UMimiunmiiMiniiiff I fiJL-y Y-ATETRVub- X '" V. Ushtd in tht County I , N I he rledtum z Through whkk you reach th ; ; people f Madison County ! !" : ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION i Xi mi Minn i mi in unit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1909. NO. 13. County Record. Madison DEATH (NELL Or PAYNE BILL Senator Elkins Says That The Bill As Ii Now Stands Will Never Become si. Law. Washington, Special Senator El Uai, of West Virginia Tuesday sounded what is believed .to be. tip loath kneU of the Payne tariff bUl in its present shape, when he deek 4 in the most' emphatic terms that aooh a bill as that presented Jto the House for adoption by the way and means committee would never become- a; law,' . and . that if nooses ary "the Senate, would remsp in session until Christmas, if required to do so, to qret a bill more acceptable to all sections of the country. This is (he opinion also expressed by many other Senators. They maintain that a close analysis will show that such a bill as that now proposed would be most harmful to the interests of the South and that, as millions of dollars of .money belonging to Eastern capital ists are invested there, such a bill will never become a law. Objections to the Bill -""Among the objections set out are that it increases the taxation on the necessities of life, and that those ar ' tides actually required by the poor man will come higher to him. That the maximum and minimum features of the bill are loosely drawn and, if placed in operation, would be both burdensome to the Araeri and otherwise be hurtful to Ameri can rtade relations. That the drawback provisions of the bill will work out injuriously to the wheat raisers of the great West, and otherwise be hurtful to Aemri can industries. That the inheritance tax provisions interfere with the Stste laws bear ing on the same subject. That the bill is lacking in any reci procal features, which would enable the United States to make favorable trade arrangements. Ham koaail " " xmw BJ uvwau Wl H1HRWVU lSKTOU T"on the American wholsesale market price is of doubtful wisdom, and win work to increase duties. That too much has been done to DEPRESSION DOES NOT EFFECT THE DAM. Washington, Special. Chairman Joethals, of the isthmian canal com mission, who is about to return to Paqama, said Friday that the three hundred feet of embankment of the rebuilt Panama Railroad line which , Thursday's dispatches from Colon re- , pert had settled about thirty feet, was a mile and a half frojn the Gatun lam, and therefore, has no direct , soaring in connection with the con struction of that portion of the ca nal waterways. The settling occur red at Jl place where the re-located road is being constructed oyer a . swamp. The road is being raised from a height of 6 feet to 95 feet above sea' level. "Unless there is some unforeseen difficulty such as labor trouble or as eqidemie of some kind, I feel confi dent that the canal will be opened by January 1. 1915," said Colonel Goe thals Friday. "I was originally an advocate of a sea level canal at Pana ma. That was at a time when I ' formed iny judgment upon what . seemed to be the demand ef com- meree and from general information concerning conditions that would be ' encountered. Going to the isthmus . about twoyears ago, observation and, A CRISIS NOW REACHED IN THE BALKANS Parifll By Cable. It ii held in offi aal circles that the Balkan situation on account of tha irmAnnnilnhla otH. tude of the Austro-Hungarian ; gov ' eminent, has now reached , a 'most acute stage and that the next few days will. decide between peace and - war. - The efforts of Great Britain, ('France and Russia-. to present a for mula for the settlement of the dif KIDNAPER BOYLE IS LANDED BEHIND THE JAIL BARS Mercer, Pa., SpeciaL Heavily ma : nmcled to Sheriff .Chess! and guarded ; by several deteetiyes, James Boyle, one of the kidnapers of little. 3JUly ' WWtlaj was brought here . Jriiey from Pittsburg and lodged in ' fine -Mercer county jalL His wife, it is ' said, wUl be brought here from Pitta bnrg and the couple will be .formally araigned en a charge of kidnaping in V few days. Boyle feared violence on his arrival 'in Mercer, and on the journey from, Pittsburg asked Sheriff Chess if be thought the crowd would : harm , him. The prisoner- looked wards reducing raw materials with ut corresponding reductions in tha duties on manufactured articles, at in tha ease of free hides and boots and sheees. That the countervailing duty of petroleum is still retained in the new measure, as it exists in the Ding- y bin. ' That tea is taxed and beer allowed to escape without additional taxation. The storm of opposition 'to the bill has already broken in the ' House, and, though the Senate will have no opportunity to consider the measure for possibly a month, there are al ready eigne indicating" that when that body finishes with it, its best friends will not be able to recognize it. Aldrich Opposes BUL Senator Aldrich objects to the bill because he does not like the maxi mum and minimum features, the in heritance tax, and other equally un satisfactory parts of it. He especial ly opposes the inheritance tax clause because in his opinion, it would con flict with any of the State laws bear ing on the same point. He is also strongly opposed to a tax on tea and coffee. Senator Aldrich 's opposition came as a surprise to his colleagues in the Senate and to President Taft. It is practically certain that the Senate finance committee will figure very largely in shaping up the measure when the Senate gets hold of it, and as Senator Aldrich is the chairman of this committee what he says with respect to his opposition is taken to mean that there must be a consider able amount of rebuilding before the Senate will agree to pass it. The outlook is for a hard fight in the House, especially from Southern Renresentatives. and an eauallv hard fight in the Seriate from those mem bers who think the bill, as it now stands, would not be acceptable to the people of the country generally. careful study convinced me that the construction of a sea level canal would involve expense sd great as to make it impracticable and. at the same time would result less satisfac torialy because of difficulties connec ted with its maintenance. 1 "Since that time everything that has come to my attention has srengthened my' belief ia the advan tage of a lock canal." Colonel Goethals declared that re ports of engineering difficulties that would be met on the isthmus have been greatly exaggerated. "There is pot a single thing in con nection with the lock canal," he said, "that can be called unusual beyond the question of the magnitude. En gineers have performed similar. work eisewnere. mere are no doubtful poblcms. If I knew of anything that might jeopardize the stability of this work after its completion, or make doubtful its successful construction, I ' Would ' Dromotlv make ft rnnnrt nn it, but there is nothing of that-kind." resident raft JTnday again told Colonel Goethals that if the terway can be completed by the close oc laid, ne wanted to see that eat accomplished. Colonel Goethals, al though not thinking it likely of ac complishment, told the President he would put every force to work to ex pedite matters to'carrv out the Pmtri- dent's orders. Colonel Goethals left Washington and will sail from Vaw York for Panama Saturday. ficulty acceptable to Baron von LAehrenthal, the Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, having failed, Austro-Hungary' is expecting forthwith to deliver an ultimatum at Belgrade. After this, if Servia re fuses to make complete surrender, nc doubt exists io Paris that Austria-Hungary will dispatch an array the Servian crown; prince. ' ' greatly relieved wh'en he saw only a scanpring oi people at the Mercer station Boyle, was hurried into a waiting bus and, taken to .the' jail where ne was locked in a cell on the seeond tier. An armed guard was placed in front of .Boyle's cell, and a patrolman wiU be stationed outside the jail all night. Sheriff Chess said that the jail would be guarded until the trial of the Boyles was over. The officials questioned the prison er about his wife's identity but other than to say that there was no ques tion about the fact that ha risd, he would say nothing. WENT QUIETLY TO DEATH Mrs. Farmer, the Principal in the Brennan Murier, Suffers the Death Penalty For Her Deed. Auburn, Nj Y., Special. Murmur ing a prayer for her seul, Mrs. Mary t Farmer was quietly led to the electrie chair in Auburn- prison shortly after 6 o'clock Monday morning and exe cuted for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Brennan at Brownville last April. . The execution of Mrs. Farmer the second infliction of the death penalty en a woman by electricity in this State was affected without sensa tional incidents. Father Hiokey, spiritual adviser of the condemned woman following the execution gave out a statement signed by Mrs. Farm? er, in which she declared that ber -.husband, James Farmer, was entirely innocent "and knew 'nothing: of 'the ?brime until after it had been' commit ted. The first contact lasted a full min ute, the voltage starting at 1340 "and being gradually lowered to 200, then raised again to the full limit of 1, 840 volts. The current was applied at 6:05 o'clock. The current was shut off and a strange sound half moan and half murmur, came from the woman's lips. Dr. Gerin and Dr. Spitza applied the stethoscope to the heart while Electrician Davis felt the artery in the neck. Muscular action was noted by the physicians, and again the current passed through the woman's body for a period of a few seconds. Once more the physicians stepped forward and applied the tests to determine if life still remained in the limp figure in the chair. For the third time the State electrician sent the curretit through the body. The first contact was said to have produc ed death but there were still muscular movements. , The physicians report that the" autopsy disclosed that Mrs. Farmer was normal in every respect and that the brain showed no lesions that would indicate a criminal tendency. The crime for which the woman forfeited her life were very horrible. Sne lived just across the street from Mrs. Brennan and envied the Bren nans the neat iittle home they had gained by industry and economy. Mrs. Brennan was seen to cross the street to visit Mrs. Farmer and was never seen to return. The facts were that Mrs. Farmer brutally killed her with an axe, chopped up her body and hid it away. She then forged a deed to the home and impersonating Mrs. Brannen, in whose name the property seems to have been deeded, went before the proper officials and had the deed regularly recorded. She then moved into the home at once. When Mr. Brennan returned home in the evening and asked for an expla nation the deed was shown him and he was told that Mrs. Brennan had gone away. Mr. Brennancalled the police to his aid and a search. soon found the ghastly victim of the crime and unearthed the horrible scheme. Crazy Snake Still Messing. Oklahoma- City, Okla., Special. A detachment of Crazy Snake's band of belligerent Indians was surrounded by deputy sheriffs Monday afternoon near Crazy Snake 's home, and a live ly battle ensued. More than 200 shots were fired and one Indian was killed. Eight Indians were captured and the remainder fled with the deputies in pursuit. There were about 50 Indians in the band, and they had taken re fuge in a house. The deputies had tracked .them for some distance. Ad vancing from all sides, the posse fired a volley at the frail house. The In dians rushed out, scattered among the trees and made a valiant defense. The posse, fired steadily, advanced and .routed the band. None of those captured is seriously injured but it is said that a number of other Indians were hit with" bullets. Crazy Snake's band apparently has broken up into numerous small groups. Mrs. Boyle Makes Sensation. Pittsburg, Special Making a sen sational and foolhardy attempt to escape from a train going at the rate of 30 miles an bour; denying that she had a hand in the kidnaping of little Willie Whitla; asserting that she is not Anna ficDermott, of Chicago; saying that numerous other stories are absolutely incorrect, and through it all strictly maintaining the great air of mystery that surrounded her. Silly Canard. On last Saturday morning it was flashed, over the wires all along the line that the U. S. Battleship Missis sippi had been blown up at Gqanta nama, Cuba. The Ul-fated Maine came quickly into mind and the re sultant war with Spain and ours was a nation on tiptoe i of expectation. Message after message said it was so reported, till finally before noon the report was declared only , a ' silly eonard. The Mississippi is safe and the 750 men said to dead are living and happy. . . on the War-path Creek Indians in Oklahoma in Arms Against Government. CRAZY SNAKE JS THEIR LEADER Two Hundred Bed Hen, Armed to the Teeth, Bise Against Lawful Authority and Announce Thai They WiU Fight to the Death. Oklahoma City, Okla, Special.' Five companies of Oklahoma militia marched Sunday against Crazy Snake's band of Creek Indiana, half hreeds and negroes, entrenched in the Hickory Hills, 7 miles from Herietta. - A battle is regarded as inevitable, as the heavily-armed troops set out either to capture or exterminate the murderous band, which since Thurs day has caused the death of six men, the wounding of many others, and brought about a condition of terror. Leaving Henrietta at 3 o'clock with seven miles to go, and encumbered with arms and equipment, it was ex pected the troops could not reach the Indians before 7 o'clodk. Crazy Snake's men number about 200, all prmed with modern rifles and plentifully supplied with ammunition. They had prepared for two months for tbia final stand against lawful authority. They sent out word that they would fight to the death. Crazy Snake's band strongly en trenched itself early in the day and was reinforced from time to time. Crazy Snake Commands. Crazy Snake is in personal com mand. This was established by testi mony chocked out of his college-bred son by means of a nice new inch rope. Young Harjo. strung up by the de termined deputies until nearly dead, gasped' out that his father was in command; named the Indian Who killed the deputies, told the officers how to trail the band and did every thing which a storical Red Man is supposed not to do. This first real Indian uprising of years has held this region on edge for three days. It broke out last Thurs day when several deputy sheriffs went to Herietta to arrest negro cat tle thieves. They were fired on by negro half-breed friends and forced to .retreat. Returning with addi tional forces they were fired on by the - band, then augmented by some of Crazy Snake's Indians. Three negroes were killed and five wound ed, according to the official reports, although it is thought that many more Indians were wounded. This clash resulted in 41 arrests. Marshal Edward Baum and Depu ty Sheriff Herman Odam were the deputies killed. . Have Negro Allies. A Stidman special says an engage ment between officers and Indians oc curred near there Sunday morning, in which several Indians were wound ed. ' Both the Indians and negroes, many of the latter allied with the Creeks, took their wounded into the hills, which made it impossible to learn definitely the casualties. The number of the dead since Thursday is placed unofficially af six. The bodies of Marshal Baum and Herman Odom were taken to Enfau la. There was evidence that Crazy Snake and his family had left hur riedly in' the night. After Chitti Harjo, Crazy Snake's son, struggled hard against yielding, whispered "Let down, tell all know" the noose was lossed and he gave a complete List of Indians who participated in the fight of the previ ous night and confessed that his fath er, instead of being in Washington, was at the head of the outlaw bands scattered -among the hills of the for mer Creek nation. "Those were your father's tracks in the yard this morning f" asked Deputy Jones. - Harjo'a Confession. "Those were his tracks," said the Indian, who then told that Charles Coker, reputed as a dangerous Indian outlaw, had fired the shots which killed Baum and Odom. His confes sion , also revealed for the first time some of the reel secrets of general ship over the Creeks. "Coker is an expert shot," he said, "and ' was fully 300 yards distant when he made fine targets of th bodies of the officers. He js scouting now with the band and will be hard to eatch." 'V;'-.: V ' .-; With Crazy Snake's whereabouts almost definitely established, the offi cers prepared with the aid of the miltary to crush the Indians in the light which it was believed was kn nunent ' , WASHINGTON S Roosevelt Order Revoked. The last remaining vestige of the Roosevelt order taking marines off the battleships and cruisers of the United States navy was swept away Friday when President Taft, after the matter had been considered at a cabinet meeting, directed that an or der be issued restoring the marines to exactly the same duties that they performed prior to their being order ed ashore. After Congress had plac ed a provision in the navy appropria tion bill to the effect that a certain percentage of the marine corps should be assigned to ship duty, an order was issued the day bdfore President Roosevelt went lout of of fice restoring the marines to ships, but placing them under the orders of the captains of the vessel on which they were to serve. Under the old order of things- the marines were giv en specific duties. One. of these was to fight certain guns of the secondary battery. The order placing them un der the direction of the ship's cap tain made it possible to assign tho marines to any sort of duty and to deprive them of fighting any part of the ship's battery. Punish Kidnapping by Death. To define the crime of kidnapping and provide punishment therefor, in the District of Columbia." This is the title of a bill that Representative Rodenburg (111.) introduced Tues day. It was suggested by the har rowing experience of little Wilhe Whitla, of Sharon, Pa. Wants to Finish Canal in July, 1913. It developed Wednesday that dur ing a recent conversation between President Taft and Chairman Goe thals of the Isthmian Canal Commis sion the President expressed his de sire that the canal be completed by July 4th, 1913. Colonel Goethals, however, is not at all sansruine of ac complishing' any such results, holding to his heretofore expressed opinion that Jnauary 1, 1915, will see the canal open to navigation. Colonel Goethals will leave New York for Panama next Saturday. In order to expedite discussion of the tariff bill in the House, unani ous consent Saturday was given that the sessions hereafter shall begin at 10 instead of 11 o'clock a. m.; that a recess should be taken at 6 and that resuming at 8 o'clock the sessions should continue until 10:30 p. m. each day. The request for unanimous con sent was made, by Mr. Payne, who said that there already were 40 or 50 members who had indicated their de sire to speak. Mr. Clark, of Missouri, the, minori ty leader, asked how long general de bate would continue. He said he was much embarrassed by his lack of in formation. When his Democratic col leagues asked for time in which to speak he found it difficult to make allotments. Mr. Payne replied that he was suffering under a similar em barrassment, but did not supply the information desired. Without any intimation having been given as to when the general debate on the measure shall cease the bill was laid before the House. Declaring that there would be no dissension in the Democratic ranks of the House with regard to the tariff and that the Fitzgerald amendment to the rules made it possible for the minority to express its views upon amendments to the bill by a record vote, Representative Harrison, of New York, discussed various features of the Payne measure. ' Nomination Confirmed. The Senate Monday confirmed the nomination of Edward W. Durant, Jr., of South Carolina, to be collec tor of customs for . the district of Charleston. Mr. Durant waa appoint ed to suceed William D. Cram, the former negro collector of the Charles ton port Senator Elxins Denf ends the South. Joining with the Democrats in their protests against the manner in which the tariff bill is being made, Senator LElkins (Republican), of West Vir ginia, declared himself and his State ty be of the South, the interests of which, he said, are "being crucified. He asserted that New England, is over-represented on the committee, ' while the great Middle. West and the South are not represented at alL He said that he understood the commit tee would make a free trade measure for New England, . j WASHINGTON NOTES THE NEWS IN BRIEF Kerns of Interest Gathered By Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Event ef lion er Less Interest at Home an4 Abroad. Near Green River, Wyoming, Wed nesday, a train ploughed into a sand slide burying the engine and piling up five freight cars and killing en gineer Laynan and Brakeman Pear son. ; Mrs. Jessie Culberton, of Yineen nes, Ind was, in the absence of her husband, taken from her house into a shed Wednesday by a strange man and woman, who poured earbolie acid down her throat and tied her mouth shut, then left her. She could barely tell the tale. A rather severe tornado passed over parts of Texas Wednesday and over parts of South Carolina Thurs day morning, killing several persons and doing much damage to property. Two negroes in Asheville, N. Ci fought a duel with razors last Tues day and both came out cut within an inch of their lives. The Montgomery Advertiser fig ures it up that President Taft, with in the last nine years, has traveled 202,114 miles, 'excelling all others who ever arrived at the White House. Captain Mueller and his five com- , panions in the balloon America were : found safe near Pasadena, after landing in the mountains. It was thought that they had floated out on the ocean. A 20-year-old widow, who re married, has been awarded the estate of her first husband, amounting to $20,000, in Brooklyn, in a suit brought against her by his relatives. Five months after the husband's death a child was born, and, although the plaintiff's contend that it was dead at birth, the young woman proved by the testimony of a nurse that the baby lived a minute and therefore she was entitled to the fi estate. Joe and Isham Taylor and Lewis Jenkins were found guilty of first degree murder in the Skipwith mur der and arson case at Powhatan, Va., and John Brown, guilty of murder in the second degree. All are negroes. Brown got 15 years in the peniten tiary and the others will die in the electric chair. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia decided that voters may pay their .poll tax, which is essential to qualification, in person, by messen ger, by check or by postal order. The National Association of Liquor Dealers will test in the Unit ed States Supreme Court, the pro vision of the Byrd law, of Virginia, which requires a license of $500 for salesmen selling liquors by sample Willie Whitla identified the Cleve land suspects as his kidnappers, and his father said he knew John Boyle, the man, but refused to talk of the woman prisoner. The anthracite miners will ask President Taft to arbitrate their dif ferences and wfll not strike April 1. F. H. H. Richardson, of Elmira, N. Y., accused of embezzling $300, 000, comjritted suieide in Harris burg Wednesday. Portsmouth, by the annexation oi its suburbs, is now the third city in size in Virginia. The penalty in Virginia for kid napping is death or in the discretion of the jury, it may be imprisonment from 8 to IS years. Henry A. Wise, a member of tha well-known Virginia family, has been appointed United States District At torney for the New York district. Washington Affairs. The Inaugural committee has a surplus of $6,000 left from the Taft inauguration fund. Republican insurgents are fighting the proposed special rule to cut off amendments to the Payne bill in the House. , The Senate Finance Committee is framing a practically new Tariff biU ox us own. President Taft hes already chang ed 14 of the policies of Mr. Roose velt and is considering a number of other changes. ;.. Senator Aldrich is said to be op posed to all kinds of special taxes and would so adjust the rates as w raise the revenues required from eustoms duties. . -. -The new Senate committee hopes to point out means by which the Government can save millions. Minority Leader . ' Champ Clark made a vigorous attack on certain features of the Payne bill and out lined the position of the Democratic members on tariff legislation last Thursday. J

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