North Carolina Newspapers

a V - ' ... Year, In AdTioc. POR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " . Stagi Cf7 J Cmta. VOL. XX. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, EJEBRUARY 3, 1910. NOU. i inimiii i . i. . in i i- i - i.i ' ! ..l i ll..,,.., i, , i girir -' -j i- THE WORSTjS OVER Great Danger From Waters in Paris is Passed. EXPLANATION OF THE FLOODS little Fear of Predicted Disaster to the Great City Conditions Are Improving Everywhere. Paris, By Cable Slowly, very slowly, the swollen waters of the Seine, which reached the high mark vat '2 o'clock last Saturday morning, llf flio "frill measured about four- and a half in ches. The danger of some great calamity, such as has been predicted now seems over, although the situation contin ues to be critical at many points -within the city. The effect of the removal of the water pressure has been to weaken foundations generally and this causes the greatest anxiety. It is generally believed that the breaking of the dam at Gonnevilliers appreciably hastened the climax by releasing an immense amount of wa ter, but the consequences below are appaling. Gonnevilliers and (Vdom bes, having' 30,000 inhabitants, ,ware completely submerged, the water reached the tops of the houses in the lower sections Avhile the ilood is backing up into the very center of Asnieres. Certainly 40,000 have been driven from their homes by the flood in the valley of the Seine to the hospitals and other buildings which have been placed at the disposition of the re f ugees. The local government authorities are displaying great devotion and zeal in the work of salvage and rescue. Nevertheless the conditions, especially in the country districts, are pitiful. The houses of farmers are submerged to their roofs, and in many cases the inhabitants have lost everything including their live stock. A number of deplorable incidents have been reported. Several shop keepers, who attempted to charge quadruple prices have been mobbed, while a grocery who was driven to the upper storv or his house by an angry crowd fired a revolver, wound in tr a woman. Rowdies have at tempted to tillage many of the houses and at several of the towns thev have been driven off bv the military. ... . . a 1 1 n i J lie explanations or tne? noons given by French scientists are of especial interest. Etienne Statislas Mouniere, the eminent geologist, considers the phenomenon to be more of a geological than a meterological nature. Alter explaining the action and reaction of the water in the strata below the surface, he declares that the soil of the entire basin of the Seine and tly mother big rivers of France-had beeJme imperceptibly filled to the point of complete satur ation during the preceding three jiiuiilhs of gentile rains with moder- ,-tite temperatures wnicu reiarneu evaporation. When the heavy rains came last week the ground Mas su persaturated and the water ran off as if from a cement floor. Busy Week Anticipated. Washington, Special. Committees of both branches of Congress antici pate a busy week. Several impor tant hearings will bf ?ed in the House. They include : i, in .rela tion to the postolTiee deficit interstate commerce bills, including the admin istration bill, which, by the way, will receive attention by the Senate com mittee as well; charges of extravi--gauce made by Representative Hitch cock of Nebraska, against Secretary Ballinger, as well as the joint hearing in relation to the Ballinger-Pinehot controversy. House to House Canvass. Washington, Special. Acting for some unknown person or persons a number of agents began a house to Iiouse eanvass in this city seeking subscriptions to a monster petition to be presented to President Taft for the pardon of Banker Morse, who lias begun to serve a 15-year sen tence in the Atlanta penitentiary. Investigating Pellegra. Washington, Special. J. D. Long, passed 'Assistant Surgeon in the pub lic health service, has been directed to proceed to Columbia, S. C, and other places in that vicinity for the purpose of continuing the investiga tion into the cause, nature and meth od transmission of psllagra. Killed in Wrack. London. By Cable. As a result of two third-class cars and a Pullman crashing into the station at Stroal's "Nest, eight were killed and 30 in jured last Saturday. The train was Tunning 40 miles an hour when the ardent harr,i'"- ' . FLOODS IN EUROPE, In Fast Centuries. 1101 Thousands drowned in Sicily 117.'$ Ziryder Zee enlarged by floods l'J.19 Norland, Norway, lake burst. Ij(,000 perished 1'MC Ku(nn ,1-, ,, .1 l. ' ' J uif:iVin.wi c itOMJ -innnnn j ill UUUUtCU XUUjUW UiUftliCU 1483 -The "great waters" caused by the overflow of the Severn. 1521 Holland, 100,000 lives lost. 1530 Holland, dikes break, 400,000 drown. 1570 Holland, 20,000 people perish in Friesland. 1616 Greatest flood ever recorded in Paris. . 1 646 Holland, 110,000 perish. 1802 Great floods in Paris. 1813 Austria-Hungary and Poland, 10,000 perish. 1825 Jutland made an island by in undation of sea. 1840 France, overflow of Saone and Rhone swept away many villages. 1846 Disastrous inundation in the centre, west and southwest of France. 1852 Floods in Europe from Bel gium to Switzerland. 185f South of France, damage $25,- 000.000. 1S66 Great floods in France. 1875 Large part of Toulouse de stroyed by the rising of the Garonne, 1,000 lives lost. . T876 Great floods ' in France and Holland; .' . I'- " . . ' . . . 1 010 Second greatestflood. insPafis ; , . other-- inundations in the .south t. of Europe. . .... V. r. GEN. WM. F. DRAPER DEAD. Former Ambassador to Italy and a War Veteran Passes Away. Washington, D. C, Special. Gen. Win. F. Draper, former ambassador to Italy, died at his home here after a prolonged illness, aged C8 years. Brig. Gen. Draper was born in Lowell, -Mass., April 9, 1842, the son of George and Hannah Thwing Draper. He served in the Union army from 1861 to 1864, holding eommissionsx from second lieutennt to lieutenant colonel, commanding, and also colonel and brigadier gen eral bv brevet. He was --twice---found- In 188 lie wasH Presidential elec tor, and he served as a Republican member in the 53rd and 55th Con gresses, declining a third nomination. In 1897 he was appointed ambassa dor to Ilalv, holding that post until 190(1. He served as commander of the Loyal Legion of Massachusetts, was a member of the Army and Navy Club of Washington, - the Algonquin Club of Boston the Cacia Club of Rome and others. Much of his life he lived in Massachusetts, of late years dividing his time between Washington and Hopedale, Mass. "DRY" HEADQUARTERS. Prohibitionists Will Put Out a Presi dential Ticket. Atlanta, Ga., Special. "We have decided to make Atlanta the head quarters for the prohibition move ment in the Southen States. "Every State but Mississippi is in line, and Ave mean to fight to win." "We are going to put a ticket in the tield in Georgia as well as the other States for the next election. We are going to direct the campaign from Atlanta and in 1912 we are go ing to bring the National Prohibi tion convention here." The above statements were given out following a conference of nation al and - State.; prohibition leaders. Among 1by?6.' present were: Eugene Chafiu, Ijte prohibition presidential candidate, and Chairman R. Jones of Cihacog," national chairman. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss Dead. Philadelphia. Special. Bishop Cy rus 1). Foss, retired of the M. E. church, one of the best known clergy men, is dead. Minimum Rate is Given. Washington, Special. The presi dent has issued a proclamation de claring that inasmuch as Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Egypt, Persia and Portugal do not unduly discriminate in their tariff against goods imported from the United States, thne countries are entitled to the minimum rate estab lished by the Payne-Aldrieh act. Acquit Members of Court. Managua, Nicaragua. By Cable. The court at Mesaya. has acquitted General Medina, Prosecuting Attor ney Salomon Selva and other mem bers of the court-martial, of respon sibility for the illegal conviction and execution of the Americans, Groce and Cannon. Cake Cause of a Killbg. Florence, S. C, Special. In a quar rel over the price of a cake sold at auction at a st-hol festive? near here Lofton Post on was fiffMy stabbed bv Moses BaAta!i,l .ItL . 'v wsin- ltes ia:T. ' " ' WANT WAGE INCREASE. Also Ask For an Eight-Hour Work Day. Indianapolis, Ind., Special. Ten cents per ton increase on all mined coal is demanded for the bituminous ' COMl coal miners in the report ot the scale committee of the United Mine Work. i rs of America submitted in its con vent ion last Monday. New wage contracts are to be made in the following districts: Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Western Pennsylvania, Contra I Pennsylvania, Iowa. Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Indian Territory, Texas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Col orado, Washington, Wyoming, Mon tana and British Columbia. , The total demands are : Coal tobe weighed before screened and paidrfor on that basis. An absolute eifht hour work day. Time and a half for overtime, holidavs and Sundays mA two-year contract to go into effect. April 1, 1910. TREATY IS WORTHLESS. Foreign Powers Not in Sympathy With White Slave Law. Washington, Special. The treaty ratified by the Senate March 1, 1905, providing for universal action of the powers toward the repression of the "white slave" traffic has been declar ed by DanieLJ. Keefe, commissioner general of immigration, to be 4 ' prac tical ly worthless." The failure of this convention to accomplish the good expected was ex plained in a report of the commis sioner general, which was transmitted ifb "the Senate bv President Taft in response to k Senate resolution. In summarizing an exhaustive re port, Mr. Keefe says; "Practically no co-operation at present can be expected of the signa tories as regards the enforcement of our immigration laws,, with which some of the powers are Ivsimislo be out of sympathy. The ptocuratioii of innocent women and girls gyjmr poses of debauchery has senlom, if ever, come to the attention of the bureau, and if it is the purpose of the i treat to prevent such procurations, the treaty's usefulness ends there. Even with the . passage" ot new legislation with stringent provisions, this bureau, whichr-'has been desig nated by the government in the re pression of this traffic, will not be in position to properly enforce the same without specific financial provision being made which will permit of an unremitting warfare against the evil througohut the country as a whole and not in isolated portions alone, this welfare being restricted, of course to aliens." COTTON PRODUCTS. Meeting to Form New Organization Will be Held in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special. A meeting to organize the National Cotton Products Association has been call ed for Atlanta for February 10. The call says "the purpose of the new as sociation will be: "To concentrate the heretofoj scattered efforts of helping the gov ernment to improve agriculture bv means of State press, colleges, rail roads, experiment stations, industries and individuals, into one great co operative movement thro.igh which alone we can hope to achieve the hishest; results and secure enduring prosperity. " Royalty Aids Sufferers. London, By Cable. The King has sent 1,050 pounds and the Queen .1.000 pounds to the Mansion Iiouse Fuud, for the relief of the sufferers by the flood in France. The Prince of Wales had subscribed 500 pounds to the cause. The Red Cross Society of this country has made an appeal for help; also President Taft cabled his offer of services in behalf of the United States. Donations sent from the . United States: Standard Oil Co., $20,000; Sp&ywCo., $10,000 and Frank J. Gould, $5,000.' ' Bear Killed Two Cows. Snffolk, Special. A resident of Gates county, N. C. says that Isaac Powell and William Hare shot a bear beside the carcasses of two cows which it had slain and partial ly eaten. The bear had dug a deep hole in the earth in order to secure water while its feast lasted. This was the fifteenth bear these hunters have bagged during the season. Tired of Rules Committee. Washington, Special. A resolu tion abolishing the present Committee on Rules of the House, and provid ing for the creation of a new one to be composed of fifteen, members, elected by the Hoiu;e, has been intro duced by KeprVentative Champ Clark, of. Missouri, the minority leader. The resolution prvv;J!es i!isi) the comniiiiue snaii ie t ten "o re vise, amend, siniplit 1 codify t rules of procedure House a report their concl the ta le ml rl- ieat day praeli.' MEAT BOYCOTT IS FELT. Wholesale Meat Sale Off 20 Per Cent At Atlantii Farmers Holding Meetings. Atlanta, Ga., Special. "The sale of trust handled meat by the whole sale has fallen off fully 20 per cent since the Atlanta boycott was put into effect the first of the past week," said T. R. Sawtell, the well-known Atlanta wholesale and retail meat dealer Saturday night while discuss ing the present meat situation. Beginning Tuesday of this wek, 40 labor organizations of Richmond, Va., began a 60-day fight against the trust by agreeing to eat no meat, goig it on vegetarian diet. Other towns and sites in the South a well as the north and middle west are joining the ranks of "We Do Not Eat Meat." Reports from New York say the entire city is placarded with eat no meat signs, and butchers are join ing the erusade. Meat prices were down in local retail markets. Boycott Hits Dealers, Say the Master Butchers. New York., Special. The United UMaster Butchers of America, in a statement given out here, decry the meat boycott as "misdirected energy which is defeating its own end." The statement urges the removal of tariff on all live stock. It says in part: "1 is not the packer who receiv ed the . most severe blow from the boycott, but the retail butcher, the man who must earn his living and support his family through the sale of meat. Why not go to the root of the evil; why not seek the cause of the disease? "High meat prices are due mostly to the gfeat scarcity of live cattle. The national" government exacts a tariff on live stock, shutting out out side souree of supply. Therefore we demand, in the name of the great American consuming public, that the federal government take immedate steps to have the duty on all live stock removed, i' Farmers Withhold Produce From ale. Nevada, Mo., Special. Three hun dred farmers at a'meeting here adopt ed a resolution agreeing not "to sell any cattle, hogs, poultry, eggs or butter for 60 days beginning Febru ary 1. Their action is' a protest against the statements of- the large packing house interests that the farmer and stockmad is responsible for the high price of ffiodstuffs. A letter will be senl to, all the farmers' associations n the United State requesting them to withhold thejr products from the, market. Retail Prices of Meat Snow Decline in Boston. Boston, Special. TJpe agitation against t lie high cost of food has be gun to show results in Boston, a general decline in the prices of meat being chown in the markets. Retail prices fell from 2 to 4 centsa pound on the higher grades of meat. Prices Continue to Drop; Retailers Cut Figures. ,-New York, Special. The efMrts of 1he anti-meat campaign are still strongly reflected in local markets. Retailers are cutting prices on all kintls of provisions. Sales Off in Baltimore ; Meat De clines 25 Cents. Baltimore, Special. For the first time since the meat boycott started here the beef market showed a weak tendency, declining about 25 cents a hundred pounds. Pork sold for $2 less than at this time last week. Many large dealers report that sales have fallen off 25 per cent. Meat, Butter and Eggs Have Reduced in Rochester. Rochester, N. Y., Special. Whole sale meat dealers here have reduced prices 20 per cent. Butter has been reduced 1 to 2 cents per pound and ecers have dropped in price. Will Turn Light on High Cost of Food. Wffcshinfflon. Special. Unless dans fail a congressional investigation 6f the cause for the increased cost of living .will be made, despite the op position. Hf o Boycott in Lynchburg.' Lynchburg, Special. Although the widespread agitation against high prices of foodstuffs is apparently ef fective tlsewhere, local dealers and brokers report no change in quota tions to them. There has been no effort hire to boycott meats, and the sales are up to the usual. Meat Boycott Indorsed. Norfolk, Special. At a meeting held last Friday the civic, department of the Woman's Club of Norfolk in dorsed the present, boycott on meats, and pledged its moral support in in creasing tne number of those who sign pledges to abstain from it for sixty days. ; Jac2son Smith Dead. Knoxvilile, Tenn., Special. Jaek- w" niium.i iii iiiiiive oi r-ioui.ii ivaro- , i .1 int vears a ".?57.enj ' ana, ear ;cer ot this city, last week. it Port ' -1-1.1 railroad member m 1 DAMAGING EVIDENCE. Declares Secretary Asked Him M Withhold Action After Election. Washington, Special. The joint Senate and House committee met last Thursday and began the Bab linger-Pinehot investigation. L. R Glavis, former chief ofihe field di vision of the general land office, waj the first witness. He alleged ,that Ballinger overturned Roosevelt's con servation policies and favored th "interests," rather than the publi and had an indirect part in th Alaska coal frauds, etc. , Pinchot is charged with running the forest ser vice to personal ends, villifying th Interior Department, etc. The in vestigation is expected to be the big gest overbaulment of the government since ventilation of the postoffici scandal seven years ago. The ses- Cn. will be held on Friday and Sat iday. The proocdings in the Ballinger Pinehot injury took on a livelier as pect when Louis R. Glavis, continu ing his testimony against Secretary Ballinger, told of various interviews ke had had with the Secretary of th Interior at various times while he was in and out of the government ser vice. Mr. Glavis declared that in one ol these interviews in October, 1908, Mr. Ballinger told him he was having hard time trying to collect cam paign contributions and that two men involved in the Cunningham claims who had been liberal contributors ic the past had declined to contribute because they were angry at not be ing granted patents for the Alaska coal lands. Glavft said that Mr. Ballinger ask ed him to hold up on the Alaska cases until after election. He agreed tc do this because he had his hands full with another case. NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED. Ernest F. Cochran Lands the Distrid Attorneyship. Washington, D. C, Special. Er nest F. Cochran has been confirmed by the Senate to be district attomev for South Carolina. Postmasters re-appointed foi South Carolina are : Preston Rion at Winnsboro; Eliza Ap pelt at Manning; Luther McLaurin at McColl; Robinson P. Searson at Allendale; Thomas E. Iluiands at Dillion; Isham A. Mayfield at Greer. fther nominations to be Unit States marshals: Clarence G. Smithers, eastern district, Virginia; John F. Poor, southern district. Florida; Asbury B. Patrick, eastern district, Kentucky; Frederick W. Collins, southern district, Mississippi To be United States attorneys: Lunsford L. Lewis, eastern district. Virginia; Ernest F. Cochran, South Carolina; John M. Cheney, southern district, Florida. TO RECOVER BODIES. Congress Appropriates $100,000 Foi Widows and Orphans Cherry Mine. Chicago, Special. Following the appropriation of $100,000 by the House for the widows and orphans ot the Cherry mine disaster it has been announced that the sealed mine wald be opened to recover 210 dead bodies . buried since i fell. It is not believed that anif the bodies can be identified. ' Next October is the Time. Washington, Special. The appeal of the officials of the American Fed eration of labor to the supreme court of the United States growing out oi the suit of the Buck's Stove and Ra'ie eompany against them in the District of Columbia, has been or dered consolidated by the court and set for hearing on the first Tuesday in the ftrm beginning next October. Tel Years For Selling Cocaine. Jaek&u, Miss., Special. If the bill before the Mississippi legislature passes the firm selling cocaine will jet ten years in the penitentiary. Kept His Word: Suicide. Mnroe, La1reial--rVlberttSitiifcl aer, a saloon' keeper, took a double oath on the first day of the present year. He made a pledge that he would abstain from drinking, but promised that if he ever did get drunk he would blow out his brains. He broke his pledge when he went on a spree, but he kept his promise by committing stifi-ISe by shooting himself in the head Myth a pistol. Working For 'or Ner Stflie. , SpccuV-Agif aiedford, Ore., SpccuKAgitation fov the creation of a proposed' new state to be' called Siskiii'. out of northern California Oregon, lias readied si a convention has t northern a stfsce that r I to t Ktiroka. Cal., INSURANCE FRAUDS Agents Arrested in Louisville, Ky., for Swindling. LARGE NUMBER ARE INVOLVED Physicians Said to Have Filled Out Certificates Without Seeing Per sons Named in Them. Louisville, Ky., Special. John J. Keane, P. J. Needham and T. T. O'Lear, agents for a number of in surance companies in Indiana, Ten nessee, Kentucky, and other States have been arrested .on warrants charging them with conspiracy to de fraud. The warrants were sworn out by S. C. Renecke, secretary and treas urer of the Indiana National Life Insurance company. While the amount involved is not stated, it is said to reach $200,000 in policies alleged to have been writ ten on the lives of persons virtually certain to die within a few months. The fraud consisted in the imperson ation of sick and incurable persons by healthy ones employed for the purpose. It is said that the affair involves in one way or another more than 56 persons and relates to .fradulently obtaining life, insurance ."-'policies-, to. the value of $100,000. '"''. It is also said that many persons are involved in the affai. One physician has, it is said, admitted that he acted as a participant in-a conspiracy by filling out medical cer tificates asserting that men and wo men he had never seen were in good health and constituted good insurance risks. In many cases, however, it is believed the physicians were impos ed upon. , The case was taken up upon th life insurance cttnpanies of Indiana and Tennessee who are said to be large losers by reason of "grave yard" swindlers. These companies which it is alleged Jjave already paid $10,000 on policy issued in the Rider case are excluded from business in this State, yet it is said, have been doing business in Indiana. The scheme is to a certain extent an old one. Merely choosing a man of athletic build for examination and substituting the medical report for tlt of a person of short life expec tancy. Rider it is learned, carried policies of his life aggregating $16,000, but none of his relatives is named as beneficiary. Mrs. Mary Quill, a sister and Lewis luder, a brother, made affidavits several days ago that they believed their brother came to his death by jxdsoning and that he was a victim of foul play. The family communicated with a life insurance company in Tennessee and the mat ter was taken up in Louisville, by a representative of that company and three Indiana companies. Upon these representations Acting Coroner Dascher ordered the body exhumed. After discovering the lesion in the lung, the stomach was removed and -turned over to chemists for analysis. When Keane, Needham and O'Leary were arraigned" in police court their bail was reduced to $5,000 each on motion of their attor neys. The case was then postponed until February 3. Board of Trade Adjourns. Washington, Special. The nation al board of trade has ended its for tieth annual convention here. Reso lutions were adopted endorsing radi cal amendments in the Sherman anti trust law, opposing Federal inspection of grain, favoring eliminating the educational test from the immigration law and favoring an international court o arbitration. Alleged Wreckers Held. ""Lynchburg,- Special. Robert Mason and Albert Lindsay, both white, were arrested here last Wednesday, charg ed with placing iron rails on the Southern railway 40 miles below Lynchburg last Friday, when north boun dtrain No. .10 ran into them, the engine being damaged but not de- t ..it .:i i. been implicated and tire nude'"' rest at Reidsvilie, N. C. n- . nan yf--g to seiza Sailor Heir t ry was an Norfolk, Spiria!.-" after Da- a fortune 1 man v. Tlan tures which but people " and ';:, . Of class VVi .1 cri- S ! Ir.i Sts