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' J t MIIIHHM I Madison J ; (WLy TJVPETRVub ; ; luthed in the County yF o year in Advance ; Jab PriatiaJ Froaaatfly eaa Neatl . Medium Through which you reach the people 9 Madiaon County ! ! ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION ; ; Miiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiii Ml I I I II I I Ml I I II I H I I I County Record. POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY. VOL. XII. MARSHALL, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER II, 1910. NO,4;. RUSHING Of WAVES Strange Phenomena of Sea in Alaskan Territory. WAS IT SUBMARINE VOLCANO? Unaccompanied by Wind or Any Disturbance Surf Sweeps Town to Highest Point Ever Known Great Damage tc Property. Nome, Alaska A teriffle surf, 1111 acotnpauied by wind or disturbance in the air, swept the beacli and across the Nome sand pit, destroy ing I wo houses and 15 cabins and doing great damage to shipping. Several schooners were wrecked. No lives were lost, but many per sons had narrow escapes. The water swept far up the streets, those near the shore being com pletely inundated. No one here is able to account for Hie phenomenon, which some attribute to submarine volcanic act ion and others to the recent eclipse. The water rose to the highest point ever seen here, reaching far above the marks made when Behring Sea ami Norton Sound are lashed into a fury by the Arctic storms. During the disturbance the schooner Mary Sachs was picked up from her moorings by the mighty rush of water and deposited in a pit dweller's yard. All the other boats laid up for the winter were swept far up on the beach by the waves. Cellars in the stores on Front street are full of water and the slocks soaked. It was only by piling sandbags about the warehouse of the Pacific Cold Storage Company that the men were able to prevent the building from being carried away. The homeless are being cared for by their friends. Tor several months Mount Uogo slo and Mount Shishaldin, near I'niinak Pass, have been spouting tire and lava at short intervals and the Hogrslav Islands have been un dergoing peculiar contortions. LOVER KILLS HIMSELF. I liable to Gel Good Job He Suicides by Sweetheart. Philadelphia. Unable to find em ployment which would enable him In support a wife, Lafayette Mad io., aged 25, shot and killed himself while sealed in a street car beside his 18-vear-old fiancee. He had fixed the 26th of this month as I he dale for the wedding hut grew despondent at his continu ed failure to find remunerative em ployment. While on a suburban trolley car, with Miss Nellie Calla han, to whom he had been engaged for nearly a year. Maddox, it is said, endeavored to induce the girl to en ter a suicide pact. She refused to consider such a proposition and did nol believed he was serious. Doctor Guilty Criminal Operation. San Francisco. Dr. Robert Thompson, charged with the mur der of Evan Swan, was found guilty of murder in the second degree. The body of Miss Swan, who died as the result of an operation, was found two months ago buried under the basement floor of a deserted cottage. Made a Record, But Washington. The battle command practice of student officers of the coast artillery at Fort Monroe, Va.. on July 21, during which 11 lives were sacrificed through the prema ture discharge of a gun, showed the best record from the standpoint of efficiency ever attained by this branch of the military service. Stops Religious Establishments. Madrid. The Senate by a vote of 149 to 58 passed the "padlock bill," which prohibits the creation of fur ther religious establishments in Spain. A Crazy Butcher. Cedarburg, Wis. Louis Hoffman, a butcher, while temporarily insane, shot and killed his 12-year-old son Carl, wounded his wife, his brother Ernest and Ernest's son Walter. Hoffman was arrested. P. M.'s Must Not Indorse. Washington. "Don't indorse your patrons" is the warning given to postmasters in an order issued by the Postofflce Department. It di rects that in view of the difficulties arising through compliance with requests from patrons for indorse ments, testimonials or guaranties as to their honesty, reliability, etc., postmasters, in -their official capa city, should not write or sign state ments of any such character.. Post masters will not object to these restrictions. CONSOLIDATE SCHOOLS The Hope and Prosperity of the Country Depend Upon Educa tion of Country Bos. Des .Moines, Iowa. "Consolidated village and rural schools, bearing three-fourths of the burden of for mulating country life education, are the greatest factors in the estab lishment of verile morality and high ideals of every day life in this country," declared Assistant Wil liam M. Haynes, of the Department of Agriculture, before, the Iowa Stale teachers' convention here. Continuing, Mr. Haynes said I hat as the whole educational and moral structure of the lountry rested in the final analysis in country's rn ray life, the development of practi cal education in rural districts was the quickest and surest means of raising general standards of intelli gence, morality and competency in the United States. In universal vo cational education for adults as well as for youths, he saw the means for greatest capacity of development . LIHTED WITH WIVES. Women Can't Keep Secret When Lotemaking Becomes Violent. Wilkes-Harre. Pa.- Disguised in Halloween costumes. Mrs. Michael Hodack and Mrs. John Andrew, of this city, Halloween night followed their husbands downtown, flirted with them and were soon in their company. Mrs. Hodack being with Andrew and Mrs. Andrew with Ho dack. so thai their husbands would nol recognize their voices. For some lime the two women had a lot of fun and then each of the men be gan paying so much attention to his companion that trouble was quickly brewed. There was a quarrel and then a light, which resulted in the two men being arrested. They were taken before Alderman Donohue on the charge of disorderly conduct and their explanations followed, their wives forgave them, and after paying the costs they were released. V ALUE OF OUR IMPORTS. Department of Commerce and Labor Shows There is a Decline. Washington. That the imports of the United States from various pai ls of the world during the month of September last, showed a decrease over the imports of September, I'.NIO, and that the imports for the lirsl nine months of this year an' in ex cess of the figures for the corres ponding period last year are indicat ed in the detail of foreign trade which have been announced by the bureau of slastistics of the. Depart ment of Commerce and Labor . The imports for the first nine months of Ibis year were valued at $l,172.:t87.3(')3 as against $1,068,594, 350 of last year. The export trade for September shows an increase the total being $1 68,86 1,293 compared with $153, 962.895 for September, 1909. The ex ports for the first nine months of this year also have increased over the same period of 1909. the former total being $1,222,914,408 and the lal tor $1,161,024,910. Coffin and Tombstone Were Ready Enterprise, Ala. After having purchased a coffin, which she kept in her home, and had an elaborate tombstone placed on her lot in a nearby cemetery, Miss Kate Marsh, an eccentric character, who lived alone in the country near here, was found dead on her porch. Her clothing was partly burned off and death is believed to have been acci dental. Appeal For a "Peace Sunday." Boston. The American Peace So ciety has issued an appeal to the clergy of all Christian churches of the country and to the leaders of all other religious organizations to ob serve the third Sunday in December of this and succeeding years as "Peace Sunday" and on that date to urge by prayer, song and sermon "the abolition of war, and the sub stitution of imperative, universal arbitration." Broom Corn Sells For $100 a Ton. Wichita, Kas. Farmers near Shattuck, Okla., have formed bands of night-riders and threaten prom inent broom-corn dealers according to advices received here from A. F. Rales, a merchant of that place. He says he and other dealers have been oredred to leave the county. According to Mr. Rales the grow ers are demanding $150 per tost for their brush, while the prevailing prices are from $86 to $100 per ton. THANKSGIVING DAY President of The United States Issues Proclamation. A YEAR OF GREAT PROSPERITY. Some of the Things Which Have Contributed to the Happiness and Success of Americans No Wars Have Disturbed. Washington. - The vigorous growth and progress of the country is reflected by the records of popu lation and harvests and the general conditions of international peace, are things for which thanksgiving is especially due for the year 1910, ac cording to the annual Thanksgiving Day proclamation issued by Presi dent TaTI. The prolomalion is as follows: "This year of 1910 is drawing lo a ( lose. The records of population and harvests, which are the index of progress, show vigorous national growth and the health and prosper ous well-being of our communities throughout this land and in our possessions beyond the seas. Tlwsc blessings have not descended upon us in restricted measures, but over flow and abound. They are the blessings and bounty of (iod. "We continue lo bo at pease with Hie rest of the world. In all essen tial mailers our relations with oth er peoples are harmonoiis, with an ever-growing reality of friendliness and depth of recognition of mutual dependence. II is especially to be noted thai during the past year great progress has been achieved in the cause of arbitration and the peaceful settlement of international disputes. "Now. therefore, I. William How ard Tart, P.residenl or the United Stales of America, in accordance with the wise custom of the Civil Magistrate since the first settle ments in this laud and with the rule established from the foundation of this government, do appoint. I burs day. November 24, 1910. as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, enjoining Ihe people, upon that day lo meet in their churches for the praise of Almighty iod and to re turn hertfelt thanks to linn lor an His goodness and loving kindness. In witness thereof. I have here unto set my hand and caused tin seal of Ihe United Slates to b affixed. "Done al the city of Washington Ibis fifth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten, and of the inde pendence of the United Slates the one hundred and thirty-fifth. (Seal) "WILLIAM HOWARD TAUT. "By thp President: "ALVEY A. ADEE. "Acting Secretary of State." ENTIRE TEXAS GUARD Ql ITS. Sergeant Manley Convicted of Mur der and Militia Show Displeasure. Dallas, Texas. Sergeant J. 1. Mauley of the Texas national guard, who stabbed with his bayonet and killed Louis Richenstein, a specta tor, during the visit of President Taft lo Dalas a year ago, was given a life sentence in the penitentiary bv a jury in the criminal colirt. Manley has always claimed that the killing was accidental. As an outcome of the conviction of Ser geant Manley, the Texas national guard have tendered their resigna tion to the adjutant general of the Slate. Postal Receipts For 1909. Washington. Postal receipts for the fiscal year ended on June 30 were $324,128,657.62, an increase of 10 per cent over last year. More than one-half that enormous sum was collected in six States New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts and Missouri; the total collections of each State rang ing in the order named. The. New York postofflce collected 10 per cent of all the receipts and Chicago came next with 8 per cent. Punished For Selling Rad Eggs. Philadelphia. The first prison sentence imposed under a recent act of the Legislature for selling eggs unfit for food was passed by Judge Barrett, when he sentenced George D. Ellis, a Water street commission merchant, to three months in the county prison. Thomas D. Ellis was fined $500 and the costs of the prosecution. Abraham Staples, an other egg dealer, who "made a prac tice of buying up decayed eggs and shipping them to New York bakers,, was also sentenced to three months WOMAN ENDS HER CAREER PemiM h aula Woman kills Her 17- Year-Old Daughter and Then Shoots Herself. Sci anion, Pa. Mrs. Harriet Tur ner, 40 years of age, shot and killed her 17-year-old daughter. Marjorie, and then sent a bullet into her own breast, inflicting what physicians believe to be a fatal wound. The tragedy was discovered by a milk man who found Mrs. Turner half buried in IS inches of snow on her front porch. Mrs. Turner's husband, William and her son. Willard. are in the University of Pennsylvania hospital, at Philadelphia. The husband is in a critical condition from asthma and the son is being treated for blind ness in one eye. The authorities believe that worrv over tier family trebles temporarily deranged Mrs. Turner's mind. An 11-year-old sou was not bann ed. Mrs". Turner told the doctors thai she loved the boy too much to take him along with her into death, but she thought the daughter would have too many troubles in life and decided lo shoot her. WIFE FOOLS HUSBAND. Bah Died at Birth, She Substitutes Another. Kansas City, Mo. After believing for seven years that Marilda Fuller, 7 years old, was his daughter, Julius R. Fuller was told in court by his wife, who seeks a divorce, thai the child was taken from a hospital and substituted for her own that died al birth. Mrs. Fuller asked a divorce for non-upport. Mr. Fuller asked possession of the child. "The child, you understand.'' Mrs. Fuller told Ihe court, "is an adopt ed one." "Impossible." said the husband. "Our child was born lo us in St. Louis seven years ago." "It was born 7 years ago," Mrs. Fuller explained, bill it is not our chaild." "Mr. Fuller is a traveling sales man. While he was on the road, our baby was born and died. I grieved so that I decided to adopt a baby that was born in the hos pital ihe same day that ours died." "Thai's a new one on me, ' Fuller said. "I don't believe Ihe story. I want the baby." The Fullers were married in Connelicul where they lived on a farm. GIRL IS SET FREE. .lodge Dismissed Child Who is Self Accused of Murder. San Francisco. -Elbe Wilson, the 10-year-old Texas girl who stands self-accused of the killing of (luido Varsi, who brought her from her San Antonio home lo the night life of this city, was ordered released. When Police Judge Conlan heard her story several prominent San Francisco women begged thai he show clemency. Judge Conlan re leased her in their custody with out bond and said she should go hack to her mother, accompanied by Mrs. Sealon, wife of a former .judge. "In the name of the law. I arrest Ibis girl for murtler," said the at torney for Varsi's relatives. Judge Conlan rebuked him and directed Mrs. Seaton to take charge of the. prisoner. The attorney secur ed a new warrant, but no judge would sign it nor officer serve it. Man, 82, and Bride, 48, Elope. Sterling. I .Jacob Myers. a wealthv farmer. 82 years old, and Miss Ellen Kraft, 48 years old, elop ed and were married. Myers son. CO years old, objected to the mar riage. The bridegroom has three great- grand-children. Aaed Bridegroom Cut Himself. Dresden. Tenn. Despondent be cause he had been forced by the sheriff, al the instance of the girl's father, to surrender his 18-year-old bride, Thomas Gaskins, o years old a wealthy planter, stabbed himself Walks 800 Miles to Wed. Taenma. Wash. Allan Rowe. of Fairbanks, Alaska, walked 800 miles lo Forty Mile, after navigation clos ed to wed Mrs. Lawrence. He weigh ed 203 pounds at the start, losing 30 pounds. A Cold-Rlooded Villain. Columbus, Ga. Wearing the dead man's hat, Robert Jites, aged 63, led a posse iuto the woods west of Gi rard, Ala, to the body of J. D. Thnmason. a butcher of Phoenix City, Ala., and was arrested, charged with the killing. Jiles volunteered to lead a posse to the body and aid in finding the guilty man. One of the posse stated that be saw Jiles toss a pistol into a nearby bush. One of Thomason's sons identified the revolver as his father's. TAR HEEL PUBLIC TALK Oreaat of Carrot County Events Clipped and Condensed in a Column. LIGHT FOR LAW MAKERS. Change and Improvements Mad in Capitol Rullding. The work of installing the venti lating system in the Stale House renewing and remodeling the heat ing equipment, and wiring lli building for electricity in progress the past several months has beei: completed with the exception ot putting up the new electric fix tures. The ventilating equipment includes a huge electric fan in the roof of the Capitol that is connect ed with huge air ducts that arc thoroughly controlled so thai the ventilation all over Ihe building and especially in the Representatives' ball and Senate chamber can tie thoroughly controlled. The electric lighting is complete and includes circles of lights up in the dome and unple ligbls all through the ro tunda that has heretofore been so deficient in lighting equipment. The big stone structure was erected be fore the day of electricity (in 1831) and has all these years had only gas equipment except for electric wires that have been installed in some of the offices, the wiring being exposed. The new wiring through out the building is concealed in the walls, this having taken much of Ihe long time and considerable cost of the work, which is being done in compliance with an act of the last Legislature directing the. Council of State to have it done be fore the next session of the Assem bly. FORFST RANGER ASSASSINATED While Searching for Poachers Man is Shot Down. Clayton Davis, a forest, ranger in the employ of the Biltmore estate, who was shot by a person or per sons unknown November 2d, while searching for poachers died and T. C. Kearns, a moun taineer of Mill River, Henderson county, is in custody charged with the shooting. The deceased was walking neat the boundary line of the estate near Slate Rock creek when a shot from ambush struck him in the ab-. domen. The wounded man was found by forestry bands some hours later, after he had crawled and walked a distance of nearly three miles in the direction of bis home, to which he was carried. Cotton Picking Record. Mr. J. C. Aycock. of the Bethle hem church community of Union county picked 502 pounds of cotton in a day recently. Wade Cloaninger, the 15-year-old son of Mr. J. L. Cloaninger, of Barringer township, Iredell county, picked 406 pounds of cotton in a day also. With such pickers a cotton picking machine is not needed. Summary. Dr. D. E. Everett of Raliegb has advised Governor Kitchin that it is impossible for him To serve as a di rector of the North Carolina soldiers' home, to whic bhe was ap- pointed a few weeks ago to succeed the late A. B. Stronach and the Gov ernor has commissioned A. H. Boy den of Salisbury in his stead. On the recommendation of Nation al Committeeman Morehead, Dr. H. D. Walker has been appointed a pension examining surgeon at Eliza beth City, vice Dr. J. B. Gragg, re signed. At Wadrsboro during October there were 399 liquor prescriptions filled at the depository, agaiifct 313 for September. Protest Against Screening Food. Several weeks ago the Wilmington board of aldermen, after consider able discussion, passed an ordiance providing thai all food Jproducts placed on display on the sidewalks should be screened. The retail gro cers and market men protested at the time and at the next meeting of the city fathers will enter a strenuous protest to have the. ordi nance repealing or greatly modified. It is contended that by screening the products they are hid from view and it is also rather inconvenient. Mill Charges Discriminating Rates. The Cannon Manufacturing Com pany of Concord has filed a com plaint with Ihe Interstate Com merce Commission against the Southern and other railroads al leging that by reason of discrimina tory rates allowed others it was se riously injured in shipments of sheeting, gingham and towels to he Pacific coast. By reason of excessive rates, a it is also alleged, concerns clscwWcre are given advantages over complainant. .by WILBUR D NEPBTT Corijiined Somebody done put a spell on me! When I shoots craps I dess th'ows three, Er twelve er two ontll I lose Mali coal en vest en hat en shoes. Wn whut dess bruck me all ter smash I done lose eighty cents In cash! I wondah ef lilt's of man Green dat Uve By de brin k down milt! Is he sons ea give Me a powdeti mix in dat possum roas' Dat '11 make me fade till I'm des a ghoe't Oh, hit's hahd ter ten Whah I got de spell. But de one dat done hit done hit well! Somebody done gone en conju'd me! I cropft e.z sof ez sof could be Ter do chicken coop whah de pullets stay En dey all lese squawk lak Mt dess come day! En de white man oome wtd Ma dog en gun Thoo de bahbwlah fence, dat's whah I run! I wondah ef hit's ol' Mis' 'Lisa Smlff Dat am bent en bowed en lame en stiff. En dat mum'le so when she say "How'- do"- Is she mix' dem yubs till dey strike me thoo? Oh. hit's hahd ter tell Whah I got de spell But de one dat done hit done hit well! Somebody done lay a spell on me! I went dls mawn' af a-half-pas' three Ter de smoke house dess fer te git a ham En a boa'd fell down lier-blim! ker-blam! En de white man's gun scatteh shot so wide Dat he speckle me-ev'y Inch er hldel I wondah ef lilt's ol' Sis' Susy Pratt WId de three-leg dog en de cross-eye' cat! Is she lay some stuff at niah front do' step Fum de bag er spells dat dey say she kep'? Oh, hit's hahd ter tell Whah 1 got de spell But de one dat done hit done lilt well! He Deserved H. "No," said the Roman conqueror to the court fool of the defeated king. "I will not chain you te my chariot wheels." "Thank you, your majesty," saya the court fool. "I have always heard that you were chariotable." For this the Roman conqueror com pels the court fool to enter & pie eat ing contest In the coliseum. Christened. "Have the Blinkerbys named their twins?" asRs the caller of the neigh bor of the Blinkerbys, whose house hold has been blessed by the arrival of duplicates a few days before. "I don't know," replies the neighbor, "but I understand that Mr. Bltnkerby suggested names for them Immedlate ly on learning of their arrival." "He did?" "Yes. He exclaimed, 'Heaven and Earth." " His Offense. "What Is your charge against the de fendant?" asks tho magistrate of the complainant "He stole the words of a popular song I wrote." "Sing the song," orders the magis trate. The witness starts, but Is Interrupts ed at the second chores): "That'll do. I'll commit the defend ant for Insanity." Unappetizing. It was sometime after they had moved out of Eden. Eve was repeating her opinion of what might have been If Adam had not developed such an appetite for apples and then blamed everything on her. "O," growled Adam, I'm gettlng mighty tired of this eternal apple sauce!" Fitted for the Work. "What an odd picture to be printed by Bedobber, the famous marine art ist?" i "O. 1 don't know. It B catalogued ' as 'A Little Smack." n
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