North Carolina Newspapers

r t ' - " ",L.Li...L..,a flftYar,la Advanc. ' "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Sls&m Cejy Costs, 1 1 - ' . - - ' ' ... .... - . VOL. X-XI. , : PLYMOUTH, N, C.. BRIDAL SEPTEMBER 1(5, 1910. ' NO. 14. BIS-LIFE UNCERTAIN Bullet in Dangerous Place in Mayor's Neck. SURGEONS AFRAID TO REMOVE In Nominating Gaynor For Governor Care Must Be Taken in Selecting " Man Fcr Second Place, if V New York. You might as well have the truth about Mayor Gaynor. It is bound to eome out in time. You reaj daly of the - Mayor's improvement in condition, of his long walks and all that sort of thing. You may also recall that thj.builet ha3 not been extracted from 1. throat. - The fact is, the Mayor is the ob ject of utmost solicitude. The bullet is lodged so close to an artery in the throat that the physicians are afraid to go after it. In a man of his age the arteries .are brittle and there is danger that in dislodging the bullet an artery may break and the distinguished patient bleed to death. In allowing the bullet to remain, there is the danger that it may work around and impinge its metal edge upon an a re try. This is the cause of the solicitude of the Mayor's, friends. His physical condition is being taken into account by' the politicians; they say that in nominating him for Governor they would have to con sider very carefully the man for sec ond place. Yet the Gaynor for Governor boom is increasing. Daily reports come from up State of the formation of Gaynor clubs everywhere, and un questionably a practical and peris tent campaign is being conducted in bis behalf. On the Track of Pellagra. Washington. Word has been re ceived at the marine hospital labora tory that Dr.- C. H. Lavinger, of the public, health service, who has been in Europe studying pellagra, has sailed for this country. He has had a hard but interesting summer's work. He is very conservative and care ful in making predictions, so that he has not ventured any additional sug gestions as to the source of pella gra, but it is believed by the physi cians of-the service that they are on the track of the disease and will be able soon to determine its origin. It is fairly well established that these conclusions will not agree with those published by Dr. Sobone of Paris, who recently announced that he had discovered the carrier of the disease in a night-flying insect. It is also said at the laboratory that there is no truth in the state ment that the scientists are tracing hookworm in pasteurised and con densed milk. No work in this line has been done, and the circumstances are not such as to justify spending time in looking- for what does not exist. i Bank President Pardoned. Macon, Ga. J. W. Cabaniss, form erly president of the Exchange Nat ional Bank; of Macon, who was con victed in esuperior court and sen tenced to bne yea,r on the state prison farm and a fine o $500 for declaring illegal dividends, has been pardoned by Governor Brown. Strikers Lost Heavily. yS'ew Bedford, Mass. After being x.-.-v for nearly four weeks and Iwsing an aggregate amount of wages which will 'exceed $30,000, the 3,000 strik ing laborers and hod-carriers of this city have returned to work. The men failed to obtain an advance in wages for which they struck. Bank Examinations Criticised. Washington. "In almost every ease of a national bank failure, since I have been comptroller," said Law rence O. Murray, comptroller of the -currency, "the insolvency could have been averted had the national bank examiner determined the true con dition and reported his findings in time for me to force a correction in the administration of bank's affairs." Mr. Murray announced his inten tion to go into every bank examining district and investigate personally the work of the national bank examiners. Car Strike Cost $2,300,000. Philadelphia. According to a re port submitted to the directors of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company the strike of the conductors and xnotormen in the early. part of the present year cost the company $2,- The report states that the loss in fares during the strike was $1,50O, O00, and that the expenses incurred because of the difficulty amounted to $800,000. A deficit of $1,300,000 for the st fiscal year is reported. FARMERS TOBE ON GUARD Will Demand Legislation For Planters Legislatures Will be Viated, Charlotte, N. C Hereafter Con gress and State , Legislatures will be visited by a legis lative committee from the National Farmers' Union which "will see that the demands of the farmers are car ried out, and if not, why not." The committee will work for the passage of laws to prevent gambling in agricultural products; against the establishment of central governmeat banks: to restrict foreign immigra tion, and to gradually reduce the tariff to a revenue basis.- The report of the committee n education, presented by President D H. Hill, of the North Carolina Agri cultural and Mechanical College, ap pealing to the State and national Governments for more agricultural schools and more liberal education for the farmer, was unanimously indor sed. The union adopted a resolution approving heartily the movement of the Reciprocity League to have meat restrictions removed. Human Orchid's Mother Free. Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. John Tan ner has secured a divorce in Judge Huttoh's court and permission to 'as sume her maiden name of Eleanor Milbank Anderson. This announcement will stir the bluest blood section of the old Hol land families in New York society, for Mrs. Tanner is the mother of Betty Tanner, the "'human orchid," who is being reared here by chemical formula, so that she will iive to in herit the Milbank fortune of $25, 000,000 now !Ln possession of 'her grandmother, Mrs. Abraham Archi bald Anderson. Mrs. Tanner testified that her moths c Iiad to supply all the money for tr.e family expanse-.. The mother is awarded complete custody of the child, Betty. Death, of Alabama's Ex-Go verno. Montgomery, Ala. Gen. W. C, Oates died here Saturday. He was formferly Governor fof Alabama, a Confederate veteran and a brigadier general in the Spanish-American war. tie was a tormer congressman and a present member of the Chiekamauga park commission. During the'Spanish-Ameriean war he was a brigadier of volunteers. Will Keep Out Cholera- Washington. The pubic health and marine hospital service is clearing for action to prevent cholera, now spreading through Russia and m6re recently discovered in Germany and France, from being brought to this country. Officers of the service are more alarmed at the probabilities of the plague being imported by immi grants than they arc willing to admit. Lost Lives to Save Others. - Newport News, Va. Death by- drowning rather than by fire is be lieved to- have been the fate of the three- men who sacrificed their lives Thursday th the battleship North Dakota, when an explosion of oil took place in one of the compartments of the mighty dreadn aught. It was in an effort to put out the blazing sea of oil by flooding the compartment with water that the men lost their lives rather than by the fire itself. Barbecued Rattlesnake for Lawyers. Americns, Ga. Home raised dia mond backed rattlesnake, barbecued and served in" nice tender portions will be the main epicurean attraction of afeast planned for the attorneys of this' city -by Mose Henderson, an ante bellum negro, who declares there's nothing more delicious and satisfying than a reptile sandwich. Expensive to Get Georgia Governor. Atlanta, Ga. For the Democratic nomination, for Governor of Georgia, Hoke Smith, successful candidate in the recent primary election, paid $17,596.10 according to an itemized expense account filed by him with the comptroller general of the State. Of this amount friends contributed to his campaign fund $7,097.47, the remainder out of Mr. Smith's pocket. Governor Joseph M. Brown spent $3,950.75 in an unsuccessful . effort to secure a renomination. "For the Good cf the Party." Nashville, Tenn. Governor M. R. Patterson has withdrawn from the race to succeed himself as Governor of TennVee. ' Governor Patterson wa sthe nominee of the regular fac tion of the Democratic party and has been bitterly opposed by the in dependent State-. .ide prohibition Democrats, who, in coalition with the Republicans, elected a State judiciary last month, defeating a ticket foi which Governor Patterson made n strenuous campaign of the State. ALLINGER SCORED. Democrats on Investigating Committee Make Report ALSO INSURGENT REPUBLICAN. Republican Members Have Not Re ported Conclusions Axe Blistering Up to Congress What Next? Minneapolis, Minn. "That Richard A. Ballanger has not been true to the trust reposed in him as Secre tary of the Interior, that he is not deserving, of public confidence and that he should be requested by the propeT ' authorities to resign his of fice." The foregoing sums up the findings of the four Democratic members of the Ballinger-Pinchot congressional investigating committee which- were made public Friday. The Republican members issued no report of any kind bearing on the controversy. An independent report was given out by, Mr. Madison, the insurgent Republican from Kansas, which " de clares also that Mr. Ballinger "should not be retained, that he was an un faithful trustee of the people's in terest, an enemy of conservation" and that the-charges of Gifford Pin- chot should be sustained. These findings will be printed and filed with Congress. The Democratic report as signed by Senators Duncan U. Fletcher of North Dakota, and Representatives Ollie James of Kentucky and James M. Graham of Illinois. It says: "Summarized, the Democratic findings declare that the evidence shows : "That there was no conspiracy against Mr. Ballinger. "That Gifford Pinchot and L. R. Glavis were faithful trustees of the people's interest. "That Mr. Ballinger 's conduct i certain occasions was intended to and did have the effect of deceiving the President. "That Mr. Ballinger 's action in having 'clear fisted' the so-called' Cunningham Alaskan coal lands, and ordering them patented, showed bad faith. , "That he advocated a bill to vali date Alaskan coal claims alleged to be fradulent. "That his action in acting as attor ney in cases pending in the land office while he was commissioner was reprehensible. "That he helped to force the Cun ningham coal claims to a hearing be fore the government was ready to proceed. "That he encouraged insubordina tion in the reclamation service and condoned improper official conduct in that connection." Numerous official aets of Mr. Bal linger are attacked. High praise is given Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester, and L. R, Glavis, former chief of field division of tho general land office. Mr. Madison's conclusions are: "That the charges of Messrs. Gin vis and Pinchot should be sustained. "That Mr. Ballinger has been un faithful to the .public interests. "That in the matter of the Cun ningham coal lands he was a faith ful trustee of tke people's interests. "That with regard to the re clamation service he has taken action tending towards its disintegration." Secretary Ballinger's action in re storing water power, sites without in tention to withdraw is also criticised along with his conservation policy, among other things. . At what time the Republicans will give out their findings could not be learned. Johnstown Flood Victims Unearthed. Johnstown, Pa. The bones of eight disjointed skeletons, -victims of the flood of 21 years ago, were dug from the bed of the Conemaugh river at the foot of the famous old stone bridge against which the tons of water hurled human lives, houses and everything movable. Besides the bones, coins, kitchen utensils, sewing machines and, many other relics were appropriated by the working men but the bones have been gathered in bags and will be buried in the Grandview cemetery. Lorimer Quite Hamilton Club. Chicago. A terse note of resig ation from the Hamilton 'Club, of ,-hich he had been a member many ears, was t lis answer made here mvlav bv United States Senator William Lorimer to the action of the I ub president. John II. Batten, in ithdrawing his invitation to the 'cosevelt banquet Thursday night, he invitation was withdrawn at the errand of Colonel Roosevelr, who ?fused to attend a banquet at which Senator Lorimer also was a guest. GONE TO A HIGHER COURT Lloyd W. Bowers, Solicitor General U. S Passes at Boston. Boston. Solicitor General Lloyd Wheaton Bowers, aged 51, life-long friend of President Taft, died at the Hotel Touraine in this city Friday Death came suddenly, the result of a cardiac thrombus, which ended an ilitiess of months, due to an attack of bronchitis. The death of Mr.1 Bowers who relinquished as exceedingly re munerative position as railroad eoun sel to take up the duties of solicitor general on March 22, 1909, at the in stance of President Taft, removes a prospective candidate for one of the vacancies in the Supreme Court bench $1,562,600,000 Import Trade. Washington. Uncle Sam's import trade under the Payne-Aldrich tariff law during the past , year, wr. a re cord breaker, according to the govern ment statistical experts. Under this law during the 12 months ending July 31, last, imports aggregatisg $1,562,600,000 came into the United States. Qf this total $794,600,000 was listed as dutiable while $768,000,000 entered free of duty. Although it was the first year of the Pavhe Aldrieh law, it eclipsed all former records under the Dingley, Wilson and MeKinley laws. The banner year -of the previous 18 years had been in 1907 when, under the Dingley act, $1,456,500,000 of imports was recorded. Customs receipts during the past year amounted to $327,900,000, which was more than $17,000,000 in excels of the previous year under the Ding' ley act. Pope Fights Modernism. Rome. Pope Pius X, has issued a motu proprio, giving new and prae tical measures to be adopted against the growing modernist campaign. The Pontiff reiterates all rules pre vieusly set forth against modernism, especially in the encyclical pascendi, and adds that the bishops and the rec tors of Catholic colleges must" watch attentively the development of the1 young clergy, seeing to it tnat they are well prepared to fight error, for bidding them to read newspapers and periodicals, and avoid distracting them fbrm their studies. Every professor, in beginning his course, every acolyte, before being promoted; every "new eontessor, cu rate, canon, or holder of a similar of fice, and every ecclesiastical official, before taking possession of his post, must take an oath of loyalty to the healthy Catholic doctrine and dis cipline. Total New Cotton Ginned. Washington, ' D. C The number of bales of cotton ginned to Septem ber 1, from the growth of 1910, was 356,824 bales, round bales counted as half bales, according to the repof of the Census Bureau made Thurs day. The 1909 total was 388,242 bales;-the 1908, 402,229 bales, and the 1907, 200,278 bales. Comparative statistics by States of cotton ginned, follows: State. 1910. 1909. Alabama 4,505 13,535 Arkansas 27 449 Florida 604 3,542 Georgia.. 2,818 106,3-31 Mississippi 535 1,670 Louisiana 1,106 3,450 North Carolina. .. 4 1,070 South Carolina. .. 19S 18,949 Tennessee 4 Texas.. 328,625 237,901 Oklahoma ....... 397 1.370 All other States ... 5 1 The number of Sea Island bales in cluded is 208 as compared with 1,236 for.1909. California Will Give $10,000,000. Sacramento, Cal. The constitu tional amendment providing for the submission to the voters of the State of a proposal to levy a special tax of $5,000,000 to finance the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915 was adopted by the Senate. The amendment permitting San Francisco to alter its eharter to in cur a bopded indebtedness of $5, 000,000 for the same purpose was also adopted. Kidnapped CL,'ld Returned. New York. Little Michael Scimeca the 3-yeax-old son of Dr. Seimeca, a prominent Italian physician, is safe ly in the hands of his relatives after having been held for nearly tnree months a captive by "black hind" kidnappers. . The abductors of the boy have so far escaped the police dray -net. .Much mystery surround lie cir cumstances of the child's reappearance. THE NEWS MINUTELY TOLD Tie Heart of Happenings Carved From-the Whole Country. The cotton spindles in the South aum-ber 11,583,359, including old, idle uul not complete. Efforts to have o curfew law enaet- d in York, Pa., are being made by Am Womaa'B Christian Temperance Union. Admiral Evans mys: "I have dad more trouble over my Bailors get ting drunk in the porte of Maine Shan I have IkwI at any other ports m the world." The estimated earnings for the Southern Railway system for the fourth, week in August, 1910, were: This year, $1,592,173; last year, $1,- 03,811; an increase of $88,362. D. N. Washington, of Pleasant Valley, Va., has sold his ungathered ipple crop of forty-frmr acres to the Ebner Ice and Cold Storage Co., of Indianapolis, Ind., for $2,000. Population of Osyter Bay town, including Farmingdale end Seaeliff villages, 21,802, an increase of 5,468 since 1900. This is Col. Roosevelt's borne town. Fishermen of the Middle Sound, near Wilmington, N. C, report the catching of 3,000 bunches of large September mullets, this being ,; the first bi? cateh of the season. Fish ermen generally are reporting good fishing. J. C. Messick, near Goshen, fed salt from fish brine to nine head of eattle, which seemed fond of it, with the result that four soon died," but the other five recovered after severe sickness. Officials of the State Department are oming to the conclusion that it will require the greatest amount of delicacy to maintain friendly rela lions between this government and Panama. An immense meteor with a divided tail reaching foam the northwest half way across the heavens was observed in Tennessee Friday night. It was one of the most (brilliant meteors ever, seen there. One hundred and twenty-seven steam and sail vessels of a total gross tonnage of 14,020 were built in the United States during the month of August according to a re port by the bureau of navigation. Chnrlottn Y. Constcin. the 6-vear- old daughter of Frederick Constein, oi ii,ast retersourg, jra., men in a local hospital from lockjaw. It is be lieved that the disease' was caused bv vaccination. Three years ago consumption in the cotton States was ahead of the rest of the United States 220,000 bales; last year the excess was narrowed to 60, 000, and this year it has again in creased to 170,000. This refers to American cotton. Miss Stone, who is a member of a New York theatrical company, stumbled while descending a flight of stairs leading from her dressing room in the theatre. She fell near ly the entire length of the fctairease, striking on her head. Her recovery is doubtful. Her. hobble skirt was the cause. President Taft is contemplating and probably will issue soon after his return to Washington from Beverly an executive order putting all assist ant postmasters and the permanent clerks at money order post offices under the civil service. Conservative estimates of the coal output in West Virginia for the year of 1910 by prominent coal operators of that State place the figures at 60, 000,000 tons, which will break all pre vious mining records in the State. Mrs. Providencio Mascari, an Ital ian of Baltimore, who was removed to quarantine last May, suffering from leprosy, has improved to such an ex tent, according to a report bv Thos. L. Richardson, quarantine physician, that she may 'be completely cured by Christmas. A baby living but two hours after birth, the child of William Burgess, of Durham, N. C, has been the causa of considerable comment. The child has a single eye with small eyes com bined it it and place for nose far above it. Such anomally has not been seen by doctors. The soldiers at Fort Seriven, Ga.. who have had their arms punctured ' and innctul-ated with an anti-typhoid ' scrum are now happy and find com fort in the belief that they cannot catch typhoid fever fcr five years to come at jeast. The Supreme Court, of Rome, It aly, has rendered a judgment affirm- ng the right of the Holy See to sell iropertv without authorization from the government. The decision has created a sensation in art circles. It is feared that art treasures are to be sold. ABOUT JMD DOGS. Expert in Public Heaith Service t Makes Report. MANY FALLACIES DISSIPATED. Dogs, Fores, Coyotes and. Skunks go Mad in Winter as Much as in Sum mer Disease. Washington. Hyrdrophobia is a reality and not a dream, incurable and not infallibly preventable, and is a respector of no particular season or species of mammal, says public health service report. A. M. Simpson, its author, repudiates certain, mad dog fallacies and his report admits rabies may not be uniformly' fatal, though it is almost always so. Pasteurization generally prevents development. Mad dogs are not always wild-eyed and frothing at the mouth and deter mined upoq any and everybody - he sees. "The rabid dog," says the report, "is sick; he is not necessarily running wild and furious; he is frequently obedient up to a late stage, and often seems to have a bone in his throat or to ihave sustained injury to 'the back." Another f allaey in the general be lief that rabies are much more easily transmitted in the .summer than in other months; the explanation is that, more people are moving about and become subject to attack. Nor is the malady confined to any climate or region." It is liable to occur in the Arctic or the equatorial jungles. Dogs, wolves, coyotes and skunks seem to bfe especialy susceptible. , Shot Himself While Asleep. Asbury-Park, N. J. "I shot my self in my sleep; I was dreaming of biirglars," is the defense against at tempted suicide made here by A. W. Von-Zuker, a young German piano tuner, of New York," now in a hos pital with a bullet wound in his fore head. The man's wife says she wa awakened in their room at a hotel here by the sound of a pistol shot and. found her husband still asleep. Badly frightened, she woke him and demanded what) -he had done. He an swered, "There are thieves in the house and I just shot one." Then, to her horror, she saw that the one shot was her husband, arid, that blood was streaming from his forehead. A strange feature of the case is that there were no powder marks on Von Zuker s face. He slept with tke revolver under his pillow. Officers United Lutheran Synod. Richmond, Va. At a meeting of the United Synod of the Lutheran church in the South, which has been in session at Richmond, Va., for several days. J. A. Morehead, D. D. president ot (Roanoke College -was elected cresiient of thu Synod to succeed A G. Voight, T. 1)., presi dent of the Lutheran Theoiogieal Seminary at Charleston." S. C. Reverend ' M. G. Sherer, of Char leston, S. C, was elected vice presi dent, Reverend S. T. liallmmi, cf Spartanburg, S. C, seer:'tary; Chas. II. Steiglitz, of Atlanta," Ga", assist ant secretary; J. E. Cooper, of Win chester, Va., treasurer; Reveiend George II. Cox of Grand Quarry, N. C, statistical secretary. Weds at 91 Woman Aged 44. Chicaago. Volney E. Rusco, 91 .years old, procured a license to marry and established a new record for age among Cook county ' applicants for licenses. The woman whose name figures in the license is Miss Helen Conger, aged 44. Leprous Patient Escapes. Salt Lake City, Utah John Kokas, a Greek, in an advanced stage of leprosy, who has been under quaran tine here for the last three months, ia missing from the tent in which he had been onarantined and it was learned that he had taken a train on Wednesday evening intending to go to New York and then to Greece. Funds for the journey were provid ed' by his countrymen here. His friends would not divulge the route he has taken. The left hand, it is said, is almost ready to drop off. Divorced Wife Kills No. 2. Campbell, Mo. After the divorced wife of Clarence Stanley had killed his second wife by shooting her 10 times, Stanley set fire to the home of his first wife, twice wounded bis brother, engaged in a pistol duel with his uncle and intimidated the police. He surrendered and was lodged in jail at Carntbersville. The first wife said her successor in the Stanley home fired the first shct when she was refused the two chil dren by "the first marriage.