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VOL. XXI. , PLYMOUTH, N, C. RID A YJULY loiSiof -j
LYNCHING IN OHIO,
fate of Anti-Saloon League
Detective at Hands of Tigers.
H WHITE LAD 22 YEARS OLD.
Detective Shot Blind (Tiger Keeper
and Friends of Dead Man Storm
Jail, Take Prisoner Out and Swing
Him With Rcp in Presence of
, Hundreds, Including Women and
Children Troops Ordered to Scene,
Newark, 0., Special.--Carl Ether
ington, 22 years old, employed by the
State Anti-Saloon League as a blind
tiger raider, "was lynched here at 10:35
Friday night, following a day of al
most continuous rioting. The heavy
doors of the licking county jail were
battered down and Etherington was
dragged from his cell. He was shot,
kicked and bruised before the street
was reached and the finish followed
quickly.
Etherington, early in the evening,
confessed he killed William Howard,
, proprietor of the "Last Chance" res
taurant, and former chief of police,
in a raiding of alleg-ed "speak
easies," in a raiding scuffle Friday
afternoon and narrowly escaped
lynching at that time. When news
from the hospital that Howard had
died passed over the city the fury
of the mob took definite form. Large
battering rams were directed upon
the doors of the Licking county
jail, and the deputies were powerless.
The doors fell after nearly an hour's
.-attack.
Crying piteously, Etherington, a
curlyheaded Kentuckian, who has
"been serving as a strikebreaker since
he was released from marine service
three months aso, was dragged forth.
"I didn't mean to do it," he wailed. I
His cries fell upon deaf ears.
. Fearing that the mob spirit would
not be satisfied by one victim, Sheriff
Linke immediately asked Adjutant
General Weybreeht for troops to pro
tect six other "dry raiders" hekUat
the city prison, in another section of
the town. A hurried guard was,
thrown out in their defense.
Etherington 's last moments' while
he heard the mob battering down the
floors, were spent in praying and writ
ing a note to his parents, farmers re
siding near Willisburg, Ky.
"What will mother say when she
hears of this?" he kept moaning to
the jailer.
Howard, it is charged, did not re
sist the detectives when they entered
"his place on the outskirts of Newark,
lie, it is said, however, put his arms
.about Etherington, as if to hold him,
whereupon the officer fired a bullet
into Howard's head.
S'triking Baltimore & Ohio Railway
employes declare that Etherington re
cently came to Newark as a strike
breaker, and the ill-feeling growing
out of the strike was intensified by
the slaying Friday.
The detectives arrived Friday morn
ing with search and seizure warrants
piocured from the mayor of Granville,
a nearby village. One of . the fist sa
loons sited was that of Louis Bolton,
where a bartender, Edward McKenna,
wa hit over the head with brasi
dcnuekles. The detective who hit him
was pursued by a crowd that quickly
assembled. The detective was rescued
by the police with difficulty. The of
ficers with their prisoner were follow
ed by the mob to the jail.
Licking county, of which Newark
is the county seat, is dry under th
Rose local option law but Anti
'Saloon League officials declare thai
"the law is not enforced. Wayne B.
Wheeler, State isuperintendent of tin
league, fct Columbus, declared that
HYiday's situation was brought aboul
by alleged negligence on the part f
"Mayor. Atherton of Newark in not up
holding the law. Wheeler said thai
the detectives sent to Newark were
from Cleveland.
While the mob was battering down
the doors, Etherington was in hi;
cell. In an attempt to commit suicide
lie smothered his head in his cot and
set fire to it. He was caught in time.
As Etherington mounted the block
readj- for the swing he "was asked to
make a speech.
"I want to warn all young fellows
mot to try to make a living the way
I have done by strike-breaking and
taking jobs like this," he declared.
"'I had better have worked and I
-wouldn't be here now."
The swing of the rope cut him
hort. He hung there for an hour,
while the crowd quietly left. After
the first excitement there was no dis
order. At the finish thero were hun
dreds of women and little children
In the crowd, all eager to accomplish
his death. No member of the mob
was masked and no Attempt wa3 made
to conceal th?ir identity.
PAPER MAKING PROBLEM
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United States Government Expert to
Investigate Manufacture White Pa
per Canada Not Depended On.
Washington, Special. Wood pulp
and paper-making experts in Uncle
Sam's employ have begun prepara
tions for what will be probably the
most thorough-going investigation
ever made by this or any other coun
try looking toward a solution of the
so-called white paper problem.
That congress wanted to get at the
bottom of things was shown when it
made two appropriations amounting
to $44,000 for wood pulp experiments,
the agricultural bill giving $14,000
and the sundry civil bilH an additional
$30,000. This is more than "four times
as much as has ever been allowed for
similar work, and all of the money
will be available for use by the de
partment of agriculture.
"The demand for this extensive in
vestigation into the manufacture of
paper pujp , from A-merican woods
other than the fast dwindling spruce
was brought about partly out of the
increased consumption of products by
the paper-using industries and part
ly because of the prohibition of the
export of pulp wood cut from crown
lands by several of the Canadian
provinces. To insure a permanent
supply of paper pulp for the making
of news, wrapping and other cheaper
grades of paper it seems certin that
this country must depend, principally
upon the conservation and economi
cal Utilization of the forests within its
borders.
"The method known as the ground
wood process, consisting of pressing a
two-foot stick of wood by hydraulic
pressure against a revolving grind
stone, is the cheapest process of pulp
manufacture and besides produces a
much larger quantity of pulp than the
chemical processes. The spruce is
practically the only kind of wood
used in the ground wood process. The
demands upon the remaining spruce
supply are very great, and as the
cheap production of the lower grades
of paper depends largely upon the
cheapness of the process, one of the
most important lines of work of the
government experts will be directed
toward determining how far the more
abundant find cheaper woods can be
used to produce commercially a good
grade f ground wood."
Rockefeller Wants Universal Religion.
Cleveland. O., Special. John B.
Rockefeller, speaking before the
Euclid Avenue Baptist church Sun
day school Sunday, declared that the
time had come for a universal reli
gion. Mr. Rockefeller read an article
from The Outlook, the magazine of
which Theodore Roosevelt is associ
ate editor, which pleaded for a fusion
of the Christian churches. The . ar
ticle quoted a letter from Monsirnor
Bonomelli, bishop of Cremona, Italy,
addressed, to the recent world's mis
sionary conference, at Edinburgh,
Scotland, in which the Catholic pre
late also advocated a union of all
Christian congregations. In his ad
dress Mr. Rockefeller declared that
his church and Sunday school work
was one of the things in life which
gave him his smeerest pleasure.
Buyers Will Pay for This.
New York, Special. The leading
cloak and skirt makers in this city
the center of the clothing trade of
the country, were unanimous Saturday
in agreeing that the point at issue
between them and their 75,000 strik
ing employes is not one of wages and
hours but of recogniton of theunion,
the employers declare as one man
that they will never accept the closed
shop.
Elected President Seven Times.
Mexico City, Special. General Por
firo Diaz, who will be 80 years, old on
the eighteenth of September next,
has been re-elected as President of
Mexico for a term of six years, this
being the seventh time he has been
chosen by the people of his country
as the head of the national govern
ment. Highest Record Made in Air.
Atlantic City, N. J., Special.
Walter Brookins, driving a Wright
biplane, reached an altitude f 6,
175 feet ever the ocean according to
official anm mcemnt, and broke, all
existing world records for aeroplane
altitude. At that height hi .gasoline
gave cut and his engine stopped when
be had come down to 5,800 feet, com
pelling him to glide to the ground.
By his feat Brookins wins the
$5,000 prize offered by the Atlantic
City Aero club for breaking the
world's record , unless a higher al
titude is reached before the end of
the present meet.
SALOON BECOMES CHURCH
Fiace Where Orgies of All Bunds,
Duels and Debauchery Becomes
Presbyterian Church.
Roanoke, Va., Special. After be
ing used as a bar-room a half cen
tury, during which time there were
innumerable orgies and scores of
tragedies within its walls and about
its grounds, the old Rock House sa
loon in Unioot county, Tenn., near
Erwin, was Sunday turned into a
Presbyterian church. The Rev. W. A.
Provine of Nashville preaching the
dedicatory sermon. Dozens of men
who had taken part in the rowdy
scenes that marked the history of the
building occupied seats in the crude
pews at the first religious service and
the knives, bowie to all appeances,
have been buried by the many clans
that used to meet at the spot to fight
deuls.
Moving Pictures Caused Boy Bandits.
Pittsburg, Special. Two men ar
rested at a cheap hotel here are held
in connection with the attempt to
hold up a Mount Washington street
ear. Police Lieutenant Shriver Stew
art who was on the car in citizen's
clothes was probably fatally shot
while trying to stop the men in their
robbery. The prisoners gave their
names as William Herman alias Wil
liam Napier, aged 18, and his cousin,
Frank Chudzak, alias Edward Miller,
aged 18.
Michael McDonough, aged 15, who
was on the car, positively identified
hcm as the bandits.
After being locked up a few hours
Herman is alleged to have confessed.
He said he and his companion after
seeing a moving picture show of a
western train robbery, went to a
pawnshop and bought a revolver. He
then told of a third man, who has
not been apprehended, who suggest
ed the car robbery.
PostW Deficit Being Trimmed.
Washington, Special. More than
$10,000,000 reduction in the postal
deficit lias been made in the first
nine months of the fiscal year just
ended, according to final returns
just received by Postmaster General
Hitchcock from the auditor of the
Postoljiee Department. Such a re
duction is unprecedented in the his
tory of the department. The deficit
for the nine months was $2,709,000,
as against $12,8.32.000 in the same
period of the preceding fiscal year.
In the third quarter of the past
fiscal year, the quarter ending March
31, the postal service 'earned a sur
plus of $1,363,000, the revenues for
the quarter amounting to $58,034,000
and the expenditures to $57,561,000.
The latter showed an increase of 10
per cent over those of the same
quarter last, year, while the former
showed an increase of les3 than 4
per cent.
Merchandise Imported $961,962,392.
New York, Special. Merchandise
of an appraised value of $961,002,392
entered the port of New York dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 30, as
against $798,303,279 in 1909. This is
a new record.
The appraised value of precious
stones and pearls for the fiscal year
just ended aggregated $44,885,057, as
compared with $27,354,003 in 1909.
The importations K)f 'automobiles
during the year aggregates 1,821 cars,
with total appraised value of $4,
440,017 as compared with 1,978 cars,
valued at $4,311,295 in 1909.
These figures were given out in the
annual report of George W. Wanna
taker, appraiser of the port.
Will Give Jeff Another Chance.
Chicago, Special. Jack Johnson,
the pugilist responded Saturday to
a report tht his defeated rival was
seeking a new bout. Johnson said:.
"I will give Jeffries another chance
to win the championship if he wants
to. I'll meet him at Reno on Labor
Day if that suits him."
Film War Abroad.
London, By Cable. Sir William
Howell Davics, M. P., has given no
tice in- the House of Commons that
ho will ask the governmen,' to pre
vent in the interests of pu Me de
cency, the exhibition of the pictures
of the Reno fight in Great Britain.
Bryan Carrying Local Option.
Lincoln, Neb., Special. Following
an appeal by William J. Bryan, the
Democratic jcounty convention Sat
urday indorsed county option and
instructed Lancaster county's 57 dele
gates to the Stat." convention to vote
as a unit for , piajk favoring county
optio p iUe State platform.
THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD
The Heart of Happenings Carve j
From the Whole Country.
Shipbuilding in the United States
increased during the fiscal year just
snded, 1,502 merchant vessels of
347,025 gross tons being built, as
jompared with 1,362 vessels of 232,
316 gross tons the year before.
Peter Smith, a husky young tan
aery worker in Newark, N. J., drank
17 jiggers of whiskey in succession,
thereby winning a bet of $1. As he
pocketed the money, he fell to the
Qoor unconscious and died soon after
in a hospital.
Glenn H. Curtiss made an eight
minute flight' directly over the ocean
at Atlantic City. The flight was en
tirely successful, his trip including
a flight along the entire front of
the city about a mile off shore and
1,500 feet above the ocean.
Mrs. Henry Mulsaw, of Chicago,
goaded to desperation by the alleged
brutality and unfaithfulness of her
husband, a street car conductor, shot
and fatally wounded the latter and
their 3-year-old daughter and then
killed herself by taking carbolic acid.
By an overwhelming majority,
Governor Jared Young Sanders was
declared the choice of both houses of
the Louisiana General Assembly for
the seat in the United States Senate
left vacant by the recent death of
Senator Samuel Douglas MeEnery.
Unique in the history of surgery
was an operation performed at the
Philadelphia Pennsylvania Hospital
when surgeons replaced the entire
scalp of William Jermond, 41 years
old. He will recover.
A eon was born to George Hedgelon
and wife, living at Scotch Hill
Church, Pa., just over the line in
Mercer county. The father is seventy
five year3 of age, and this is his
twenty-eighth child. The -mother is
his second wife.
The incorporation of the Universal
Aerial Navigation Company, of St.
Lows, has revealed plans for a com
mercial passenger airship which will
carry up to a hundred passengers in
a 60-mile wind and at a speed of
100 miles an hour.
Grieving over the death of another
bird, which had. been its singing mate
for over two years, a canary owned
by Mrs. Martin Hammond, who lives
near Seaford. Del., committed sui
cide by hanging itself in the top of
his cage.
An empty jail, resulting in an
empty pocketbook to him, led J. A.
Turner, who has the contract to feed
the prisoners , in the Bluefield, W.
Va., lockup, to ask the city authori
ties to lodge his sixteen-year-old son
behind the bai-s without any charge
against him, in order to get money
for feeding him. The request was
refused.
William Boland, a boyish crook,
credited by police with being one of
the cleverest forgers in the East, was
sentenced at New York to a term of
not more than ten years nor less
than five years in Sing Sing prison.
Though only twenty-two years old,
Boland was leader of a band which
operated not only in New York, but
in Chicago, Boston, New Haven, Prov
idence, Syracuse and other cities.
With the air full of aeroplanes,
two accidents from collissions oc
curred during the meet at Eheims,
France. At one time 22 machines
were dodging and swooping over the
Bethany plain. The aircraft gavethe
appearance of a flok of giant bird3
sweeping down on the field.
A toy balloon, which had been 17
days in the air and had traveled
all the way from Cincinnati, about
six hundred miles, .was picked up on
a farm near Three Bridges, N. J.,
by Abram Shonek. He found pinne4
to the frail craft the card of Misg
Zeba Goldstein, of 241 Shielto street,
Cincinnati, and he wrote her a letter.
She replied, and he got her missive.
"Uncle Joe" Cannon will take an
automobile and make a house to house
canvass in his district. He insists
that there is not any danger that he
will not be renominated and re
elected. The speaker was asked if he
would be a candidate again, for the
speakership. His eyes twinkled as
he recalled the famous recipe for
rabbit pot pie first catch your rab
bit. In other words, the house must
he Republican.
A record oreaking baseball game
was played at San Antonio, Tex., be
tween San Antonio and Wano, of the
Texas League. The game started at
2:30 p. m., ni was called at 7 p. m.,
m account of' darkness, with the
srore 1 to 1, after playing twenty
three innings.
Judge Joseph G. LeClcr. of the Cir
cuit Court, at Muncie, Ind.. must
decide whether the fact that a hus
band failed to take a bath in eight
years is sufficient cause for a divorce.
Mrs. Mary Shall, wife of Malen Shall
makes this allegation in her suit, in
which she al-so asks the eus'.cdy of
their two children.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad com
pany has placed orders for 4,000 ad
ditional freight ears and will award
a contract in a few days for another
1,000 gondola cars. The management
also has ordered 50 additional loco
motives of the equipment. The cost
is about $6,100,000.
Theodore Roosevelt authorized the
announcement that he would take the
srtump in Indiana this fall in behalf
of Senator Beveridge's fight for re
election. Mr. Beveridge is an, "in
surgent." Brazil has definitely ordered from
the Armstrong company, of London, a
super-dreadnaught of 32,000 tons. The
armament will consist of 12 14-inch
guns and 28 6-inch and 4-inch guns.
Although the bill for compulsory
education in Georgia received in the
house a majority of 19 of those vot
ing, six votes were lacking to make
the required constitutional majority
of the full membership and the meas
ure was lost. The vote was S7 for
the bill to 68 against it.
Loeh For Governor of New York.
Beverly, Mass., Special. William
Loeb, Jr., collector of the port of
New York, frarfkly told President
Taf t Monday that he would rather re
main at his post in the customs ser
vice than run for Governor of New
York this fall. The President as
frankly told Mr. Loeb that the Re
publican nomination seemed to be
coming hisway and that it would
take more than a fishing trip to the
Rocky mountains to stop it.
Mayor, Chief and Captain Suspended.
Newark, O., Special. Before he
had been in office an hour J. N.
AnkeJle, the vice mayor elevated to
the office of chief executive of New
ark, following the suspension of May
or Herbert Atherton by Governor
Harmon, had . summarily removed
Chief of Police Zergeibel and Police
Captain Robert Bell.
He gave as his grounds for removal,
the non-enforcement of the county
option law which resulted in the
lynching of Detective Carl Ethering
ton Friday night.
Ice Cream Cone3 Not Fit.
New York, Special. The ice cream
cone is the latest object of attack
under the pure food regulations cf
the federal government. United
States Marshal Henkel, with a force
of deputies, visited a North River
steamship pier and seized 18 crates
containing 672 boxes of the corrugat
ed ecnicle receptacles for cream. The
Cfnes were alleged to be unfit for
human consumption, and the seizure
was ordered by the U. S. district court
Score One for the Women.
Boston, Mass., Special. Women
teachers showed their knowledge ot
politics Friday by pushing Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young, superintendent of the
public schools of Chicago, through to
a triumphant election as president of
the National Education association.
Her opponent, Zaeharias Xenephon
Snyder, president of the State Normal
school of Colorado, who was the
selection of the nominating commit
tee representing all the States, was
defeated by a vote of 617 to 376 in
the general convention.
Woman Flyer Falls.
Bethany Plains, Rheims, By Cable.
The second distressing accident of
the aviation meeting now in progress
here occurred when the Baroness De
LaRoche, driving a Voison biplane,
lost her nerve, when at a height of
50 metres, shut off the power and
fell with her machine to the ground.
Her legs and arms were broken and
she suffered severe concussions, but
the doctors who have her case in
band hope for her ultimate recovery.
Many are "Short."
Washington, Special. A decrease
in circulation per capita of 49 cents
on. July 1, as compared with a year
ago, is shown by the latest treasury
statement on that subject. On July
1, 1909, the amount which each man,
woman and child in the United States
would have had, were all the money
equally divided, was $35.01; on June
30th is was iE34.5'. '
Reclamation Act Constitutional.
San Francisco, Special. The con
stitutionality of the reclamation act
has been upheld by the U. S. circuit
court of appeals, which sustained the
decision of the Idaho district court
in favor of the government in the
case of David Burley against the
United States. Thy decision directly
affects the disbursement of the $20,
000,000 recently appropriated by con
gress for reclamation projects "in the
west atfd permit the resumption of
werk that has been suspended pend
ing a decision on the ligal questions
involved.
The widow's mourning cap dates
back 7 Use -lays of anc?ont Egypt.
BLEACHED FLOUR CASE.
Jury Finds That Flour Was Adulter
ated and Misbranded Victory For
Government Peroxide cf Nitro
gen Used in Eleaehing Process
Wail of the Millers,
Kansas City, Mo. Special, The
jury in the bleached flour case hand
ed in a verdict that the flour seized
was adulterated and misbrandedr as
charged by the Guvernment.
The verdict wa3 returned in the
Federal Court after seven hours' de
liberation by the jury which 'for more
than five weeks had listened to testi
mony for and against the charge of
the Government that' 625 sacks of
flour, bleached and sold by the Lex
ing Mill and Elevator Company, of
Lexington, Neb., and seized while in
the possession of the purchaser, a.
grocer at Casel, Mo., were adulterated
and misbranded.
The outcome is a complete victory
for the Government, which prosecuted
the suit under the Pure Food and
Drug act. The Government charged
that the iibur was aduUVrated in
that it was bleached by the Alsop
process, which makes use of nitrogen
peroxide. Misbranding was charged
in that the flour was labeled a fancy
patent, whereas it was not made of
first grade, hard winter wheat.
Millers say the bleached flour de
cision will handicap farmers of the
Southwest to the extent of $16,000,
000 a year. , They say the old differen-
tial of 5 cents a bushel in vogue in
Chicago and St. Louis markets be
fore bleached flour came in will soon
reappear, and that farmers of Mis
souri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ne
braska will lose 5 cents a bushel on
their present crop, while flour made
from hard winter wheat soon will be
selling at 25 cents a bushel less than
at present.
Millers have under consideration,
the' establishment of bleaching sta
tions in States where the use of
bleached flour is not prohibited. Thua
they say they may avoid the Inter
State Commerce law.
The "Cotton King" Hit by Fine.
White Plains, N. Y., Special. Dan
iel Sully, known as the ' cotton,
king," "was declared in contempt of
court Friday by Justice Mills of the
State supreme court and ordered to
pay a fine of $3,800 and $40 costs.
The case grew out of Sully's fail
ure several years ago, when William.
Marmon Black, a judgment creditor,
obtained a court order restraining
Sully from paying out any money un
til the suit of .Black had been settled.
Black contended that Sully 'had com
mitted contempt in paying $4,600 to
Mrs. Sully after the order had been
issued. Sully said the payment rep
resented his salary of $400 a month,
for a little less than a year.
Bids on Porto. .Rican Bonds.
Washington,. Special. The Nation
al City bank" "of New York and the
Royal Bank of Canada jointly bid
$100,626 for the $425,000 4 per cent
gold bonds of the government of
Porto Rico. The joint bid; was the
highest except that for only one bond
submitted bv Edward B. Folset, of
Oak Ridge, "La., at 103 1-8.
Found Cook's Tube on Mt. McKinley.
Colorado Springs, Colo., Special.
P. J. Carrigan, an able seaman and
plaeer miner whlo arrived In Col
orado Springs a few days ago, says
that he had climbed Mount McKinley
and found the copper tube and re
cords left by Dr. Cook to establish
the latter's claim of having first
ascended the mountain.
Carrigan 's story is regarded by
John R. Bradley, Dr. Cook's former
backer, as sufficiency plausible to
warrant careful investigation.
To Treat Topers.
Columbia, S. C, Special. Topers
arraigned before the city recorder
hereafter will be put through a course
of treatment to cure the liquor habit.
The, city commission contracted
with one of the liquor cure institu
tions to treat at the city's expense,
prisoners assigned by the recorder to
a special ward for inebriates, which,
is being fitted iin at headquarters.
Oil Company Fined Heavily. '
Enid, Okla.. Special. The signing
of a stipulation by which the Waters
Pierce Oil Company is to pay a fine
of $75,000 and be restrained from en
tering into any contract in restraint
'of trade resulted in the dismissal
of the quo warranto suit brought
by Attorney Grii?ral West against the
company.
The fine is to be payable as fol
lows: $25,000 in sixty days; $25,000
in 6 months and $25,00 in 9 months.
It wa3 agreed that, the defendant
company sbouM maintain uniform
prices upon petroleum products in
Oklahoma.