1 y tUljlllll Illlllllllf i i Vy TATB'R Tub- : : i v ; ; lith9& in t County ' ', ..; V ' ' $1 a yar in A&iianc r;. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n 1 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 r ! . -. f -it ; J . - .-. ncrJ2isdixtm I J TKronb wWcVyotT die J ; X people f Maison County a X "r J ADVERTISING JUTES ON APPLICATION , - Mill 1 1 HI I 11 III II I II II II Hi- POLITICALPEFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY.) - it v.. VOL. XI. . MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 1909. Mai Keeo son uoBniy WA IS Dr. J. E. Wood Reads Paper At Ashavllle--Undls-; covered Causes-Same As Blind Staggers In Horses-'Different From Ptomaine Poison. Asheville, Special. The 56th an nual meeting of the North Carolina Medical Association was convened here Tuesday. ; ; v 'y rip V A most interesting paper was " read and discussed by Dr. E. Wood, o Wilmington, on "A further report on the Pellegra problem." Dr. ' Wood has been giving his time up to a study of this interesting disease in connection with Dr. R. H. Bellamy, of Wilmington, and , while he. has made several interesting discoveries, much is yet unknown in regard to . this disease, which he termed one ' of the most dangerous, next to tuber culosis, and the book worm that the people of Eastern North Carolina and the South had. to face - He said he bad found this disease widely pre valent in the eastern counties,' par ticularly in New " Hanover county, and Wilmington. " Dr. Wood has re ceived some aid from the United States Marine Hospital Corps, hat much that is at present known be longs to the work of North Carolina physicians. Dr. Woods reported that, while the idea is that Pellegra is connected with and due td the eating of corn and corn bread, he was not convinced that it was due entirely to the use of either of these. The thought that GENERAL, PROSPERITY PREVAILS IN THE SOUTHLAND The Baltimore - Manufacturers' Record gives' concise idea of the prevaling prosperity in the South as follows: "The financial condition of, the South is excellent, and ajl indications are of the 'most favorable character. The crops last rear were urood and the prospects for 1909 jure exceeding ly encouraging. An exchange says 4ht taking stven ,f-4he ipiineipall " Southera eropT,,Tasa 'atandard of wuianaan, . ii appears taat . the 'South gained nearly $100,000,000 in 1908 as contrasted with 1907, last year's crops being worth so much more than those of 1907. The .value, of the corn crop rose from $405, 485,000 in 1907 to $547,054,000 in 1908, Jteot from $58,903,000 to $67, 35,000, bay declined from 6fl,787r O00 to $60,649,000, tobaeco declined from $55,353,000 to $555661, oais increased from $25,922,000 to $33,- THE DUTY ON PRINT PAPER IS MATERIALLY . RAISED . Washington, 8peciaL Just before adjournment Friday, the Senate adopted by a vote of 44 to 32, the amendment of the Senate committee on finance, fixing a duty of $4 a ton on print paper, in place of the House rate of $2 a ton, but the other amendments- to the wood pulp and print paper schedules had not been acted upon when the Senate adjourned at 7 oV)loek. 'l v-:v.-'' .., -( After this vote had- been taken there was an effort to reach an agreement upon a time for voting upon the various income and corpora tion tax propositions. . -. . . Mr. Aldrch sought to obtain a gen eral agreement to postpone the furth er consideration of this question until after the disposal of the tariff sched ules, but Senators. Bailey and Cummins-insisted upon, coupling' with the agreement an" "understanding that there should be taken a , direct vote on the adoption of an income tax amendment and no agreement was reached, v :,; - Jr--;;.; ., 1 Discussion of the tariff was" con- Bned largely to the Democratic side THE IMPEACHMENT, OP ALABAMA SJtERIFP STANDS Montgomery. . Ala.. 8beekL-.The Supreme Court Friday afternoon de nied the application of Frank Casa las, impeached sheriff of . Mobile county, for a new trial, thus making bis impeachment final Casalas was removed from afflce by the Supreme Court on the charge, of cross neglect in , allowing Richard Kobertson, a negro, to.be taken from the Mobile county jail and lynched. RUSSIAN VESSEL FIRES Stockholm, By Cable. Despatches received' here from ilelsingfors con fnn the new that the British steam- ' er Woodburn, of Newcastle,1 was fired -; upon by a vessel of - the Russian aquadron in Pitkipass bay) the rend ezvous of Emperor Nicholas and Emperor William ori Thursday. '. The first shot was a blank charge t but this was followed a. few aeconils later by two shells. Portions of the shells penetrated the bullheads and the boiler of the Woodburn. Tie en MYSTERIOUS x.r-.v--."'r- it was due, probably to a germ, but as yet he had been unable to discover the1 germ. He referred to the work of Teitzonia on the subject and some of the. experiments that he had per formed in Germany, but was of the opinion thatthe disease in the South was of a much more malignant va riety than that in Europe. Dr. Wood teported that he had heated corn up to -90 degrees, eentergrade, and yet had not been able to destroy the pel legra., that was ... prevalent in the corn.. '. He - thought that . it ' was just possible to find it in other products as well as com. - He referred to the fact .that Dr. B. H. Bellamy, of Wil mington, and Dr. Powell, of Clem- son College, are of the opinion that the so-called "blind staggers" that is found in horses is due to Pelletcni. . Dr. Wood reported that he does not believe that Pellegra is due ' to ptomaine poisoning, but to some germ which as yet-has not been suc cessfully isolated. He reported that he is now carrying on cultures and hoped to report further on tins' mat ter.- lie sad as yet he has been un able tofind any successful treatment fog the-dilease, many cases of which were fatal, but was now trying the arsenic method. Recently, said Dr. Wood, seventeen persons have died in his section from the disease. 076,000, Irish potatoes from $20, 529,000 to $23J563,000' and rye from $1,129,000 to $1454,000, the totals for the two years being $694,108,000 and $789,613,561, respectively. "It is stated by the same auth ority that the cotton crop, with its seed, is. worth probably at least $700,t 000,000 more, while the rice harvest is placed at $17,771,281, the sugar cane yield is appraised at $34,Q00, 00,. making th grand aggregate th 10 Southern erops not lesa than $142,000,000. This total must be increased by the poultry and dairy products, by garden truck and other agricultural crops, which, it is estimated,,-add perhaps $700,000,000 to the wealth of the South. "With these facts and figures in View, it is assumed that the present year will be attended with nmch pros perity, and that trade in the various Southern states will be much larger man lor some years past.' of the ehamber, and, while technical ly based upon the tariff, had more pertinent reference to the Democratic national platform. The imemdiate subject of debate was an interview with former Congressman John E. Lamb, of Indiana, in which that gen tleman was represented as criticising the Democratic Senators who had not cast their votes on some of the sched ules in accordance with the declara tions of the Denver platform. Among those who wese referred to were Sen ators Daniel, of Virginia, and Sim mons, of North Carolina, and each made response to the criticism. 1 During the course of his remarks, J C A TT 1 . 1 . . . 1 oruawr fuignes too occasion to op pose, the policy of attempting to im pose an income tax. by the , round about way of a constitutional amend ment. He declared 'his conviction that 'it :was Jnow'qjjthpetet fori ConJ w uupuM an income tax under its present authority and he pointed out that the former income tax law was not still on the statute books, as had been stated by the President, but that it has expired by its own limita tion nine years ago. In the original proceedings , before the Supreme Court it was shown that, notwithstanding rumors were current that an attempt would be made to lynch Robertson on the night of the occurrence, the sheriff took no steps t. protect the 'negro. ; 'i ;; The costs of the impediment pro ceedings, amounting to several thou sand dollars, ' were , assessed against the sheriff.-' A':':- ON ' A BRITISH STEAMER gineer of the steamer was wounded in the leg and was taken aboard the Russian cruiser "Asia, , where " his wounds were dressed. ' J ' " J The German imperial yacht Hohen rollern, with ' Emperor William' von board, joined the Russian squadron conveying Emperor - Nicholas f on board , the imperial yacht Standart at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Em peror Nicholas immediately went on board the Hohenzollern and welcom ed tirperor William. ;AI1 the ships I-.;.t were dressed and manned. HIE NEWS IN DHIff Items of Interest GsSiered 6 GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY Uva Itema CoTarlng Evtnts of Han er Lesa Interest at ' Home ami Abroad, . Mrs. George Shea, in Seattle on May 30th, was robbed of $20,000, which she had hidden between the sheets of her bed.' Recently $15,000 was returned to her in a letter sign ed, "by two thieves," who said they had used $5,000 in; furnishing their home and have no use for the balance. John Odonnel, a New York police man, was -bitten i by, a 'large dog 'last September. The dog proved to have rabies. Od'onel became nervous buf Was . restored, only to collapse foe the third time last week and died through nervous fear of hydrophobia, of which there was no traee in his system. , Erskine College, Greenwood, S. (, has conferred the honorary degree of L.L. D., on Mr. J. P. Caldwejl, the peerless editor of the Charlotte Ob server1. , Mrs. Grover Cleveland appeared in court in New York last Tuesday to testify that the famous letter pur porting to be from her honored hus band against Hon, W. J. Bryan, was1 a forgery. The court and" court of ficers rose and bowed low as a mark of respect when she entered the court room. , E. EL Harriman, the great Western railroad magnate, is now undertaking a line from Seattle to Panomac, which will ultimately extend through South' America. A negro boy leper escaped from the,-leprosy almshouse and prison near Camden, N. J., last week and is giving the surrounding country muob. uneasiness while officers are search' ing 'in vain for him. Bernard Moser in Philadelphia has been a enromc bpggar and many con tribute of. their small means ia sympathy for him1 till recently he ia found to have a bank deposit of $14, 335.83. Mrs. Howard Gould is suing in the New York courts for a divorce and her husband is putting up witnesses that make' her hide her face as they tell of her dissipations, A most unusual eclipse of the sun took place Thursday just about sun down, but clouds in the west de prived most people from seeing it. An elaborate display was made at Dayton Ohio,-Thursday in. honor of the Wright Brothers. Minature aero planes were perched on most of the high buildings. A cotton blossom is reported from South Carolina already this season. "Five persons lost their lives and $100,000 damage to property was the result of rain and electric storms at Big Stone Gap, Va., last Saturday and Sunday. - A decision by the Supreme court of Mississippi is to the. effect that no beverage that has any per cent at all of alcohol can be legally sold in me state. -iy'-'v.-v.'. . One U., Sorenson. a blacksmith, of rarwm, xeo constructed an aero plane which he expected would float gently down though it did not have the power to rise. He attached it to a balloon last Tuesday and went up 3,500 feet then cut it loose. . It per formed a number of summersaults as it 'Went whixsing to the earth. Soren son. landed in a sitting position with breath, and senses gone but was soon restored, not -much hurt. The machine was demolished. , J Eight alleged black hand leaders were, arrested Saturday at Johns town, Pa. ' r A- v :', ,;;; Mrs. Frances Hartlev died in New York in April, leaving an estate of $1,000,000; .which she distributed to relatives more of less remote, while leaving a $15 table only to her only daughter.' There is no known cause for. her freaky decision. , i ; j; A 200 ton boiler exploded in the gas and electric power plant at Den ver,.;. CoL, on last Tuesday, killing three men outright with a number of fatal injuries. 1 - ', ; Wuhington Notes. . Members of the American Medical Association called on' President Talt Saturday and ' urged more stringent purefood Uws.,,-:,.-'i'3 'p' .President Taft on last Wednesday sent a message to Congress recom mending a 2 per cent tax on net earn ings of corporations and. an amend ment to the constitution which will allow the national government to col lect a tax on incomes. . v , - . ? ' Specifications were issued on Wed nesday for the Arkansas and the Wyoming which ereto be tijef war vessels than are now afloat. President Taf t estimates that a tax of 2 per eent on net earnings of cor porations will bring into ths national treasury $25,000,000 annually. f President Taft in his late message disparages an income tax on the ground that the Supreme court would oardly reverse itself and sanctions its constitutionality, but Mr. Bailey ma omer democrats think they can frame sue ha bill as will run the gaunuet. u", Foreign Affairs. : Alfonso M. Penna, president of Brazil, died last Monday. ' What is known as the sleeping sick ness has become epidemic in the Congo Free State in Africa, and much alarm Js felt for the mission aries there. ' ? The people of Madrid watehed all night for a white or red lantern on the Ministry of the Interior build ing, which is .to indicate whether the Queen's expectency is to result in a boy or a girt. r nusDana s Aim is Bad. TAnniston, Ala., Special A sensa tion was created here Sunday after noon when A. W. Falls, a prominent cotton factor, fired four shots from a revel ver at R. Ripley, of Spartan burg, S. C, when he found the latter at his home in the company of Mrs. Falls. Although the shots were fired at close range, none took effect. Both Ripley and Falls were arrested and placed in jail, Falls later furnishing oona. I-1 Storm Sweena Mimiairinni (taut f New Orleans. Special. ReDorta have reached here that a storm of considerable intensity swept the Mis sissippi coast &unday. As a result the waters of the Gulf reached a height of from three to five feet sgainst the shore above the normal inflow of the tide. A number of small boats were beached and minor damage done to property along the shore. It is not thought that any vessels have been sunk or that loss of life has resulted. Plan a Black Hand Koundup. .- en 1 i . r n . . 1 tiioieao, u.. ODeoiai. LiCiters rouna LiW. an Italian, Ampredo - 8etroae4 kretted here, have furnished the Fed eral authorities with the clue ' to the arrest of black hand leaders here. These letters are now being translat ed, and it is believed that their con tents will cause the arrest of several- other Toledo Italians who are sus-H pec ted of being connected with the society that has put terror into thous ands of prosperous sons of Italy in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. ...Seaboard Buys a Railroad. .Cheray. S. O, Special A. H. Page and-son of this place, Monday trans ferred to the Seaboard Air Line Rail way the controlling interest in the Chesterfield & Lancaster Railroad. Company. The purchase price of the stock was not announced. The Ches terfield & Lancaster Railroad, which was built in 1901, is about 40 miles in length, running from Cheraw to Crowberg, about thirty miles from Charlotte, N. C. Baracas and Philatheas. Asheville, N. C, Special. The World-Wide Baraca and Philathea Movements, in annual convention here with 1,500 deelgates in atten dance, got down to business promptly Monday, made appointment of com mittees; listened to reports of. secre taries and treasurers; considered the invitation of cities for the next an nual convention and listened to able and eloquent papers and addresses of prominent speaBers here for the gathering. - Main' Attack on Sugar Trust. Is On. New York, SpeciaL The govern ment's main attack on the sngar trust began Monday when the gov ernment attorneys and counsel - for the trust and Receiver George 1L Earle, of the Pennsylvania Sugar Re fining Company appeared before the Federal grand jury in proceedings brought against the trust for alleged violations pf the Sheman anti-trust law. in an endeavor to prove it crim inally culpable and have it penalized as uch. " ' . - 5-.' ' ANIT ART DOORMAT. ! ' insanitary. H doormat the : latest thing," said a salesman In a surgical shop. "Xhe shoes are the worst germ carriers there are. It we gather germs on our hands, millions of times more do our shoes gather them. Now the Chinks .and -Japs do the. right thing by leaving their shoes outside, but, since we have no such custom, we oug&t to have Instead a sanitary mat on the front step. The mat Is filled, you see. with germ killer. ' Every time you wipe your feet on It a gen eration of germs ia-destroyed, ana yon enter the-house a walking pestil ence no longer -ew Haven Regit ten - ' ,' .-'- : COTTON REPORf ISSUED Government Publishes Remits of Ex pert's Study Sea Island Cotton Acreage. Has Not Changed Much Sines 1900. t Washington, Special. Daniel C. Roper, of the United States census bureau, has just prepared a compre hensive report on the eotton industry in the United States last year. In reference to the cntivation of sea island cotton this report says: The cultivation of sea island eotton in the United States at the present time, as shown by returns of ginners, ' confined to 17 counties in Florida, 26 in Georgia, and 4 in South Caro lina, or a total of 47 counties. It is cot grown, however, throughout the counties from which it is returned, Ihe area given to this culture in 1899, as returned at the 1900 census, and which has probably not changed ma terially, was 317,445 acres, distribut ed as follows: Georgia, 170,756; Fiorida, 122,787; and South Carolina, 23,902. Experiments have been made iu many other parts of these States, and in other States, to grow this eot ton, buf so unsatisfactory have been the results that all efforts to grow it outside of certain well-defined areas in the States named have been aban doned. Farmers who grow sea island cotton in the interior secure new seed frequently from the coast regions in order to preserve its identity, as the fiber degenrates rapidly into that of upland cotton. The distribution of sea island cotton by counties for the last five years will be found in Tablo 15, and the localities producing it act represented on Map 1, page 24. The increased demand in recent years for superior staples is develop ing better varieties of upland cotton by seed selection and more careful sultivation. The United States de partment of agriculture, has been and is now rendering very valuable ser vice in assisting the growers along these lines. The long staples grown chiefly in the portion, of the Missis lippi. Valley, which extends from VicksTmrg to" Memphis," a region about 57 miles wide and 200 miles long, are receiving more attention than hereto fore. The fiber,of much of the eotton grown in this territory measures from one and one-fourth to one and seven-eighths inches in length, and the average yield is about one bale to the acre. The seeds of these fancy varieties have been plant ed in localities outside of this region the last two or three years with grati fying results, as the staple not in frequently commands a premium t f from 5 to 10 cents a pound over mid dling upland. Unfortunately, . few of the loaclities producing this cotton are supplied with the ginning facili ties best suited for the proper treat ment of the fiber; saw gins, which cut and break the fiber, are generally em ployed. In contrast with this prac tice attention is directed to the fact that the Egyptian and sea island cot tons are treated by roller gins, which contribute to regularity and unifor mity in the fiber. The increase of the imports of for eign cottons which come in competi tion with sea island and other su perior cottons grown in, this country has aroused the American growers,' as is evidenced by the fact that, when the Payne tariff bill was recently un der consideration, representatives of the growers of sea island cotton and of the best varieties produced in the Mississippi Valley petitioned Cong ress for the speedy enactment of an amendment to the tariff laws, by which an import duty of not less than 40 per eent would be imposed ea the market valuation of all foreign grown eotton imported into America, which can be used as a substitute or compe titor by American mills against simi lar grades raised in this country. It may be stated in this connection that the importation of foreign cotton for the year ending August 31, 1908, amounted to . 143,490 bales of 500 pounds each, of which' 122470 were imported direct from Egypt; the pro duction of sea island cotton in 1908 was 93,858 bales, and that of the su perior varieties grown in the Missis sippi Valley has been estimated at about 300,000 bales. The Gould Divorce Case. New York, Special. - Sensation- seekers and the curious who have at tended daily the sessions of Kather ine Clemmons Gould's suit for separ ation from her husband,' Howard Gould, were sadly disappointed at the resumption of the hearing before Justice - Dowling in the Supreme Court Monday when ft was announced that the defense had rested and that Howard Gould would not take the stand. ' It had been expected that his direct testirMny and his cross-examination by Clarence J. Shearrv coun sel for th plaintiff, would tike two full days. ' ."- - . , . ' ... CARS RUN TOGETHER Accident Caused by Disobe dience to Orders.'! TEN KILLED BY TROLLEY CLASH Big Suburban Electric Cars . Coma Together Near South Bend, InL, . Killing Ten Persons Outright and Injuring' Forty Mora or Less Se riously. South Bend, Ind., Special. Ten persons were killed and forty injured in a wreck on the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Ben Railroad in Por ter county, Indiana, Sunday night, two of the big electric cars collided headon. According to General Man ager H. U. Wallace, the wreck was due to' a disobedience of orders by Motorman George A. Reed, of . the east-bound ear, who was killed. Reed received instructions at Gary to wait at Wilson, a short distance west of Bailey town, the point at which the disaster occurred, for tho westbound car to pass. The impact cf the cars were so great they Were reduced to a mass of wreckage. The dead are: George A. Reed, motorman, Michigan City, Ind., formerly of Villa Grove, 111.; Ray F. Merriman, married, South Bend; Charles John son, Porter, Ind;. Edward Gilbertson, Porter, Ind.; A. Barber, Mishawaka; F. T. Moore, residence unknown; William Leon, secretary of the Dow agiac Motor ' Works, . Dowagiac, Mich.; F. A. Lake, president Dowa giac Motor Works, Dowagiac; H. H. Hutson, Niles, Mich.; Charles Swan ton, Porter, Ind. The eastbound ear was going fifty miles and hour to make np lost time. When the crash occurred, the east bound car was telescoped and almost demolished In this train were all of the killed and most of the injured, passengers on the westbound train, ea eaping with biuiaea. - -' . -. The two' ears were welded togeth er in a mass of debris. The cries' for help caused a scene of confusion for many minutes. Soon however, the cool-headed passengers brought order . out of ehaos, and while some ion verted the home of E. R. Borg into a hospital, and morgue, others rescued the' injured. Car Wrecks Automobile. Anderson, S. C, SpeciaL James H. Cobb, superintendent of the Bel ton Cotton Mills, is dead. Rev. D. D. Richardson, pastor of the; Second Baptist church, of Beltoh, and the Gluck Mills Baptist church, of this city, is in a critical condition, in a hospital here, his wife is shtrhtlv in jured and Rev. E. A. McDowell, of Ninety-Six, field agent of The Bap tist Courier, is seriously hurt) as the result of a collision between an inter nrban car of the Anderson Traction Company, and an automobile, which occurred at Breazeale's crossing, pine miles east of Anderson, shortly be fore noon Sunday. Xhe dead and injured were occu pants of the automobile. The acci dent occurred at the foot of a smart grade as the ear was coasting at the rate of about 15 miles an hour. The -automobile party was sighted by those in charge of the car, Conductor C. P. Burriss and. Motorman E. E. Sanders, and the usual signal given, there being plenty of time for : the machine to clear the crossing well in front of ihe .ear. When the front wheels of the automobile, however, had cleared the first rail of the track " the engine seemed to come to a dead ' standstill and in a few seconds tha ear struck it. ' " Rev. Mr. Richardson's skull was fractured and his left leg and arms broken and he is yet unconscious. Rev. Mr. McDowell was removed '' from the scene of the accident to the Belton Hotel, where his injuries were ; dressed. 'He is suffering from a brok en shoulder and arm and while seri ously hurt his condition is hot ser ious. . He was removed to his home at Ninety-Six late in the afternoon ap parently resting welL ! V r Ohioan Shoots Neighbor and Wife 1 arid Tries Suicide. ! Stubenville, Ohio., SpeciaL Meier -Osman shot and killed Mike Demick, . shot and seriously wounded his wife and then attempted to commit suicide Sunday. : Osman quarreled with a - ' neighbor over a cat and ran into hia -house to obtain a shotgun with which to' shoot him. In the room where Os- -man kept his gun he found Demick, , a boarder earessing Mrs, Osman. Se . curing his gun Osman shot and al most instantly killed Demick. Mrs. Osman was shot in the back. Osman then turned the gun upon himself ani fired, but did not wound seriously; A AH:"; . 1 1 - !