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V; 1fD . i ! fft ftHH A If il 1 9 li il ' j ill i'ffl if. J0 1 1, a I etw a Year, la Adranca. Si ' FOR GOD, FOa COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " Qmgm Cpj s Casta. VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH, N. a, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910. NO. 12. i i illT AT UNION LABOR - Gof f Rules Strike for Closed Shop a Conspiracy. BANDS AND STRIKERS PARADE. Raises Storm of Indignation Among 60,000 Striking Cloak Makers No i',' Violence Decision Favors Scats. 'v -New York. Parades of jproktst I broke out ill over the East Side --Saturday on receipt of the news that Justice Croff had ruled in the State Supreme Court that a strike which demanded the "closed shop" is a con spiracy dn restraint of trade. Bands of ,he (V-00 cloak makers now on strike marched through the streets, one .of them to City Hall, carrying banners amd American flags and Stbouiting "Closed shop" &t fcvery step. There was bo violence, but ap parently the decision had greatly stirred the strikers. Justice Croft's decision granted an injunction to a number of the Manu facturers' Protective Association in restraint of acts f violence, threats, picketing and patrolling by strikers. "The primary purpose of this strike," reads his finding, "is not to better the condition of the workman, but is to deprive other men of the opportunity of their right to work." 200 Lives Lost; $20,000,000 Gone. Spokane, Wash., Special. If the stroies of men -who have returned from the St. Joe country are to be be lieved, the loss of life along Big Creek, a tributary of the St. Joe river, was appalling and the dead in Idaho alone will number more than 200, evah if Ranger Halm and his 84 men turn up, of which the forest officer in Wallace is not hopeful. All estimates of the financial losses place it flt over $20,000,000, mostly in timber. ' Supervisor Weigle has given. hope for the safety of Ranger Halm and S4 men, on the headwaters of the St. Joe river. Ranger F. A. Herns, at the head of a still larger party on the St. Joe, is safe. The loss of life occurred mostly last. Saturday and Sunday, when a gale fanned smouldering embers into great flames and drove flames through the mountains with the speed of an express train, giving fire fighters no chance to flee, for their lives. None of -the towns in Idaho and Montana is now in danger and the critical period of the fire is passed. Baseball Enthusiasm Fatal to Fan. Philadelphia, Special. During the exctiement incident to the tying of the score in the tenth inning of the baseball game between Philadelphia and Cleveland Monday Moses Nn iban, aged CO, a retired wholesale clothier, formerly of New York city, fell from 'bis seat and died in a few moments. Lost Job Took Life. Memphis, Tenn., Special. Driven into a state of despondency by the fact that after 23 years of service in one post hi a local department store he had been superseded by a new man, Frederick W. Ives, a widely-known dry goods salesman committed suicide her by taking morphine tablets. "'In the Dark and Bloody Ground." Hopkins ville, Ky., Special. Alonzo Gray, Roy Merrick, Luther and Bart x reekmur, Vilas Mitchell awd Frank 'Klurp'ny, all prominent citizens of "Lyon county, were brought here for safe keeping. They are charged with the murder of Axien Cooper, at "Lamasco, and were denied bond by Judge Hanberry at Eddyville. Snow in Texas. Dallas, Texas, Special. Tempera tures fell rapidly in Texas and Okla homa Thursday. Amarillo, in the Pan Handle, reported a drop from 92 to 50 degrees in 12 hours, accompanied by a "high wind and heavy rains and a temperatuu of 52 degrees and a light snow is reported at Canadian, Texas. Reports of a light rainfall are received from a number of other points in Oklahoma-and Texas. 'To Victory or Defeat," Patterson. Nashville, Special. Gov. Malcolm It. Patterson is still -in the race for the governorship of Tennessee. In this respect the chief executive made his intentions known in an emphatic statement given out here in which he says there is not "a particle of truth in the rumor that I will with draw from the contest." He adds that he "will go to victory or de- IN SHADOW OF CAPITOL Illicit Whiskey is Smuggled Sensa tion in Official Circles. Washington, Special. Special In vestigators Price and Hansborough of ASihevrlle, have stirred up a hornet's nest in Washington which threatens trouble for the entire internal revenue force. When they ran to cover and arrested Samuel Gormillion, a wagon driver for an illicit distillery here a day or two ago, they stirred up the" biggest kind of sensation. Capt. James C. Wheeler, acting chiet of the internal revenue bureau, declined to deny or affirm the report that a revenue agent may be involved in the alleged plot of the Capital Supply Company, distillers and whole' sale liquor dealers, to defraud the government by the. manufacture of il' licit whiskey," at its distillery in Fif teenth street, southwest, this being the place raided a day or two ago Following the arrest of James A. Cole, president of the company; C. L. HJl, secretary; E .C. Whitaker, in charge or the distillery, and Samuel Gonnil lion, a negro driver, it was rumored that a revenue agent would be brought up on charges of dereliction of duty and a warrant might possibly be sworn out for his arrest. s "Whether any such action will be taken is impossible to say until the complete reports of the special in vestigators, who handled the case, reach me," said Captain Wheeler. "Verbal reports have been mode', and so far no government agent has been involved." The raid on the company's distil lery and its subsequent seizure by government agents was a big sur prise to liquor men in Washington. Revenue officers have assumed charge of the plant, which has a capacity of one hundred gallons a day and it will be closed down as soon as practicable without wasting material on band and whiskey in process of manufacture The place is not what is commonly known as an illicit still, but is a properly registered distillery, con nected with whieh is a bonded ware house. Briefly, the charge against the concern is that a portion of the pro duct was being' sent out . and sold without warehouse or revenue stamps. Raising Our Food Supplies. Atlanta, Ga,, Special. With 26, 277,000 acres , planted in corn this year, being an increase of 1,535,000 over 1909 aid 2,776,000 acres over 1908, the farmers of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, "and Miss.iss.ippi are furnishing very sub stantial proof of the fact that the South is constantly devoting more at tention to raising, its own food sup plies, i These figures are from the last report of the Bureau of Statis tics of the U. S. Department of Agri culture. The acreage in corn for the three years in thees states is shown in the following table: STATES 1908 1909 1010 Vinrinla 1.925.000 S.040.000 2,142,000 NortT Carolina 2,787,000 2.SP8.000 3,072,000 South Carolina 2,073.000 2,218,000 2,418,000 Geonria 4,300.000 4.4O0.0O0 4.532,000 Kentucky Tennessee Alabama Mississippi 3.3irt,000 3,350,000 3.000,000 2,650,000 3.50O0 3.tVi9,000 3.575,000 3,718,000 3,233,000 3,524,000 2,810.000 3,232,000 Total 23,501.000 24,712,000 26,277,000 This great increase in the acreage devoted -to corn is considered one of the most hopeful signs in the South today. In a letter to the directors of the Southern Railway Company, P?sident Finley called particular at tention to these figures and said: "The increase in tbe acreajje of corn, accompanied, as it is, by a quite general adoption of improved cultural methods, is one of the most encouraging features of Southern agricultural progress. It is one of the results of a "general movement throughout the South in the direction f diversified agriculture a move ment which we are endeavoring to encourage and assist as far as we can properly do so." Shaved Son; Didn't Know. York, Pa., Special. Daniel S. Mc Lajie, a barber of this city, shaved his son, James, without having known who he was. The son had been in the West for a number of years and also in the Philippine. Islands He re turned home for a visit and walked into his father's shop for a shave. The boy's disguise was so perfect that he shaved him without knowing that it was his son until after the work was completed. It then dawned upon him that he had seen the cus tomer before. LaFpllette Mixes Work With Politics. Madison, Wis.? Special. Senator La Follette is directing his fight for renomination as the Republican can didate for senator at the primary election September 6 from his farrr... house, . three miles from here. His eepaign managers and stenographers go over to tbe farm daily and receive directions. During the time between his -political work he goes out in the fields and works with the farm hands, pitching hay and grain and cultivat ing growing crops. HOPE OF THE MAYOR Mr. Gaynor Expresses Noble Sentiment on Shooting. HAS RETURNED TO HIS HOME. Very Weak From Long Confinement Trip to Mountains Abandoned Disinclined to Discuss the Event New York. Mayor Gaynor was removed from St. Mary's hospital, in Hoboken Sunday to Deepwells, his country place at St. James, Long Island. He bore tht trip 'well,-but his insistent plea to be allowed to walk unaided resulted in three dis tressing incidents. Once he sank to bis knees as he tried to enter an au tomohile, ond, in ascending the steps of bis home, he fell on all-fours from overexertion. Despite his weakness, however, he maintained his cheerful mood and once more at Deepwells, spent the afternoon reclining in a chair on the veranda. : ne had been at the hospital since Tuesday, August 9, the day he was shot by James J. Gallagher, a dis charged city employe, on the deck of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der G rosse. . He walked unaided from his room on the fourth floor to the elevator. and from the ground floor to the auto mobile in which be was driven to a New York police patrol bott waiting lor him at Hoboken. In entering the automobile, however, he overestimat ed his trength and had difficulty in chmbmg onto-the running board. Hi step was feeble and his knees bent un der 'him at every step. At the deck where the police boat was waiting, be walked across the gangplank and abroard the vessel without help. To Long Island City the mayor rode in the after-cabin, sitting up all the way. Arriving there he walked down the deck and across the gangplank unassisted to an electric cab. Here the mavor trying to get into the cab anl sank to cus Knees, xji ine imti xsianu City Station he was transferred to the private car which was attached to a special train. He kept silent throughout the journey to St. James, which was without particular incident A crowd of neighbors was on hand to greet the mayor but they respect ed his wish for privacy and quiet and there was no demonstration.' But he smiled and greeted those who were nearest him, then motored rapidly to Deepwells. In his joy at reaching home, the mayor demanded that he "be allowed to go up the steps alone. He got only part way, then with a pitiful show of weakness, fell upon his hands and knees. He was not injured. Safe at home, the moyar asked to be al lowed to sit on his piazza and Dr. Parish consented. So he sat in the open air throughout the afternoon. Only two neighbors were permitted to see him. To one of them, who com mented upon the attempt to assas sinate liim Mayor Gaynor 6aid:" "I am content. My great hope is Tiat the event will help to make me a better man and more patient and just." The mayor still manifests ft disin clination to discuss the shooting and these words are practically the first statement of his attitude on the mat ter. His physicians ascribe his weakness to his enforced confinement in the hospital. It is probable that his pro jected trip to the Adirondacks will be abandoned, at least for the present. Socialist Candidate. Knoxville, Tenn., S.pecial. The So cialists State Convention held in this city Wednesday night, nominated Seth McCallen, of Nashville, as the Social ist candidate for Governor. Tbe con vention also adopted a platform in which it is declared that "the Social ist party stands for the interests of the working class, the wage-earners, the farmers, the producers. This class makes up over three-fourths of our population." Favors National Primary Law. Des Moines, la., Special. Asserting that the nominations for President and Vice President mav be and ac tually have been determined by the vote of delegates from States which cast no electoral vote for the party ticket, Senator Albert B. . Cummins declares his intention of introduc ing in tbe Senate a bill providing for 1h enactment of a national primary law. At the recent Iowa Republican State convention a plank was adopted ia favor of a national primary law. EDUCATE THE NEGRO President Taft Says That Will Solve Race Problem. PLEA FOR MORE LIBERAL AID. An Address to Board of Trustees of Hampton Institute Knowledge Gives Negro Self Respect. Beverly, Mass., Special. President Taft attended et the home of Mrs. Robert S. Bradley at Prides Crossing Friday a meeting of the board of trus tees of Hampton Institute and de livered an address on negro education. The president especially pleaded for more liberal financial assistasce for schools like Hampton and Tuskgee and their offspring. "Hampton has done more, than merely solved the race question in the proper way," said the President. "It furnished to the American educa tor a type of school that is now spreading throughout the country. General Armstrong was the first one to put into practical operation an in dustrial school that did the work that these schools were intended to do. It does seem strange and it certainly is interesting that it required the solu tion of the problem of the education of the negro to present to the white educators the best methods of educat ing the whites. "Education is the solution of the race question when it is directed to ward giving the negro a self respect and a belief in the dignity of labor and in the necessity for his making himself a valuable member of the community in order that the white man may then give him what is his due. "I do not like to go into politics or discuss the fact, but I do believe that the present situation in The South is one full of hope for the solution of the negro question, because politics is largely out of it and now the South ern wbite man and Northern white man and the Southern negro and the Northern negro are all uniting in this movement to teach the ten million negroes how to support themselves, how to support the community in which they live and when their value in the community is demonstrated, as it is being demonstrated, the race auestion will have its solution. No one can re?.d the lectures that Hooker Washington has delivered to his own people without realizing that he is one of the greatest men of this centurv and that he tlares to tell them the truth in, order that they maV begin to build up their lives on a sure ioun datiou. Taft For Revision. Beverly, Mass. Special. President Taft's kevnote for the coming cam paign is a further revision" of the tariff. While he is still convinced that the Payne-Aid rich law is the best t ariff law the, country has had up to this time be has at last reached the con clusion that there is decided room for improvement. Mr. Taft does not propose that busi ness shall be upset by another whole sale revision but be will recommend to Congress that individual schedules in the tariff sj'steni be taken up sepa rately and be disposed of on a scien tific basis. The new revision is to be based upon the finding of the tariff commission as to the cost of production at home and abroad. Only a fair profit is to be allowed the Am erican producer. "Extortionate ami unreasonable" profits, the President declares, are to be tolerated no long er. How Can the Operatives Curtail? Boston, Mass., Special. Millions of spindles in the cotton mills of the country will be idle for periods vary- ing irom one weeii xo sixteen aays during the latter part of this month and the first half of September. Mills in New England employing 50,- 000 operatives have already posted notices announcing a further curtail ment and it is understood that simi lar action will be taken by many other concerns. Acquittal Causes Another Murder. New Orleans, La., Special. Katie Freitsch, 19 j-ears old and employed in a local department store, shot and killed Frank Miehler, aged 27, a boil er maker, at Port and North Peters street here Wednesday night. When the police reached the scene, the girl was holding the n&an's head in her lap and sobbing. Se claimed that Micbler had wronged her. The kill ing comes on the beeUs of the acquit tal of Maine McLaughlin, a young girl, m the courts mere luesday on the charge of murdering Huey Smith. INLAND WATERWAY MEET More Than One Thousand Delegates This Week at Providence. Providence, R. I., Special. The promotion of a movement, conceived more than a century ago, to build a chain of inland waterways stretching along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida, is the subject which will draw more than one thousand dele gates to the convention of the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association in Providence this week. More, than $25,000, of which the State and city each appropriated $5, 000, will be spent by the people of Rhode Island to show hospitality to the visitors. It is expected every city along the Atlantic seaboard will send delegations. Philadelphia will send a large contingent on a chartered steamer; about one hundred will come from North .Carolina, one hundred and ten from Baltimore by boat, and about thirty from Washington, D. C. The offkial program shows a for midable list of speakers, including Commander Robert E. Peary, ton gressmaa Richmond P. Hobson, of Alabama, Willis Moore, chief of the weather bureau, Washington: Rear Admiral C. S. Peary, U. S. N.; Gov ernors M. F. Ansel of South Carolina, J. Frank Fort of New Jersey, Frank B. Wee'ks of Connecticut, Ab hani J. Pothier of Rhode Island and manv others. Congressman J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, president of the Atlan tic Deeper waterways Association, will deliver bis annual address. Clerk Crasy About Work. New York, Special. Because Geo E. Wezzel, a cashier for a dry goods firm, would not take a vacation when it was offered to .him b' his employ ers recently, he is under arrest here charged with stealing $15,000 of the company s money. When the vaca tion was offered him he declared that his fondness for work would not let him think for a moment of going away. His excuse aroused the sus picions of officers of the firm and an examination of his books was made, which showed it is alleged, a shortage of over $15,000 within a year. President's Fall Program. Beverly, Mass., Special. The Pres ident s plans for the fall have been changed. Instead of going to Wash ington direct from St. Paul as he in tended he will return to Beverly from the conservation congress. Leaving here September 20, the president will go to Washington for nine days and during that time will entertain all of the members of his cabinet at tbe White House. It is stated that on September 26, 27 and 28 there will be practically a three-day session of the president's official family. Returning to Beverly from Washington, the president will remain here indefintely. It is pre dicted that his stay may extend to November 1. On September 30 the president will address the National League of Re publican clubs at Carnegie -hall, New York city. Considerable interest is attached to the fact here that Vice President Sherman also is scheduled to make an address before the Na tional League of Republican clubs in New York on the day the president is to be there. ' $5,000,000 For Exposition. Sacramento, Cal., Special. Gov ernor Gillett has issued the call for a special session of the Legislature to convene September 6, to raise $5, 000,000 by bonding the State for the benefit of the Panama-Pacific Expo sition at San Francisco in 1915, pro vided Congress designates the Califor nia metropolis as the exposition city. Letters to Taft to Pardon Morse. Washington, Special. Letters sent to President Taft from all parts of the country urging a pardon for Chra les W. Morse, the New York banker, now in the Atlanta penitentiary, have been received at the Department of Justice. Many of the writers are women and no less than eight of them asked for the privilege of carrying the pardon to Morse if it is granted. There is no petition for a pardon be fore the department. A Chinese Counterfeiter. Honolulu, Special. Lee Young, a CSinaman, was arrested in a remote section of the island of Maul on a charge of counterfeiting. Young was found in possession of a complete counterfeiting plant with whieh he had ben turning out excellent coun terfeits of ten-dollar coins, composed largely of gold. Only a few of the coins have been put into circulation. The arrest was made by United States District Attorney Breckons and Unit ed States Marshal Henry. COTTON AT 20 CENTS This is Highest Price Reached Since The War. ACTUAL COTTON SOLD AT 19.75 Southern Spot Cotton Advanced At Savannah 3-8 Raise Bulls Control Situation New Cotton Movement. New York. August cotton sold at 20 cents a pound in the New York cotton market Monday on urgent de mand from speclativc shorts who had postponed covering until the last mo ment in the hope that the increasing new crop movement in' the Southwest might break the control of the bull leaders. This price, the highest reach ed by cotton for any delivery sine the civil war, and exceeding by near ly 2 1-2 cents per pound the highest figure reached in the famous bull year f 1903-04 which until now had stood as a standard of comparison, was re garded by many as the culminating point of "the bull movement in pro gress here for tbe last six months, during a season which, when it ends this week, "will eo down cs the most spectacular in the annals of the cotton trade since war times. Not a1 great many bales' perhaps 15,000 actually changed hands on the advance from 16.82, the closing price-of last week to 20 cents for August Thursday. At 20 cents, an offer- from W. P. Brown, one of the bull leaders, to sell 100,000 bales, checked the upward movement, and it was the general impression around the ring that this was a level fixed in the open market as a basis for settle ment of the entire August interest re maining. Later, however, this view of the situation was" somewhat shaken by the fact that after reacting from 20 cents to 18.20 under scattered selling of a few hundred bales, August again advanced on renewed buying by shorts, touching 19.90 in the after noon, or within 10 points of the high record. At the cloee August was quoted at 19.75 bid. In the local spot market the price was 'marked up to 19.75 but the Southern spot markets showed no such gain, the greatest advance re corded being 3-8 of a cent at Savan nah, showing the local character of the extensive advance. In all the bull leaders have handled spot cotton to the amount of 800,000 hales, valued approximately at $65, 000,000. ,. But the bulk of this has been shipped abroad and just how much of it may now be held encon signment at foreign points is uncer tain. Inasmuch, however, as the bulls have handled contracts for many thousand bales in excess of those up on which they have actually received cotton, they have undoubtedly taken large speculative profits, no . matter how their deal may turn out when their last bale of spot cotton has been sold. In the New York stock they still own about 100,000 bales. Another short supply, following a year of general curtailment and pro crastination in purchases of both raw material and flushed sroods, mav mean another season of very high prices. The next report of the government on condition will be issued at noon next Friday and, owing .to the con flicting nature of recent private ad- lces, opinions as to its showing argely vary. Opinions as to whether the bulls will extend their operations into the new crop months are conflicting. Some think that the old crop cam paign will be carried through Sep tember at any rate, but as the new crop season opens this week and new crop cotton is now moving rapidly in the Southwest, the weight of the new maturing crop must be figured on. Georgian Gets Good Jaunt. Atlanta, Ga. L. A. Ransom of At lanta, has been notified of his designa tion by P. C. Knox, secretary of state, as one of the five delegates from the United States to the nation al congress of commercial instruction to be held in Vienna, September 12 to 16, inclusive. Mr. Ransom was formerly president of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers association, and is president of the Mechanical and Manufacturers club of Atlanta. Crippen and Typist in England. London. Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, the American dentist and his typist, Miss Ethel Clare LeNeve, returned to London Saturday from Canada, where they were apprehended by the police on suspicion of being connect ed with the disappearance of Dr. Crippen 's actress wife, Belle Elmore, and with knowledge of the mutilated body, believed by the police to be thaet of Mrs. Crippen, which was found ia heir HiU Dsop Cwstent reauleaee.