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nmiMHimmiiiHMM i j The Medium Through which you retch the ! ! people Madison County A ! ; ; ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ; . Mini mi JzL tUhmdin tht County X in Adx)ance 1 1 1 1 1 H 1 1 1 1 M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XII. MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1910. NO. 20. Aladis County Record I IB f? WORK Of BAPTISTS A Great Year - $ 1 ,654,055.84 Above Church Expense 1 SEEK BROADER MISSION FIELD "Want to Sever With All Interdenon ination Movements Except Laymen's Movement Sunday School Lessons Criticised Justice for Negro. Baltimore, Mil.. Special. The great event in the history of the five mil lion Baptists in the Southland is the annual convention. This year is the sixtv-lifth in its history and the fifty f .nth session. Two thousand dele gates and fully as many visitors are in at tend ai ice upon the two great meetings'. ; It has been a great year for the Baptists. The totals are: Foreign Missions, $501,580.84. Home Mis sions, 329,475. Sunday Schools, $235,000. Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary, $488,000, making a grand total exclusive of all local church expense of $1,654,055.84. Indications are that the church is preparing to sever its connections with all interdenomination move ments, except the laymen's missionary movement A committee was requested to out line a new system of Sunday-school books to replace the interdenomina tional ones, which were criticised in a report placed before the convention.1 Rev. George W. McDamel, of Rich mond, in ah address, said the Baptists lacked organization and an adequate mission policy and expressed the hope that Mr. John D. Rockefeller will work out a plan for them which would make them as strong spiritually i ( the Standard Oil Company is commercially. The plans of committees now con sidering various projects tend to ad vise, it is said, that the Southern Baptists seek the broader field of the nation. The nNcw Mexico situation commit tee will advise going into that ter ritory, which has previously been under Northern Baptist jurisdiction. It is understood that $400,000 will be approved by the committee for home mission work. ' ' The great movement in favor of the additional endowment for the Southern Baptist Theological Semi nary was made the special order Sunday morning and the convention pledged $30,000 for the endowment fund in fifteen minutes, Dr. Mullins reported that almost $500,000 has al ready been secured during the year for the endowment and that the re maining $200,000 would be raised very soon. The following figures show the work of the Home Mission Board in three of tbe States North Carolina Eight schools in which are employed 50 teachers and enrolled 1,442 students; 34 minis terial students. Expended for im provements this year $15,425. Virginia One school in which are employed six teachers, enrolled 414 students; one ministerial student. Expended for improvements this vear $4,800. . South Carolina Two schools in which are employed eight teachers and enrolled 221 students, eight min isterial students. Exnended for im provements this year $2,104. The problem tof the negro came bvfore the convention in -the report read by Dr. G. W. McDaniel, of Rich mend. Dr. B. DGray, qf Atlanta, spoke to the report and he did not prove disappointing. As the negro was the question for discussion, he seemed to voice the sentiment of all present when he said: "We have got to treat the negro right; we have got to get rid of our inherent mean ness and give them their just deal. "The best thing to do for the negro is to set him a good example. There art 10,000,000 in our land, and not the hundreds of millions in Af rica of this or any other race con cern us as much as those in our midst." Dr. McDaniel in his address on the negro problem, said he hoped .to see the day come when the negro would be given justice in the courts. "I blush," he said, "when I think of the negro given the limit of the law for a petty crime and tbe white man set free 'for the same crime merely because bis skin is white and he has tbe influence. Negroes are not Baptists because they know so little, but because tuoy read with un biased minds the Word of God. When we think of them and how they were the guards pt our women when the men of the South were off to war" I say we need to do - the negroes of the South justice." Next year 'a Southern Baptist Con vention will be held in Jacksonville. CITIZENS SHOOt SOLDIERS Privates Cut Colored Man and Later Residents Retaliate. Beaufort, S. C, Special. Major Frank G. Mauldin of the coast artil lery Sunday forwarded to the War Department a report of the investi gation which he has conducted into the serious clash of last week be tween soldiers stationed at Fort Fre mont and negro residents of the ad joining sections which resulted in the shooting of six privates by two negro brothers named Potter. Some of the comrades of the wounded soldiers are decidedly restf less and some have openly made threats againts the lives of the Pot ter negroes. However, there has not been the slightest manifestation of race feeling in this community. The cutting of the ' negro Isaiah Potter by Private MoGhan occurred on the reservation ten days ago at night and after Potter had been or dered by a corporal to leave the res ervation. McGhan says he used his pen knife on the negro when he dis covered him trying to steal money from his (McGhan 's) pockets. Dr. Hyde is Guilty. Kansas City, Mo., Special. Dr. B. C. Hyde was found guilty Monday of murdering Colonel Thomas H. Swope. His punishment was fixed at life im prisonment. The law allows the defense four days in which to file a motion for a new trial and Dr. Hyde's counsel announce that a new trial will be requested. "Treat that prisoner the same as any other," Judge Latshaw ordered County Marshal Joel D. Mayes. "Give him few privileges and no luxuries." An' hour after the verdict was re ported Mrs. Hyde was able to go to her borne. When, news of the cpnvietion was. rprwarded by telephone to Mrs. Swdpe in Independence, she shrieked and dropped the receiver. Court attaches believe the supreme court will be unable to reach Dr. Hyde's case for at least a year, on account of the crowded docket. Tbe law of Missouri prohibits the courts from admitting a convicted murderer to bail. Dr. B. C. Hyde was charged during his trial with a series of startling poisonings, having for their object the gaining of control of the fortune of Col. Thomas H. Swope, the mil lionaire philanthropist. Colonel- Swope died on October 3 last after a severe convulsion. It was charged that this convulsion fol lowed the taking of a capsule pre scribed by Dr. Hyde and that the capsule contained cyanide of potas sium, a deadly poison. Dr. Hyde said the capsule was a digestive tablet. On January 11 Colonel Swope 's body was removed from its tomb for chemical analysis of the internal or gans, which disclosed, according to chemists' report 52-66 of a grain of strychnine. Two days before Colonel Swope 's death Moss Hunton, his cousin, and businessadviser, died at the Swope house of apoplexy. It was charged at the trial that Dr. Hyde bled Mr. Hunton too profusely after the apo pletic attack. Early in December a typhoid fever epidemic broke out in the Swope household, attacking ten of the mem bers of the family and causing the death of Chrisman Swope, a brother of Dr. Hyde's wife. Shortly before Chrisman 's death he was given a cap sule by Dr. Hyde and suffered a con vulsion similar , to that preceding Colonel Swope 's death. Margaret Swope, Chrisman 's sister, who also had a convulsion after tak ing a capsule while under Dr. Hyde's treatment, was given an emetic at once by Dr. Twyman and recovered. Dr. Twyman, who was expected to be a valuable witness, died of appen dicitis just before the trial began. Colored Girl Poisoned Children. Demopolis, Ala., Special. Because her mother refused to allow her to go to .Birmingham, a 10-year-old colored girl employed by Davis Col lins, a wealthy planter, as a nurse for his two small children, gave dog poison to them. The youngest, aged three months, died in agony and her sister's condition is serious. The girl was arrested and seems unconcerned over the matter. Dispute Meaning Latin Phrase. Washington, Special. Over the translation- of a Latin phrase in the Maryland charter of 1620 has arisen a. controversy between Maryland and West Virginia as to the boundary line between the two States. This phrase is: "Deinde verendo versus meridiem ad ulteriorem dieti fluminis ripam fct earn senuendo ana nWa " MarvlnnJ contends that the boundary is at the! was iuu DVUVU IMUIK of the Potomac, while West Virginia claims that it' is at the low water mark. GIH TO HOMF. MISSIONS Farmer Slagle, of Maccn County, ST. C, Gives 600 Acres of Lr.ni. Asheville, N. C, Special. Tha identity of the donor of six hundred acres of valuable farm lands to the Presbyterian home missions board was made known Sunday when it was announced that Thomas M. Slagle, a farmer of Macon county, N. C, had given half of his life's earnings for the erection of a boys industrial school at Franklin, N. C. The offer m session 8t Montreal last monlb ana was accepted. Progress in Ditch Digging. Washington, Special. On May 3 the sixth year of American construc tion of the Panama canal ended and the canal record has presented an in terestipg review of what has been ac complished. Altogether 105,888,07 cubic yards of earth and rock have been removed. That leaves to be taken out of the water approaches t the canal 29,232,052 cubic yards o: material, while the steam shovels have to dig out 38,827,617 yards of solid earth and rock. Ex-Governor and Family Arrested. New York, Special. Frank M Rollins, former governor of New Hampshire, and now a banker with Boston offices, his wife Catherline, and his son, Douglas, were charged Saw urday in the sworn complaint of a custom's inspector "with conspiring to smuggle into the United states wearing apparel and jewelry and souvenirs without paying or account ing for the duties legally due there on." Would Suppr. is Prize Fights. Washington, Special. Representa tive Smith, of Iowa, bulged out in the House Saturday with a bill to sup press prize fighting. It provides thai no pictures, nor any discription of a prize fight or pugilistic encounter may be sent through the mails of otherwise sent from one State or Territory to another, including the District of Columbia, or imported ;t.. u TT:tj ai.t.. 1 California Wants Panama Exposition. New York, Special. 8an Francisco will raise $10,000,000 to secure the Panama Canal Fair. Gov. James N. Gillett of California declared Mon day in expiating on the advantage of his State for the Panama-Pacific In ternational Exposition of 1915 to celebrate the opening of tho great waterway, San Franciscans, be said, already had subscribed $5,000,000 to wards the exposition. Louisiana Negroes Form Colony. Poplarville, Miss., Special. For the purpose of forming a colony of negroes to engage in farming, mer chandising and manufacturing, 120, 000 acres of land near Poplarville have been bought by members of that race, incorporated under the K q the Colored Realty Company. Refuse Request of Congress. Washington, Special. Because a grand jury already is investigating the alleged pool in cotton, Attorney General Wickersham Saturday re fused to furnish the house with the facts in the possession of tbe de partment of justice on which the in vestigation was based. Comrades to Welcome Rough Rider. New York, Special. It will be to the strains of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight," the song that is said to have inspired the American troops in their charge up San Juan hill, that Col. Theodore Roosevelt will be welcomed back to New York on June 18. That welcome will ceme too, from the men who heard it played with him on the battlefield, the Roosevelt Rough Riders. Pittsburg Grafters Get Punishment. Pittsburg, Special. Sentence was imposed today in criminal court on six of the men who pleaded no de fense to charges of graft in connec tion with pittsburg municipal affairs. One banker and five former council men faced four judges and learned their fate. The sentences ranged in length from four to eight months in jail. In addition to the jail sen tences fines are also 1 posed. Hotel Waiter Kidnapper Free Philadelphia, Special. The hut echo of a sensational escapade was heard here Saturday when the grand jury ignored a bill of indictment charging Ferdinand Cohen, the hotel waiter with kidnapping Roberta B. De Janon, the 18-year-old heiress, couple, after being missing a week, were found in Chicago. Robert Buist, the millionaire grand father of the girl, engaged private counsel when the runaways were found to press tbe charge made against Cohan, but it is understood the action of the grand jury is agreeable to counsel for Mr. Buist. WORD CONTEST FOR FARM State of Missouri Inaugurates Popular Advertising Scheme. St. Louis, Mo., Special. The State of Missouri, through tbe Immigra tion Board, has offered a five-acre "form to any person in the United States who makes the greatest num ber of words out of the words "Mis souri homes." The winner will be announced by Governor Hadley at the Land Con gress, at Ironton, Mo., May 25. The farm is situated 60 miles from St. Louis, in the Arcadia Valley. Heinze's Acquittal Costly. New York, Special. Fritz Augus tus Heinze was acquitted in New York Frday of charges of misap plying the funds of the Mercantile National bank while he was president of the institution in 1907, and he was cleared of the charge of over-certifying the checks of his brother's firm, Otto Heinze & Co. Thus failed the federal govern ment's attempt to hold Heinze re sponsible for financiering during the panic of three years ago alleged to be in violation of the national bank ing laws. Heinze, jubilant, issued this state ment after his acquittal : "I am greatly pleased with the verdict but not at all surprised. The thing I most regret is the long delay in bringing the case to trial. This delay has cost me between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. Kill Direct Primary Bill. Albany, Special. Gov. Hughes' di rect nomination bill, which would abolish the party convention, was killed in the assembly after a nine hour debate by a vote of, aye, 67, noes, 77. The assembly then passed the Meade-Phillips bill, prepared by the legislative committee appointed last December to investigate the op eration of direct primaries in other States. "False and Nasty Treaties." New York, Special. Mayor Gay- 1 nor Thursday became a censor of the TTttage.' As a result one of the biggest - theatres in Broadway is closed for an indefinite period. , "The people of this city have had enough of false and nasty theatres," the mayor wrote to Police Com mssioner Baker, who, acting under the mayor's orders, refused to renew the license for the theatre. Health Sold for $1,500. Washington, Special. In reward for his services in acting as a sub ject for yellow fever tests, the Sen ate has passed a bill granting an an nuity of $1,500 to John R. Kissinger, of Indiana. He is one of the soldiers who were used in demonstration of the theory that mosquitoes transmit fever. Senator Shively said that Kis singer has become a hopeless para lytic. Southern Textile Association's Meet Augusts, Special. Preparations for the next meeting of the South ern Textile association to be held in Augusta on Saturday, July 2, are now well under way, and the pros pects seem favorable for making this a most pleasant and profitable oc casion for all who can possibly makr their arrangements to attend. Who Wants to be a Miner? Manchester, Eng., By Cable. One hundred and. thirty-seven miners lost their lives Thursday in an explosion in the Wellington coal mine at White haven. Rescue parties succeeded in saving four men, but fire had broken out in the workings, leaving prac tically no hope for those still en tombed. The workings extends for five miles under ground. 27-Inch Mother Dead. - Toledo, Ohio, Special. Mrs. Janie Foster Shaw, seventy-four years old, of Steubenville, Ohio, known as the "smallest mother in the world," died at F6rt Myers, Fla., according to information received here Thurs day. Mrs. Shaw was twenty-seven inchei tall and was born here. She hat three children. Lion Snatches Baby. Cleveland, Tenn., Special. A lion being exhibited here suddenly snatch ed a baby from the arms of its mother and carried it to the back of the stage. Licking the blood from the wounds on the baby's head the lion crouched as if to spring upon its prey, when a crowd who had been attracted by the screams of tho mother of the child, succeeded & rescuing the baby. The baby was terribly lacerated and may die. The keeper finally suc ceeded in getting the lion back into nu TAR HEEL CHRONICLES News Notes Gathered From AD Parti of the Old North State. Boy's Shocking Death. Anthony Howard, 13-years-old, of Lenoir county, met a most hor rible death iu a runaway while rid ing a mule from the field to the house to get shelter from an ap proaching storm: He was thrown from the mule, and his legs caught in the plow chains. The frightened animal ran away, dragging the boy over rough roads, home. His skull was crushed, and man-" bones broken. His helpless mother witnessed the distressing scene. Insane When Convenient. A number of witnesses testified Saturday at Washington, D. C, to the mental condition of John C. Davis, the Washington attorney, charged with obtaining more, than $200,000 from investors in that city and Alexandria and appropriating the same to his own use. Davis was a lawyer in Wilmington twenty years ago, and was tried there under a similar charge and sent to the State asylum. After several years he escaped. Until this trial his whereabouts were unknown. . . Cost Preachers to Live T' a. That the practical side c. the in creased cost of living must be recog nized if the material welfare of the Church is to be considered was force fully brought to the front when the Episcopal Convention of North Caro lina at Winston-Salem adopted a res olution urging the vestries of the various parishes within its jurisdic tion to consider at once the question of "raising the wages" of the clergy men. Naval Militia Inspection. Dates for the inspection of the five divisions of the North Carolina naval militia are announced by Adjutant General Armfield, inspection to be by Lieutenant Colonel H. D. Harper, assistant inspector general. They will be as follows: Oriental, June 29; Newbern, June 30; Windsor, July 1; Plymouth, July 2; Elizabeth City, July 3. Buried Alive and Died. Eli Daniels, white, while in tbe bottom of the deepest part of the ex cavation laying the sewer pipe which is intended to drain the new Norfolk and Southern railroad property at Edenton, was instantly buried alive by the bonk caving in upon him and tons of clay and' sand covering his entire body, only one hand being visible above the earth. Guilford's Disposition of the 1,000. Saturday in Greensboro at a meet ing of the Guilford county highway commissioners it was decided to use the $1,000 prize money awarded to Guilford county last year by The Atlanta Journal-New York Herald National Highway Association for building a 20-foot concrete bridge at the Smith farm near the city. Fire Loss at Stokesdale. There was a serious fire at Stokes dale Friday resulting in the destruc tion of a business block of five brick stores. The loss is reported to be $20,000, with but $2,500 insurance. The Masonic Lodge of ''Stokesdale owned one of the stores, and had its lodge room in the second story. All its paraphernalia was destroyed. Singular Accident to Spencer Mas. E. S. Burgess, of Spencer, was dangerously injured Friday, the 13th, by falling on a picket fence. While walking on a ditch bank the ground gave way and he was precipitated with great force upon the fence, a piece of which pierced his breast necessitating ten stitches to close the gap. He was carried to his home for treatment and will recover. First Albemarle Assembly. The Sir Walter Raleigh Chapter Daughters of the Revolution, will un veil a tablet at Hall's Creek church, Nixonton, June 11, commemorating the meeting of the First Albemarle Assembly, an event which took place at that historic spot February 6, 1665. This was the first law-making body ever convened in the State of North Carolina. Wilkes' Big Illicit Distillery. The biggest steam distillery evT operated in this State, allegedly il licit, reported to be owned by a man named Mitchell, one of Wilkes coun ty's best-known citizens was seised Friday. The still was being operat ed in the Hunting Creek section of Wilkes. ' Deputy Collector J. M. Davis and J. S. Bandy making the seizure, under orders of Collector Brown of Statesville. It is said that other violations are reported from that section of Wilkes and Collector Brown, is said to be determined to wage relentless war upon the law breakers while he is in office. NORTH STATE NEWS Items of state Interest Gathered and Told in Brief New Building for State Fair., The North Carolina Agricultural Society awards the contract to York & Cobb of Greenville, for a fire proof concrete agricultural and horti cultural building at the State fair grounds, the bid being $6,725, to be completed September 15. It is 60 by 150 feet with pagoda on the roof overlooking the race track where ry-' freshments can be served. "Wet" in Wilmington. Startling revelations of the jto . ceipt of more than seven hundred barrels and cases of liquor by little more than "a dozen consignees in Wil mington since anuary 1st, 1910, were made Thursday at a continued hear ing before the mayor under the spec ial statue of the" Revisal of ,1905, these disclosures coming upon tho submission of tbe records of the local Seaboard Air Line freight- agent. Durham's ' Foinest" Get. At a meeting of the Durham board of aldermen all salaries of patrolmen and sergeants were raised and be ginning with the next month they will go on higher pay. The regular officers are now receiving $63 and go up to $70. The first and second ser geants receive also a substantial raise, $75 and $78, respectively, be ing their monthly stipend. Permission to Pass Armed. A formal order has been issued by Governor Kitchin and Adjutant Gen eral J. F. Armfield allowing permis sion to the troops of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Miss issippi to pass through North Caro lina fully armed and equipped, while en route to the Chieamauga battla ground in July Penitentiary Cotton Sold. The State prison management an nounces the sale of the remainder of last year's crop of cotton amount ing to 695 bales to Rogers & MeCabo, Raleigh, at 14 3-4 for the run of the stock. Three State Prisoners High Ball. The management of the penitenti ary reports the escape of three con victs from the railroad camp at St. Pauls, Robeson county. They are: Sam Johnson, colored, sentenced from New Hanover county in 'Sep tember, 1906, to 30 years for burg lary; Jack Williams, sentenced from Guilford county in 1907 to 7 years for breaking into a store house; John Davis, colored, serving 15 years from Rockingham county for criminal assault. Where Soldier Boys Go. There is to be a division in the time of the encampments of the com panies of the North Carolina National Guard this year, and with one re quest to go to the manoeveurs at Chickamauga, two are to encamp at Morehead City, and the coast artillery to encamp at Fort Caswell. Ex-Congressman Bower Dead. Hon. W. H. Bower, former Con gressman from North Carolina, died Wednesday, at Lenoir. For several years prior to his death he had suffer-, ed from the effects of paralysis, hav ing had several strokes, the last one occurring last Thursday. Lady Patient Leaps to Death. Mrs. Virginia P. McDairmid, 55 years old, of Lumberton; Monday afternoon threw herself from the roof of the Charlotte sanitarium where she had been a patient for six weeks to the pavement 60 feet below, meet ing instant death. Wilson for Masons 1911. At the closing session of the Grand Command ery Knights Templar and Grand Lodge Royal Arch Masons, at Salisbury, Wilson was chosen as the place fpr the next annual meeting. Maoadam Road at Winston-Salem. The county commissioners at Winston-Salem have awarded to R. L. Peters, of Knoxville, Tenn., the con tract to build four miles of macad am road on the Pfafftown highway, the price to be $31,285. Mr. Peter barely bid over bis only competitor, Messrs. Johnson, Porter & Peek, of Charlotte, whose figure was $32,000. More Cask for Rod Men. Uncle Sam's pay train is on the way to this State with part of four million dollars which will be paid to the descendants of the Cherokee In dians who surrendered to the govern ment in 1835, and that now consti tutes part of tbe States of Georgia. Tennessee, North Carolina and Ala bama. Each descendant of these old bravea- making up the tribe of eastern Cherokees. will receive $133.19. There are 30,876 names on the rolls of the Interior Department who will share in the distribution.
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