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i &ale Ceppt Cms&k. ' : $1.00 a Ymt, In Advance. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH.' VOL. XXIV. PLYMOUTH, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1913. NO. 14. TEH MEN ARRESTED AS TRAIN BANDITS ALL DENY CONNECTION WITH - HOLD-UP AT BIBBVILLE, ALABAMA. STORY OF THE ROBBERY Posses Abandon Chase and Leave the Case to the Railroad Authorities. Montgomery,- Ala. Specials from Tuscaloosa, Ala., say that the depu ties from Birmingham and Montgom ery and armed farmers of Tuscaloosa county have abandoned the search for the three men who held up and robbed the express car of the Ala bama Great Southern train i at Bibb ville, Ala., and that the case is now entirely in the hands of the railroad special officers. Five men have been arrested at Eutaw, Ala., below Tus caloosa, none of whom is over thirty years old, and five others have been landed in the Tuscaloosa cdunty jail by Special Agent Hall. All of these men deny connection with the hold up. Mail Clerk Leander Poole gave out the following statement: - "The robbery was committeed by "three masked men, only one of whom appeared to me to be at all experi enced. The other two were young and nervous. One of them did consider able promiscuous shooting and cursing in the mail car. Bullets passing through the mail car narrowly missed four men. I am confident the rob bers doing the shooting were drunk. While crouched under the counter I had the presence of mind to save a few registered letters. "The last charge of dynamite that blew the express safe was very heavy It jarred us, 100 yards away. They had modern appliances equipped with lights that threw rays so they could see us, but we could not see them. As they were marching us back to the pas senger coaches I fell into a cattle guard and sprained my ankle. v One robber warned us of the cattle guard just as I fell. "The fireman stated the robbers got off with mail sacks full of booty. My impression is they left the ear before we reached Vance, letting the engine run wild to throw the posses off the track. I believe I can identify the rob ber w, 'did the shooting and cursing. I got a good look at him. The smaller robber, who guarded the rear end of the express car seemed experienced. The express messnger had no chance to defend himself." According to statements of the train crew, Engineer Daniels and his fire men were covered with revolvers when the train stopped on the block danger signal at Bibbville. The fire man was forced to uncouple the ex press, mail and baggage cars, and they were run down the track some distance frqm the passenger coaches. There the mail clerks and express messenger were driven from the cars and ' the safes blown open with nitro glycerine. PROGRESSIVES, WILL RUN. Chairman' Says Party Will Not Join Republicans. New York. Fifteen members of the Progressive national committee met here and decided at the next congres sional election to place a Progressive candidate in every district in the Unit ed States. Representative William Hinebaugh, Illinois, chairman of the party's congressional committee, de clared the Progressives had no inten tion of joining the Republicans, v "There can be no so-called Progres sive Republicans in the Progressive party," he said. "A man either is a Republican or he is a Progresive." A joint campaign committee repre senting the Progressive national com mittee and the Progressive congres sion committee was organized. . It consists of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, former Senator Beveridge of Indiana, Walter F. Brown, George W. Perkins, Medill McCormlck, Representative Hinebaugh and Miss Frances Keller. It will meet at an early date in this city to mature plans for the party's fight to nominate and elect straight out Progressive candidates for con gress in the campaign of next year. 2,000,000 Lady Bugs Visiting Chicago Chicago. About two billion lady bugs are flying around Chicago ow ing to the carelessness of an employe of the International Refrigeration Ex position at the stock yards amphi theater. The frozen insects were packed in an Icebound case with a glass top. When an attendant filled the refrigerator he forgot to close it and soon the bugs were revived by the warm air and flew away. The lady bugs were shipped from Califor nia, where they are used to fight the fruit scale. " HENRY A. M0RGENTHAU. -H - a 4 ' y - f ' ;, ft ' ; 3 I 4 V il r Henry Morgenthau, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, tes tified before the court of impeach ment, which is trying Gov. William Sulzer on the charges of high crimes and misdemeanors that Sulzer, after being impeached by the assembly, urged, him (Morgenthau) to treat his campaign contribution of $1,000 as a purely personal matter. POLICE OF COUNTRY NOTIFIED TO BE ON WATCH FOR JOSEPH ' ELLIS. After Stripping Corpses of Valuables, Murderer Vanishes Latest Crime In Indianapolis, Indiana.' Indianapolis, Ind. Convinced that the young man who brutally murder ed Joseph Schlansky, a clothing mer chant,, in a hotel here, is the same person who has committed similar crimes in several Eastern and Middle Western cities, the local police de partment asked officers In every large city east of the Mississippi river to watch for the slayer. They believe the murderer is Joseph Ellis, about twenty-one years old of Richmond, Virginia. After murdering the merchant, the man discarded a collar spotted with blood, walked to nearby store. where he purchased another and then, returning to the lobby of the hotel wherein his victim lay dead, remained for an hour or more. . Late, in the afternoon the slayer returned to his room, and then, going to the union de- "pot, secured his suitcase from the checkroom and is believed to have caught an eastbound train. In each town where the man oper ated his scheme was the same. He would register at a hotel mder an assumed name, call on either one of the smaller clothing merchants or a second-hand dealer and, explaining to them that he had some samples he must get out of his possession at jonce, asked the dealer to go to his room. Once in the man's room the proced ure nearly always was the same. The victim either was struck down or was forced at the point of a revolver to submit to being bound and gagged. Then his valuables were stolen, and the robber, leaving the merchant to be discovered by hotel employees, de parted. Want Corn Instead of Cotton. Chicago. The responsibility of averting a future meat famine was put up to small farmers by speakers at the eighth annual convention of the American Meat Packers' Conven tion here. All the speakers agreed that if the decrease in meat produc tion of the last ten years is not stop ped, the question of the meat supply for the people of the United States will be most serious. Among the rem edies suggested were: Every small farmer should raise at least two beef steers a year to effect the decreased production of the great ranches of the West, Across Mediterranean Aviator Flies. Bizerta, Tunis. Roland G. Garros, the French aviator, flew 558 miles across the Mediterranean from ,St. Raphael, France, to this city, the most northern seaport of Tunis. His time was 7 hours and 53 minutes. He started here at 1:45 p. m. The flight is the longest over-sea journey ever made in an aeroplane. The aviator refused to accept the advice offered him that re should affix floaters to his aeroplaoe as a precaution in case he should le forced to descend on the water. HUERTA BUS TO THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN MINISTER OF MEXICO IS NOMINATED FOR THE PRESIDENCY. HE MUST LEAVE OFFICE Futility of Opposing U. S. Dawns On Him Believes Gamboa'will Sat isfy Washington. Mexico City. Frederico Gamboa, minister of .foreign affairs, was nom inated for(the presidency by the Cath olic party convention. Gen. Eugenie Rascon was nominated for the vice presidency. Both candidates are re garded as men of high standing. Se nor Gamboa accepted the candidacy. Frederico Gamboa was a disciple of Ignacio Mariscal, at one time minis ter to the United States. He whs sub secretary of foreign affairs under Mar iscal. Later he became minister of the Netherlands, and has recognized ability as a diplomat. He is a writer of some note; and is about fifty years of age. Gen. Eugenie Rascon was minister of war under Provisional President de la Barra. He served as military commander of the federal district for a short time, and later as governor of Yucatan. He is 65 years of age and has a long military record. According to a promineat member of the Catholic party, the selection of candidates was made with the ap proval of General Huerta, and there fore means the elimination of Huerta as a presidential possibility. The efforts of the Catholic party, It is said, have been directed at! the selection of men who would be ac ceptable to the United States. The choice fell upon Senor Gamboa, for the reason that he has not been prom inently identified with any political party, while it is believed that he will have the confidence of Liberals as well as Catholics, and upon General Ras con, who is regarded as a desirable running mate for similar reasons. He was a friend of Porfirio Diaz, and was Madero's choice for war minister in de la Barra's cabinet. "MAN FAILURE" THE CAUSE Interstate commerce Commission De nounces Directors and T-ainmen. Washington. "Man failure" all along the line, from officials and di rectors of the New Haven railroad down to its trainmen, is held by the interstate commerce commission to have been the cause of the Wa' ling ford wreck, September 2, in which 21 were killed and 35 injured. In its report made public the commission blames the crews of the wreck trains for lapses and scores officers and di rectors for "inefficiency of manage ment." Operating officials of the New Ha ven and the officers and directors of the system are grilled scathingly for promulgation of regulations that were permitted to become practically "dead letters" and for not seeing to it personally that operating conditions were what they had directed them to be. "Man failure in this case," said Commissioner McChord, who prepar ed the report after an exhaustive per sonal Investigation of the accident, "began high up in official authority and it was a natural sequence that it readhed down to those in positions lower in official rank, but still weight ed with great responsibility." Alcohol Congress for U. S. Milan, Italy. The president of the fourteenth International coneress on alcoholism, Dr. Angeio Filippeui, au nounced at the session that the per manent committee had decided to pro pose that the congress in 1915 should be held in the United States. This requires the ratification of the whole congress prior to adjournment. Sev eral interesting papers were read, in cluding one by William Johnson of Westerville, Ohio, dealing with the fight against alcoholism in the Unit ed States. The delegates also dis cussed the .liquor traffic from an eco nomic standopint. Hermit Is Robbed and Shot. W'aycross, Ga. After lying in the bushes near the ruins of his home, which had been destroyed by a negro who first robbed the place and then shot him, James Bennett, known as "The Hermit" in the Manor section of Ware county, was found in a seri ous condition. According to a story, a negro strange to him entered his home and when discovered fired twice at Mr. Bennett, only one shot taking effect. The negro then finished his search of the house, presumably try ing to find a sum of money CHARLES S. THOMAS 1 1; i;lf &-&fiM m Charles S. Thomas, the newly elect ed senator from Colorado, Is a Georgl an by birth, a graduate of the Univer sity of Michigan, and has practiced law In Colorado since 1871. He served one term as governor of the state. 80 PERSONS ARE KILLED TWO TRAINS ON THE MEXICAN NATIONAL RAILWAY ARE WRECKED. Only American on Train Escaped In jury, But Was Robbed Dyna mite Mines Exploded. Laredo, Texas. Fifty persons were killed when rebels dynamited a pas senger train on the Mexican National railway, sixty miles south of Saltillo, Mexico, according to official reports to Mexican federal headquarters In Nuevo Laredo. The train was then looted and the surviving passengers robbed, it is said. Forty federal soldiers and ten sec ond class passengers comprised the official death list. The number of Injured were not given. W. W. Morvain of San Francisco, the only American on the train, is said to have escaped injury, but was robbed. Two dynamite mines were set off by electricity, it is said. The first class coach was only derailed, but the bag gage, express and two second class coaches were blown to pieces. AMERICAN SCHOOL SEIZED Seizure In Line With Plan of Greeks to Terrorize Albanians. Vienna, Austria. The Greek author ities at Koritsa, in Albania, seized the American mission school there, where Instruction is given to nearly one hun dred Albanian girls. The information reached here in a telegram from Avlo na, the principal seaport of Albania on the Adriatic sea. The Greeks also have arrested mainy Albanians who recently return ed to Koritsa from America and oth er foreign countries, releasing them from detention only when the Albani ans promised to join In the agitation for the incorporation of the district to Greece. The whole affair forms part of the Greek terrorization of the Albanian population with the object of compell ing them to agree with inclusion of the whole of Albania in the kingdom of Greece. The mission is in charge of Phineas B. Kennedy, a native of New Jersey and a Princeton graduate. Colleagues Honor Roddenberry. Wp shin eto ?nators Baon ' Hoh.e buiuu and every lutuioer oi the (Georgia delegation in congress, except Representative Tom Bell, the Democratic whip of theh ouse, left Washington to attend the funeral of Representative Roddenberry. Speak er Clark offered no objeetion to the Georgia members going and agreed it was right and proper, but in view of the probability that Representative Bell would be needed to whip up the voters for the vote on the tariff con ference report, he insisted that Mr. Bell should remain. Sulzer Must Go to Trial. Albany, N. Y. Governor William Sulzer must go to trial. This was decided by the high court of impeach ment when, by a vote of 51 to 1, its members overruled the motion of the governor's counsel to dismiss the pro ceedings on the ground that he was unconstitutionally impeached by the assembly, because that body, In ex tra session, brought the impeachment. Senator Gottfried H. Wende of Buf falo, Democrat, an ardent supporter of the governor, cast the solitary nay. Seven members kere absent. PL mm LATEST NEWS OF GENEUSEIBLY THE STATE FREIGHT RATES ARE STILL UNDER FIRE IN BOTH HOUSES. CRAIG'S MESSAGE IS READ Governor Advises That Railroads' Of fer Be Accepted. Who Have Passes Clark of Pitt, Introduces Resolu tion In House to Find Out. Penate Thursday. Raleigh. In the Senate Senator Bryan introduced tthe bill carrying all the iproposed amendments to the Con stitution, as prepared by the Commls elon on Constitutional Amendments, together with the machinery for the people to vote on ratification. 'Senator Pharr Introduced the reso lution from the committee on rules providing that the business of this session shx 1 be confined to matters pertaining to the rate and the consti tutional amendment (proposals except that local Mils that cover emergencies and contingencies arising from those passed at the regular session may be introduced, but must all be Introduc ed by October 1. ' The message from Governor Craig was presented ;by special messenger at 11 o'clock and read immediately. House Thursday. Governor Craig's special message, recommending the acceptance of the offer of the carriers as a settlement of the freiglit rate controversy, a res olution by Clark of Pitt to request the Corporation Commission to furnisih the names of legislators riding on railroad passes, introduction of two amendments to the Constitution and a score of local (bills were the principal features in the House. Senate Friday. The Senate discussed at acme length the status of the LegLjlative Comotfs sion on Constitutional Amendments and the standing report of the com mission had in the Senate the conclu sion being reached that the commis sion's work is finished an-d that the regular Committee on Constitutional Amendments has now the right to consider the various proposals to amend the Constitution and any oth ers that may be offered, all to take their regular course as new bills. House Friday. Representative Williams of Bun combe presented in the form of a kill the proposed amendments to the Con stitution recommended by the com mission that sat during the summer. Mr. Williams urged that the amend ments "be considered by the House, section by section, sitting as commit tee of the whole. ' Speaker Murphy announced the fol lowing committee assignments: Corporations, Dowd; Public Service Corporations, Woodard, Dowd, Rufnn; Constitutional Amendments, Dowd, Rufnn, Woodard; Agriculture, Cro- nartie; Judiciary tto. 1, Woodard; Banking and Currency, Rufftn; Edu cation, Rufnn; Oyster, Hooker. Senate Saturday. Freight rates aad constitutional amendments took a back seat in the legislature Saturday when local leg islation and special issues came to the fore, and the senate consumed the larger part of an liour and a half session in discussing a bill by Sena tor Peterson of Sampson, making it a misdemeanor for any one not in the United States army or navy or state guard to wear any distinctive part f the uniform, or for any person to re fuse admission to any soldier or sail or, solely on account of his uniform. House Saturday. The determination of the house not to consider the proposed amendments to the constitution until Tuesday, the refusal to concur in the senate joint resolution -to limit the introduction of local bills an-d sticking to its own resolution, the referring of all public bills to the proper committees for more scanning and the introduction of numerous new bills and the pass age of many others on final reading these were the matters that the house considered Saturday. Is Banished From Old North State. Otis Brown, a member of a promi nent Ashe ville family, must leave the state or serve a term of two years on the county roads, accord ing to a sentence imposed by Judge Frank Carter in superior court. It was reported that Brown had left the city. The defendant recently at a session of court, pleaded guilty to charges of carrying concealed wea.p pons and assault with a deadly weap on. The sentence was imposed with the understanding that Brown be giv en an opportunity to leave. NOT IGNORED IN THE OFFER Some One Discovers That North eastern Carolina Gets Reduced Rates. Chance For Jobbers. Raleigh. The corporation commis slon finds that more substantial re ductions will be worked out on rates from the west to the northeastern part of the state, where it had not been understood that any reduction would be made, than to any other section of the state in the applica tions of the pending freight rate pro posal. No reductions were to be made in the rates south of the basing point of Norfolk on the line out of Nor folk to Washington, the line via Nor folk to Edenton, the Coast Line to Kelford and the Seaboard via Boy kins to Lewiston until the rate out o! Norfolk to get beyond 45 cents first class from Norfolk, and, therefore, no reductions liad been heretofore mentioned to points on these lines. It developed that the proposition making the rate of 77 cents from the Ohio River crossings to Weldon the mini mum rate to all points on the north ern border will result in the. most substantial reductions on the lines mentioned. This grows out of the fact that heretofore no through class rates have been published from the West to these points and they 'hare been denied the benefit of Che proportion al rates out of Norfolk than other points in the state their through rates from the West have been high er. Under the proposition as it now stands Elizabeth Otty will get reduc tions of 15 cents first class from Cin- ctonati and related poiots Edenton 25 cents reduction, Aulander 28 cents and Rich Square 37 cents, with 'corre sponding reductions on other classes. " This will give very substantial re ductions to practically all towns In " Northampton, Hertford, Bertie, Cho wan. Gates. Peraulmn..s PasemotaiiV. Oamden and Currituck counties. This section of the state has been anade largely tributaTy to Norfolk, the corporation commissioners say, by reason of its through rates being on the full combination yia Norfolk. The commission predicts that these reductions in the through rates will put a number of prosperous whole sale and jobbing houses in the coun- tlAa imfniev in fhla inn Governor Grants Four Pardons. Governor Craig granted four par dons. Prank Prapst, Alexander coun ty, is pardoned from the remainder of an eight-year sentence for second degree murder on condition that he remain law-abiding. John Howard of Cleveland county, convicted this spring of larceny and sentenced to five years on the roads Is pardoned on recommendation of the judge and solicitor. J. W. Seachum, of Davie county, is pardoned from 18 months in jail for retailing on condition that he show good behavior at each court for two years. John M. Freeman of Rowan county, serving four years on the chaingang for larceny is pardon ed on condition that he give a $100 bond for good behavior for two years. He is in very poor health. Organize Agricultural Society. The Catawba County Agricultural Society is , the name of an organiza tion recently perfected in Hie county. A meeting was held in the Startown High School building, officers elected and plans laid for the work. The object of the organization is to work for the advancement of the farmers, country schools and country life gen erally. The society will hold a coun ty agricultural fair this Fall and each succeeding year, provided the fann ers take the necesnary interest. , At these fairs the different farm pro ducts of the county will be given on topics pertaining to farm life. North Carolina New Enterprises. The secretary of state issued two charters as follows: Morehead Coca Cola Bottling Company of Wilming ton. Authorized capital, $5,000, with $1,000 paid in by G. H. Hutaff, W. J. Hutaff and TaMtha Hutaff. Norton- Johnson Company of Durham, to deal in real estate, etc.; authorized capi tal, $50,000, with $2,250 paid in by L. Watts Norton, A. B. Johnson and Cyrum Thompson, Jr. To Attend Segregation Conference. Dr. H. Q. Alexander, president of the Farmers' Union, expects to at tend the segregation conference which is to b held in Raleigh, Octo ber 20. Dr. Alexander will be a dele gate from Mecklenburg county. The conference is called by the recent notice of Mr. Clarence Toe, through the columns of hrs paper, The Pro gressive Farmer, and deals with tte segregation of the two races in the rural districts. There will likely, be a targe number of prominent men o! the state pxeaaut. j