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VUL.XI.
MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1909.
NO. 33.
NORTH STATE
Items of State Interest Gathered from Here and There and
Told Briefly for Busy Readers.
Trazier Held For Jury.
Greensboro, Special. The prelim
inary hearing of James Frazier and
(John Leonard, alias John Hall, who
Lave been accused of being implicat
ed in the recent murder of Miss Ly
dia Newman, of Sumner township,
was held before Justice of the Peace
Collins Wednesday. The hearing was
held in e-,cpunty.ou. hpjjs ang
attractedan" immense crowd of peo
ple. The-.flrst case taken up was the
indictment charing Ffazier..,' with
burning Miss Newman's residence
five years' ago, and while the evidence
was considered very flimsy, the de
fendant was held-without bail for
tlje action of the grand jury. Leonard
W.I10 1 had . been . arrested foe indecent
exposure on a warrant sworn out by
the defendant's wife, Was the only
witness who gave any direct- testi
mony agaiBSt Frazier in connection
with the ureon case. He swore posi-1
tively to having seen Frazie.r set fire
to the residence on the afternoon of
June 17. 1904. The defense intro
duced twelve witnesses, several of
them being leading citizens of the
township, who swore to the good
character of Frazier and the bad
character, of Leonard. . Five of the
witnesses established an .alibi for
Frazier on the day the house was
burned.
Must Be a. Citizen of the State,
Raleigh, Special. That none but
qualified North Carolina voters can
be 'appointed to the position of rail
rpajl ..policemen by the iGovernor to
serve, in this State is, a ruling just.
macle1 by 'iArtoj-ney-Qfenefal -VT. W.
Bi-ckett. The inevstigation and con
struction of the law in this State
'was made by the Attorney-General at
the" request of Governor Kitchin, who
has been, asked by. a number--of 'the
railroad authorities, especially ' the;
Seaboard Air Line and the Southern,
ti, 'commission a number of men
'brought into this State from Virginia
atfd other States. The ruling of the
Attorney-General is under the consti
tutional requirement Mat, none.', but.
qualified voters can - hold oflice in
North Carolina, the special railroad
policeman's commission ., being held
to be within 'the purview of this con:
atitiional.--requirement. Therefore,
no.-ne can in future secure a com
mission of this kind 'from the Gov
ernor unless ...for two! years past a
resident of the State.
0$1 Moonshiner .Falls in Battle
Aiheville, Special. Sam Palmer,
a .veteran moonshiner, whom revenue
men have been seeking foryears, was
captured after a battle with, officers
in a raid ' TuesdaV. Palmer did not
surrender until he was shot, four
time?, and then only after he had
been overpowered." He'-is a block
aderlof the old school, who believes
. he has an inherent right to make
whiskey as he plehses, and who has
no hesitancy in sacrificing the lite of
any one who will question that right.
It .is not thought that any of the
wouAds will prove fatal.' A large
till 'and-outfit, .with 3,000 gallons of
beer in which Palmer was interest
ed, was captured nd' destroyed. Sev
eral hots were exchanged, but none
of thje officers was hit. All the moon
shiners made off, and it is not known
whether any except Palmer were
wounded. The posse was led by De
puty . Collectors Bendrix and Alley,
of Asheville, and Marshall, of Bry
son City. Old citizens throughout
this section. say .that never before vln
their memory 'has there been as much
illicit distilling as since the State
prohibition Jaw went into effect. .
I ,-" Big Cotton Mill.
"Wilson, ;.SpeciaL D. D. tittle,
.' president and treasurer, and H. "F.
Little, general manager, of the Mar-
ion "Manufacturing . Company have
arrived in town and wjil spend the
- week looking .after the 'building of
the $300,000. cotton mill which is un
der construction here.. Work on the
" mill is progressing rapidly. ' When
completed it will' be one oft the larg
est plants in the State. . ...
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. . Bight Men,. Were .Injured. -
Hickory, pecfal. At Brotikfield
. an overloadeffoldAgavevrwav
Tuesday afternoon .aneiSit?merrf ell
to. the floor,' a'dierance' l.of. twenty
' ' feet. 1 Wdrt'Fjiipt-tvthe eontrac
tor in charges of he 'Work,' was Mr
Verely cut an.bruised ahoyhe .f.'ace,
' and all the ;,. otjiers ( bruised "and
scratched. w.V bbnes' wenlppken,'
alflrtuglr'the men fell amon tang
ledVap o.neyy 'beams md timbers.
' Mr. 1 Elliott .was brought" to1 his home
and the gashes' on 'his- face stitched
up.! The otheitfescaped with bruises
.and a few sprains, " V- ' "' '
NEWS NOTES
Young Davidsonian Bound Over on
Charge of Forgery.
Mooresville, Special. J. F. Saw
yer, a young man of about 20 year3
of age of Davidson, came to Moores
ville Saturday and went to the Moor
esville Loan and Trust Company to
secure a loan of $105. He presented
as collateral a note purporting to- be
legally signed by himself and three
other men. Mr. E. C. Deaton,-' to
wbomtj)e note -had '-been presented
tor payment, suspecte3 forgery "and
deferred payment until an, investiga
tion. The result was that; Sawyer
was arraigned before Mayor Brown
and bound over to court under a $250
bond, in default of which he went to
jail. Sawyer admitted his guilt at
the preliminary hearing.
Arrested For Embezzlement.
Marion, Special-.! Somewhat of a
sensation was caused here Thursday
when it became known, that Sheriff
Washburn, of McDowell county, had
returned from Canton with J. R.
Hawkins, a lumber dealer, as a pris-
oner and landed him in the jail here
on the charge of embezzling $1,250
from E. R. Hill, the Marion repres
entative of John P. Shearer & Son,
of Philadelphia, lumber dealers.
From what can be learned Hawkins,
while buying-lumber for' this com
pany at Cannon, is .alleged to have
sent notices of lumber bought to the
headquarters of tlift company here
and kept 4he money sent for same
for his own use. No time has been
set for the preliminary hearing. Pless
M'& Winhorne have been employed to
prosecute the case. Hawkins has not
as yet retained counsel. The defen
dant is! well connected here.
n "Qf C. D:" Sounds Ones More.
"-Bcrffitort, Special. The steamship
Arapahoe, of the Clyde Lhie, for
Charleston and Jacksonville from
New York, broke her tail shaft
ceived at this-statiou pt o'clock,
and reported :by wireless message, re
ceived at this statio nat 4:30 o'clock,
Jbat' she was drifting helplessly. The
ship at the time that she flashed her
"O, Q.D." was 21 miles southwest
of Diamond Shoals lightship. The
wind was strong from the northeast
and was drifting the ship in shore.
She was heavily loaded and had quite
a n.umber "of passengers on board.
The Iroquis, of the same line, was
4ent ..and . arrived in por,t with the
Arapahoe in tow.
' ' Caught By Belt.
Greensboro, Special. Mr. L. ;A.
DeWitt, superintendent of the
Greensboro Furniture Manufacturing
Company, was the victim of a -painful
and serious, accident Thursday.
While attempting to put a belt on
the main line. -shaft his left arm was
caught in the machinery and he was
hurlfed around the shafting several
times with great force, his left arm
being broken in three places. He was
removed to St. Leo's Hospital and
given medical attnetion. Mr, De
Witt's injuries are of a serious na
ture tand -his physicians say he will
be confined to the hospital for several
weeks.
North Carolina Navigators Drowned.
Boston, Special. When the naval
tug Nezinscott, Captain Thomas E.
Evans, founded in the gale of Rock-
port Wednesday .afternoon four of
her crew lost their lives. Both of the
white men, Dr. Charles F Trotter,
acting assistant naval surgeon, and
C. L. Taylor, a seaman, are natives
of North Carolina. Trotter entered
the naval service from Franklin N..
C, last April and was on duty at the
naval hospital at Portsmouth, N. H.
Taylor was? nativ.i of Henderson-
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vine, in. I., ana iuhuu me my niuuuu
the world on. the- battleships Wicon
$in and Illinois. .
. Gay.' Old Bird Landed.
Wadesboro, Special. News
hai
reached here of the arrest at Hinton,
W. Va., orDr.jA E.-.Cline on the
-charge of passing worthless checks.
Cline is now in jail, and will be held
for .triaL His girl-wife, formerly a
Miss Cook, to whom he was married
only a short time ago in Gainesville,
Fla., has returned to her parents".. ,
' Governor i Joiesboro. ;. : h
Sanfordi Special--Governoi? Kitch
in addressed an old soldiers'; reunion
at Jonesboro at noon Tuesday.' Fully
3,000 : people were prWest and after
the address the old soldiers, number
ing about One hundred an fifty, were
served with a picnic dinner - in, tho
grove, G'overnof . Kitchin was met- at
Sanford,i where he spent the night,
by- Idelegatioij from , Jpnesboro and
was escorted by a beautiful float
tri.mrned 'in hationar colors containing
a select-ch9h, of Sanford young hui
dies wlio made the welkin ring with
j Dixie and other appropriate songs.
FARMERS' STATE CONVENTION
Four Days Session, Aug. 24-37
Railroads Give Special Rates.
Raleigh, Special. The Farmers
State Convention will meet here Aug.
24th to, 27th, inclusive.
A reception committee, of which
W. C. i-.theridge is chairman, will
meet all trains arriving at the Union
Station Monday evening, Tuesday
and Wednesday. When you get off
the train, look for men with badges:
"Reception Committee," or for sign:
"Headquarters, Reception Commit
tee, State Farmers' Convention," and
make yourself known. The committee
will take care of you.
Those who prefer will be assisted in
securing satisfactory accommodations
ia the city, while those who wish to
room at the College will be escorted
there and provided with rooms free
and meals at cost. Those who intend
rooming at the College should notify
Mr. E. B. Owen, West Raleigh, when
they will arrive, but failure to do this
need not prevent anyone from secur
ing a room at the college on his arriv
al. Those expecting to room at the
College should bring towels and pil
lars with them.
The accommodations for rooming at
the Colloge are not good, owing to
the fact that the College has no fur
niture or bedding except that furnish
ed students, but such as is there will
be at the disposal of those who wish
to avail themselves of it.
Railroad Rates.
A rate of one and one-half fare
plus fifty cents has been granted for
the Farmers' State Convention, pro
vided there are as many as one hun
dred persons attending the meeting
holding properly receipted certifi
cates. Information, sample certificate and
programs may be secured from the
Secretary or E. P. Owen, Registrar
of the College, West Raleigh, N. C,
upon application.
T. P.. PARKER, Sec.
PROGRAM.
TUESDAY. AUGUST 24.
11:00 a., m. Address of Welcome
by Major W. A. Graham, State Com
missioner of Agriculture; Annual ad
dr?ss by the President of the Conven
tion. 2:15 p. m. Reclaiming Soil, Mr. R.
W. Scott, Alamance County;; Discus
sion by Mr. J. P. Wyatt, Wake Coun
ty; The Crime of Gulleying, Prof. C.
L. Newman, A. and M. College; Dis
cussion by Mr. R. W. Pou, Iredell
County; Crop Varieties and Soil
Types, Mr. J. L. Burgess, State De
partment of Agriculture ; Soil Preser
vation, Mr. E. E. Miller, Managing
Editor Progressive Farmer; General
Discussieu.
8:00 p. m. Progress in Agricultu
ral Edueation, President D. H. Hill,
A. and M. College; Agriculture's
Debt to Science (Lantern Lecture),
Dr. F. L. Stevens, A. and M. College.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25.
7:30 to 10:00 a. m. Live-stock
Judging: Cattle, Prof. John Mich
els; Horses, Dr. W. G. Chrisman;
Hogs, Prof. R. S. Curtis; Poultry,
Prof. J. S. Jeffrey.
10:00 a. m. How to Make Two
Bales of Cotton to the Acre, Mr. W.
A. Simpkius, Wake County; Discus
sion by Mr. T. J. W. Broome, Union
County, What Shall the Farmer Do
With His Cotton Seed? State Chemist
B. W. Kilgore, State Department of
Agriculture; Discussion by Mr. W. D.
Trotman, Iredell County; Peanuts as
a Farm Crop, Supt. T. E. Browne,
Hertford County; Discussion by Mr.
Thos. W. Blount, Washington County.
2 :15 p. m. Doubling the Corn
Yield, Mr. C. R. Hudson, , State De.
monstration Agent; Discussion by
-Mr.. John F. Latham, Beaufort Coun
ty; Inects -Injurious to Corn; Prof. R.
I. Smith, A. and M. College and Ex
periment Station j Preparation of
Land for Corn, Mr. B. S. Skinner,
Superintendent College Farm; Dis
cussion, by Mr. : J. D. Sessoms, Cum
berland 'County; General Discussion
by all Corn Growers. ,
8:00 p.' in. The importance of Edu
cation in Agriculture, Mr. F. S.
White, Commissioner of Agriculture,
Rock Island and , Frisco Lines, St.
Louis, Mo.;; Farm Methods, Dr. Si A.
Knapp, IT. S. Department of Agricul
ture. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26.
7:30 to 9:30 a. m. Dairy- Demon
stration at College Dairy. ,
- 9 :30 a., m. "Dairy Development .in
North Carolina, Mr. J. A. 'Conover,
State Department of Agriculture ; Dis
cussion by Mr. W. W. Finley, Wilkes
County; Economical Feeding of. Dairy
Cattle, Prof. John Michels, A. and M.
College and Experiment Station ; Nec
essity of Good Farm' Equipment, Mr.
John W. Bobineon,Catawba County;
Discussion by Mr. W. vC. Andrews,
Orange. County; Feeding Cotton-seed
Meat to Horses .and Hogs, Prof; R. S.
Curtis, "Experiment Station; Sugges
tions for' Selecting a Breeding Ani
mal, Dr. W. J. Hartman, State. De
partment of Agriculture...; t. v
2:15 p. m. Legumes bb , Farm
Crops, Mr.' T. B.Parker.-State "De
partment of Agriculture; Discussion
by Mr. C. C. Moore, Mecklenburg
W. C. Riddick, A. and M. College;
County; Building Good Roads, Prof.
Factors Affecting the Maturity of
Corn. Director C. B. Williams, Ex
periment Station; Grasses and Hay
making, Mr. R. L. Shuford, Catawba
County; Agricultural Extension
Work," Prof. I. O. Schaub, A. and M.
College.
8:00 p. m. Improvement of Farm
Homes, Mr. Franklin Sherman, Jr.,
State Denartment of Agriculture.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27.
7:30 to 9:30 a. m. Demonstration
of Tests for Tuberculosis in Cows,
Doctors Hartman, Roberts and Chris
man. "
9:30 a. m. Commercial Fruit
Growing, Prof. W. N. Hutt, State De
partment of Agriculture; Lettuce
Growing in Eastern Carolina, Mr. W.
H. Brav, Craven County.
2:15 "p. m. Handling and Selling
tobbaco, Mr. J. O. W. Gravely, Nash
County; Improvement of State Horti
culture. Mr. S. B. Shaw, State De
partment of Agriculture; Election of
Officers and Other Business.
WASHINGTON NOTES
At an extended conference Friday
night with Secretary Nagel, of the
Department of Commerce and Labor;
Pastmaster General Hitchcock and L.
Dana Durand. Director of the Census.
President Taft at Beverly, approved
the appointment of 330 supervisors
of the thirteenth census. The list
had been prepared here for the Pres
ident and the qualifications of every
man inquired into.
There has been marked discontent
among some Southern Republicans
over the decision of the President to
divide the census patronage in the
States of the "solid South."
Col. Cecil Lyon, Republican na
tional committeeman from Texas,
who came to Beverly Friday, told the
President that he would rather have
the State put in charge of one super
visor a good Republican than to
have to divide the congressional dis
tricts with thy Democrats. Colonel
Lyon said the declaration of this pol
icy on his part held good for all of
the States. Oklahoma, he declared,
had been included witll Tennessee,
Kentucky, North Carolina and Mis
souri in the list of nearly doubtful
States that had been set apart from
the other Southern States for a full
list of Republican supervisors.
"If Oklahoma is a Northern
State," declared Colonel Lyon, "I
am in favor of moving Mason and
Dixon's line still further South to
let Texas in.1 '
Each census supervisor will have a
tremendous field force of enumera
tors under him. The supervisors wilJ
receive a salary of $2,000 and theii 1
work will extend over eight or ten
months. The States where the super
visors are divided equally between
the Democrats and Republicans are
Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Ar
kansas, Louisiana and Texas. In most
of the States supervisors are appoint
ed in each congressional district.
President Taft, it is said, laid down
the rules specially in States where
a division has been made between
Democrats and Republicans, that su
pervisors shall not be active parti
sans and that no attempt should be
made to build up political machine
out of. the census patronage.
The President appointed Charles A.
Overlook, of Douglas, Ariz., as Unit
ed States marshal for that Territory.
He also signed the commissions ol
some sixty-odd supervisors in differ
ent sections of the country and th
names of these appointees were made
public by Mr. Durand at the conclu
sion of the conference.
The list includes:
Florida: First district, Henry W.
Bishop (Republican) ; second district,
L. Lesueur Gaulden (Republican);
third district, Thomas David White,
(Democrat).
Alabama: First district, Lawrence
W. Locklin (Democrat) ; fourth dis
trict George W. Parsons (Democrat);
fifth district, William P. Cobb (Dem
ocrat; sixth district, Simeon T.
Wright (Republican) ; seventh dis
trict, James J. Curtis (Republican) ;
eighth district,. Thomas P. Wood (Re
publican); ninth district,. John T.
McEniry (Republican). . . 1
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President Taft at Beverly, talked
over the Cuban situation "for an hour
Sunday afternoon with Carlos Garcia
Velez, the island's minister to Wash
ington. .From 3 until 4. o'clock the
diplomat and the President sat . in
earnest conversation on the'- veranda
of the Taft cottage. iMr. Yclea de
clared 'after the long interview "that
ha had f5aad-President Taft deeply
interested, in Cuba and , thoroughly ,
acquainted with the ideals and ambit
ions of the people. Mr. Velez said he
realized that forces were at work in
the hope of disintegrating the repub
lie. Some of the American newspa
pers, he declared, had said unkind
things about the Cuban people which
were disheartening and discouraging
but he emphatically shook his head
and said, "No, no, no," when asked
if he thought it ever would be neces
sary for the United States again to
intervene toet the republic's house
in order.
In a letter addressed Sunday to
Secretary Nagel, of the Department
of Commerce and labor, President
Taft served notice that any man en-
gaged in the taking of the thirteenth
census of the United States who en
gages in politics in any way will be
dismissed immediately from the ser
vice. At the same time announce
ment was made of the appointment
of 134 additional supervisors. Out
side of casting their votes the Presi
dent believes that certeus supervisors
and enumerators should keep clear of
anything that savors of politics, nat
ional, State or local. In his lettter
President Taft orders that the Secre
tary of Commerce and Labor and the
director of the census embody in the
regulations governing the taking of
the census the rule as forcibly laid
down in his letter. Mr. Taft says
that in appointing census supervisors
it has been found necessary to select
men recommended by Senators and
Congressmen in their districts. He
says he realizes that this method of
selection might easily be perverted to
political purposes, and it is to take
the census out of politics, so far as
the actual work is concerned, that he
has explicitly expressed his desire as
to the regulations. The census super
visors announced from North Caro
lina and South Carolina as follows:
North Carolina First district, Jo
siah C. Meekin. Sr.; second. James M.
Newborn; third, II. Frank Brown;
fourth, William Claudius Pearson;
sixth, Irvine B. Tucker; seventh, A.
Turner Grant, Jr.; ninth, J. Yates
Killian.
South Carolina First district,
William J. Storen; second, George
Waterhouse; third, William Walker
Russell : fifth. Robert Leroy Douglas.
Predicts Heavy Business.
Washington, Special. A heavier
business than ever has been known
in a single year is looked for by
Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, for America
railroads during the present fiscal
year. The serious situation antici
pated is that there may be a shortage
of cars. The crop prospect's are con
sidered so bright that the. liklihood
is the railroads and other transpor
tation companies may be taxed be
yond their capacity to handle the
freight that will be offered to them.
Earthquake in Japan.
Tokio, By Cable. Reports received
concerning the earthquake in central
Japan Saturday afternoon show 4here
were a number of fatalities and that
great damage was. done. The dead at
prsent is said to e 30, though it is
feared that the fatalities will be
greatly increased when the outlying
districts are heard from. The num
ber of persons injured is 822. Thus
far 362 buildings, including many
temples, are reported to hav been de
stroyed and more than one thousand
others badly damaged.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The homeward rush of tourists
from London has begun.
Battleships of the Atlantic fleet be
gan the work of turning tests in Cape
Cod Bay.
Bolivians at Guapal stoned the
houses of Peruvian and Argentine
residents.
Talk of combining the Marine
Corps with the army was again re
vived In Washington, D. C.
Advices from Stockholm said that
the strike was growing; only one
paper will be printed in the capital.
Two regiments of Swedish troops
In the northern part of the country
mutinied and were confined to bar
racks. The French Government Is pleased
with Germany's exertis to Induce
Turkey to modify demands regarding
Crete.
It was reported that the Union Pa
cific has sold its Great Northern ore
certificates and thus closed out its
line of Hill stocks.
Rush of wine and other imports to
escape Increased duties will reduce
the estimated receipts under the
Payne-AIdrich tariff.
The Swedish National Labor Union
issued a manifesto announcing that
very wagon driven by a person with
out a badge would be stopped.
President Taft gave full authority
to Secretary Knox to organize the
new Far East Bureau and directed
him to proceed with. the work.-
William Peterson, a patient at the
Metropolitan Hospital, BlackweU's
Island, choked to death at the dinner
table in the presenceot forty per
oaa.,'" ' "-;"iV 1 'y:
Arthur it. Grimm' ' brought 'suit
against the Swifts, the Armours and
other meat packers, charging they
had conspired to control the retail
price of meat
SNAPPY AND BRIEF
Items Gathered and Told While
You Hold Your Breath.
SOME EVERY DAY HAPPENINGS
Lively and Crisp as They Are Gar
nered From the Fields of Action
at Home and Abroad.
A constable at Black Mountain
Saturday at 1 :30 a. m., shot two men,
John Bunting ami P. C. Collins.
Bunting is dead and Collins is severe
ly wounded. The men disturbed the
other guests in the Gladstone hotel
and the shooting followed the officers
appearance on the scene.
One man was killed and four were
injured in Philadelphia, Saturday,
by the giving away of one wheel of
their automobile which caused it to
overturn.
President Taft began his vacation
at Beverly by engaging in his fav
orite game of golf.
By an erroneous throw of a switch
one train ran into another which was
still on the siding near Memphis,
Sunday morning, and Joe Lewis, an
engineer of thirtv years experience,
was killed and several others of the
crews were badly hurt.
A celebration of. the 273th anniver
sary of the coming of the first white
man to Green Bay, Wis., was held
there on Tuesday. Tablets marking
historical sites were unveiled and the
reconstructed eld Tank cottage was
dedicated.
A dispatch from Tokio says that 457
members of the coral fishing fleet
were caught in a siiuall off Kobe and
drowned. Details of the disastrous
storm have not been received.
The annual encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic was
held In S;ilt Lake City Wednesday.
Three inspectors were suffocated
on Tuesday in a mine at Telluride,
Col., when lightning fired the build
ings at the entrance.
Peter Leibauch, of Pittsburg, sup
posed to be demented, has been dis
covered, to he the possessor of a for
tune, which he hid about his house
and lived in the greatest poverty.
Trunks full of coin, stockings full of
bills, washboiWs full of nickels,
dimes and pennies, estimated at
$100,000, were loaded into a patrol
wagon and taken to the Farmers' De
posit Bank by the police.
llenrv Roberts was president of the
Y. M. C. A. of Bristol. Va. He be
lieved high license the best solution
of the liquor question and voted
against prohibition. He was asked
to resign and has conformed to the
request.
The Dan River Power and Manu
facturing Co., and the Riverside Cot
ton Mills have combined, making one
of the biggest cotton mill corpora
tions in tht world, having a capital
of $7,000,000 with a surplus of near
ly $1.000,00flL
Hal H. Haynes, a stock farmer of
Bristol, Va., is. confident that he has
discovered the cause of blind stag
gers in horses and cattle. It is a
growth called water hemlock. It ia
fatal to man and beast.
It is now a fact that Dr. Mell will
leave Clemson College. His resigna
tion has been accepted by the board.
He will remain till the end of the
year till a successor can be secured.
Near King, Lee Bennett and Jack
Tolloston successful farmers, in
Stokes county, N. C, attempted to
settle a dispute arising from a line
between lands oil last Friday by the
use of shot guns. Some friends wero
involved in the battle and when the
smoke blew over five men were bleed
ing with wounds, two are having a
life and death battle now.
A rain and hailstorm Friday did
great damage to crops about Dan
bury, N. C.
The fear of an uprising in Merico
is subsiding.
The Cuban Minister had a confer
ence at Beverly Sunday with Presi
dent Taft on the critical situation in
the island.
The late tariff bill putting $20 a
ton on zine ore, it is said, will cut off
this trade with the United States by
Mexico. Hertofore about 150,000
tons per year have come in from
there.-
The Bell Telephone Company has
won its fight before the Corporation
Commission to arise rates in,; Ashe- .
ville and Wilmington making them -,
equal to, the rates in Charlotte and
some other cities in the State.- ;
Lncirida De"is, a eolored woman of
Louisville Ky., ate five watermellons, ;
winning a contest, but dying from the . ...
effects last week. '
Little Beridta, in tli employ of an'
amusement park at New York, Sun f.
day ..&ftejQOtt,.caBit in contct,with a
live wire in descending with: a para-
chute. 5 She was sharply burned nnd. -in
struggling to escape she spilled the
air in the parachute and 'got a harry,
fall. - ' ' . -