North Carolina Newspapers

1 It Mifi 1 i i m jtl 1 I HAW - Year, la Advance. FOR GOD, FOK COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH. " flafflc Cyy f Caaca VOL. XXI PLY MOUTH, N, C JbRIDAY. 'NOVEMBER 18, 1910. NO. 23. AGREAT CORN SHOW South Atlantic States Exposi tion at Columbia Pec. 5-8. BOOK OF PREMIUMS NOW READY Farmers of Georgi North Carolina, and South Carolina Will Attend (ireat Atlantic Stales Corn Exposi tion Corn Records Made in South Columbia, S. C The premium list of the South Atlantic .States Corn exposition, which 'i to bo held in Columbia fromD.e.ceinbe.rSito has- been issued' and .BeVferai .thjOUs and copies will benout.-tdUh' farmers of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Approx imately $10,000 will be given in prizes to the farmers of the three States showing the best corn at the exposition. There will also be more than 10 hansome trophy cups, valu ed at several thousand dollars, for the best corn exhibit. The premium list, a handsomely engraved booklet of 50 pages, will be sent out to any one, desiring upon request' of the department of agriculture. All requests should be addressed to the department of agriculture in Co lumbia. President IIudson.,of the exposi tion is received hundreds of let ters from farmers saying that they intended to send exhjbits to the ex position. Many requests for infor mation as to tine exposition are being received from. North Carolina and Georgia. The corn exposition is a climax to corn production in Jrhe 'South and is held for the purpose :o"f encourag ing the production of corn. This exposition will be educative in its nature. - ' An invitation is extended to every farmer of the three States to attend the exposition and send an exhibit. In connection with the exposition several speaKors of national promi nence will make addresses. Besides there will be an aviation meek. It is proposed to make the exposi tion to the South just ..what the1 National Corn show is to the West; ' There were ,r0.000,000 bu si vols of corn produced in South Carolina this year and a record yielding of 228 bushel one one acre secured. - USED DEAD BODIES TO WARN. But Anti-Prohibitionists Disregard ed it and Drys Lost. Seattle, Wash. The bodies of two men who died of alcoholism were placed on exhibition in the windows of the undertaking establishment of the deputy coroner at Auburn, 20 miles south of Seattle, in-an effort to win votes for the "jrys" in the local option election held here, but without apparent effect- for the town voted "wet." Both factions were making a hard fight and the prohibitionists appeared to be in the lead until in the afternoon. Then ' the tide began to turn. In a frantic effort the anti-saloon leaders ap pealed to Deputy Coroner Connell, an ardent prohibitionist, for aid. He hurried to his establishment where the bodies of the two men lay. Bolstering them in an up right position in . their coffins he placed them in the 'front windows. Above the head of each a sign bear ing the words: "He died' of drink" was tacked. As voters hurried by anti-saloon men directed their at tention to the exhibition. 'There was no desecration of the dead," sand Connell. 'The men were without friends and their bodies might as well have been put to some good use." . Who Wants to Be a Miner? f . Hillsboro, 111. Five men are dead af.d 18 injured as the result of an explosion in a coal mine at-Panama, 111. Four men were killed outright anil the fifth died from injuries later. Rassel Roman io, a miner, is still in the shaft.. Gas, which has accumulated over night in a pocket, several hundred feet from the mouth of the shaft, exploded, tearing out the limbers and shaking the earth for miles around. Rich Haul By 'Highwaymen. Great Harrington, Mass. Three masked highwaymen,' armed with rifles, secured between $4,000 and $5,000, through one of the most daring hold-ups ever known in this section of Massachusetts. The money comprised the pay-roll for two camps of Italian laborers em ployed by the Woronso Construc tion Company on the construction of a new electric car line between Great Harrington and Edgemont. The robbers disappeared. A WONDERFUL CAREER. Hooper Was Found on Streets of Knoxville a Waif, Forty Years Ago. Nashville, Tenn Ben. W. Hooper, the newly elected Governor of Ten nessee, was found on the streets of Knoxville less than forty years ago. The waif, whose parentage is not known, was committed to the care of an orphan asylum where ho received his early training. When he was 10 years old he at tracted, the attention of Captain Hooper, of Newport, Tennwho gavo him an education n;; and his name and before he was "21 years old he had graduated in law with distinction. While he had achieved some dis tinction in his home county, having been sent to the State Legislature for two terms, Hooper was not gen erally known in the State before he was nominated as the Republi can candidate for Governor. He is a successful lawyer and is considered wealthy. He will be' tlile first Republican Govenor Tennessee has had in many years and the third in the history of the State. He was the choice of the Independent Demor crats as well as his own party and his campaign has been a remark able one. Although Tennessee is a safely Democratic State, he has re ceived the support of some of the leading Democrats and on every stump where- he has spoken, Con federate veterans have sat on the platform. Hooper's career has been roman tic and spectacular, starting in an orphan asylum and finally leading to the Governor's chair. He was a striking figure in a romance which led to his leaving Tennessee for the Wpst, where he grimly deter mined ;to make good because he had ben taunted with the fact that wfj&la not know who his parents were. From a small investment he made a fortune in a few months and returned to his Tennessee home to practice his profession. Later he married Miss Annie Jones, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in east Tennessee. He has four children. CENSUS COTTON REPORT. Shows 7,339,983 Bales Ginned to November 1.. Washington The census bureau report shows 7,339,983 bales of cot ton, counting round bales as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1910 to November 1, compared with 7,017,849 for 1909; 8, 191,557 for 1908, and 6,128,502 for 1907. Round bales included this year are 81,187, compared with 109,021 for 1909; 149,808 for 1908, and 125. 785 for 1907. Sea island this vear is 40,516 bales, compared with 55,237 for 1908; 45, '479 for 1908, and 33,331 for 1907.' The ginning by States follows: Alabama, 747,162; Arkansas, 323,674; Florida, 38,287; Georgia, 1,241,138; Louisiana, 154,756; Mississippi, 576, 373; North Carolina, 380,114; Okla homa, 584,850; South Carolina,' 729, 023; Tennessee, 129,781; Texas, 2, 403,981. All other States, 24,838. The distribution of sea island cot ton for 1910 by States is: Florida, 15,191; Georgia, 22,507; South Caro lina, 2,818. Grandfather at 3G. Dalton, Ga. Ben Durham, a plum ber, is one of, if not the youngest grandfather in the Stale. He be came a grandfather at the age of 36. He is extremely proud of his grandchild and is being congratulat ed by his friends here. Ten Million Dollars in Gold. Seattle, Wash. More than ten million dollars' worth of gold has been received by the United States assay office' here since the first of the year, according to a statement given out by the assayer. The total receipts from January 1 to Novem ber 8 from Alaska and British America mines is given as 10.507, 621.94. Of this amount $939,109.75 camo from Alaska: ' $1,036,296.03 from British Columbia, and $97, 021.75 from the Yukon territory. Mountain Murderer Escapes. Lexington, Ky. While more than two hundred armed men are Beach ing throughout Breathitt county for Jacob Noble, who killed Jailer Wesley Turner, the youthful feud ist eluded his pursurers. He is still in hiding in the mountains. Governor Wilson has been asked to aid in the chase and the reward for the arrest of Noble may be in creased. The men sent out under command of a deputy sheriff have orders to arrest the fugitive "dead or alive." MEXICAN TROUBLES Outlook Grave Between the Two Governments. STATE DEPARTMENT IS AWAKE. The Slaying or a Mexican by Ameri cans and the Retaliaion by Mexi cans Causes Bitterness and Indig nation Serious Crisis. Washington The government of Mexico and the United States are making every effort to restrain their citizens from acts of violence and to smooth over the difficulties. The already serious problem before the two nations, resulting from the burning at the stake in Texas of Antonio Rodriguez and the riotous demonstrations against Americans in Mexico City aiid elsewhere, has been further complicated by the shooting of Jesus Loza by Carlos B. Carothers, an American, at Guada lajara, Mexico, and the assassina tion of Chief of Police W.'C. Temple of Anadarka, Okla., by a Mexican. Ambassador Do La Barra pre sented to the State Department the dispatches from foreign Minister Creel in which President Diaz ex pressed satisfaction at President Taft's assurance that he would do all in his power to punish those guilty of the crime recently com mitted against Rodriguez in Texas. President Diaz in this message stated that the Mexican government already had instituted proceedings against the persons responsible for tho misdemeanors in Mexico and expected to repress, with all the vigor of the law, all offenses what soever against Americans GEORGIA SENATOR DEAD. Alexander Stephens Clay Passes! Senator Fourteen Years. Atlanta, Ga. United States Sena tor Alexander Stephens Clay of Georgia died hero after an extended illness. According to the physicians Sen ator Clay's dath resulted from dila tion of the heart, superinduced by arterial sclerosis. The Senator has been ill for nearly a year and came ALEXANDER 8. CLAY. United States Senator from Georgia. to the sanitorium here on November 1, to take a rest cure. Senator Clay was 57 years old and was serving his third term in the United States Senate. He is sur vived by his wife, five sous and a daughter, besides, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Clay of Cobb county. Tho Senator has served in the Senate continuously for 14 yar9 having been elected in 1895 to suc ceed the Hon. John B. Gordon. Arm Upraised Preacher Dies. New York. With his arm uplifted in appeal. Ite;. Dr. Ferdinand O. Zech of the German Presbyterian church was stricken in the pulpit at Jamaica, L. I., and died before ho could be taken from the church His face became convulsd as he reached the climax of a spirited sentence, his raised hand fell on tho open Bible and he topplied back ward in tho pulpit. Parishoners carried him to a cushinoed pew, but he only motioned feebly to his heart and died. Express Strike Called Off. New York. The strike of drivers and helpers employed by tho trans continental express companies has been formally declared off. The close of the strike was brought about by the New Jersey strikers who voted to accept the terms upon which the companies offered to take back the men. The agreement provides that the men shall be taken back without discrimination except for acts of violence during strike. ilr 'ill ' FARM PRODUCTS OF 1910 The Record of Various Crops Made on Lands in the United States Figures Are Interesting. Washington. Bumper crops led by corn with the greatest harvest ever gathered, were produced by the farmers of the United States during this year. In a general re view of crop conditions issued the bureau of statistics of the Depart ment of Agriculture says: "The harvests of 1910 have been practically compared, with results exceeding the expectations during the growing period. Preliminary estimates have been made of the production of most of the import ant crops from which it appears with aggregate production of crops in 1910 are approximately 7.6 per cent greater than the crops of 1909 and about 9.1 per cent greater than the average annual production of the preceding five years. Prices for important crops averaged on November 1 about 5.4 per cent low er than a year ago. "The production of other crops in 1 1910, expressed in percentage of the average production in recent years (not compared with full crop) is estimated as follows: "Peaches, 113,1: hops, 106,9 broom corn, 105, 4: cranberries, 105,4: sweet potatoes, 104,9 sorghum 104,6: asparagus, 102,5: peanuts 102, 5; cabbages, 100.2; lima beans, 100.0 kaffir corn, 99,1; pears, 98,9 beans, (dry), 98,8; cantaloupes, 97,3; water melons, 97,0; onions, 96,5; hemp, 95,5; tomatoes, 93,7; clover seed, 93,6; strawberries, 91,5; grapes, 82,2; apples, 85.2; millet seed, 85.7; rasp berries, 78,0; blackberries, 76,6. "The conditions of other crops, composed with average conditions at or near time of gathering was as follows: i f "Sugar "cane,, 101.2; rice, 102.3; sugar beets, 100.9; lemons, 99.3; cot ton, 98.9; oranges, 95.5." U. S. CORN REPORT. Department of Agriculture Fur nishes Statistics. Washington. Estimates of the Department of Agriculture give the total 1910 production of - corn as 8,121,381,000 bushels, compared with 2,772.676,000 for 1909; yield per aere as 27.4 bushels, compared with 25.8, the 10-year aevrage; quality as 87.2 per cent compared with 84.4 the 10 year average, and per centage of 1909 crop on farms November 1 as 4.3 per cent (119,056,000 bushels) compared with 3.8, the 10-year aver age. Production of tobacco was 967, 150,000 pounds, compared with 949, 357,000 in 1909; yield per acre, 795.4 pounds, compared with 811.6, the 10 year average and quality 85. 2 per cent, compared with 86.3 the 10-year average. Acre Pro Yield duction Quality States. Bushels. Bushels. P.C. Texas 20.2 181,093,000 81. Oklahoma ... 16.0 92,352,000 65. Georgia 14.3 64,808,000 90. Tennesee ... 25.9 96,296,000 . 89. Kentucky ... 28.6 104,075,000 87. Alabama .... 18.0 63,439,000 92. Mississippi... 20.5 66,256,000 94. N. Carolina .. 18.8 57,754,000 90. Arkansas ... 24.0 69,216,000 88. Louisiana ... 23.6 58,835,000 91. S. Carolina . . 18.5 44,733,000 90. S. Dakota . . . 26.0 56,212,000 77. Virginia .... 25.5 54,621,000 92. Wanted Jail For a Home. New York. Peter Lillijohn, who wrote a threatening letter to John D. Rockefeller demanding $50,000 was held in $1,000 bail for the grand jury. The prisoner said he wrote the letter- because he had no home and wanted to be arrested that he might have shelter. Football Player in For Murder. Wheeling, W. Va. A warrant formally charging Thomas McCoy, right end of the Bthany College football team with murder in con nection with the death of Captain Rudolph Munk of the West Virginia University team has been issued here by Magistrate It. G. Hoobs, the action following partial completion of the inquest by Coroner W. W. Rogers. Munk sustained injuries in the game between the two teams from which he died. Violated Anti-Trust Law. Pittsburg, Pa. Fifteen officers and directors of the Imperial Win dow Glass Company pleaded "nolo contendere" before Judge S. Young, in the United States district court to a violation of the Sherman anti trust act and each was fined $500. At the same time a fine of $2,500 was imposed upon the corporation itself with costs. Among those fined are Myron L. Case, president J. G. Sayre, secretary, and M. J. Healy, vice president. THE ELECTION RETURNS. Revised returns indicate that the Republican majority in the Senate will be. reduced from 26 to 10 in the next Congress. The full membership in the pres ent Congress gives the Republicans 59 and the Democrats 33. The Democrats appear to have gained eight seats. This reduced the Republicans to 51 and incresaes the Democrats to 41. The follow ing table shows the results , in the 32 States where Senators are to be chosen: Complex Seats now ion of Slates held by Legislature California Rep. Rep. Connecticut .. Rep. Rep. Delaware Rep. Rep. Florida ...Dem. Dem. Indiana Rep. Dem. 'Iowa .......... .. Rep. 'Louisiana ......... Dem. Maine ..Rep. Dem. Maryland ..Dem. Dem. Massachusetts ..... Rep. Rep. Michigan Rep. Rep. Minnesota Rep. Rep. Mississippi Dem. Dem. Missouri ... Rep. Rep. Montana Rep. doubl Nebraska Rep. Dem. Nevada Rep. Rep. New Jersey Rep. Dem. New York Rep. Dem. North Dakota ...... Rep. Rep. Ohio Rep. Dem. Pennsylvania .. ....Rep. Rep. Rhode Island Rep. Rep. Tennessee Dem. Dem. Texas Dem. Dem. Utah Rep. Rep. 'Vermont Rep. Rep. Virginia Dem. Dem. Washington .......Rep. Rep. West Virginia Rep. Dem Wisconsin Rep. Rep. Wyoming Rep. Rep. Probably. 'Vacant by death of Senator Dolliver and Senator McEnery. !2. "Senators already chosen. Revised figures indicate that the Democratic majority in the next house will be 60. 62d Congress Dem. Rep. Alabama 9 Arkansas 7 ' .. California . 8 Colorado 3 Connecticut 4 Delaware .. 1 Florida 3 Georgia 11 Idaho 1 Illinois 10 15 Indiana 12 1 Iowa 2 9 Kansas . . ,. 8 Kentucky 9 2 Louisiana 7 Maine 2 2 Maryland 5 1 Massachusetts 4 10 Michigan 2 10 Minnesota 1 8 Mississippi 8 Missouri ; 13 t 3 Montana 1 Nebraska ' 3 3 Nevada ,. .. .. ' 1 New Hampshire V 2 New Jersey 7 3 New York 23 14 North Carolina 10 North Dakota 2 Ohio ., 15 6 Oklahoma 3 2 Oregon 2 Pennsylvania 9 23 Rhode Island 1 1 South Carolina 7 South Dakota 2 Tennessee 8 2 Texas 16 .. Utah 1 Vermont 2 Virginia 9 1 Washington 3 West Virginia 4 1 Wisconsin 1 2 Wvoming 1 Totals 225.. 165 Colorado Women in Legislature. Denver, Col Four women will sit in tho eighteenth gneral assem bly of Colorado as a result of the election. They are Alma Laferty, Louise U. Jones and Louise M. Ker win, all elected rcprsentatives from Denver districts on the' Dem ocratic ticket and Agnes Riddle, Republican. In the last general assembly Mrs. Laferty, who was re-elected was the only woman representative. There are no women senators. California Votes for $10,000,000. San Francisco Unofficial returns indicate that a big majority has been given the two constitutional amendments which will add $10, 000,000 to the fund of the Panama Pacific exposition. With the amount already secured the delegation which will leave for Washington in a few days will be able to offer a bid of $17,500,000 for the privilege of holding the exposi tion and will notify the government that government aid will not be asked. DESERTIONS IN THE ARMY Reports of Adjutant General Recommendations Number of Men ia Service. Washington. The number of de sertions from tho enlisted strength of the regular army of the United States during the last fiscal year was materially less than the record of any year since 1899, according to report of Adjutant General Ains worth. The gratifying reduction in the desertion ratio is ascribed by Gen eral Ainjworth to the continuance of ' systematic and vigorous efforts to arrest and punish deserters. Of tho white troops 3.77 per cent and of the colored soldiers only 1.35 per cent were reported as deserters. , ' The percentage of desertions from the British army during . the year ended September 30, 1909, was 1.18. General Ainsworth urges the pur suit and punishment of desertions not for the corrective effective such r action may have upon the deserters themselves but for the deterrent ef fect upon others and from this point of view he argues the inadvisability of restoring apprehended or sur rendered deserters to duty and to a status of honor in tho army. ' ' In regard to the actual strength Ui I.lit3 0.1111V Ull .JijlAILIl,L 1 iJm LiJLU. I. lira' report shows that there were 4,310 officers and-67,459 enlisted men in the regular army and 166 officers and 5,100 enlisted men in the Philip pine scouts making a total of 4,476 officors and 72,559 enlisted men not v including 197 first lieutenants of the meaicai reserve ; corps on active duty. CHILD FOUND DEAD. Mother Frantic With Grief and Her Condition Very Grave. 1 . "Asbury Park, N. J. The body of, little Marie Smith, a school girl of 10, who had been missing sveral days, was found in a clump of woods not far from her home. Some instinct seemed to warn her mother ' of how the search had ended, for although an effort was made ' to shield her from the truth, she rush ed from the house and took in the full horror of the fact before she could be withheld. Half-fainting, half in convulsions, she was carried into the house and there is grave fears that she will die, and with her the life she was soon to have brought into the. world. . Marie was murdered by a negro, who has been arrested. Old Man and Wife Arrested. Geneva, Ohio. Mr. I. Parker, aged 75, and his 73-year-old wife were arrested hero in connection with tho shooting of three 12-year-old boys, one of whom, Edwin Rhodes, is dead. The other two boys, Philip Krus and Earl Rawson, are seriously in jured. The shooting occurred, is is be lieved, as an outcome of a feud of 30 years' duration. If It Was All Divided. Washington. Each person in the United States, were he to have his proportion of the money in circula tion, would be 13 cents richer this month than he was last. The circu lation per capita is now $35.01, 6 cents better than at the same time last year. , - The amount of money in existence in this country is constantly on the increase, due largely to the pro duction of gold, of which there is free coinage. This year already shows an increase of more than $55,000,000 over last. Fire That Ruined. , New York. Two persona wero killed and four seriously injured ia a fire that destroyed two upper floors of the Rosalind apartment house on Manhattan avenue, on tho upper West Side of the city. Wil liam H. Abbott, a real estate opera tor, 44 years old, jumped from a front window on tho fifth floor and was impaled on a;picket fence be low, dying instantly; His wife, forty years old, was burned t. death. Retired on $10,000; Yearly Pension. Chicago-After riare than 40 years of continuous service as special agent for the Chicago, "Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, John A. Hin sey has shut up his desk and walls e, J out of his offict in tho Railway F change building with ths knowler that for the rest of his' life he vi 1 have no more to do. He is 78 yi" old and the company I .s dir: ; that hereafter he shall C. - ; sion of $10,000 a year. I,