North Carolina Newspapers

Y ! I V, a Year, la Adranca. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. M SlBgfa Cp7 g Ccata. VOL. XX. PLYMOUTH, N. C FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1910. NO. 32. f ) if WASHINGTON News From the National Capitol Briefly Noted in Passing for the Reader. 1E8II FIGURES AS TO Transportation of the mails by railway, steamship lines and various tar routes cost the government, during the fiscal year, ended June SO, 1909, $83,493,762. These are the figures given in the .annual report of Joseph Stewart, Second Assistant Postmaster Gener al, wJ:h was made public last Mon day. The number of railroad routes employed by the department was 3,316, aggregating 217,115 miles. 'The total expense of the railway service for the year was $43,054.48. For the fiscal year CC 1911 it is esti mated that the expenditures for railroad transportation will be $40, 20,000. The result of the readjustment of pay for railroad transportation, ef fective July 1, 1909, for the ensuing four years, based upon the weighing of the mails, shows a decrease of $494,360.31, or 5.08 per cent; and for railway postoffice car pay a de crease of $3,195.97, or 0.29 per cent. It has developed that electric street railway companies in some cities demand extortionate rates for carrying the mails. Concerning this situation, Mr. Stewart says: "In view of the demands made by -electric car companies for higher rates for service in the large cities it is found desirable, in some cases, to substitute motor-wagon service for the electric car service. It is shown by the report that "on June 30, 1909. there were 168 full railway postoffice lines, manned by 1,651 eci'ws of 8,063 clerks (includ ing 75 acting clerks; of these there Boll Weevil Causes Short Crop. The cotton crop , of the year 1909 will be the smallest since 1899 ac cording to the statement of W. D. Hunter, of Dallas, Texas, expert of the department of agriculture. "It is due," he said, adcS-asing the House committee on agriclture, ""to the weevil in Louisiana, portions of Arkansas . and Mississippi 1 and the extreme dry weather in Texas, where sensational conditions inter fered with propagation of the para sites. " . The boll weevil, he decarled, un doubtedly .would cause remarkable redistribution of production of cot ton, first in large areas. What were large centers of production former ly were going to fell down and there would be the redistribution of small plantations. He declared the soil and other conditions in certain parts of almost every plantation in the South will permit the planter f to continue to raise cotton profitably despite the boll weevil. Improvements For Augusta, Ga. A quarter million dollar improve ment for the Savannah River, at Augusta, the cost to be evenly di vided between LhV Federal Govern ment and the Georgia city, has been recommended to Congress by the war department. Where Augusta rests on the Savannah's banks, the river's slope changes from a steep to a gradual incline, which subjects that section to sudden, severe and de structive freshets, with constant ero sion estimated to have carried away half a million cubic feet of material from the river bank along the city front since last August. Hew Eank For Jacksonville. The Fourth National Dank or Jacksonville, Fla., capital $400,000, has been authorized to begin busi ness by the comptroller of the cur rency. Largest Financial Transaction. What is said to be the largest financial transaction in the world's history occurred here. It consisted in giving of receipts for $1,260,124, 946 by Lee McClung, treasurer of tiie United States to Charles II. Treat, who retired from that office October 31st. The receipt is ac knowledgement of money and securi ties in the office November 1st. Wants Savannah Harbcr Improved. Representative Edwards, -of Geor gia, has introduced a bill r.ppropriat ing $1,545,000 to be paid ia four an nua! installments for the improve ment of the harbor of Savannah, Ga., along the lines of previous sur vey and report. The Standard Oil Trial. The Stndard Oil Co.'s case involv ing an effort on the part of the gov ernment to have the company dis solved as a trust, under the Sherman anti-trust law, will be heard March lit. COST MOVING THE MAILS were 139 full railway postoffice lines having apartment car service manned by 905 crews of 1,307 clerks. There weer also 1,374 apartment railway postoffice lines manned by 3,994 crews of 5,163 clerks (including .69 acting clerks) ; 21 electric car lineg with 19 craws of 21 clerks; 55 steam boat lines with 92 crews of 92 clerks (including 24 acting clerks) ; making a total of 1,757 lines of all kinds, manned by 14,646 clerks. In addition there were 48 officials, 129 chief clerks, 755 .transfer clerks employed in handling the mails at important Junction points, and 466 clerks de tailed to clerical duty in the various ; offices of the service. The total num ber of. officers and employes wa3 therefore 10.044, an increase during the year of 749. "There were 35 railroad accidents during the year in which .' postal clerks were either killed or injured or in which mail matter was lost or damaged. Thirteen clerks, 1 substi tute, and 1 mail weigher were killed, 93 seriously injured and 403 slightly injured. The number of fatal acci dents is larger and the number of others is smaller this year than last." Recommendations are made that railway postal employes be given, thirty days' annual leave and sixty days sick leave; that railway postal clerks be retired by the government when physically incapacitated; and that a railway postal clerk injured in the line of duty be granted leave, not exceeding twelve additional months with pay at 50 per cent of his regular salary. To War Against Trusts. A million members by March 1 to wage battle against the unrelentless trusts controlling the necessaries of life, is the hope of leaders of the movement -'for the organization of a inational anti-trust league. For final action regarding the organization of the league invitations have been sent to every Senator and Represen tative in Washington besides all prominent citizens to attend a meet ing here. President Taft will be in vited to be present and lend his moral support to the undertaking. It is the plan of the leaders to ob tain the cooperation of Congress men in building up a national organ ization. The Senators from each State will be asked to suggest a man and woman as the directors of the league from his State and. every rep resentative "will be invited to name trustworthy men and women from his district to act as district repre sentatives of the movement. For financial support the league will rely upon a membership fee of 25 cents, 10 of which will go to the national organization and 15 to the State branch of tlic league. A working capital of $250,000 "for the expenses of the light against; the trusts, it is expected, will be raised by March. To War on Red Spider. For several years an. insect known as the red spider has been doing con siderable damage to cotton in South Carolina: especially in the sections abound Batesburg and Leesville. The insect is' very destructive and where it has taken firm hold the crop is usually almost a total failure. Farm ers around Batesburg have had this matter under consideration with Represent alive Lever during the past year, with hc restilt'lhat through his efforts i department of agri culture has ,romc interested in the ! situation and has formulated defi nite plans for beginning work at Batesburg on Fberuary 1. Whiskey Beard ITamsJ V The three cabinet ollicert; to whom I President Taft, by bis decision m the case of the way in which whiskey .shall be labelled, have appointed as I be special board Solicite '-IcGabe, of the Agricultural Depart.. nt; So licitor Earle, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and Internal Commissioner Cabell, representing the Treasury Department. $315,CC3 Fcr Cape Fear. Senator Overman and Representa tive Goodwin have introduced in .Congress a bill, providing for $615.- rOOO for improvement of the upper Cape r car river. It is urged that two locks and dams of sufficient size to afford a channel eight feet deep Legare Sworn In. Though he was re-elected to the S'xt -first Congress in November, 1908. ' Representative Legare of South Carolina presented himself be fore the Speaker's desk last week to be sworn in, more than one j'ear I late. Ill health wa3 the cause of I delay. 1 COOPER CASE HAS BEEN POSTPONED Nashville, Tenn, Special. The hearing before the supreme court ef the case of the State against Col. Duncan Cooper and his son, Rob;n Cooper, convicted and sentenced to 20 years each in the penitentiary by the lower court .for the murder of Senator Edward W. Carmaek in this city on November 9, 1908, has been postponed until February 1. LIBERALS ARE VICTORIOUS. Will Retain Control of the Govern ment With Small Majority. London, By Cable. Saturday the fight for tariff reform, a great navy and the supremacy of the Lords as against free trade, reform of the House of Lords and home rule end ed with neither party in commanding position. Members of the Liberal party who were re-elected have major ties ranging from 30 to 60 per cent below their majorities in 1906, ex cept in a few boroughs where special conditions figured in the campaign. Liberals retain control of the govern ment. The Unionists gained a nura iResults confirm the forecast that the ber of seats, but not as many as they had expected. Waldorf Astor, who contested a Unionist seat, was de feated. The streets in London weer impas sable, owing to the throngs waiting for the returns. Automobiles yere used to carry voters to and from the voting places. The result: Unionists, 92; Liber als, 77; Laborites, 16; Nationalists, 1.3; ne.t gain for the Unionists, 29. Unionists failed to make gains that were expected, Avhieh keep Liberals in control. ASKS FOR AID. Great Damage Feared From Ice Gorge Worst in History. Louisville, Ky., Special. The ice gorge at Wolf Creek on the Ohio re mains almost as solid as granite and the jammed ice extended from the extreme western edge of Louis ville to Brandenburge, a distance of about seven miles.' Residents of the low-iying suburbs of Louisville have began moving. So serious has the situation become that the head of the government engineer ing department at Cincinnati has been asked to take the matter up with the War Department at Washington, to move ice -gorge by dynamite. Despite the fact that a steady rain fell at Ilaesville Sunday and ac companied by. warm weather the big gorge at Brandenburg continues to hold. The ice !s said to bo pressed down against the bottom .of- tli I'lVcj' and is idled fortv 'tteHthfiMiMu '"Some.. places. 'i2'tiiiS1su& The -big cmmm" mm at Tell City, IjN men out and . tlfe all along their?! br hun and property worth $ stroyeu Monday when aK. gorge in White river bnv river rose eight feet, closelySp proaehing the record high water' mark of twenty-two feet reached in 1875. Walsh Petition Dented. Washington, Special The petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of John R. Walsh, former president of the Chicago National Bank of Chi cago, under sentence of five years' imprisonment in I lie Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., on the charge of misapplying the funds of the bank, has been denied by the Su preme Court of the United States. Petition have been tiled in the United States circuit court asking for a new trial. Additional Federal. Jutge. Washington. Special. An addi tional judge for the fourth United States court circuit, comprising North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia is authorized by a bill passed by the Senate. Washington, Special. The Louse Monday passed by a viva voce vote a bill granting separate statehood -to the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Proba Am3ii:an3 Death. Managua, Nicaragua, By Cable. President Madriz has sent a message to the supreme court demanding the bringing to Uial of ail implicated in "the miscarriage cf justice, which resulted in the sheeting cf the Ameri cans, Groce and Cannon." Prompt action may be taken against Selva, the prosucutlng attorney in the case, Gen. Medena and possibly Zelaya. Selva has been aires' ed, but Medina h resisting arrest, also warrants have been issued fcr all members of the court maitial. idges. frX ii'H FrterVOfficsV Qieairiole Decker. Tn.l.. ' smKU'Mvm Company, Sentenced to . dred persons wcrM.-MIi:f.K t,6lnmbia. . b.-- JUi..r WEEK IN CONGRESS Insurgents Expected to Keep up Hostilities. UNREST EXTENDS TO SENATE. Fate of Several Administration Bills One of the Livest Topics With Nat ional Law-Makers. Washington, Special. No matter how satisfactory an arrangement is made for the selection of the joint committee to investigate the Bal-linger-Pinehot controversy, the insur gent fight promises to occupy a prom inent place in the congressional situ ation during the week.' - Dissentions between the insurgents and regulars in the House have oc cupied the center of the stage for a fortnight. The bickerings have even spread to the Senate wing of the Capitol and legislation there has been at standstill. , That there will be a lull in hostili ties in the House as soon as the Bal-liiiger-Pinehot committee is appoint ed is concealed, but those who are anxious that legislation may proceed without delay or not over sanguine of their efforts to keep the insurgent row in check. They look for renew ed outbreaks whenever any question affecting the Cannon rulers is inter jected into the proceedings. Second interest to the discussion of the battle between the Republican or ganization and the insurgents in the House is the gossip in both branches of Congress as to what wil be the fate of the several administration bills to put into force what are known as Taft policies as differentiated from Roosevelt policies. These embrace the program for the Amendment of the interstate commerce laws, . the Sherman anti-trust law, and carrying into effect measures for the conser vation of natural resources. Little opposition has been heard to the administration measures for the strengthening of the interstate com merce act. On all sides it seems to be conceded that, some such measure as is proposed by Mr. Taft will be enacted. Several hearings of more than or dinary interest are scheduled to take place, or at least begin, during the week. There will be the consid eration of the interstate commerce bills at. both, ends of the Capitol, :be Mann canal bill before the Senate committee on interoeeanic canals, and the meat inspection question i before ( t he House committee on agriculture. Another interesting situation will be H'W A T T X Tf TT TV Seenrities Hard LiJior .Specials Jatlge ttVojtmdW' sentenced ZJohn Y. i?jt6h -and "James Stobo Young, wr .. i i j.... secreiary - ana treasurer ior ine defunct Seminole Securities Co., who were tried in five counts for con spiracy and fraud in connection witji their manipulation of $."5,000 of the assets of the company with fraudulent itnent; the former to three years and tle latter to one year on the chain gang or State penitentiary. Bail has been granted pending appeal, at $5, 000 each. Shoe and Leather Men Meet. Boston, Special. Saturday more than 200 men representing the Shoe Wholesalers' Association, met here to consider whether the trade is real ly confronted with a radical advance in leather and shoe prices. President J. K. Orr, of Atlanta, Ga., presided. Smallpox C10CC3 Theatres. High Point, N. 0. A Special says ihe health authorities of this city have ordered that all places of wor ship and theatres, motion picture shows be closed from the 15th to the 24th, to prevent the spread of small pox. Twelve cases reported, but the situation is well in band. No crowds will be allowed to congregate at the depot or on street corners. Day schools will not be closed. The Hookworm Conference. Atlanta, Ga., Special. With three members of the Rockfeller commis sion fcr the study of the hookworm disease in attendance, more than two hundred prominent physicians, life insurance officials and representatives of civic and commercial organizations gathered in Atlanta Tuesday for the opening session of the first national confeernce called for the study of the hookworm. The conference was in session two days and a permanent organization, to be known as "'The Southern Health Conference" was perfetteC .fl'co.1 t., H.o ITniico -.nmniif-nn ox- -.-. ipvir. " fC2 :if 4'SaWffl?f- ' . rWIOraVT- penditures in the, -.Jatej-iorDepart cift near rjrKrU .. Jjm nUrt-AJ- MM fciv-r Chattanooga,- Macon, IlilMfll Secretary Ballinger- rf the Zr&SJgiL'X WttM' ofhvuig (Department,-. Washington, ha -' v r . v. v- - ; : I I Rural mail delivery Amount of Mail Matter Has Increas ed Rapidly. Washington, Special. An increase of 96 per cent, in the amount of mail handled on rural free delivery routes during the fiscal year ended June 30 last, over the fist-al year of 1905, is shown in the annual report of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General P. V. DeUraw, which was trans mitted to the Postmaster-General. Commenting upon this fact, Mi. De Graw says: "This remarkable increase is con clusive evidence that the institution of rural delivery has enlarged the amount of the mails handled and therefore increased the revenues This is true, although 45 per cent, of the bulk F the maiB on rural routes is second class matter, as the increase applies to all classes of mat ter, especially to letters ami postal cards, the latter due to the enormous use of souvenir or pictuae post cards." The total expenditure for rural free delivery was $.X,661,034r an in crease of $1,289,095. 9 Good roads have been promoted by the Postoffice Department in many ways. The report says: "There has been unprecedented improvement of tbe condition of roads traversed by rural carriers, due to the intelligent and well-directed interest of post masters and carriers. T' At the dead letter division t?. re ceipts of mail matter for the year aggregated 11.997.325 pieces, a de crease of 1,147,94 t from the pre ceding 12 months. Of this matter 1,674,788 pieces were of foreign origin and 591,604 pieces were ad dressed to- foreign countries anI re turned as unclaimed. Of the tota number of letters and parcels re ceived 7,535,044, or 62 per pent, were returned or forwarded. It was necessary to open 9,950,507 letters and parcels to ascertain a clue to the sender. The revenue derived from the dead mail ruatter for the year amounted to $29,234. Fine and Imprisonment. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Superinten dent D. M. Viningand Guard Peter Cornet, of the city stockade, who were found guilty by a jury of in humanly beating a negro prisoner, have been sent up for contempt of court, and fined. Yining's sentence was $150 fine or six months' im prisonment and Cornet's $100" or six months. The council committee which has been investigating the charges of cruelty and abuses at the city stockade reported to the council that manv of the assertions were substant iated. Sweping, charges . -were'-' Efkihs' Iia-- Prcwnf ed. 4rr: Sfia Senate --SetaryageU Uepavt mewfr- Vf , ComHTeree ml Xab1.- ha promiset'..o im$u.iex iiieja-eauou ui a b'&''"($-:in'icjSHgation of th conilttioiTS-of workingmen and work ing women in the United States Big Fire at Elite Park. Bristol, Tenn., Special FJk Park, a town of 1,200, in Mitchell county, North Carolina, was swept by a de structive fire Thursday. Twenty buildings in the center of tbe town are in ashes, with an estimated loss of $75,000. Very little insurance on the property. The toAvn is without fire protection. . Work Stopped; Many Idls. Tampa, Fla., Special. A special from Key West states that work on the Florida East Coast extension from Miami lias ceased, and that city is overrun with idle workmen, most of them ignorant foreigners and that some of them are practical ly penniless. Messages of Former Predclent3. Washington, Special. The House has decided to destroy about ten tons of old and worthless docrments, con sisting of old President's messages, etc., which are found useless to keep. Fortification Appropriation Bill. Washington, Special. The House has passed -be fortification bill, car rying $5,617,200. Statue cf Gzn. Low Wallace Unveiled. Washington, D. C, Special. In the presence of a distinguished gathering the statue of Gen. Lew Wallace, famous soldier, diplomat and author,' and a favorite son of Indiana, was unveiled in Statuary Hall at the Capitol. Plan to Kaire $2,003,000 Fund. Washington, Special. A plan was launched at the meeting cf the board of directors of George Washington University recently to raise $2,000. 000 as an endowment fund within tbree years. NEWS BREVITIES Condensed from Wide Fields, Domestic and foreign AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAFEY Suited to the Wants of Bos7 Reader Seeking a Knowledge of What foing on. At Ocla, Fla fire completely de stroyed the Crystal Cold Storage and Canning company's plant, Los $100,00. There was no Virginia pilot aboard the battleship Georgia when it grounded near Norfolk, and it i said an investigation will follow. The- widow of former President Barrios of Guatemala, once oossess ed of millions, applied for admission to- a New Orleans- almshouse. At Nashville, Tennu, P. B. Jones,, president and general manager of the Southwestern! Co., publishers, shot and killed his- 5-year-old son, Jerry,. ad then committed suicide. The Cotton States-baseball "league is t& be revived and. in the course of the next few days a meeting will be held for the purpose of perfect ing aa) organization:. J.. C. Barnett, a Louisiana farmer,, has been made agricultural expert to the- King of Siam:. Standard Oil interests are said to have chased a deal for- the entire natural gas output of West Virginia,, the sum involved being $200,000, 000. A fira- at Bramwell,. W. Va., burn ed 25 buildings and caused a loss of $100,000;. Jeffersan Taylor of Aakhill, Va., shot his-bride of three days, mistak ing hery for a burglar.. Karl Hau, the George- Washington University professor,. wh murder ed his mother-in-law in Germany and gofc a life sentence, made -a fu tile attempt to escape from prison. Three men were killed and two others- injured, one seriously, when the auoomobile, in which they were riding;, collided with' at street car at Atlanta-, Ga. The automobile was wrecked and the- street car badly damaged. Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith, pastor Fiust Presbyterian church, Columbia, S.. C:,. dropped dead of appoplexy. Atlanta, Ga,,. is b be the dhead quarfcers of au ice and; o-oal . corpora tion, that has just lieenycrhartered under- the Virginia j laws: ' . The 'corporation has acipurvd : absolute loeat erect Atlan- At Ian Rome,. bus. Interior as sus- tendent John D. Benedict of the Five Civilized- Tribes- of Oklahoma and three Supervisors as the result of an in vestigation' which lias disclosed " disgraceful condition'' affecting; the material aad moral welfare of th schools. French- papers are questioning lha motives &f the Un-ited Stales in the proposal of Secretary Knox for the neutralization of the Manchurian railway. A landslide t' jiles long; and" half a mili; wide- carrying an Italian village of 1,000 inhabitants dewn to destruction. Diplomats, oTicials and hundred of tliers attended Cardinal Gibbons1" annual reception in .Washington. Speaker Cattnon is promised a more decisive defeat bv tfte Insur gents if he attempts with Senate aid to overturn the resolution of th House to eltfet its members of the Ballinger committee. Republican leaders fear the effect of the BaHinger-Pinchofc controversy on their party. Secret Service men -are at work in New York trying to get on the trail of persons -who '"strip" gold and silver coins. The percentage of idleness is re ported to be decreasing in New York Stale. The II. C. Frick Cokv Company announces that the wage scale of 1907 will be resioiv.i. At San Francif-co, t lie trial of Pat rick Calhoun, charged v.itli bribery, has been defended until Jan. 111. Maj. Gen. Newton Martin Curtis, who commanded the van of the as saulting column which captured Fort Fisher on January 15, 1S65, raid lost an eye in the battle, dropped dead in New York. Five hundred justices of the peace and constables throughout the state of New Jersey are about to make a concerted move for higher wages. Three young Harvard explorer have just left New York on a two year expedition to the interior of South America, where they will col lect ethnological, data and specimens for the Harvard irv'nnn. Two officers of the Russian Army have purchased two dlrgible balloon to go to the South Pole. Augusta: Aiihens and Colnm