the office of the Illinois Cen
tral railroad here announcement was
made that Train No. G, of that road,
due to leave New Orleans at 4:30 in
the afternoon had been deloured over
the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
route via Baton Ruge, the tracks of
the Illinois Central route between
New Orleans and Kenner, being under
water and many miles of track are
washed away.
From Biloxi and Scranton, on the
gulf coast of Mississippi, meagre re
ports tell of the damage to shipping
and buildings along the beach and, so
far as could be ascertained late, Mon
day night, there has been one life
lost.
Natchez, Miss., was cut off from
communication by wire. Before com
munication was lost the wind had at
tained a velocity of oO. miles an hour.
The power plant was out of commis
sion, putting the city in darkness. A
number of trees were uprooted and
several buildings unroofed.
In western Louisiana, at Crowley
and Jennings, considerable property
damage has resulted. The greatest
damage is to the rice crop.
Although it had been raining heav
ily at New Orleans through Sunday
night, there were no indications of a
gale, further than might be deducted
from a falling barometer, till about
9:30 o'clock Monday morning, when
the gulf wind, great in its intensity,
swept over the city.
So strong was the force of the wind
that the waters of the Mississippi,
backed up from the gulf a hundred
miles below, rose three feet at New
Orleans levee. The neighboring lakes
were agitatd till they all overflowed,
covering the adjacent lowlands. The
waters from Lake I'orgone were ad
ded to the volume of the flood, but
when the latest dispatches came out
of New Orleans there were outlying
parts of that city covered with water,
while the winds had damaged several
buildings.
The direction of the wind was
northwest and its area was great, for
it reached far up to the northernmost
line of Louisiana, west of the Missis
sippi river. An early blow destroyed
the tracks of the Louisville & Nash
ville road along the coast west of
New Orelans and this latter gust
wiped out the tracks of the Illinois
Central north of the isolated city.
The last train to reach Memphis
from New Orleans was the through
Illinois Central that arrived here at
8:15 Monday night. It had left New
Orleans soon after 9:13 in t he morn
ing. Coming north through Louisiana
and Mississippi the train passed
through continuous rains almost, as
far as Jackson, Miss., but there were
then no reports of unusual winds. The
storm came up soon afterward.
Good Offices of Wireless.
Beaufort, N. C, Special. Wireless
telegraph again played an important
part in relieving distress at sea, for
through this agency prompt assitance
was Monday furnished ic t he Clyde
line steamer, Carib, bound for New
York to Wilmington, N. ('., and
Brunswick, Ga., with passengers and
cargo, which lay at anchor all Sunday
night in a disabled condition off Cape
Hatteras.
Bathe In Acid River.
Pittsburg, Special. Hundreds of
Pittsburg youths and adults are suf
fering from a scourge of boils, the re
sult of swimming in the Monongahcla
river. Acid from the mills have so
contaminated the water that the po
lice have decided' to end the bathing
season. Life Guard James Gallagher
is covered with hug--' boils and is in a
serious condition. Physicians attrib
ute the epidemic, solely to, the acid in
the water. Thousands of dead fish
daily float down the Ohio river. For
eigners at the stiwl car plants pick
these fish from the s-treum and carry
them home for food.
PRESIDENMVESTWARD
At Minneapolis and St. Paul Greet
ings From the Sick Governor.
President Taft arrived at Minnea
polis at 8 a. m. Saturday, and with
the shadow of death hanging over the
Governor of the State, received a cor
dial, but not demonstrative welcome.
The critical illness of Governor John
son, probably the most popular execu
tive Minnesota has ever known, en
tered deeply into the spirit of the day
and dreaded eventualities threatened
for a time during the morning serious
ly to curtail the program of enter
tainment both here and in St. Paul.
President Taft was deeply affected
and said: "I unite with you in a
fervent prayer to God that he may
be spared to you and to the country.
With his ability, his courage, his
great common sense, he cannot be
spared. He is too valuable not alone
to the people of this State, but to the
people of this country, who doubtless
will insist in time that he shall serve
them."
At Fort Snelling, 21 guns were
fired in honor of the President.
An automobile ride over the busi
ness portion of the town was taken.
The party then crossed the river to
St. Paul.'
After a brief speech the President
was driven to the State Capitol where
it had been intended that a public re
ception should be held. This feature
was called off on account of Gover
nor Johnson's illness and the Presi
dent appeared for only a few minutes
on the south balcony to express to the
great 'crowd on the terraced lawn his
gratitude for the cordial greeting.
Gov. Johnson grew very much bet
ter apparently and sent the President
the following telegram:
"Hearty and sincere welcome to
the State of Minnesota. Greatly re
gret my illness prevents my presence
at your reception. .
"JOHN A. JOHNSON.
President Taft replied to Governor
Johnson's telegram, the answer hav
ing been transmitted by telephone.
President Taft's message said:
"My Dear Governor Johnson:
"I am greatly distressed to hear" of
your serious illness. I miss your smil
ing and courteous personal greeting,
which I have had every time I have
come to the State heretofore, and I
thank you from the bottom of my
heart for your message of welcome,
sent when you are on a led of pain.
"I fervently hope and pray that
your wonderful strength and forti
tude will make your recovery speedy.
"My compliments and respects to
Mrs. Johnson, whore visit in Wash
ington I remember with much pleas
ure. WILLIAM H. TAFT."
Later the President met a number
of prominent Japanese and exchanged
compliments.
President Taft leaving the "in
surgent" States of Minnesota and
Iowa behind him, crossed the Mis
souri river Monday and stopped in
Omaha for the afternoon and even
ing on his way to the Pacific coast.
He found at Omaha a street car
strike. To avoid possibility of trouble
Mayor James C. Dahlman ordered'
that no attempts be made to run
cars during the President's stay. The
strike did not prevent the gathering
of a great crowd in the downtown
districts and there were times when
the President's automobile had diffi
culty in making its way through the
cheering throng.
He was taken on an hour's ride
over the city especially to the schools
where he was greeted by the thou
sands of children.
At Des Moines he made an open
air address, touching chiefly the sub
ject of trusts.
He declared that he knew of no
way in which a distinction could be
made between "good" and "bad"
trusts for he regarded all combina
tions to suppress competition and to
maintain a monopoly to be in the
same category.
He forecasted some legislation for
Congress that he would recommend in
his message. He said: "When I
look forward to the next session and
realize how much there is to be con
sidered I tremble lest the session will
not be long enough and that it will
not be possible to do all that has
been promised."
Regarding the anti-trust law, he
said : .
"I am strongly inclined to the view
that the way to make the anti-trust
law more effective is to narrow its
scope somewhat, so that it shall not
include in its inhibition and de
nunciation as a crime anything but a
conspiracy or combination or contract
entered into with aetral intent to
monopolize or suppress competition in
interstate trade."
lie reviewed a parade of the thou
sands of troops, afterwards made a
speech. A great military carnival
marked by extensive manoeuvres and
b-aloon and ceroplane flights, was
commenced and will continue through
the week.
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Items of State Interest Gal
J and Told la Brief. X
Lover's Cruel Treatment.
Rockingham, Special. J. M. JSor
ton, a young white man who gave
Lumberton as his home prior to his
coming here a few months ago, is
badly wanted by the local authorities.
Norton came here some time ago and
got work at the Hannah Pickett cot-'
ton mills. A few weeks later he wrote
to his sweetheart, Maggie Godwin, of
Benson, to join him here, promising
her to marry her immediately upon
her arrival. By some pretext he de
layed the matter and finally utterly
refused to fulfill his promise. " He be
frequently beat her. Finally she could
stand the treatment no longer and she
sought the protection of the law.
Norton skipped and has not been ap
prehended. To Build Interurban Line.
Salisbury, Special. Leslie M.
Shaw, former secretary of the treas
ury and Patrick Hirsch, a financier '
of New York, were here Friday eon
suiting with local business men in re
gard to building an interurban trolley
line in Piedmont'North Carolina. It
is said that the proposed line will
connect the cities of Greensboro,
Winston-Salem, High Point, Salis
bury, Concord, Charlotte and a num-
I ber of smaller towns and will handle
both passengers and freight. A fran
chise has already been secured for
the line through the counties of Ror
ah and Cabarrus. -
Killed by Runaway Horse.
Selma, Special. Mr. Burt Lowrey
met a horrible death Tuesday morn
ing about one mile from j3elma on.
the Smithfield road. " While driving
across the .railroad his
frightened at an approacl
unable to" control the lmr$e,Varrghtlr
from his buggy, "and went " to ' the
horse's head. . The horse became. un
manageable, .jumped oyer Miv,Low
rey, his hind feet striking him ihta -breast
causing instant death: ; .
Killed at Cotton Gin;?-; "
Charlotte, Special. Herman ''Deat
ty, 12 years old, while pla jing, tod
near a shaft at E. R. Spurrier's cot-'
ton gin Wednesday, was caught-ancj,
wound around the shaft. One- aria
was torn off, his side was severely
bruised. He lingered five hours in
agony till relieved by death. -
Greensboro Woman Dies of Pellagra.
Greensboro, Special. Mrs. J. R.
Richardson, of this city, died last
week of pellagra. Mrs. Richardson
had been sick with the disease for a
long time. She was 35 years old.
There have been four cases of pelia
gra reported here and this is the sec
ond death. The other two cases &ra
chronic and do not show much
change.
Big Illicit Still Destroyed in 'Mont
gomery County. ' "
Troy Special. Sheriff McKenzic
captured a blockade still last week in
Rocky Springs township of 125-gaI-Ion
capacity and poured out 900 gal
lons of beer and a quanity of whis
key. Sheriff MeKenzie has captured
several recently, but this is th
largest ever seen in this section. ,
Serious Affray at Wilson.
Wilson, Special. Wednesday
morning on Goldsboro street a cut
ting affray took place that may end
with a fatality. Burt Moore, a j-oung
man who works on the Williams farm
after an exchange of words with
Berkley Webb and others, seriously
cut Webb in the throat and made hi$
escape while Webb is at the Wilsoa
sanitarium in a critical condition.
Fifty Bushels of Peanuts
to tb.9
Acre.
Lexington, Special. Mr. Sid Wea
ver, a farmer living near Lexington,
makes a specialty of peanuts. Last
.
year he raised 110 bushtls on two and
one-half acres and tilis year will
gather 150 bushels frotljiee acres.
He displayed excellent specimens of
his crop on the streets here last week.
Injured by Blast.
Concord, Special. Owing to a pre
mature blast, Mr. John Shoe, who
was digging a well near Brown's
Mill, was badly injured Tuesday. Mr.
Shoe was in the well and had pre
pared the fuse. He threw down a
hammer which struck a flint rock,
sending forth a spark which ignited
the powder, the explosion following.
He was severely injured and it is
thought that his eves wefe put out.
i
Mr. Shoe is about 50 vears old and
has a wife and family.
horse became'