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I M II M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II Ml 1 1. : : ftffLy VATETRVub- ; 2fm luhtdin th County '. 1 1 7 ay tar in AdVanc Jab frilhij tnmpHr tmi Hmiij Doa 'IMIIHIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIII WINIIlOIMMIIMt j The Medium ; ; TKrongb whkH roa teach (be ; ! people tf Madison Corofy ! ! 9 ! ; ADVERTISING RAHSON AFPUCATIOIf; ; IIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIII POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N. 0., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1909. NO. 35. ladison County Record Escaped Negro Kills Four Pursuers Burning Soperton, Ga., Special. Two ne groes lynched and a posse in pursuit of the wife of one of the victims; the killing of a prominent planter, a member of the posse; the probable fatal injury of the sheriff of Mont gomery county and tho wounding of four other members of the posse summarizes the result of one of the most exciting man-hunts this section has ever known. Ben Clark, an escaped convict from the Bibb county chaihgang, was shot to death after a fierce battle early Friday morning and his body burned. The negro threatened to kill Nicho las Adams, a merchant of Kibbe, "and a hundred others." John Sweeny, who horbored the ex-convict, was taken from a pas senger train a mile from Tarrytown Friday night and lynched. The posse then set out in search of Sweeney's wife, who, it is said, was in the neighborhood. Intense ex citement prevails thrughout this section. PEONAGE CHARGES AGAINST STEEL CAR. COMPANY. Pittsburg, Special. The first tes timony offered in the federal govern' ment investigation into the charges of peonage against officials of the Pressed Steel Cor company in Scto enville, whose 3,500 employes are on strike, in which, it was alleged, force was used to compel imported work ingmen to work, developed late Thursday. The Prossed Steel Car company's attorney attempted to hold the man who testified that hr. was made to work against bis will, but this was prevented by the Austro Bugarian consul attorney and the as sistant federal district attorney. All testimony was taken Thursday in the form of affidavits. From the first dozen witnesses called, little in formation upon which to base peon age charges was elicited, the wit nesses for the greater part declaring that their food had been bad and their treatment rough, but citing no definite persons' as being responsible. Alexander Friedman, a Hungar ian of New York, was the witness who made the sensational charges of the day. He said he was brought here 15 davs ago with 100 other men from New York and alleges they were '''broirght under false impressions. He nald the workmen were given to un derstand there was no strike at the works of the Pressed Steel Car com pany. He said be was in the plant before he learned of the strike. Freid- ENGLISH AVIATOR. BREAKS Rheims, By Cable Henry Farman, the English aviator, a hitherto un known quantity in the aviation con tests, in a biplane of his own design, broke the world's record for duration of flight and distance in a heavier-than-air machine Friday and won the . grand priz de la Champagne the en durance test by a remarkable flight officially recorded as ISO kilometres (111.78 miles), in 3 hours, 4 minutes, 56 &5 seconds. He actually covered an extra ten kilometres and remained 'in the' air ten minutes after 7:30 o'clock in the afternoon,' tbt hoar that , the time keepers, under the rules, ceased to keep a rcord of the flight..- . - Although Farman 's brilliant record as an aeroplanist should have warned' GULF STORM DpES DAMAGE -. Brownsville, . Tex, Special. After spending the night at the quarantine station at Tarpon beach, refugees brought to the mainland Friday by the life-saving crew from. Brazos' de Santiago, tell of damage to the Pedro and Brazos islands aq a result of the gulf storm, which swept inland Thursday ,night. At Tarpon beach COLORED KNIGHTS AVERT Kansas City, Mo., Special. Swing ing their swords above, the heads of the belligerents, and declaring that unless the trouble ceased 4hey-would use them, a company of negro Knights of Pythias Friday prevent ed whit promised to be a race riot during a parade of the -Supreme ' Lodge of the Knights of .- Pythias. The, trouble began when W. S. Jar boe, a laundryman, accompanied by bis wife, wrove 'through the parade of 6,000 negro Knights, at Twelfth and Central streets. .. Several negroes I One and Wounds Lynching and Follows, James Durden, a prominent planter and member of the possee which captured Clark, was shot and in stantly killed. The other members of the posse who were shot bv Clark were: Sheriff James Lester, Walter Simmons and three others unknown. The officer received an ugly wound in the breast. The posse found Clark by going into Sweeny's house. Sweeny's wife was at borne, but bweeny was absent, The sheriff called on Clark to sur render.' For answer be recived a 44-enlibre bullet fired from a rapid fire gun. Durden was shot and other mem bers of the posse fell before tho torrent of lead dealt by the negro. He continued to fire until his ammu nition, was exhausted. He was then overpowered and his body riddled1 with bullets. He wore a steel broast- nlate that turned Winchester bullets. A pile of logs was covered with crude turpentine and tho body cremated. Sweeny was caught near here Fri day afternoon. He was carried aboard a northbound train to a se cluded vod near Tarrytown, where bis body was riddled with bullets after being swung to a sapling. man alleged that the car company picked out the strongest looking im ported workingmen and made guards of them. He testified these guards handled the men in a rough manner. Friedrnqn stated that he had been at work in the plant a few days when he was asked if he did not want to make some overtime money, and when he replied 'affirmatively, he wa taken o the kitchen and. told to work there. Friedman said he ' refused. After so doing, he stated, he was roughly handled by the workingmen guards. Friedman said the workmen guards then took him before company offi cials and asserted the officials said they should compel him to work in the kitchen. This they succeeded in doing, according to the witness, who wns also told that his pay for the hours' enforced work would be his suppe. Freidman did not claim he had been forced to stay inside of the car plant, but stated he could point out men who had been compelled to re main at work against their wills. United States District Attorney Jordan refused to comment on tbt disclosures, but it is now said by those in a position to know that suit in peonage charges will more than likely be filed against minor, officials of the car plant within the next ten days. THE RECORD AT RHEIMS the sharps that he was a dangerous competitor, .his victory was a com plete surprise. He had been prepar ing his machine secretly and had not appeared upon the field until Fridav except for a few practice flights, and had 'been jrimosi forgotten. Indeed, after he started about 4:30 p. m., keeping close to the ground, while Lenham and others were soar ing in spectacular fashion high in the air, Farman attracted no atten tion until he had; flown 80 kilometres. Then suddenly the watchers woke up and began to make inquiries, only to discover that he had gone out carry ing petrol enough for a 5-hour flight, and equipped with a self-cooling re volving motor built by the Gnome Company after his Own design. ; PEOPLE BARELY ESCAPE every building except the lightnourse and quarantine station" we're either damaged or destroyed but, so far as ascertainable, no lives were lost. The greater damage, it is stated, was the result of the high waves, the wind not attaining a violent velocity. Fur niture and wreckage . of .buildings washed ashore at Point Isabel, Fri day, three miles across, the bay. RIOT WITH DRAWN SWORDS not in the line of march, seized the bridle of the hOrse. "You can't pass here," they shouted. Mm. Jar boe seized a whip and struck at the men. Instantly; a hundred excited negroes erowded about ' the' wagon. One wrested the whip from' the wo man, striking her a number of times and inflicting painful bruises. Many white men "rushed to the aid of the laundryman. A riot call wjs sent to the police headquarters, but before the police arrived, the armed Knights had restored order. ; ; : 1,200 ARE DROWNED Great Loss of Life By Flood in Mexico. MEXICAN RIVER ON A RAMPAGE Deluge of Bain, Descending For Forty-Eiht Bonn, Causes Overflow of tn Banta Catarina River, and Pos sibly Throe Hundred Lives Are Bacrificsd. Monterey, Mexico, Special Twelve hundred persons drowned, 15,000 homeless and property damage to the extent of $12,000,000, is the result of a flood which struck this city between 1 and 2 o'clock Saturday morning. Word from Laredo, Texas, reached this city J.ate in the afternoon of ono of the most, disastrous floods that' has ever been experienced ( in northern Mexico caused "By the overflow of the Santa Catarina river. According tb rumors there has been great loss of life, estimated at 100 to 300, and the financial damage is estimated at any where from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. For the past 96 hours a varitable de luge of rain fell, which together with the flow of water from the adjacent mountains into the Santa Catarina, river, so swelled the stream that it reached a width of a mile and a hal! and completely overflowed certain portions of the city of Monterey,, and wrecking houses, and causing loss of life as it rampaced on its mad course. Reports state that the current in the river was so swift that it appeared to the stricken families who lived in the vicinity to be a miniature Niagara. Information reaching hero through reliable sources states that so severe was the flood that the inhabitants in the vicinity of the flooded stream barely had time to flee for their lives; that the onrush of waters carried away their homes and rhattles and in many eases drowned the occupants the Jacales or small huts used by the natives. It is said that a chaotic con dition exists and that the plazas are crowded with the poor homeless na tives who were providentially allowed to escape with their lives. Saturday night every effort was made by the kind-hearted citizens to shelter the women and children. Their homes were thrown open to the suf ferers; the police station, many of the hotels and private clubs as well as the rooms of several organizations were placed at the disposition of the authorities and for the greater part the women and children were cared for. Howovcr, many of the men were compelled to sleep in the open in the various plazas. Many women had been separated from their husbands, mothers from their children, without knowledge of the whereabouts of one another,- and scenes of the most pro found grief are witnessed on all hands. While as yet there is no scarcity of food and the city is amply able to care for its destitute, there is fear of a shortagle in the near future. There have been several washouts along the line of the National Rail way between Laredo and Saltillo, Mex., and not a train has entered the city of Monterery for the past 72 hours. There has thus far been no attempt to inter the dead. They are being plaeed along the banks of the river, where an impoverished morgue has been constructed, and there await identification. The bodies are guard ed by soldiers. Automobile Party Killed. v St. Louis, Special. Five persons were killed Sunday when an automo bile in . which they were riding was struck by a fast passenger train of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway west of Vigues station, 'St. Louis county. All were residents of St. Louis. The dead: Theodore F. Witte, Theodore F, Witte, Jr, aged 3 years, Ifrs. Carl Khnge, Miss Hal cyon Campbell, Frederick O. Witte. The men were brothers and , officials of the Witte ' Hardware Company. Mrs. Klinge was their sister-in-law. The party had been at Creve Coeur lake, a resort 12 miles west of the city and were speeding homeward when killed. , V ' - ' Dynamite Explosion Fatal. -'Key West, Fla., Special Aa a re sult of the explosion of . 700 pounds of dynamite at Bocachica, 12 miles from Key West on the Florida East Coast Railway, ten men are dead and ten others probably fatally wounded. The. explosion-was caused by a mem ber o ft'Ue railroad construction force carelessly- throwing lighted - cigar ette into a box of fuses. Nine of the workmen v met in?tfnt, death and the tenth died while beiug brought to the boppitrt hcre.'V The men were ' hurled high into the t.ir and tho- bodicV of ( the dead" win almost beyond rccogni-, tion. . ; . ;- '.-, MEXICO'SMLAMITY Number of Dead May Reach 2,000 800 Are Found River Subsided and Desolation Visible Relief For the Suffereing Diaz Sends $30,000. Laredo, Tex., Special. While con iitions are gradually being brought back to normal, it will be many days before Monterey will resume its wonted tranquility. The various organized relief corps we busy and committees and sub committees are engaged in seeing to the various details of rescue and re lief work. Committees are endeav jring to secure identification of the lead bodies, while other committees re charged with the onerous duty it seeing to the sheltering and feed ing of the thousands of uncomplain ing homeless, who wander distracted about the scenes of the flood, hoping against hope that they may be able lo encounter missing loved ones or t least recover their bodies and give tbem Christian burials. Too much cannot be said in com mendation of the authorities for the prompt steps they have taken to vercome the chaotic conditions that jxisted for fully two days. It is necessarily almost impossible to accurately state the number of lead at this time. Thus far it is accurately known that slightly over eight hundred bodies have been re covered. Of this number about 30 per cent have been identified and were iiiterred during the morning and late afternoon. The others will be interred by the city authorities if not identified soon. Press reports have estimated the loss of life at anywhere from 400 to 1,2000 lives, but private individuals rent ure figures even more astounding. k prominent capitalist in Monterey, Pedro Trevino, says tho death roll will eventually reach 2,000. There are several little pueblocitos, r small villages, containing from 50 :o 100 inhabitants, located along the aank.s of tho river to the south of Monterey and it is reported that chese have been completely wiped out ind the inhabitants drowned. It is on this ground that Mr. Tre vino places his estimate of the loss )f life at a higher figure than has ye been stated. A Monterey dispatch Sunday night -ays with eight hundred bodies re covered and buried in Monterey up lo nightfall, two thousand is now the estimate of the city authorities of :hose who lost their lives throughout the valley of San Catarina river. The number of homeless, many destitute, is placed at 15,000 and 20,000. The river has now cone down and I he danger is over. Teu thousand persons are being fed 3n bread, coffee and soup by the mu nicipal authorities, and the American consulate is giving food to all who apply. Thousands of persons have taken refuge in the cathedral and the shurches. The greatest loss of life is said to have been caused by the giving away 3f the reservoir dam. Monterey is situated in a cup-like valley and is surrounded on three sides by mountains. Tho water rush ed into this valley down the bed of the Santa Catarina river. This stream is ordinarily 150 yards wide, but with the advent, of the flood its banks were fully three-quarters of a mile apart, It is estimated that eighteen inches of rain fell. The Federal authorities hero are busy with the organization of relief measures. , Theatrical pertormances ond other means are being planned. Subscription places have been opened all over Mexico City and the other cities, of the republic are responding to the call for assistance. President Diaz telegraphed $30,000 to Monterey. Vive President Corral has contributed $2,000 and Ambassa dor Thompson $1,000 to the fund. Others are contributing liberally, a public subscription list having been opened in all parts of the republic. American Schooner Wrecked. Galveston, Tex., Special The Brit ish steamer Lugane arrived at this port Sunday bringing Capt. W. Q. VTaldemar- and six members of the crew of the American schooner Isaac T. Campbell, from Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Galveston with asphalt, which was wrecked in the gulf last Thursday by the tropical hurricane, that later veered inland over Mexico. ? Never Ate Com. Products. ' Atlanta, Ga., Special. A case of pellagra, the victim of which claims she had never eaten eornbread or any corn products, was revealed Sunday in the death of Mrs. Kate Uarto. ur. Frank Eskridge, who claims to hive treated many cases of the disease, says, he doubted his own diagnosis and thought she might be a victim of f sprue, ' - a disease known to t he tropics, witn symptoms resembling those of pellagra. He called in a physician who had had years or ex perience In the tropics' ancTTonnd that his original, diagnosis "was correct. I am convinced now,'' , ne says, it Ana nnt mbii fro mnstv corn.' KILLED INjiELF DEFENSE Lad of 17 Shoots Han Found Rum . maging in His Father's House. Asheville, Special. Ben. W. Mor ris, Jr., son of B. W. Morris, a youth about 17 years of age and well con nected in the county, who Wednes day night shot and killed Joe Capps, a white man, whom he found rum maging in the Morris homestead about five miles from the city was ecquitted by a coroner's jury on the grounds that he shot in self de fense. There were no witnesses to the affair except Morris, who testified that he was out at the barn at his place, there being no others at home, and hearing a noise at the house, he started there and found a man, un known to him, in the house destroy ing the furniture and chinaware, part of which he was throwing out of the window. Capps, who appeared to be either drunk or in a frenzy, threatened to kill him if he entered the house, Morris secured the shot gun from a neighbor, entered by the front door and was met in the hall by Capps, who had worked through the house. A scuffle ensued. After some min utes Morris was able to throw Caps off him out of the house. Capps tried to enter again, making threats and holding an open razor in his hand, a razor he had got in ran sacking the house, and would not heed warning of Morris, to have the place, when Morris leveled the gun and fired, Capps falling over and died shortly. The house was badly ransacked and things thrown into confusion. Ben Morris Arrested. Asheville, Special. A warrant was sworn out Saturday afternoon by John Capps, father of Joseph T. Capps, who was killed by Ben. W. Morris, Jr., late Wednesday evening, charging Morris with the murder of Capps. Morris who was the only wit ness before the coroner, made it a case of selft-defense, but other wit nesses are to be examined. Mattamuskeet Railroad. Washington, Special. A large delegation of citizens left here Wed nesday morning for Swan Quarter to be present when the Governor and Council of State are making their in vestigation in Hyde county and dis cussing the advisability of continu ing the Mattamuskeet Railroad, which the State is now building be tween Fairfield, Hyde county and Belhaven, from BelHaven to this city, instead of stopping the road at Bel haven. The continuing of the road to Washington and making this city its terminal means much to Washing ton and her various commercial in terests and every pressure will be brought to bear on the State officials and every inducement offered by our citizens to get this road. "Near-Beer" Was Plain Beer. Durham, Special W. T. Rigsbee, the richest young man in Durham, was fined $500 Tuesday for retailing liquor. Other cases against him were nol-prossed. Rigsbee owned a near beer stand, whereat Detective Mey tield, of Roanoke, bought drinks, which analysis showed to be commer cial beer. There was a conference with City Attorney Everett, who Agreed to accept the settlement men tioned. In the trial of the case, Fernie Foster, a negro, had made affidavit that he was promised im munity for turning State's evidence. Attorney W. B. Guthrie, represent ing him, asked for his release. As sociate Counsel Holtoni for the State, interposed a remark which provoked hot 'words, with the result that Guthrie struck Holton and spat in his face. Youth Shot by Accident. Hamlet, Special. Halbert Stewart, a young man about 18 years of age, was accidentally shot and painfully but not seriously injured Sunday night. The accident occurred in the fab of Conductor F. B. Hall, of the Seaboard, while the revolver was in his coat pocket. It is sup posed the hammer of the gun became entangled l ntne lining or the pocset and was discharged. Counterfeiting Charged. Winston-Salem, SpeoiaL Counter feiting, although on a small scale, OerhaDS. is charged , against E. R. Butner, of Tobaccoville, this county; also W. G. Lane, his brother-in-law, is in the foils, suspected of being an accomplice. ; Butner is charged with trying to pass a crudely "raised" si bill to $10, When Butner was search ed another bill was found upon him which had been "lifted?' from $10 td $20. ' Clippings . from V;.' Confederate KJlla VmA hoan nofld to turn the trick. Butner claims to be a . cattle dealer while Lane says he is a laborer. NORTH STATE NEWS Items of State Interest Gathered and Told la Brief. CONFEDERATE REUNION. Two Days of Greeting and lffagifag in Joyous Reunion of North Oaro-' Una Veterans of the Lost Cause. Charlotte, Special. Veterans be gan to arrive Tuesday night for the State Confederate Reunion held here on Wednesday and Thursday. Gen. Carr and staff were on hand and Ad- ; jut ant Gen. London was especially active and skillful in executing the program as published. At the morning session, in the Academy of Music the packed house was spell-bound with the speeches of Chief Justice Clark and ex-Governor Jarvis, not to mention the happy ' greetings in the welcome addresses and the responses. At the afternoon session the for mer officers were all re-elected by ac clamation. A motion was carried to appoint a committee to see to the work of securing a slab at the grave of each soldier buried at the Soldiers' Home at Raleigh. Also the commit tee was continued that has in charge the work looking to suitable monu ment to the memory of the women of the State, who bore so much of the burden of the great Civil War. " At 8 o'clock the" ' veterans and ! their families were admitted to Vaneo Park and enjoyed a treat of music, recitations and refreshments. On Thursday morning mustered for the last time on Charlotte soil to , march to the notes of "Dixie" and the roll of drums, in the wake of tattered banners eloquent of martial conflict, 1,085 Confederate soldiers fell into line behind their mounted leaders astride spirited chargers and treated a large crowd to an unusual spectacle, eliciting cheers from men and hand-clapping and 'kerchief waving from ladies onlooking. With General Carr was bis staff, on the left being Brigadier General H. A. London, of Pittsboro, and on the right Col. W. H. H. Gregory, of States ville; Major Ashley Home, of Clayton; Col. J. H. Currie of Fay etteville Major George H. Hall, of Red Springs; Major Shakespeare Harris, of Concord, who rode with little Miss Ruth Porter, who was dressed in the Confederate uniform and colors, and Major J. Y. Young, of Winston. By actual count there were .,085 veterans in the parade, many not participating. In the First Brigade were 382 men, in the Second were 453, in the Third 88, in the Fourth 70 and in carriages 92 infirm. Among the big features of the re union was the great barbecue given near Latta Park after the march un doubtedly ranks high. A crowd esti mated at 4,000 persons, not all vet erans, partook of dinner there. Tables were spread in the grove. After much work of preparation food for this large assemblage was got togeth er, cooked and served, much of the work being done by the ladies inter ested in the cause. Just as a matter of mathematical curiosity, how much do you suppose was eaten at that barbecue t Twen-ty-oce hogs, averaging 70 pounds each, 7 beeves weighing about 400 each and three goats., The guests did full justice to the repast. Equally interesting in this connec tion, are the figures of Capt. W. B. Taylor,- who, in -charge of the com missary department ,toiled early and late to provide for the material wants -of the visitors. He furnished food Tuesday afternoon for 700 man. Wednesday morning for 800 . men. Wednesday noon for 1,200 to 1,600 men, Wednesday evening for 800) men, Thursday morning for 800; and Thursday afternoon for 250. Thus it would appear that approximately 5, 000 meals were served free. Drowned in Lumber River. Maxton, Special. Mr. R. M. Forbes - while swimming in Lumber river Thursday afternoon was drown ed about 5 o'clock. Mr. Nolan White, who was with him at the time, was . unable to account for the unfortunate man's accident, as Forbes had told him he could swim. He was a Scotch man and had just arrived recently to make his home with, Mr. James McBride and' to learn f arming., , :.- Freight Wreck Near Glbsonvilta. Durham,' Special.-The eastbound passenger train between , Asheville and Goldsboro was delayed five; hours Wednesday evening owing to the wreck of a freight headed to wards : Goldsboro near Gibsonvilla in the afternoon. EighUen ears piled themselves in pairs along, the tracks, the wreck being caused by broken trucks.' Barrels of flour were scattered by the way and the track was .badly torn up. One brakeman, whose name was not learned, waa bruised badly. ' ' - " i f W fit 'A to r, i-V