MIIIIII1IIIHIIIIMIIIIMI 4 ntfLy TA.TK'R Tub- Madison County Record. -T6e Medium ; ; Through which you reach the ; W people of Madison County A ; ; ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION . lis bed in ihe County" t t JSl a year in Advance t T Job PrinlmJ Promptly nd Netly Done nininiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii wHiiniiiiimiiniiiiiin POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. . , . , VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N.C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1909. i NO. 50. NORTH STATE NEWS Alleged to Have Two Wives. Kinstcn, Special. Phillip H. How ard yas arrested Thursday night by Sheriff Nuun and placed in jail to await the coming of an officer from Cheraw, S. C, wher he is wanted to answer to the charge of bigamy. The woman with whom Howard is alleged to have contracted the bigamous mar riage is Miss Bessie Cullom, whe with her father and mother lived in this city up until about a month ago -when tiiey moved to South Carolina Howard followed them there and married the girl and a few days age lett, returning to ins oin aome in iuu ity. Officers notified the sheriff oi ...bis crime and had him arrested. How ard some years ago sreved a term on the county roads for fornication and adultry. He has a wife and a num ber of children living in this county but with whom he has not liver for Tive or six years. Wife of Chief Justice Clark Dead. Raleigh, Special. Mrs. Clark, wife of Chief Justice Walter Clark of the North Carolina Supreme Court, died at noon Friday. She had been criti ally ill with pneumonia for several days, but there was such improvement during the past 24 hours that two of her brothers, Maj. John W. Graham of Hiflsboro and Dr. George W. Gra ham of Charlotte, had left for their homes, assured that she had good prospect for recovery. However, a sinking spell, such as she had ex . perienced several times in the pasi few days, came on and there was not left sufficient vitality for her to rally from its affects. Mrs. Clark was 53 years old. She was the daughter of Hon. W. A. Graham, one of the mot distinguished men in the early his tory of the State. She is survived by her distinguished husband, seven children. Methodist Appointments. Charlotte, Special. Sdmoxvhat of a shakeup in Methodist circles was cre ated SV-J-Jnesday when, after communicating with Bishop James Atkins, iRev H. K. Byer, presiding elder of the Charlotte district, an nounced that Rev. E. L. Bain, pastor of the Trinity Methodist church here, would be sent to Statesvflle to be come presiding elder of that district. The change was rendered possible by the recent death of Rev. John N. Huggins, presiding elder of the Statesville district, Sunday night The new pastor for Trinity church here will be Rev. A. W. Plyler, for mer presiding elder of the Asheville district, and who last year devoted Ins time to study at Chicago Univer Southern Railway Shops Install Big Air Compressing Plant. Spencer, Special. What is believ ed to be-one of the largest plants lor compressing air to be found in the South has just been completed for the Southern Railway Company : nits big shops at Spencer. The ca pacity of the plant, which is complete in all respects, is 2,500 cubic feet per minute which is more than double the size of he plant heertofore in opera tion in Spencer. The air will be used for drilling and other purposes in the shops here. Tobacco Fair Abandoned. Durham Spceial. The tobacco men, board of trade and merchants' association have abandoned the coun ty tobacco fair for the present sea son. Ther wasn't a lack of enthu siasm, but a growing belief that the finest Weed to be sold here, has beer, brought, or a part of the best, it was deemed unfair to those who raised an occasional barn " of brag tobacco and sold it for $35 a hundred, should lose the right to compete. - Fire Loss About $5,000. r a I ful survey of the damage wrought Sunday night by the fire which de stroyed the J. F. Hedrick livery stables shows that Mr. Hedrick is out about $5,000. He carried $2,000 in surance. A very large quantity of feed, including over 100 bushels of corn, was burned. JNot a thing was saved from the 'flames but the office of life and limb, desk. Fall From Power Pole. Charlotte, Special. J. Laurin Janes, whose home is said to be in Durham, is at the Presbyterian Hos pital as the result of a fall from a polo of ths Southern Power Company near Pineville, eleven miles south of Charlotte. The young man's hold was loosened by an' almost fatal shock received in the right arm while he was high in mid air. It is believed the fall saved his life, for tbe strength of the curreut was such that more than momentary con taeh would certainly have meant death. Jones' arm was broken by the fall. Items of State Interest Gathered I and Told In Brief. DR. F. A. COOK. dew Attack Upon Him His Lawyer Withdraws Defended by His Doc tor and Copenhagen divine In a Maine Sanitarium. New York, Special. The New Fork Times presents the remarkable laratives of two men, made under )ath, declaring that the were employ ;d by Dr. Frederick A. Cook, to fab ricate astronomical and other obser vations for submission to the Uni versity of Copenhagen, which is about to pass upon Dr. Cook's asser tion that ho discovered the North Pole on April 21, 1908. These men are George H. Dunkle, an insurance broker, of 31 Nassau street, New York and Capt. August Wedel Loose a sea captain of 437 Thirteenth St., Brooklyn. For their labors they were to have received jointly from Dr. Cook $4,000 with an additional bonus of $500 to Capt. Loose upon the ac ceptance of the records by the Uni versity of Copenhagen. They say that Dr. Cook had paid them only $260 when he dissappeared on the eve of the dispatch of his "records" to Copenhagen two weeks ago and his failure to pay the sum remaining due them they freely acknowledge to be their motive for coming forward with the story. Accompanying these narratives will appear copies of the affidavits of Capt. Loose and Dunkie affirming their accuracy. Another New York dispatch says Dr. Frederick A. Cook's personal law yer Henry Wellington Wack, has sev ered relations with his client. Mr. Wack refused to confirm or deny his withdrawal, but it can be affrmed on competent authority that, after a consultation with his partners, Mr. Wack wrote Dr. Cook so long ago as November 30 that he must beg him to seek legal advice elsewhere. A Copenhagen cablegram of Thurs day says Dr. Trop, rector of the Uni versity of Copenhagen, says that the charges published in The New York Times against Dr. Frederick A. Cook are based oil pure- fiction. Never theless, he added, he would accept the offer to examine the documents pre pared by Loose and Dunkle, which The Times has agreed to send to Copenhagen. Walter Lonsdale, secretary to Dr. CookM who brought the explorer's data to Copenhagen, also declared that the accusations published in New York and London against Dr. Cook were totally unfounded. Dr. Cook is known to be at Pine Tree Sanatarium at Wells, Maine, under treatment of Dr. T. S. Pitts for a bad nervous condition which Dr. Pitts says, however, is not danger ous to mind or body and he considers him as now recuperating. Cotton Ginned to December 1st. Washington, Special. There .were 8,87"8,2?7 running bales of cotton ginned from the growth of 1909, to December 1, as compared with 11, 008,661 for 1908, according to a bul letin of the census -bureau issued Thursday. These figures count round bales as half bales and exclude linters. They stand against 8,343,396 for 1907 and 10,207,868 for 1906. The proportion of th last three crops ginned to De cember 1 is 84.1 per cent, for 1908, 75.5 per cent for 1907, and 77.2 per cent, for 1906. Round bales includ ed this year are 133,919 against 201, 480 included for 1908 and 154,636 for 1907 Sea Island bales included are 77,776 for 1909 ; 68,396 for 1908, and 55,299 for 1907. The distribution of sea island cot ton by States for 1909 is: Florida 25,906; Georgia 43,118, and South Carolina 8,752 The total cotton crop for 1908 was 13,086,005, and for 1907 is 11,757,822. The corrected statis tics of the quantity of cotton ginned this season to November 14 are 3,112. 119 bales. Alabama 919,575 ; Arkansas 613, 871; Florida 55,958; Georgia 1,677, 232; Louisiana 237,663; Mississippi 666.950; North Carolina 536, IBS: Oklahoma 504,836; South Carolina 198,340 ; Tennessee 206,357; Texas 2,212,319; all other States 49,133. Two Battleships Collide. Washingtn, Special. The battle ships Georgia and Nebraska collided Thursday afternoon while engaged in tactical exercises off the Virginia capes. The effects of the collision were not serious and the two ships were able to return to Hampton Roads Frday with the entire fleet. Rivets in the two vessels were strain ed. This information came to the Navy Department Friday afternoon Shameful White Slave Trade. Washington, Special. All but in credibly revolting-are the disclosures of an international system of traffic in both the enforced and the volun tary "degradation of men and women contained in the report on the so-called "white slave trade" submitted to Congress Friday by the United States immigration commission. Shocking as is the tale of voluntary shame told in the report, extremely more so is the setting foifh of well-attested facts as to the compulsory eonsign- lent oi innocent immigrant girls to to lite of the pawd. I NICARAGUAN News Storm Center of The Day. VARYING ESTIMATES S1TUTI0N News That Zelaya Would Avoid an Engagement at Rama and, Making a Detonr, Would Strike Bluefields, Washington, Special. D3quiting news received from Nicaragua at the State Department from official and unofficial sources to the effect that there is danger of an attack by President Zelaya 's forces being made on Bluefields, where there are 150 Americans, resulted in orders being sent by wirless to the protected cruiser Tacoma with ten guns . on board and a full complement of blue jackets, to proceed under full steam to Bluefields, there to join the Des Moines and await further orders. The Prarie, now at Philadelphia, has been ordered to take on board seven hundred marines under the command of Colonel Biddle and steam as soon as possible to Colon. The importance and significance of these orders are minimized at the State Department, where it is said the Tacoma has been instructed to look out for American interests at Bluefields. A dispatch of Saturday says: This city of Bluefields, the beadquar teers of the provisional government, has been thrown into alarm by a sud den realization of the strength of the government army against which Gen eral Estrada, the leader of the insur gents, had been supposed to have been making irresistible headway. Estra da apparently has been hoodwinked by Zelaya and no one would be sur prised if the latter's troops should appear before the city at any hour. Estrada is hoping for timely aid from the United States. A staff correspondent of The As socated Press who recently arrived here has canvassed the situation and finds it less hopeful for t he insur gents than has been believed. A very recent dispatch how$r says it is the opinion of Panamans that Itesident Zelaya of Nicaragua is riding for a fall, that he is de liberately working to bring about in tervention by the United States, hav ing chosen this form of humiliation in preference to the great one of suffering defeat at the hands of revo lutionists. For the past sixteen years, during which time Zelaya has been in power, according to the statements of men now on the isthmus who are conver sant with affairs in that republic, Nincaragua has been ruled by a group of eight daring, clever and conseence less men, who have looked upon the country as their own personal prop erty. This group has grown enormously rich by a systematized pillage of the revenues of the States and of indivi duals. It is estimated that Zelava is worth about $20,000,000 gold, most of which he has invested in Brussels and London. it is said tii at wnen these men wanted a piece of property they of fered about one tenth of its value and forced them to take their offer by threats of charge of treason be fore packed courts and juries and had them shot as traitors. A break was made when Zelaya refused to be fair in the distribution of the spoils. Citizenship For Porto Ricaus. Washington, Special. Citizen ship, without serious inconvenience to the individual, should be extended to those who desire it in Porto Rico, according to General Clarence R. Ed wards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, in his annual report Sunday to . the Secretary Of War. As to whether this is to be done as a whole or by individual merit is a matter of detail. Trees For the Tnletide. Washington, Special. Does the Yuletide with its demand for Christ mas trees prove a menace to the American forests? ' This question is asked of the United States forestry service. The subject has received the serious consideration of the forestry bureau and the reply has been sent out that there need be no danger of destruction if the cutting of young evergreens for Christmas trees is done with discrimination. Mrs. Reids Cause Advocated. Washington, Special. The Bilt more postofflce affair has evidenly reached the White Bouse and made some sort of an impression oh the President. The appointment of Luther, Representative Grant's man, should have been sent to the Senate Monday, bnt it did not appear. Evi dently somebody at Asheville is put ting up a bitter fight for Mrs. Reid, the whoman who held the job. Sena tor Overman will hold up tne confir mation should the name go in, until the real state of affairs can be ascer FEDERAL CONTROL Corporations Should-be Forced to Report. SECRETARY NAGAL'S REPORT. A Federal System of Statutory Pub licity, the Secretary Believes, is the Prime Need Washington, Special. Legislation to create a department of the govern ment which would do for the whole country what the bureau of corpora tions has beeiv doing in specific in stances, and corrfpel complete pub licity in the management of inter state corporations, is one of the leading recommendations contained in the annual report of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor made public Sunday. Newer and tighter '.aws to stamp out the white slave trade, which the secretary says is an or ganized and extensive business, is the other. The secretarv recommends the fur ther development of the bureau of corporations. At the end of this fis cal year, the department still has on hand investigations of the lum ber and steel industries, .the Inter national Harvester Company, concen tration of waterpower ownership, transportation by water in the United States. It was still continuing its investigations of the tobacco indus try, the operation of cotton exchanges and Stiiie systems of corporote tax ation. ' On the subject of government con trol of the fiscal and industrial forces, Secretary Nagel says some terse things and makes some import ant recommendations. The prime need of two things is emphasized. First, re liable information upon which the government may take legislative and administrative action and second, re liable information in a concise and available form to serve for the basis of public opinion. The first step to be taken S says is an advance to ward a complete system for obtaining and making public this information. The bureau of corporations has de monstrated the value of this beyond doubt, in the limited way which it force and money available would al law. NINE FROZEN TO DEATH. Fish Boat Commodore Perry Picks Up Yawl Containing Nine Dead and Frozen Bodies of the Crew of the Bessemer and Marquette Ferry No. 2, Which Left Port Tuesday Morning. Erie, Pa., Special. With her flag at half-mast the State fiisheries boat Commodore commanding, brought to this port late Sunday the dead and frozen bodies of nine, of the crew of the Bessemer and Marquette ferry No. 2, which left Coneant, O., Tuesday morning, earying $S men ana wnicn probably foundered in the middle of Lake Lne. For the past 48 hours the Commo dore Perry has been scouring the wa ters of eastern Lake Erie for the traces of the car ferry but until a tiny ten-man yawl was slighted 15 miles off this port at 11 o'clock Sun day had almost given up hope of be XSg able to ever tell a portion of the story of the fate of the big car ferry. As the Perry came abreast of the drifting and half water-logged yawl the men gathered at the side of tbe fish boat saw that they had arived too late. The nine occupants of the boat, which was marked "Bessemer and Marquette No. 4," were frozen stiff in death. Taking the yawl in tow the Ferry mode all steam for this port. Ellis pleads Guilty. Little Rock, Ark., Special. W. Y. Ellis of Pine Bluff, Ark., whose trial on a charge of murder in connection with the' killing of N. P. Willis of In dianapolis, Ind., resulted in a mis trial, late Saturday afternoon enter ed a plea of guilty of voluntary man slaughter, appealing to the mercy of the court for a minimum prison term. The case was reopened before Judge Lea in circuit court at the instance of the attorneys for Ellin Father-in-Law For 160,000. Charlotte, N. C, Special. Sum monses have been issued by Mr. E. T. Stenerson against bis father-in-law, a weathey citizen of Baltimore, Md., and it is understood that in the civil suit which will follow in the courts of Mecklenburg the plaintiff will seek damges in the sum of $50,000, alleg ing the alienation of his life's af fections, she being a daughter of the defendant, Mr. Stenerson has employ ed Mr. T. C. Guthrie, and is deter mined to nave his case properly presented to the courts. A REVOLTING CRIME Two Women Killed and Anoth er Will Die. SAVANNAH IS EXASPERATED! $1,000 Reward by Mayor For Arrest With Evidence to Convict the Per petrator of the Revolting Deed. Savannah, Ga., Special. Victims of a revolting crime, Mrs. Eliza Grib ble, aged 70 years, and her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander, were found dead in heir home, No. 401 Perry street, west, here Friday, while a third . woman, Mrs. Maggie Hunter, found just inside the front door of the hous, is at the Savannah hos pital dying. Physicians state that Mrs. Ohland er was the victim of a criminal as sault just before she was killed. Police believe that tbe murder us ing an axe taken from the woodshed in the rear of the Gribble home, beat Mrs. Gribble to1 death, struck down Mrs. Hftnter and, after assaulting Mrs. Ohlander in the wide, long hall way where the bodies were found, fin ished his terrible work by beating in her skull with the weapon. Mrs. Gribble evidently was attack ed from behind as she sat in an easy chair reading. On the floor beside her body were found the newspaper she was reading and her spectacles. One or possibly two blows were dealt her. Her grey hair, blood mat ted, shows the imprint of the blunt ase. It is probable that Mrs. Hunter was the first to be struck down; that she met the murderer at the door as he entered and was struck before she could escape. Then the murderer, stealthily ap proaching aged Mrs. Gribble, killed her. It is believed that Mrs. Ohland er was attacked as she left her room to enter the hallway, was assaulted and killed. Mrs. Hunter's skull was crushed in and her death is a matter of but a few hours. Other theories are entertained by searchers for the murderer but the police ar proceeding on the theory that a negro man is guilty. Many en tertain this theory and reeling is in tense here because of it. Friday night Mayor Tiedeman of Savannah offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture with evidence to con--vict the slayer of these women. It is now almost cetrainly known that a negro, the negro who was at first suspected, is the guilty man. Per sons have been found who state, that this negro was seen entering the Grib ble home with the fatal axe in his 'and, and was seen closing the shut ters to the windows of the house, and to leave the premises, all at the hour when it is believed the murders were committed. This negro's description has been printed on hand bills and scattereed broadcast over the city and county with the reward offer, and all nearby towns have been notified and are on the outlook. Police officers in automo biles have covered all the roads for miles surrounding the city while posses on foot have scoured the places where automobiles could not go- Keeping Sectionalism Alive. Washington. Special. As a part of the fight being made against the ac ceptance by the government of the statue of Robert E. Lee as a perma nent addition to the Hall of Fame in the Capitol building, the Vice Presi dent Friday laid before the Senate a resolution adopted by the Michigan commandry of he Loyal Legion on November 4 This resolution charac terizes as an insult to the nation the suggestion that if the statue of Lee be rejected by Congress Virginia will withdraw the bronze statue of George Washington. Murder of Captain Rankin. Union City, Tenn., Special. In all of its brutal and bloody details, the story of the murder of Captain Quen tin Rankin t Walnut Log, on Reel foot lake, by a band of masked and armed night riders, was retold to a jury in the circuit court here Friday. Col. R. Z. Taylor, Captain Rankin's companion on the night of the mur der was the chief witness Dispute Over Division of Game Ends Fatally. Pensacola, Fla., Social. After spending a day in tbe woods on a hunt Thursday, Henry Williams and Seaborn Critehfield, well-known planters of near Bonifay, became en gaged in a quarrel in which the lat ter was instantly killed. ' They start ed a fight over the division of the game. Critehfield drew a knife and lunged at Williams, it is said, where upon the latter drew his revolver and fired, killing his adversary. Williams Wj exonerated by a coroner's jury. COTTON GOING HIGH. Eight to Twenty-five Points Advance but Eased off three to four Points. FUTURES ABOVE FIFTEEN CENTS. Liverpool Report Make Activity in Market But Heavy Realizing Holds a Check and Closing is a Little Off. New York, Special. The cotton market opened steady at an advance of 8 to 25 points which was no better than due on the strength of Liverpool and ruled very active during the early trading. There was a continuation of big outside buying, but the advanc ing tendency was held in check by tremendous realizing and after the active months had sold 17 to 18 points net, higher, establishing new high records for the season, prices eased off 3 or 4 points during the middle of the morning Saturday. The market closd easy with prices net (i points lower to 23 points higher. Receipts at the ports Saturday 26, 642 bales, against 23,471 last week and 55.978 last vear. For the week 200.000 bales, against 189,386 last week and 411,472 last year. Satur day's receipts at New Orleans 6,562 bales, against 10,011 last year and at Houston 8.031 bales, against 15,004 last year. Spot closed quiet ; middling up lands 15.20; middling gulf 15.45; no sales. Open High Low Clos. Dec 15.04 15.o9 14.91 14.93 fan 15.15 15.17 14.94 14.94 Feb 15.25x15.27 15.27 15.18 Mar 15.50 15.56 15.35 15.35 Apr 15.68x15.68 15.68 15.42 May .. ..15.80 15.85 15.65 15.65 June .. . 15.68 15.56 July .. ..15.79 15.90 15.70 15.70 Aug 15.50 15.75 15.50 15.56 Sept 13.95 14.00 13.88 13.88 Oct. . . . .13.40 13.43 13.30 13.31 "bid; x correct. RAYNER FLAYS ZELAYA. Declares That Nicaraguan President is a Highwayman, a Tyrant, a Usurper and an Assassin and Prob ably the Most Despicable Figure That Has Ever Risen in Central America. Washington. Special. Vigorously denouncing President Zelaya for hav ing "murdered" Cannon and Groee, officers of the revolutionary army, Senator Rayner of Maryland advocat ed the passage of his resolution' authorizing the President of the Unit ed States to apprehend and try the President of Nica-agua for his crime against these two American citizens. The private life of Zelaya, almost unspeakable in its enormity, said Mr. Rayner, should be made public by the State Department in order that the people of the United States might know the kind of man Zelaya was. Mr. Rayner insisted that there was ample authority in international law for the course he advocated to bring? Zelaya to the bar of justisk In moving that the resolution be referred to the committee on" foreign relations, Senator Lodge said he was glad to know that the Senator front Maryland so thoroughly approved the course taken by the administration, as he himself heartily approved it. Senator Cullom, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, added that be would have something to say about the resolution when it was re ported by his committee back to the Senate, a remark which was inter preted as 'meaning that he expected it to be favorably reported. Steerage Conditions Appalling. Washington, Special. A report on steerage conditions based on infor mation obtained by special agents of the immigration commission travel-, ing as steerage passengers on different trans-Atlantic steamers was made public Monday through presentation to the Senate with recommendations for legislation to better conditions. A Victim of Leprosy. Savannah, Ga., Special. Death re moved probably the only case of lep rosy in the United States army Most day when First Sergeant C. O. Mix, of the Seventy-Second Company, Coast Artillery, died in his lonely cottage on tne f ort sereven reserva tion. The body will be buried wit full military honors in the nations! cemetery, in accordance with the request of the dead soldier. Mix Charged Her Husband With Trips Mnder. Savannah. Soecinl Vtfv, ments Monday in the aftermath the triple murder of last kafternoon gave birth to the startling theory that not a single murderer two or possibly three were in the commission of the crimes. County officers night declare that of these Hunter, husband of Mrs. Hunter, whose death Monday added a third to the number of murdered women, is certainly one. k A. 1