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"m 111 ffi Iff ifif 1 ! Jl Year, In Adranc. "FOR GOD, FOK COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14,.1910. IV0L1VA CONTROLS ZION. TAYLOR IS NOMINEE Nominated by The Regulai TAR HEEL' Pl A MASSIVE FLAME. Destroys Life and Property in Minnesota. FIVE THOUSAND ARE HOMELESS Two Thousand People in Box Cars Escape Into Canada Governor Has Issued Proclamation Calling For Help Red Cross to Rescue. Warroad, Minn. The towns of Beaudette, Spooner, Pitt and Grace ton, Minn., are wiped off the map of Minnesota by the most terrible for est fire ever experienced by Minne sota settlers. The bodies of 75 vic tims have been found and it is thought the death rate will be upwards of 300. It is reported that many settlers, crazed with grief at the loss of fami lies and property, are roaming the woods, and searching parties are con stantly going out after the injured, the dead and the demented. One family of nine, one of seven and one of five were wiped out on Friday night. A cyclone of fire struck Beaudette and Spooner. Within three minutes after the first alarm everything was in a blaze. The people of these two towns had just sufficient time to get out of their homes with what they had on their backs. They were taken on a passenger train that was stand ing at the depot to Rainy River, Ont. The people of Beaudette and Spooner and the settlers through the north central part of the State have lost everything. Five thousand are homeless and the greater part of them destitute. Help must reach them at once and that in a substan tial way, as the greater part of them are but half elad and cold weather is likely to set in at any time. , Rainv- River, Ont. So far more than 60, victims of the flames have been found, their bodies fearfully charred by the holocaust that caught them in their homes or in the open. The missing include some 2,000 resi dents of Beaudette, Spooner and Pitt, some of whom are dead, but the most of whom are safe in Rainy River and the adjacent towns on the Canadian side of the line. The most dramatic incidents were those incident to the escape of 2,000 fugatives ianlong train of box cars The crowd of men, women and chil dren awaited the trains while their homes were in flames. St. Paul, Minn. Governor Eber hart, as president, of the State Red Cross Society, issued a proclamation calling upon the citizens of the State for contributions of money, provis ions and clothing for the sufferers from the forest fires in the northern part of the State. - 1 Mayors of cities and towns are authorized to receive contributions, as well as Kenneth Clark ,of St. Paul, treasurer of the State Red Cross So ciety. Business men of the Twin Cities started the contribution with a dona tion of $2,000. New Certificate Cotton Bills of Lading New Orleans. After a month of actual use, new certificate cotton bills-of-lading are bccmi')g popular according to officials of railroad and steamship lines who have put the cer tificate plan into effect here. Prac tically every Southern railroad adopt ed the certificates on or about Sep tember 1, it is said. While European bankers have refused to accept the certificate plan as an effective safe guard of American bills-of-lading, it is declared American bankers are-re ceiving them willingly. 1 New Republic Announcement. Washington. A circular note sent simultaneously to all the powers by provisional President Braga, announc ing that he had been proclaimed president of Portugal, that the revo lution has been successful and that he has appointed' a Cabinet, has been received by the State Department. The protected cruiser Des Moines ha arrived at Lisbon. The vessel is going to report on conditions there. Marines will not be landed to pro tect American interests. Reciprocity With Canada. t Beverly, Mass. Henry M. Hoyt, . counsellor of the State Department, and Charles M. Pepper, commercial adviser, come to Beverly from Vailey Forge, Pa., where they conferred with .Secretary Knpx to report to the President and receive instruc tions regarding Canadian reciprocity. It is understood that the negotia . tions which were begun last spring wilt be resumed sometime during the present month, probably at Ottawa. City Established in Illinois by Late John Alexander Dowie i3 Bought From Estate. Chicago. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor to the late John Alexander Dowie, has taken possession of Zion City as overseer under the terms of an agreement with the receiver of the estate. By the provision of the deal Voliva makes a loan of $700,00 from a loan company of Chicago, in return for jvlneh he gives a deed of trust for ?;900,000, the extra $200,000 being a premium for financing the deal. The $700,000 is paid to Receiver Thomas and 'the estate, which in cludes a large acreage, over 2,000 city lots and other property, passes into the hands of Voliva. He must' pay 5 per cent on the principal semi-nnually and every two years he must pay $100,000 on the principal. ' - The purchase gives Voliva undis puted possession of Zion City with the exception of a few hundred lots and tracts of land which are held by deed issued from the office of Receiver Thomas. ' Outside of the small tracts all of the Zion City property hereafter will be. disposed of on the basis of the old Dowie lease for 1,100 years only, the provisos of the lease being prohibi tions against the use or sale of liquor, tobacco, pork or oysters. Voliva's forces are well organized, he says, even the children among his followers paying tithes and giving up their all, while a number of adults have turned in all of their property or will mortgage it to help .him pay for the estate. Republican Primary in Tennessee. Knoxville. 'State Senator Sam R. Sells, will succeed the late Congress man Watler P. Brownlow from the first Tennesee district. In a primary held by the Republicans of the twelve counties of that 'district, Sells carried ten of them and has a majority esti mated at close to 4,000 votes. ' His opponent was Hon. James R. Penland of Sevier county, formerly United State attorney for the eastern dis trict of Tennessee. For the short term which closes next March Dr. Z. D. Massey of Sevier county has defeated Hon. A. A. Taylor of Carter county, a former Congressman and a brother of Sena tor Robert Taylor, by nearly two to one. The district is overwhelmingly Re publican. Wife Led a Double Life. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. After being married-35 years, William A. Wing, a earpenter of Arlington, a suburb of this city, has discovered that his wife has another husband living. Wing feels worse over his discovery because he has learned that his wife has concealed her double life for all the years he has known her and that she was wedded two years before her marriage to him. The first husband has been living for more than 25 years at Pelasant Valley, six miles away. Wing has started an action in the Supreme Court to have his mar riage annulled. A few months ago Wing and his wife quarreled, and she left him to go with relatives in Pittsfield, Mass. It was in her absence that Wing learned of her double life. Polygamy Must Cease. Salt Lake City. When the semi annual conference of the church of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints (Mor mon), opened, President, Joseph E. Smith and his counsellors, H. A. Lund and John Henry Smith, ad dressed the gathering on plural mar riages among church members since the issuance of the manifesto of 1890, declaring these marriages contrary to the rules of the church. The speak ers declared that polygamy must cease. Evelyn's Dignity Remains Ruffled. New York. Because Evelyn Nes bit Thraw, wife of Harry K. Thaw, is without funds to pay the costs of prosecution, a suit that she instituted nearly two years ago against James B. Reagan, of the Knickerbocker Hotel, for $50,000 damages wa3 dis missed in the Supreme Court. Mrs. Thaw was ejected from the grill room of the hotel while dining with a friend and she sued on the ground that her dignity suffered. Evelyn's lawyers say she is without funds. THE SOUTH DO MOVE Platform of The Great South ern Commercial Congress. A MIGHTY FORCE FOR DIXIE Thi3 Great Southern Organization Makes Plans For a Greater Growth of South Possibilities of Dixie's Resources Awakening the World. Atlanta. In sober business phras es nearly " four score delegates, ap pointed by sixteen Southern Gover nors, foretold an immense growth, in wealth and population, for the South within the next ten years. Repres enting the agricultral and business interests of every section of Dixie, these delegates gathered to assist the executive committee of the Southern Commercial Congress work out a non political and disinterested plan for promoting the development of the South 's millions of unoccupied acres, and its vast unused waterpowers, the enlargement of its business and in dustry both by its own inhabitants and through judicious advertising' of its resources throughout America and Europe. As an aid to these objects the dele gates drew up a new constitution for the commercial congress, which was adopted by the executive committee, Its salient features follow. To promote and develop the in terests of the following sixteen States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennes see, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. To collect and disseminate infor mation regarding the resources and advantages offered in these States for the safe and profitable investment of capital; the South, 's attractions for homeseeker, artisan and laborer, and to urge on the national govern ment proper legislation for conserva tion, river and harbor improvement and transportation facilities. To promote the development of the South 's resources with its own capital. To obtain the establishment of commercial, manufacturing and other enterprises, and foster tii9se already existing. To encourage patriotic and national sentiments throughout the South and elsewhere in the nation, and particu larly to promote the desire s for a greater Nation through a' greater South. To promote development of na tional resources. To promote and develop proper immigration and foster the establish ment o'f such organizations as may develop a desirable immigration into the South. To encourage good roads and ex tension of railroad and frolley trans portation. To promote the improvement of educational and other conditions which tend to develop the material resources and happiness of residents of the South. A board of thirty-two Governors is created,' eonsitin? of the president, first and second vice presidents and twenty-nine others, elected at an nual meetings. G. Grosvenor Dawe of Montgomery, Ala., now managing director of the congress, with headquarters at Wasli ington, predicted that literally mil lions of people would come to the South within the next decade and a half. "We don't want the Anglo-Saxon spirit submerged by that influx," he said. Man Ate 13 Ears of Corn. Waynesboro, Pa. James Mont gomery, of this place, is fond of corn on the ear and running short of ad jectives to describe his fondness said he could eat his length in the succu lent ears. His friends made him prove it, and at once he disposed of 13 ears, which 'were necessary to make his 6 feet 3 inches in height. No ill effects whatever came, to Montgomery after his feed of a ''mule." Ha is not the champion. Cholera Scourge in New York Port. New York. A case of cholera has developed in the steerage of the Ham-burg-Ameriean liner Moltke, which has been retained at quarantine as a possible cholera carrier since Monday last.. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer of the port, reported the case, with the additional information that an other cholera patients from the Moltke is under treatment at Swinburne is land. This makes three cases of chol era which have actually reached this port. ' Democrats of Tennessee. WILL STUMP STATE FOR GOV. Cenvention Rejects Proposition te Refer Prohibition Question to Peo pie Taylor Only Name Presentee For the Nomination. Nashville, Tenn. United State! Senator Robert L. Taylor has beeD nominated lor Governor by the regu lar Democratic convention, although his senatorial term does not expire until 112. so other name was pre sented to the convention, the demand b'ing for Taylor and no one else. Senator Taylor appeared in the convention hall and after an ovation accepted the nomination. In the main the convention, -which was largely attended, was harmonious throughout, though there was a little breeze when Senator Tolott endeav ored to have the platform amended as to the liquor question. The Tolett amendment provided for a reference of the liquor question to a vote oi the people, but the amendment was finaly voted down, the original plat form being adopted- The platform is mainly devoted tc State affairs. Senator Taylor will take the stump. STANDARD CUTS OIL PRICES Reductions Made in Campaign to In crease Use of Kerosene. New York. J. I. C. Clarke, through whom the Standard Oil company makes its official announce ments to the public, has issued a statement to the effect that the com pany has entered on a thoroughly mapped out campaign to increase the consumption of kerosene in Euro pean countries and the lands of the Orient. The first move in this cam paign is the reduction of the prices of oil in those countries, Mr. Clarke's announcement says in part: "The Standard Oil company has inaugurated a campaign to increase the world's consumption of refined oil. The level of prices for refined oil today in the United States is lower than at any time during recent years, and as a direct result of these prices the consumption of re fined oil in this country is increas ing. The same policy is now being actively pursued abroad." As indicated by this ""statement, the Standard company began trying out the policy of lower prices in the United States, though without an nouncing that it had in view a cam paign that Avould cover the world. In August the price of refined oil in tanks was reduced from 61-2 to 51-2 cents a gallon, and the price of re fined oil in barrels at the refinery was cut 1 cent, from 9 3-4 to 8 3-4 cents a gallon. Expelling Priests and Nuns. Lisbon. The . expulsion of the monks hss begun. No time will be lost in getting them across the fron tier. Several hundred , nuns have been assembled and will be transport ed out of the city. Cardinal Neto, ex patriarch of Lisbon-and other eccles iastics have already been expelled. The provisional Minister of Justice. Alfonso Costa, in the course of an in terview said: "The solution of the problem of the congregations is not difficult. The government only needs to prevent a continuance of religious settlements, alr"of which are illegal. "The dissolution will occur with out trouble, and the confiscation of property will follow in due course." Aviator Falls 1,640 Feet. St. Petersburg. Captain Macievich the Russian military aviator, was killed in a fall from a Voison biplane The accident occurred during an altitude competition which was won by Lieutenant Matyevieh, " which reached a height of 2,937 feet. Maehievich fhad risen 3.930 feet but decided to descend. When at a height of 1,640 feet his machine sud denly upset and the aviator was thrown out. Every bone in his body was broken except an arm. Rank Association Officers Elected. Los Angeles. F. O. Watts, pres ident of the First National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., was elected presi dent of the American Bankers' Asso ciation. William Livingston, presi dent of the Dimes Savings bank of Detroit, was elected first vice presi dent. Invitations for the convention in 1911 were presented from New Or leans, Atlantic Citj, San Antonio, Richmond. Va., Niagara Falls and St. I.oui3. The executive council will se lect place next May. LOSS REACHES $ 1 ,500-000 Horrors of Forest Fire in Minnesota -Htsidreds Homeless Wild Animals Flee With People. Warroad. Minn. The reports of the fires in the Rainy River region of nMinesota increase the horrors of the situation if not the number of lives lost. Estimates of the number of persons killed range from 75 to 400. But the greatest concern for the present is the rescue of the help less and the relief of the . thousands of homeless men, women and chil dren. Stories told of "wild animals flee ing1 for safety side by side with hu man beings, their natural hostility and fear quenched by the horror of their situation, showing the desper ateness of the situation. Tales of mothers burned to death with their babies on the breast, and strong men calcined while endeavoring to shield their children. "It's hell down there," said Engi neer Smith of the Duluth express when a reporter swung into the cab after the train passed the fireone. His train took many refugees from the scene of the conflagration to Win nipeg. "If the fire keeps on the way it is going, there will be mighty little left 'of the population of that part of Minnesota," he added. "The flames have quieted down a little, but it only needs a puff of wind and they will start up again as bad as ever. "Everything is wiped out. "From the engine it - looked as though every timber mill in the coun try had been burned, except that of the Shevlin-Matthieu, which is safe. All the lumber in the yards, however, was burned. We passed through part of the burned territory in the night and the small red flames from the smouldering mass of logs looked like a real picture of the inferno through the clouds of smoke which reeled across the path of the engine. "All the ties of the road have been charred and the country is level with the tracks." Rainy River, Ont. The terrible re sults of the Friday, Saturday and Sunday forest fires are beginning to be realized b ythe dishearted and homeless thousands. Bodies found alofcg the 'railway track three miles west of Beaudette were brought here. There was not a particle of clothing left on any f them save parts of shoes. The bodies k.-vi the appearance of having been baked in a red hot oven. Many settlers got into the rapid river and saved themselves by wading in the water although their faces are blistered by the heat. Tired and worn out, destitute men and women and children roam the streets. - Wild animals raced wildly about the edge of the fire and then con trary to their habits turned and plunged in the deep and wide Rainy river and swam across to Canada and safety. They followed the human flight; and cattle likewise, Teleased by their owners at the approach of flames, fled to safety. Acompany ing the horses were hundreds of deer, caribou and moose and in truth the cattle lay down with the bears, wild cats and timber wolves and with no danger from them. They were all fleeing from the common enemy. Never probably in the history of this country was there such a herd of wild animals as passed before the eves of human refugee. Not one of them was shot or molested.' The property loss in the tbree towns alone, including Rat Portage Lumber Company's plant and yard at Rainv River and the yard of Sheville-Matthieu Lumber ' Company at Spoons, will total one and a half million dollars. Lack of Supreme Judges. Washington. Not in years has the opening day of the Supreme Court of the United States rolled around with barely a quorum of justices ready to go on the bench. The death of Chief Justice Fuller left the court without a permanent head, while, the passing away of Justice Brewer and the ill ness of Justice Moody whose resigna tion becomes effective November 30, reduced the active membership to siv. The Court adjourned for a day out of respect to Justice Fuller. Export of Manufactured Goods. Washington. Fro the first time in the history of this ocuutry's com merce, manufactured products form more than one-half the total exports of the L nited States. During the eight months ending with August there was exported in all $1,021,000,- 000 worth of goods. Manufactured products composed more than 52 per cent of that, valued at more than $542,000,000. Exports of that class represented $2,500,000 tor each busi ness day. Twenty years ago they were a little more than $750,000 a day ent 1 L , J ' Clipped and Ciucft.., in a Column. - ( BOUGHT A TOWN. I- Big Lumber Company Buys T .fcT ' ville Capital of Graham. The Whiting Lumber Com; has purchased ttie whole town' Robbinsville, the county seat ' Graham, pa-ing in some inta. fabulous prices for property, mil erect lumber and other r.-.i' there to manufacture timber' if. its Graham county holdings, w:n will employ at least lyiwO men. The Southern Railway -Company '.-i ; line from Knoxville to Bushnell ia to be completed, only 16 miles v. present is lacking. A railroad, is to be built fror Bushnell to Robbinsville, and o'.h: vast developments will follow. The Whiting Company owns ' , controlls all the large timber bou: dares in Graham. Big development in Blount county, Tennessee) by ti same, people are also to be made.- Only three lots, and the -'lots r Methodist and Presbyterian chur' '. and Presbyterian school and coun. court house in Robbinsville are n either purchased outright or bou,! by options. Negotiations are now under w;v for the court -house property, and i such went through the removal the court house becomes necesar .' The Presbyterian school will pro-'.-, ably be sold and moved to anoth location. The taking of options began la. May, when a man r named Wall- ' gave an. option on his property Im $75,000. Other options were tak quietly and last week one or two w had not sold, got wise and the pro, erty jumped. One man whose cab) i" and lot is worth' about $300, no asks $4,000. When it became known the Wip ing people were buying Rob1 : ville, agents of the company 'we there and took up options, payi in $10 and $20 gold pieces. It e.v ated excitement equal to Colifon gold fever. The company will spend more t n two million dollars in its de.vel: ments. ' , Bold, Bad Burglar. Charged with having commit numerous robberies which terrified6 hich terrified he neighbor:! Ruffin,lO,!l . unknown iQ . farmers residing in tht around Pelham and Ri south of Danville,; an unknp- was shot to death in a barn. . f -. The killing followed an all-' search in a drizzling rain, parti -pated in by' at least fifteen angrv.. citizens. . The dead negro had been loitering in the vieinity for about a 'week and it had been generally - conceded- that he was the party who.' had been entering numerous dwelling, houses. Four houses at RiifTm were robbed , one night. John T. Powell, an. aged. farmer, was aroused by a burglar and would "have killed him but . for -th fact that his pistol snapped several times. The burglar fired four timJi while in the house of Mr. Powell ; and fled. On account of the rain the burglar was tracked from house to house. The negro killed earned two loaded pistols. and wore several articles of clothing that have been identified as being stolen property. There appears to be no doubt that he was respon sible for at lease several of the burg laries. He was shot down when lift refused to surrender and was in the act of drawing a revolver. The body was taken to Jxeidsville. . Cream of Current Nortli Carolina Inventions. - Washington patent attorneys report the grant to citizens of North Carolina of the following patents: ! W. A. Buchanan, Ash ville, thill coupling. , W; : D. Ler-ions, Shelby, combined seed-planter and fertilizer-distribu- tor. ' II, L.' Ryder and J. P. Johnson, Greenstboro, airbrake mechanism. Concord Postmaster has applied to Department to be designated as a pos tal savings bank. . Bees Sting Horse to Death. Mr. J. P- Herron of Waynesville lost two horses a singular way a few (days ago. He had sent- the team up q timber boundary and in coming ' . the driver stopped for some f "vater on the roadside where there ' were several hives of bees. The bees ctv:red to be in bad humor and swarmed from the hives and covered both horses and attacked. the driver, who beat an instant retreat; but the horses stood in their tracks and v ns stung to death, falling where t! ;.y were attacked.