NORTH STATE HAPPENINGS Occurrences Interest Gle&Aed From All Section tf the Busy Tlt Heel State New Railroad Organized. Elizabeth City, Special. A meeting f the stockholders of the Elizabeth 2ity & Albemarle Railroad, which is proposed to run from this city to Lis ter's pier, at t lie mouth of the Little fiver, 12 3-4 miles south from the sity, was held Tuesday niornins: and the following (iliici'fs and directors were elected: (". K. Kramer, presi dent Kramer Bros. & Co., lumber deal ers, president ; K. V. Davenport. Poolttville, farmer, vice president; Harry (!. Kramer, cashier Savings Bank and Trust Company, secretary and treasurer. Directors: Charles II. Robinson, president First National Bank and large property "owner at either end of proposed road ; J. B. Flora, wealthy wholesale grocer and director in First National Bank ; C. E. Kramer, II. Q. Kramer, E. V. Daven port, Poolsville; Elisha Lister, weal thy farmer and merchant of Elisha, and D. G. Wilson. Weeksville, farmer and original promoter and life of the proposed road. It will be noted that this is an extremely strong and care fully selected set of officers and board of directors and D. G. Wilson, the en thusiastic and enegetic promoter of the scheme, is to be congratulated in inducing such an array of wealth and influential citizens of the county to take charge of the management of the road. Murderer Gets Fifteen Tears. Asheville, Special. John Birch field, charged with the killing of Zeke Roberts in a street hack near the Old Reed place on the night of April 10, was convicted of murder in the second degree in Superior court, Thursday morning and sentenced by Judge Ward to a term of fifteen years in the State prison. No appeal will be taken to the Supreme court and it is probable that Sheriff Hun ter or one of his deputies will leave Monday for Raleigh, taking Birch- field to the penitentiary to serve the sentence. When court convened the jury only being out three minutes. Judge Ward delivered his charge and returned a verdict of guilty of mur der in the second degree. Birchfield heard the jury's verdict and the court's sentence without any visible emotion. He accepted the . verdict and the sentence cooly and appar ently little concerned. Will Be Covered With Gold. Charlotte, Special. The big eagle in front of the United State Mint, now an assay office, on West Trade street, is to receive a gold leaf dress, when it will present a splendid pic ture of the great American bird. Some idea of the size of the big bird can be had when it is stated that it stretches 15 feet from tip to tip and "is .almost six feet in height. It was -plaoed on the Mint in 1845 when the "'building was erected and has been hovering there ever since. The gov ernment has ordered that its dress be of the very finest quality of gold leaf, which, when finished, will be a thing of beauty. The repairs on the bird alone will cost the snug sum of $100. Newton News Items. Newton, Special. An accident, which came near being fatal to two negro men, occurred at the quarry, where they are blasting rock for town use. Friday afternoon. Sam Rankin and Wade Hooper had placed the dynamite for a blast, but it refused to go up. The men then poured water upon the charge and began pounding the rock nearby. The dyna mite exploded, tearing off part of Rankin's face and putting out both of his eyes. Hooper was only slight ly hurt. Dr. Shaw Yount was called to the wounded man, and while his condition is very serious, still the physician thinks he will recover. Fireman's Horrible Fate. Selma, Special. Fireman H. H. Burgess, of Southern engine 860, met a horrible fate here Thursday night at 7:25 p. m. In alighting from his engine he failed to hear a rapidly approaching switch engine and was run over and instantly killed. The deceased lives near Ramseur. His body will be sent there for interment. M. J. A. Linn Leaves Spencer. Spencer, Special. Joseph A. Linn, for ten years foreman of the freight repairs department of the Southern Railway shops at Spencer, . has re signed to accept a similar position with the El Paso & . Southwestern Railway at Douglass, Ark. He will leave for that place within a few days. ' He was with the exception of W H. Burton, foreman of the paint dmmrtment. the oldest member of the "cabinet'? at Spencer. : His sue eessor has not yet been named by the Southern officials. ' " :T , Eandleman to Ear Electric Lights. Randleman. Special The -: Ran- . dolDh Power Company is busy maV ing arrangements to give Randleman , electrid lights by the iota i May. Randleman has population of abont 3.000 and is the only town in the State of the same size that has not bad liehtal With an up-to-date elee- trie lieht riant, and three miles of macadamized streets -and sidewalks. there are great things in .the future for Randleman. .. 3 . .... Immense Power '-Plant. Asheville, Special. The North Car olina Electrical Power Company, a subsidiary of the Weaver Power Company, announces that it will shortly build, at a cost of abont $4.0,()00, a power plant capable of furnishing a continuous current equal to .10.l)00-horsepower. The plant will be located on the French Broad River, a few miles below here. It will furnish power for several towns and manufacturing concerns in tliis sec tion f t lie State. It is estimated that the erection of the dam. which will be thirty-six feet in height, and the building and installing ot ma- i chinery in the power-house will re quire a force of men working con tinuously for two years. The only obstacle to beginning work at once, it is stated, is differences with the Southern Railway Company relative to the removal of tracks along the river banks, which will be flooded by the dam. Captain W. T. Weaver, who is at the head of the project, states that as soon as an agreement can be reached with the railway com pany work on the new plant will be begun. Lutheran Synod Convenes. Salisbury, Special. The lOo'th an nual meeting of the Lutheran Synod of North Carolina convened Wed nesday morning at 11 o'clock in the Lutheran church at Faith, five miles from this city. A large attendance was present at this opening session. The community has given a cordial welcome to the visiting ministers and laymen. The election of officers for the coming year resulted as follows: President, Rev. V. Y. Boozer, Con cord ; vice president. Rev. J. E. Shenk, Concord; recording and statistical secretary. Rev. H. A. Mc Cullough, Albermarle; treasurer, Mr. J. D. Hellig, Salisbury. The officers were conducted to the chancel of the church and duly installed, Rev. R. C. Holland conducting the service in this connection. All of these officers served in the same capacity last year and in their re-election Synod re iterates confidence in their ability. Loses Foot Under Train. Hamlet, Special. Mr. C. Lane, trainmaster for the second division of the Seaboard, had his foot run over and completely severed at the ankle by a freight train at Cassatt, about 12 miles north of Camden, S. C, early Monday morning. Mr. Lane left Hamlet for Cassatt on No. 57 at which place he expected to eateh the freight train and return. As he attempted to swing on ahout midway of the train he slipped and fell, two trucks passing over his ankle. He was immediately placed on No. 57 and taken to the hospital at Colum bia.. A physician was notified to meet the train at Camden and accompany him to the hospital. A message from Columbia states that the limb has been amputated just below the knee and that Mr. Lane is doing as well as could be expected. Will Erect Confederate Monument Oxford, Special. The foundation work for the Confederate monument, in the centre of Oxford, will be com menced Monday next preparatory to the celebration, May 10 for which elaborate preparations are being ar rangedGen. Julian S. Carr to be orator of the dav. Music will be fur nished by the Third Regiment Band from Raleigh and- the procession, which will form on Horner Heights, will be commanded bv Gen. B. 8. Royster with four military companies and Masons, Odd Fellows, graded school and orphan asylum boys hi line of procession. Accidental Killing at Winston-Salem. Winston-Salem, Special. George Busbee, a young married man, was ac cidentally shot and killed by Ernest Horn Monday with a 22-calibre pistol. The shooting occurred at Busbee 's home where Horn was a boarder. Be fore he died, Busbee stated that the affair was an accident and Horn was discharged after a short hearing. Hotel Men Arrested. Rnnthern Pines. Special. Charles, George and Leon St. John, the oldest and most prominent hotel men in Southern Pines, were arrestea nere Tuesday charged with selling liquor and were brought before . Magistrate John E. Buchan in the presence of members of the civie club and law and order society. They waived a hearing hfn?e the magistrate and gave Donas in the sums of $600, $500, $400, for their appearance at the August term of Moore county court. PuWie senti ment here is very decidedly against the violation of the law. Other ar rests in this vicinity will be made. Woman Defies Court. '; f Fayetteville, Special Mrs. Crrl McDonald, from whom a divorce was granted Monday in the Superor Ccurt to her husband, Don McDonald, who shot and seriously wounded Henry Bruner, on account of intimacy with hi wife, waa Tuesday arrested on a peace warrant for threatening to kill Mr. McDonald and her three children who had been awarded to their father ana was eommiiiea 10 jau m ueiiu of bond.- . V- ". ' ' , GOOD ROADSJIOVEMENT Davidson County Making Strenuou Efforts to Vote a Board Issue For i mat rurpoee. Lexington, Special. H. B. Varner has secured the promise of the good roads bureau of the Department of Agriculture to aid in the campaign for a bond issue of half a million dollars for the improvement of the roads in Davidson county. Mr. Var ner had a very satisfactory talk with Mr. Paige, the head of the bureau, who agreed to send to the county a number of lecturers prior to the election. The officials in Washington are greatly pleased with this move ment for road improvement on such a large scale. It is thought there is little doubt but that the people will approve this issue of bonds and when the work is completed Davidson will have the finest public roads of all the counties in the South. The invest ment is one of the best possible the county could make and that is the way i our people are looking at the propo sit ion. Granite Interest Combine. Salisbury'! Special. A consolida tion of the granite interests of Rowan county has taken place and the re sult is the W. A. Esson Granite Com pany, an organization with a paid in capital stock of $1,250,000. A char ter for the new company was sent to Raleigh Wednesday. The companies consolidated are now working 500 men at the quarries several miles from Salisbury and it is stated that soon the number of employes will have been increased to 2,000. The American Stone Company, The Rowan Granite Company, and the Balfour Pink Granite Company lose their identity in the new corpora tion. Confederate Monument. Salisbury, Special. The Confeder ate monument on luniks street is to be unveiled Monday, May 10, the cere mony taking place at 10:30 o'clock. Large numbers of veterans and others are expected, not only from t'fis coun ty but from a number of places, both in and out of the State. Mayor A. H. Boyden will be orator of the day, and Gen. Bennett Young, of Louisville, Ky., will also deliver an address. The memorial will be unveiled by Mrs. Frances Fisher Tiernan. daughter of Gen. Chas. F. Fisher. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, of Charlotte, and Gen. Robt. F. Hoke, of Raleigh, are among the prominent guests who have already signified their intention of being pres ent. Summer Conference Discussed. Chapel Hill, Special. At the reg ular meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Tues day night the "Summer Conference for Southern College Men" was dis cussed. Frank Graham, chairman of the Summer Conference committee, presided over the meeting and bore ample testimony of his deep apprecia tion of the conference by saying he had studied it for the last three sum mers and was looking with more than his usual zeal to this summer's conference, to be held at Montreat June the eleventh, through the twenty- first. Dynamite Hurts Boy. Lenoir, Special. Fridav afternoon little Samuel Dysart, aged 9 years, had two fingers and a thumb blown off his left hand by a 'dynamite car tridge. He found the cap near the cemetery and not knowing what it was started home and on the way un dertook to strike a match on the cart ridge and it exploded. It is thought the cap was left by some men who had been blasting nearby. The little fellow was badly frightened. The Morning Star Sold. A deal has been consummated by which a stock company has secured The Morning Star, Wilmington, which has been published for 40 years by Maj. W. H. Bernard,-- The purchase price was $26,000. Crushed Skull With Plank. Troy, Special. A misunderstanding over the incorrect driving of a .mule team at the Guilford Lumber Manu facturing Company's shops Rnfus smith struck Mart Thompson with a piece of plank Friday and crushed his skull tand Thompson is not expect ed to live, whereupon Smith was ar rested and taken to jail to await the results of the wound. Death of N. D. Emerson. ;t Wilmington, Special. Telegraphic advices Friday morning conveyed to hundreds of friends the news of the death of Neil Davis Emerson, only son of President T. M. Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad which occurred Thursday night at Phoenix, Arizona, where he had been for some time with the hope that th climate would be of benefit to ha health. ' He improved for a time unti his heart began to fail and his de cline was rapid. ; i , , ; , Military Commission. ; . . Adjutant General Armfield Friday issued the following military eom missions : " i . CvH. Banks, captain; J. A. Turner, first lieutenant, and J. R. Perry second lieutenant, Co. D, ; Third . Infantry, Louisburg. i ' . ', -.' " ; A. L. C Hill, captain, and J. O. H. Taylor, second lieutenant Company B Second Infantry, Kinston. First Iieu- 1 tenant J. 'L Brown retained his eom- mission, ; . "KISMET! i Story of the Massacre Told by an Eye-Witness Armenians Shot Down by American Missionary's Side While Begging Official to Protect Them "Adana Was a Hell" Military Commander a Craven. Adana, Asiatic Turkey, via Con stantlnople. The Rev. Herbert Adams Gibbons, of Hartford, Conn., a missionary of the American Board Of Foreign Missions stationed here and at Tarsus, was an eyewitness of the scenes of terror and destruction at the centre of the Moslem uprising. He gives the following story of mas sacre, rapine and Incendiarism: "The entire vilayet of Adana has been visited during the last five days with a terrible massacre of Armen ians, the worst ever known In the his tory of the district. The terror has been universal, and the Government is powerless to check the disorder. Adana, the capital of the province, has been the storm centre. "Conditions have been unsettled for some time past, and there has been animosity between Turks and Armenians, owing to the political ac tivity of the latter and their open purchasing of arms. "Early last Wednesday morning, while I was In the market, I noticed that the Armenians were closing their shops and hurrying to their homes. An Armenian and a Turk had been killed during the night, and the corpses were . paraded through their respective quarters. The sight of the dead Inflamed the Inhabitants, and crowds at once began to gather in the streets armed with sticks, axes and knives. A few young Armenians assembled In the centre of the cov ered market and began firing revolver shots into the air. By 11 o'clock In the morning the crowd had begun the looting of shops. Military Commander In Seclusion. "The military commander of Ada na was by my side In the market when the firing commenced. He had not the courage to endeavor to dis perse the mob; he returned to his residence and did not venture out for two days. "William Chambers, Field Secre tary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and myself proceeded to the Konak and found a howling mob demanding arms with which to kill the Olaours. We then went to the telegraph office to summon the Brit ish Consul. On the steps of the building we saw three Armenians who had been killed. Their bodies had been mutilated. While we were in the telegraph office a mob burst Into the room where we were and killed two Armenians before our eyes. The unfortunates were supplicating the protection of the Vail when they were struck down. 'We managed to make our way Into the" neit room, where we made resentatlons to the Vail. This of ficial said he could do nothing. He was afraid for bis own life, and he made no attempt to protect us. Some how we managed to get to the inte rior of the Konak, where we re mained at the side of the Govern ment officials for the next forty-eight hours. ' , . i,'- "That afternoon the situation grew distinctly worse. The Armenians, withdrew to their quarter. Ot Adana, which is situated on a hill, and con verted the houses .that held advanta geous positions into fortresses. Here the fighting went on for two days, during which the Armenians succeed ed in heating oft their Turkish as sailants. .:i.-'t,.!",,..!a:;',::., British Woman Cares For Wounded. "Wednesday evening Major Daugh-ty-Wylle, the British VIce-Cdnsul at Mentha, arrived at Adana and estab lished headauarters In the house of the ' dragoman of a wealthy. Qreek Tans' Threaten Umpire and , 5 Wj, , Police riace Him In Safety. Roanoke, Va. -To prevent a mob of mad baseball "fans" from doing him bodily injury, Umpire Robert Pender was rushed to the city Jail by a squad of police following' the Virginia League game between Nor folk and Roanoke, which the former won by the score ot 1 to 1. The spectators declared that Pender, who formerly managed the Norfolk Club, deliberately threw the game to Nor folk. They swarmed upon the field, but the police rescued Pender. , - Cartoon by Triggs, in the New York Press. resident, where many refugees has been received. The wife of the Brit ish Vice-Consul, who was brought Into Adana under fire on Thursday, tended personally to many wounded women and children. "Adana was a hell. The bazaars were looted and set on fire. There was continuous and unceasing-shooting and killing in every part of the town, and fires raged in many quar ters. "Moslems from the neighborhood began pouring into the city, and not withstanding our protests, the Vail distributed arms to these men, alleg ing that they were Turkish reserves. "Major Daughty-Wylie, at the head of troops which he compelled the Vail to supply, went to the railroad station of the town and waa success ful in preventing the villagers from coming into Adana. Later, while the Major was attempting to pacify the town he was shot and disabled. "Missionaries of -the Central Tur key Mission had assembled tor a dis trict conference in the centre of Ad ana on the day of the outbreak. They received and protected hundreds of refugees in the American Seminary for Girls,, and courageously endeav ored to pacify the warring elements. Missionaries Treacherously Killed. "On Thursday Daniel Miner Rog ers and Henry Maurer, American mis sionaries, were killed under treacher ous circumstances. "On Friday the Armenians yielded, since when there has been little mur dering. "Adana is in a pitiable condition. The town has been pillaged and de stroyed, and there are thousands of homeless people here without means of livelihood. It is impossible to es timate the number of killed. The corpses lie scattered through the streets. Friday, when I went out, I bad to pick my way between the dead to avoid stepping on them. Saturday morning I counted a dozen cartloads ot Armenian bodies In one-half hour being carried to the river and thrown Into the water. In the Turkish cem eteries graves are being dug whole sale. "The condition of the refugees Is most pitiable and heartrending. Not only are there orphans and widows beyond number, but a great many, even the babies, are suffering from severe wounds. "The situation in Adana itself is unspeakable. On Friday . afternoon 250 so-called Turkish reserves, with out officers, seized a train at Adana and compelled the engineer to convey them to Tarsus, where they took part in the complete destruction of the Armenian quarter of that town, which Is the- best part ot Tarsus. Their work of looting was thorough and rapid. . It is said that they spread with kerosene and fired the great his toric Armenian Church at Tarsus, the most Important building In the city. They demolished marble statues and shattered important historic tablets. Everything - portable was carried away, but the church Itself resisted their attempts to burn It Fortu nately few persons were killed here. This was owing , to the 'proximity ot the American College, where 4000 destitute and homeless persons had sought and found shelter." , Man Beaten to Death. Thomas Brown, sixty-six, V was found beaten to death at his home in President street, Brooklyn, N. T. His son Edward, seemingly Insane, was accused of the murder, v- Prohibition Closes Many- - ...v & V A , r.: V Glassware Plants. Pittsburg, PsL Prohibition has made such progress during the last year or two as to cause a decided slump in the glass and tumbler man ufacturing business. A. Zihlman, head of the Huntington W. Va.) Tumbler Company, said that the plant ot his company will ave to shut down tor lack or orders. v , J ' ' Mr. Zihlman said the temperance wave has so diminished the demands for glassware of the tumbler variety that many factories have shut down. . FEMTJTUnC mew VOTES. ' - Boston women established the first " playground in 1901, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and lee-V land have given the municipal fraa- -chlse to women. Mrs. F. A. Balch, of New Rochelle. N. Y was severely hurt in preventing her automobile from running down a bicyclist. Christo Salantlro, a street sweeper, , was Injured by Mrs. Ogden Goelet's automobile in Fifth avenue, New -York City. The second biennial convention of the National Young Women's Chris tian Association in St. Paul, Minn., had 500 delegates. Mrs. Charles Neave Is the latest English woman of. birth and educa tion to go into business. She has be-' come a press agent. Miss Harriet S. Hayward, of Brock ton, Mass., is the first woman to be elected by a county in Massachusetts to preside at a county teachers' asso ciation. Queen Alexandra has worn the fa mous Cullinan diamond as a pendant on several state occasions, and its re markable beauty haB been generally praised. Most of the women who appeared at the hearing before Public Service Commissioner Eustis favored separ ate cars iui wuuicu 111 lud Buu.aji ul New York City. Mrs. Charles A. Spotford, New York City, announced that she would raise a fund among her society friends to aid the crusade against illegal users and sellers of cocaine. A leading member of the Woman's Municipal League, of New York, as terted at a meeting that to have sap Irate cars for -men and for women limply would intensify the selfishness f men. Explosion on Submarine. Naples, By Cable. Eleven mes were killed and 11 others were lpniinifotl oa a rosnlt nf An aTnlnflinil here Tuesday on board the Italian submarine Foca. The American gun boat Scorpion, although only 90 feel distant from the Foca, suffered no damage. Launches from the gunboat, helped in the work of refloating the Foca. Lieutenant Commander Geo. W. Logan, captain of the Scorpion, has expressed the condolences of the American navy. Four Lions Are Bagged. Nairobi, British East Africa, By Cable. Four lions are trophies of ex President Roosevelt's camp in the Mau hills. The lions were bagged Fri day, and Colonel Roosevelt's mighty gun brought three of them to earth, each on the first shot. The fourth of the jungle kings fell before tbe rifle of his son Kermit, who, however, took three shots , to., kill his quarry. Both father and son are jubilant. Many Killed, in Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., Special. The storm, which, for three days, has been sweeping eastward across the South em States Saturday night was pass ing out of the South Atlantie States into the Atlantic ocean. Twelve were killed in the vicinity of Cedartown and 0 few mile south of Albany. The Georgia death list by towns Saturday night is:-Buchanan 13 reported dead; Albany, 6; Meigs. Is Cedartown, 12; Bowden 1; Gainesville 1. It seems certain that at lelast 200 have been killed. Waived a Preliminary. Warrenton, Va,, Special Prelim inary hearing was waived Tuesday in the case of J. D. Harris, prinoipal of the high school here, who shot W. A. Thompson, associate editor of The Warrenton Virginian, Saturday last on the main street here, Thompson dying in Washington the following day. Harris was held for, the regu lar grand jury, which begins its ses sions May 24 next. -4 Coopers' Motion Over-Ruled. Vnahvilln. Tpnn KnAlHAl. JudlTS William Hart Tuesday over-ruled the motion for a new trial in the case of fVit rtnnoan R Cnnnpr and Robin' J. Cooper, his son, both eonvictel of the murder of former United States Sen ator Carmack. The court's opinion was that there was no ground for set ting aside the verdict of the trial jury The defense at once gave no tice; Of.. 8R . appeal to ine Tennessee fViiirt Thn Anneal was granted. The bond remains the sams and the same bondsmen qnaunea. ' Eleven men were killed f and 11 were injured by an explosion of an Italian submarine boat on last Mon day. !- The story is now going that Castro;' who is now in France, has a fortune buried in - Venesuela, end is anxious to get home on that account also. A cablegram Monday says ex-President Roosevelt and son, ere both In disposed from overdoing in the bunt and 'are resting at the ranch of Sit Alfred Pease. Later news says they are again on the hunt - ; .STAINS ON. TABLE MNHW. Never having seen my wmf of re, moving stains from table linen 1 offer . It for the benefit of tbe Post readers. For coffee,' pour boiling hot water through the .stain and then push It down in the water for ew minutes until the stain disappears, then rinse in clear water, . Treat fruit stains the same; but for cocoa, as soon 'as .; the cocoa Is spilled place In Cold water and it will disappear, to tew 'mln-, utes; IT dry. It may. take tew min utes more with a little rubbing. Bo ton Post.