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I Fit 1 I F. 1 JT k I J.J ttl 11 IS r. 1 r Year, In Advance. ' FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Single Cyy I Cesta. VOL. X.X. PLYMOUTH, N, C. FRIDAY, NOVEMBEfi 5, i909. NO. 22. Southern Colleges Crippled by Ptomaine Poison, Probably in Boneless Ham. Atlanta, - Ga., . Spcial. With' one Southern college closed, the student ibody of another all but depleted and the work of a third seriously impair ed by the simultaneous appearance in ithese institutions of a strange mal ady apparently of an epidemic, nature Which for a time baffled phiysicians, but which is new in two of these tschools, at least declared to be pto maine poisoning', due to the eating of impure Western meats, a serious sit uation has developed for the consider ation of the Federal and State pure food authorities. This announcement was made here in connection with the illness of more than forty cadets at the Georgia Mili tary Academy, at College Park, eight mile from Atlanta, the majority of whom were rushed to Atlanta hospi tals, seriously ill. The other schools effected are Lagrange Female College, Lagrance, Ga., th two hundred stu dents, and the .(hens Female College, Athens, Ala., with one hundred stu dent, which closed early in the week. The eating of boiled boneless ham by the cadets of the Georgia Military Academy is believed to .be directly re sponsible for the development of pto maine poisoning in that institution. As Atlanta is the distributing center of a large section of the South, it is suggested by an official of the military school that the diseased meats found their way from Atlanta to the other A MILLION GIVEN BY ROCKFELLER TO FIGHT HOOK WORM New York, Special. A gift of $1, 000,000 by John D. Rockefeller to fight the "hook worm disease" was announced at the office of the stand ard Oil Company here late Thursday. A dozen well-known educators and scientists, selected in large part from institutions of learning in the South where the parasite is prevalent, were -called in conference Avith Mr. Rocke feller' representatives at the Stand ard Oil Company 's offices at 2G Broad .way last Tuesday, and at that meet ing Mr. Rockefeller's desire to or ganize a commission to carry on a campaign against the malady was dis--oussed. As a result of this discussion' of the situation the "Rockefeller Commission For the Eradication of the Hook Worm, Disease" was or ganized. The members of this commission, as selected by Mr. Rockefeller, are: Dr. William II. Welch, professor of pathology in Johns Hopkins Universi ty; president of the American Medi cal Association. Dr. Simon Flexner. director of SUFFRAGETTES TRY TO DESTR.OY BALLOTS WITH ACID London, By Cable. With the evi dent intention of destroying ballots in a box at the Bermondsey by-election Thursday, as a protest against the exclusion of women 'from the right of franchise, Mrs. Chapin, a -suffragette, smashed a bottle contain ing corrosive acid upon the ballot tox. - What she- accomplished was the painful burning of some of the elecr tion officers and the assurance of her own arrest. Slipping into one of he booths where perhaps a thousand ballots had Veen deposited,-Mrs. Chapin drew from under her cloak a bottle in which ink had been mixed with cor- COMEZ ADMINISTRATION the national committee of Conserva-J tives was held Friday witn uie pur pose of deciding preparatory " to the opening of . Cor.ss November 1 what the future course of the .party shall be. All the speakers agreed that the administration of President -vkimex we a"' failure and that it was the duty of the Conservatives to aban don the policy ot sustaining tne guv EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES New York, Special. Extracts from letters. written by officials -of the American Ice company to agents and customers were read in court Wed nesday as evidence that the company was guilty of illegal monopoly in its dealings with independent-producers and retailers. "Our opponents are steadily weak ening and are very much worried," wrote President Olar to R. F. Hop kins of the Boston Ice company in June, 1904, according to one letter 'Tfce icemen her arc sick unto death 4 full ef anxiousness," was aa ex institutions affected. "It is an alarm ing situation," he added, "and calls for a vigorous investigation by the authorities who have supervision over the food supplies which are shipped into Atlanta from the packing cen ters." At the Georgia Military Academy a number of the cadets ate heartily of the boiled ham Saturday and Sunday. Two sons of President Woodward were the first taken ill, and a score or more were complaining Monday morning. Tuesday forty-three were violently ill, necessitating the remov al of most of them to Atlanta hos pitals, after the college infirmary was filled to capacity. The ,afflicted boys were first stricken with chills, follow ed by vomiting with pulse low ad temperature sub-normal. This con dition continued, with severe head aches and , pains in the muscles and limbs developing on the third day. Five of the boys have recovered sufficiently to go to their homes, while twenty-five are still in local hospitals and eight in the college . infirmary,. Several others are confined to their rooms. The student roll at the military academy shows an attendance of 165. The school will not elose down, tho authorities believing that the present situation is well in hand and are not apprehensive of the development of further eases of the illness. The temperature of the patients in the local hospitals is stated to range between 100 and 104 , although the condition of no one of them is con sidered serious. Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re search, y Dr. Charles W. Stiles, chief of the division of zoology, United State public health and marine hospital service, and discoverer of the Ameri can species of hook worm, and the prevalence of the disease in America. Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia. Dr. David E. Houston, chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. . . . Prof. P. P. Claxton, professor of education in the University of Tennes see. Mr. J. Y. Joyner, State Superin tendent of Education in North Caro lina, and president of the National Educational Association. Mr. AValter H. Page, editor of The World's Work. Dr. II. B. Frissell, principal Hamp ton Institute. . Mr. Frederick T. Gates, one of Mr. Rockefeller's business managers. Mr. Starr J. Murphy, Mr. Rocke feller's counsel in benevolent matters. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. rosive acid, and before she could be stopped hurled the bottle upon tm box. It broke into many pieces and the acid splashed upon the election officers. A number of these were so severely injured as to require medical atten tion. About the same time a similar out rage was attempted at another booth by a young girl who wore the suf fragette colors. In the latter instance little damage was done beyond the burning of the finger tips of the elec tion officials who removed the bits of broken glass. So far as could "be as certained not much acid reached the ballots in either ease. IS ADJUDGED A FAILURE ernment which hitherto they ha'd fol lowed for the purpose of giving it a fair trial and to begin an active anti administration campaign in Congress and the press. A resolution to this effect was unanimously adopted. It is rumored that President Gomez probably will attempt to placate the Conservatives by offering them posi tions in the Cabinet in which already there are two vacancies. AGAINST THE ICE TRUST tract read from another letter sent back Mr. Olar to Walter Lee, man ager of the company's Pennsylvania branch, three months later. "I think we, arc in'a position to expect our ad vice to be heeded and our directions followed," the same letter continued. The State's attorneys began presen tation of evidence to show that the American Ice company, in order to enforce famine prices, "put the knife into the Maine ice industry, keeping the erop down to a minimum and al lowing most of its ice houses in Maine to rot and fall down.'' TOURISTS IN CHARLOTTE End the First Week With Increasing ly Enthusiastic Receptions Speed Excels Schedule Time North Caro lina Wild With Joy. Charlotte, N. C, Special With the Stars and Stripes afloat on ceaseless breezes, emblem of the common nat ionality of the North and the South which their tqur is destined to bind with closer and more enduring tied. 37. automobiles of modern make ending a six-days' journay of more than COO miles from the metropolis of the nation somewhat weary and worn stopped Saturday evening in the me tropolis of North Carolina. The cheers of thousands of watching peo ple and the glad hand of hundreds more bade the participants in The New York Herald-Atlanta Journal good roads tour, en route from New York to Atlanta, welcome to " Char lotte and to Dixie. In the language of Mr. W. T. Wa ters ot the staff of The Atlanta Jour nal in the story which he Sunday night wired his paper: "If the good roads tour of The At lanta Journal and The New York Herald has been met with ovations growing more enthusiastic with each mile of southward progress until Sat urday, the receptions which were ac corded it on Saturday defy descrip tion. Nothing even half so cordial bad been anticipated. Its movement on Saturday from Winston-Salem te Charlotte, 138 miles, has stirred the whole western half of North Carolina. Its progress has been attended by such widespread and intense welcome that it seems as if nothing could equal it. Yet so it seemed on Friday. On Thursday it looked as though the high-water mark of enthusiasm had been reached. "Winston-Salem bade the tourists a rousing farewell, and passed them on through Greensboro to High Point, where all business was supended while the whole city did honor to the dusty visitors. Thomasville indus tries and chair manufactures gave all their employes holiday while the tour ists were passing. Lexington feasted them upon barbecue and flattered i'hem with an ovation that represent ed not only the city itself but. the whole county of Davidson. Automo biles from Winston-Salem, thirty-two in number, met them again in Lexing ton. Other automobiles gathered at Lexington from High Point and Greensboro. The way of the tour to Salisbury was preceded and followed by. a flying squadron of automobile escorts, and still on . through Salis bury to Charlotte, wThere many of the unofficial visitors are remaining over Saturday night. Salisbury begged the tour to stop a few moments and par take of refreshments and finally com promised by putting the refreshments in the cars; Salisbury had already extended the courtesies of .the toll bridge over the Yadkin river to the tourists, every official car being pass ed with a cheer by the toll keepers. China Grove, Landis, Kannapolis, Concord and Newell suspended every thing to give rousing acclaim to the passing tourists. Charlotte turned out as never before and gave the good roads army royal welcome." To the Maxwell Toy Tonneau of Marietta, Ga., belongs the distinction of achieving the best speed of the day Saturday. It accomplished the allot ted distance in 6 hours and 33 minues, or in 1 hour and 37 minutes less than the time in which it was scheduled to cover it. A close second was fur nished by Mr. Jacques Futrelle, the well-known writer of Scituate, Mass., who is driving his OAvn car and is accompanied by his wife and two children. He made the distance in 6 hours and 46 minutes a differ ence of 16 minutes. Refreshed by the first day's rest afforded by their long itinerary and, judging from their freely expressed comments, entirely delighted with Charlotte and the entertainment of forded them here, approximately 158 automobilists journeying in 37 cars form the nation's New York to the New York of Dixie early Monday morning glided out across several leagues of the finest roads they have experienced since they left the vallev uf the Shenandoah. For more than 36 hours they have been in a very real and manifest sense the guests ef the city of Charlotte and for not one single moment has that fact been al lowed to slip from their minds. ." Two Dead in Duel Following a Wcd- ding' Frclic. - Gonzales, Tex., Special. In a duel following a wedding frolic in the Mex ican quarter on the Henry Cardweil farm two miles north cf Wrighteboro, two men met death early Sunday. There were no witnesses to the quar rel nor to the fight. The men went k'oout twenty steps from the building in which the dance was held and be gan firing at each other. Erroyo wa instantly killed and his body fell across Moriale's. The latter lived for about an hoar. WOTipiOTETj I Bids are to be opened at the narvy department here on' November 20 for dredging at the Charleston Navy Yard to secure an entrance to the dry dock and berths alongside the wharf by the removal of accumulated do posies from the Cooper River.; A ehannel will bo dredged to a depth of 30 feet belbw mean low water, leading from the river to the dry dock. The channel will be 165 wide, widening out to 500 feet at 30 feet below mean low water, length, 1,000 feet from face of quay wall. The Brownsville court of inquiry has decided to visit Brownsville, Tex., late in .Novembeto hear any new material facts bearing in the famous "shooting up" of that eity on the night of August 13, 1906. Every reasonable opportunity will be given to the discharged noncommissioned oflWs and men of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Infantry to prove they were not t gaged in the riot with a view to their re-enlistment in the army should they desire to take ad vantage of the offer contained in the act of Congress creating the tribunal. The court will follow up the Browns ville hearing with a similar proceed ing at Washington. The discharged men will have the privilege of appear in before the court reprssented by an attroney. What is regarded as a distinct con cession to improting interests ann to France was, made by the Treasury Department Monday in directing the collectors of customs at the various United States ports to keep custom houses open until 4:30 p. m. Satur day, October 30, on which date the commercial agreements with France, Switzerland and Bulgaria expired. The purpose of the order was to give every facility to importers to enter goods at the reduced rates of the ex piring treaties and applies particular ly to New York and a few other cities where the custom houses close ordi narily at 1 p. m. on Saturday in def erence to lecal law or custom. The horse as a means of transpor tation is more than holding its, own under the competition of the auto mobile, according to Maurice Connelly Mr. Connelly says the trade in horse driven vehicles this year was greater than ever before, and tha business al ready booked for the coming year will eclipse all previous records. The only manufacturers of carriages af fected are those who cater to the mil lionaire class, which has in a large measure discarded , the landau, the brougham , and the victoria for the motorcar Accordingly the manufac turers of these higher grades of car riages have taken up the manufacture of automobile bodies. The carriage builders who turn out the" moderate priced vehicles for eity and farm use, such a6 buggies and surreys, are said to have more than they can do. No grave apprehension is felt in Washington for the safety of Prof. Charles K. Leith and Arthur Leith, who, with others, since last summer has been making geological investi gations in the Hudson Bay country. They had intended returning here by October 1, but in letters received from them early in August it was in timated that their return might bo delayed owing to weather conditions. Professor Leith is attached to the ex pedition as a representative of the University of Wisconsin, where he holds a professorship, while , his brother Arthur, who lives here, is ac companying the party as an ama teur scientist. Information has reached the State Department that the celebrated Alsop claim against Chile, involving valu able guano deposits and silver mines, is in a fair way of settlemen. The Alsop case, which has been pending for thirty-five years, had its origin in the actual a'dvance of money by Americans to the Bolivian govern ment in return for rights to valuable gnano deposits. Every national bank that is loan ing money in excess of the amount permitted by law is being asked to reduce the loans to the required limit and to abstain from any such excess in the future. This effort to have all the national banks observe the legal limitation i3 -' being made in a con servative way,' and it is believed by officials here' that none of the banks will, defy the official "request." In nearly every bank" that fails loans in excess of the limit prescribed by law have been a contributing cause, and the concentration f loans to a few interests has always been regarded as an )mst f weakness. MR- "FT 1NNEW ORLEANS ! Spends Saturday and Sunday in Strenuous Program and is Tired Out at Seeing the Sights and En joying His Glad Reception. New Orleans,' Special. President Taft arrived in New Orleans Satur day to renew old acquaintances and to enjoy two days of the hospitality which he declared a few days ago he both 'longed for and feared.' From the moment of his arrival at 12:30 p. m., on the lighthouse tender Olean der, which led a long trailing fleet ot river packets into port,"the President was kept on the go until past mid night Saturday night. He ended his river trip with an ad dress before the waterways conven tion in the afternoon in which he re iterated what he said before, that he favors the issuance of bonds to carry forward every deep waterway pro ject which shall be approved by a ompetent board of engineers as prac ticable and can be shown to be neces sary to take care of the growing com merce of the sections. This address concluded, the Presi dent became the guest of the eity. He lunched with Archbishop Blenk at the latter 's palace, attended two foot ball games, had a dinner given in his honor at the Pickwick Club" Saturday night and went direct from there to a gala performance of "Les Hugenots" at, the French opera house. - -A little supper at a famous French restau rant after the opera " brought the Chief Executive's busy day to a elose. He thoroughly enjoyed his four and a half nights and five days on the Mississippi river. And, although he has learned much of the difficulty that must be encountered in attempting to control that powerful waterway, he seemed Saturday to be just as enthu siastic as ever in the belief that the Mississippi can be made to recognize a channel deep enough to handle all of the commerce that cwi be assigned to it. President Taft went to bed on his train Sunday night a thoroughly tired man. His New Orleans friends kept him on the go nearly all day long. He made two speeches during the after noon, visited the naval station and Jaekson barracks, rode through the interesting old French quarter of the city and attended a sacred concert on the campus of Tulane University. This day of strenuousness, following the activities and entertainments of Saturday,, which did not end until 3 o clock Sunday morning when cupper after the opera was concluded brought the President's stay in New Orleans to a close. His train left before daylight for - Jackson, Miss., where he spent all day Monday. The President was so tired when he got back to his hotel at 6 o'clock Sunday night that he declined all invitations for dinner and had the meal served in his apartments with Secretary of War Dickinson as a guest. The drive through the old French section of the city was immensely interesting to the President and he vetoed any suggestion of its curtail ment. . The ride followed the President's attendance at the morning services of the Unitarian ehurch, where he heard a sermon on "The Interpretation of Life," by Rev. II. Elmer Gilchrist. The President was accompanied through the quarter by Prof. Alcee Fortier of the Louisiana Historical Society, who pointed out the succeed ing places of interest. The route was first through the old Rue Roval and thence to Jackson square, which for merly was the place d'Armes and is surrounded by some fine old types ci French architecture. From Jackson square the party went to the old slave mart, to the old St. Louis Catholic cathedral and then began a journey through Esplanzade avenue and en virons. Here the President's interest was centered for a time upon the ruins of the old Spanish barracks. It xrn of fiiis noint of the iournev that . " UO v ' v Professor Fortier suggested that the committee had not allowed time enough to go further and the Presi dent said he did not care how long the ride required, for his interest in ,old New Orleans was greater than m any ( other feature of the day ana ne ai-i i not wish to hurry. Death Chcck3 Foot Ball. West Feint, N. Y., Special Be cause of the death of Eugene A. Bvrne, of Buffaky N. Y., no more football will be played by the West Point eleven this year. This-'' state ment was made by Col. Hugh L. Scott, superintendent cf the United States Military. Academy, late Sunday nic-ht. after a consultation with the athletic authorities of the academy on j the death of young Byrne, wno expir ed Sunday morning as a result of in juries sustained in the Harvard game Saturday. - U 4e4-ttrtt, to neroefc. SNAPPY AND BRIEF ' Items Gathered and Told White You Hold Your. Breath. SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENjliG Lively and Crisp as ,TIiey Are Gar nered From the Fields of Actios at Home and 'Abroad. J. B Cleveland, Syears old, was killed at Atlanta Moaday by stepping off the track of a freht) train,; on to the track of an unobservM. 'approach ing passenger train.' .jM'J,- -. President Diaz expeswbiinself ci very much pleased at "meeting Pres ident Taft. . He formed a favorable? impression of him personally and thinks the meeting will have good political and industrial effects. Dr. Cook is making up his party to eeale Mt. McKinley next spring . to show to the world that it can be done and thereby to offset the sworn tcsi mony that h -did not do it archer claims to have done. " Six persons are known to have per ished and it is believed that many . others were killed in the havoc , wrought by the terrible wind storm that passed over the island Luzon, P-hilipine Islands, last week.- Senator Ben Tillman refused to pay ten dollars for a plate at the Colum bia banquet, to President Taft. He says if Columbia wants the honor of banqueting the FlPsident it should not charge up the bill to others. Six persons were killed in a recent cullission on the Pan Handle division of the Pennsylvania railroad near . Collinsville, O. ' The ashes of Mrs, Hayes, the last member of the Jefferson Davis fam ily were shipped Monday from the home cemetery in Colorado tabe-pia,,-ed in the Richmond cemetery with the other members of the Davis fam ily. Mrs. Hayes' body had. been cre mated when she died. 1 A fine fat "possum" in one side of an orange crate whose other side was filled with "taters" was put aboard the President's train at Hemp stead, Texas, for the Sunday dinner, but unaccountably all disappeared. However another ' "possum ': ready dressed was put on at Longwood antl the "'possum" liking president had his feast. It is said that the British and the Boers are living harmoniously in South Africa as if. there had' never been hostilities between them. ' The State commandery of the Loyal , S Le gion of the United States has sent out a circular protesting against a congressional appropriation to erect 'a ; statue in the National Capitol of Gen. Robert . E. Lee. This body uses the)., word treason in connection with lis H name Teter Richstein, at Dallas, Texas, Saturdays-was fatally stabbed by memmber-of the Texas guards. It ' . -seems he was in front and was push- ; . ed by the press when the guard seem- J ed recklessly hasty in thrusting him through the breast with the modem sword bajonet. The guard was ar rested. "' .. On account of the failure of ves- sels to keep up with flie Oleander, President Taft's flag ship, his sche dule was greatly broken into. The steamer Gray Eagle, of ths presidential fleet, went aground near Helena Wednesday, and her cargo o officials and delegates were transfer red to the 6teamer Illinois. In a special election held last Tues day in Duvall county, Fla., the $1, 000,000 bond issue was carried. Thi money is to be used in building good roads to the county tines, connecting with roads from other counties. At Sun Dance, Wyoming, last Sun day, Mrs. Lent Henderson was in the yard with her small child. Hearing shrieks from her twophildren in the house she rushed inr-id found them ' bitten by a rattle s e. While do ing for them she hV a faint cry - from the younger chaJJ and rushed ; i , out in time to see is fall into the welt' 1 where it drowned. Coming back to . the two she fourfl them in the throes of death from jjie snake poison, thti losing three children in one day. , The sickness among the girls t 'caused the temporary closing of v Athens, Ga., Female College, has I , diagnosed as ptomaine poison f i eating fish.- ..." Mrs. John Kunsclman,! living i Punxsutawney, Pa, could kceir sceret no loagei-, though thrn with death if she divulged tlj, ? ' had her father arrested Ttiaf killing her mother a year in ' Gen. O. O.. Howard, th-fr Union commanders in t'f ' died at his home neaf Vermont, Tuesday. f ' At Denton, Md., Mr found in on anfiqur'' George T,'r'"; ' f i ' :f . ' f i v-
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