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MARSHALL, N. C, FfelDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1909.
VOL. XI.
NO. 51.
d.
HOLIDAY RECESS.
Congress Takes Two Weeks
For Christmas.
JUDGE LURTON CONFIRMED.
Tennessean Becomes Associate Justice
of Supreme Court District of Co
lumbian Bill Passed.
Washington, D. C, Special. Both
the Senate and the House were in ses
sion Monday, but both had concluded
their arduous labors by 2 o'clock.
Wednesday an adjournment was had
for two weeks to enablo the mem
bers to properly observe the Christ
mas holidays. Some matters consid
ered were the confirmation of Horace
H. Luston, of Tennessee, to be an as
sociate justice of the Supremo Court;
the District of Columbia appropria
tions bill carrying $10,275,000 was
passed without opposition.
SEVENTY LYNCHINGS IN 1909.
West Virginia One Lynching, While
Virginia, North Carolina and Mary
land Have Not a Case.
Washington, D. C, Special. The
Herald says that during 1909 lynch
ings numbered 70, the h' ;hest num
ber recorded since 1904. The victims
numbeerd eleven whites and fifty
nine negroes. The lyuchings occured
in twelve States and one Territory,
New Mexico.
4 As in previous years, crimes, or al
leged, crimes, against white women
and murders caused most of these
summary executions. One case, oc
curring in Cairo, 111., combined both
causes and resulted in the placing of
the city under military control for
several days.
The Cairo lynchings were the only
cases of the kind that occurred north
of the Ohio River during the year.
Several double lynchings occurred at
various points in .lie South, and Okla
homa furnished a quadruple lynching,
with -four cattlemen as the victims.
In the following record the word
""lynching" has been hejd to apply
only to the summary punishment in
flicted by a mob or by any number
of citizens on a pe rson , alleged to
have committed a crime. By States
the sevnty lynching eases here reeord
d are classified as follows?
Georgia, 11; Texas. 10; Florida, 8;
Louisiana. 7; Mississippi, 7; Ma
nama. 0; Oklahoma, 5; Kentucky, 4;
South Carolina, 3; Arkansas. 3; n
linois, 2', New Mexico, 2; Missouri.
1; West Virginia, 1-
Not a case of mob rule is recorded
against Virginia, North Carolina, and
Maryland.
Madriz Succeeds Zelaya.
Managua, Nicaragua, Bv Cable.
Dr. Jose Madriz, former judge of the
Central American court of justice at
Cart ago and Zelaya 's candidate, was
Monday elected President of Nicara
gua by the unanimous vote of Con
gress. The session was a stormy one,
but there seemed to be perfect una
nimity with regard to the election of
Madriz, and when the official an
nouncement was made there were voc
iferous cheering and cries of "Viva
Madriz," "Viva Leon," "Down with
monopolies," "Down with tyranny,"
"Long live the constitution." Dr.
Madriz assumed the prsidency at 10
o'clock Wednesday.
Thaw Denied a Writ of Error.
Washington, Special. Justice Mc
Kenna of the Supreme Court of the
United States has denied a petition
of Harry K. Thaw for a writ of error
to the court of appeals of New York,
in the ease in which Thaw made an
effort to obtain release from the Mat
teawan asylum. In that case a peti
tion for a writ or habeas corpus was
"denied and the effect of Justice Mc
Kenna's decision will be to leave the
' decision of the court of appeals undisturbed.
Clash Between the Races.
1 Magnolia, Ala., Special. As a re
sult of four white men being shot
by Clinton Montgomery late Satur
day night, one faltally. there was a
severe clash between the races, re
sulting in Montgomery being shot to
death in a house in which he bar
ricaded himself and his body consum
ed in the burning building.
Naw Chief of Police For Panama
' Canal Zone.
Washington, D.'C, Special. Secre
tary Dickinson has decided to appoint
J. P.Fyfo of - Chattanooga, Tenn,
chief of police of the Panama canal
zone at a salar; of $4,000 a year to
succeed Gilbert Porter.
Trinity Students Expelled.
( Durham. N. C, Special. President
Kilgo of Trinity College has expelled
eight students from the college for
hazinj. They names of those expell
ed are' not mode public. The faculty
is determined to rid the school Of all
rowdyism.
A SONG FROM THE SCRIPTURE.
By The Bentztown Bard. '
THE CHRISTMAS CHILD.
And the angel said unto
them: Fear not, for, behold,
I bring you good tidings of
great joy, whioh shall be to
all people. ' For unto you is
born this day in the city of
David a Saviour, which is
Christ the Lord. And this
shall be a sign unto you : Ye
shall find the babe wrapped
in swaddliug clothes lying in
a manger. St. Luke, ii, 10-12
Laudation to His Holy name,
And to His lowly birth
Not that He came in splendor-flame,
Nor like a king of earth;
Not that the banners waved on high,
The cymbals clashed His praise;
But that alone the starry sky
Led to His humble dais!
Laudation to His purpose mild,
Who came not onto men
Except as comes a little child
With far, wide-wandering ken;
Who came not panoplied in gold,
With sword and shield of might.
But in His mother's sweet enfold
A rose-bloom of the night I
Laudation to His deathless soul,
Not that He ruled, as king; '
Bnt that God's arm around him stole
As soft as angel's wing.
Not that the thunder of His tread
Shook cities to their doom,
But that beneath His feet the dead
Were touched to deathless bloom!
Not for the conqueror's mail-clad hand
Nor for the victor's sword;
Not for the chieftain of a band,
A wild, world-sundering horde;
Lift the hosanna of the years,
Utter the golden song,
For this, the foeman of our tears
And for all human wrong!
Aye, for a life that came to lead
All life toward the sun;
And for a heart that came to bleed
For tasks that love had done;
A life that gave that gifts might bless
All sweets of life; to be
This brother of the brotherless
Dear friend to you and met
Laudation to His holy name I
Through all the ages cry
The exaltation of His fame
Unto the Christmas sky
Not that He rose as princes rise,
Unto life's fleeting power;
But that beneath warm mother-eyes
He bloomed as blooms a flower I
-Baltimore Sun.
Census Supervisors Meet.
Atlanta, Ga., Special. Census su
pervisors of Georgia, Alabama, Flor
ida, South Carolina and Tennessee
mt in conference here with E. Dana
Durand, director of census, and Wil
liam C. Hunt, statistician of popula
tion. Between thitry-flve and forty
supervisors attended. Details of the
work of gathering the census were
discussed.
Case Will Take Its Turn.
Washington, D. C, Special. The
United States Supreme Court declin
ed to advance the case of the Red C
Oil Company against the Board of
Agriculture of North Carolina, hand
ing down the decision Monday. This
means, of course, that the case will
take its turn, coming up when
reached in the due course of business.
In the meantime, however, the State
law will be enforced. The plaintiff
bad asked for an injunction before
Judge Connor of the district court,
but the request was refused.
Standard Cil Files Appeal
St. Louis Special. The appeal of
the Standard Oil Company of .New
Jersey, its subsidiaries and the seven
individuals, against whom the govern
ment recently won its dissolution suit
in the United States circuit court,
was filed here. Sixty-five instances
in which the circuit court is alleged
to have erred are cited as reasons
for taking the case to the supreme
court of the United States.
9,429,000 Bales Ginned.
Memphis, Tenn., Special. The re
port of the National Ginriers' Associ
ation issued last Friday shows t hat
9,429,000 bales of totton had .been
ginned to December 13, 1909. The re
port by States follows: Alabama,
994,000; Arkansas, 0T)2,000; Florida,
58,000; Georgia, 1,778.000; Louisiana,
246,000; Mississippi, 096,000; Mis
souri and Virginia. 52,000; North
Carolina 596,000; Oklahoma 521.000;
South Carolina. 1,074.000; Tennes
see, 221.000; Texas, 2,271,000; Total
9,429j090.
VS'EARLY OVER.
You seem to be sticking prettj
cloee to business these days."
"Well I need the relaxation. The
baseball" season Is a torrlnle strain
on a man." Washington ..Star.
i MEET IN CHARLOTTE 1 washihgton notes j ,
Southern Educational Associa
tion to Gather This Month.
MANY SUBJECTS ON PROGRAM.
The Associations is Almost as Exten
sive as That of the National Edu
cational Association.
Charlotte, N. C, Special. The
next meeting of the Southern Educa
tional Association will be held here
on the 28, 29 and 30 of this month.
This will be one of the largest,
most important and notable educa
tional gatherings that ever assembled
in the South; The last meeting at
Atlanta was the largest in its his
tory. The association has been large
ly reconstructed and has now de
veloped an organization almost as
extensive as that of the National Ed
ucational Association.
Among the subjects that will be
discussed in the general session are
the following: Educational ideals and
problems of the New South as com
pared with the Old South; the indus
trial development of the South the
development of Southern rural life
and public schools in relation to it;
the movement for the improvement
of school houses and grounds; the
call for educational citizenship) nat
ional aid to Southern schools; educa
tional legislation and progress during
the' year; the trend of state admin
istration to public schools; present
status of illiteracy in the Southern
States; methods of state and local
taxation for public schools; present
conception of negro education in the
South; methods of educational cam
paigns; the service of the state uni
versity; present status of college ed
ucation; higher education of women:,
the movement for the education of
adults; the supervision of rural
schools; the improvement of teachers;
Southern summer schools; develop-'
ment of rural high schools; second
ary agricultural education in the
South; secondary education in Eu
rope; European and American trade
schools, etc.
The most progressive Southern uni
versity, colleges and normal schools
will ' make' exhibits of their equip
ments, special facilities, etc., bear
ing especially upon the professional
preparation of teachers in secondary
and elementary schools. Some of the
leading Southern industrial high and
elementary schools, also several kin
dergarten schools, will exhibit the
work they have done.
The railroads have granted half
rates and hotels will also give special
rates. Charlotte is a large com
mercial and industrial center, and an
excellent place for meeting.
Madriz Will Accept Office.
Managua, Nicaragua, Special.
Jose Madriz, judge of the Central
American court of justice, at Carta
ge, who has been put forward as can
didate for the presidency to succeed
Zelaya, received an enthusiastim re
ception on his arival here. Long he
fore he reached the capital Madriz
was the object of cheering crowds.
He was met by delegations from var
ious departments, and acclaimed all
along the way from Corinto to Mana
gua. I sliaH accept the honor which
has been offered me. I am not the
candidate of Leon, but of the entire
republic. My chief concern will be
to appease the an-i-nt sectionalism
which has divided certain localities."
To Meet in Charlotte.
Charlotte, N. C, Special.- There is
to be held in Charlotte Tuesday, Jan
uary 4, a meeting of all the cotton
yarn spinners of the South and rep
resentatives of the leading commis
sion houses of the North, for the pur
pose of considering conditions in the
cotton yarn trade .with the view to
securing a better price of yarns.
Superintendent and Guard Indicted.
Atlanta, Special. After a rigid in
spection of conditions in the city
prison a grand jury indicted Super
intendent D. M. Vining and Guard
P. Corner, and pronounced the con
ditions man, incrediable and
H." 'the jury's icport told o?
overpowering stenches, infectious
filth, torture machines and other al
leged horrors seen in the men's and
the women's quarters white
Paid Homage to Leopold.
Brussels, By Cable The body of
King Leopold lay in state in the roy
al palace Sunday, while thousands
who had patiently waited their turn
to be admitted, filed silently before
the catafalque and paid homage to
their late sovereign. In the pres
ence of Prince. Albert and the officers
and dignitaries of the court and gov
ernment, the coffin had been borne to
the mortuary chamber, while priests
chanted the Miserere and a proces
sion of nuns, with bended heads,
told the rosery for the dead. The
ceermonies were elaborate.
The House Thursday devoted near
ly five hours time to consideration
f the District of Columbia appropri
ation bill. The measure carries au
fjtpropriation of $10,146,473 for the
expenses of the District for 1911.
General debate was concluded but
the reading of the measure, para
graph by paragraph proceeded slow
ly. Several members made points of
order against certain sections in the
interest of economy and the reading
had not concluded when the House
adjourned Thursday. Mr. Macon
of Arkansas had the paragraph ap
propriating $2,400 for an automobile
for the engineer commissioner of
the District sti-if'-nri out in tv'" of
the protests of Representative Taw-
ney ol Minnesota, chairman ox me
appropriations eoiunnuee and Repre
sentative Gardner of Michigan, in
charge of the bill.
Democratic applause greeted an
attack Thursday made by Representa
tive Hitchcock on the official conduct
of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
in connection with the so-called Cun
ningham coal land cases, in a speech
demanding a congressional investiga
tion of the General Land Office, Rep
resentative Sliepard of Texas ad
dressed the House during general de
bate on the bill urging the House to
revive the moribund commissions on
expenditures for the various depart
ments in order that sweeping envesti
gation of the departments might be
made.
Representative Burgess, of Texas,
Wednesday introduced in the House
a joint resolution declaring that the
United States shall cease to exercise
sovereignty over the Philippine Is
lands, and by treaty with foreign na
tions set up and maintain there a
free and independent government.
The resolution requests the President
of the United States to consider the
expediency of opening negotiations
with Great Britain, Germany, France,
Russia, Italy, Spain and Japan for
a joint treaty providing for the recog
nition and preservation of such a
government.
Diplomas of merit Tuesday were
presented by Secretary Wilson in his
office at the Department of Agricul
ture to Bascomb Usher, of South
Carolina; Dewitt Lundy, of Missis
sippi; Elmer Halter, of Arkansas and
Ralph Bellwood, of Virginia all
boys under 18 years for special pro
ficiency in agricultural pursuits. The
recipients of the awards are among
the 12,500 in the boys' demonstration
work in the South. Each planted
one acre of corn and cultivated it
under instructions from the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The effort of the present Congress
to suppress the "white slave traffic"
has caused a materialization of the
specter of "State's rights," and that
House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce before which the
Mann bill is pending, is at logger
heads over the question. Such strong
objection by Democrats has been
manifested that Chairman Mann and
his Republican associates have aban
doned temporarily their efforts to ob
tain early action on the measure.
The Pee Dee river, in Chesterfield
county, is to get no more money if
the recommendation of the chief of
engineers of the army, Gen. Mar
shall, is followed and they will be
in a communication through the sec
retary of war to congress Tuesday.
Gen. Marshall savs that the com
merce along the Pee Dee does not
justify any further appropriation.
Acting, it is understood, upon the
suggestion of Secretary Knox, the
the Committee on Foreign Relations
of the Senate Wednesday steered
clear of ,, the resolution of Senator
Raynor of Maryland, authorizing the
President to descend upon Nicaragua
and punish Zelaya promptly. Some
of the members were strongly in fav
or of modifying the Rayner resolu
tion slightly and authorizing its fav
orable report to the Senate.
Advocating the adoption of a defin
ed waterway policy by the United
States Govenment, Representative
Richardson, of Alabama, delivered a
speech in the House Tuesday, while
that body was m committee of the
whole with the President's message
under consideration. Mr. Richardson
proposed the expenditure of $50,000,
1)00 for the improvement of the Miss
issippi River and its tributaries.
Francis E. Bliss, Jr., former mem
ber of the Baltimore paper ruling
firm of Bliss, Albrecht Co., waa
Wednesday acquitted of charges of
embezzlement by a jury in Criminal
Court No. 1." '
Bliss, who figured in the Kenyon
street tarring case something more
than a year ago was the Washington
representative of the Baltimore concern.-
It was charged that while in
this capacity he received checks for
work dene by the firm for the United
States Government amounting to
about $169. Bliss was placed on trial
about a mouth ago, but the prose
cution was withdrawn at that time
becaus the indictment was faulty.
NEWS BREVITIES
Condensed from Wide Fields,
Domestic and Foreign.
AS THEY ARE HAPPENING DAILY
Suited to the Wants of Busy Readers
Seeking a (Knowledge of What is
Going on.
The steamer Gov. Ames, found from
New York to Brunswick) Ga., went to
pieces off Wimble Shoals, 25 miles
north of Hatteras, N. C, Monday.
The captain and wife and eleven of
the crew were lost, one of the crew
only escaping.
George P. Sheldon is indicted for
larceny in the shortage of $45,000
or $50,000 dollars in the Atlanta of
fice of the Pheuix Fire insurance
company of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Zelaya has resigned the presidency
of Nicaragua amid riotous demonstra
tions in which the populace cry down
with the old and up with the new
regime.
The sugar scandals at the New
York custom house are being ferreted
out and the Arbuckh? Brothers have
coughed up $695,543 out of which
they had wronged the government.
The Brokaw divorce suit in New
York is now a live topic. It is
brought out that the husband was
about to sue for the divorce but
he is fighting the suit now as there
is $60,000 at stake in alimony.
. It now develops that Capt. Au
gust W. Ixwse and his man Dunkle
who swore that they made Capt.
Cook's calculations to help him de
ceive the world about his getting to
the North Pole and squealed because
he did not pay up were after selling
their fabrications and Loose says
Dunkle got most of the money for
the fabrication.
News has just arived that a mine
explosion in Southern Japan recent
ly claimed 762 victims. Forty-three
others escaped. The mine works 4,
755 hands and has a monthly output
of 44,000 tons of coal.
Secretary of War Dickinson will
take a trip to inspect Santo Domingo
and Porto Rieo, paying special at
tention to the revolutionary con
ditions in the former islands.
It is estimated that 7 to 8 million
people visited Coney Island during
the late summer making about 20,000
trips besides spending $40,000,000
mostly in nickels and dimes, sums
three times as much as the United
States paid for Louisiana and six
times as much as Alaska cost.
Women in high social position
members of the Colony Club held
an enthusiastic meeting Wednesday
afternoon in their clubrooms at 122
Madison avenue, in the interest of
the striking shirtwaist workers, who
will receive substantial financial aid
from the organization.
The Brownsville court of inquiry is
sitting behind closed doors in Wash
ington, hearing such applicants of
the Negro disbanded regiment as wish
to re-enter the army and can show
themselves elligible under the Fora
ker act.
Congressman Kitchin, of North
Carolina, introduced a bill in the
house Wednesday the object of
which is to prevent corporations do
ing business in the state from ap
pealing cases from the state to the
federal courts.
King Leopold, the soverign of
Belgium, died Friday morning in
Brussels.
The National Geographic society in
Washington City ' Wednesday night
bestowed on Commander Peary the
honor of the discovery of the North
Pole and awarded a suitable medal.
Capt. Bartlett also received a medal
for sailing a boat further into the
artic regions than any one else.
A fire at East St. Louis, 111., on
Monday, burned 100 car loads of
grain. The loss is estimated at
fl00,00O -
Zelaya who is so conspicuous be
fore the world now has a nephew in
New York who is in trouble iu love
affairs. Miss Juliette Hero, of Ore--
cian descent, is suing him for $100,
000 dollars on breach of promise.
Another severe storm accompanied
with snow, ice and s'eet passed over
New York, Pennsylvania and the
great lakes Monday and Tuesday.
Considerable damage was done to
wires.
Three sisters are in New York jail
charged with the murder of Ocey
Snead, whose body' was found sub
merged in a bath tub long after
death.
The Senate committee on judiciary
voted unanimously Wednesday to
report favorably the nomination of
Judge Horace H. Linton, of Tennes
see, to be au associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Some members of the committee ex
pressed the . opinion that it would
have been better to have named a
younger man, Judge Lurton being in
his 6Sth year, but there was no gen
eral opposition to him, or any criti
cism except as to bis ac.
KING LEOPOLD DEAD
Collapsed Unexpectedly Fridcy
Morning.
ALL BELGIUM IN MOURNING-
Bulletins Thursday Wers Altogether
peful and People Were Hopeful
Began to Sink at 2:35 a. m.
Brussels, By Cable King Leopold
died at 2:35 o'clock Friday morning,
his aged and wasted body being up
able to stand the strain put upon it.
The collapse occurred suddenly and
at a moment when the doctors seem
ingly had had the greatest hopes for
bis recovery.
It appears that the doctors were
totally unprepared lor a fatal term
ination. It was a nun, acting as a
nurse, who tirst noticed the heavy
breathing of the king. She called Dr.
Thiriar to the bedside Both doctors
resorted to injections of morphine,
but these had no effect.
The entire Kingdom of Belgium
mourns its departed ruler, Leopold
U. Courts, schools and theatres are
closed, Parliament and the municipal
council have adjourned and flags are
at haif-mast in every city, town and
vilage of the kingdom out of respect
for the dead monarch.
Under the constitution the affairs
of the nation will be in the hands of
the Cabinet until Prince Albert takes
the oath of office of succession next
Thursday, the day after the funeral
of his uncle, before the joint houses
of Parliament in the Senate chamber.
An official decree issued Thursday
lauds King Leopold's career and de
clares his creation of the Congo In
dependent State was an act unique
in the annals of history. "Posterity
will judge Leopold a great King with
a grand reign," it says.
COLUMBIA GETS SEMINARY.
The Theological Seminary of United
Synod of the South to Be Located
There.
Salisbury, N. C, Special The
committee to fix upon a location for
the Thealogical Seminary of the
Southern Evangelical Luther church,
the body known as the United Synod
of the South, met here on Thursday
and fixed upon Columbia, S. C, as the
place . to which that institution is to
be removed from its present location
at Mt.: Pleasant near Charleston.
The respective offers were: Colum
bia $17,722 and sites; Salisbury $14,
350 and sites; Charlotte $8,000 and
sites. Charlotte offered the greatest
variety of sites, but all at valuations
somewhat strong. Salisbury offered
two beautiful sites, and some others.
One was of 16 acres, near the eiay
and supplied with water from the
city. Columbia offerd two sites, de
scribed in a letter appended thereto.
SALISBURY HAS BAD FIRE.
One Fireman Loss Life and Another
in Critical Condition Loss Esti
mated at $60,000
Salisbury, Special. Fire, which
broke out in the second floor of the
Empire Store Company's building at
10 :30 o 'clock Friday night resulted in
property loss of aoproximately $60,
000, the death of Mr. R. H. Pender,
a member of the fire department and
the probable fatal injury of Mr. E. E.
Keeter, also a fireman. At 12:15
o'clock Saturday moraine it was an
nounced at the Whitehead-Stokea
sanatorium that Mr. Keeter might
not survive the night.
The flames spread rapidly end soon
the entire second floor of , the build
ing was enveloped and the. whole
block seemed doomed. The fire wall
proved equal, however, and the ad
joining buildings were damaged very
little. So threatending was the situa
tion at one time that all of the guests
of the Empire hotel were awakenel
and moved out.
Genearl Wood in Command
Washington, D .C, Special.
Major General Leonard Wood, now
in command of the Department of
the East; will be the next chief ot
staff of the army. Secretary Diekin
son made this announcement Wed
nesday. General Wood will sueeeed
Gen. J. Franklin Bell whose term
at the head of the general staff will
expire next soring.
Two Killed and One Fatally Injured
in Railroad Wreck.
Macon, Ga., Special. Two persona
were killed, one fatally injured and
seven more or less sreiously hurt
when a Central of Georgia north
bound passenger train Friday morn
ing at 7:50 o'clock at Harris City,
Ga., crashed into the combination
second-class, baggage and mail car
of train No. 42, east bound, of tho
Macon & Birmingham road. The ac
cident occurred at the crossing of the
two roads and was due, according to
statements from railroad officials, to
a frosted track.