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I , 1 l I ' taYer, U AJnc. - POR OOD, FOR COUNTRY AND TOR TRUTtt" :A Umztt Ctj I C5ts. VOL.XXH. , PLYMOUTH, N. C.. FRIDAY, OCTOBElU, 1911. ? NO. 16. PELLEGRA SCARE WAS EXAGERATED MO CAUSE FOR ALARM IN SITU- v . ATI ON AT) DURHAM DECLARE THE DOCTORS. REQUEST FOR 4 CORRECTION The Statements Misrepresented the State of Affairs What a Prominent Physician Says on the Subject. Conditions ofi.Patients Satisfactory. Raleigh. A special from Durham states that the board of - health de-j f erred its meeting until the reports upon the pellagra proposition were submitted and looked over with some care. . .. '. ' " ' . Nothing hew has been found ex cept further facts which prove, with out doubt that there ha be,enaLno' cause for alarm at any time. .Exh'bii nation of Drs. N. P. Brodie Calvin v Hicks, W. N. Hicks, T. A? Mann, Geo. VH. Ross, white, and Dr.J. N. Mills') colored, developed just one probable case, that a patient of Dr.'.Boddie, the other five having none.,, County . Su perintendent of Health,' Dr. Nv M.t . declared to be" patients treated by all. of the doctors and he makes. this statement, which is the best one yet given out because he makes itivIa' business to know things.- '&"''$? Dr. Johnson said: . I have tried td keep up with this thing all the year. and think I have done it. SYou mayi state upon my authority that 'there' are not twenty-five cases-in. Du'rhaiiSmount ! of. surprise. The officer is in and that I do not believe there have been fifty in Durham all the yeaiy "You have doubtless gotten , the number from the doctors correctly: and I am glad you did. But every doctor is treating other doctor's cases. These patients go from one - to an other. I have three how. They are at the county home. One of them is crazy and will be dead in a few days. The other two are nearly well, in fact, one of them, an Irishman, working out in the sun and getting his hands burned, has only symptoms and I am .not certain about him. The other is a woman practically well. At ," no time has there been cause for alarm. Tobacco Crop For This Year. In response to inquiries made as to the probable size of the tobacco crop this year Mr. Elia.s Carr, .secretary .of the Department of , Agriculture, esti mates that there is planted this year in North Carolina 100,000 acres as against 215,000 last year. The yield, he estimates, will be about 450 pounds to the acre as against 600 last year, for while the tobacco is heavy this year the stands are re ported as being poor. Mr. T. B. Far- Tcer, farmers' institute conductor, agrees with Mr. Can- as to the pos sible acreage, but he estimates that the yield will be about 650 pounds fa the acre. The estimate of Mr. Carr, he says, is based on reports received and on the figures which show that in August 1909 and 1910, the sales were about eight million pounds, while August of this year shows sales of about four million pounds. . Both"Mr. Carr and Mr. Parker agree"that the crop has been cut off by very dry con ditions during the planting season, Want Election On Good Roads. A number of progressive farmers are planning to appear before" Ithe "board of county commissioners at their October meeting and ask for an J election on bonds to build good roads. Also there is a petition being circula ted asking the board to establish a. chaingang in the. county;'-' The county; is now paying approximately $15,000 a year road tax and nothing of a per manent character is being done on the roads. True the roads have been improved but at best it is only tem porary work. It is argued that the county oan take this money, which will amount i to probatfty $16,000 or ,$18,000 another year, and not only pay the interest on a bond issue, but create a sinking fund, without in creasing the present rate of 20 cent3. .-4.f ! A. J. Barwick Has" Retired. , State Superintendent of Public In struction J. Y. Joyner announces that retirement of A. J. Barwick as chief clerk in the Department of Education and secretary of the state board of examiners to take up the practice of law in Newton and the appointment of E. E. Sams, now superintendent of the Fit2ergerald, Ga., city schools in his stead. Mr. Sams is to take up the work as soon as the FitzgeYald board can supply the superintendency of the schools. He is a native of Madison county. MAIL CLERK RIFLED MAIL Was Caught Red Handed By Inspec tors and Held For Federal Court Under $1,000 Bond. Raleigh. William D. Stephenson, railway mail clerk on the Raleigh & Southport Railroad between Raleigh and Fayetteville, arrested was by postofflce inspectors on the charge of robbing the mails by rifling letters containing money and other valuables, has given $1,000 bond for his appear ance at Federal court. Inspectors J. D. Robertson, J. S. Lemen and W. F. Cuester made the arrest and worked up the case. Mail has been tampered with repeatedly on the line. The inspectors started a marked ' letter from Fayetteville addressed to a bank firm. It contain- ed marked $1 bills and was not in the mail transferred by Stephenson at the Raleigh office. He was called upon to explain and stoutly insisted that he was innocent. A search re vealed the three bills which" he had thrown into a corner of his room. Then he confessed to having opened the letter and destroyed all but the money, ''but .'insists that this was his very, first offense.' He is 38 years old and is married.: He has been on this Tun six years.. - Return True Bill Against Officer. : Special policeman Alex A. Nelms, of Wilmington, was arrested on a ca jias fromithe Superior Court, following--the 'return' by the grand jury of a true bill against him for the murder of Frank Davis, colored, whom he 'shot July g9.th,,last. The shooting was dnrvetigated'the day after it occurred by the' icororier's jury and he was ex- onerated, and a day or two later by jthe ; grand, ' jury, and not a true bill returned. Therefore the action of tha tnroaotit Inrv noonsinnoH nn smnll jail but' it is likely that habeas corpus proceedings' will -be instituted to se cure, his release. , It is claimed that additional evidence has been secured. The officer had arrested the negro for gambling, and he claimed the negro Mvas ; about to get the best of him when he' shot. The belief is pretty general that those opposed to the en forcement of the prohibtion law are behind the prosecution of the officer, who has been very active in running down "blind tigers." Consolidation Deal Consummated. Anhouncment is made that the deal or consolidating the American Ex change and Commercial National Banks, of Greensboro, which has been on foot for some time, . is practically consummated, the directors of tht .two .institutions having agreed upon the p'lan of merger. This will be sub mitted to the stockholders, who will approve the plan some time during next month. The name of the bank that will. result from the consolidation will be the American Exchange Na tional Bank. The American Exchange Bank is a state bank and, as the name indicates, the .Commercial National is a national bank. The new bank will be organized under the national bank law. Mr. R.- G. Vaughn, who is president of the American Exchange, will ;,.be.' president of the new institu tion, while Mr. F. C. Foyles, cashier of the Commercial National, will be cashier. The total capital of the new, bank will be $400,000, making it one of the strongest financial institutions in this section of the country. Eleven Additional Indictments. " The, grand jury . at Wilmington brought li,;,, ..additional indictments against persons in the city for violat ing the prohibition law, making a to tal of 60, including those of Thursday. Thirty-six out of the 60 have gone to the. sheriff. 'er office:, ani arranged for bond in'-tbs' sumof $500 each, for ap pearance at the ne"xt term of court. Other3 ;-wp;e .'itified of the charges against themVahd cited to appear at the sheriffs office for the purpose of arranging bail. Practically all those indicted are men of- considerable means and many friends and have had no trouble in giving bond, and the of ficers have no fear that they will leave the city without arranging bond. There are some, however, who are regarded as ."little ' fellow's" and it' is believed that the report as to the wholesale indictments has caused them to make a hasty departure. Mysterious Disease Discovered. A mysterious disease has just come to light in Hickory'. Mr. Hobson Sigman, young son of Mrs.. A. Y. Sig man, had been suffering: from a se vere headache for -several days and could find ip relief.- He chanced to place his hafc'd on the., side of . his head a few days 'ago and discovered that a large, place seemed to be per fectly' soft. Dr. Menzies was called in and found that the bone had been eaten away in a considerable portion of his skull. The young man was sent to the hospital. FLOOD DESTROYS ill WATER FROM BROKEN DAM WIPES OUT TOWN OF AUSTIN, PENN. ESTIMATED 150 ARE DEAD It Is Estimated That the Property Loss Will Reach Six Million Dollars. Austin, Pa. Austin, a town of 3,200 residents in the northern part of the state, was swept out of existence, and more than 150 of its people were killed bya flood which followed the breaking of the Bayless Pulp and Pa per company's dam a mile and a half north of the town. Almost 500,000,000 gallons of water rushed over the place in a wall 30 feet high, wrecking every structure In its path. In Austin, the bursting of scores of natural gas mains as the ; buildings were swept away, added fire to the general horror, of the flood and nun dreds of those imprisoned in the wreckage were burned to" 'deaths Contents of the great " dam, ' which was filled to overflowing byj the heavy fains of the past two weeks; swept through a natural gorge in which; the towns were situated. While' many of the residents of Austin escaped '-tahe hills bordering each side of the' tdwn, the warning given by the blasts, of the Bayless mill's whistles and alt,tel- ephone girl were, too brief for" hun dreds of others. The catastrophe paralleled inmany respects the destruction by flood of Johnstown,. Pa., in 1889,x in which more than 2,000 lives were lost. . Austin, Pa. Estimates of the loss of life in the flood that overwhelmed the town of Austin diminished when 'an army of volunteer rescuers work ed its way into the masses Of wreck age. In the opinion of many on the ground the number of deaths will not reach 150, while the less hopeful place the list of fatatlities at 300. . The property loss will exceed $6,- 000,000, and it is the general opinion that the town will never be rebuilt. Two, at least, of the large plants will not be reconstructed, and a majority cf the businesses of the place have been financially ruined. Reports from Costello and points farther down Sinnemahoning grew more encouraging as the day advanc ed. At Costello, while there was a heavy financial loss, it was said that no more than three persons were dead. Beyond that point no fatali ties had been reported. The survivors will not suffer from hunger or lack of care, as the sup plies and madical assistance rushed to the scene seem ample to care for them. T." F. Bicknell, national direc tor of the National Red Cross, ar rived, bringing with him $15,000 : in cash for immediate aid to the flood victims. Of the eight injured in the hospitals none is fatally hurt. Credit for the quick-spreading fire alarm was given to Lena Binckley, a telephone operator. Upon receiving thei message that the dam had broken she pushed the alarm button connect ing with the fire department and the engineers of the Goodyear lumber mill below the town. The engineer tied his whistle down and the fire bell in the town was sounded continuously. She then rushed to the street scream ing the warning cry, "The dam has broken!" Then she fled for her life toward the steep hillside at the north end of Main street. Turning toward the valley she saw the great wall of water descending upon the town. The immediate scene of the obliter ation of Austin covers an area three eighth of a mile wide and one and three-quarter miles long. This com prised the business' section and the valley residence portion and was bounded by Main, Ruckaber and Thorn streets and Costello avenue, crossed by lesser thoroughfares. Nearly a mile above stood the mam moth concrete dam of the Bayless Pulp and Paper company, 600 feet long, 50 feet high and 30 feet thick at the bottom, tapering to a thickness of 3 feet at the top. Back of the dam lay a reservoir of water a- mile and a half long and an average of 35 feet deep. Madero Chosen Mexican President. Mexico City. Basing his belief up on information received from various parts of the republic, Francisco I. Ma dero, whom the people of Mexico of ficially elected president, declared that there was no doubt that his chosen candidate for the vice presi dency, Jose Pino Suarez o! Yucatan, had been elected. Friends of Fran cisco de la Barra; however, claim he has been elected vice president "We have won by a big majority ia the capital," said Madero. 1 0 HIS ATTENTION ENGAGED yi- ' RELATIVE WAR STRENGTH In view of the declaration of war upon Turkey by Italy, the fol- lowing1 figures will be of interest: ' ' . Italy's peace strength, 240,000 men; reserves, 806,000. Total war strength, 1,046,000; available for. duty, 1,200,000. . . Turkey's peace strength, 375,000;. : reserves, 350,000; total war trength, 725,000; available for duty, 2,000,000. " Italy, has 7 modern battleships, 6 ' older battleships, 8 armored cruisers, 14 first class cruisers, 13 gunboats, 13 torpedo boat de- stroyeys, 58 torpedo boats, 6 submarines and 29,941 officers and men in the navy. , Turkey has 5 old battleships, 1 first class cruiser, 2 second class cruisers, 2 third class cruisers, 2 gunboats, 4 torpedo boat destroy- ers, 8 torpedo boats, 30,800 officers and men in the navy. THE CAUSE OF THE QUARREL Tripoli, which Is situated on the north coast of Africa, and directly south of Italy, has long been under Turkish control. The Ottoman government has, according to report, become lax in It3 manner of government of Tripoli. - v , w 4U, It is the claim of Italy that Tripoli;' Wibr 'ra'i diTectiy south of the Italian peninsula, harbors many thousand' Italians, and that these Ital ians are without the proper protection. Italy claims that the nearness of Tripoli to her own domain makes it imperative that Italians there be protected. Recently the Arabian population of Tripoli, which Is the prodominant race, have shown marked disapproval of the alleged encroachments of Italian enterprises in their country and have threatened to drive the Italians from Tripoli. Representation of these anarchistic conditions were made to Turkey by the Italian government. The Turkish replies to the Italian representations have not been ac Ceptable to the latter government. An utlimatum was sent by Italy to Turkey, in which It was stated that Italians in Tripoli must be protected, and that Italy proposed to do this, in view of the failure of Turkey to do so. Turkey's reply to this ultimatum, sent to Rome, failed to appease the Italian ministry, and a declaration of war followed. IVI0B LYNCHES WHITE MAN Father of Mulattoes Who Killed Offi cers Strung Up to Water Tank. Dumas, Ark. Forcing their way in to the Desha county jail here between fifty and one hundred men, members of a mob formed so quietly that the authorities had not the slightest warning, overpowered the deputies in charge and took Charles Malpass, Sr., white, to a water tank and hanged him. The mob then dispersed with out demonstration. None of its mem bers is known to the authorities, ac cording to their statement. The lynching followed a pitched battle at the home of Malpass, in which Sheriff W. D. Preston, of this county, Deputy Sheri Barney Stiel and two mulatto sons of Malpass were killed and Malpass wounded. Malpass' injuries were at first believ ed to be mortal, but when he was brousht here and placed in Jail his wounds were found not to be serious. The wife of Charles Malpass, Sr., a neeress. and Malpass' younger son, young mulatto, escaped from the house during the fighting. Tne au thorities say they do not think the negress and the boy engaged in the battle, and, for this reason, it is not thoueht the two will be sought fur ther in connection with the affair. The sheriff's posse had gone to the Malpass house to arrest the two mu latto sons of Malpass. The authorities say the community lived in a state of almost constant terror because of the Malpass fam ily, against which prevailed intense feeling, Fighting the Potato Corner. Tn a n n no! is. Ind. Mayor Shank an nounced that he was determined to break the corner formed by commis airn men on ootatoes. which are sell ing here at $1.60 a Dusnei, ana ior j that purpose he has brought in a car- na a which will be placed on the city markets. He says the potatoes cost 69 cents a bushel in Michigan, and will be sold here at the same pHce, with the freight added. The commis sion men are charged with represent ing to growers that the market here is blutted. t .:':..: . ' OF WARRING COUNTRIES. BETWEEN ITALY AND TURKEY. LUMBER TRUST IS INDICTED Lumber Associations In Georgia, Ala bama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana Named. Denver. Sensational charges that the so-called lumber trust completely dominates the lumber tradev of at least twenty states by maintaining a spy system, blacklists, divisions of territory and other alleged illegal methods conducted through a central agency in Chicago, called the Lumber Secretaries' Bureau of Information, are nig.de in an anti-trust suit filed in the United States court here by the department of justice. JjsThis is the government's fourth move in a nation-wide fight against the lumber "trust" in addition to the criminal Indictments already standing against the secretaries of fourteen lumberman's associations. .Anti-trust suits under the Sherman law are now pending against the Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association and the Eastern States Retail Lumber Deal ers' Association The Secretaries' Bureau and the Colorado and Wyoming Lumber Deal ers' association are defendants in the action filed. The government asks the court to enjoin the bureau from con tinuing espionage upon lumbermen by paid spies and circulating "blacklists" and other 'confidential information." The government charges that the operation of the.'alleged conspiracy between the lumbermen and the secre taries' bureau has eliminated all com petition from the trade of the con sumer, except among retail yards. Another Tampa Strike Probable. j' Ta'mpa, Fla. As a result of the de cision of. the internal revenue depart ment to enforce the law requiring j duty on all manufactured cigars, ! whether consumed in a factory or , elsewhere, Tampa is again threatened with a disastrous strike of its 15,000 cigar makers. The effect of the de cision of "the revenue department has beei to discontinue a practice in the local factories, which is as old as the clear llavana cigar manufacturing business, the giving of smokers to the workmen. H ITALY DECLARES ; WAR ON TURKEY FOLLOWING DECLARATION OF WAR ITALIAN FLEET MOVES , AGAINST TRIPOLI. , ,' TURKISH SHIPS DESTROYED Italian Cruiser Sinks Turkish De stroyer in the Harbor a Prevosa. !',; Rome. Italy has declared, war on Turkey. It declared that the two countries were in a state of war beginning at half after two , o'clock on the after noon of Friday, September 29." This is the hour at which the Ital ian ultimatum to Turkey expired. It followed a session of the cabinet, at ' which the Turkish reply was consid- ered and found unsatisfactory.1 Though every Indication pointed to this action by the royal government, there was always a possibility that the good offices of other governments would be successful in avoiding hos tilities, and when the final decision of the cabinet was announced, the excitement throughout the City was intense. i Constantinople. The Turkish war ministry, according to the reports cur rent here, has received a dispatch, from the late Turkish military at tache at Paris, who has assumed com mand of the forces at Tripoli, stat ing that the Italians began to disem bark, but the Turks succeeded, ia sinking the first two barges. The Turkish cabinet has resigned. Said Pasha assuming the office of grand vizier, and Kismll Pasha that of foreign, minister. Mahmoud Shef ket Pasha continues as minister of war. . ' Salonika, European Turkey. An ish destroyer in the harbor of .Prevo sa, in Epirus, and landed troops. Tha Turkish authorities are sending a bat talion of troopB to Prevosa. The Matin's Athens correspondent says me leiegrayu. oiuuiai i vemua, Greece, wires to the government that a naval battle occurred off Prevosa. Italian warships belonging to the Ionian squadron encountered a flotilla of Turkish destroyers cruising off the coast of Epirus. The Italians promptly attacked the flotilla, and two Turkish ships were badly damaged by shells. They have; gone ashore in the Gulf of Arta. Athens, Greece. The premier has received a telegram from Venltza an nouncing that Italian warships pur sued and fired upon two Turkish transports carrying tropos. The trans ports went to shore near Prevosa. FAMILY MURDERED BY GIRL New Orleans Police Think They Have a Modern Lucreita Borgia. New Orleans. In the arrest here of Annie Crawford, an alleged drug fiend, on the charge of poisoning her younger sister, Elise, a pretty sten ographer, the police took their first step in an avowed effort to reveal the woman as a modern Lucreita Bor gia. Miss Crawford admitted to the district attorney that she did give her sister, Elise, morphine, but did it by mistake, as she intended to give her calomel and soda; that she stole the morphine from the Presbyterian hospital, and after giving a portion to her sister had about two dozen tab lets left, which she threw away. She said she was afraid to call in the doc tor after she had discovered her mis take. Three other members of the Craw ford family have died under mysteri ous circumstances within the past fif teen months and Annie Crawford la said to have been the benleflciary named in the insurance policies on the life of each. Taft Hears War News, ; Ottumwa, Iowa. President ' Taft got his first news of the declaration of war by Italy upon Turkey through the Associated Press dispatches hand ed to him on his train. He took the deepest interest in the news and ask ed for more. No comment of any sort, however, was obtainable. Dix to Pardon Haines. , Albany, N. Y. Governor Dix. is ex pected within a few days to pardon Capt. Peter C. Hains, Jr., now serv ing a sentence in Sing Sing prison for the murder of William Annis on the Bayside, L. I., Yacht club float, in August ,1903. A petition for his par don signed by eleven of the twelve men comprising the jury that convict ed Captain Hains has been presented to the governor and Col. Asa Bird Gardiner, in ehalf of Peter, Hains. Sr., filed considerable new avidence in the case with the governor. i
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