North Carolina Newspapers

?niiV'ir Mmwm' UM$VM0J-rf .'- e e r, r m . tw i y jinn i 111 i w IMIIIIIMIIIMIIHIHIII Aim 1 1 fWLy.TATB'RI'ub- I zL ti-thtd in tht Courtly X son W y-M . T M A 'M. KUl 9J.lt T t 1 'I ' V I I TV .tl.l. kwb I. iW I 1 o yor, fa 'A.d'Oanc ', 1 invroTiciMr! dittcan iddi iriTMN A a u'Lniiouiu iwiLoviiJuiuvHiiun a j '- f 1 4MMIIIIIIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIH POLITICAL, REFORM AND THE GENERAL; UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VUL. XI. MARSHALL, N, CFRIDAF, JUNE 11, 1909. NO. 23. I man 11 J I I I I 111 IK I 1 f j u iifi i i i i i i; ii R n IvVl I III I I V t U,I Jl rJl I 1 1 NORTH STATE Items of State Interest Gathered from Here and There and Dixie ' Club ' Grocery Company at V SUteBTllle Tails. - StatesviUe, Spedal. The Dixie dub Goeery Company, incorporated made a voluntary assignment Mcbday and executed a deed of trust for the benefit of creditors to Messrs. E. Q. Gilmr and R. V. Brawleyv trustees. The assets of the concern, which in clude the stock of goods on hand, the tore fixtures and unpaid subscribed stock, are said to be iuffloient to cover the indebtedness of the company. The .assignment was made by the presi dent and promoter of. the company) .Mr. C. S. Holland, in accordance with a resolution adopted by the directors of the company instructing him to do .sot The store was closed shortly be fore nooit Monday and the deed of trust was filed with the clerk of Su perior Court a short time later. High Point Items. High Point, Special. The New York Herald-Atlanta Journal car passe4 here Monday following close after Vhe Horald-Journal car the day before going towards Atlanta. The path-finding event has attracted no little attention hero and over the State as the course will mark a new -era in the life of the communities through which it will pass. Mr. Chas. Ragan, who was operated on at the Stokes sanitarium in Salis bury last week, is getting along nice ly, his friends will be glad to learn. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Armfield kave returned from an automobile euting to Washington. They made the trip without a break down, four -days only being required to go and four to come. Tfooy returned via way of Norfolk and report the roads bet ter in that direction. Team of Mules Drowned in Swollen Stream. t Lincolnton, Special. A -f - mules, belonging to Mr. W. W. Mots, were drowned Monday afternoon in Walker branch in the outskirts of this place. The branch was 'swollen by teavy rains and when the negro driv er attempted to cross the branch with a load of brick the whole outfit wa washed down the stream. The wagon and one mule have been found, but the other mule was carried on down into the river. The driver saved him self by clinging to a foot-log. Grand Jury Finds a True Bill gainst D. A. Hurley. Charlotte, Special. " The grand j jury do present that D. A. Hurley did assault his wife, Katherine Jordan Hurley, by shooting at her three times ; the assault occuring in the rooms of "Mrs. Hurley in the Buford Hotel in the City of Charlotte,, North Carolina, and the shooting being done with a pistol, on or about the 30th of May." Thus reads a tyill returned ,by the grand jury of Superior Court. 'Briefly told the couple had been hav ing -trouble and Hurley was drinking. Mrs. Hurley has gone to her mother in New York. Corn in' Stanly County. Some three or four years ago a local firm was selling each year upon the local market between forty and fifty thousands bushels of shipped corn. Two weeks ago the same firm advertised through these columns' for 1,000 bushels of com. Treble this amount was brought -in by the firm - era from every direction. The inci dent brings to light the fact that but - - little shipped orn is new sold upon . the local market, and that our farm ers have been frugal in keeping their liome graineriea supplied. Stanly Enterprise. "."':- '' Wflmingtoa Baz Factory Starta V .Wilmington, Special The box fac tory of the Wynnewood Lumber Com pany, in which Philadelphia , capital ists are largely interested, began op erationg yesterday. It will employ , about 125'handa and will prove quite an addition to -the industrial enter " prises locally. ..... r :. Mayor llngle Assaulted. Salisbury, Special. Mayor, J. "C : Lingle "of the peaceful little village of Faith,' six miles southwest of Salis bury, Was the recipient of a metcilesj whipping Thursday,' administered by L, H. Holshonser, who used only bis bare lists.' It appears that the trouble arose over the . question of , getting v Home objectionable parties from Ihe - town and the mayor was charged with . neglect of duty.'': Sheriff MeKensie ' wig notified and . was soon on the ground, and both parties were ar- raigned before Jadgs Miller here. NEWS NOTES North Carolina News Dots. Mr. Jacob S. Allen, a widely-known Confederate veteran, who for many years has attended Confederate reun ions, was stricken" with paralysis- Fri day nighfat Raleigh and. for some time it. was thought he was dead. . He is over 70 years of age and has been in feeble health for two or " three years. He is a contractor and builder and has done much work in this State and Virginia. Governor Kitchin received the re signation of Judge James S. Manning as State Senator from the nineteenth district and also as trustee of the University of North Carolina. ' A charter was granted the Dixie Laundry Machinery Manufacturing Company, of Greensboro, the capital stock being $50,000. Architect Hampton of Gastonia, is preparing plans an dspecifications for the new graded school building to be erected at once at King's Mountain. It will cost $12,000 and will contain ten class rooms and an auditorium. It is to be two stories high, of brick with granite trimmings and slate roof, and will be entirely modern in every respect. Mr. Z. P. Smith, who has been elected editor and general manager of The Greensboro Daily News, which is to be the successor of The Daily Industrial News, announces that the new paper will make its appearance Sunday morning, July 18. The case of A. T. Yoder against Dr. John McCampbell, superintendent of the State Hospital, Morganton, and J.P. Caldwell, president of the board of directors, for his illegal de tention in the Hospital, was dismiss ed in he Superior Court of Burke county. The Albert F. Hale Lumber Com pany, of Asheville, was chartered, this taking over the business of Mr. Hale's concern, the capital stock be ing $35,000, almost1 all held by him. ' No soft drinks on Sunday will be the result of an ordinance passed by the Winston aldermen Friday. Ci gar stands can go as far as they like, however. The ordinance is a surprise, as there has been no public discussion of the matter and no forecast of such action. Some idea of the vastness of the tobacco business in Winston is gain ed from a Winston-Salem dispatch which says that "the receipts at the internal revenue office during the past month of May amounted to $136,669. 87, which means that 3,111,164 pounds of manufactured tobacco were shipped by the local tobacco manu facturers during the month." With J. D. Dorsett, of Spencer, as president and J. M. Maupin, of Salis bury, as general manager, The Poto mae Heights Land Company has been organized under the laws of North Carolina, with an authorized capit.il of $100,000. The new corporation will deal in real estate in the District of Columbia and is now. developing a large tract of valuable property in the suburbs of Washington. J. E. Young, a deputy sheriff of Wake county, was convicted in the Federal Court at Raleigh, of blockade distilling. J,udge Connor delivered a severe reprimand to him for being guilty of such a crime while holding a commission from the sheriff of the county as a deputy' for the enforce ment of laws. He reserved judgment antil he investigates further. A week ago Friday a fine crop oC oats was standing in a field on So licitor Robinson's farm in the eastorn suburbs of Wadesboro. Since that tim the oats have, been, harvested hauled in and cotton seed planted where stood the grain, and now the cotton is breaking-, through the ground, coming to a perfect stand. Officer Shoots Negro. j . Winston-Salem, Special. - Ponce man N. B. Williams on Friday shot and instantly killed Will Freeman, a negro about 23 years old, firing tsa bullets into his body.- Williams was released under $5,000 bond, after a short hearing by the coroner. Wil liams is the youngest man on the Winston police force, it is claimed, he shot the negro " in self-defense, after the man had fired upon him. . r V Skull Crushed by Wild Car, Durham, Special Liston L, Bland, an employe of the Chatham Lumber Company, t was fatally wounded ...Fri day in East Durham by . having , his skull crashed by a runaway can The young fellow loaded the ear and start ed it off when another "ear broke loose. In his efforts to dodge if, he was caught between pipe and the projecting timber. A great hole was torn in his head. There is little hope for him. The boy is 17 years old and lives in Durham, where a number of aia wlatives also reside. ' ' I3.58?,306BALESINISC3 Increase Over Previous ' Tear of 19.4 Per CentCrop Bemarkable- For Its Excellent -. Spinning Qualities tfld . Cleanliness. Most Valuable Ever Grown. . -' y , Washington, Special Bulletin 100, which has just been issued by the Bu reau of the Census, consists of a re port on the production of cotton in j 190S, prepared under the supervision of Mr. WillimvM.- Stuart, chief sta tistician for manufactures, by Daniel C. Roper, expert chief of division'.!". The ' present report gives the ag gregate figures for the whole cotton' crop. ' , . '' The 'finally revised figures for" the crop of 1908, expressed in equivalent 500-pound bales and including int ers, show a total production of , 13,4 5S7306 bales. ' This represents an in crease over 1907 of 2,211,845 bales, or 19.4 per -cent. It is the third largest Icrop ever produced, being exceeded only by the crops of 1904 and 1900, and is 978,751 bales larger than the average crop of the last five years. The production reported for Texas 3,913,034 bales, is the second largest recorded, being exceeded only by that of 1906, which was 368,740 bales larger. This State showed a falling off in 1907 of 44.9 per cent as com-f pared witn lwm, out increased its crop in 1908 by 65.8 per cent over 1907. Texas produced 28.8 per cent of the total for the country in 1903; 20.S per cent in 1907; and 31.5 per cent in 1906. The corp in 1908 is remakable for its excellent spinning qualities and cleanliness. The grade of this crop is estimated to have averaged strict middling, compared with middling for 1907 and strict low middling for 1906. Measured by its yarn produc ing qualities, the crop of 1903 is be lieved to be the most valuable ever grown. The value of the crop to the growers is estimated at $681,230,956, ofxwhich $588,814,828 represents the value of the lint and $92,416,128 the value of the seed. Notwithstanding the fact that the crop was 2,211345 bales larger than the crop of 1907 and that the spinning qualities of this crop were superior, it has been dis posed of by the growers at approxi mately $20000,000 less than that of 1907. The estimated quantity of cotton seed produced in 1903 is 5,903,833 tons, of which 3,669,747 tons were treated by the oil mills, affording pro ducts valued at $86,092,533, and dis tributed as to kind and quantitv as follows: Oil, 146,789,880 gallons; cake and meal, 1,491,7-52 tons; hulls, 1,330,283 tons, and linters, 165,133, 628 pounds. The world's production of cotton for mill consumption in 1908 is esti mated at 19,574,000 bales, of 500 pounds net, compared with 16,512, 000 in 1907. The production in the United States, expressed in net weight bales, was 13,002,000, and rep resents 66 per cent of the total com mercial cotton produced. British In dia, which ranks second, produced 1,914,000 bales, or 15 per cent; Kypt, 1,275,000 bales, or 7 per cent, and Russia, 846,000 bales, or 4 per cent. Most of the remainder is pro duced in China and Brazil, while mailer quantities are contributed bv Mexico, Peru, Turkey, Persia and several other countries. , Not less than 9,000,000 persons tire employed in producing, handling and manufacturing American cotton, of whom some 6,000,000 are farmers and farm laborers, 1,000,000 otherwise en gaged with the fibre in this country and about 2,000,000 are concerned with it in foreign countries. The value of the goods manufactured from the average American cotton crop is estimated at $2,000,000,000. Of the total quantity of the six leading textile- fibres produced in 1903, 18,042,425,000 pounds, cotton constituted 54 per cent, wool 145 per cent, jute 14 per sent, flax 10 per sent, hemp 7 per cent and silk less than one-half of 1 per cent The relative importance of these , fibres hss been reversed during the past eentury. Flax fibre, which was used to a. larger extent than any other in 1800, now ranks fourth, and , the quantity produced is only about three timer what is was then. During this period the production of wool has in creased about four-fold, and of cot ton over thirty-fold. v . - Big Balloon Bace Ends.'"; Indianapolis, Ind., SpeciaL Three of "the nine - balloons that ' "started Saturday in the- national distance race of the Aero Club of America and the endurance test of the Aero Club of ' InSana, entered in the national race, is reported to hart dropped to earth at Shackle Island, Tenn., at. 0 o'clock Sunday evening, taken on water and sailing off south. ..; . ' The Indiana endurance race vu woa by Dr.- link and R. J. Irvin, in the Indianapolis. They were in the air 22 hours. The Chicago was second and the Ohio third. , -v- HEROES AT MEMPHIS Gty Gives Old Warriors Great T"' ' J, Time. CONFEDERATE REUNION BEGINS Thousands of Visitors From all Over the South Axe in the Bluff City of . Tennesee For the Annual Gathering of the lien Who Fought For the Stars and Bars, Memphis, Tenn., Speeial With the stars and the bars and the star span gled banner floating largely and ami cably in the soft breeze of a typical Southern day; with the pictures of Southern heroes aligned with those who fought fot the North, with the streets filled with thousands of visi tors; with here-and there through the throng, the soft gray ahd gold of the cause that millions revere, the Con federate veterans' reunion began Monday. The hotels, taxed to their capacity, utlized every spare inch of "space and the halls and corridors were filled with narrow cots upon which reposed good natured but enthusiastic visitors to the reunion. From every store and office and pirvate residence were strung the national colors. The stars and the bars and the united country's flag floated side by side on every hand. Big signs told of State, de pertment and division headquarters. Uniformed and courteous guides were at the service of visitors, and to even look in doubt meant a polite offer of assistance from both the men and women who wore the badge "I "live here, ask me." There probably never was a Con federate reunion at which the ar rangements were so complete or the details so ably worked out. It was al most impossible to walk through any depot in Memphis without some cour teous stranger inquiring, "Are you a visitor?" Information bureaus abounded and no one could complain that accommo dations were not furnished. At a huge mess hall in Main street, a commis sary had provided meals three times a day for the old boys in gray. There were the familiar beans and bacon, the hard tack and coffee, in addition to all the delicacies that the market can supply. Handsomely gowned and dainty Southern matrons and maids superintended the preparation of food as well as the serving of it, and saw that the more timid and helpless of the old veterans were not slighted. The town was a myriad of lights and every resident constituted him self an informal reception committee to see that every visitor was takea care of. Every railroad in the South and Southwest has made the low. rate of one cent a mile to Memphis and re turn. The geographical location of the city is exceptionally well-suited for the reunion. - Fight Battle in Prison. Tiflis, Turkey, By Cable. A des perate battle was fought in the prison here Saturady, which ended In eight prisoners and two wardens being kill ed and four mardens and two sol diers being mortally wounded. Five convicts, who were condemned to death, while being transferred to the death cells, overpowered the wardens, wounding and disarming them. They then ran trough the corridor shoot ing down every one they encountered. They were finally brought to bay by a detachment of wardens, but hefused to surrender, fighting until they were crushed by repeated volleys. During the fighting, three other prisoners escaped from their cells and rushed through the corridors in an other direction. They were run down by soldiers, and as they were" putting up a stubborn resistance, they were shot to death. . ,j Fire Sweep Maine Village. res que Isle, Me., Special. The entire northeasterly section of this village, comprising the district where were situated . the most pretentious residences, wss swept by fire Monday night,' a high wind carrying flames and embers from street to street Un til 100 dwelling houses and the Con gregation church, the Masonic ball and severaLether structures had been reduced to ashes. .... : " llooaeTelt Shoots Monkeys. A . Kijabe, British East Africa, By Cable. The Roosevelt party visited the local station of the African In land Mission, an American organiza tion. . Before bis departure, Mr. Roosevelt spent some . time Shooting monkeys, particularly the Colobus. Edmund Heller bagged three of the Colobus species and a green faced monkey, and Kermit Roosevelt killed two y large specimens of the former. B. J. Cunningham, the manager f the expedition,, and L. A. Tarltoo, ef Nairobi, remained at the eamp-ber completing the preparations to start on the trip into the Sotik country.;' .. WASHINGTON NOTES The most important happenings in the national capital Monday were as follows: Whiskey, in the legal meaning of tfc-3 word, is whiskey even when col ored, or flavoring matter is added, ac cording to an opinion rendered to President Taft by Lloyd M. Bowers, solicitor general of the United States. tl-3 holds that as such colonng and flavoring have been used in all the history of whiskey, such addition can not be illegal or incompatible with the name whiskey. . The decision, however, is not the final word in the case. The Porto Rican bill, unamended, was passed by the House. It provides that when the Porto Rican Legisla ture fails' to pass an apropriation bill the same apropriations shall hold as provided in the last bill passed. The cotton schedue was considered in the Senate. Little progress was made in voting on various schedules because- of much debate, especially between Senator Aldrich for the con servatives, and Senator Beveridge, for the "progressives," as to the duty of members to hold to party lines and to platform principles in voting on the bill. By the narrow margin of 32 to 33 the amendment of senator Dolhver to strike out the finance committee's provision fixing a duty of one cent a square yard on mercerization was lost. The most important happenings in the nation's capital Saturday were as follows: President Taft sent a special mes sage to Congress transmitting the final report of Charles E. Magoon, former. Provisional Governor of Cuba, and praising the latter and Major General Thomas H. Barry, who was in command of the army of pacifica tion, for their services in the land. Owing to the state of Mrs. Taft's health, the President announced that he had abandoned his proposed trip to Alaska during the coming summer but had not yet given up hope of be ing able to attend the Seattle Expo sition. That danger lurks in the transpor tation of those who have died from infectious diseases was made evident at Saturday's session of the? twentv fourth annual meeting of the confer ence of State and provincial boards of North America. The committee appointed to report on the subject found fault with the present system of shipping bodies from one State in to another and recommended that greater eare should, in . the future, be exercises in this regard through the aplication of measures, which would secure better preparation and the casing of bodies preparatory to ship ment. Leprosy again was one of the prin cipal topics discussed at the day's session of the conference of State and provincial boards of health of North America, which adopted a resolution urging the establishment by Congress, within the United States, of a hos pital for the treatment of the disease. After devoting the larger portion of the day to listening to a discus sion of the cotton cloth schedule, the Senate entered upon a period of vot ing late in the afternoon and rapidly disposed of the entire subject of changing from ad valorem to specific duties for the purpose of preventing undervaluations. On all the votes taken, the finance committee was sus tained by a majority of ten or eleven. The most important happenings in the nation's capital Wednesday wero as follows: Taking to task the other Republi cans in the Senate for violating the patty pledge to the people to revise the tariff downward, Senator LaFol lette begun an extended speech which he concluded - Thursday, - when the night sessions began. Senators Nel son, Gore and Elkins also addressed the Senate during the day. Five retired naval officers have been relieved from active duty By an order issued by the Secretary of the Navy in carrying out the new admin istration policy. His belief in free religion was ex pressed by PresidentTaft in a speech to a delegation from the Seventh Day tariff bill in the Senate. The duty Adventists who visited him at the White House. ' . '. , : - The most important happenings in the nation's capital Friday' were as follows: . 'h . . .' Making reply to the bitter attack made upon him Thursday night by Senator Penrose because of his ab sence at a session at which he was ex pected to finish "' his uncompleted speech on the -cotton schedule of the tariff bill, Senator ' LaFollette "' sug gested that the Senator from Pennsyl vania might render greater service if he would account for the way he spends his .own ' time ' when absent from the" Senate. , Mr. LaFoltettt then completed his speech. Another night session wag held by the Senate. THE NEWS IN BRIEF Items of Interest Gathered By - j . Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Live Items Covering Events of More or Less Interest at Home and Abroad. Engineer Flannigan on the New York Central was making good speed when he saw a child sitting between the rails. He brought the engine to a halt ten feet from the child but wrecked a parcel of his freight cars that had to be moved before be could proceed. Joseph West is in the penitentiary at Dayton, Ohio. He1 has tubercu losis of the knee. He is under sen tence to be electrocuted July 9. Now it is decided that the leg will have to be amputated to save his life till that date, and if amputated theex ecution must be delayed till the leg gets well enough. In the recent riots in Philadelphia, it was found that the fire department with its hose could disperse a mob more effeectually than officers could with sticks and pistols. Mrs. Rebecca Burns died in Ohio Monday at the age of 115 years. She claims to have seen George Washing ton. The instant that President Taft touched the gold nugget button that started the machinery at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific evposition, the Mayor of New York fired a gold mounted pistol to signal the starting of six motor cars from that city to the ex position grounds, 4,000 miles away, on a prize run for $2,000. Robert Lincoln .suffered a slight sunstroke on Monday while attend ing the unveiling of a monument to his father at Hogansville, Ky. He could not take the three mile ride to visit the home where his father was born. Miss Alice Prout, a trained nurse, at Pittsfield, Mass., lost her life last Sunday from having a surgeon, pad sewed up in her when operated on in January for appendicitis. A late test of Dr. T. Leary's anti toxine proved so successful in the cure of what seemed a hopeless case of blood poison at Boston, Mass.. recently, as to give hope that medical science has risen to the occasion for its prompt cure. Some one who has studied the rat problem has found that it costs the American people $100,000,000 a year to feed and thereby support the ro dent family. A jury unable to agree on a verdict last Saturday night, agreed on Sun day morning which church they would attend for worship at Alexan dria, Va. The Carnegie Trust Co., of New York has organized a $40,000,000 bank. ' Wilbur Wright believes that ai shipping will develop to such degree that a flight across the ocean will be effected within a j'ear. James Hines, a 16-year-old boy of Abingdon, Va., who was missing has made himself known from Ohio. Some time ago a negro told the story of cutting off the boys head and direct ed where to find the body. He was almost lynched, but was discovered to be insane, when the supposed body of the boy was found to be that of a dog. A tornado swept up through part of Texas, Oklahoma and striking down in North Dakota killed 62 per pie in the path of its fury last week.' Young Evans has been released from custody under charge of killing his antagonist '"Greek Jimmy" last week.- . ... ,- Fifteen persons were killed in s cyclone in Oklahoma city last Sat urday night. James Kureaser, "GreeTc Jimmy'' Ryan was killed in a prize fight last week in Savannah, He was knocked down and the fall fractured his skulL The Charleston News and Courier informs us that President Taft gained eleven pounds while in North Caro lina. President Taft in his speech at the Gettysburg monument unveiling made it -clear that he would not favor ft reduction of the regula" army. , n -? Washington Notes. Lieut. Alex. C. Davis has been dis- ' missed from the army for drunken nesa and gambling. He was doing service in the Philippines. , Some friends gave President Taft a draw, ticket issued by tbe Sandusky Elks and it proved to be the lucky number for a barrel of Sauerkraut.-' ' - It is now decreed that Midshipmen at Anapoli must not marry until, after they have taken f their two Year cruise unless perchance the ruW tng may be softened" to those whftV are sufficiently able - to support ' wife. ' Y