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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
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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.
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