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e."nteniiMiiitiiKin fOMMIIIHHIHIl :: The Medium : ; ; Through which jrou reach (h ; '. ' people f Madison County A ', ', ; ; ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ; ; 44iiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiinim' zL' li-thtd intbt County X jSJ a yUar in' Advance f II 1 1 H 1 1 II 1 1 1 f I 1 1 II 1 1 1 POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. fir VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1909. NO. 21. Cdiiitj Record. r" -1 i j B U - to n re n, to x- ty, ed at by te en, n .nd ay. . H itb ;nd a ide any ate ob- in tly tern and iffl& tele- R ' ittei- rang t;to Bung - th lesse groan aium nter-; IFF Sen it h i iron stereo1 t th Steel en if deal ; was it law ex 1 and rentu-. "upon ablish- , is and . Taft iproval pre il, pro of IV tern of mm IDENT'STRIPSOUTIi Greeted by Enthusiastic Thousands at Petersburg and Charlotte Charlotte, N. C, Special Welcom-' ed royally as the head of a united ' nation with all the honors which a patriotic and public-spirited people ' ould bestow, and responding in a kindred spirit which inspired him to pledge his power to the obliteration of all sectional differences, the. Bon. William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, was for twelve hours Thursday the wel ome guest of Charlotte and North Carolina. Culminated ihen the eele- , b ration in honor of the Mecklenburg ' . Declaration of Independence- with whieb all the drenehing power of a Gulf coast rain-storm could but par tially interfere. Never in the his tory of the City of Charlotte has there previously occurred such a day, marked by such a contest between the powers of men and those of na ture, a contest which had a drawn battle as its final issue, with the hon ors, all things considered, well earned by the plucky celebrants. Beginning hours before dawn, the rain, which"was predicted set in with unrelented violence, continued until A.few minutes before the arrival of '- "president's train at 10 o'clock, eea&'d for more than two entire hours, only to descend again a veri table cloud-burst just as the rear, of the mammoth parade had reached Independence Square, two blocks from the stand where stood Ameri ca's Chief Executive in review. Its . interference with the occasion on which it had in such unweleomed fashion intruded, forced the change of the place for the Presidential ad dress from the open air reviewing stand to the Auditorium and the call ing off of the military drills and the baseball game in the afternoon. Unquestionably' it deterred untold thousands from leaving their homes in other towns, and yet special after special rolled in in early.- morning crowded from front to rear with vis itors who knew that whatever hap pened Charlotte would make good. And she did, so far as lay in human power, in the face of a twelve hours' rainfall three times the amount of that for the' month's preceding 19 days. The line from the Selwyn to the depot wag filled with the hosts al most every one of whom saw Presi dent Taft in kis open "arriage. The Confederate and Federal vet erans escorted the President from the Selwyn to the grand stand, where he was seated with Mrs; Stonewall Jackson - on the right, and Governor Kitchin on the left. The parade was a pageant of beauty and suggestiveness as well as an industrial and trade exhibit. It was completed when the torrents of ' rain broke all into confusion. In spite of the adverse circumstances it was a day of glory for Mecklenburg and the Old North State. The President 's speech in the Audi vv torium was a measure of the breadth 'of the statesmanship of this great man. The following is a quotation referring to the nomination of Judge Connor: "The Federaf judiciary should be as .much appreciated in the South as in the North, and if I have an oppor tunity to make any appointments in the South it will continue to be my chief duty to make such appoint ments as shall appeal to all the peo ple whether they be Republicans or Democrats, and I urge all citizens to accept the appointments - made, as men, if they are men, who will carry on their high duties with a single eye to the administration of justice, to accept them and congratulate the people on their apointment, and not to make use of them for any par tisan appeal." Virginia Honors the President. Petersburg, Va., Special. Presi dent Taft's visit Wednesday to this battle-scarred Virginia city has been a notable success from the viewpoint of the distinguished guest and of the hospitable people who were his hosts. The President has seen at close range all sorts and conditions of Virginians, for Petersburg seemed to be the cen ter to which' the counties of Southern Virginia had sent the bulk of their population, there beipg, it was esti mated, 25,000 visitors here in the course of the day. The streets were jammed from noon until late evening. The "oldest inhabitant" even is at a loss to remember when Petersburg has been as crowded as it was Wed nesday. It was a good-natured, eas ily handled crowd and, while it was at no time effusive in its demonstra tion, it gave the President a very friendly reception and lifted hats to him and cheered him as he rode in the parade through its streets. At Fort Mahone, where the beauti ful monument erected to commemor ate the heroism of Gen. John F. Hartranft and the Pennsylvania sol diers of the Third Division of the Ninth Army Corps was unveiled, the President made a tactful and. impres sive address. The environment was inspiring and; although he read his speech from manuscript, he evidently felt the spell of his surroundings. Mr. Taft vied with the Governor of Pennsylvania and Major Isaac S. Brown, president of the Pennsylvania Battlefield Commission, in paying tribute to the valor of -the Confed erate soldier and in recognizing that the men who wore the gray had prov ed themselves', equally with the men who wore the blue, exemplars in the highest degree of American intrepi- r l i' i. -Ail j i . a: any la name ana American uevouuu to principle. This sentiment evoked an imme diate and hearty response from the hundreds' of Pennsylvania veterans and also from the gray-clad members of A. P. Hill Camp, of the Confed erate Veterans, who were massed in front of the platform from which Mr. Taft made his speech. H. H. ROGERS, THE GREAT FINANCIER, DEAD New York, Special Henry. H. Rogers, sixty-nine years of age, vice president of the Standard Oil Com pany, moving spirit in the erganixa- 1 tion of the Amalgamated Copper Company, builder of :-eilroads, ' and philanthropist,, died at his home here at 7:20 o'clock Wednesday morning from a stroke of apoplexy.' - Death came about an hour after Mr; Rogers had risen for the day, ' mentioning to his . wife that he was feeling ill. At '7 o'clock he lapssed 1 into unconsciousness, and before the family physician arrived, . he was 'dead. "Mrs. Rogers,' three married daughters, a son, H. H. Rogers, Jr., anf Dr; W. J. Pulley, a physician who was hastily summoned, were at . the bedside when the end came. '..His fortune is variously estimated at from $50,000,000 to $75,000,000, which will make his son. H. H. Rogers, Jr., one of the richest men in the country. . Mr. Rogers first wife died fourteen years ago and he is survivedfin addition to his second wife; by four children,' the son men tioned and the following daughters: Mrs. W,' EV Benjamin, Mrs. Urben H. Broughton and Mrs. William R, Coe. '-f-o ';:, , "' PRESIDENT TAFT ENJOYS HIS TRIP TO THE SOUTH ; Washington,-. SpeeiaL -r President Taft, returning from Charlotte, N. C, reached Washington at 10:40 a. ' m. Friday. The President found Mrs. ,Taft much improved in health. 'The President recently was chosen as a trustee of the Hampton Institute, at . Hampton,. Va., and had accepted an .invitation to speak there on Sunday afternoon He stated on the train, however, that unless Mrs, Taft was able to make the trip with him, he would postpone his visit to the Vir ginia institution. On account of the bad weather, the President decided, after reaching the White House, that if, would not be wise to undertake the trip at this' time and he telegraphed, cancelling the engagement.-' LAKE MONHONK ARBITRATION CONFERENCE ENDS . '- Mohonk Lake, N-' T., Special.- With an imposing array of speakers, the fifth annual meeting of the Lake .Mohonk conference on international ' arbitration concluded ' its deljbera, tions Friday night. The speakers in- eluded the'Rkh Hon.' James Bryce, the 1 BritiskCI ambassadorj Alfred Mosely, London; '.Representative Richard ' Bariholdtqi jlissouri j.Ed- ward J. Wheler, Flfhapin Eray, and Dr. RieMrdWtson Gilder. -"Mr. :Mosely4member of the House I of Commons, took up the causes , which led td the present feeling be tween Fngland and Germany, begin- HELD IN CONTEMPT ' . Hamilton County Officers Ac cused of Conspiracy. ning with the now famous interview of the German Emperor, "I believed he said, "that, the German Emperor means well fot his own country and the world at large, but these utterances eaused suspic ion and have given rise to discussion in the House of .Commons resulting ia tbeffasrea- fcjH lajwA''-' ."'Nn'.-proTeanby some that lift Taft take the initiative in saying something to England and Germany. But I. am not at all sure that Mr. 4 Taft would care to undertake that task. If. he does, may I suggest that he turn his attention to Germany t" RESiy OF A NEGRO LYNCHING United States Supreme Court Will Pass Sentence on Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff and Four Citizens of Ham ilton County, Tennesson on Next Tuesday, These Hen Having Been Found Guilty of Contempt of Court In Combining to Lynch a Negro. Washington, Special. For the first time in so serious a case, the Supreme Court of the United States will, on next Tuesday week, undertake to mete out punishment for the crime of contempt of the court itself, and the importance of the occasion will be enhanced by the number of the defendants. The proceedings will take place in connection with the cases of Sheriff Shipp and Deputy Sheriff Gibson, of Hamilton county, Tennessee, and four other residents of that county, named respectively, Williams, Nolan, Padgett and May. These men were Monday declared by the court to be guilty of an act of contempt, in com bining in March, 1905, in a conspiracy to lynch a negro, Ed Johnson, who had been sentenced to death by the local courts on the charge of rape, and in whose case the Supreme Court had interfered to the extent of grant ing an appeal, which had the effect of a supersedeas. On the night follow ing the announcement of the court's action, Johnson was taken out of the jail in Chattanooga by a mob and! lynched. There was no resistance on the part of t!he jail authorities and" Shipp and a number of his deputies, as well as about 20 citizens, were proceeded against oh the charge of contempt of the Federal Court. The case is regarded as of excep tional interest, because it is practical ly the first time that this, the highest court in the Unied "States, has ever underaken to assert its dignity or to resent acts or words reflecting up on it. In one previous case some years ago, a defendant was fined for some expression of contempt, but the case was so comparatively insignifi cant as to practically leave the pres ent proceedings standing alone. In the cases of Sheriff Shipp and Deputy Gibson, the court, in effect, declares there may be contempt in a failure of officers of the law to pre vent a crime in contempt of the court, and in taking cognizance of an of fense at so great a distance, the court, for the first time, asserts by action its right to compel the proper respect for, and treatment of, its verdicts in all parts of the Union. Georgia Railroad Tied Tight. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Governor Smith Monday proposed arbitration by a commission of Georgians and the firemen accepted, but the railroad did not. The danger that the strike, if prolonged, may spread to other rail roads has become serious,, when Vice President Ball, of the firemen's or ganization, said that the diversion of the Georgia Railroad's freight busi ness to otber roads will cause the firemen of those roads to vote on whether or not they will accept di verted freight. It was reported here that about 100 cars of Georgia Rail road freight. Bad been diverted over other lines. . Mails . and . passengers, usually earned by the Georgia went by other roads,, and in a few instan ces automobiles were . resorted to. Preparations are under way by post office authorities to establish an auto mobile mail - service between Union Point and Athens, Ga. Conflicting reports as to why no trains' ran Monday were spread here. Several of the Georgia Railroad en gineers were reported by the strikers to be willing to take their trains out in the daytime, although refusing at night because of the hazard of being Stoned , after dark. The strikers claimed that the railroad officials, in failing": to ' provide strike-breaking firemen for these engineers, were try ing to put the situation io a worse light than it warrants.. The officials, however, said , that it was both im possible and dangerous to run -trains. . No further acts of violence were re ported here Uonday. 0? v " Commissioner of Labor' Neill left Washington City" Monday ,ight for Atlanta, i-appeals having been made to the Federal board of mediation to Settle 'the strike of firemen on . the Georgia Railroad.. Dr. Neill and Chairman Martin A. Knapp, of the Interstate"' Commerce Commission, held a conference Monday relative to tha strike. ( ' GEORGIA ROAD TIED UP. General lanaer Scott Makes the Announcement That "No Trains Are Moving" The Governor In structs Authorities to Take All Stes Necessary to Protect Life and Property. Augusta, Ga., Special. The Geor gia Railroad was completely tied up Sunday night. The management is not trying to move trains, simply an nouncing that it has the men, the means and the equipment to proceed and will do so when the State an nounces that it is ready to protect its property and employes. The strikers are standing pat. They - assert that they have' not been and will notb, parties to any violence. Sympathis ers with the strikers, it is set out, have done all the hurt that has been done. General Manager Thomas K. Scott, at 6 p. m., made the announcement that "no trains are moving." Gov ernor Hoke Smith his wired the sher iff of McDuffle county to co-operate with the municipal authorities and to summon all deputies necessary to proteet life and property. It is in this country that Thomson is located and it is at Thomson that the crowd issued their ultimatum Saturday night that no trains should pass car rying eithetd n(A4Ainioh firemen or negro firemen. Governor Smith has also asked the sheriff there to keep him fully advised of the situation. The Governor has also wired the sher iffs of Rockdale and Dekalb counties, giving them information that engi neers claim to have been rocked at Conyers and Lithonia and urging up on them prompt action for the pro tection of the railroads and property. From the offices of the Georgia Railroad here Sunday night it was announced that all freight accumula ted at Atlanta for Augusta and points beyond 'would be moved that night by the Central and Seaboard. The Georgia road freight station here was opened Monday for delivery of freight to consignees, but Bhipers are requested to withhold all shipments until further notice. After, thus ad mitting how complete is the tie-up the road soys: ' ,'.4 The Georgia road is omitting nothing that offers promise of early resumption." Williams on Dixie. Natchez, Miss., Special. The big formal event of the stay of the bat tleship Mississippi at Natchez was the banquet Saturday night to the' of ficers of the vessel. Governor Noel was present and spoke on "Missis sippi, a loyal member of the ister hood of State, a leader in moral and material progress." The feature of the stay was the speech of John Sharp Williams Sat urday afternoon at the presentation, of a magnificent beaten silver pnueh bowl to the battleship by the City of Natchez. The bowl was made for ex hibition at the Jamestown Exposition. Mr. Williams said: "As a complete and crowning tes timonial of the sincerity and fervor of this welcome, Captain, you will soon, at Horn Island, receive as the gift of the State herself, a silver ser vice with the noble lineaments en graved upon it of the steadfast chief tain of a storm-cradled Confederacy, which has passed, not unworthily in-, to history. As a partial testimonial, I have the honor now to present these pieees of silver. Let them remind you in distant seas, not only of the duty hereafter doubly beholden to be well performed, but of the sweet land of Dixie, the fairest part of the whole earth.; When you meet an enemy's ship, and I hope you may never have to meet one, sink her and then quaff from these cups a toast to victory victoria Americana but if she sinks you, as she has chanced to many a brave ship, Well handled, then for the honor of the sweet women of Natchez, let these modest pieces of silver go down with the ship, and not become enemy's booty to shame their name." Runaway Hone Ellis Young Lady. Augusta, Ky., Special Effie Townsley, the 16-year-old daughter of Samuel Townsley, of JohnsonvilL, Bracken eounty, was Saturday found dead on the road near her home. She had been riding a spirited horse which became frightened and han away with her," throwing her off, dragging her over the rough road with her foot caught in the stirrups. - Are Denied Licenses. Jefferson City, Mo., Special. The Missouri Supreme , Court. ? Saturday sustained the State law,' which denies licenses to insurance" j 'companies, which, pay any of their, officers -salaries n excess of $0,000. The decis ion was on an application from three large eastern companies for a writ of mandamus to compel the State In suranco Department to issue license to them. The writ was denied to the petitioners the Equitable Life - As surance Society, of Prudential Insur ance Company and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. NORTH STATE NEWS NOTES hems of State Interest Gathered from Here and There and Told Briefly for Busy Readers. For a "State Forest." Raleigh, Special. Governor Batch in, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 89, Laws of 1909, has is ued a proclamation making for thirty years a "State Forest of North Car olina" of all land belonging to George W. Vanderbilt lying above contour line 2,000 feet and situated in the counties of Buncombe, Transyl vania, Jackson and Haywood, total ing 111,545 acres, providing all ' the necessary provisions of the law are carried out. As a half cent an acre is to be paid to the school fund an nually, this will give $557.73 to the schools of the counties named. The property to be made into a "State Forest of North Carolina" is that situated - above 2,000 feet ele vation and consists of the following number of acres: Transylvania coun ty, 25,308 acres in Brevard township, 18,510 acres in Gloucester township, Henderson county, 19,754 acres in Mills River township ; Haywood coun ty, 1,010 acres in East Fork township, Buncombe county, 8,800 acres in Avery Creek township, 4,300 acres in Biltmore township, 5,000 acres, in Limestone township, 6,300 acres in Upper Hominy township, and 3,500 acres in Lower Hominy township. The act under which the proclama tion is made is to render secure from damages and notably secure from damages by fires such woodlands in North Carolina as are situated above the contour line of 2,000 feet. These lands so situated are held to be- too cold and too humid for successful agriculture, their value being in wood and timber. The lands thus set aside are to be advertised in three con secutive issues of papers in the coun ties in which they are situated at the expense of the land owner and the owner is to pay annually into the school fund of the county a half cent an acre. The Governor is empowered to appoint at his discretion and with the approval of the commissioners-of the county in which the land is situ ated such wardens as may be desig nated by the owner or owners of the land, who are to pay the wardens who are to arrest without a warrant for crimes committed against real es tate and to safeguard the lands against trespass and notably against fire having the power of sheriffs, the minimum fine to be $50 if the crime is in the jurisdiction of the Superior court, and $25 if in the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace. Hydrophobia May Develop. Rocky Mount, Special. There is further alarms upon the part of the members of the family of Mr. Burt Joyner, whose twelve-year-old son died Sunday morning from hydro phobia as the result of being bit ten in the face by a dog about two months ago- Not even the family physician thought the boy was sick with the horrible malady with which he died on Sunday, and the fact that the dog had bitten the child had been almost forgotten until Thursday night when he began to complain and on Saturday night he was uncontrol lable and it was necessary to tie him to the bed, while he died Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The alarm had come to the family in this way, afr the supper table on Wednesday the boy masticated several pieces of meat which he gave the baby to eat, and it is feared this child has con tracted the malady through the saliva from this food. With the rest of the family there had been no additional precaution with regard to the drink ing water from separate vessels, while practically the entire family has caressed the baby. The family is very much alarmed over the mat ter, and there is just cause why they should be. New Railroad Completed. Fayetteville, SpecialrjThe Vir ginia and Carolina Southern Rail road is now completed from Lumber ton to Hope Mills, seven miles below here, there connecting over the At lantic Coast Line Railroad with Fay etteville. A train over that road en tered Hope Mills Wednesday. At Elon College, r - Elon College, Special. The gradu ation exercises of the musie depart ment of the present year occurred Firday evening, in-Jhe-college' chapel. -The; Weather was inclement and had been all day, but that did not prevent the assembling of a large and enthu siastic audience. There ere three graduates this year: in voice, Mrs. Estelle Walker Harper (soprano) and - Miss Mary ' Ethel Clements (soprano) ; and one in - piano,' Mrs. Donie Rich Patton, Miss Wilson di rector, presiding at the piano fpr the voice reditions. Shows His Appreciation.' Wilson, Special. The following letter of gratitude was received in this city a few days since from Judge Connor, acknowledging receipt of a copy of the resolutions passed in mass-meeting in Wilson on the night of May 10th in regard to bis appoint ment by President Taft to the judge ship of Eastern North Carolina. In the letter he says: "I can hardly find words to ex press to you my grateful apprecia tion of the continued kindness of my home people. It sometimes seems to me that I overtax them in that re spect, but they always so generouslji respond that it is an inspiration to me. The aetions of the citizens of Wilson on this occasion adds another to the many obligations under which . I live to them. "If any honor has come to me during my life, the. fact that it has in some degree given pleasure to the people of Wilson county, has en hanced its pleasure to me more than I can express. "Will you kindly express to the Chamber of Commerce at their next meeting my sense of gratitude for their great kindness t" Indian Dies From Wound. Asheville, Special. Allen Whip porwill, the Indian from the Chero kee reservation, who was shot in the old Hix Souther "soft drink" place on North Lexington avenue a week ago, died Friday morning at five o'clock at the mission hospital from the effect of his injury. Wade Wil son, the young man charged with the responsibility for Whipporwill's hurt and Who "was released on bond last week upon report that Whipporwill was doing well and would -probably reeover, was placed in the custody ot officers Wednesday afternoon and that night and Thursday night remained locked up in the city jail. An in quest was held Friday afternoon when evidence relative to the ' fatal shooting was had. Witnesses testi fied in effect that the Indian was at tempting to tomahawk Wilson when the pistol fired, whether as a result of scuffle or by Wilson, was not just plain. The jury returned a verdict exonerating Wilson and he as prompt ly released from custody. Durham Burglaries. Durham, Special. It is learned now that there have been a large number of burglaries in Durham' in the last few weeks and that the police have kept the reports under cover. Tuesday night the home of J. R. Simms, ex-sheriff of Person county, was broken into and the burglar was chased out. Engineer Johnson, of the Seaboard road was called from his bed a few nights ago to run out a burglar who was in the house and trying to get into his wife's bedroom. The home of Policeman Rigsbee was also visited and he met the negro man face to face in the hall. The home of Mrs. Carroll was entered several nights ago and the facta not made public. James Warren, color ed, a well-to-do negro who lives on Chapel Hill street, had an unusual experience; he was out rather late and the burglar beat him to the home and locked him out, while he was trying to get in the burglar escaped with several articles of value. For several weeks there has been a veri table carnival of crime on in the bur glar line. Greensboro Female College Closes. Greensboro, Special. Wednesday was graduation day at Greensboro Female College, and the graduating exercises were held in the college au ditorium. Thursday at 11 o'clock, there being a large and interested audience in attendance. The day dawned bright and clear, just an ideal May day and ideal commence ment weather. Wants $5,000 Damages. m: Lexington, Special. J. L. Ludlow, civil engineer; of Winston, has start-1 ' ed suit for ' $5,000 damages against : the town' , of Lexington, , alleging breach of contract.-It is asSerted that Captain Ludlow, i wbof had charge of the construction of : the water works, made a survey of . th town with a view of handling pos sible future, paving of the streets, charge of which it is said he was to have. The work' was supervised by another engineer, hence the suit, Walser $ Walser are the local U torneys. ,. - . ' ," .
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