North Carolina Newspapers

jiii 1 111 1 1 mm mi i iiiiii ii - i 1 tV1 fTE'R Tub ' ' ; lijhedinlht County ) v 7 a ytar in A.dianct ', I" ' I I I I I 1 1 I 1 1 1 I I 1 1 I I I 1 t I ; liliiiiiiiiiiiiiniiitliM; ; The Medium), ; ; Through which yoa reach the ; ; ' people sf Madison County tA. ' ; ; ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ; j iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. vox; xr. MARSHALL, N. C..FRIDAT, JUNE 4, 1909. NO. 22. Madison County Record. NORTH STATE NEWS NOTES Item of State Interest Gathered from Here and There and Told Brief lj for Buey Readers. Automobile Scout Car. .' Greensboro,;- Special. The Atlanta ' . Journal's automobile scout car ar- rived in Greensboro Friday afternoon at 3:10 and stopped in front of Hotel Guilford building for a short time. The New York Herald car is sched uled to meet the Atlanta Journal car near the Virginia-Carolina line, but at exactly what point is not yet known.' The Atlanta car contains four men. It left Atlanta at five o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the same time the New York Herald's car left Herald Square in New York. The cars are making a tour of -the Toads between the two cities, investi gating .the conditions relative to the - proposed automobile road from New York to Atlanta. Several North Car olina cities are working to have the road pass through their territory. No effort is being made for speed teats at any point of the trip, the sole object being to accumulate in formation in regard to road improve ments and to conduct a aempaign of education for rood roads. ' The car from Atlanta ran from High Point to Greensboro in thirty minutes. When the automobile with its large banners tied on each side stopped in front of the Guilford it attracted much attention and a large crowd of i citizens crowded around, viewing it with evident interest. Matins Money Cheeringly. Lumberton, Special. Mr. Joshua Barnes, who lives between two and three mile j past, nf T.umberton. has a little patch of strawberries that has been the source or a nice little fnr Hie lust two or three weeks and looks as though it will last for some time yet. Mr. Barnes nas only one oere in berries, but tney are of an extra variety and have been selling for a good price. Up until Wednesday he had sold about 75 crates from which he realised $3 a crate after deducting shipping ex penses. Mr. Barnes thinks he will realise $500 from this one acre of berries, which is making money cheeringly. Mr. K J. Thomas, ex press agent, says that he has re ceived several letters in the last few atis f vm AAmminatAn Titan at r?1fTlM mond, Vs., asking him to send them some of Barnes' berries. -There is nothing like having the variety. Killed in Drunken Brawl Rocky Mount, Special. Murder with sensational facts surrounding was that which occurred near Bel lamy Mill, in Halifax county, on the farm of C. R. Addock, Sunday. The alleged facts in the case as learned in this city are as follows: Sunday morning W. H. Clark and Charlie Flannigan, two residents of tho neighborhood of Whitakers, in Nash county, went to the home of Levy Marriott and after spending part of Mhe morning there drinking and car ousing Flannigan drove off to ride with Mrs. Marriott and upon his re turn to the home Marriott became en - raged and . began cursing Flannigan. According to the facts learned, Flan nigan stood for the cursing for sev eral minutes, but when. Marriott ad dressed a remark to him' that he must leave the house Flannigan turned and fired a pistol ball into his body the ball striking over his heart and kill ing him instantly. Will Soon Have light Winston-Salem, Special. The mayor and commissioners of Ker ' nersville signed a franchise Wednes day afternoon for the organization ' of the Keroersville Light and Im provement Company which" will es-1 tablish an electric light plant in the town at once, v : ,. Moonshiner and Outlaw, i Lenoir, Special. Sheriff Smith and Deputies Bush, Lingle ; and Clarke, ; captured Keith Pritchard, Caldwell's notorious outlaw and blockader. A ' few months ago Pritchard and two brothers killed a mon named Honey cutt, who was the prisoner of Deputies Garland and Sam Smith and .has sinoe been wanted by the officers. There was a reward of $200 for Pritchard. - . : Durham Boy Uses rGnn. , Durham, Special Charles S. Dor gey is in jail on a charge of attempt , V ini to' till MnC J. T. Butler Saturday morning ' by firing : twice at .. her through the door. - The youngster la a . son of one of the proprietors of the Murray Hotel and Mrs. Butler is the wife of the other. The trouble is not known, but it appears to- have been caused by the young man's rather suggestive messages to Mrs Butler. - She says she opened, her. door and he fined at her twice, though the fel low says he had no cause for doing a. Gastonia Teachers Chosen. . Gastonia, Special. At a J meeting of the board of city school commis sioners Tuesday night the faculty for the graded. schools for the session of 1909-1910 was chosen. It is consti tuted as follows : Principal, J. B. Warren, of Durham; Central school; Miss Carrie Glenn, Gastonia; Miss Williams, Panther Creek; Miss May Stuart, Carthage; Miss May With ers, Lillington; Miss Florence Powe, Cheraw, S. C; Miss Frances Hill, Concord; Miss Eunice Bryan, Rich Square; Miss Eula Glenn, Gas tonia; Miss Ella Bradley, Gastonia; and Miss Minnie Sparrow, of Union, this county; mill schools, Misses Janie Morris, Eunola Crawford, Pearl Gallant, Ella Lewis and Carrie Mor ris, all of Gastonia; Highlands grad ed school (colored) Rev. J. A. Rol lins, principal; Mamie Rhodes and Mary French, teachers. All of these were members of last year's faculty and a number of them have held po sitions as teachers in the city schools for a number of years past Salem Commencement Ends. Winston-Salem, Special This wai the "crowning day" of the 107th an nual commencement exercises of Salem Female College. The literary address was delivered by Dr. Neal L. Anderson, pastor of the First Presby terian Church. His sub.iect was "The Fruits of Education." Other fea tures of commencement day exercises included the presentation of a schol arship fund and other gifts to the College, awarding of diplomas to forty-three graduates in English, four in piano, three in expression, three in stenography, two in industrial de partment, two in plain sewing and one on the organ. Official announce ment was made that Dr. J. H. Clewell, for twenty-five years president of the College, had resigned and in July would become president of the Mora vian Woman's College, at Bethlehem, Pa., he being succeeded here by the Rev. Howard E. Ronthaler. for live years resident professor of the Mor avian Theological Seminary at Beth lehem. Asheville in Gala Attire. Ashville, Special. The work o stringing wires and electric lights for the illumination of the town for the big T. P., A. convention is now about complete. Wires have been strung over the principal Btreets with lights placed close. The Vance monument, 85 feet in height, has streamers of lights from the cop-stone to the four corners of Pack Park with a 100-watt light on top of the monument. The city hall is well illuminated and deco rated. The business people of the town are decorating their store fronts and the town is fast looking gay. Special trains and extra Pullmans with delegations from the cities of the North will come Sunday while the Texas and ' Western delegations will get in Monday morning. Booze Plant Captured. Rockingham, Special Blockade stills have been faring rather badly for" the last few days in this county bhenff M. L. Hinson and Deputy Sheriff C C. Shores made a raid down on the State line Wednesday and brought in a 100-gallon still with all necessary fixtures except the furnace and worm tank. .This raid was fol lowed by One the next day up on Pee Dee river. The officers struck the right track without any trouble and soon found a red-hot - furnace and seven barrels of beer,-but 'the still had been .taken away while its stom ach was still heaving. The beer was emptied into the branch for the "suckers' of Pee Dee and the bar rels and tubs were cut into stove wood. flared by Grace of Governor. Winston-Salem, : ' Special Sheriff Ziglar was. having the scaffold erect ed when a message oama from Raleigh Wedenesday afternoon saying Gov ernor Kitchin had commuted the death sentence of Charles Fodrell to life imprisonment. Fodrell was to have. Been executed in jail here Fri day for killing his wife. . ".- Eighteen Solid Oars of Blankets." Elkin, : Special The Chatham Manufacturing Company . Friday shipped IS solid cars of blankets to different places in tho United States, about half of them going to Chicago, and St. ' Louis, from " which points they will be distributed to different cities on the Pacific slope.' The other half goes to Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Each car contained IIOQ pairs of blankets, which made a grand total of 19,800 pairs of 30, 000 single blankets. '.At $4 a pair, which is rather under the average, it amounts to $79,200 for this one ship ment ''"-V " - ' " ' - ' T. P. A. INASHEVILLE ' i ii mi. Governor Kitchin and Mr. Locke Craig in Stirring Speeches Weir come the Travelers to the State and City. Asheville, Special The twentieth annual convention of the Traveler' Protective Association of Amerio with its 40,000, members is' on. The delegates and visitors who have been arriving since early Sunday morning reign supreme. The town has been turned over to them; the queen city of the mountains is theirs. The k-ays to the city were .gracious ly handed the boys Monday morning by Mr. Locke Craig, who made the address of welcome on behalf of Mayor Campbell. The address by Mr. Craig followed the ringing ad dress of welcome by Governor Wil liam Walton Kitchin on behalf of North Carolina and if ever a body of men were given a cordial and elo quent welcome the Travelers were. The first day of the convention opened Monday morning with the delegates and visitors parading the streets and enjoying the balmy breeze and glorious atmosphere. The sun came up bright and cheerful and the 20th was begun auspiciously. The big parade, extending for fif teen blocks, started from the Audi torium at 10:30 o'clock with two members of the Governor's staff and Chief Marshal Stikeleather heading the procession. Governor Kitchin .was next in line, followed by Locke Craig and Mayor Campbell. Ladies also occupied places in the carriages of honor and apparently enjoyed to the fullest the occasion. The mem bers of the Governor's staff in full uniform also occupied carriages while the two military companies, two bands and the Asheville canton I. O. O. F. and Uniform Rank Knifrhts of Pythias added to the scene. The T. P. A. 's made a long procession walk ing two and two abreast. The parade ended at the audi torium and the big convention hall was packed for some minutes prior to the introducing of Governor Kitchin. Before the Governor had begun his address one could scarcely get with in twenty feet of the convention hall. Arbitration is Invoked. Atlanta, Ga., Special. Unable lo agree upon the terms of settlement the -officials of the Georgia Railroad and of the Brotherhood of Firemen have invoked arbitration under the Erdman law. It was nearly 7 o'clock Monday night, when Commissioner of Labor Neill and Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission reluctantly gave up the battle to bring the warring elements together. Commissioner Neill notified both parties to the dispute to select an ar bitrator within five days. These two men will select a third. The Erdman act provides that should the two arbi trators be unable to agree upon the third member of the commission he will be named by Knapp. and Neill. The decision of the arbitrators is made binding upon both parties by law. As expected, the disagreement came over the retention of negroes. The firemen first demanded the dis missal of all negroes. This was refus ed flatly by the railroad. After con siderable labor on the part of Messrs. Neill and Knapp, the firemen submit ted another proposition. They agreed that those negroes now employed or who were employed prior to April 10 should be retained on the present footing. Recent promotions of ne groes had been canceled before the men returned to work. ' Honors Southern Writer. Belmont, N. C.r Special The Uni versity of Notre Dame has placed dis tinguishing honors upon Mrs. Fran ces Christian Fisher Tiernan, of 'Salisbury, better known as 7"Chris tian' Reid," in the award of . the Laetare medal, which is usually con ferred upon some notable member of the Catholic church for services in the realm of art or letters. Cere monies attending the presentation of this fine gift were held Monday afernoon at St. Mary's College, Bel mont, in the presence of c a large company of friends and students of this institution, the, event . becoming one of the most significant (n the suc cessful history of bis college. , ,. Nore Dame had two representa tives here for, the occasion. . Dr. J. A. Zahm, of the Catholic University, and Rev. James 'A. Burns, C. S. C, presi: dent of Holy Cross," Washington' Di C, bore to Mrs. Tiernjm the happy Congratulations of that great institu tion and tho. medal of honor and dis tinction which was awarded her for her noble efforts in the field of fiction and her manifold contributions to American Catholic 'literature.- Both Of theta gentlemen are distinguished nd their presence on this; happy oc casion, lent a decided air of dignity and bearing to the event." .:: . -i t- i THE KIN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By - Wire and Cable CLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Pi.,- . Live Items Covering Events of Mors J or Less Interest at Horns and Abroad. s Six states in the upper Mississippi Valley were shaken by an earthquake between 8 and 9 a. m., Wednesday. No serious damage is reported. 'On the liquor issue in Petersburg, Thursday, the city went "wet." Walter Holcombe, of Rabun coun ty, Ga., was implicated with two other men in a homicide 32 years ago and sentenced to 9 years imprison ment. The other two served the pen alty but Holcombe escaped. Recent ly be returned, a gray headed man of 75, to live quietly among home scenes unsuspected, but was recog nized and now goes to prison, Mrs. Anna Cleveland Hastings, sister of Grover Cleveland, died at Hartford, Conn., last Tuesday at the age of 79 years. Four children sur vive her. Elizabeth Mullen, 18 years old, at Williamson, W. Va shot at Norman Pardue, a well known coal operator, last Monday, the ball piercing his hand, but it struck Geo. Montgomery in the head and killed him instantly. She claims that Perdue wronged her. The price of wheat has taken an other decided advance in price. Wm. Bass, a rural mail carrier, de manded of Bradley Parker, a clerk in a store. in Wilmington, to sell him ammunition Monday morning with which he purposed to do violence to another. Bradley remonstrated and refused to sell him the ammunition whereupon Bass shot him dead. Bass is in jail. ' The North Carolina State Bank ers' Association rret in Charlotte on the 25th. holding its sessions in the Solwyn Hotel. Alex. Strobcrg, near Sycamore, III, found a tooth, last week, of some ex 'Knct animal. It weighs ten pounds and is a foot in diameter. Scientists think the animal must have been 50 or 60 feet long and high as a com mon small house, with a mouth cap able of bitinar off whole tree tons. The American Cotton Manufactu-rors-'- Association met iO Richmond, v a., on 1 uesday. The Baptist University for Women located at Raleigh, N. C., which has not in any. sense been a university, has been renamed Meredith College. The D. A. R.s presented a hand some silver candelabra to the Miss issippi at Natchez, on last Friday. The firm of Wilkes, Poe & Co., at Greenville, S. C, recently receiv ed $600 of current money in a letter without revealing from whom it came or for what purpose it was intended. Mrs. Helen Longstreet, the widow of the famous Confederate general, hearing some one in her house at Gainesville, Ga., last Saturday night, sot her pistol and soon opened fire on a burglar, after her silver ware. He returned the fire and fled. She es caped injury but thinks she wounded him. v Washington Affairs. Expert physician Edward Ehlers, from Copenhagen, has passed upon the case of John R, Early, of North Carolina, and pronounces his case real leprosy. He caught the malady in the Philippines. Early is isolated in a little house on the east banks of the Potomac. S. N. D. North resigned as Direc tor of the Census Wednesday, and E. Dana Durant was appointed to suc ceed him. John L. Girffith is made Consul General at London to succeed Robert J. Wynner. In a speech at Howard University, President Taft advised the negroes to strive to win the friendship and respect of the Southern people. Senator Bristow attacked the "No. 1 Dutch' text as the "joker" in the ugar schedule, Wednesday, which en ables the trust to control the sugar trade of the country. Senator Smoot delivered a long speech Wednesday defending the high tariff and differential on sugar. Secretary Dickinson has returned from Panama, a thorough believer in the lock type of canal rather than the sea level type. 14 In conformity to directions of Pres ident. Taft to the Secretaries to cut estimates to "meet the deficiency of the treasury, Secretary 'Meyer has given the navy a cut of-$10,000,000. The government has found only 17 out of 29 explosives safe for mines. Fire damp, air damp and coal dust of various mixtures have been produc ed and the explosives applied in the Secretary of . War Dickenson ii pleased with conditions at. Panama, but was too sick to ls4 at Havana WASHINGTON NOTES The Republicans of the H6use Monday again took matters into their own hands, and with a sudden show of strength passed the Philippine tariff bill, the consideration of which had been concluded two weeks ago, referred the message of the President regarding Porto Rican affairs to the committee on ways and means, and devoted some time to a discussion of the bill amending the laws of Porto Rico, so as to divest the Legislature of certain authority by it. The feature of the day was a speech of considerable length by Mr. Larrinaga, the Porto Rican commis sioner, vigorously oposing the bill af fecting the island represented by him, and denouncing the executive council or upper branch of the Legislature of Porto Rico. The bill was pending when the House adjourned until Thursday. Free lumber was handed a knock out in the Senate, Mr. McCumber's amendment to the tariff bill placing lumber, a commodity, on the free list, being defeated by a vote of 25 to 56. The post of minister to China was tendered to John Hays Hammond by President Taft during a conference at the White House and was definite ly declined by Mr. Hammond. Senator Frazier, of Tennessee, Tuesday received a telegram from the attorney of Luther WTilliams, one of the defendants in the E. D. John son lynching contempt case, saying that he would voluntarily come to Washington to receive the sentence of the Supreme Court of tho United States, and asking that no effort be made to serve the writ of arrest in Tennessee. Mr. Frazier thinks that all the defendants will pursue that course and that they will surrender themselves here, if permitted to do so. The tie-up on the Georgia Railroad because of the striking firemen on that system adds greater concern t3 officials of the postofflce Department as each day passes. The only inter est the department has in the matter is the prompt despatch of the mails along that line, and the inability to do so occasions considerable anxiety. Every effort is being made to prompt ly despatch the mails, when train ser vice is resumed. Reports are coming to the department from business men and others all along the Georgia Railroad, indicating 'that the lack of mail facilities is proving a source of great inconvenience, not to menton business loss. The confirmation of Judge Connor for the Eastern Circuit to succeed Judge Purnell in North Carolina took place Wcdnesdny afternoon. The council of fine arts, created by President Roosevelt, and which was to have charge of the beautification of Washington, to pass upon the designs of government buildings, etc., was abolished by President Taft Tuesday in an exectuive order. This action was required by the last sundry civil bill, which failed to appropriate money for expenses or salaries of any of the commissions, created by Presi dent Roosevelt without the consent of Congress. President Teft's cabinet decided Friday that the firemen's strike on the Georgia Railroad was serious enough to demand immediate adjust ment and that Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Second Assistant Postmaster General Stewart should go at once to Atlanta. Both left Washington Fri day night. Sugar and tobacco were disposed of by the Senate during the consid eration of the tariff schedules. The agricultural schedule also was taken up. A sharp attack by Senator Ba con, who charged the reading clerk Willi being in collusion with the' Re publican leaders in an effort to shut off debate, and a general tariff speech by Senator Stone were features of the day 's session. Saturday's news events were eon fined almost entirely to the tariff. Senator Aldrich denounced as "im pertinent" what he called the effort of the German government to in fluence American tariff legislation by supplying annonymous information as to the wages paid to German work men. Some progress was made with the tariff bill in the Senate.. The duty on barley was increased from 25 to 30 cents per bushel, and ad valorem duty of 25 per cent on unsweetened biscuits and 50 per cent ad valorem on sweetened -biscuits and other bak er articles; an increase in the duty on hops from 12 cents per pound as pro vided by the House- to 20 cents, an increase from 25 to 45 cents per bush el on potatoes ; a duty of 25 per cent ad valorem on oysters in the shell and 1 cent per pound on els or smelts, and a reduction in the duty on olives in packages of more than five gallons each from 20 to 15 cents per gallon, were the net results el the -.day's work. ..j.iiri. ..!.(!' WASHINGTON NOTES - A TORNADO IN TEXAS Hundreds Saved by Taking Refuge in Storm Cellars. DEATH AND RUIN IN ITS PATH Thirty-Two Persons Killed Outright and Perhaps Fifty More Fatally WounOett Nearly Fifty Houses Entirely Demolished Lightning Causes a Fire That Sweeps Away a Business Block. Bronwood, Tex., Special. A tor ktado of great fury struck the little village of Zephyr, in the eastern por tion of Brown county at 1 o'clock Sunday morning and left a path of death and destruction seldom paral leled. The death list has reached a toal of 32 and the number of serious ly and fatally wounded will reach 50. A score are more or less injured. The storm formed half a mile southwest of Zephyr and swept down upon the village, cutting a wide swath directly through the residence and business district. Nearly 50 houses were entirely de molished. Lightning struck a lumber yard and started a conflagration which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was made to fight the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demanded all attention. Hundreds of persons directly in the storm's path saved themselves by tak ing refuge in storm cellars. More than a dozen bodies were hor ribly mutilated. County Clerk Thad Cabler, his wife and two children, who had gone to Zephyr to spend the night were killed. The big stone school building and two churches were swept from the face of the earth. By daylight 16 surgeons were working on the wounded. Brownwood hurried her second re lief train at noon Sunday loaded with provisions, clothing and necessary ar. tides and forty nurses. Sunday night three persons were still unaccounted for. Two children were found dead late Sunday after noon, two miles out from the town, having been blown that distance. The storm was three hundred yards wide and swept the earth for only a short distance, probably less than a mile. Its fury is considered the most trrific of any tornado ever experi enced in this section. The hillsides at Zephyr were cover ed with debris of all kinds and bodies of dead animals and human beings. The ruins were dimly lighted by the burning buildings and the cries of the wounded rose above the sound of the elements which threatened" a second storm. A hog roaming through "the debris-strewn streets was killed while attempting to devour the body of an infant. Bodies were found twisted about trees and in every conceivable shape. People walked the streets al most naked, crying for their loved ones. Residences which escaped the storm, were turned into hospitals where were carried the bodies of the dead and wounded. One storm house collapsed on a family of nine without serious injury to any. Brownwood, with splnedid organ ized releif work, has the situaiton well in hand. Zeppelin's Great Feat Berlin, By Cable. Count Zeppe lin, whose remarkable performance in his first airship brought unbounded honors to the inventor Sunday accom plished the most striking feat in his career. He guided his Zeppelin II from Freidrichshafen to Bitterfield, a distance of more than 456 miles with out landing. The journey lasted near ly 22 hours and so far as known Suit day night Count Zeppelin was still in the air, on the return journey to Friedrichshafen. He has beaten all records for dirigible balloons, . Wind and Eelectrical Storm. Biloxi, Miss., Special. A severe wind and electrical storm struck this section early Monday evening and grave fear is entertained for the safe ty of small craft and their occupants in Gulf waters near heiie. The city's electric lighting system was put out of commission. Uprising in Pern. Lima, Peru, By Cable. A rising of 1 political factions occurred here at 4:30 Saturday afternoon with the ob -ject of overthrowing the government . of President Leguia. - An attack was made upon the palace and firing was heard in all parts of the city. It i reported that many are dead sd wounded. Adherents of Augusto Du rand, who was concerned in the revo lution at Chosiea, near Lima, in May, 1908, and of Isais Perola, also a no torious agitator, made an assault op- -on the palace' and seised President Leguia. ''The army, however, remain ed loyal and came to his support.' ' to