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' ...... ,. ... ' . .. ' '-J V 0 C Year, In Advanc. i FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. XX. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1909. V ' W. MM President Taft Delivers Speech Before , League Would System. Corpus Christi, Texas, Special. Announcing himself as an enthusias tic advocate of deep waterways, when such projects can be shown to be prac ticable and necessary, and declaring that' the piecemeal "procession by jerks" policy'of Congress in the past with reference to such improvements should be replaced with a definite general plan for opening up great avenues of commerce, President Taft aroused the delegates to the conven tion of the Interstate Waterways League, in session here, to an enthu siastic demonstration of approval. , Continuing, the President said that in addition to extending commerce, deep inland watrways would serve as the best means , of controlling rail road rates. In the meantime, how ever, lie urged the amendment to the interstate commerce laws to make their provisions more effective. Mr. Taft added, however, that he did not favor radical legislation; that his purpose merely was to keep railroad c.'apanies within the bounds of laAv and down to reasonable rates. He said the railroads should be encour aged. In this connection he took occasion to refer to the fact that in some lo calities there is a disposition to do injustice to the railroads and to drive the corporations to a system of econ omy, which prevents the development NATIONAL CONVENTION TOR Columbia, S. C.v Special. The v.in vestigation into pellagra is exciting very widespread attention throughout the United States. The increasing volume of correspondence beihgre ceived by Dr. J. W. Bobcock, super intendent of the State Hospital for Insane, and by J)r. C. Fred Williams,, tsecretary of the Slate board of health under whose auspices will he held in Columbia the first week in November a national pellagra convention, indi cates that even a greater number of distinguished physicians' will be pres ent at the meeting than had been ex pected a week ago. Some idea of how the disease is ..spreading in Western States may be rgained by the statement made in a let ter from Dr. Geo. A. Zeller, superin tendent of the Peoria State hospital, that there are in that hospital abthe THE NATIONAL CONVENTION Houston, Tex.,. Special. With the .selection of Little Rock, Ark., as the convention city in 1910 and the elec tion of the general officers for the vear, the sixteenth annual convention of the United Daughters of the Con federacy adjourned sine die Friday night, closing the sessions in Houston an hour before midnight. The fol lowing general officers were elected: President general, Mrs. Virginia Mc Sherry, of West Virginia; first vie? president general, Mrs. L. C. Hall of Arkansas; second vice president gen eral, Mrs. M. E. Bi-yan, of Texas; third, vice president general, Mrs. Thomas T. Stevens of Georgia; re cording secretary general, Mrs. A. L. Dowdcll of Alabama; corresponding secretary general, Miss C. Hildress of Louisiana; treasurer general, Mrs. C. BARBAROUS MOORS KILL Meiilla, By Cable. Prisoners cap tured by General Marina's forces re ported that the Moors are killing their own wounded to prevent the falling into the hands of the Span iards. The losses to the armv of tribes men have already passed the 4,000 mark in killed alone, but in spite of' the constant repulses the Moors firm- 1y maintain their stronghold in the) out of their misery. INTERSTATE INLAND WATERWAYS LEAGUE MEETS Cot-pus' Cbristi, Tex., Special. "With delegates from all over the South, where the question of inland waterways is paramount, the Inter state Inland Waterways League con vened' in national convention in Cor pus Christi Thursday. The sessions were opened by C. S. Holland of Victoria, Tex., president who delivered his annual address, He announced that since the last meeting of the league, a survey of the entire proposed inland water ways from the mouth of the Missis sippi to Brownsville. Text, had been) Have Definite of the country through which they pass. The President said it was often the case that the citizens of a county would go to any extent to get a rail road to come into the county but once there, not a friend of the railroad could anywhere be found, except per haps the local counsel. The remark called out hearty laughter. The President turned serious again, however, and urged a "square deal" for the railroads, that they might not be deprived of reasonable profits through popular prejudice. The President declared" , that the halting sporadic spstem of river and harbor improvements in the past was not due to the army engineers, but was the work of the committees in Congress, who had responded to clamor from home and to party con siderations. The time has come, he declared, for a change in this system. A nine-foot intercostal canal was one of the projects to which the Presi dent referred as part of a definite sys tem of waterways improvement. In opening his address the Presi dent made an immediate hit with his audience by asking that three tiers of seats immediately in front of him bo vacated by the early comers to make way for a hundred of more veterans of the Confederate and Union armies who had been assigned to a1 more re mote section of the enclosure. The day was exceedingly warm. The President came over from his broth er's ranch at Gregory on the revenue cutter Windoni. THE STUDY Of PELLAGRA present time 200 recognized cases of pellagra. Tbs is ten times the num ber of cases that were there at thi time that Dr. Lavinder was called there to make investigation. A letter from Dr. John S. Turner, late superintendent of the North Tex as Hospital for Insane, says that he has observed and treated niore than a dozen cases of the disease in Texas since August 13, 1907, at which tim the 'first case appeared in that State. He says, further, that the disease was at fhst diagnosed as trophic paralysis. Following that he saw cases right along and that it is n6 unusual thing now to run upon a case in Texas. Dr. Zeller of the Peoria State hos pital will be in attendance at the na tional , conference here in November, and will present a paper on "Pella gra, Its Recognition in Iillionis and the Means Taken to Control It." - OE THE U. D. C. CLOSES B. Tate of Virginia ; registrar general. Mrs. James B. Gantt of Missouri ; his torian gneral, Mrs. J. Endoois Rob inson of Virginia; custodian of cross of honor, Mrs. L. II. Raines of Geor gia; custodian of flag, Mrs. F. A. Walk of Virginia; honorary presi dents, Mrs. J. W. Tench of Florida, and Mrs. N. B. Randolph of Virginia. The Shiloh Monument Association committee's report was read by Mrs. White of Tennessee, which showed that over $20,000 had been donate last year. The report by the treasurer of tha fund was read by Mrs. Roy McKin ney of Kentucky and showed a bal ance of $5,420.20 for the erection of the monument. On motion on the floor of the convention, $1,000 was appropriated from the general treas ury to the Shiloh fund. THEIR OWN WOUNDED MEN hills about Melilla. Their ranks have been depleted as much in sorties as in pitched' Mttles and the slaughter of their wounded is believed to have added materially to the death list caused by the Spaniards. After an attack the retreating na tives scurry back to JLhe hills, but the rear guard "never" fails to f ullfill its duty of putting the fallen tribesmen ordered and that an appropriation had been made for the work on the Louisiana coast. State Senator John G. Willasy was elected chairman of the convention and State Senator T. J. Labbe of Louisiana waj made permanent sec retary. The fea.. le of the day was the ad "dress by Cvngressman George F. Burgess, a member of the rivers and harbors committee, who said that the project of securing an inland water way was favorably regarded by the committee. SERIOUS INN1CARAUGA Revolutionists Win Over the National Troops a Decisive Victory. Bluefields, Nicarauga, (By wireless telegraph via Colon) The tug Blanca which has arrived here from Grey town, brings news of the first impor tant battel of the revolution. General Chamorro 's, forces fought an engage ment on Friday with 1,000 of Presi dent Zelay's troops at a point below Boca San Carlos, on the San Juan river. The revolutionists won a de cisive victory, one hundred of the government troops being killed and three hundred wounded. General Chamorro 's losses were slight. The insurgents captured two Krupp siege guns and four hundred rifles. This defeat for President Zelaya will doubtless have a determined ef fect upon recruiting for the govern ment service at Managua and is like ly also to bring allilional reinforce ments to the standards of he insur gents. General Chamorro. is now ad vancing slowly. The steamer Yulu, belonging to the Emery Company, also has reached here with the details of the capture by the revolutionists of Cape Gracias-a-Dois. The port ..was easily taken, "Rot more than five or six men being killed and a small number wounded. This gives the revolutionists control of the entire Atlantic coast. Bank Officials Arrested. Nashville, Tenn., Special. Moreau P. Estes, vice president of the City Savings bank, which failed to open its doors Saturday morning, was ar rested Saturday afternoon. The ar rest was made on a warrant charging that Estes had accepted a deposit af ter he knew the bank was insolvent. W. T. Ottley of Burksville, Ky., is prosecutor. He sets forth in his affi davit that on September 11 he depos ited $1,380 in the City Savings bank, charging that at that time Estes knew the bank was insolvent 'and that in acepting the deposit he violated a sec tion of the Tennessee law making such action a felony.. Estes was arraigned before a mag istrate who held him to the grand jury in $5,000 bond, which was promptly furnished. Col. James Fannin Dead. Savannah, Ga., Special Col. James H. Fannin, who was a close friend of Capt. Henry Wirz at his trial, died suddenly of heart failure on a street car here Saturday morning. Colonel Fannin commanded the first regiment, Georgia reserves, C. S. A., during the civil war. Colonel Fannin in 18C3 was com mandant of the post at Andersonville. Ga., and while holding that command saved Father Whclan of Macon from death in the stockade and received the thanks of the Pope through Bish op Verot for his timely aid to a Cath olic priest. He fought in the battle of West Point, Ga., was taken prisoner and ordered put in irons but escaped through the intervention of General LaGrange of the Union army. Kills Himself After Shooting Wife. Washington, Special. Enraged be cause his chorus girl wife preferred a life on the stage to his companionship William H. Short of New York City shot and perhaps fatally wounded her in the west portico ot the union sta tion here Sunday and then sent a bul let crashing through his temple. He died an hour later at Casualty hos pital. The tragedy followed a series of nuarrels between the couple. Mrs. Short had just alighted from a cab. which was also occupied by her hus band and Miss Caldwell, a girl friend, and was hurrying to catch a train to Pittsburg, when Short, without warn ing, whipped a revolved from his pocket and fired three bullets into his wife's back. Justice Peckham Dead. Albany, N. Y., Special. Fufus W. Peckham, associate justice of th-J United States Supreme Court, died at 8:15 'o'clock Sunday night at Cool more,, his summer home at Altamont. Albany county. Death was due to a complication of diseases, heart troub le, Bright 's disease and hardening of the arteries contributing. Will Prosecute Standard Oil Co. Columbia, S. C, Special Attor ney General Lyon is gathering affida vits in support of the prosecution he will bring against the Standard Oil Company in behalf of the Peopled Oil Company of North Augusta, which has branch businesses in Co lumbia, Charleston, Greenville, Spar tanburg, Anderson, Denmark and Edgefield, in South Carolina and At lanta in Georgia, under the statute forbidding discrimination by charg ing different prices in different com munities for the same commodity. MR. TAFT RESUMES TOUR Speaks With Difficulty at,. Dallas, Texas, and Talks to Children at - Terrell Sunday. Dallas, Texas, Special. President Taft arrived here at 5:30 o'clock Sat urday afternoon after a. fast run by special train from Houston, where he spent three hours in the morning. He was taken immediately to the State fair grounds, where he made an open air speech to a throng which filled the big race track grandstand and spread far but in every direction. Mr. Taft was so hoarse that he ceuld be heard only a short distance, despite heroic efforts on his part. He spoke aain briefly Saturday night at a banquet tendered him at the Oriental hotel, and retired on his train pre paratory to leaving early Sunday morning for St. Louis. The President's voice began to grow husky after his speech at Cor pus Christi Friday and broke down almost completely during his address at Houston Saturday morning when he tried to make himself heard to a crowd which filled four intersecting streets for two blocks in each direc tion. On account of hoarseness the Pres ident did not attempt to make a long speech, either at the fair grounds or the banquet and confined himself m each instance to an expression of his appreciation of the warmth of his welcome in Texas. He completed, on arriving here, his eighth day in the State. "I was asked," said the President at the fair grounds, "if I had any doubt by this time about Texas be ing a part of the Union. I replied that the only doubt I had was wheth er the Union was not a part of Texas." At Terrell, Tex., Sunday morning the President spoke to a throng of eager-faced little Sunday school chil dren and delivered a near approach to his usual Sunday sermon. "I think il must-have been a month ago when I was passing through Chicago that I received a telegram Asking me to stop at Terrell," he said. "I con tinued to receive telegrams from that time until I reached the Pacific coast. I replied that I was going to stop at Terrell if it cost a leg. I am very glad to see the children here this Sun day morning. I am glad to see them with their flags. "You know what the flags are, my children?" "Yes, sir," replied a score of voices. "The flag of the United States." "Do you know the flag of Texas?" asked the President. "What is it?" "The Lone Star." "Are you loyal to both flags?" "Yes, sir." "I bet you are. Now," my children, do vou voit know who I am?" "Ye sir." "Who am If" "President Taft." " I rather think that you believe the President has more power than he really has. "He is a sort of figurehead for the nation for four years," continued the President seriously. "He is a kind of man that they blame everything for, if it goes wrong and if it goes right he does not get any credit for it. But, my children, if you permit me to call. you such, al though some of you are far beyond the time when you perhaps ought to have that name, that flag represents the sovereignty of your country, and the reason why you are here this morning to see me is because for four years I am the Chief Executive officer of the United States and as such for that time represent the sovereignty of the nation, and am entitled, as long as I conduct myself properly, to your respect as the head gf the nation. In four years I will step down and out, and I won't be entitled to your respect any more than any other citi zen." The President left St. Louis at 5 o'clock Monday sailing down the Mis sissippi river in beautiful naval pro cession. He will make a number of stops reaching New Orleans Satur day. The flotilla and its roster follows: Steamer Oleander, carrying the President and his personal party. Steamer Erastus Wells, carrying Frank H. Hitchcock, Postmaster Gen eral; Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and Mayor F. II. Kreisman, of St. Louis, Secretary J. M. Dickson joined the party at Memphis, Steamer Mississippi, car rying the members of the Mississippi River Commission and United States army and State engineers. Steamer St. Paul, carrying Governors of States, newspaper men and special guests of the association. Steanier Lily, carrying foreign diplomats. Steamer Qiviney, carrying Speaker Joseph Cannon, John Barrett, direc tor international bureau of American republics, and members of Congress. Steamer SaltiHo, carrying officials of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Water way Association. Steamer Alton, carrying members of the St. Louia Business Men's League. Steamer Cape Girardeau, carrying Missouri, East St. Louis, Belleville and Alton deep waterway delegations and ladies. Steamer G. W. Hill, carrying mem bers of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association and the Chicago Deep Waterway Convention. Steamer Grey Eagle, carrying Kansas City deep waterway delegation. Other steam ers in the flotilla joining it at var ious points are : Steamer Iillinois, property of the State of Illinois, and carrying State officials. Steamer Grand, carrying Little Rock deep waterway delegates. Steamer Rap ids, carrying Little Rock and Arkan sas delegates. Steamer Florence II, carrying editorial staff Chicago Trib une. Steamer Belle or Mustogee carrying Muskogee Commercial Club and Oklahoma delegates. Steamer A. M. Scott, carrying West Virginia delegates. Steamer Sarah E. Den- born, carrying Louisiana deep water way 'delegates. Georgia Officers Fight Deadly Duel. Louisville, Ga., Special. Sheriff J. J. Smith, lies dangerously wounded as the result of a pistol- duel on the street late last Saturday night with City Marshal J. II. Flint. It is stated the sheriff and L. M. Flint, a brother of the marshal, were engaged in a Controversy when the latter took a hand. The sheriff is said to have opened fire upon the Flint brothers. The marshal returned the fire, one shot tearing through the sheriff's right thigh, and then beat the officer. Receivers to be Paid. Norfolk, Va., Special. Judge Wad dill late Saturday entered an order di recting immediate payment by the Norfolk & Southern Railway receiv ers of $CG,408.60 for labor and mate rial furnished the Norfolk & Southern which a period of six months prior to the receiverships. The laregst of these individual accounts are $18,860. The Court's action followed the report of Special Master Stephenson. Havan Officials Will Not Tight. Havana, By Cable. The threaten ed duel between the Secretary of State. Justo Garcia Velez, and the Secretary of Sanitation, Dr. Mathias Duque, will probably not take place, the court ot honor to which the anair was referred having decided that there was no necessity for an' en counter. The trouble arose from au altercation between the two ministers over , what Secretary Duque believed to be. the impertinent interference of Secretary Velez in his department. NEW.'T GLEANINGS. Prince Ito, of Tokio, arrived at Dairin. The Sultan of Morocco has sold the Riff mines to a German company. Four strong earth shocks were felt at Messina, but little damage was done. The stock of the Wells Fargo Ex press Company reached a new high level of 450. Commander Frederick C. Bieg, U. S. N., died at Washington, D. C, aged fifty-three. . , Politics in England are still in a chaotic state. A general election is expected in January. President Taft in Juarez, Mexico, was the Mexican Executive's guest at a ?500,000 banquet. Police at Hong-Kong have re vealed a plot to kill Liang-Tun-Yen, President of the Wai-Wu-Pu. K. A. Stevens was found dead in his room in the Hotel du Nord some hours after ordering a lunch of milk and raw eggs. Ten thousand men soldiers, uni formed police and Russian and Italian detectives protected the Czar on his visit to the King of Italy. Physicians and charLty organiza tions urged the Board of Estimate, in New York City, to grant an increased appropriation to fight tuberculosis. Anth B. Nilsen, a pulp manufac turer, of Norway, said there was no chance of cheaper paper until a sub stitute for wood pulp should be dis covered. J.-Eads How. "millionaire hobo," Just back' from Europe, says that the problem of the unemployed would be settled by the international congress in Chicago in January. Captain Cody had a miraculous es cape from death at the aviation meet at Doncaster, England, when, in mak ing a turn-at great speed, his biplane struck, the earth and was vrecked. s AJ Growing Love. Mr. and Mrs. Married Bliss were both growing very plump, and evcr.v effort to reduce weight had proved fruitless, and their dlc?cntent with their failure was pathetic. "It is too bad," said a mutual friend to a sympathetic rhysvir:ian. "The Blisses are so fond of each other and used to be so graceful and slendei when thev were first married." "Ah, -well! replied t-hs physician "Think how much more they are tf each other now." JJ'e. SNAPPY Ak a items Gathered dnd lwn tou noia Tjour Dreau X SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENING? Lively and Crisp as They Are. Gar, nered From the Fields of Actica at Home and Abroad. Seven employes, were killed and three other persons were severely in- . jured Monday by a boiler explosion at a saw mill near El Dorado, Ark. In a stable fire at-Wichita, Kan., Monday, three men and 28 ''horses were cremated. Two other men are probably fatally burned. - Owing to persistent rumors, that Hon. Stuyvesant Fish will become minister to Chinia he states positively that he will not accept the position,, admitting too that he has had the re- fusal of it. . v '" F. A. Guerney, aged 59,jwas watch ing President Taft return from meet ing President Dias and began to cheer . lustily but fell dead. . , . President Taft retired Monday ,i or,, a our days rest on his brother' ' ' Texas ranch. .' . : , ' ; The State of Nicaragua i,in,, '' great state of unrest and rebelliqa and martial law has been proclaimed Tuesday, the 19th, ; was the 128' ' anniversary of. the surrender of Corn- , wallis at Yorktown, Va. The-event was suitably celebrated. , ' At the aviation exhibition last week at Juvisy, France, Aeronaut ' Riehter fell with his maehine Moni . tor from a height of 50 feet. Ha . : suffered a brokeu thigh and 'the loss of an eye. ; " The woman's board of foreign mis sions of the Methodist church in ses-.'' sion at Savannah, Ga.,' last 'week; made a formal protest against news paper supplements known as funny papers. The chairman of the Arctic Club of America presented a gold medal tc. Dr. Cook Friday evening in New York over his protest that itvbe 'de- A layed till he could adequately' meet . the charges of misrepresentation lodged against him.1 The presenta tion was an emphatic declaration of faith in Dr. Cook, - It has been looked up that Prof. F. S. C. Lowe, on April 2, 1861 made a balloon trip from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Pea Ridge, S. C, over 500 miles, in nine hours, thus exceeding the . flight of Lambert and von Phul from St. Louis to Dorchester, S. C.,. last week. The former mjde 55 miles an hour, while the latter, which --was. called a record breaker, made '44. " The famous Belle Meade farm, near ' Nashville, Tenn., has again been sold. J. O. Leake, of Nashville was the pui chaser at $110,000. Wilbur Wright in sportive "fly, raced with an express train at College Park Wednesday and more than held his own. . . . . The United States Supreme Court enjoins Judge Kohlsaat, at Chicago. from paying out any more huge fees in the Oberlin M. Carter case. Farmers of Virginia, North Caro lina, Tennessee and Kentucky met at Danville last week and declared war against the 'Tobacco Trust. Mrs. Gerard Hubbard, 84 years old, was thrown out of her automobile in Washington Wednesday and killed. A letter signed " Bracken Couniy Night Riders," was affixed to the door of Fred Adams and wife near . Lexington, Ky., recently , threatening dire consequences if they neglected to sign their tobaeeo to the Mason coun ty board of control. Mr. Adamssays he will not sign. A cloud burst struck San Marcas, Texas, Tuesday when 10 inches of rain fell within 24 hours, entailing: a damage of $80,000. hr. J. 11. Carlisle, president emeri tus of Wofford. College, died at his home in Spartanburg. ST C, last Thursday morning at the age of S3 years. United States Senator Martin N. Johnson, of North Dakota, died last Thursday at his hotel at Fargo. Mrs. Johanna. Engkrnan, at -sj-os , Angeles, Cal., 'ras seated in the jury box Wednesday, th flrst woman -un der the new departure,''' The liritish steamship Kowanmore seemed to have been confronted with a gang of genuine pirates to the east of Florida, on Oct. 6. This gang on a schooner that plies about the Baha ma Islands displayed the distress f nal to get alongside when an -effort was made to board the British "ves.icV and the armed crewe withstood, tlj pirates and prevented their boards the vessel. , ' 'Irs. W. O. Munroe and Miss Sty land were killed and another wi was seriously injured Tuesday 1 Central of Georgia switch enjr: ran into and demolished a st in the railroad yards at Ga.