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"FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH" VOL. X,XI. PLYMOUTH, N, CM FRIDAY, JULY 8, L01O. NO. 4. l Year, la Advanc. THE "LAME LION OF PASSES Senator Daniel Succumbs to Cerebral Hemorrhage. DNE OF SOUTH S BRAVEST SONS. Illness Eegan Last October in Phila delphia Recent Paralysis Weaken ed His Condition His Death a National Loss. Lynchburg, Special. John Wf Dan iel, senior Senator from Virginia and for more than 30 years Virginia's fa vorite son, died, here Wednes day night, his death being due to a re currence of paralysis. The immediate cause of his death was a cerebral hemorrhage which occurred at 'noon "Wednesday in the right portion of liis brain, involving right side. This -was in addition to the paralysis of the left side, which was sustained last winter, while, in Florida for1 his Riealth. , '' The statesman's illness began with sa slight attack of apoplexy in Phila delphia last October, this keeping him from being in his seat at the opening of Congress last December. Only once since that time had he appeared be fore an audience Hud that was for an informal talk in January. John Warwick Daniel. John Warwick Daniel was the only son of William Daniel, Jr., and Sarah JOHN WARWICK DANIEL. Ann Warwick Daniel. He was born In Lynchburg on September 5, 1842, 2ind was, therefore, in his 68th year when death, ensued. His only sister is Mrs. Don P. Halsey of Washington, D. C. He was married November 23, 18G9, to Julia Elizabeth Murrell, daughter of Dr. Edward H. Murrell, of Lynchburg. Major Df.nieLwas from a long line of lawyers, for his father was a noteijf jurist, having been a member of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals from 1846 to 1865, and his paternal grandfather, William Daniel, Sr., was he second judge of the superior court f chancery of Lynchburg. When the war between the States Tbroke out Major Daniel entered the army of the Confederacy as a second lieutenant in company A of the 11th Virginia Infantry. He was soon anade first lieutenant and then adju tant of his regiment and still latef -was called to the rank of major and chief of the staff of General Jubal A. Early. He was four times wounded, the iast wound in the battle of the "Wilderness in 1864 incapacitating him for further service. This wound came near causing death for several arteries were severed, but his corii Tades carried him to safet'. It is claimed that Major Daniel received liis wound after having rescued Gen eral Lee from a serious condition. This -wound shattered his left thigh, ne cessitating the use of crutches until death. He was mentioned officially upon numerous times for gallantry and daring brayery. Gen. John B. Gordon spoke of him as "the brave And brilliant Daniel." - Later Har- LYNCHBURG" AWAY PEACEFULLY. per's Weekly wrote of him, "He is rich in influence in the Senate but poor in purse," and a few years ago Dr. E. A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, referred to hdm as "That Spartan man of integ rity." . TTn Ai-aa n m r m b e r of the House of Delegates from 1869 to 1872. He was' in the State benate from 1S75 to 1881, being a member of the State Senate when he was nomi nated for Governor upon the Demo cratic ticket in 1881. He was defeat ed by William E. Cameron. In 1884 he was elected to the House of Rep resentatives, . Forty-ninth Congress. Before expiration of this term he de feated the , late John S. Barbour for the seat in the Federal Senate, to suc ceed Gen. William Mahone upon the term beginning March 5, 1887. In De cember, 1891, he was unanimously elected to succeed himself. Six years later for the third t.erm he had no opposition and in January there was no opposition in his party for his re election, for the term which would have ebgun March 4, 1911, had he lived. Major Daniel was a Democratic elector at large in 1876 and delegate at large to Democratic national con vention of 1880, 1888, 1892, 1896, 1900 and 1908. There is one interesting chapter in the life of Senator Daniel with which the public was never familiar. His father, a man of prominence- and won.Hh. nlthouch his fortune consider ably impaired by war,. still had a good practice. He was one of those who foresaw the great commercial develop ment of the country and he interested himself in numerous speculative enter-, prises. He was sanguine to the point of visionary. Everything seemed to him to be promising and he subscribed liberally to tsock in concerns, the fu ture of which seamed to be bright. In 1873, when death came, it was dis covered his estate was insolvent. There were claims over and above the assets which amounted to more than $100, 000. These claims were assumed by Major Daniel. He had been with his father in the practice of iaw but there was no legal or moral obligation upon him to settle these accounts. He could have left them unpaid, but that was not John Warwick Daniel. He chose otherwise and his decision was to pay. To him it seemed the only honorable course, even if it took a lifetime. Accordingly he notified the creditors and' he began upon the task of paying principal as well as inter est. That was thirty-five years ago. During these thirty-five years he lived upon the smaller portion, of his in come, the major portion of it going to the creditors of his father and at the age of 65 years lie hal the satisfaction of discharging the last of his father's old obligations in full. ' Major Daniel was a loyal advocate of the "Lost Cause" and hi last public talk, for it was a talk and not an address, was on the anniversary of the birthday of Gen. Robert E. Lee, whose life he saved in 1864,' this year, when it was observed by Garland Rodes Camp. living in Campbell count v, Ma jor Daniel was a member of Dearing Camp, of Rustburg, having been the first and only, commander of this camp. None felt that he was too humble to be noticed by the man who had been horored by a nation and it was never hard to get his at tention. . MELVILLE W. FULLER i . Chief Justice Supreme Court Succumbs to Heart Failure. APPOINTED BY CLEVELAND 1881. He Was Born in Maine Came to the Highest Tribunal in the Land as Unknown Lawyer He Has Served Faithfully and With Distinction Bar Harbor, Me., Special. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, died of heart failure at his summer home in Sorrento Monday morning. To Chief Justice Fuller fell the honor of third . rank for length of service as presiding justice in the highest tribunal of the American gov ernment. For twenty-two years he was Chief Justice of the Supremo Court of the United States but Chief Justice Marshall presided over the court for thirty-four years and Chief Justice Taney for twenty-eight years. Before Grover Cleveland sent Mr. Fuller's name to the Senate on April 30, 1881, for confirmation as Chief Justice, he was practically unknown except to members of the legal pro fession. In Maine, where he was born on Feb. 11, 1833, he had been known as a well-behaved scholarly lad. He had gone to Bowdoin Col lege and while there Avon most of the prizes for elocution. He had gone down to Harvard law school for one year. - Finally he blossomed forth as a full fledged lawyer and "politician oi a high-minded sort in his native eity of Augusta. He became an associate ed itor on a Democratic newspaper call ed The Age, and about the same time was elected president of the city coun cil and then city solicitor. Soon thereafter he left Maine for the greater opportunities in Chicago. From 1856 to 1888 he lived in Chi cago, but attracted little attention outside his immediate circle of friends at the bar until he undertook the defense of Bishop Cheney, on a charge of heresy. His knowledge on ecclesiastical history and procedure astonished those . who conducted the case and his argument of the cause of the bishop before the Supreme Court of Illinois is referred to still as a, forensic effort seldom if ever- surpass ed in that court. He was a delegate to the national conventions of the Democratic party in 1884, 1872 and 1880. The Maine boy who had "gone West," accomplished-much, notwith standing his'quiet life. He had laid tlte foundation for a deep understand ing of the commercial laws of the country and along this line he had nerformed services for his clients which were estimated to have netted liim an annual income of $30,000 These accomplishments led the Repub lican Senators from Illinois to urge noon the Democratic President the appointment of Mr. Fuller as the suc cessor of Chief Justice White. Death, Unexpected. ' The death of the Chief Justice was entirely unexpected, he had appar ently been in good health lately, and there had been no premonitory symp toms of any kind of trouble. r The funeral service will be held at Sorrento and the interment will be at Chicago. Throughout his service "Chief Jus tice Fuller was noted for the dignity with which he filled the position. He preserved that manner whether on the bench or off of it. Although of small statue, not more than five feet seven inches, his wealth of sil very hair and classic features made him a commanding figure- wherever he appeared. Mark Twain's Joke. Probably Mark jFwain resembled the Chief Justice in physical appear ance more than anjT other man of prominence in recent years. Fre quently the humorist was mistaken for the jurist. One day, a young lady accosted Mark Twain on the street, and with an apology that she had never seen the Chief Justice before, asked for his autograph. The author wrote: vIt is delicious to be full, ''But it is heavenly to be Fuller." "I am cordially vours "Melville W. Fuller." His death Monday recalls his own words on such events, expressed at the centennary of the court twenty years ago. "Judges will be appointed,1-' said he, "and will pass. One generation rapidly succeeds another. But, who ever coines and whoever goes, the court remains, keeping alive, through many centuries we shall not see, th.'i light that burns with a constant radi ance upon the high altar of American constitutional justice." Chief Justice Fuller leaves an in dellible stamp on the laws of the country. Among his most famous opinions are the following: "lne income tax decision, in which the income tax-law wa3 held to be unconstitutional. The Danbury hat case, in which labor, unions were held to be amen able to ihe Sherman anti-trust Lrw. The Western Union Telegraph Co. vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania, in which the State was denied the right to tax telegraph messages, except when intrastate. The bank of Washington vs. Hume, in which the insurable interest of the wife's children on the life of the husband and father was recognized as distinguished from the claim of creditors. Inman vs. South Carolina Railway Company, in which the railroad was denied the power to exempt itself from liability for its -negligence in Moore vs. ' Crawford, in which married women were made to bear liabilities, such as those growing out of the fraudulent sale of land as well as the legal rights. Leisy vs. Hadding, in which the State; was denied rights over original packages of 'liquors in inter-State commerce, an opinion which led to the passage of the Wilson liquor law. Why Did Price Escape? New York, Special. On motion of United States District Attorney Wise, under instructions of Attorney General Wickersham, indictments found in 1908 against Theodore II. Price, the cotton operator, Moses Haas, Frederick A. Peckham and Ed win S. Holmes, Jr., for conspiracy in connection with the cotton report leak were quashed by Judge Hand in the United States circuit court. Holmes, Haas and Beckham plead ed guilty to similar indictments in Washington " last week and Holmes and Peckham paid fines .of $5,000 each' and Haas one of $6,000. Col. Watterson's Son in Trouble. Kingston, N. Y., Special. Ewing Watterson, the son of Col. Henry Watterson, the well known Louis-- ville, Ky., editor, was arraigned Sat urday at Saugerties on a charge of assault, first degree. It is charged that Watterson, who is forty years old, shot and wounded Michael Mar tin, a saloon keeper at Saugerties. An application for bail was refused by Police Justice Rowe and the prisoner was committed to the King ston jail for further examination next Thursday. Anxious For Postal Banks. Washington ,Special. Because Con gress at the session just closed pass ed the bill providing for postal sav ings banks people are already writ ing Senators and Representatives to know when and where the deposi tories will be established. Many of the inquiries seem to indicate that the writers of the letters have an idea they can right off put their money in the keeping of Uncle Sam. It will be some time before any de positories will be established, as there is a vast amount of preparatory work Two Unfortunate Boys. Washington, Special. Ely B. Run yon, cf Richmond, Va., and Julian D. Whiehard, of Atlanta, were each held in $1,500 bail in police court Satur day on a charge of housebreaking. 1 Bail was not furnished. Mrs. Emily E. C. Runyon, physician' and suffra gist, of Richmond, came to see her son, who was held for housebreaking. Mrs. Runyon says the boy's brain is abnormal and that he steals be cause of an affliction Direct Primary Bill Defeated. Albany, N. Y., Special. The com bined influence of President Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Governor Hughes failed to save fae JCobb direct nominations bill from defeat in the Assembly. The House voted 80 to 62 to endorse the action of the Assembly judiciary committee, which reported the measure adversely. Living with Arabs. "By living with the Arabs, doin? as they did, and moving with them in their migrations," writes Douglas Car rutbers in the Geographical Journal, "I obtained an insight into their mode of life and customs. I learn ed how to drink coffee a la Arab, and, most difficult of all, how to sit still all day long doing nothing. I found hi3last most trying more es pecially because it was cold. A Bedouin tent is a drafty place at best, but in mid-winter it is al most ' unbearable. On two occas ions thfere was snow on the desert. We used to feed out of a huge round dish, ten of us at a time. The fare was camels' milk and bread in the morning, and in the evening we generally 'had meat and rice, cooked with an enormous amount of fat. Dur ing the day we appeased our hunger by sipping strong black coff?e. At night there was always a large group of men In the tent cf the sheik and talk was carried far Into the night. The first school for the blirid wac -taMisbod in in Lh-urpooi. JACK JOHNSON WINS - i Colored Man Champion Pu gilist of The World. VICTORY IN EIFTEEN ROUNDS. Jeffries Could Not "Come Back" After Years of Retirement He Un willingly Responds to Public De mand to Win the Title From the Black Man, Only to Meet a Com plete Eeating Negro's Youth and Cleverness Secures the Champion ship. Reno, Nev., Special. John Arthur Johnson, a Texas negro, son of an American slave is the first and undis puted heavyweight champion pugilist of the world. James J. Jeffries, of California, winner of twenty-two championship fights, the man who' never was brought to his knees before by a blow, hai passed into history as a JACK JOHNSON. broken idol. He met utter defeat .at the hands of the black champion in the fifteeivth round. When Jeffries was not actually counted out he was saved only from this crowning shame by his friends pleading with Johnson not to hit the fallen man again, and the towel 'was brought into the ring from bis cor ner. At the end of the fifteenth round, Referee Tex Rickard raised the black arm and the great crowd filed out, glum and silent. Jeffries was dragged to his corner, bleeding from nose and mouth and a dozen cuts on the face. He had a black, closed eye and swollen features and he held his head in his hands, dazed. Round One. Jeffrie walked in and f JAMES J. JEFFRIES. feinted, both smiled and Johnson gave ground. Johnson led a straight left and landed lightly on Jeffries' face. They were cautioned and clinched. Johnson shoved Jeffries away. Jeffries hooked a left to the neck and in the clinch sent a right to the body. Johnson responded with a light left and they stood breast to breast trying for blows. As they broke Jeffries sent a left to Johnson's neck. Johnson responded with a left and continued to stand breast to breast trying for short inside blows. As the- - broke Jeffries sent a left to Johnson's neck and the negro step- ! ped in but missed. I The gong rang when they clinched. The lighting was tame and they re turned to their corners, Jeffries smil ing. Rounds Two and to Thirteen are not important. Johnson kept up his continual hammering of the white Nnan's head and face. Round Fourteen. Jeffries walked straight into a left and they hung on to each other. Jack tapped the big fellow on the face with kd't twice and blocked Jeffries' attempt at dose fluting. Shambling forward Jeffries took three straight lefts to the face and got in a left to the face lightly. Ji-ffries left were simply picked out cf the air by the clever negro before they could get within six inches of I his face. "How you feel, Jim?" said Jack as they clinched. "How do you like 'em?" Jeffries was sober and made no re sponse. He walked into three lefts in quick succession. "They don't hurt," said Jeffries. "I'll give you some' of 'em now,"' said Jack, and he proceeded o send two lefts to the face. Round Fifteen. It was a clinch to start with following Jeffries' attempt to land on the body.' Jack forced the pace and sent Jeffries down with left and right to the aw. . - ' Jeffries got up but was sent down again for the count of nine. The crowd yelled, "stop it, don't let him knock him out." As Jeffries got up the second time he staggered for Johnson, the latter sprang at him like a tiger and with a succession of left swings to the jaw sent him through the lower rope on the east side of the ring where he lay counted out. Johnson went at his man savagely. He sent Jeffries down the first time with a rain of lefts and rights to the jaw and Jeffries took the count of; eight twice. BIG RAISE FOR R. R. MEN. Through Mediators All Employees Granted Increases in Wages. Washington, Special.; Official an nouncement was made' by the mediators Saturday that an amicablt adjustment of the controversy be tween the railroads in the South eastern territory and their conductors and trainmen had been reached. The agreement signed provides for a substantial increase in wages of the employes and improved conditions and hours of labor. The adjustment also will avert a "threatened strike of 10,000 men, which would have invo'ved apprdximatelv 40,000 ethers. The settlement reached is regarded as a distinct victory for the em ployers, although concessions were made by both sides. The men have been granted an in crease of wages ranging from 10 per cent to 40 per cent. Some of the men receive a per diem wage, others receive pay in ac cordance with the number of miles they cover each day and yet others are paid according to the distance they travel and the speed made by their trains. When the controversy was sub mitted to the mediators, Chairman Martin' A. Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Dr. Charles P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor, 20 days ago, 13 separate de mands were made upon the railwa3rs by their employes. Of these 13 de mands, the representatives of the employes have scored a victory on practically all. Meeting Southern Textile Association. Augusta, Ga., Special. The'South ern Textile association just before ad journing Saturday elected the follow ing officers: President. W. P. Ham rick, superintendent Olympia millss Columbia, S. C; first vice president, Arthur T. Smith, superintendent I.angley Manufacturing company, Langley, S. C; second vice president, E. K. Brown, overseer, Great Falls Manufacturing company, Rocking ham, N. C; third vice president, F. N. Mclntyre, superintendent Loray mill, Gastonia, N. C; fourth vice president, M. E. Stevens, superin tendent Columbus Manufacturing company, Columbus, Ga.; chairman board of governors, M. (1. Stone, gen eral supenitendent Pacolet Manu facturing company, Spartanburg, S. C; members of board, S. P. Rhea, master mechanic Monaghan mills, Greenville, S. C; O. T. Lynch, su perintendent Enterprise mill, Augus ta, Ga.; W. P. Hardeman, overseer weaving, Newberry cotton mills. New berrv S. C; secretary, G. S. Escott, editor Mill News, Charlotte, N. C; treasurer. David Clarke, editor Tex tile Manufacturer, Charlotte, N. C. On motion of G. S. Escott, it was decided that in future there shall be only two instead of three meetings of the association each year to be held on the Saturday after Thanks giving day and the nearest Saturday to the Fourth of July. On invitation of the Greater Char lotte club, it was decided that the next meeting will be held at Char lotte, N. C. Three Killed at Bull Fight. Pueblo, Max., Special. Miss IOuise Duran, Louis Ruiz and Louis Florez were killed during a bui fight in the San Antonio Tezoyo Hachienda Sun day. Ruiz was manager of the Hacienda and Florez was a cowboy. The fight was an amateur affair, par ticipated in by people on the Haci enda. Miss Duran was in imminent tteril during one stage of the fight and Ruiz and Florez rushed to her aid. The infuriated bull gored the womaa and the two men.