North Carolina Newspapers

a Year, In Ac1t.dc. FOR GOD, FOk COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " ! Slfi Cfy $ Cm--.. VOL. XXI. PLYMOUTH, N, C FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1910. NO. 21. ; -'. - " v.1 SALOON MEN SCORE QUARREL ABOUT LAND- GOVERNORS OPINION LARGEST GATES KNOWN. TAR HEEL PUBLIC TALK HIGHER POST RATE Federal Judge Dissolves Tem porary Injunction. Controversy Which Has Raged For Generations Now Before Su preme Tribunal of U. S. SUiLbs Opposes Increase of Railroad Rates. Steel Portals That Will Lock Pana ma Canal Hundreds of Men Shape Tons of Steel.,-' Cream of Current Comity Evtnt Clipped and Condensed in a Column. Magazines Must Pay More Postage. -lit REFERS TO GRAND JURIES. .Declines to Assume Jurisdiction and ' Upholds Principle of "State's Rights" Jurist Suggest Impeach ment Proceedings For Officers. Memphis, Tenn. Declining to as sume jurisdiction and upholding the principle of "Sale's rights," Federal Judge John E. McCall ordered dis solved a temporary injunction, re straining the continuance in busi ness of 114 saloon keeprs of Mem phis. Notwithstanding the declara tion of the-Law Enforcement Lea gue of Memphis, who, through fif teen of its members, appeared as complaints, that their appeals to State and local authorities for re dress had been unheeded, Judge .McCall held llmt prosecution through grand jury indictments -was the proper recourse and was still open. In answer to the allega tion that the constituted authori ties of the State were not in sym pathy with the prohibition laws as enacted and had refused to act on information furnished, ho cited im peachment proceedings as a method through which their removal from onire might bo accomplished. newspaper fined $1,000, London Evening News Published Story Relating to Crippen. r London The high court fined The Evening Jfews $1,000 for con tempt of court in having publ'ish ed the story of a conference be tween Richard Muir, the prosecu ting counsel, and the quartermas ter of the j steamer Montrose, , in which the ship's officer reveal ad a plan which he and Dr. Hawley II. Grippen had made to bring about the latler's escape from the steamer when he was being pursued by the 1 iri tisli authorities. The court held that the publica tion of the story was calculated to prejudice the case of Crippen when the latter was brought to trial for the murder of his wife. JAIL FOR RICH AUTOMOBIL1ST. linn Down and Injured Couple Out Driving in Carriage. Norristown, Pa . W. Gordon Dyer, one of the wealthiest men, of this place, who was convicted of agggravated assault and battery be cause an automobile he - was driv ing ran down and injured a man and wife riding in a carriage, was sen tenced to nine months imprison ment in the county prison and to pay a fine of $250. Dyer, while driving his automo bile on September to, ran down the carriage driven by Walter Smith, near here. Smith and his wife were badly injured and their horse was killed.. Dyers father was a railroad con tractor' and quarryman, and left an estate worth more than $1,000,000. "Bearded Lady" a Bride South Bend, Ind. Grace Gilbert, who has been the "bearded lady" attraction of several road shows, was married here to Giles E. Cal vin, a farmer of Kalkaska, Mich. Tho bride has a beard 18 inches long, while the groom boats noth ing but a mustache. Almost Equal to a Bird. Etampes, France. Maurice Tab uteau broke the world's aviation record for timo and distance here by flying 289 miles in six hours in a continuous trip. Tabuteau's remark able feat was accomplished in the aerodome horo-while he. was try ing for the Michelin cup, which is awarded annually to the aviator making the longest sustained flight with the year. A premium of $4, 000 goes to the winner. The air man used a Farman biplane. Atlanta Courts Crooked. Atlanta, Recommendation that t he justice court system of Atlanta be abolished and a system of muni cipal courts established instead was made by the Fulton county grand jury. The jury's action was the result of a crusade against the justice courts and charges that they have been prolific petty injustice. Unfair trials, rough actions by bailiffs and The favoring of plain tiffs in order to foster court busi ness was among, the jury's findings against the present system. Washington. The controversy which has raged in Kentucky for generations over the validity of so called "blanket" grants of land by Virginia, the mother State, and even Kentucky itself, during the early years of statehood, came before the supreme court of the United States for decision. Title to lands now said to be worth at least $10,000,000 are involved. Originally some of the land was procured at two cents an acre. Arguments $ire made as to the constitutionality" of- the Kentucky statute um&r which it claimed a forfeiture of .the title of thousands of acres of land. Louis Braftdels Weihle and Z. T. Vinson argued that the Kentucky courts had erred in not holding the statute unconstitu tional. Judge K. M. Stewart defen ded the validity of the law. FEAR INCRIMINATION. Suit or $50,000 Against Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association. Mobile, Ala. In the law and equi ty court here Judge Bentley made a ruling in the case of L. H. Marx who is suing the Southern Whole sale Grocers' Association for $50, 000. -The plaintiff has tiled a number of interrogatories to several of the defendants, including some lineal wholesalers who are, or were, mem bers of the association. Tho de fendants moved that, the questions be stricken out on the ground that if they answered them they would be subject to criminal prosecution. Judge Bentley denied the motion of the attorneys, holding that the de fendants state under oath that their answers will subject them to criminal prosecution. While a party to a suit cannot be made to give incriminating evidence against himself,, yet the judge holds that defendant himself and not his " at torney must make this claim and that the claim must be made under oath. The contention of. tho defend ants is that if they are made to tes tify as to the operations of the Southern Wholesale . Grocers' As sociation that they will give testi mony which would convict them of violation of the criminal statutes against trusts, combines and mo nopolies. Strange Sight in Alabama. Anniston, Ala. Reports were brought here of a phenomenon at Heflin, Cleburne county, this State, which has attracted much atten tion. According to the reports an incessant rpin has been falling on a plot of land seven feet square at Heflin for the last week, while everywhere around the atmosphere was perfectly dry. Sisters of 11 and 12 Married. Marietta. Ga. Bertha Anderson, aged 11, and Ollie Anderson, 12 years old, were married at Kenne saw.lo Andy Champ, 21, and John Champ, 22 years old. The ceremony caused much com ment and habeas corpus proceed ings were instituted by the father of the girls in an effort to separate the couples. , Won Pardon by Id's Art. Columbus, Ohio Satisfaction giv en Governor Harmon by Henry Wiedenbach, an artist, in restoring Slate House oil paintings to their original coloring, resulted in the pardoning of Wiedenbach from the Ohio Penitentiary . Wiedenbach was sent to prison in 1909 to serve four years for grand larceny. Train Load of Whiskey. Birmingham Representatives of the 'Frisco system announced that a full train load of liquor had been made up to be shipped out of the State over their line. Tho scramble of local dealers to get rid of stocks on hand is the result of the sensa tional campaign now under way here to secure enforcement of the prohibition laws. The destination of the train which left here is said to be Memphis. Living at Home. Wilmington, N. C Mr. 8. E. Memory, a leading merchant, says he saw while at the Raleigh State Fair an offer of $150 cash for the eighteen ears of corn that had taken the first prize. Mr. J. L. Memory says Mr. Peter McBride, of Scotland county, N. C, this 'year made thirty bales of cotton on ten acres of land. Mr. Pender says a farmer in Marlboro county, South Carolina, made 253 bushels of corn on an acre. COULD BUILD MAIN LINE CHEAP- Too Much Juggling With Stock Railroad Business Should be Con ducted Like a Hank Favors Fair Dividends. i Chicago. Presentation of evi dence by the shippers who are op posing the proposed advance in freight rates was given before the interstate commerce commission with the testimony of Gov. W. R. Stubbs, who declared his opposition to an increase in rates and. his be lief as a practical builder of rail roads that valuations have been placed at too high a point. At one point in his testimony Gov. Stubbs said: "The curse of business in this country is the stock juggling and high finance. Stop this high finance. Make every dollar of cap italization represent a dollar in vested in the road and people will fall over themselves to buy railroad stocks and bonds." AUTOS IN POSTAL SERVICE. Plan to Serve Several Rural Routes With One Car. Washington. Expedition of the mails by the extension of the use of automobiles in the postal service is being arranged by the Postoffice Department. Heavy automobile express wagons are being substi tuted for the old type of horse drawn wagons used in transport ing the mails between the railway stations and postoffices and their various branches. The Postmaster General has signed contracts for four additional automobiles ' to bo used in the mail collection service at Cleveland and for three at In dianapolis . The motorcycle is being exten sively used in the collection of mails in suburban towns. One plan for the rural delivery service is the substitution of light automobiles for horse carts to cover several routes. OLD MAIDS ARE LUCKY. Married Women .Must Give up Po sitions for Single Girls. Washington Married women in the government's employ who have husbands able to support them, will be in danger of losing their positions if a recommendation which is about to be made by the various departmental economy com mittees is favorably received. Many unmarried women, who have lost their positions through the intro duction of recent economics, in making applications for reinstate ment have suggested that they be given places now held by married women whose husbands are able to support them. It is understood such a recommendation may be made to the economy committee recently established by President Taff, of which Frederick A. Cleve land, of New York, is the head. Jury Prayed for Guidance. Chattanooga With the fate of a human life hanging heavily over their heads the jury in the case of Robert Cook, charged with murder, knelt down and prayed in. the little room next to tho criminal court in this city before they returned to the judge with a verdict of murder in the first degree. Court Handed Out Lemon Decision. St. Paul, Minn. Judges Vande venter, Sanborn and Adams in the United States circuit court handed clown as order restraining the in terstate commerce commission from putting into effect a reduced rate on lemons from Southern California to the Atlantic seaboard.. The opinion further states that the case is one which will shortly go to the newly created commerce court, which must render the final deci sion in the case. Battleship to Honor Oglethorpe Day Washington A United States warship wil be sent to Savannah for the exercises incident to the unveiling of the statue of George Oglethorpe, founder of the colony if Virginia, on November 23. The Navy Department has ordered the cout cruiser, Birmingham, to pro ceed to Savannah on November 21. Upon completion of this duty, the Birmingham will return to Hampton toads to join the fifth division of he battleshipfleet at battle prac tice on the Virginia capes. ,' Pittsbug. Enormous gates are being made in Pittsburg for the Panama Canal. They will be the largest in the world. Any one of the 92 of them, for there are to be 46 pairs in all, will be about as high as a G-story building, as wide (65 feet) as many city building are, and 7 feet deep,' or thick. The structural steel that will go to make them will weigh 00,000 tons, or more than 8 times as much as was used to build the Eiffle Tower in Paris. The mighty portals, designed to admit a world's commerce from one ocean to another, will cost $5, 500,000. The builders are the Mc Clintic. Marshall Steel Construction Company, a half of whose indepen dent plant here has been given over entirely to the gate contract. Of the 60,000 tons of steel required the heaviest single pieces will weigh about 18 tons. The thousands of individual pieces, numbored and fitted to go together as children's blocks, will be shipped by steamer via Balti more and with the will go over 400 skilled structural steel builders from Pittsburg to set them up. The advance guard of experts leaves here in December and the first work will probably begin early in 1911. It will take three years to complete the job. $72.",,00O GIVEN TO COLLEGES. Two Tarheel Institutions Benefited By General Education Board. N e w Yor k. Appropriations amounting to $725,000 were appor tioned to six colleges and universi ties at a meeting of the General Education Board here, conditional on the institutions raising certain amounts to secure the gifts. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Starr J. Murphy .were among the members of the board present. The institu tions named and the amounts are as follows: Baylor University, Waco, Texas, $200,000; Trinity College, Durham, N. C, $150,000; University of Chat tanooga, Tenn., $150,000; Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C, $10.00; Wes loyan Female College, Macon, Ga., $100,000; Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.; $75,000. ..-' Grandfather Clause Constitutional. Guthrie, Okla. That the "grand father clause" constitutional amendment is valid has been decid ed by the Slate supreme court. The court held also that the special pro cedure under which the amend ment was adopted was valid, all voles not cast against the propo sition being counted for it. "The grandfather clause" pro vides that no man whose grand father could not vote, can exercise the right of franchise. It will thus disfranchise many negroes whose grandfathers were slaves. Corpse Caught Fire. Boston In bending over a casket to kiss the face of 19-year-old Le tivia di Napoli during funeral ser vices at her home, a relative upset a candle and set firse to the house. The girl's body was partially incin erated and $600 damages done to the Di Napoli home. Mourners tried to carry the blaz ing coffin to the street, but the flames forced them to drop it and save their own lives. After the fire was extinguished a new casket was obtained and the body taken to a cemetery. Drives Taeks in Head. Atlanta William Williams, a ne gro, is in jail here charged with swindling on account of the pecu liar cure for blindness which he devised. His remedy consisted in driving a lack into? the back por tion of a blind negro's skull aud charging $2.50 for the operation. Robert Ward, the victim, told the f nl ice court judge that the tack process was not very painful but that Williams' manner of taking the $2.50 "hurt considerably." No More Chance for Panics. Washington With those nation- al currency associations already formed and those in process of for mation, oflicials of tne treasury de partment believe the financial cen tres of the country are amply pro tected against financial stringency. Eleven cities already have formed j associations and with four more about to do so the principal re serve hanking ones oi me united States will be equipped to issue a total of $500,000,000 in temporary currency at a moment's notice. PRIZES WON FOR CORN. Over $175 Captured by Farmers for a Few Ears. The Department of Agriculture offered some nice cash premiums to the boys for the best twenty ears of corn and six stalks with ears of corn, these to be shown at the State Fair, and there were three prize winners. J. P, Lewis, of Reedy Branch, Wilkes county, won the first prize of $100. The second prize, $50 was wou by Vester Blalock, of Nor wood, Stanley county, and the third prize of $25 by Raymond Hill, of Lexington, Davidson county. For the best ten ears of corn a boy beat out the men, with whom he entered into competition. In this contest, with a prize of $2.00 the prize went to Sherley School field, of Guilford, and the winner of the prize for the best single ear of corn raised in the State was award ed to Exum Goodman.of Apex, R. F. D. No. 3, Wake county. This shows that the older farmers will have to get a move on themselves. CONTRIBUTE $73,699. Presbyterians Give That Much This Year to Foreign Missions. The North Carolina Presbyterian Synod in session at Rocky Mount heard the report on foreign mis sions. The churches still have this year contributed $73,699 to this cause as against $58,418 last year, $38,061 two years ago. By Presby teries the amounts contributed as follows: Albemarle, last year $1,590, this year $2,309; Asheville, last year $1,464, this year $1,561; Concord last year $8,018, this year $7,105; Fayetteville last year $8,562, this year $10,814; Kings Mountain last year $2,174, this year $1,692; Orange, last year $11,542, thi year $12,778; Mecklenburg, last year $10,-748,- this year $10,958; Wilmington, last year- $14,591, this year $26,442. Number of Licensed Autos. , Corporation Clerk W. S. Wilson and Assistant Clerk J. E. Sawyer, of the Department of State, have got ten out a book containing a list of the licensed automobiles of the State and their owners by counties. The book will be mailed free of charge to all sheriffs,, chiefs of po lice and mayors who wish them in order to enforce the automobile law. According to the above publica tion Mecklenburg has the largest number of autos, with 174 register ed. In Wake county there are fifty-five registered, of which forty nine are in Raleigh. Buncombe, Guilford, Durham, Forsyth and many other counties show a large number of licensed autos. Christmas .Money on Butter Beans. Mr. Archie Finch, a prosperous farmer, "who lives two miles from Wilson, aside from being a cotton and tobacco planter, finds time to do a little trucking on the side. This year, one-tenth of ah acre planted in lima, or butter beans, realized him the sum of ninety three dollars. From the same patch last year he sold beans to the amount of eighty-four dollars. The patch contains fifteen rows, thirty four yards long all in about five hundred hills. Besides having all that was required by his family of ten he will have enough for his table during the winter besides seed for planting next year. Cause of Bryson Wreck. A report of ' his investigation of the cause of the Bryson City 'wreck on the Southern. Railway's Murrphy branch October 7, in which 21 per sons were injured, just filed by Cor poration Commissioner S. L. Rogers, with the commission, ' takes the ground that the wreck was due to spreading of rails on soft ties; de clares that an inspection of ' thr road-bed for some distance east of the scene of the wreck shows a large percentage of ties that are un fit for use. Sherman in Charlotte. Vice President Sherman was the guest of the city of Charlotte. He dined at the Southern Manufactur ers' Club. He addressed a mass meeting of citizens in the audito rium, and after the speaking was tendered a public reception at the club. The stockholders of the old West ern Carolina Bank. Asheville, which went into the hands of a receiver in 1897, will have to pay the receiver about $50,000. CHANGE IN SECOND CLASS RATE. Not to Affect Newspapers Cost More to Haul Periodicals Mr. Hitchcock's Plan Penny Letter Postage in Sight. Washington. President Tail, and Postmaster General Hitchcock have reached aij agreement on the rec ommendations the-, President will make " to Congress repardiug a change in the second-class postage rates as affecting magazines and other periodicals.. . Mr. Taft will recommend that the magazines be required to pay the present rate of 1 cent a pound on all reading matter and a much higher rate, to be determined later, on the advertising pages. Each magazine will be required to send a copy of its current issue to the Postoffice Department each week or month, as the case may be. There the publi cation will be dissected. The read ing matter and the advertising sec tions will be separately weighed and the amount of postage computed by the number of magazines sent out. Newspapers will not be affected. The average haul of the newspaper is but 300 miles, while the average haul of the magazine is 1,100 miles. Mr. Hitchcock told the. President that the plan of separating, , the reading and advertising matter in the magazines is entirely feasible and he believed it to be the proper solution of the problem. The haul ing of magazines has proved costly to the government and both the' President and Postmaster General believe it has entered largely into the deficits shown each year in the Postoffice Department The adoption of a new rate for the magazines, Mr. Hitchcock believes, will entirely wipe out the deficit and put the postal service on a money making basis. President Taft is looking forward to a 1-cent rate for letter postage antl hopes to recommend it before he leaves tho White House. The establishment of the proposed new rales as to magazines, the Presi dent believes, will do much to bring about the penny postage plan. .The President is determined to push his plan for placing second and third class pastmasters under civil ser vice. He will make the recommen dation of changes in his forthcoming message, and hopes for favorable action. NEW ROLLING PALACE. "Southern's Southeastern Limited' Between New York and Florida. Washington Tho Southern Rail way company announces that on. November 27 it will begin running its through passenger trains from the South to New York city into the new passenger station of the Pennsylvania railroad, located in the heart of the hotel and shopping districts of the metropolis. On the same date it will inaugurate a much faster and greatly improved pas senger service from the Southeast, substituting a now train, to be known as the "Southern's South eastern limited" for the present "New York and Florida limited." " The new train will be made up of the newest and best equipment and will bo electrically lighted through out, handling Pullman sleepr be tween Jacksonvflle and New York, and two sleepers between Augusta and New York, one . via Trenton and one via Blackville. ' Gold Bullion Transferred. New Orleans. Following an order from the director of the mint that all gold bullion in the New Orleans mint should be shipped to the Phil- adelphia mint, more than $1,200,000 in bullion has-been transferred. Ad ditional shipments of more than $2. 000,000 will be required to complete the. transfer. The action of the di rector apparently indicates that the reopening of the establishment is not contemplated for tho present. Atlanta Man in Trouble. Atlanta, Ga. Charged with using the mails "for a scheme similar to a lottery," B. Bernard, an auctioneer, has been indicted by the FJeral grand jury. On July 13 .hist, Ber nard raffled off a furnished .house and lot in Grove park, valued at $10,000, the chances felling for 51 each. The '-whining number wsa held by Mrs. Bernard's broth'-r, vih- lives in New York City. When th result was announced an indigna tion meeting was held by the At!" ta holders of tickets.