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VOL. XX. PLYMOUTH. N. C. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20. "i909 , NO. 25.
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NORTH STATE NEWS
Items of State Interest Gathered
and Told iu Brief.
Investigating Coble Murder.
Greensboro, Special. The prelirai
Tiary hearing of Daniel Coble and
.Hiram Elliott, charged with the inur--der
or Simpson Coble, son and brother-in-law
of the accused, consumed
-till of Wednesday morning. The State
l'.adj concluded its case at 4:30, and
Dirviel Coble, the first witness for
vixi'Alefense, was on the stand at the
time of adjournment.
There were no witnesses who gave
-any account of a fight at an illicit
still operated by one of the defen
dants, but in the quarrel which is
-said to have occurred between Elliott
and Simpson Coble earlier in tho
afternoon, Coble is reported to have
threatened to report the distillery to
"the officers. The next morning he was
fouud unconscious lying in a ditch
2o yards from Elliott's home, while
-about 150 yards from the body the
bloody hat and poeketbook of Simp
son was found, together with a large
pool of blood. His skull was crushed,
bis cheekbone broken and there were
several bruises on his body. He never
regained consciousness.
Killed by Brother.
Lin coin ton, Special. Charles Keep,
1he 13-year-old son of Mr. L. Jacob
Keep, -a prominent farmer of this
'county, was accidentally shot and kill
ed Tuesday by his brother, Aubrey
Keep, aged 19. It seems that a dog
bad c based a rabbit into a hollow tree
;nnd the boys took their shotgun and
went out about noon to get him out.
They failed to do this, however, and
the younger boy was trying to root
a rabbit out of a branch bank. He
iiimself ran out about the same time
"the rabbit did and was shot in the
right side, about 200 shot entering
Siis right lung. He was attended with
in an hour by Dr. W. C. Riser, who
states that bo lived six hours after
the shooting and that he was con
scious up to five minutes of his
ileath.
The accident happened near the
Siome of the boys' father about seven
itcilos west of Lincolnton.
Hosiery Finishing Mill Burns.
Hendersonville, Special. The fin
'tshing building of the Skyland Hos
iery. Company at East Flat Eoek with
its contents, was entirely destroyed
. "by fire Thursday morning at 5 o'clock.
The. loss on the building is $60,000
and on its contents $15,000. The .in
surance will cover the entire loss, it
is believ'cd. The origin of the fire is
not known. The main building of the
r.ill is uninjured, but three hundred
'crnployts will be out of work for a
'eouple of months. New machinery
-was wired for Thursday morning and
;a new reinforced concrete structure
-will be built' immediately. This is the
second fire in one year at this com
pany's works, the last destroying the
"Tryon plant completely.
Salisbury an Electric Centre.
Salisbury, Special. With a voltage
-capacity of 100,000 a new transform
er on the power lines ofth eSouth
ern Power Company was placed in
operation in Salisbury Tuesday. The
enormous amount of current is
brought to Salisbury from the big
electric plant at Lancaster, S. C, by
way of Monroe, N. C, and Albe
marleby the use of huge towers car
Tying the high voltage lines 100 feet
above ground. Salisbury will here
nfter be the principal distributing
point for electric power used in Lex
ington. High Point. Greensboro, Winston-Salem
and other cities served
"by the Southern Power Compairy. '
Tcung Man Meets Death at Saw MilL
Spring Hope,. Special There wa a
Tearful accident oen' mile from Nash
ville at the saw mill of William Sel
lers Tuesdaj', when the boiler explod
ed, instantly killing his son, John
Seller' The young man was eigh
teen years of age.
Colersncc For Education to Hold
"Next Meeting in Little Rock-."Winston-Salem,
Special, The ex
ecutive committee of the Conference
Tor Education in the South at a
meeting Wednesday night with Col.
W. A. Blair decided to hold the next
Ti-ecting of the conference in Little
T?ook, Ark., April 6. 7, 8. The invi
1 at ion from Arkansas came in the
f'bnpe of a bound volume, containing
letlers from the Governor, Legislature
r.nd prominent educators. Various
details were worked out, but the pro
gram will not be given out at this
meeting.
SAD DEATHJNSALISBURY
Mrs. D. S. Brown, a Helpless Para
lytic, Burend While Her Blind
Father tJould Only Give the Alarm.
Salisbury, Special. Mrs. D. S.
Drown was fatally burned at her
home on North Long street Friday
afternoon, dying in a short while.
Every thread of clothing was buru
ed from her body, the flesh being
also horribly burned and the flame
being inhaled. Mrs. Brown had
sueered for some time with paralysis
and, with the exception of her aged
father, Mr. Greene Cauble, who is
blind, was alone in the room where
an open fire was burning, and the
exact manner in which her clothing
caught firo will never be known. Her
father gave the alarm and neighbors
rushed in. Dr. W. W. McKenzie was
quickly summoned but he stated at
once that the woman was hopeless,
it being probably the worst case of
the kind to come to his attention.
Escaped From Doomed Ship.
Wilmington, Special' The un
known four-masted schooner pre
viously reported ashore on Frying
Pan Shoals Thursday proved to be
the Eleazer W. Clark, 849 tons, Capt.
F. W. Wyman, bound from New
York to Savannah with asphalt pav
ing blocks. . Both vessel and cargo
were a complete loss, the tugs
Blanche and Sea King and the rev
enue cutter Seminole having been un
able to render assistance Wednesday
night on account of the southwest
gale prevailing along the cost. Capt.
Wyman and crew of seven men left
the vessel at 8 o'clock Wednesday
night in two yawls as she began to
go to pieces and after a terrible battle
with wind and wave until daylight
they were thrown up on Bald Head
Island beach whence they were taken
over to Southport, N. C, and brought
to Wilmington Thursday night.
. Forset Fires in Buncombe.
Canton, Special. Heavy,, forest
fires have been raging around Can
ton during the past few days of dry
weather. Just to the northeast of
town, along the high mountains be
tween the pigeon valley and the New
Found and Leicester section of Bun
combe county great lines of fire have
been seen for several nights. Then
back in the Mount Pisgah lands of
the Vanderbilt section can be seen
the blaze at night and clouds of
smoke by day. It is said that these
fires on the Vanderbilt lands are set
out by hunters to run the deer out
side. Elliott Confesses Killing.
Greensboro, Spedal Hiram Elliott
who with Dan Coble bis father-in-Jaw,
was sent to jail without bond to
await the action of the grand jury on
a charge of killing Simpson Coble, his
brother-in-law, practically confessed
Friday that he was the man who
struck the blow which resulted in
Simpson Coble's death. The confes
sion of Elliott competely exonerates
Dan Coble of any connection with the
actual killing of his son or assisting
in removing the body.
Cave-in at Brown Creek on the South
bound. Wadesboro, Special. The work
men at the' crossing of .the Winston
Salem Southbound at Brown creek,
north of Wadesboro," had a narrow
escape from serious disaster Friday.
The contractor for the bridge oyer
the creek is having the excavation
made for the bridge piers and th3
bank commenced caving. One of the
laborers noticed the cracking of the
earth and gave the alarm in time for
those working beneath to escape.
Ex-Mayor of North Wilkesboro Ar
rested. "
North Wilkesboro, Special. J. It.
Caffey, ex-mayor of North Wilkes
boro, was arrested here Saturday on
a charge of graft and bribery While
mavor. following the finding of a true
Pbill by the Wilkes county grand jury,
He gave bond for appearanee at the
March term of superior court.
Excitement About Liquor Selling.
Wadesboro, Special. The continu
ed violation of the prohibition law
here was the topic of conversation on
the street Saturday. Friday's issue
of The Ansonian editorially went af
ter the officials for their apparent
neglect of duty. One editorial brief
that attracted particular attention
and that caused much of the curb
gossip was the following: "Officers
of the law, as .well as most of the
citizens of Wadesboro and Anson
county, know that at one place in this
town whiskey has beer 'red-ily fearn
ished' the thirstv for. some time."
NIGA'RAGUAN MUSS
Zelaya Orders Two Americans
Summarily Shot.
LOUIS GROCE AND LEROY CANNON
Captured in Revolutionary Army Are
Denied Trial Gunboats Sent to the
Scene President Taft Enraged.
News has reached the depart
ment that two American citizens,
Leroy Cannon and Louis Groce
caught by the Zelaya forces in
Nicaragua from the insurgent
forces were summarily shot, has
produced a disturbed condition
of things.
Washington, Special. Two Ameri
can vessels have been ordered to pro
ceed to Nicaraguan waters and Pres
ident Taft has postponed idefinitely
his meeting of Isidore Hasera, the
new minister from Nicaragua to this
country as the result of news receiv
ed here to the effect that two Ameri
cans, Louis Groce and Leroy Can
non, captured while serving with the
revolutionist army in Nicaragua have
been sentenced to death by President
Zelaya 's orders and it is understood
that sentence has already been carried
out.
Orders has been issued for the
cruiser Vicksburg to proceed in 'all
haste to Corinto and the gunboat-Des
Moines will proceed at once to Port
Limon to observe events there and
report the situation at that point by
wireless.
President Taft, upon receipt of the
news of the execution was .so incensed
that he .immediately announced he
would have no communication what
ever with the new Nicaraguan minis
ter. That official was promptly so in
formed. Brooding quite settled down Friday
on the strained situation this govern
ment finds itself in with Nicaragua.
But if everything was quiet on the
surface, there was plenty stirring be
neath. A communication was receiv
ed at the State Department from the
Nicaraguan legation, the purport of
which was not divulged, and the min
isters from Guatemala and Costa
Rica held a mysterious conference
with Assistant Secretary Wilson in
the afternoon. ' A significant develop
ment of the day, inasmuch as it dis
closed this government's unyielding
determination not to interfere with
the Nicaraguan revolutionists, was
the reiterated announcement that the
State Department would not act to
insure the safety of any American
vessels that might be held up or seiz
ed by the insurrectionary war ves
sels now blockading the government
forces at Greytown or elsewhere on
the Guatemalan coast.. The deepest
itnerest is apparent as to the confer
ence between Assistant Secretary
Wilson, Senar Calvo; minister from
Costa Rica, and Dr. Ilerrarte, minis
ter from Guatemala. It is believed
that the instruction of the pan-American
treaty, signed here a little over
two years ago, was the chief matter
discussed. The violation of the agree
ment was committed by General Tole
do, in command of Jresident Zelaya 's
forces, when ho invaded Costa Rican
territory in his advance on Greytown,'
where practically he is now besieged.
In the threatened trouble between
Nicaragua and Venezuela, only .a
short time ago, the United States
stood ready to prevent by force if
necessary, the passage of the bellig
erents across the neutral territory of
Honduras.
Zelaya Slays by Hundred.
New Orleans, Special. A :nble to
The Picayune from Panama says:
Passengers arriving from Nicaragua
report that a reign of terror exist3
throughout the portion of that coun
try controlled by President Zelaya.
Government tro.-ps are rounding up
every person suspected of sympathy
with the revolutionists and executing
them without trial.
Sheriff at Cairo Loses His Place Be
cause of Lynching.
Springfield, 111., Special. Governor
Charles S. Dcneen Thursday declared
the office cf sheriff of Alexander
county vacant because Sharff Frank
E. Davis allowed William James, a
negro murderer, and Henry Salzncr,
white, to be taken from his care and
lynched at Cairo by a mob on Novem
ber 11. The Governor acted in ob
servance of a law that provides that
whenever a sheriff surrenders a pris
oner to a mob his cfliee expires immediately.
SNAPPY AND BRIEF
Items Gathered and Told While
You Hold Ycur Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered From the Fields of Action
at Heme and Abroad.
An unauthentic but credible report
from Nicaragua ..s that two Ameri
cans, Louis Grocflg and Leroy Can
non having been . captured among the
insurrection forces were summarily
shot by order of President Selaya.
President Taft is greatly shocked and
has ordered an investigation.
Twenty bodies of victims have been
located in the Illinois mine and five
have been brought to the surface.
Two persons were killed and three
injured in a S. A. L. wreck Thurs
day near Denmark, S. C.
Collector Loeb at New York, sum
marily dismissed six officers in the
custom house, who were implicated
in the sugar frauds and is proceed
ing to clean house.
Ochopedology, or the scienco of
rendering a mechanical abnormal
body mechanically normal, will cure
100 per cent, o'f all coses of tubercu
losis of the lungs in its first and sec
ondary stages, according to Dr. Ban
ning, professor f surgery at Hering
College, Chicago, 80 per cent in tho
third stage, and 20 per cent in the
last stage.
Lee MeMichael, night watchman at
the Ameridus, Ga., construction com
pany's shops was attacked by an un
known person Wednesday night, his
lantern being knocked over. A fire
ensued that did a $50,000 damage.
Charles R. Warriner, the default
ing treasurer of the Big Four railroad
lias been arrested and jailed. Mrs.
Jeanett Ford,, his asserted black
mailer, is occupying a room in tho
same jail.
The sugar fraud, exposure in the
custom house at New York is said to
involve 17 per cent of the employes.
The combination of the Western
Union Telegraph company with the
Bell company it is believed will run
a rarrow escape of dissolution as a
violation of the anti-trust law.
Mine. Steinleil's troubles are not
all over for an American newspaper
man is suing her for charging him
with the murder for which she was
tried.
Ruth Butler, 4 years old, of Char
lotte, Mich., some time ago pushed
a baby sister off the bed and it
strangled to death. On last Tuesday
she saw her mother use chloroform
for toothache. She got hold of the
bottle and playfully administered the
chloroform to lier 15-day-old sister
with fatal effect.
Eastern Kansas had a series of de
luging rains early last week that put
the streams higher than was ever
known for the season and drove eiti
zens to the higher lands.
. The Atlantic Coast Line railroad
company hate "authorized a bond issue
of $200,000,000.
President Finlej of the Southern
Railway was an honored guest of
Salisbury, N. C, Wednesday and
made address more especially to the
fanners.
The new Armony at Georgetown,
S. C, was formally dedicated on the
17th, with parade and appropriate
ceremony.
Earl Bullock, an all-round bad
young fellow and William McKay,
15 years old, whom he lured, robbed
the bank at, Eudora, Kan., Friday
and severely wounded Fred Starr,
the banker. Bullock fought desper
ately against capture and fired his
last bullet into his own head and
will probably die. McKay was cap
tured. Prof. Antonio Mantagna, a Roman
scientist believes he has discovered a
method by which to take photographs
by telegram or telephone.
Sheriff Shipp, of Hamilton coun
ty, Tenn., along with five fellow
countymen were sentenced to terms
in jail for contempt of the U. S. court.
Charges against them grew out of
the lynching of a negro in Chatta
nooga, and their failure to use their
best efforts to pi-event it.
1 By the arrest of thirteen Italian.1?
I nited States secret service men and
the Italian squad of New York police
think they have rounded up the lead
ers of a band which has trafficked
for at least a jear in a large amount
of counterfeit money made in Pal
ermo, Italy, and circulated in Ameri
ca. The mail steamer La Se.vne, of the
Message ries Maritimes service, run
ning between Java and Singapore,
collided with the steamer Onda, of
the British-India Line, .and sank
within two ' minutes.
Nearly 400 men and boys are be-
i lieved to be dead as a result of a
mine disaster at Cherry, 111.
Inquiry is being pushed by the
government into the so-called sugar
fraud cases and ' the investigation
may equal, the insurance upheaval of
1003.
Ten or twelve men, Italians .and
negroes, were entombed by an em
bankment cave-in on the Southbound
railroad near Winston-Salem Tuesday.
. Archer C. Christian, a football
player on the University or Virginia
team, died Sunday from injuries re
ceived in a game last week.
The man who nominated Wm. J.
Bryan for President was. adjudged
in contempt of court at Lincoln, Neb.,
Tuesday and indefinitely suspended
from' legal practice.
The 100th birthday of Fletcher Me
doris, of Ireens Fork, Ind., was be
ing celebrated on Tuesday. He col
lapsed amid the festivities and died
at their close.
A student at Drexel Institute,,
Philadelphia undertook to play the
Black .Hand game on a wealthy cit
izen there to get money to take his
course in school.
Eockfeller Commission to Attend At
. lanta Meeting in January.
Atlanta, Ga., Special. The Rocke
feller commission for the eradication
of the hookworm disease is expected
to attend in a body the first national
conference for the study of this dis
ease, to be held in Atlanta January
18 and 19. Already the' chairman,
Dr. Wiliam II. Welch, and other
members of the commission, have
signified their intention of attending.
President Taft at Hampton.
Hampton, Va., Special. Assuming
"bis duties a sa member of the board
of trustee sand declaring that he
wished by that representation to tes
tify to the interest of the American
people in the problems being worked
out by the school, President Taft
spent all of Saturday at the Hampton
Normal Institute for Indian and ne
gro boys and girls. He attended dur
ing the morning a meeting of the
board, ' inspected the buildings and
guns, reviewed the students.
Cleaning New York Custom House.
Washington, Special. The elimina
tion from the customs service of act
ing Deputy Collector James F. Vail,
the abolition of that office in the New
York customs house, the dismissal of
104 men and demotion of 123 other
men at New York from March 4 up to
Wednesday night with about a score
of other changes included in Collector
Loeb's statement Friday from New
York were announced by Secretary
MacVeagh Friday night.
Five Bodies Recovered.
Cherry, 111., Special. With the fire
in the St. Paul mine greatly cheeked
and five of the three hundred bodies
of men who were killed by last Sat
urday's fire recovered, it is hoped
that much progress towards cleaning
the mine will be made from now on.
Charity has poured aid into the homes
of suffering survivors but this could
not subdue the grief of Cherry's in
habitants when the sight of the dead,
lifted from the tomb, exploded their
hopes of rescuing them alive.
President Finley in Salisbury.
Salisbury, N. C, Special. Wednes
day was Finley day in Salisbury. Had
the genial president of the Southern
been the Chief Executive of the Unit
ed States his welcome could not have
been more cordial nor his entertain
ment more complete and satisfying,
for in Salisbury's levicon hospitality
embraces the men who 3o things.
From the moment he arrived to the
end of the banquet the city was his.
After electing as its officers those i
who served during the past year and
adopting reports of committees, the
convention of the National Associa
tion of Railway Commissioners Fri
day adjourned to meet next year in
Wasington. A resolution was dis
cussed recommending legislation to
control and limit the issue of the
soks and bonds of railroads engag
ed in interstate commerce. Spirited
discussio nwa brought about by Mr.
Prentis. of Virginia, who desired to
know whether State or Federal con
trol was contemplated
Children's Clothes.
The favorite materials for schools
coats are heavy tweeds, plain or with
a double face, and wool serges. Manj
of the dress coats are in wnito. curly
lamb, or in white fur-trimnid cloth.
Quantities of ready-to-wear models
are offered in plush and ot'-.er cloths
that imitate furs. fThe fancy for the
all-white outer costume tor children
vyirer S was never before so gener
ally followed. Sometimes it is var
ied by an all-black costume (where
the family is in mourning), or bv a
pa'e tan or gray suit. The Imitntion
and real fur suits usually comprise
leggings and caps or bonnets to
match. Harper's Bazar.
HITS STANDARD OIL
Circuit Court Files Decree
Dissolution.
of
GOVERNMENT WINS A VICTORY
Judges Sanborn, Vandeventer, Hool
and Adams Concur in Favor oi
Every Count Contended For Ap
peal to Supreme Court Will hi
Taken.
St. Paul, Minn., Special. In an
opinion written by Judge Walter N".
Sanborn, of St. Paul and concurred in
by Judges Vandeventer, Hook and
Adams with a special concurring
opinion by Judge Hook, the United
States Circuit Court for the eastern
district of Missouri Saturday handed
down an opinion declaring th
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey,
an illegal combination operating in
restraint of trade and orders its dis
solution. The opinion of the court was filed
simultaneously in St. Louis and id St.
Paul.
In this decision the government oi
the United States wins a sweeping
victory and according to Frank B.
Kellog of this city, who was the gov
ernment 's special prosecuting officer,
the government has won every point
for which it contended.
The case will be appealed dircet to
the United States Supreme Court as
the judges who signed the decree, are
in effect the judges of the United
States circuit court' of appeals, al
though they were sitting for the pur
pose'of trying this case as the circuit
court for the eastern district of Mis
souri. The decree of the court dissolving
the Standard Oil trust becomes effec
tive in 30 days when no doubt a stay
will be granted for the purpose of an
appeal.
When the decree takes effect unless
a stay is granted, an injunction will
issue restraining the Standard Oil
Company from a further continuance
of its business under its present form
ation. TWENTY LIVE MINERS.
Parties Searching For and Bringing
Cut the Dead Find the Living.
Cherry, 111., Special. -The gamut
from deepest despair to an hysteria
of hope was run here Saturday when
20 miners, entombed in the St. Paul
mine for a week, almost to the hour,
were brought to the surface alive.
The story of their sufferings and
the heroism of their resourceful lead
ers is one of the most thrilling in all
the black history of mining disasters.
Dawn broke with the bearers of
stretchers moving from the pit mouth
to the tent which served as a morgue?
with bodies swollen and scorched al
most beyond human semblance. Forty
of them had been brought up and
most of them identified when , the
marvelous report shot through the
prostrate community: "They've
found them alive they've found
them alive."
In a moment the morgue was de
serted; scarcely to be revived while
the crowd, fairly insane with the
great hope which bad sprung like a
miraculous flame from the ashes of
despair, rushed to the spot.
All thought was of the men who
were alive. It took six hours to brin:
the survivors to the surface. Mean
while a report spread that seventy or
more men were alive in a far reach
of the mine, cut off from escape by
a bank of black damp between their
barricade and the main shaft.
Searching parties on Sunday, how
ever, found no more living and con
ditions crush all hope of further suc
cess at rescue. Thirty-seven corpses
were removed and buried Sunday.
Awful Auto Tragedy.
Cuthbcrt, Ga., Special. Three per
sons are dead and two probably fa
tally Injured as a result of an automo- '
bile accident here late Sunday. The
dead:
Curtis Wiliams, of Port Caines, Ga.
James Shepard, of Edison. Ga. Hor- ,
ace Shepard, of Edison, Ga. The in
jured: Miss Helene Mattox. aged 20,
Coleman, Ga. Shepard and Miss Mat
ton were sroing to be married.
Prominent Pennsylvania Politician
Kills Himself Accidentally.
Franklin, Pa., Special. "Acciden
tal, slipped and " was the con
tents of a note found Sunday. night in
a dense thicket beside the body of I.
R. Borland, aged 50 years, former
county treasurer and a prominent
politician, who had been missing from ,
home since Friday. A wound in the
left leg caused Borland to bleed -to
death, according 1o the-coroner. Th'i
accident was the result of a hnnting"
trip. It wan eidcnt that Borland
began to write the note but fell ex
hausted before he could finish it. "