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M u r A0 Year, la Adraoc. FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." VOL. XXII. PLYMOUTH, N, C. HID AY DECEMBER 15, 1911 NO. 26. v "V- v V EIFIEEN PASSED FROM FIFTY NINE HIRtY-SIX WHITES AND EIGHT OF THE NEGROES FAIL ON PHARMACY. ONE WOMAN , SUCCESSFUL Held Examination' In Hall of House of Representatives Conducted By the State Board of Pharmacy Names of Those Who Passed. Raleigh. The State Board of Pharmacy made its report as to the examination of applicants for license to practice pharmacy in North Caro lina, and the report is that of the fifty-nine who made application only fifteen passed, forty-six having failed. In the list of successful applicants there are ten whites and five negroes, one of these a woman. The failures number thirty-six whites and , eight negroes, and this percentage of fail ures is larger than usual. The examination was held in the Hall of the House of Representatives and lasted for two days, being con ducted by the State Board of Phar macy, this consisting of Messrs. B. V. Zoeller, of Tarboro, president; F. W. Hancock, of Oxford, secretary; W. W. Home, of Fayetteville, I. W. Rose, of Rocky Mount, and J. P. Stowe, of Charlotte. In speaking of the exami nations, and that several of the ne groes, perhaps four, who passed, had tried the examination at other timep. The papers are inspected by num bers and no names are known until the papers have been passed upon. Those who passed the examinations are: , R .E. L. Wheless, of Spring Hope; ,T. J. Andrews, of Durham; J. N. Pitt man, of Oxford, F. F. Fetzer, of Wades- boro; C. A. Brady, of Newton; C. V. Knight, of Greensboro, V. O. Hop kins, of Saluda; J. N. Stinson, of Morganton; G. A. Westbrook, of Greensboro; I. O. Wilkerson, of Dur ham; B. J. Burnett, (col.), of Greens boro; J. B. Christian' (col.), of Winston-Salem; C- W. Dunston (col.), of Raleigh; Malevia E. Dye (col., wo man), of Charlotte. The Baptist Convention Adjourns. With a mass meeting in the interest of the work of the Baptist Young People's Union in which a number of short, but interesting, addresses was delivered the eighty-first session of the Baptist state convention came to a close. It had been a happy ses sion, enlivened with good feeling and fellowship, magnificent reports and eloquent addresses, a fitting culmina tion to a year of marked success in every department and along all lines. The entertainment has been superb and every desire of the hundreds of : delegates and messengers from every section' of the state anticipated by the people of the church and commun ity - Forestry Association Held Meeting. Through the efforts of Mr. A. C. StroiiD. vice president of the North Carolina Forestry Association, a meet ing was held in the court house at Gastonia to consider the ways and means for carrying out the methods recommended by the U. S: Bureau of Entomology for the control of the Southern pine beetle. This Insect has done enormous damage to the pine . .. J'-'orests of Gaston and surroundins !"e'ounties, and the people have begun to realize that something , must be done, if possible, to prevent further depredations. North Carolinians Granted Patents. Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington patent attorneys, report the grant to eitizens of North Carolina of the fol lowing patents: W. G. Bulgin, Frank lin, smelter smokewasher; H. M. Par ker, Willets tilling machine; J. F. Prather, Mount Airy,' display and storage cabinets for shirts, etc. Monroe. Work of doctoring the acoustic conditions in the Monroe court house was begun. Farmers Fight The Meat Trust. The Farmers' Union of Guilford county has inaugrated a fight on what It calls the meat trust of Greensboro, and has called a meeting of the mem bers of the union in the county to be held in the court house Dec. 16 to consider the advisability of establish ing a market for themselves. A com mittee was appointed some time ago to consider the matter and this com? raittee will be ready to report. The farmers say that the wholesale and retail men of Greensboro have enter ed into an agreement. BEAUFORT HOT AFTER TIGERS Latest News of Interest to the People That Has Been Collected From Over the State. Washington. A large moonshine distillery was captured in this coun ty near Latham's Crossroads by Depu ty Collector C. C. Fagan, M. L. Wood and Deputy Marshal J. A. Potter who had received' information that a dis tillery was located somewhere in that vicinity. The officers after searching for sometime located a large 75-gallon distillery which they took possession of and brought back to this city. A number of empty barrels were found near the still house, but no booze, evi dently preparations for a flourishing business during the Christmas holi days. No arrests were made, as there was no one in the vicinity of the still house. The county authorities it is understood believe that there are seV' era! other moonshine distilleries in the county and efforts will be made to destroy these also. Recorder W. D. Grimes and the local police force under the able com mand of Chief George N. Howard have been conducting a very success ful campaign against blind tigers and vagrants during the past two weeks There have been fifteen blind tiger cases up before the recorder for trial and a number of vagrant negro wo men. At present there are several prisoners in the city jail on these charges awaiting the Judgment of the recorder. There have already been several convictions of blind tigers and the recorder and the police are de termined to exterminate them all in this city. Farm Demonstration Work. For the past few days Mr. E. S Millsaps, of the United States Agricul tural Department, district agent for Western North Carolina, has been in this section with the view of estab lishing a farm demonstration move ment, thereby educating our farmers to better methods of farm work. For the present the corn crop is the only crop in this section they want to keep a record of.'. Mr. G. M. Goforth a successful farmer, who resides about a mile west of town, is the local rep resentative, and will have charge of the work in Catawba county. The western district comprises the coun ties west of Guilford. Mr. Millsaps has recently visited many of the coun ties in the mountain section of the state. Mr. L. S. Denton, of the Uni ted States Agricultural Department, recently made a trip through this part of the state, and Is very enthusiastic over the apple culture in this sec tion. There has recently been an appropriation by the government for the purpose of testing soil and investi gating climatic conditions in Western North Carolina to ascertain the exact conditions of soil and climate, rela tive to apple culture. Has Retracted His Statement. In the session of the State Board of Agriculture Commissioner W. A. Graham made a statement retracting as not fair or just to State Chemist B. W. Kilgore and Entomoligist Frank lin Sherman for him to have referred to them as he did in his annual re port to the board, each ably and ac ceptably filling the positions they oc cupy on the board. They had been designated by the board six months ago to report as to means of elimina ting duplicative experimental and other work by department divisions, a work that Commissioner Graham is insisting is his prerogative. He refer red to the two gentlemen as "im ported regulators." North Carolina' New Enterprises. There were filed- in the office oi the secretary of state the following charters: The Asheville Timber Com pany, is chartered with an authorized capital of $1,000,000 subscribed, $1, 600, by J. Montgomery Smith, John B. Anderson and Henry Stevens. The McLean Grocery Company, of Rae ford, with an authorized . capital of $25,000, will begin business with $1, 800 by Hubert S. McLeand and others. The Bowles and Martin Furniture Co. of Hickory, begins business with a paid in capital of $25,000, the Incor porators being: J. C. Martin, J. W. Bowies' and J. A: Sellers, all of Hick ory. Raleigh. Apex has just voted a bond issue of $10,000 for street Im provement and fcr a market house. Attorney Took Nol Pro In Case. In Federal court at Greensboro District Attorney Holton took a nol pros In the case of W. W. Moss, charged with impersonating a reve nue officer. Moss came to the city last spring and visited a number of tobacco dealers saying that he was a special revenue officer and exhibit ing a badge of that department. He was given admission to the stores and he broke open a number of pack ages. Finally he wound up with an Inspection of the ' Elks club and it was whil there that he waa arrested. 100 III KILLED IN MINE EXPLOSION DUST EXPLOSION IN TENNESSEE COAL MINE CAUSES DEATH OF MANY MINERS. RESCUE WORK USELESS Rescuers Who Penetrate Workings of Mine Found Only Dead and Mangled Bodies. Briceville, Tenn. Somewhere In the depths of the Cross Mountain coal mine probably one hundred men lie dead while their sorrow-stricken fam ilies kepe vigil at the mouth of their tomb, hoping against hope that their loved ones may be alive when res cuers reach them. Eight torn and mangled bodies had been brought forth when search was abandoned for the day. Outside of the immediate families of the entomb ed men no one in this little mountain village believes that any living thing in the mine survived tHe terrfic ex plosion of coal dust that wrecked the workings. For more than thirty-six hours ev ery "surviving miner in thi3 region had toiled with no thought of food, sleep or pay, to remove the debris and force fresh air into the inner most recesses of the mine. They prac tically have penetrated to the main entry head, nearly three miles in They expect to be ready to work the cross entries in which the other bod ies have undoubtedly been cast by the force of the blast. Black damp developed and retard ed progress, but the silent force push ed dauntlessly on, some of them till they were carried out overcome by the noxious gases. 7 Thousands of the morbidly, curious flopked into the village , ind-crowded about the main entry of the mine They saw nothing because there was nothing to see but the pitiablfif grief of the stricicen families. It is generally believed that the disaster was due to a "dust explo sion," which it is claimed is occa sioned from the presence of an ex cess of fine coal and mine dust upon the floor of the mine; When the com bination of gas and dust are ignited an , explosion and concussion follows, with terrific force and terrible effect, M'NAMARAS ENTER PRISON Dynamiters Arrive at San Quentine to Serve Their Sentences. San Quentin, Cal. The McNamara brothers entered San Quentine peni tentiary, where James B. Is condemn ed to spend the remainder of his life for his confessed crime of murder in connection with the Los Angeles Times explosion," and where John J., secretary of the International Associ ation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, is sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for dynamiting. The men entered the prison, it is fairly authenticated, believing they had achieved much, for the cause of union labor and. had been misunder stood in their efforts and the results they obtained. Whirled from Los Angeles on a fast train, the men were taken from it, at sunrise, put on a little river steamer and landed, two hours and a half later, at San Quentin prison wharf on the shores, of San Pablo bay. As the prison clock struck 10, John J. stepped over the threshold of the jail door, with his brother directly behind him. In five minutes James B. had become convict 25,314 and John J. number 25,315. They were meas ured for jail clothing, photographed in two positions, given a carbolic tinctured bath, put into . stripes, shaved and cropped and re-photo graphed within an hour. Cell 18, into which they were lock ed, adjoins the tier in which con demned murderers are kept and the balcony outside, Is cut off by a little grate. Further down the row toward the other end is the cell of Abraham Ruef, serving a 14-year sentence for bribery in connection with the San Francisco cases. Postal Service Shows Surplus. Washington. The annual report of Postmaster General Hitchcock states that the first time since 1883 the an nual financial statement of the post office department shows a surplus in stead of a deficit. The revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, amounted to $237,879,823.60 and the expenditures to $237,660,703.48, leav ing a surplus of $219,118.12. At the beginning of the present administra tion in 1909 the postal service was in arrears to the extent of $17,749,-T70.47.' HURRY UP! (Copyright, 1311.) M'NAMARAS ARE SENTENCED JAMES B. " McNAMARA GOES UP FOR LIFE WHILE JOHN J. Mc NAMARA GETS 15 YEARS.. Judge Bordwell Bitterly' Denounced Brothers When Passing Sentence Upon Them. .. ; Confession to the Court by James B. McNamara. Los Angeles, Cal. The confes- sion which James B. McNamara had written out and which was read in court before he was sen- tenced. follows: "I, James B. McNamara, defen- dant in the case of the people, f haviftg 'heretofore pleaded guilty to the crime of murder, desire to make this statement of facts: "And this is the truth: On the night of September 30, 1910, at 5:45 p. m., I placed in Ink Al- ley, a portion of The Times building, a suit case containing sixteen sticks of 80 per cent. dynamite, set to explode at one o'clock the next morning. It was my intention' to injure the building , and .... scare the owners. I did not intend to take the life of any one. I sincerely regret that these unfortunate men lost their lives. If the giving of my life would bring them back I would gladly give it. In fact, in pleading guilty to murder in the first degree, I have placed my life in the hands of the state." "JAMES B. McNAMARA." Los Angeles, Cal. James Boyd Mc Namara and John J. McNamara, bro thers, natives of Cincinnati, Ohio, felt the strong hand of justice which they long had sought to evade. James B. McNamara was sentenced to impris onment for life for murder commit ted in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building and killing twenty-one persons, and his brother to fifteen years in the penitentiary for blowing up the Llewellyn Iron works. It was the retaliatory' action of the law against those lawless methods which John J. McNamara, secretary and treasurer of the International As sociatio nof Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, pursued in fighting em ployers who kept open shops. Though the younger brother, James B., in formally presenting his confes sion' to the court, declared that he intended no murder when he placed sixteen sticks of dynamite beneath The Times building on October 1, 1910, John . J. McNamara, recounting to his attorneys his principles, broke down as' he muttered that he fought against great odds A few hours after the sentence was pronounced by Judge Bordwell, word went forth that subpjoenas would be issued for both Mcamaras to appear before a Federal grand jury to, di vulge further details of their dyna miting conspiracies. The United States government will demand of them information concern ing interstate trafficking in dynamite, Mexicans Lynch Eleven Men. Mexico City. "Che" Gomez, whose rebellion at Juchltan resulted in a clash between President Madero and the governor of Oaxaca, was lynched at Rincon Antonio. Ten of Gomez' partisans met a like fate. Gomez, who was on his way to the capital accompanied by ten of his followers, was. taken from the train at Antonio, and placed in jail by order of Gover nor Juarez, in spite of the fact that he had been promised safe conduct by the president. PLAN TO FIGHT BOLL WEEVIL A Number of Articles Are Restricted When They Originate Within the Quarantine Area. Atlanta. Following a session of the entomologists of the South, who, in company with a number of trans portation ' men and prominent manu facturers, have been discussing the best possible way to quarantine the boll weevil, a permanent organization was formed by the entomologists and a number of recommendations were adopted. The recommendations, ' designed to meet modern conditions, remove lint cotton from the quarantine list, one of the most Important changes effect ed since the first agreement between the Southern entomologists, made in 1892. Dr. W. E. Hinds of Alabama will be the permanent president of the organization, while A. F. Conra die of South Carolina will be secre tary. The last meeting was held in the office of State Entomologist E. Lee Worsham. The association adopted the follow ing recommendations for articles to be restricted, when originating with in the quarantine area: 1. Seed cotton. . 2. Cotton seed. " 3. Seed cotton sacks, cotton seed sacks, cotton pickers' sacks which have been used within eight months. 4. Cotton seed hulls between Au gust 1 and December 30. 5. Spanish mos3 and corn in shuck between October l'and June 30. 6. Household goods containing any of the foregoing during the period of quarantine apply to each. 7. Living weevils in possession of any person outside of the infested ter ritory except a qualified entomologist. It adopted these recommendations for articles not to be restricted, when originating within the quarantine area: 1. Bales of cotton, flat or compress ed, with no restriction as to season. 2. Linters and loose cotton lint. 3. Cotton seed meal, cake and oil. 4. Corn shelled or shucked or with shucks removed, oats or any other seed except cottotn seed. 5. Cotton seed shown by affidavit to have been sacked nine months or more. 6. Cotton seed for planting pur poses only after fumigation with car bon bisulphide by competent ento mologist. 7. Hay. 8. Empty cars. The following principles of law were decided upon: 1. Legislative enactment to provide for quarantine under an official board of not over five, to constitute respon sible body which shall be charged with formulations against insect pests and plant diseases. The law should provide competent state entlmologists of proper training 2. All specifications of dangerous in sects, plant diseases, etc., and all reg ulations relating thereto shall be adopted and published by said board and subject to change under proper public notice and announcement. 3. Law should provide suitable means of prosecution of violators of regulations and fix penalties therefor, including fine or imprisonment. Russian Treaty Hotly Attacked. New York. Abrogation of the treaty of friendly relations between the United States and Russia made in 1832 was urged in speeches deliv ered by a dozen or more men of na tional prominence and in resolutions adopted at a meeting held here. The meeting was under the auspices of the national citizens' committee, which plans a series of similar dem onstrations in protest against dis crimination by Russia in her refusal for many years to honor tlw pass ports of Jewish-American citizens. MAINE BLOWN UP FROM OUTSIDE NAVY DEPARTMENT ISSUES A SHORT STATEMENT OF DE STRUCTION OF SHIP. WAS DESTROYED BY A MIME An Exterior Explosion Caused Six Inch Reserve Magazine to Explode. Washington The battleship Maine was blown up in Havana harbor by an explosion from the outside. This is the gist of a short state ment issued by the navy department based on findings made by the joint army and navy board, which spent several months in Havana harbor In vestigating the wreck. The state ment was as follows: "The board finds that the injuries to the bottom of the Maine were caus ed by the explosion of a charge ot low form of explosives exterior to the ship, between frames 23 and 31, strake Br port side. Secretary Meyer announced that there mieht be a further statement on the report of the board after it ' had been considered by the president. One member of the board was of the opinion that the report never would be published in full, but would be kept in the confidential archives ot the navy department. The declaration that a "low form of explosive" was used in the outside explosion, indicates a belief that a mine, and not a dirigible torpedo, was the instrument of destruction. This only deepens the mystery of ,, the destruction of the Maine. A mine charged with sufficient gun powder ' to blow in the bottom of the ship must have weighed several hundred pounds. To plant such a mine and lay the electric connections neces sary for its discharge would have re quired ,the services of a number ot men. TOBACCO TRUST DISSOLVING Stock Has Been Divided Among the Common Stockholders. -New York. The American Tobac-. co company announced that the va rious percentages of stock in Its old subsidiary companies is to be divided among the trust's common stockhold ers. Announcement was also .made that the holder of each share of com mon stock in the trust would be en titled to purchase at par 214964-401824 of a share of stock of the P. Lorillard company, two of the new companies. For each share of common stock in the American Tobacco company, it was announced the shareholders will receive the following proportions ot stock of the trust's subsidiaries: For each share of common stock la the American Tobacoc company, it was announced, the shareholders will receive the folioowing proportions ot stock of the trust's subsidiaries: "American Snuff company, common stock, 7590S-401S24; preferred stock. 23764-401824; George W. Helm & Co, 27602-401824; Weyman-Bruton compa ny, common stock, 27602-401S24; Mac Andrews & Forbes Co., common stock 21129-401824; J. F. Young company, common stock, 7043-401824; - Conley Foil company, 4950-401824; Johnson Tinfoil & Metal company 1800-401824; R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company; 500000-401824; Corporation of the Uni ted Cigar stores, 60000-401824; Porto Rican American Tobacco company, 13236-401824; British-American To bacco company, limited, 5270892-401 824 shares of a par value of one pound sterling." Mar.chus Slain by Thousands. Pekin. The first direct, and uncen sored news received from Sian Fu since the outbreak there was brought here by messenger. It consists of let ters to the British and American lega tions and the director of posts. The letters say 8,000 ManchUs were slain by Chinese and that there was much looting. Several mission houses in the province were destroyed and eight foreigners, some of them children, were killed. Four of the dead were Americans. McNamaras Will Tell Nothing. Los Aneeles. Th scope of the la vestlgation undertaken by the Fed eral grand jury here and the one 'ia Indianapolis, Ind., so far as could be learned, has not been sharply defined. Government officials, it is thought, will be able to determine only after testimony of witnesses has proceed ed further, whether to return indict ments here or in Indiana. James IX. and John J. McNamraa remained in their cell3, reiterating that they would tell nothing, even if called be fore the grand jury.