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POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY.
VOL. IX.
MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1907.
NO. 13.
Madison
Count,
Record.
Ether and Matter.
The densest matter la more or lesa
porus. Gold will absorb mercury as
a lump of sugar will absorb water,
showing there must be interstices or
interatomic spaces in It, but the ether
chows no such property. If a drop of
water could be magnified sufficiently
one iwould ultimately see the different
atoms of hydrogen and oxygen that
constitute the molecules of water. If
a small volume of ether could be thus
magnified the indications are that the
ultimate part would look like the first,
which is the same as saying that it
Is not made up of discrete particles,
but fills space completely. This is ex
pressed 'by saying that the ether Is a
continuous medium and ia hence in
comparable with- matter.
DIRECTORY
MtTHODMT QHTJEfcH
Rev. B. J. Pabor, Pastor.
Services every Sunday, mor
ning and night.
Sabbath School every Sun
day morning.
Prayer Meeting every Wed
nesday night.
PRISBTTEKIAN OHTJBOH
Riv. O. O. 0AX,.r. tfj
Services evefry Sunday at 11
a. m. and 7:80 p. m,
Sabbath School at 10 a. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday
avemlig at 7'.S0.
BAPTIST dflOTOH
Riv. J. W. Suttlb, . . . Pastoi.
Svfc$i every Sunday at 11
a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Sabbath School at 10 a. m.
Prayer meeting Tuesday eve
aing at 7:80.
MARSHALL ACADIMY
Idia Ross McOM,...FriripM
TOWN OFFICKKS
Robert N. Oatok, . . .. . . .Mjof
J. A. Craiomiles, Chief Police.
LEWIS J. BALEY,
Attornty-At-Law.
MARSHALL, H. 0.
Practice in all (he State and
Federal Courts, also in tbe Pen
ion Offiee and other Govern
ment Departments at Washing
ton, D. 0.
CHAS. B. MASHBURN
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Mauhall, N. O.
Will practice in all the State
and Federal Courts, also In all
Government Departments in
Washington. Especial atten
tion to collections.
ZACHARY & ROBERTS
ATTORNKYS-AT-LAW.
Marshall, N. O.
Practice in all the Courts el
the 16th Judicial District, and
in Supreme Court of North
Carolina. :
J. H. HUNTER
v .-Marshall, R P. D. 8.
Practfcal Surveyor and No
tary Public. All work prompt
ly and accurately done.
Fidelity Lodge, No. 148.
Marshall,
N. C
Meets every Thursday night
A cordial welcome to all vieik?
nz Knivhfa.
- VAN B. DAVIS. C. a
W. II. BENDfcRSON.K.R. & 8.
X. X. Gndrer. Sr.., -.' ' L N.Ebbe.
' AiserUIe, N. C HotSprinfi, KG
' ' GDDGER & , EBBS.
' . ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS
..; AT LAW. . ;
CT Will practice in all the
Courts of tba btate. Collee
tins a specialty.
4 CO. B. RIFLES USED
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Report of the Officer of the
Arsenal.
GRAY'S CONFESSION A FAKE
Microscopic Examination of Sheila
Picked up in Street Morning Fol
lowing Brownsville Riot Shows Be
yond Doubt That Four Guns of
This Company Were Used in Dis
charging all of-the 33 Shells.
Washington, Special. Four rifles
from Company B. Twenty-fifth In
fantry, were used in the Brownsville
affray if the ordinance department of
the army can substantiate reports
sent to the State committee on mili
tary affairs concerning the micro
pic examination of the 23 shells
picked up in the streets of the towa
on the morning following thes hoot
ing. All of the rifles in the possession of
the batallion at Fort Brown on the
night of Aug. 13 were sent to the
Springfield arsenel and two shots
were fired from each. The shells
used were then compared with those
picked up at Brownsville and the of
ficers making the test reported that
it has been demonstrated beyond dis
pute that four guns of Company B
were used in discharging all of the
33 shells.
The reports were made a part of
the committee records and Lieut.
Hawkins, of the ordinance depart
ment, and C. A. Spooner, expert in
spector of gauges used in the manu
facture of muskets at the Spriugfiuld
arsenel, are ready to go on the stand
to explain their reports and be cross
examined concerning them.
Gray, the negro who was reported
in a Galveston paper to have given a
version of the affair quite different
from other evidence, now states thai,
bis confession was a fake.
Flood Crest in Sight.
Cincinnati, O., Special. With a
stage of Gl feet it is believed that
the crest of the Ohio river flood is
not fur away. The river has been
running out very fast because of a
lack of overfullness at lower river
points. Losses cannot be given, al
though they are heavy and exten
siev. The present flood has come
from unprecedentedly heavy rains on
a soft sand soil, the result being an
excessive amount of mud which has
settled on all flooded property. Per
sonal suffering has not been exces
sive on account of mild wether and
although many thousands have been
driven from their homes the situation
has been bearable. Reports from up
the river say that the worst is over
at points above Cincinnati, although
the suffering of the homeless and un
employed will continue several days.
The Cincinnati administration has
asked for authority to issue bonds
for $150,000 for the relief of flood
sufferers.
Killed in Public Road.
Charlotte, N. C, Special With
his skull horribly crushed and bath
ed in his own blood, the body of a
young white man, 35 years old, was
found in the public highway, four
miles from Charlotte, by a negro
farm hand at 8 o'clock. The negro
said he heard two shots and the
scream of a woman. Investigating,
he found the murdered body by the
roadside and a team standing near
by in the road. Shortly afterward
the sheriff, acting upon information
of neighbors, arrested J. T. E. Kim
ball, who lives near the scene of the
crime and locked him up, charged
with the murder.
Not the Missiag Boy.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Special.
Two women and a man were taken
from a southbound train, the police
believingthat a child in their posses
sion was the missing son of Dr. Hor
ace Marvin, of Denver, Col. The sus
pects easily exonerated themselves
and'were released, . Private detectives
from Chicago had followed them all
the way from Chicago, and it was they
who gave the tip that caused the trav
elers to be subjected to so much an
noyance,.. . . . .
Quarantine Soon to be Raised.
Washington, - Speeial. -; Archie
Roosevelt's condition ia still improv
ing - and Surgeon General. Rixey an
nounced that the quarantine restric
tions imposed on aoeount of the boys
illaess will be raised ia a few days.
Archie sat' up in bed. , : Theo. Roose
velt,' Jr., arrived from Harvard and
will remain at the White Hoase un
til after Batter. ' - ,
AN UNEXPECTED RESULT
South Carolina Summer Schools Will
Suffer From Operation of Dispensary
Law Recently Adopted.
Columbia, S. C, Special. It now
seems eertain that the Carey-Cothran
dispensary law has had the indirect
effect of doing away with both the
State summer sehool and the county
summer schools throughout the State,
these institutes being provided for
financially out of the State dispen
sary sehool fund, which is now nil
akee the State dispensary has been
abolished. This fund for summer
sehools amounts to about $0,p00 an
nually $5,000 direct from dispen
sary funds for "institates," which
the State board of- education has
been using for the count? summer
sehools exclusively, $1,000 from the
dispensary fund er the State summer
sehools alone, and the remainder
from escheated estates, whish the
board has been expending on the
State summer sehool. The beard
spends abont $3,500 on the State
summer sehool, but Winthrop Col
lege provides the plase of meeting,
and otherwise makes the gathering
eaonofloieal. The Georgia and North
Carolina Legislatures provide about
$5,W)0 each for their State summer
schools. Even the $1,000 speeial ap
propriation is not available for the
State summer sehool this year, b
eaase the appropriation bill provid
ed that this should come out of the
State dispensary fund.
The Next Meeting to be Held at
Jamestown.
Norfolk, Va., Special. The exee
utive committee of the supreme eom
mandery of the Society of the Gold
en Cross has at the request of many
delegates, changed the place of meet
ing of the next legislative session of
the commandery from Nashville,
Tenn., to the Jamestown Exposition
on May 20, 21 and 23. Eight hun
dred delegates are expected to attend.
Quarantine Station Sold.
New Orleans, Special. The sale
of the Mississippi river quarantine
station to the United States for
$100,000 was announced by the State
board of health. With the sale of
this station control of quarantine in
this State passes to the marine hos
pital service. The government in
making this purchase has agreed te
maintain four other quarintine sta
tions on the Louisiana coast now kept
by the State.
To be Refused Admittance.
Washington, Special. Complying
with the provisions of the immigra
tion act approved February 22nd
last, President Roosevelt issued an
executive order that suoh citizens of
Japan er Korea to wit: Japanese or
Korean laborers, skilled and unskill
ed, who have received passoprts to
go to Mexico, Canada, or Hawaii and
come therefrom, be refused permis
sion to enter the continental terri
tory of the United States.
$1,000,000 Bond Issue.
Chattanooga, Special. Chatta
nooga voted on the issuance of $1,
000,000 in bonds to be devoted to six
Bepajrate purposes. Every proposi
tion carreid. The vote was high,
the total number of ballots cast be
ing 1,800. The issue is for streets,
sewers, new eity hall, new fire halls,
parks and to provide for the floating
debt.
Hurt bv Falling Tree.
Trenton. Sneefal. Walter Bates,
the 16-year-old son of Mrs. Kate
Bates,' of the Sixth, District, in try
ing to esoape a falling tree which he
had cut down, was struck by a large
limb and hk thigh broken in two
places.
Mr. Cleveland Enjoying Stay.
Georgetown, Special. Mr. Cleve
land and his friends are enjoying
(heir stay with Gen. Alexander in a
quietrestful way. While they have
had some sport with the ducks, which
are plentiful and of easy reach from
headquarters, absolute seclusion and
esoape from the public eye is prob
ably even more sought after than the
mallards.
News Notes.
. District Attorney Jeromne, in an
effort to get the so-called ' Hummel
affidavit before the jury, denounced
Harry K. Thaw in scathing terms.
Allen LeRoy Locke, a Philadelphia
negro, is to get the Rhodes scholar
ship allotted this year to Pennsyl-
' The ' eefnaaereial dabs' . af various
site winch have been inspecting the
work at Panama arrived in Charles
ton, 8. C,,oa aha ratura.
Soana of tha Panaaylvaaia Capital
neeada at Hawiafcarg are feaad t
be noasiag. -
HUMMEL'S EVIDENCE
White's Lawyer TeHs of Affi
davit of Evelyn Nesbit
THE TESTIMONY GOES TO JURY
Debnag Fought District Attorney Ev
ery Inch, but White's Fomer At
torney Was Allowed to Give Full
Story of AAdarit Alleged to Have
Been Signed by Eveltn Thaw ia
1903, Charging Defendant With
Beating Her When She Said Stan
ford White Had Not Drugged and
Rained Her.
New York, Special. With Attor
ney Delaaas fighting him every inch
of the way, District Attorney Jerome
secured from Abraham Hiamel his
complete story as to the affidavit,
which it is alleged Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw made in the lawyer's office in
1983 charging Hary K. Thaw with
beating her when she had told him
that the statement that Stanford
White had drugged and ruined her
was sot true. The Hummel testimony
eame during the afternoon session of
the trial and Mr. Dedmas' first ob
jection broadly to all of Hummel 's
testimony, offered a specific objection
te each question by the prosecutor.
Justice Fitigerald overruled every ob
jection and Mr. Delmas had excep
tions to the rulings noted on the re
cords. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was called to
the stand in the effort of the defense
to keep Hummel silent. She declared
she had called upon Hummel in h
professional capacity and to seek hit
advice as a lawyer. Stanford White
had taken her to the lawyer's oBUe
rwith that end in view.
4 -Jfadge .Fitzgerald declared that ad
mitting the proposition of counsel and
elient. Mrs. Thaw had herself waiv
ed the professional privilege by taking
the stand early in the case and giving
her version of what transpired at
Hummel's offise. The bond of secre
cy once removed could not be re-established.
Unsuccessful in blocking Hummel's
testimony. Attorney Delmas in cross
examining the witness brought from
his own lips the faet that he had been
convicted in December, K)05, on a
charge of conspiracy in the same
court room in which. Thaw is being
tried. He further admitted that two
indictments for subordination of per
jury are pending against him and that
one of these indictments charge him
with having caused a false affidavit
to be made.
Mr, Jerome protested against the
witness "being dragged through the
humiliating details" of his trial, but
Justice Fitzgerald declined to inter
fere. Mr. Delmas asked Hummel if he
had not .heard the speech made by
District Attorney Jerome when sen
tence was about to be imposed, when
Mr. Jerome urged the court to pass
the longest and heaviest wntence
within its power upon Hummel, as he
"had been a menace to the commun
ity for -20 years." Justice Fitzger
ald finally sustained an objection to
this and Hummel was not compelled
to answer.
Mr. Delmas wanted to know if
Hummel had recent business tranaac-
ions, wiin me ausinet wmu,, auu
( asked if Mr. Jerome was pressing the
charges against mm.
"He certainly is," said the witness
with spirit.
Hummel's testimony was to the ef
fect that Evelyn Nesbit told him that
Thaw bad beaten her when she re
fused to sign papers he had prepared
enarging Stanford White with her be
trayal; that he had dictated a state
ment to a stenographer in the pres
ence of Miss Nesbit and Stanford
White; that, he gave the affidavit to
two of his elerks to take to Miss Nes
bit and that the nest day the paper
was returned to him with Evelyn
Nesbit 's signature attached. He kept
the affidavit until Miss Nesbit called
one day and demanded it. Ho re
fused to give it to her and turned it
over to Stanford White, advising him
to have a photographic copy made.
Hummel first said he had himself ar
ranged for photographing the affidav
it and that the photographer came to
his office.' A few moments later, how
ever, he completely contradicted him
self on this point, saying he did not
make the arrangements; that the
photographer did not .come to his of
fice;, and that he had not so testified.
After Stanford White had the copy
made he returned the original of the
affidavit, '.tba photographio negative
aad (bo prints made from the nega
tive, to Htmmlel, who swore that be
had anbseavieatly da&vered the origi
nal affidavit te alias Hasbit 'and he
had not seen it aiaaa. . . .
PAY BY
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by oheek. It greatlyMailitates the conduct
of your business, bo Ih private and oommerclal,
while at th same time your funds are abso
lutely safe. Business conducted through a
bank is always more dignified. Even if yea
use your money from week to week and month
to month. w it OrtugX iki Bank. The re
turned checks are legslreoeipU (or every bill
yauay.
4 PER CENT. INTEREST
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Madison County Dispensary
Marshall, N. C.
The case for the people was finally
closed Monday by the introduction of
the much discussed Hummel afadavit,
which,, with the consent of tfte de
fense, was read in full to the jury.
The affidavit proved a surprise only
in the allege severity of the assaults
Harry K. Thaw is said to have made
upon Evelyn Nesbit diwing their trip
through Europe in 1903, when ac
cording to the testimony of Abraham
Hummel, Miss Nesbit would not sign
statements which Thaw had prepared
accusing Stanford White.
Killed Man Who Ruined Home;
El Reno, Okla., Special. W. R.
Rhea, a cornice maker, returned from
Fort Worth Saturday ni.ht and Sun
day afternoon walked into the confec
tionary establishment of A. Newell,
in the principal street of the city, and
fired five shots at the proprietor kill
ing him instantly. Rhea stepped over
and put out the powder fire in New
all's clothing and then stepped out
in the street and surrendered to the
chief of polioe, saying: "I would
kill and man who runined my home."
More Time Given Banks.
Washington, Special. The Secre
tary of the Treasury announced that
the $30,000,000 which was deposited
in thfc national banks the last of Sep
tember to be returned about the be
ginning of February 1st, will not be
called for at present. Beyond say
ing that he was keeping close watch
on the financial situation in New
York, Secretary Corteylou would not
indicate what his further plans went.
Old Soldier Killed by 'Train.
, Knoxville, Special. Gearge Ogle,
an inmate of the soldiers Home at
Johnson City, was killed by a South
ern train near Greenville some time
during the nigjit, his mangled re
mains having been found at an early
hour in the morning by the side of
the track. Ogle's home was in this
city, where ho has many relatives.
He was a veteraa of the Spanish
Amerioan War.
Well Pleased With Outlook.
The Columbia State's Washington
correspondent sends -his paper the
following : ".Commissioner Watson
went, to Europe fully, satisfied after
the conference with the president and.
the attorney general that the new im
migfration daw would not interfere
with his efforts " to. bring' in immi
grants, as he had been''doUg or at
feast very much after that fashion.
Ex.Gov. Heyward went home like
wise satisfied."
BT DARKNESS MADE VISIBLE.
.Parker "Stage stars" today are
mighty small luminaries." -. .'
Wlnterr-'That's right; .they would'
n't be seen at all lf-K were not for
the benighted condltuawof our drama,"
Boston Transcript , v.
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CHECK.
DEPOSITS
Two Opinions of Solitude.
W!hlle serving In Nebraska, Dr. Wal.
te Keed, Temembered for his dis
tinguished Service In the extermina
tion of yellow fever, waa frequently
called on to practise among the gran
gers, -who eke out a bare subsistence
try trying to farm where the rainfall
is barely sufficient for a good crop
once In three years. In the winters,
says the author of "Walter Reed and
Yellow Fever," he was often obliged,
In the discharge of his professional
duties, to take journeys on horseback
that were dangerous from the risk of
being overtaken by a blizzard.
A little Incident occurred on one
of these expeditions which Doctor
Reed always referred to with amuse
ment as an instance of the difference
In man's 'polnt of view."
He was sent for while a blizzard
was raging and the thermometer was
below zero to go a distance of twelve
miles to see a sick woman. He start
ed at sunset in a driving wind, out on
to the open prairie, iwlhere nothing
could be seen but a sheet of snow,'
stretching miles and miles ahead of
him, wltihout a landmark visible. It
was not long before lie lost his way,
and wandered about for hours, when
suddenly a little beacon of light ap
peared, and he found the tioy cabin
he was seeking.
The woman iwas very ill, and he
could not leave her until the next af
ternoon, during which time the hus
band did tils best to entertain him.
While they were sitting before the
rickety stove waiting for some coffee
to boll, the old man drawled out:
"Well, doc, I often feel soriy for
you folks at the post. I know you
all must git powerful lonely some
times." The post consisted of four com
panies, with headquarters and the
band. Moreover, It was situated'
within sight of the .railroad-station;-and
Doctor Reed, with the recollec
tion of it in his mind, was at that
veiiv moment commiserating: inward
ly the utter Isolation of this poor old
pair in their remote cabin.
Highwayman Arrested.
Savannah, Ga., Special. Arthur
Stone, of Philadelphia, was arrested
here , as he left the steamship Al
legheny on her arrival from that port
on a charge of having robbed Har
bar master Pollock of . Philadelphia
on Tuesday night by holding him up
in the street. Stone confessed and v
implicated his '"Jjrohtre-in-law, John
'Stncklandr'and "BTfly' Keith, of -Philadelphia
as accomplices., He "will
return without a requisition. -
IN CONTEMPT.
The Crustty Judge (sternly) Didn't
you tell me. sir, when I purchased
those eggs that to the best of your
knowledge and belief they, were strict-
ly fresh5!. .k : s -'-v t . .-v ,T
. The Grocer 'Certainly, air! How
long do you think I. couM remain in
this business If I furnished a certifi
cate of reasonable doubt with each.;
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