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E FIXED DATE
FOB ELECTIONS
TO BE IN TOWNSHIPS THROUGH
WHICH THE PROPOSED RAIL
ROAD WILL RUN.
A BRANCH AT GREENSBORO
To Eventually Extend the Line to
Yadklnville and Probably to Elkln
The Amounts to Be Voted Varys
From $25,000 to $100,000.
Raleigh. A special from Greens
ioro states that the county commis
sioners of both Guilford and Ran
dolph counties have fixed December
11 as the date for holding elections
in the townships through iwhich the
proposed Randolph and Cumberland
Railroads will run. -ThCTo are six
townships in Guilford and k like num
ber in Randolph and Cumberland
Railroad will the Seaboard Air iLne
at Cameron and run thence by way of
Asheboro to High Point and Winston'
.Salem. A branch line will come into
Greensboro and give this city direct
-connection with the Seaboard and
Norfolk & Western roals and conse'
fluently better freight rates.
It Is proposed to extend the road
eventually to Yadkinville and prob
ably to Elkin. The line to Greens
boro will probably come in from
Randleman, through a splendid ter
ritory. Starting from' Cameron, the
towns that will be touched are in the
following order: Cameron, Carthage,
Hallison, High Falls, Coleridge, Ram-
seur, Franklinville, Cedar Falls,
Worthville, Randleman, High Point,
Walbury and Winston-Salem.
The amounts of bonds to be voted
by the townships vary from $25,000
to $100,000.
To Take Charge of 'County Home.
- At the monthly,,meeting the board
of county commissioners signed a
contract with Mr. John A. Weeks, a
prosperous and successful farmer of
Dunn, to take charge of the county
home and to conduct a model farm
The! county owns about one hundred
and thirty-five acres of fine farming
land about two miles from Lillington,
and the idea is to support the county
paupers as near as possible by their
work. Hereafter all paupers will
have to live at the home and aid in
any way they can to their own sup
port. Experimental and demonstra
tion work will be carried on for the
benefit and example of the farmers in
the county.
Will Soon Have a Fair.
The first fair will be held on the
23rd of this month and owing to the
shortness of time this will be more
in the nature of an exhibit, which will
be the starter of the fair which the
people of the county trust to make a
great success in after years. This
association means much for Stanly
county, which is coming rapidly to the
front. She already has two railroads,
and with the Charlotte, Raleigh and
Southern almost a certainty she will
within a few years be one of the best
bounties from every standpoint , In
the state. .
To' Eliminate Duplication.
At a conference between members
of the state board of agriculture and
the trustees of the North Carolina
.College of agriculture and mechanic
arts relative to an adjustment of the
work of the two institutions so as to
eliminate unnecessary expenses of
each, it was decided to appoint a spe
cial sub-committee to make a study
of the conditions and report to the
two boards as early as possible. The
committee has not yet been named.
Fayetteville. Between McMillan
and Campbell sidings on the Virgifia
& Carolina Southern Railway, a man
named Hall of St. Paul was killed by
a southbound train. The engineer
flaw him and blew his whistle, when
the man stepped on to track and was
run over. Hall is said to have been
deaf. He was elderly man and leaves
a wife and family.
North Carolina New Enterprises.
The Bank of Candor, Montgomery
county, is chartered with $25,000 capi
tal authorized and $10,000 subscribed
by D. C. Ewing, J. C. Currie and J. M.
Singleton. Other notable charters
are for the Tabor Drug Company of
Tabor, Columbus county, capital $5,
000, ty Dr. J. W. -Flody and others;
the Bladenboro Drug Company, Bla
den county, capital $10,000, by H. C.
Bridgers and others; the Whitaker
Drug Company, Enfleld, capital $25,
000 authorized and $3,500 subscribed
by Bettls C. Whitaker ,aud othors.
A STREET CAR RUNS AWAY
A Man Killed and Many Are Injured
in Winston-Salem. Slippery Ralls
Responsible For Accident.
Winston-Salem. One man was
killed, three were seriously injured
and eleven other passengers in a
crowded runaway street car down
the steep Salem hill sustained minor
damages in a collision between the
runaway, another car on the tracks
and an ice wagon.
Starting above Shaffner's drug
store, on Main street, in the heart of
Salem, the wheels on the fog-damp
ened autumn leaves that strewed the
track made control of the 'car inv
possible, and for half a mile it rushed
down the incline with the motorman
struggling vainly at the brakes.
The dead:
Frank Snyder, 18 years of age, who
resided just south of the city on Lex
ington road.
Injured: Eugene Adams, driver of
ice wagon, negro, right arm wrench
ed and head badly cut, in Slater hos
pltal. A. G. Martin, resident of
Southside, suburban section of Sa
lem, head cut and bruised, in Twin
City hospital. William Vose of Waugh
town, just south of Salem, head bruis
ed and legs cut, in Twin City hospital
Clark Pitts, 12 years old, Waugh-
town, head cut badly and bruises.
Twin City hospital. Mrs. Fred Mey
ers, Salem, left shoulder, bruised. John
Enoch, Waughtown, bruised about
head and shoulders slightly. John
Griffin, Waughtown, left hip bruised,
Raymond Monri, Waughtown, leg, hip
and shoulder bruised. Lester Omary,
Salem, 11 years old, Salem, nose cut
Dallas Burner, Waughtown, scratch
ed and bruised. Thomas Gwaltney,
Southside, cut about face. George
Keeplin, Southside, wrist sprained. C
W. Dowell, Waughtown, head
bruised.
Bust of Governor Johnson.
When the bust of Gov. Samuel
Johnson, first grand master of the
North Carolina Grand Lodge of Ma
sons, is unveiled in the rotunda of
the state house, January 10, as a fea
ture of the annual session of the
grand lodge, the address on the life
and character of Governor Johnson
will be delivered by R. D. W. Connor.
It will be preceded by an invocation
by Rev. Plato Durham, remarks on
the event for providing the bust by
Mr. John Francis Winston; presenta
tion of the bust by Gen. B. S. Roys
ter and acceptance for the grand lodge
by Grand Master R. N. Hackett. Fol
lowing the address by Mr. Connor, the
bust will be presented to the state
by Col. J. Bryan Grimes of the his
torical commission and the accept
ance will be by Governor Kitchin
The bust is completed ready for in
stallation in. its niche. It is the work
of W. F. Ruckstuhl, who carved the
busts of W. A. Graham and M. W.
Ransom, both of which now occupy
niches each in the rotunda.
North Carolina Well Represented.
Col. Fred A. Olds, secretary of the
Raleigh chamber of commerce, is just
back from New York, where he at
tended the land and immigration
show in progress in Madison Square
Garden the past ten days. He says
North Carolina was quite well repre
sented, especially through the exhib
its of the Norfolk Southern Railroad
and the Southern Railway, the exhib
its of the Norfolk Southern being en
tirely devoted to North Carolina re
sources and progress. The Colonel
says he felt quite proud of his state
and that he had opportunity to put
in a good amount of advertising for
the state and especially for Raleigh
and Raleigh section, in which he was
especially interested for the Raleigh
chamber of commerce.
Biggest Event of the Kind.
Plans, which are now rapidly ma
turing, indicate that the railroad cele
bration to be held at Southport Nov
ember 23, will be quite the biggest
event of the kind ever held in this
section of the state and will be ol
greater significance perhaps than th
opening of any railroad in east Care
Una in many a day.
Ramseur. Many people believe thai
no finer chrisanthemums can be
grown anywhere than those showr
here by about twenty exhibitors. The
display of some five hundred plants
in full bloom was a bewitchingly beau
tiful spectacle. .
Farm-Life Sschool Defeated.
The proposition for the establish
ment of a farm-life school in Gaston
county was defeated in the election.
It is impossible to get , the detailed
reports from over the county at pres
ent, ,but sufficient information is at
hand to indicate the majority, against
it was pretty heavy, perhaps three
to five hundred. The vote was very
light, Inclement weather no doubt
keeping many away from the polls
Gastonia, percinct number 1, gave s
mall majority in favor Gf it. Ths
farmers were against it.
WINTER HOLDS
ENTIRE COUNTRY
SUDDEN DROP IN TEMPERATURE
CAUSED MANY DEATHS AND
MUCH SUFFERING.
PROPERTY LOSS IS HEAVY
Wind Blew Seventy Miles an Hour
and Did Much Damage in
Many Cities.
Atlanta. Nearly a score of deaths,
several million dollars property loss
and much suffering and inconvenience
resulted from the violent change of
temperature, the preceding storms
and the succeeding cold and snow
that beset the central portion of the
country.
Tornadic storms did much damage
in Wisconsin and Illinois and killed
a dozen persons, besides injuring
more than a score, several fatally
A cold wave almost immediately
rolled over the wreckage of the tor
nadoes and extended in a few hours
to the gulf coast and the Atlantic
seaboard. Rain turned to sleet, snap
ping telegraph and telephone wires,
and snow followed. The temperature
dropped in several places more than
sixty degrees in eighteen hours.
Several persons were frozen to
death by the sudden cold, shipping on
the great lakes was damaged and sev
eral boats were cast adrift. In some
places gas almost failed. The poor
in large cities and the homeless in
storrn-swept regions suffered severely.
Resume of deaths, injuries and con
ditions:
Janesville, Wis., and Vicinity Eight
persons dead, two dying, dozen injur
ed and $1,000,000 damage.
Chicago Two men frozen to death,
seven fishermen missing on Lake
Michigan, many persons hurt on the
icy pavements, shipping damaged.
Central Illinois Three or more per
sons dead and score injured in storms
at Easton, Virginia, Peoria and other
places, $1,000,000 property damage.
Iowa One man frozen at Ottumwa,
much suffering from cold.
North Dakota One man frozen at
Grand Forks.
Omaha One man dead in cold.
Indiana Whole state swept by bliz
zard, $1,000,000 damage by wind.'
Ohio Much damage and suffering
caused by cold wind end snow.
Michigan Storm damage at seve
ral places by wind and sleet.
Kentucky Widespread damage by
wind, unusually cold.
Alabama One man killed by wind
.near Montgomery.
Gulfcoast Unusually severe weath
er, much suffering.
Janesville, Wis. Splintered tim
bers, broken furniture, crumbled rock
and plaster, scattered farm produce
and dead farm animals littering the
ground for an area a quarter of a
mile in wiatn ana zu mues in leugiu,
indicate the tremendous force with
which southern Wisconsin's worst cy
clone swept a path through Rock
county, killing eight persons, injur
ing many more and doing damage to
the extent of nearly a million dol
lars. The thermometer dropped to near
ly zero, and it was a fearful night
MANCHUS BURN NANKING
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Chinese Revolutionists Deal Death to
Citizens of Native City.
Nanking. Nanking is desolate.
Thousands of its inhabitants lie mas
sacred and numerous business houses
andd weliings have been looted and
burned.
Seventy thousand persons already
have fled the city and still others are
joining the exodus.
Alonff the railway leading from the
city a long, snake-line of humanity
trudging, seeking safety.
Tt was the hand of the Manchus
that brought the devastation. While
the republicans were in camp three
miles awav. awaiting ammunition and
reinforcements, the Manchus began
the work of carnage.
Twelve thousand Manchu and impe
rial old-style soldiers hold Purple hill,
where they are entrenched, while
from beneath their stronghold they
e driving before them hordes of
Chinese out of the city.
Leper is Roaming the Country.
Wnshinetnn. A leper who escaped
from Quarantine at St. Louis is at
large somewhere in the country, ac
cording to a report just issued by the
public health and marine hospital
service. He is 27 years old, was corn
in California, lived for a time m New
York City, then in Maryland, Penn
sylvania and other astern states, in
nHl nf this vear he reached St. Lou
is frcrn FiLtsbi:rg, where he was plac
ed :-. quarantine June 4. after exami
nations mcd? by the city bacteriolo-
ctet. He rst away the fol!.'.v,-!n2 day.
LIFE'S DISAPPOINTMENTS
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ADVISED TOJOLD COTTON
TEXAS EXECUTIVE PROPOSES TO
SPREAD THAT DOCTRINE TO
FARMERS OF THE SOUTH.
Gov. O. Q. Colquitt Names One Hun
dred and Forty-Nine Men to Aid
Preaching "Hold Cotton." -
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Austin. Texas. One hundred and
forty-nine chairmen in as many Tex
as counties have been appointed by
Gov. O. B. Colquitt to assist in spread
ing the gospel of "hold your cotton."
This fact became known when Mr.
Colquitt made public a letter he had
written to Goernor OXeal of Alabama,
urging him to follow his lead. The
governor further declared that the
campaign of education would be fol
lowed with neighborhood meetings in
which an endeavor would be made
to show the cotton planter the advan
tage of marketing his cotton slowly
and in reducing his acreage. The
chairmen are Farmers' union men.
They will be assisted by an addition
al appointee in each county whom
the governor intends to name in the
near future.
In support of the campaign project
ed for this year to hold cotton, the
governor says his information shows
the Indian cotton crop is from 300,-
000 to 500.000 bales short; that China
and Japan will require 500,000 more
bales than in 1910 and that the needs
of the continent will total a similar
amount, making the total consumption
of American cotton, according to the
rovernment figures, 14,7550,000 bales,
instead of 13,750,000, as announced at
the New Orleans meeting . of gover
nors of Southern states.
Governor Colquitt was chosen at
the New Orleans conference to de
ise ways and means to secure a bet
ter price for cotton. He says the let
ter to Governor O'Neal outlines the
steps he has taken thus far and in
dicates the plan he thinks the govern
ors of other Southern states ought to
follow.
House Still Investigating Steel Trust.
Washington. Entirely independent
of the government's suit to dissolve
the United States Steel Corporation,
the so-called steel trust, the Stanley
investigating committee of the house
is preparing to resume its hearings
here to examine some of the biggest
figures in the steel industry. It is
learned that the house investigating
committee hopes to unearth sufficient
additional evidence against the steel
trust to force the attorney general
to file an anjended petition against
thi3 concern.
Chicago Has Another Bluebeard.
Chicago. Discovery that Mrs. John
M
Ouinn's first husband, Warren
Thome, had been 6hot to death, sup
posedly by a burglar, in the same
manner as Qumn had oeen Killed, lea
th nolice to believe that they had in
pnstndv-a slayer of husbands who
may have left behind her a long trail
death. Quinn was shot while in
bed at four o clock in his home at
1030 Michigan avenue. Mrs. Quinn
Marpd she had awakened just In
time to soe a basked burglar fire the
fatal bullet into her husband's body.
Angry Woman Sues Bishop.
Topeka, an. The controversy be
tween Bishop David H. Moore of Cin
cinnati of the Methodist Episcopal
church and Mrs. Carrie E. Cope of To
peka, growing out of the formation
bv Mrs. Cope of -an auxiliary of the
national branch of the Women's Home
Missionary society, reached a crisis
when suit for $30,000 damages against
the bishop was Hied by Mrs. Cope
land. The suit follows charges made
against Uishcp Moore to the confer
ence of Lit-hops by Mrs. Cope alleging
that Eir-hop Moore had libelled her.
REPORT ON PANAMA CANAL
Waterway Will Be Completed January
1, 1914.
Washington. That the Panama ca
nal will be ready for service by or
possibly sooner than January 1, 1914,
a year earlier than the originally es
timated date, is the startling an
nouncement made in the annual re
port of the Isthmian canal commis
sion, submitted to Secretary of -War
Stimson by Col. George W. Goethals,
chairman of the commission and the
chief engineer.
Legislation for .establishment of
tolls for use of the canal, for govern
ment of the canal zone, for forming
a force to operate the canal and for
military defenses, "should be provid
ed without delay," recommended the
committee because of the expected
earlier opening of the canal.'
The committee recommended that
to avoid possibility of accident which
might render the canal useless, the
government assume charge of all ves
sels during their transit of the locks;
"under such conditions any damage
that may result to the vessels should
be assumed by the government and
legislation looking to this end is nec
essary." $25,000,000 CARNEGIE GIFT
Income From Huge Sum to Promote
Education Cause.
New York. Andrew Carnegie an
nounced that he had given $25,000,
C00 to the Carnegie Corporation of
New York, organized heretofore un
der a charter granted by the New
York legislature last June "to pro
mote the advancement and diffusion
of knowledge and understanding
among the people of the United
States."
In bestowing this gift upon the cor
poration, organized especially to re
ceive it and apply its income to the
purpose indicated. Mr. Carnegie, in
a statement given out at his home
on Fifth avenue, said he intends to
leave with the corporate body the
work of founding and aiding libraries
and educational institutions which he
as an individual has carried on for
many years. The statement is as fol
lows: "The Carnegie Corporation of New
York, incorporated by an act passsed
by the New York legislature June 9,
1911, was orfianized November 10,
1911."
BALFOUR HAS RESIGNED
Former British Prime Minister Quits
Politics.
London. Arthur Balfour, ex-premier
and now a member of parlia
ment, resigned as leader of the Un
ionist party in parliament.
Mr. Balfour played an important
part in the great constitutional, bat
tle oer the veto measure and made
an urgent appeal to the so-called "last
ditchers in the Royalist party to help
pass the bill in order to save the Un
ionist party. He condemned the use
less fighting when it became evident
that the government was able to put
through the bill.
Mr. Balfour, who is 63 years old,
got his first political training as sec
retary to the Marquis of Salisbury
New Mexico Democrats Win.
Albuquerque, N. M. Returns from
New Mexico's state election are still
incomplete, but the Republican state
central comrnitl.ee concedes the elec
tion of McDonald (Bom.) for gover
nor by a majority ol 2,000. Returns
indicate the election of the entire
Democratic state ticket and two Dem
ocratic congressmen. ' The complex
ion o the legislature which will elect
two United States senators, will re
main in doubt, but it is now believed
the Republicans will have a ma
jority of ten on joint ballot. ,
IU. S. WILL FIGHT
COTTON BULLS
SUPREME COURT ASKED TO DE
CLARE THEM C0NSPIRAT0R3
IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE.
BEARS ARE NOT MOLESTED
Famous Cotton Corner Ca3e Argued
Before United States Supreme
Court.
Washington. For the first time the
government asked the Supreme court
of the United States to proclaim as
the law of the land that ' running' a
corner" on a stock exchange is a vio
lation of the Sherman anti-trust act.
The' point came up in the oral ar
gument of Solicitor General Lehmann
in support of the indictment of James
A. Patton, Eugene G. Scales, Frank B.
Hayne and William P. Brown on
charges of conspiracy on January 1,
1910, to "run a corner of cotton" on
the New York Cotton Exchange. Es
sential counts in the Indictment had
been declared erroneous by the Unit
ed States circuit court for southern
New York and the government was
arguing for a reversal.
Ex-Senator John C. Spooner argued
for an affirmance. Once or twice in
the argument Chief Justice White,
asked if the government considered
that a combination to force down the
price of a commodity would be in vio
lation of law as well as a combination
to put the prices up as charged "lo
the present indictment.
Mr. Lehmann said he was not fa
miliar enough with the market to re
ply. The chief justice also failed to
get a concise answer to his query
about the legality of planters com
bining for higher prices.
Mr. Lehmann in attacking the hold
ing of the circuit" court referred to it
as saying that no restraint on com
petition in interstate commerce" was
charged in "the indictment. He urged
that the Sherman 'anti-trust law was
not directed against restraint of com
petition, but against restraint of
trade. He added that even if it had
been aimed at restraint of competi
tion that the competition caused by
an increased price of cotton ..would,
be temporary and abnormal, a thing
which the law aimed to prevent.
The solicitor general admitted the
right of a man far-sighted enough to
see that "a commodity was likely to
rise in price to go into the market
and buy -to the extent of his ability.
In this case, he said, the defendants
had sought to raise the price arbitra
rily by linking their purses together
to buy all the cotton for future de
livery that would be offered.
Chief Justice White asked the solic
itor general if he was not talking
about "futures" such as are popularly
regarded as nnenforclble contracts be
cause no delivery was ever intended.
Mr. Lehmann replied that he was ar
guing that the contracts which the de
fendants were charged with conspir
ing to make were enforcible under
the rules of the exchange and the ,
law were to be distinguished from .
the "bucket shop" contracts, which .
were unenforcible.
Mr. Spooner, in reply, declared that
the counts had been found bad be- '
cause they charged nor restraint of
trade.
ITALY ANSWERS TURKEY
In Justifying the Horrors That Have
Occurred at Tripoli.
Washington. "That the punish
ment fitted the crime" and "blood
met blood" on Tripolitan battlefields
was declared in a cablegram to the
Italian embassy by San Giuliano,
Italian minister of war, referring to
the reported atrocities against the
Turks and Arabs.
The cablegram from San Giuliano
was in the form of an official state
ment under the caption: "Italian
heart; Arabian cruelty."
At the outset he recognied the fact
that people abroad might regard the
reported acts of the soldiers as ex
cessive cruelty, and declared that to
be understood thoroughly, talks were
necessary with officers and soldiers,
particularly those of the Eleventh
Beraelieri "those who suffered the
worat in the battle of October 23."
Taft Visits Georgia.
Chattanooga, Tenn. On his way
back to Chattanooga from Chicka-,
mauga Park, President Taft stopped
at Rossville, Ga. "I am glad," said
he, "to learn that Rossville employs
over 2,000. I was greatly surprised
when I was . in Georgia during the
campaigning that 51 counties and
three congressional districts were
carried for the Republican ticket;
That indicates that Georgia fa not
past redemeption. I am only here to
congratulate you. I am not here on""
political errand."