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VOL. XXIV.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1914.
NOV 35.
COLD VIE OVER
THE UrilTCO STATES
STORM SWEEPS ACROSS . CONTI
NENT, CAUSING MUCH DAM
AGE AND SUFFERING.
NUMBER OF STATES SUFFER
Rain in South and a Blizzard for the
Valley of Ohio and
Mississippi. '
' Washington, - A ; violent , storm
wept across th continent from Col
x -orado, causing: rain fa the Southern
states and snow in the Mississippi and
Ohio valleys, the lake regions and the
north Atlantic states.
St. Louis. Hail began to fall
throughout Missouri and by night had
coated the ground in many places with
more than an inch of ice.. The storm
was accompanied by a'3Qdegre drop
. in temperature.
Sioux City, Iowa. Northwest Iowa,
eastern South. Dakota and northeast
ern Nebraska are in the grip of a
storm. In Sioux City and vicinity the
heaviest snow of the season fell, ham
pering streets. and railroad traffic' Re
ports from. Snth Dakota indicate a
-inchJfaIL y t . , '
Chicago. A "Jfi-mlle an hour wind
piled snow in great 'drifts delayed traf
fic in Illinois): Several inches of snow
felL The thermometer ranged from
22 to 16 degrees above aero. Frank
Kach -hotter, 75 years old, and his
wife, aged TO. were found dead' by
neighbors in & two-room shack , near
the river. Death was said to have
been caused by lack, of food and coal
Kansas City. A storm of sleet' and
snow swept over western Missouri and
most o Kansas. ' Telegraph and tele
phone service was badly demoralized,
few wires working out of, Kansas -City.
The wire situation waa worse tO west
and north and but meager reports are
coming in as to the extent of the
storm. '
Los Angeles, CsL So far as rail
road communication was -concerned,
Los Angeles and southern California
remained cut off from the world. as a
result of the record-breaking storm of
rain and wind, which swept this re
gion for three days. Reports from the
six counties most affected did not rca
teriaiy change the estimate of the to
tal damage amounting to about four
and a half raMicm dollars. . The great
est anxiety concerns the situation of
the three hundred passengers maroon
ed aboard the California limited and
the Phoenix express of the Santa Fe
train.
DAMAGE BY FIRE IN ATLANTA
McKenzie Building, One of City Land
marks, Gutted by Flames.
Atlanta. Fully twenty-five, thou
.sand spectators in the vicinity of the
Candler building throughout Sunday
afternoon watched neariy. every fire
man In the city battle with one
of the most dangerous downtown fires
in years, which ', almost' completely
wrecked the McKenzie building at
James and Pcarirtrre streets, a city
landmark.' , '
Damage is estimated at being be
tween one hundred thousand and one
Five firemen weTe injured. A num
ber were sunocatea oy smoxe ana
fumes. One ladderman, E. A. Davis, of
engine house, Na 1, fell from the top
of a 32-foot. ladder in front of the
Johnson-Gewinser firm, when it slip
ped and crashed to the sidewalk. lie
was carried in a semi-conscious condi
tion to the Ansley hotel, where he re
ceived medical attention. ;
The other injured firemen were hurt
by flying glass and falling timbers.
None of them were wounded seriously.
TVmv ttpm Tfosciiiaii I1, HI Oilhert nf
headquarters; James Dooley, engine
house No. 2; J. C. JVIedlin, an engineer,
'.engine house No. 4, and Bill Cody of
headquarters.
The firms tnac snnered irom the
flames were the Johnson-Gewinner
company, the Stoddard company, the
Stephen A. Ryan real estate office, the
Pickard-Dcana Draff company, the
John Chalman Tailoring shop, , the
Georgia Realty and Trust company,
the Woodmen of the World lodge, the
John D. Babbage real estate offices
and the W. It. Jeter contracting con
cern. . - '" '
Father of Nation Honored.
Washington. President Wilson was
the central figure at a mass meeting
in a downtown theater here under the
auspices of the Sons of the. Revolu
tion in coHuraemoration of Washing
ton's birthday-. Joseph W. Folk, solic
itor, of the state department, in an
address; paid tribute to the founder of
the republic as a- man "imperfect
enoughs to be intensely human and
near enough perfect to be an inspira
tion to all who'hoflor justice and wor
ship liberty." President Wilson dul
not speak. i y
CONGRESSMAN MANAHAN
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Congressional inquiry into the or
ganization and operations of the Chi'
cago and Duluth . boards of trade and
the Minneapolis chamber of commerce
to determine ' their Influence over
wheat and flour prices in the country
was proposed in a resolution intro
duced by Representative Manahan of
Minnesota.
ARE WAITCHING DIAZ M1R0N
FIRE-EATING EDITOR IS BEING
CLOSELY WATCHED BY
POLICE.
He Threatened American Charge
O'Shaughness, Which Has Been
Reported to Washington. ... V
Mexico City. Salvador Diaj Miron,
editor of El Imparcial, has been placed
under police surveillance because of
the report that he had threatened to
kill ; Mr. O'Shaughnessy, who recent
ly protested to President Huerta con
cerning the character of anti-Wilson
editorials appearing in El Imparcial.
It appears, however, that the most se
rious threat made by Miron was that
tie "would repeat to Mr. O'Shaughnes
sy's face what he had written in edi
torials. The charge has reported the incident
to Washington. The state department
has assured him that it approves of
his' protest and that the American gov
ernment intends to give him and his
family protection.
Indicative of the slightly increased
anti-American spirit, there appeared
the first issue of a weekly magazine,
the purpose of which, it is announced,
is to attack Washington's Mexican pol
icy. Most of the cartoons are direct
ed again John Llnd.
Hachita, N. M. Maximo Castillo,
the bandit, has been brought here by
American troops. With him were his
brother, his- trumpeter, and the tet
ter's wife and two Indian women.
The bandit apparently was not at
all averse to placing himself under
the protection of the United States.
His band, which for months has har
assed settlers, held prisoners for ran
som, burned, sacked and stolen In a
career which culminated in the Cum
bre tunnel disaster, is scattered and
believed to be broken.
Since the Cumbre tragedy . Castillo
has known no rest and seemed on the
verge of a breakdown when brought
here. Villa's rebels have been hot on
his trail .
Ball of Fire Near Lapland.
New York. Among the remarkable
storm stories told by 'the passenger
of the steamship Columbia, 'of the An
chor line, and the Red Star liner Lap
land, both of which came into port in
New York three days late, was the
account of a large and brilliant me
teor which burned, its way through the
snow and hail and plunged hissing Into
the sea within a short distance of the
Lapland. Passengers " said that at
night , they were startled by the ap
pearance in the northern sky of a bril
liant ball of fire. Shooting in a para
bola toward the liner, it seemed to
them almost certain ' to fall on the
Laplan's deck. Instead it burst into
pieces with the report of a cannon
and sank into the sea.
Sherman Got Columbia 49 Years "Ago.
Columbia, S. C The forty-ninth an
niversary of the entrance of the North
ern soldiers into Columbia under Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman, was mark
ed by the unveiling of a granite boul
der erected by . the Wade Hampton
chapter, United Daughters of the Con
federacy, upon the spot where T. J.
Goodwyn, the mayor ojf Columbia, un
der a flag of truce, met General Sher
man and surrendered to him the city.
The occasion was given a peculiar In
terest by the only living witness to the
event, Norton W. Urooker.
PEOPLE AROUSED
ON MEXIG BORDER
MEETING IN EL PASO CHARGES
GOVERNMENT IS CONCEAL
ING TH E TACTS.
WASHINGTON INVESTIGATES
Resolutions Declare Mexicans Have
Killed Americans Because They
Were Americans.
Washington. A . slumbering Mexi
can situation was brought quickly to
a point of intense international inter
est, by the flash of a message saying
William 'S Benton, a British subject,
had been killed in Juarez by order of
Gen. Francisco Villa, the Constitution
alist commander.
'Sir Cecil -Spring-Rice, British am
bassador, conferred ' with Secretary
Bryan about it; President Wilson and
hia cabinet discussed it - briefly and
the state department ordered a thor
ough investigation by consular repre
sentatives on the border. .
El Paso Texas. Two more English
men are reported as having "disappear
ed" in Juarez.
The report came from Samuel Stew
art, who says the men, John Lawrence
and a companion named Curtis, went
to Juarez to search for William S.
Benton.
Stewart expressed the fear that they,
like Benton, had been shot.
. Gustav Bauch, who was on trial for
being a spy, also disappeared in Jua
rez. Thomas "D. Edwards, American
consul at Juarfez, said that when the
friends of Bauch went to visit him
with bedding and- food he was not in
the cell where. he had been held in
communicado while his trial was be
ing held.
A storm of indignation broke out
along the border when it became
known that William S. Benton, a Brit
ish subject and wealthy landholder in
Mexico, had been executed by rebels
in Juarez, after he had made a pro
test to Gen. Francisco Villa about al
leged depredations of the Constitution
alists.
A mass meeting was held, and reso
lutions were adopted censuring the
state department at Washington for its
alleged suppression of the consular re
port of the Benton case and calling
on congress to demand from the de
partment of state a full record of al
leged crimes and outrages against for
eigners in Mexico.
SUPERVISION FOR STATES
Administration Contemplates No Sur
render of Power, However. .
Washington. Conservation partic
ularly as it affects the building of wa
ter power projects jin the navigable
streams of the 'country was added to
the chief administration policies un
der discussion. Conservationists have
learned in a preliminary way the an
swer which the Wilson administration
has prepared to the question 'of wheth
er the federal government of the states
shall be supreme in the matter of wa
ter rights of navigable, rivers.
Secretary Gark'son, has addressed a
letter on the subject to Chairman Ad
amson of the house'committee on in
terstate and foreign' commerce which
he will submit, when .the latter returns
to' Washington, ' . .
The general principles "of the ad
ministration's plan.,,, contemplate no
surrender of theojconstitutional power
cMhe federal government to -regulate
what shall or 'shall not be done- in the
navigable streams' of the country, but
to the states is given entire supervis
ion of the actual operation of the plan.
, Briefly the plan's general outline is
as follows: .
Federal permits for water power
projects would be given only to indi
viduals or concerns duly incorporat
ed as public utilities.
Public utility eommimssions of the
various states would be expected to
regulate .operation of the. plan by such
supervision as would prevent practices
of discrimination or monopoly.
Water power rights would be given
only to those states which had good
public utility laws so that an incen
tive for careful supervision through
new laws would be provided in states
having inadequate laws.
Robbers Get $40,000.
Birmingham, Ala. Queen and Cres
cent passenger train No. 1, New York
to New Orleans, running forty minutes
late, about twelve miles north of Bir
mingham, was held up by three maei.
ed robbers, who secured four sacks of
registered mail, said to have contained
over $40,000. At Attalla three men
boarded the engine and one and a
half miles south of Attalla held up the
engine crew at the point of revolvers.
They then ran the train to within
five miles of Irondale. where they
robbed It,
GOVERNOR E. F. DUNNE
Governor Dunne, it is rumored, may
enter the Illinois senatorshlp fight by
announcing himself as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination In opposi
tion to Roger Sullivan. This, it is be
lieved, would please Secretary Bryan'.
U. S. IS MOSTPROSPEROUS
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE HAS
FOUND PROSPERITY ALL
OVER COUNTRY.
Federal Reserve Bank Organizers Jubi
lant About Business Conditions
Disclosed on the Trip.
Washington. The federal reserve
bank organization committee, back in
Washington after a five weeks' trip
through the country, in a statement,
announce that its selection of federal
reserve cities and definition of reserve
districts would not be made until it
had carefully considered information
acccumulated on the trip The state
ment said the committee found the
country prosperous and learned that
bankers and business men are confi
dent of the success of the banking
system.
In a supplemental statement, Sec
retary McAdoo declared he hoped the
new system would be established in
.time to take care of crop-moving con
tingencies next year, , but that if it
were not the treasury department
would stand ready to place its funds
again at the disposal of business men.
The committee's statement, in part,
is as follows:
"We have spent practically from the
4th of January to the present time in
hearing the views of business men and
bankers on the problems of dividing
the country into not less than eight
nor more than twelve districts and of
locating in each district the main office
of a federal reserve bank. Of the two
questions, the division of the country
into districts is the more important
and difficult. The committee asked
those who apepared before it to direct
their attention to these two problems.
A great many able and impartial busi
ness men and bankers have submitted
their , best information and opinions
and always in a spirit of great fair
ness. LAST TRIBUTE PAID BACON
Funeral Services Conducted at Chris
Church in Macon.
Macon, Ga. The body of United
States Senator A. O. Bacon reached
Macon on a special funeral train from
Atlanta. Hundreds of Macon people
were in waiting at the station and
stood with bared heads as the casket
was taken from the car and placed
in the hearse and transported to the
city hall.
The line of carriages on the trip to
the city hall was headed by the Macon
drum and bugle corps, with muffled
drum, and the three local military
companies. .
With a sergeant of one of the local
military companies and a Confederate
veteran in gray uniform at either end
of the casket, thousands filed by to
view the body. r It was a tribute such
as Macon neVer f'aid to any other
man.'
The body lay in state at the city
hall' until 10:45 o'clock Thursday, when
it was taken to Christ Episcopal
church, where the funeral services
were conducted at eleven o'clock bv
Rev. John II. Bunting, the rector.
Food Fish Opposed for Fertilizer.
Washington. State fisheries offl.
cials, Eastern fish dealers and repre
sentatives of fish and game organiza
tions were before the house inter
state commerce committee to discuss
the Linthicum bill to prohibit the use
of food fish in the manufacture of fer
tilizer for Interstate commerce. Sec
retary Redfield of the department ot
commerce called back to his office bp
fore he could testify - telephoned Lis
approval of the measure. Most of. the
witnesses favored the passage the
bill.
WILL SEEK SAFETY
FOR FOREIGNERS
THE ADMINISTRATION REALIZES
THAT STEPS OF SOME SORT
.. ARE WANTING.
SOON BEFORE THE SENATE
The Mexican Situation Continues a
Perplexing Tangle With Extreme
Tension. Uncle Sam Is Consider
ing the Situation Gravely.
Washington. Regardless of wheth
er or not the execution of William S.
Benton by General Villa was justi
fied, developments emphasized clearly
that protection of foreigners in Mex
ico had become a commanding prob
lem of increased international im
portance, appreciated no less by Pres
ident Wilson than by leaders in Con
gress. Briefly these were the day's
developments: t
After a conference with President
Wilson, Acting Chairman Shively of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee and members of the committee
reached an understanding that the
Mexican question, if taken up in the
Senate should be ' discussed behind
closed doors.
Pending resolutions looking to bet
ter protection for foreigners soon will
be taken up the senate.
Discussion in the British Parlia
ment of the Benton incident was read
with much interest by officials who
observed particularly that the United
States was not held responsible by
Sir Edward Brey for the death of
Benton.
The British Embassy announced
that the British Consul at Galveston,
Texas, has been ordered to El Paso
to assist in the inquiry concerning
Benton, but in no way to interfere
with the American investigation.
Intimations were received through
semi-official channels that marines
would be landed by Japan and France
to act as Legation guards in Mexico
City along with those of Great Britain
and Germany.
The Huerta government is not
averse to the sending of Foreign Lo
cation eruards to Mexico City is known
here officially but the United States
for the present at least will not fol
low the course of other Nations.
The whole tenor of the Mexican
situation, while revealing no unusual
aetlvity, reflected the same anxiety
and perplexing tangles which have
caracterized it dur'ng days of ex
treme tension.
Attention was chiefly focused on
the investigation as to the manner In
which William S. Benton, met death
at Juarez but details of the affair
still are lacking. The report which
has been mailed By American Consul
ar representatives has not reached
here yet. Its contents have been an
ticipated by telegraphic dispatches
giving Villa's version of the affair and
additional details are being sought
from Gen. Villa at Chihuahua by Con
sul Letcher. The attempt to exhume
Benton's body, as yet though unavail
ing is expected to bring further evi
dence. Reserve System Starts Business.
WashingtonThen ew Federal re
serve svstem will begin business with
a membership of at least 7,500 banks.
This was apparent when at the close
of the last day on which national
bnaks could signify their" intention of
accepting terms of the currency law,
less htanJSO of the . 7,493 national
banks of the country had failed to re
spond favorably. More than enough
state institutions have applied tor
membership to bring the total to 7,500.
Troop Train Blown Up.
Vera Cruz, Mexico. A government
troop train carrying a company of in
fantry for Jalapa was blown up by
rebels. The wreck ocurred on the
Inter-Oceanic Railway, 140 miles from
Vera Cruz.
All on board, including 55 officers
and men, and the English engineer,
were killed. A passenger tTaln was
firl'don by the rebels, bute escaped by
backing rapidly.
Conley Placed on Trial.
A tlanta, Ga. Interest in the murder
of Mary Phagan, fourten-year-cld fac
tory girl for which Leo M. Frank is
under death sentence was revived by
the prospect that James Conley wuold
e placed on trial here on charge of
being an accessory to the erime. Con
ley, a negro sweeper at the factory
where the girl was murdered, and of
which Frank was superintendent, tes
tified at the latter's trial that he had
help dispose of Mary Phagan's body
after Ffcink had kilel her. Conley de
nies the charge.
PHYSICIANS
T
TRI-STATE DOCTORS HAVE IN
TERESTING MEETING AT
WILMINGTON.
MEET NEXT iN GREEENVII4.E
Delegates Vote to Go to Greenville, S.
C, Despite Rumors of Local ' Divi
sions.. New Officers are Elected
and New Members Enrolled. .
Wilmington. The sixteenth annual
convention of the Tri-state Medical As
sociation adjourned recently after se
lecting Greenville, S. C, as the next
place of meeting and electing officers
for next year. A large number of
valuable papers were read at the ses
sions. Officers elected for the ensu
ing year wer:
President, Dr. E. C. Register, Char
lotte; vice president for Virginia, Dr.
J. Allison Hodges, Richmond; North
Carolina, Dr. Chas. T. Harper, WI1
liston; South Carolina, Dr. ;F. H.
McLeod, Florence; secretary-treasurer,
Dr. Rolee Hughes, Laurens, S. C.
(re-elected); Dr. Southgate Leigh, of '
Norfolk, the retiring president, was
elected a member of executive council
in place of Dr. J. Shelton Horsley, of
Richmond. Dr. D. T. Tayloe, of Wash
ington, was elected a member in,
place of Dr. Chas. T. Harper, of this
city, who was elected vice-president,
and Dr.'W. W. Fennell, of Rock Hill,
S. C, was elected to succeed himself.
There were only three vacancies oc
curring on the council. Columbia also
extended invitations through the exec
utive council for convention to meet
in that city next year, but owing to the
fact that the last" meeting held in
South Carolina was in Columbia it
was decided to meet in GTeenville. The
recommendation of. the;',;council " was
unanimously ddpteaV by the conven
tion. . " .', -
After GreenvilTehad been chosen
there was a report that the selection -.
was not pleasing to South .Carolina
physicians, particularly those of '
Grelnville. It was said .that., there ;
was friction among Greenville; physi- ,
clans. For this reason, it was rumor-
ed Grenville did not want the cpnyan- -.
tion. .
The executive council was called
into special session three hours after
Greenville had been chosen and the -question
was discussed. It wasT.de-"
elded not to take the matter to the
floor of the convention, but to let it '
rest for the time being, in hope that
some settlement will be affected. It
was reported that South Carolina' had
threatened to withdraw from the as-
sociation, but this was denied by.
members of the executive council.
Wake Forest Trustees Meet.
Wake Forest. The. board of trus
tees of Wake Forest College met here
during the aniversary season and dis
cussed many matters of importance to
the college.
The proposition of the town of
Sylva to move the summer law school
there was declined by the board. This
town, situated on the Southern Rail
way, 40 miles from Asheville,- made
the college an attractive offer some
time ago if the law school would
hold forth in their town. . The matter
was referred to a committee and
this committee made their report at
this meeting. Pastor Ellington, of the
Sylva Baptist church, was present and
urged the board to move the school to
Sylva.
The board, after a statement from
President Poteat of the financial ne'eds'
of the college felt that a camnaiirn tn
increase the present endowment can
not be deferred more than a year or
two. The present endnwmpnt "a wnn.
more than $600,000.
Road About Completed.
Newton. The Hickory-to-Maiden
sand-clay road has been completed
to the city limits of Maiden. Only two
tenths of a mile still remains to be
built to the Lincoln county line. Thl3
now gives a stretch of 25 miles of as
good as is to be found anywhere in
this section of the state. The Lincoln ,
commissioners have agreed to build
a road to intersect with the Catawba
road at the county line.
Asheville Quits "Trash Farm."
Asheville. Ash'eville's municipal in
cinerator, which has been in the
course of erection for the past several
weeks, has been finished and was
tested recently in the presence of the
members of the board of aldermen and
heads of the various city departments.
The plant was found to be in fine con
dition, and doubtless wll be accepted
by the city at an early date.
With a modern crematory at her
lisposal Asheville will abandon tha
use of the eld "trash farm" that has
been used by the city.