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POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY.
VOL. XI.
MARSHALL, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 190JJ
NO. 30.
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NORTH STATE
Items of State Interett Gathered from Here and There and
Told Brief ly for Busy Readers.
Hald Farmers Institute.
Hillsboro, Special. The Farmers'
Institute held here Monday will long
be remembered by those who attend
ed. Two meetings were held in the
forenoon, one for men and one for
women. The afternoon meeting was
a joint session with an attendance
about equal to the attendance at the
two morning sessions. There were
158 farmers and 76 ladies who lis
tened with the closes attention to
all that was said and to the demon
strations that were given. The farm
"ers of Orange are rapidly becoming
aware of the benefits derived from
contact with practical experts and
were eager to take advantage ofjhe
opportunities afforded them by the
Farmers' Institute.
The men's meeting was held in the
court house and the women's meet'
ing in the Baptist church.
Mr. T. B. Parker, of the State De
partment of Agriculture, and Prof.
C. L. Newman, of A. and M. Col
lege, addressed the men in the morn
ing, and Prof. S. B. Shaw and Prof.
J. S. Jeffry in the afternoon. The
subjects discussed were Soil Preser
vation and Improvement; Rotation
and the Production of Animal Foods.
Special emphasis was given the neces
sity of more live stock on North Caro
lina farms and the necessity of an
Accurate knowledge of the founda
tion of fertilizers. Professor Shaw's
address should have been heard by
every farmer and farmer's wife in
the State. He so plainly brought out
the pleasure and' profits to be derived
from a home garden as to- stimulate
a strong interest in this necessary
adjunct to the. farm.
Professor Jeffrey's address on
Poultry Feeding embraced a dis
cussion of the principles upon which
feeding poultry is based, and select
ing and preparation of the best ioods,
as well as how judicious feeding may
lessen poultry diseases. He made it
plain that the importance of the poul
try industry was not appreciated and
that every farmer could, by bestow
ing a little more care and attention
to fowls, vastly increase the home
food supply and have enough left
over to bring a handsome annual in
come.
The crowning feature of the day
was the address by Mrs. sue Uollo-
way, of Goldsboro, who, with Miss
Josephine . Evans, of Kaleigh, con
ducted the ladies' meetings.
The County Teachers' Institute
was to have been held here Monday
but those in charge very graciously
gave way to the Farmers' Institute
and attended the. -ladies' meeting.
Mrs. Holo well's address had for its
main feature' the home training of
the child and the effect of this home
training when thev enter school. The
mother often leaves for the teacher
training .that can bo given only at
home. Mrs. Hollowell emphasized the
necessity of other training than that
which may come from books, espec
ially moral, physical and hygienic.
Mrs. Hollowell has a most .forceful
way or reaching her audience and ex
erts a magnetic influence upon all
who hear her.
Miss Evans, who presents the sub
ject of Domestic Science, has a car
equipped for the purpose and in addi
tion to lectures, eives practical (de
monstrations of cooking. - The. value.
and composition of foods is explain
ed as well as combination of foods
that will give best digestive and nu-
traiive effects. . i . .
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Hone and Auto Collide. (
Dtfrham, Speeial. Frank ' Carver,
the13-year-o!d son of Mr. . H. L.
"Carver, of Rougemont, was painfully
, hurt Sunday morning shortly after
midnight by an automobile, which col
lided with his horse. The young fel
low was driving home 'with his uncle
when the big machine ran under the
horse and upset the vehicle complete
ly. Both, occupants were hurt. v -
"8hooting-up" Town Ends in Con-
-? viction for Murder,.
.Wilmington, "'. .Special. , William
, Bass, a rural mail carrier,, charged
Cwith the murder of Major A.B. Par
' Jeer, a prominent business nian of
Parkersburg, because the latter would
not sell him ammunition on Saturday
while on a drunken spree and engag
ed in shooting up the village, was
Tuesday found guilty of murder in
the second degree and sentenced to
fifteen years in the penitentiary. ; A
plea of insanity had beeny entered,
and an appeal was taken to the Su
preme Court, bond being fixed at
115,000. , . ,
NEWS NOTES
Heartrcndering Accident.
Durham, Special. Miss Frances
Sue Watts, a Trinity student the past
year, writes to Durham friends a most
thrilling and withal deplorable ex
perience in witnessing two of her
friends drown recently. The party
of thirty-eight had started out on a
launching trip and spent two hours
skating aMrvington. On their return
the engine became unmanageable on
account of the gasoline and in tneir
efforts to get it right the gasoline
caught and exploded a lantern. This
started a fire on the boat which was
then in wate rsixty feet deep and one
mile from shore. Perfect panic re
sulted. The prow was burning fierce
ly and spreading while every minute
had the ghost of death by explosion.
They could not move and the men
fought fiercely for1 the extinguishing
of the flames. Every moment was
threatened with a stampede and final
ly Miss Jannette Dudley leaped over
board. She was followed by Mr.
Clarence Gray, who tried to save her.
The young boys swam after them but
could not reach them and for an hour
the two struggled in the waters of the
Rappahannock within call of the boat
which was utterly helpless and at a
standstill. The boating party answer
ed their cries with cheers and after
half an hour, both went down. The
ebbing tide carried both bodies far
from the boat and it had to anchor
to prevent a further drifting. For
hours other boats passed and the sig
nals of distress could not be conveyed
to them. The. men had fought down
the flames and the wet clothes used in
smothering the blaze left the party
without protection.' Late in the torn"
ing a boat bound for Baltimore was
signalled and it took on the party
of thirty-six. A search for the lost
ones began and they were found two
miles below the place. Mr. Gray was
from Saluda, the home of Miss Watts,
an dwas said to have been one of that
towns most popular young men. But
the barest facts without a circum
stance of detail, have reached the
newspapers of either Virginia or
Maryland and the tragedy occurred a
week ago.
Private Laws Out.
Raleigh, Special The Private
Laws passed at the 1909 session of
the General Assembly have just been
completed, the ' work being done by
Messrs. E. M. Uzzell & Co., State
Printers and Binders.
The volume, which contains 953
pages, is issued, in the same hand
some and durable style as the Public
Laws. The publication of these laws
have been very speedy this year, ex
celling all past records;' and this is
a matter which has given great satis
faction to the State officials and the
public, as well as reflecting great
credit upon the State Printers and
Binders.
Picnic at Davidson.
Davidson, Special. Visitors, guests
and strangers of all sizes, ages sn3
conditions had and enjoyed "the
freedom of the city," Thursday. Dav
idson has kept open, house and big
words of '! Welcome" written on can
vass and uttered with tongue, and
voiee, have bidden all comers to par
take freely of air and water and then
of food for the inner man. ' Cold soft
drinks, cold, gushing well water, ap
petizing lunches and refreshing ices
all were at hand in easy reach, some
of them for the having and others for
the gold dust.
Gaston Farmer Loses His House by
, . Fire.
Bessemer City, Special The home
of Mr., Albert Mauney, about five
miles west" of ' here on the Kings
Mountain and Cherryville roadr was
burned to the ground Monday. A part
of the household goods was saved. No
particulars as to how it happened
were obtainable Thursday. The bouse
was comparatively new and the losa
is considerable. - . '
. Boy Mysteriously Attacked,'
, Lenoir, Special.--Tuesday ' after
noon some excitement was ecasioned
here' when John Clarke a boy about
15; yean old,-was found ; in a ', semi
eonsciops condition - on ; the :- ground
near Phillips Bostic's lemonade stand
right in the business section of the
town.Iteeems that the boy had been
asked by v" Uncle" Phillips, a he is
familiarly: known here, to stay at his
stand just a few minutes while' he
went to a store a block or two away
to see about some lemons. When
Uncle Phillips returned; he ' found
John lying on the ground.- .-
AGED LADY MURDERED
Body of Miss Lydia 0. Newman, a
Well-to-Do Maiden Lady, of Smn
. .ner Township Was Found Dead
Near, Her Ketidenoe Skull Was
Crushed WHa Bludgen and She
Had Been Dead For Several Days.
Greensboro, Special Miss Lydia C.
Newman, a maiden lady, who lived
alone in the Burnett's Chapel section
of Sumner township, was found dead
Saturday within three hundred yards
of her residence. Her skull had been
crushed by a bludgeon and she had
evidently been dead for several days.
She was last seen Tuesday morning,
when a neighbor observed her going
in the direction of the cow lot.
Coroner Wood summoned a jury
and held an inquest Sunday after
noon, but no evidence was secured to
throw light on the tragedy. There
appears to be no doubt that the ob
ject of the murder was robbery, but
it is not known whether or not the
murderer procured anything of value.
Miss Newman was possessed of con
siderable property and at times had
large sums of money in her home.
About two years ago her dwelling was
burned and she was robbed of about
$1,000 in cash.
Miss Newman had a number of rel
atives in the community, but always
insisted on living alone. Her dead
body was discovered Saturday by a
rural mail carrier.
Automobile Highway Selected.
Atlanta, Ga., Special. The officials
of the New York to Atlanta automo
bile highway completed their deliber
ations here Saturday night and an
nounced the selection of the route
which will be followed in the good
roads and reliability run between the
two cities next October.
The New York Herald's experts de
cidecVtp adopt the road leading from
Sew ork across Stateu Island, to
Perth Amboy, to Philadelphia, to -Gettysburg
across the historic battlefield
down through the beautiful Shenan
doah vallry, through Lexington and
Natural Bridge to Roanoke.
At Roanoke, Va., the Atlanta Jour
nal's scouts took up the choice of
roads and selected from Roanoke to
Greensboro or Winston-Salem, to
Salisbury, to Charlotte, to Spartanburg,-to
Greenville and on to Atlanta.
The route was chosen after the
scout ears of The Journal and The
Herald had covered over 4,000 miles
of road and is believed the best one
available. The scouts say that both
the capital to capital and the Bristol
routes will be built, but in their judg
ment at present there are too many
ferries' and too few bridges to justify
the selection.
The route selected is about 1,135
miles long and before the big contest
begins next October, a sign board will
be erected at every cross road to
guide the drivers in the race.
Heart Pierced by Bullet.
Salisbury, N. C, Speeial. A terrible
tragedy, whether suicidal or acciden
tal is not positively known occurred
at Organ ' church, this county, about
12 miles southeast of Salisbury, just
before noon Sunday. ' The particulars
ns learned here late in the afternoon
are ae follows: Mr. Henry Kluttz
and family had gone to Lutheran Or
gan ..church - to worship, leaving a
young son, Clarence, aged J about 20
years, at home, he having been com
plaining of feeling unwell. When the
family returned from the servces to
their home they were horrified to find
the young man lying, across the bed in
his room dead with a rifle ball
through his heart and the weapon, a
small rifle, lying by his side., :
Death List Increases.
New Orleans, Special. With defi
nite reports Saturday of 13 additional
deaths as the result of the hurricane
in Texas and Louisiana Wednesday,
the death list Sunday night totals 41.
Alsott six previously reported missing
are still unaccounted for. Dispatches
confirm the report that Maurice P.
Wolfe, his wife, six children and ne
gro servant had been drowned at
Christian Bayou.
"; - Most Successful Flight.
' Washington, Special. Orville
Wright, at Fort Myer Saturday even
ing, surpassed alt previous perform
ances of the Wright aeroplane in the
matter of speed and in the shapeli
ness of his . turns. ; Wilbur " Wright,
who closely, watched . his brother's
flight( during every inch of his pro
gress, calucnlated bis average speed
with and against the "wind, .at 47
miles an hourv-;-, ;'Vr ' ': " . - ;
One of hie- circles at full speed was
estimated to be within a diameter of
150 feet an automobile could hardly
do better than that at the high rate
STATUS 0FC0TT0N CROP
As Viewed By President Harvey Jor
dan of the Southern Cotton Asso
ciation, Atlanta, Ga., Speaialt Tht follow
ing official bulletin woe issued on Sun
day by President Harvey Jordan, of
the Southern Cotton Association:
"The present outlook for anything
like a normal production of cotton for
the season of 1909-1910 is worse than
any year since 1903. Reports which
have come to me from all parts of the
cotton belt from reliable sources, and
the result of personal observation
daring the last thirty days, indicate a
very serious condition of the cotton
crop, especially in the territory of the
southwestern states. The long, and as
yet unbroken, drought in Texas, ac
companied by unprecedented hot
weater, covering the largest produc
ing counties of the State, make it im
possible for the crop there to recover
normal conditions. evn under the
most favorable weather, hereafter.
The same conditions have largely pre
vailed in Mississippi and Louisiana.
In every State, except Texas, there
has been a voluntary decrease in the
cotton acreage by the farmers this
year.
"In all the states east of the Mis
sissippi the fields are generally gras
sy, and many thousands of acres have
been abandoned and the fields plant
ed to corn and peas. Crab grass has
sapped the vitality of the cotton
plant, and absorved to a great extent
the commercial fertilizers. Black
root and boll worm in the eastern
states and boll weevil in the south
west are contributing to make the
sitation all the more critical. There
is not a sufficient supply of old cot
ton in the South today to last the
southern mills until October first. I
anticipate that the forthcoming Aug
ust oondition report, by the bureau of
cotton statistics, to be issued August
the 2nd, will reflect the deterioration
of the crop in July, by several points
under the very low June condition re
port. In most sections of the belt the
cotton plant is small and grassy, and
in other sections too full of sap and
weedy. These conditions forecast a
small yield compared to that of one
year ago.
"The failure of the peach crop al
ways forecasts a shortness m the pro
duction of the cotton crop, such as the
case this year. With consumptions
assuming enormous proportions, and.
tb production of the cotton crop in
dicating an unusual shortness, it Is
impossible, at this time, to predict
with any degree of accuracy where
the maximum price of spot cotton will
reach. That we are now entering up
on an era of very high prices for the
coming season, there is scarcely any
question of doubt, and the slower spot
cotton is marketed at the opening of
the season, the asier it will be to
maintain high prices."
Storm Loss Increases.
Houston, Tex., Special Other than
to add several hundred thousand to
the monetary loss, Friday night's
despatches from, the storm-swept
coast sections of Louisiana and Tex
as and into the interior for miles add
but little to that already told of the
hurricane of Wednesday which rival
ed in intensity the storm of 1900. The
number killed is conservatively esti
mated at 25, twice as many more ot
less seriously injured, and the prop
erty loss is estimated at approximate
ly $1,000,000. While belated reports
may add to the list of casualties and
the property damage, other than to
isolated points, communication has
been restored.
Late despatches) add the towns of
Rock Island, Wharton and Weimer to
those which suffered to an extent
from the sweep of the wind. At
Rock Island nine of the largest build
ings were either razed or partially
wrecked, the damage being estimated
at $75,000. Fifty houses were blown
down at Weimer and the property
loss will approximate $100,000. Whar
ton suffered more than from the storm
of 1900.
" Battlesnake's Bite Fatal
Hendersonville, N. C, Special.
Pinckney Stepp, the 14-year-old son
of Mr. John Stepp, who lives about
six miles from this city on the Polk
county line, was bitten by a rattle
snake Thursday evening and died
Thursday night. . .
Pinckney and his brother were get
ting tan bark near the edge of a field.
When soma near a lam stums tha
boy was suddenly struck on the outer
8iae jn the ansie by a monstrous rat
tlesnake. The brother succeeded in
killing the snake and hurried home
wkh Pinckney, who in the meantime
became very sick. 7 The neighbors
were called and all remedies known to
the mountaineers were not in nun.
It was four miles to the nearest tele
phone, and required several- hours bo
fore a doctor could reach the house.
When the physician arrived the young
fellow was in a sad state, and died
two hours later. '
This is the first person who ' hat
been fatally bitten by a snake this
season, '
A GULF COAST URIGAI
Details of Terrible Storm Which Swept From One
End of The Gulf To The Other Whole Towns
Desolated Lower Coast Suffers Heavily.
Houston, Texas, Special. The
West Indian hurricane, which swept
from one end of the Texas Gulf coast
to the other Wednesday, claimed a
toll of 12 human lives, fatally in
juring four others and seriously
wounding 16, according to the details
of the storm, which began to arrive
here late Thursday , night. Whole
towns were devastated and the wreck
and ruin to property will amount to
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Trains, from 12 to 15 hours late,
crept into Houston Thursday and
freight trains are lost throughout the
stricken district.
The territory around Bay City
3eems to have been the centre of the
torm, which moved southwest from
Galveston. For four hours there a
70-mile wind swept across the coun
try, carrying everything before it.
About 50 per cent, of the business
section was damaged, including the
opera house, one bank, the court
house, the new high school building
and the city jail. In the jail, the
:ages were left standing and the pris
oners were exposed to view but were
safe.
Velasco, a small town near Bay
City, is reported demolished, but with
no loss of life and none injured.
Every building was unroofed or part
ly demolished and the town Thursday
was in four feet of water. People es
caped in boats from Colorado river,
a mile away.
The loss will total thousands of
dollars and in some districts reports
state that tlfe storm was worse than
the disaster of 1900, which devasted
Galveston.
Eagle Lake seems to have suffered
an a parity with Bay City, but very
few houses escaping the fury of the
storm.
Along the Brownsville road from
THE WRIGHT BROS. FLY FIFTY-FOUR MILES AN HOUR
Washington, Special. In two short
flights in the Wright aeroDlane Wed
nesday afternoon at Fort Myer, Va.,
Orville Wright closely . approached
the world s aroplane speed reeord,
attaining an average velocity of
541-2 miles an hour as computed bv
Wilbur Wright, who held the ston
watch on the machine for half a doz
en rounds of the course.
On the first flight the air eraft re
mained aloft only 1 minute and 39
seconds, the aviator being forced to
descend by losing a cog wheel on the
magneto after making his second
round of the course. On his econd
flight, after the cog had been replaced
FREIGHT TRAIN GOES THROUGH A. C. L. TRESTLE
Goldsboro, N. C, Special Consid
erable excitement was caused when it
it was learned that the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad bridge over Neuse riv
er between this city and Dudley had
given way under the weight of a pass
ing freight train, and in a short while
several hundred peoole had gathered
upon the scene- and were greatly re
lieved when it was learned that by a
miracle all the crew had escaped and
nobody was killed or injured.
The freight, which was comnosed
of some 40 loaded cars, had one of its
cars got safe across the river, but
was approaching the bridge, the eon
sequence is that one of the worst ma
terial wrecks ever seen in this terri
tory is now piled up at the above
CLOUDBl RiT CAUSES DEVASTATION IN MINNESOTA
Duluth, M inn.. Special. Following
the terrific rains of Tuesday, Wednes
day night 's cloudburst caused a scene
of devastation in Duluth. ' The lose
it is computed, will reach $1,500,000.
Three lives were lost. Two chil
dren were swept from their mother's
side in Ninth avenue, one body being
lost in a sewer, and another child was
lost in Keene 's creek at West Du
luth. PITCHED BATTLE BETWEEN
, New York, Special.-r-A pitched bat
tle was fought in Brooklyn Thursday
between immigration inspectors and
a band of 24, gypsies who were being
deported to South America. The
trouble had its origin in the refusal
of the gypsies to board the steamer
Verdi, which was to take then to
Buenos Ayres.: . v
In the heat of tbe melee mvwnlI
children of the band were injured by
reason of their parents using them as
shields. In .several instances the
parents pushed the bodies of children
against the inspectors who were try
ing: to drive them from a tug to the
Kingsville, in parts, the desolation
was nearly complete. Corn fields were
swept to the ground and harvesting
will have to be done by a hay rake.
The cotton, however, withstood the
storm well.
At Elcampo, the electric light plant
is wrecked, all elevators are badly
damaged and almost every church in
town is either demolished or wrecked.
In the oil fields around Markham,
derricks were blown down and wells
stripped of their machinery.
Six prisoners escaped from the jail
at Richmond when the windows had
been blown in and while the guards'
were repairing the damage.
At Palacios Mrs. Hogan and chil
dren were injured under the falling
brick walls of their home and were
later extricated by workmen. Their
injuries may prove fatal.
At Galveston Bay the situation is
not as bad as at first reported. No
part of the railroad bridge, which
spans the arm of the bay between the
island and Virginia Point, was wash
ed away, but some 50 feet of the
structure was thrown badly out of
alignment by a huge barge and other
small craft, which were washed from
their moorings and pounded against
the piling.
A special from Houston says while
the city suffered a property loss es
timated. at between $50,000 and $75,
000 this entire section from a crop
standpoint has been benefitted in a
most marked degree by the storm.
The cotton crop in central, south
and north-middle Texas was in a dis
tressing condition on account of the
drought. Wednesday night's rain ex
tended from the Gulf to the lowr
part of the Panhandle right through
the cotton belt of central and middlc
cest Texas, and farmers are; elated
over the probability of good yields.
A New Orleans special says eigh
teen persons dead, and sixteen seri
ously hurt and property damage ex
ceeding $1,000,000 is the grim record
resulting from the destructive sweep
of the hurricane along the Louisiana
and Texas roasts.
the aeroplane swiftl" circled a dozen
times around the course, which is
five-sixths of a mile in circumference.
Certain changes had been made in
the gearing of the motor and propel
lers to give the machine a higher
speed. The Wright brothers had de
cided to give this speed change only
a 10-minute trial Wednesday, and the
aviator brought the aeroplane to the
earth after 11 minutes in the air.
The Wrights signified that they
would be through with their work at
Fort Myer by next Wednesday, the
day that the time limit expires. They
do not anticipate that any extension
of time will be neoessarv.
scene. The engine and some twelve
cars got safely across the river, but
the derailed car took to the river, off
the high iron bridge, and 24 other
ears followed it, piling themselves one
upon another over the bridge and into
the river.
The scene is something appalling
to look upon. The steel bridge has
given way under the fearful strain
and while no lives were lost the dam
age will be heavy upon the railroad
eorapauy. A great number of the
ears were loaded with lumber, which
is now piled' up pell-mell in the river
and vicinity. It will be weeks before
the wreck can be cleared and in the
meantime the passengers and other
traffic will be transferred on a gaso
line launch.
xae entire hillside became prac
tically one great waterfall. The sew
ers, already, overflowing, were inade
quate to carry off the rushing wa
ter, and the streets and avenues
quickly turned into torrents of water
three feet .deep.
Twenty or more houses were wash
ed away along small creeks in the
city Suburbs and several narrow es
capes from drowning are reported.
INSPECTORS AND GYPSIES
steamer. One little girl waa un con
scions when the vessel sailed, with
the gypsies. '..' , . -' '. "
The gypsies believed they were to
be returned to Russia, their home and -when
they realized that they must go -back
to South America,- which coun
try they had just left, their rage knew
no bounds. : :.'v ::C&'-..---
The women fought with more fury
than . the men. : One ragged - dame
used an iron camp kettle whenever
she got within reach of a hostile head.
When the Verdi sailed, her unwill
ing passengers were huddled astern,
nursing their wounds. .