North Carolina Newspapers

) ' Ctegg Cam Cssx $1JOO a Year, In Advance. VOL. XXIII. PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1913. NO. 40, "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.' A GOOD PROGRii FOR THE STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION TO BE HELO IN GREENSBORO. JV1ANY NOTED SPEAKERS Oate of Meeting is April 22-24. Splen did Display of Home Talent to Be Used. Each Sunday School Can Send Two Delegates. i Greensboro. The program for the North Carolina Sunday school conven tion to be held in Greensboro April 22-24, is nearing completion and prom ises to be one of much interest and helpfulness. Three speakers of international rep utation have, been boosed for the convention, in addition to the splen did array of home talent to be used. A large, new warehouse with n seating capacity of 3,000 has been secured for .tire regular sessions and a large platform will be built to seat a-chorus choir of 300 voices. Messrs. Tullar and Meredith, the well-known music composers and oublishers of New York City will hare charge of the music, which in sures life to this department. , Who are delegates? The counties can send two delegates for each town ship in the county, though they do not need to be elected by town ships, but can come from any part of the county that seems most conveni ent. Each Sunday school of all denomi nations can send two acegates, .They can be pastors and superintendents, o? two other volunteering elected, or appointed and should more desire to come from larger schools they will be taken care of as long as there is room. I Colleges and high schools can send two for every 50 students. All who expect to' attend should send their names to the North Caro iina Sunday School Association, or tc C. C. McLean, chairman of commit tee on entertainment, Greensboro, that homes may be provided as early as Dossible, As "a specialty is to be made of the secondary division. there 3uould be a number of delegates from classes of teen ages, so send some bright boys and girls. Body of White Man Found. Lumberton. An unknown white man, probably 25 years old, was found dead in a ditch by the Coast Line track, one and a half miles north of Pembroke by the crew on a south bound passenger train. Coroner Itancke was notified and went imme diately to the scene. In the dead man's pocket was found $1.13 in mon ey and a letter without an envelope addresse dto "Dear Bro. Jim am .signed "Agnel Ravel. 5 i Stafford So Toronto." The coroner's jurj- decid s?d that he was hit by a train during tlie night and killed instantly. A flask of whiskey was found hear the bodv. The body was buried by. the railroad company on the right-of-way. Called Meetin o-fFar choohgeRay Good Berry Crop This Year. Wilmington. Strawberry fields in this section are white with blossoms .and new buds are blooming every day, with well-formed berries on every vine, which indicates that the move ment of berries will begin a little earlier - than usual this year. A few express shipments have already been made, but.it will be two weeks yet before the movement will bgin in car toad quantities. Then prediction is "made that this section .is going to havs a. splendid berry crop this year. Called Meeting of Farmers' Union. Reidsville The called meeting ol r he members of the Farmers' Union cf the bright tobacco belt of Virginia and North Carolina was held re cently. The meeting was behind closed doors and only members of the union were allowed to gain entrance ro the deliberations. President H. Q. Alexander, Charlotte; T. E. Dicker son, president of Houston, Va., Dry i'rizery, and P. M. Comer, president of the Danville Dry Prizery. made the principal addresses. Set Day to Receive Bond Bids. Charlotte. The board of county commissioners set Monday, April 23 ;is the day on which bids will -be re ceived for $325,000 of bonds which ;ire to be offered for sale by. author! ty of the legislature. . The bonds will be' sold in the following lots and for the following purposes:' $73,000 for. a jail; $35,000 for bridges, and $215,000 for the floating debt. A large number of bonds will be. received and a good premium will be realised. None ol the bonds will be sold for less thar par. 1AND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE JShort Paragraphs of State News That Has Been Condensed For Busy People of State. Raeligh. Hon. -Geo. Rountree, of Wilmington,' accepts the judgship ap pointment from Governor Craig, for the Eighth or Wilmington District. IT 1 1 m Kortnn closing at Fairmont, 11 miles of here, Norwood Dunn shot and killed Char iest House, Dunn, ' was arrested by Sheriff" Lewis and placed in jail. Durham. The case of the boundary dispute between Joe Snields and J. W. Neal, which has been before the Su perior court for several days, came to an end when the jury returned a ver dict in favor of Mr. Neal. . Raleigh. A charter is issued for the Ocean City Coporation of Wilmington, capital $50,000 authorized, and $3,000 subscribed by W. G. Hall, Jj R. Steph enson and others for a real estate and insurance and brokerage business. Washington. From present pros pects the coming season looks bright for a successful tobacco market In Washington.. It is understood that there will be two warehouses in oper ation, and one of them, lias already. been leased to John C. Lovelace, ' s prominent tobacco man of Wilson. Salisbury. A heavy wind storm raging in this section of North Caro lina played havoc recently with the Red Cross poultry farm, near Salis bury. Several poultry houses were de molished and the damage will De heavy. Smokestacks, plat-glass fronts and many out-buildings fell under the high winds. Raleigh. The Raleigh school board is preparing for the erection of a $100,000 public school building for the Glenwood section of the city. It will be of fireproof construction, with 10 class rooms and of modern design. An assembly room will be .secured through the use of roller partitions between two of the largest rooms. Statesville. Democratic municipal primaries have been called for April 5, and according to precedent this will really be the election, the town being so strongly Democratic that none save the nominees of the Democrats ever make the race. Candidates for mayor, members of the Board of Ald ermen and two members of the graded school board are to be nominated. Spencer. It Is now apparent that a call for volunteers will have to be is sued to get candidates for aldermen in SDencer. A date for a primary has been named and there are ,two can didates for mayor. W, H. Burton and C. G. Thelling, but not a man has an nounced his candidacy for alderman. Ashe'ville Several of the leading educators of western North Carolina have organized an educational society, which will use its efforts for the bet terment of school conditions in this section of the state. The first meet ing of those who are interested in the movement was held several days ago, when Prof. W. C. Allen of Waynesville was elected temporary chairman. Four Oaks. A posse with blood hounds spent "the day in a- futile search for Noah Massengill, the con vict who killed Deputy Sheriff W. E. Strickland recently when the latter attempted to arrest him as a fugutive from the county roads. Massengill if still at large, although it is thought he will soon be, apprehended. John ston county is aroused over the des perate deed. Charlotte One of the first appro priations made out of the $35,000 fund for bridges in the county will be set aside, it. is said, for the bridge over Paw Creek. It will be of steel with stone and concrete abuttments and will be of substantial construction. The county will purchase its own material and much of the work will be done by Convicts. This, undertaking will be started in the summer. Gastonia. It was learned that the present mayor and Board of Aldermen of Gastonia will stand for re-election at the coming municipal election May 5. This information is authentic and will hold water, though' not a single member of the board nor Mayor Craig has made any public statement that he will be a candidate. It is under stood that they will make no announce ment of their candidacy and will make no fight for the offices which they now fight form crawyp cmfwy ppppjjjj hold. ' . Rocky Point. The heavy frost throughout Pender county recently followed by the cold wave did con siderable damage to truck. Some snap beans that were protected were saved while fields that were exposed are kill ed. All cucumbers that are up from the ground were killed. Dunn. The people of the commun ity are looking forward to April 11, on which date the new school building will be dedicated. Hon T. W, Bickett will deliver the address of the occas ion. It is really a dedication of the large addition ywhich haa been made to the building in the past year. MEXICO PROTESTS TO UNITED STATES PRESIDENT HUERTA AND GENE RAL DIAZ REPORTED AT ODDS. WANTS GREATER VIGILANCE Another Outbreak Feared in Mexico City, Trough Rumors Are Denied. Mexico City. The Mexican govern ment haa made a formal protest to the American government against the shipping of arms and ammunition from the United States to the rebels, and has requested that greater vigi lance be exercised in guarding the frontier. Mexican officials under stand that numerous consignments of war material, includinc many ma chine guns, have been sent across the border, in some cases even at the regular ports of entry, and are now in the hands of the rebels. - 5 It is nointed out by the same - of ficials that since the rebels control a larce nart of the frontier, this country is dependent absolutely for the time being on the United States to pre vent the rebels from obtaining sup nlles. That the rebels are securing quantities of ammunition appears i to be a fact. Residents of the capital are nerv ous because of cntinued rumors of friction between President Huertaand Gen Felix Diaz, and of plots and in trigues, even to the fixing of dates when a, new battle may be expected in the streets or the assassination of one or the other ol tne priucipais So keen wa's the excitement that the president summoned newspaper men to the Dalace to issue a formal state ment saying he and Felix Diaz were still friends and working in harmony and that, .there was no truth in the street gossip. Huerta's statement was reiferated by Diaz. Tarn Texas. Eiehtv-nine were killed and many wounded in a des perate 16-hour battle, 80 miles from Coahuila. A report of the encounter was .hrmieht to Nuevo Laredo,- oy Garza Rivas, a federal captain, who was hnHlv woutded. and was confirm ed later by small bodies of federal troops who followed - him. MONTENEGRO VERY DEFIANT Austria-Hungary , Is -Preparing for a Demonstration. London. The stubbornness of Mon tenegro in continuing the bombard- mpnt of Scutari, contrary to the wisn es of the powers, and the dilatoriness nf Servia in withdrawing her troops beyond the line decided upon as the frontier of the future Albania, if not overcome by more peaceful measures will lead to a demonstration and a blockade of the Montenegrin coast and the Prts of Albania occupied uy Servia. Austria Hungary is losing patience with her little neighbors, and is urg ing the nowers to take action to en force the demands contained ia their notes to Servia and Montenegro; and ivhon the naval measures are taken it is expected - this duty vill be allot ted to Great Britain, Italy ana Aus tria.' Russia, although she joined in the collective diplomatic action, win -rortiHnate iii the coercive steps Servia has expressed her intention nt rnmnlvinsr with the powers' de mand to evacuate Albania, but has made no movement in the direction, unH the Austrian government com plains that instead she is sending more war material to mawtunujij. Austria insists upon the immediate removal of the Servians - . . j Atlanta Pen. Memphis, Tenn J. M. Sims, foitner pesident of the defunct ' American . hi Htv in the XrVlSI CUUiyaujr v , United States district court here en- tered a plea of giuuy io i-ia, . . 1 ,.horrlnn thii 11Kf Of tlie lnuicimems tu'tt"& - mails to defraud. Upon recommenda- tion or District nuuimj x, was sentenced to serve six years in the federal prison ai j-maiim. un convicted man was so overcome when arraigned before the bar for sentence that he wept. Summer Home Selected by Wilson. Cornish, N. H. President Woodro.v Wilson has chosen the home of Win ston Churchill, the novelist, to be his summer capital, according to a tele gram received herefrom Mr. Churc hill, who is now in Santa Barbara, Cal! The message was directed lo E. p Roberts, manager of the Churchill estate, and contained instructions for getting the place in readiness for the president's occupancy. Harlakendun sen house, as the Churchill property is known, is a two-story brick .struc ture, three miles of Windsor, Vt. SCENE ON THE 4 y x ." 73T ;i;y:-' : ::: This Is a scene on the raging Miami river at Dayton, O., where hun dreds of lives have been lost in the floods. - ONLY ABOUT 500 PERISHED IN FLOOD ROLL OF FATALITIES 'IN , OHIO AND INDIANA IS VERY MUCH , SMALLER THAN THOUGHT. $15,000,000 PROPERTY LOSS Revelation Comes With Receding Flood Waters Showing Marvel ous Escaps of Thousands. Cincinnati, Ohio. The flood waters have now receded sufficiently to show that the' number of persons drowned in ail the affected cities in Ohio and Indiana may not exceed 500. While many persons are still, missing to friends and relatives, in vestigations ' made indicated that many were safe who had been thought lost. : In Dayton careful estimates placed the number of deaths at 200 or fewer, although a meeting of the undertakers asserted that the total might be 800. Relief work went on rapidly' in Day ton and all parts of the city were reached. Columbus, will have the next to the largest loss of life, sixty., bodies hav ing been found in the inundated por tion of West Columbus. Chillicothe and Tiffin, Ohio, where there had been reports of fifty or more dead, each found IS corpses. Figures from .Piqua give a death toll of 50 persons. Fremont and Mid dletown. Ohio, each had 14 dead; Mas sillon 3, Zanesv'.Ue 4 and Troy 9. The Indiana total drowned receded to fewer than 30, distributed as fol lows: Peru 20, Prockville .10, Fort Wayne 6 and Terre Haute 4. No bodies have "been found in West In dianapolis, where as many as 200 deaths were at one time, reported. At Cincinnati the Ohio, swelled by its tributaries north and south, caus ed alarm, and,. although the situation had not yet reached an acute stage, reports from neighboring Kentucky towns indicated that warning had been issued to the inhabitants to seek points of safety from the ris ing water. . An Indiana alarm was felt in the valleys of the Ohio, Wabash and White .rivers, 'but ample warning serv" ed in a measure to-reduce the panic. Loss cf Life at Dayton Will Not Be Over Two Hundred. South Dayton. Ohio. Dayton's loss of life probably will, not exceed 200. This estimate is based upon a per sonal canvas. of almost a hundred of Dayton's leading citizens, men of unquestionable judgment and reliabil ity who have "been engaged in relief and rescue work in every section of the city ever since the rising waters Invaded th business section. At Ruohviile half a million dollars of damage wa3 done in the business, and .rC'iidencs districts. At Kokomo r Hi.? property loss was estimated at a million dollars and live hundred per sons are living in the second stories of then homed. Similar conditions were reported from Anderson. Marion, Tipton, Nobles ville- and Peru. Conditions at" Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Kokomo and ether places In central' Indiana were the worst in many years From every part of the state there were reported disastrous inundations. I AT DAYTON ,'- i.'; , , ALLENS m THE DEATH PENALTY ELECTROCUTION OF BANDITS FOLLOWS WHEN DRAMATIC FIGHT TO SAVE THEM.. SON AND FATHER EXECUTED Floyd AHen4 Leader of Outlaw Band, Unnerved as He Goes to Death for His Part in Tragedy. Richmond, Va. Floyd Allen and his son,. Claude, the only two of the Ilillsville gunmen ,to pay. the death penalty for the Carroll court house murders a year ago, were electrocuted in the state penitentiary, after a dra matic eleventh-hour attempt to save them had been thwarted by Gov. Mann unexpectedly returning to the capital, thus preventing the lieutenant, governor from acting iipori ja' request for a commutation. ' Floyd Allen, leader of' the putlaw band," an aged prisoner, was .terribly unnerved by the excitement, incident to the delay of six hours in carrying out the sentence. -' " The prison guards next brought Claude Swanson Allen, son of Floyd, into the death chamber. Governor Mann cut through the maze of constitutional questions- con cerning the lieutenant .governor's right to interfere in the case of the Aliens by returning to Virginia soil. From Washington he telegraphed here that he would be in Virginia soon, when Lieut. Gov. Ellyson "was expected to announce whether or not he would commute the sentence of Claude Allen, as urged by Allen sym pathizers. With Governor Mann again in his own state, the proceedings before Lieut. Gov. Ellyson automatically end ed, and friends of the condemned men who worked all through .the night j aml wj10 admitted that the last chance had been lost. They did not , .. .t ninmoner fmm Hnvftrnor ATann. although it was suggested that be be urged to grant a respite Governor Mann arrived m tne cny. from Washington at 11:30 "o'clock. There w as a large crowd around1 the station, composed largely of .friends of the Aliens, although there waf.no 'demonstration. Ten policemen and as many detectives escorted tho govern or to his automobile in which he was hastily driven to the capltol. He de clined to see any -one, although he notified the prison superintendent that he -would be in his 'office throughout the .day. . ' . " Floyd Allen almost collapsed in his death cell when informed that the ex ecution had been delayed. Claude Al len, whose nerve never failed hereto fore, broken down completely. 5,000 Workmen Idle. Yonngstown, Ohio. Fully 23,000 workmen employed in various indus tries of the city are temporarily thrown out o'i employment as a re sult of the flood here. Loss to the. big Indus rkM being compelled to shut! down wii! be very heavy.- At East j Youngstown the Mahoning river if nearly half a mile wide, and the Penn-! sylvania lines through tne city and for a number of miles east are on iirely submerged.' Every bridge ' in the citv ia guarded by policemen P1ERPQNT flRGSlI HASPSjDB'l END CAME TO FINANCIAL KING TN ROME HOTEL. UNCON- , SCIOUS AT THE LAST. END WAS NOT UNEXPECTED The Physicians Say That The First Breakdown Came From His Experi- 9 ence as Witness Before The Pujo Investigating Committee. Rome. J. Pierpont Morgan, the American financier, died at- five min- ' utes past twelve o'clock (6.05 a. m. New York time) Monday. ... - When the'death of Mr. Morgan was seen to be approaching rapidly, Pro fessor Bastianelli and Dr. Dixon forc ed Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, his son-in-law and daughter, and Miss Helen Hamilton, who, had been In con stant attendance, to leave the room. Mr. Morgan toward the end showed that he was suffering internally only by a movement of his right hand. Oth erwise he displayed no signs of vital ity except by heavy breathing. Frequent bulletins were issued dur ing the morning showing that his con- J. PIERPONT MORGAN. dition was gradually becoming worse and by 11 o'clock the physicians had given up all hope. r '' Mr. Morgan was unable to assimil ate the artificial nourishment . admin istered during the morning and his physical weakness ' was extreme Heart tonics ire injected but these had no effect and for several hours before his death he was in a state of coma, unable to respond .to any ques tions or to recognize any of those at his bedside. . One of his relatives, Mrs. Fitzsim raon, wife of Rev, Mr. Fitzsimmon arrived from Cannes and was shown into the death chamber but her pres ence remained unknown to the dy ing man. ' Besides the four trained nurses in attendance, Miss Helen Hamilton was af great assistance to the three phy sicians. Professor Giuseppe Bastian elli, Dr. M. Allen Starr and Dr. Geo. A. Dixon. They Must Not Resign. ' Washington. Secretary Daniels ol the Navy Department announced that he had taken a decided stand against accepting the resignation of midship men and other naval officers before they fulfill their contract with the Government. The Government regards j -itself as having a binding contract with the officers to serve eight years, including the four years at Annapolis Secretary Daniels said that 'since .the Government was at considerable ex pense to educate and train these of ficers, he believed it should receive a permanent benefit for the expense in volved. Will Raw Sugar Go On Free List? Washington President Wilson will decide if raw sugar snail go on the free lits 'or carry a small duty in the new tariff bills. Congressional lead ers are willing to defer to his attitude, Chairman Underwood of the ways and means committee is waiting ta hear from the president. Worst Flood on Record Now Feared Cairo, 111. The Cairo executive flood committee sent an appeal to President Wilson asking for aid for Cairo and towns nearby. The measagp was as follows "The worst bood ever known in the Ohio Valley and Mississippi Valley is now; expected All previous high -water records at Cairo south may be broken. We are making every effort in oust power tc take care of local situation, but the river communities near t us sI;ould have assistance. Boats, sacks, fooG and other supplies are needed. kit,