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MARSHALL, MADISON COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1912.
NO. 1.
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fit" MidUon County,
Established by Ui Leglslati
ilon lMO-'H.
Population. 20.183.
County t Marshall.
14 fMt above Ma level
Naw and modern Court Huia, coat
iSl.0oo.00.
Now and modern jail, ooa 115.000.00.
Now and modern County Home, cost
110,000.00.
Officer.
Hon. Ji. L. , Hyatt Senator,' S3
District Burasvlll. N.
Hon. J. C Ramsey, itepreenlatlv.
Marshall, N. C.
W. H. Hnderon,Clehk Superior
Court. Marshall. N,
W. M. Buckner. sheriff, Marshall.
N. 0. -
Jamas Smart, Regttr of Deeds.
Marshall N. C.
& T. Runnion, Traaurr, Marshall,
N. C, R. r. D. N. 1
R. L. Tweed. Burveyer, Whlta Rock,
Dr. J. H. Balrd, Coroner, Mara Hill
N. C.
Mrs. Ellia Henderson, Jailor, Mar
hallN.C. John Honeyoutt, Janitor, Marshall.
N. C
Dr. C. N. Sprinkle, County Physician,
Marshall N. C.
James Haynle, Supt County Home,
Marshall N. C.
Home located about two miles south
west of Marshall.
Courts.
Criminal and Civil, First Monday be
fore First Monday in March, Com
mencing Feb. 26th, 1912.
Civil 11th. Monday after First Mon
day in March, commences May 20,
1912.
Criminal and Civil, First Monday
fter First Monday in SepL Com
mences Sept. 9th, 1912.
Civil 6th Monday after First Mon
day in September. Commenoea Octo
ber 14, 1912.
BOARDS.
County Commissioners. '
W. C. Sprinkle, Chairman, Marshall,
X. C.
. C. F. Cassada, Member, Marshall
N. C, R- F, D. No. 1. .
Rcubln A. Tweed, Member, Big
laurel N. C.
C. B. Masbburn, Atty, Marshall
N. C.
' Board meets first Monday In every
- , Road Commissioners.
A. E. Bryan, Chairman, Marshall, N.
C, R. F. D. 2. ... , ,
J. A. Ramsey, Secretary, Mara H1U,
N. C. R. F. D. 2. '
Sam Cox, Member, Mart" Hill N. C
R. F. D. No. 2.
O. W. Wild, Big Pine, N. C.
' Dudley Cblpley, Road Engineer,
Marshall, N. C.
George M. Pritchard, Atty., Marshall,
N. C.
Board meets first Monday in Janu
ary, April, July and October each year.
Board of Education.
Jasper Ebbs, Chairman, Spring
Creek, N. C.
Thoa. J. Murray, Member, Marshall,
N. C, R. F. D. No. 3
W. R. Sams, Marshall N. C, R. F.
P. No. 2.
Prof. M. C. Buckner, Supt of
. Schools. Mars Hill N. C, R. F. D.
No. t.
Board Meets first Monday in Janu
ary, April, July and October each year.
Colleges and High Schools.
Mara Hill College, Prof. R. L. Moore,
President, Mara Hill, N. C. Fall Term
begins August 17, 1911. Spring Term
begins January 2, 1912.
Spring Creek High School. Prof.
Q. C. Brown, Principal Spring Creek,
N. C. 8 Mo. School opened August
Madiaon Bemtnarv Hlah School
Prof J. M. Weatherly, Principal, Mar
shall, N. C, R. F. D. No. 2. 7 Mo
School bagan October 2, 1911. ,
Bell Institute. Mlsa Margaret E.
Griffith, Principal Walnut, N. C. 8 Mo.
School began September 9, 1911.
Marshall - Academy. Prof. R. G.
" Anders, Principal, Marahail.vN. C,
. Ma School began Sept 4, 19J1.
Notary fubllca. .,
J. C. Ramsey, Marshall N. C. Term
wplres Jan. 11, 1912.
A. J. Roberta, Marshall N. C, R. F.
D. No. . Term expires May 80,, 1912.
Jasper Ebbs, Spring Creek, N. C.
Term expires August 10, 1911.
C C. Brown. Bluff, N. C. Term ex
pires December (,1112.
J. A. Leak, Revere. N. C. Tens ex
piree January 10, J91I, .
. W. T. Davia. Hot Springs, K. C.
Term expires January 10, 1913.
3. H. Southworth, Stackhouse, N. C.
Term expires January II, 191 J.
AH. W, Anderson, Paint Fork, N. C.
.Term expires February (, 1912.
J. JL Hunter, Marshall N. C R. F.
D. No. 2. Term expire April 1, 191f
J. F. Tllson. Marshall, N. C, R. r?D.
No. 1 Term expires April 8, 1913.
C. J. Ebbs, Marshall, N. C. Term
expires April 21. 1913. '
J. W. Nelson. Marshall N. C. Term
expires April ;s 1913. v : N ;,
Roy I Gudger, Marshall, N. C.
Term expires May 3. 1913.
Geo. M. Pritchard. Marshall, N. C
Term expire May 2J, 1913.
Dudley Chlpley. Marshall H. C.'
Term expires July 29, 1913.
' W". A Connor, Mars Hill N. C. Tam
spirit November 27. 1913, . t
- POST.
Oeorgo W. Gahagan Post, No. U
o. a. r. -v
. . M. Davis, Commander.
J. R Ballard, Adjutant -
MoeU at the Court House Saturday
eforo the second Sunday in
month at 11 A. K.
ah 8m
STATE IS TO HAVE
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"HOUGHT TO BE AFTER CON
NECTION WITH THE TRANS
CONTINENTAL RAILROAD.
DUNCAN WOULD NOT TALK
Mr. Duncan, a Director of the Norfolk
Southern, Haa Gone to New York
to Attend Meeting of Transcontln
ntal Construction Company.
Raleigh. On a mission concern ig
th building . of another railroad,
which may go into th Norfolk Sontb-
rn railroad system. Mr. E. C. Dun-
oan, a director of the Norfolk South-
srn, who baa been identified with the
recent purchases of lines In thla atate
tor th Norfolk Southern left for New
York.
Mr. Duncan la a director of the
North Carolina Transcontinental Con
struction Company, which owna the
South Atlantic Trancontinental Rail
road Company and its charters. The
men behind that railroad are endeav
oring to construct a line from Knox
vllle, Tenn., to Rutherfordton, N. C,
and work baa recently begun on thla.
Tha dlrnctnra era tn me in New York
and It is expected that as a result
there may be more railroad building
in North Carolina.
Mr. Duncan declined to say any
thing of the purposes of the meeting
in New York but it Is reported that
he will endeavor to secure at the
director's meeting an Interest in the
construction company tor the Norfolk
Southern Railroad, with the view of
living to that road a connection with
the Transcontinental railroad, which
would glv it direct access to the
ooal fields of Tennessee and West
Virginia.
The directors of the company are
Mr. E. C. Duncan, Raleigh; Gen. T.
C. Dupont, Wilmington, Del; V. L.
Mason, W. H. Strayton and Harry Con
tent, New York. Mr. Mason la presi
dent, Mr. Strayhorn, vice-president
Edward F. Cloran, treasurer, and Ar
thur H. Taust., secretary 6t tBeconT
pany.
Haa Asked 8tat to Intervene.
The member of the Corporation
Commission, the committee on trans
portation of the Southern Furniture
Manufacturer Association and Gover
nor Kitchln conferred relative to the
Corporation Commission and the State
Intervening as complainant before the
Interstate Commerce Commission in a
suit the furniture manufacturer of
North Carolina have brought to com
pel the railroad ompanles to give them
the same low rates to the Pacific
coast that the manufacturers of New
York, Ohio, Georgia, Indiana and
Pennsylvania have. It the commis
sion and the state take over the liti
gation of the manufacturers Attorney
General T. W. Bickett will be expect
ed to take charge of the suit.
North Carolina New Enterprise.
The Secretary of state Issued two
charters for new enterprises in the
state. ' The Dublin Store Company,
with offices at Dublin, N. C, Is charter
ed to do a general mercantile busi
ness. Capital atock Is 3100,000, but
the company may begin business when
39,000 has been paid In. The incor
porators are Mr. J. C, Newsom, of
Dublin; Mr. T. Q. Frasler, of Dublin,
and Mr. F. A. Brooks, of Greensboro.
The Molenburg Farm Company, of
Meat End, Moors county, to do real
estate business. Capital stock is 8125.-
000, paid in 34,000. The incorpora
tor are Messrs. R. J W. O., W. P.
and F. A. Cochran, all of Charlotte.
Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh.
A magnificent crayon portrait of Sir
Walter Raleigh ha arrived in Manteo
It ia presented by Chief Justice Wal
ter Clark to Dare county, and will be
formally received, ; with appropriate
ceremonies, In the near future and will
be hung over the judge's stand in our
new court house. Our people unite in
highest appreciation of this valuable
and appropriate gift and an enthus
iastic audience la expected.
Poultry Show Date Were Mixed.
Through mistake. It appeared that
the date for the coming meeting of
the Charlotte poultry show which 1
to be held in the auditorium were Jan
nary 28-29, when the. dates should
have been January 16-19. This moves
up the show 10 days and therefore
it behooves all those who are to have
bird on display should get busy with
their plana ks. quickly as possible.
All arrangement are being consum
mated with the view of having, the
largest and best poultry show that
Chralotte baa ever knows.
A Big Fir At Orlmeeland.
Fire starting In a negro restaurant
destroyed half th business section of
Grimesland, a town 12 mile from
Greenville; on the Norfolk Southern
Railroad. The Are swept the entire
side of the street on which it originat
ed and wa only prevented by bard
wont irom getting a foothold on the
other aide of the street. The total
loss is about 325,000, more than half
covered by insurance. The heaviest
losers were H. II. Proctor and D. O.
Moore, who carried on a large cier-
Ltl business.
ANOTHER HAILRDA
WORK IN ROBESON COUNTY
The Scientific . Method of Farmlnj
and Any Old Wv Contrasted.
Pertinent Question. ,
Raleigh. Having been employed ai
agent for the farmers' co-operativ
demonstration work in th southern
part of Robeson county for th pail
year, it I gratifying to know that tbt
United 8tatea Department of Agrlcul
ture method of preparation and culti
ration are far superior to th commor
methods tsed In our county. Of theli
method I will give briefly; Prepara
tlon deep and thorough pulverise
seed bed; eeed careruUy select th(
best; cultivation intensive, every
to 10 days, but shallow and late. O'
the common method I will give so tha'
we may get the idea better. Prepara
tlon shallow. Seed any kind, just K
they will come up. Cultivation dee
and Just often enough to keep th
grass from .getting higher than thi
corn or cotton, and quit soon.
Now I will glv you some of the re
suit of the two methods, first o!
co-operative demonstration work, thi
name of parties who worked som
corn under thi method, which range
from 27 1-2 bushels to 129 bushel pel
acre. First those who produced 101
bushel and above per acre are: A. H
Leggett, J. 8. Floyd and Ondrev
Smith. Second, those who produret
90 bushels and above per acre: R
A. Hardell, J. A. Thompson, F. J. Nye
J. H. Bass. Third, those who pro
duced 80 bushels and above per acre
M. Shepbard, D. F. Phillips, N. D
McCommac, G. H. Floyd. Joht
Bridgers; fourth, those who produce
70 bushels and above per acre: J
A. Stone, W. A. Graham, W. O. Ora
ham, J. E. Parker.: Fifth, those wh
produced 60 bushels and above pel
acre: W. H. Watts, Haynes Prevait
F. B. Johnson, W. W. Lee, J. B. Wal
ters, E. F. Purvis, G. L. Robeson, W
H. Harden, J. W. Burnes. Sixth, thos
who produced 60 bushel and abov
per acre: W. H. Faulk, J. T. Purvis
William Byrd, U. A. Bullock, W. P
Brltt, O. T. Atkinson, G. B. Kinlaw
A. W. Harrington, H. G. Byrd. O. D
Floyd. P. H. Adams, J. F. Adams, F
W. Walters. Seventh, those who pro
duced 40 bushels and above per acre:
E. H. Prevatt W. H. Allen, W. A
Sealey, H. E. Purvl. J. P. Brltt Offl
Quay, W. O. Sellers, B. W. Plttman
H. Johnson, A. Davis, J. C. Carlyle
S. L. Parker, W. A. Leggett L. D. Pitt
manWrlght LeggettJ.F Walter
To Hv A Central Warehouse.
A meeting of the aupreme counct
of the' Farmers' Union of North Caro
Una was held in the office of Secretar;
E. C. Faris in Raleigh. At this meet
ing a warehouse committee, consist
Ing of Messrs. W. B. Gibson of States
vllle, W .H. Moore of Pitt county, W
Crowder of Wake county, I. T
Cogging off Chatham and C. C. Wrlgh
of Wilkes county, was appointed fo:
the purpose of securing the necessar;
charter for the incorporation of th
State Warehouse Company. It Is th)
intention of the officers of this com
pany to place a central warehouse fo:
the storage of cotton, in one of th'
principal cities of the state.
Another Crime in Cleveland.
A dastardly attack somewhat siml
lar to the one made on Mr. and Mrs
John Dixon In upper Cleveland De
cember 13, occurred at-Earl, 8 mllei
below Shelby on the Southern Rail
way when Mr. William Kendrick, i
brother of Policeman Bob Kendricl
of Shelby, went to hi barn to feet
and was assaulted by two negroes
who' pelted him with rocks and so
fire to bia barn. Policeman Kendricl
and Deputy George Allen went t
Earl to work on the case and arrest
ed Plato Jeiyilng and Henry Whls
nant and the latter young ion.
Await Th Result of Meeting.
- Upon the result of a meeting ol
the stockholders of the Mecklenburf
Fair Association which will take plac
on January 8, depneds the continu
ance of the organization and the fur
ther holding of annual fairs In Char
lotte. It haa been estimated that
during the 10 years which the asaocla
tlon haa been In existence, an average
dividend of six per cent baa beet
forthcoming, yearly to the stockhold
er. . ' :
Raleigh. Governor Kitchln baa not
yet named the man who is to ano
ceed Judge Geo. W. Ward aa judge
of the First District -
To Canvas Stat ,to Complete Fund.
At a special meeting of the Bill
Nye building at the Stonewall Jack
days ago at Charlotte Mr. J. P, Cook,
ita treasurer, waa authorised to make
a canvaaa of the state to complete th
fund for . the erection of th Bil
Nye building at the Sotnewkll Jack
on Training School at Concord. A
great personal sacrifice Mr. Cook ten
dered his service to the committee,
offering to devote at least four month
to the task of bringing to a success
ful conclusion an undertaking begus
over a year ago.
An Important Transfer. .
In the probate court at Greensboro
Mr. Isaao Hammer, of Kansas, re
corded a transfer or title from him
and Mrs. Hammer of 640 acres of land
in Kansas, valued at 330,000, to the
endowment fund of Sylvan Academj
In Alamance county. The gift la made
tn honor of Mrs. Hammer, who was
Miss Jane Stuart of Alamance, and
was educated at Sylvan Academy. Thf
trustee are. J. S. Cox, of Greens
boro; Nathan Stuart. Xrt. Lydia Al-
ln Etui.rt, NaChti 1 ..rt. ' y, W. B
rut I " tr I:-.-" ' -v. a:. :re.
DEFEAT
ITALIAN FORCE
PUT TO PLIGHT.. WITH GREAT
. LOSS AFTER TWENTY-FOUR
, HOURS' BATTLE.
ITALIAN LOSS IS ONE-HALF
Commander of Turk h Troop R-
. porta Garrison Annihilated and
; Munition Captured.
Washington. A twenty-four-hour
battle, In which the Turkish troops
defeated the Italian force, killing half
of It in the rout l described In an
official message from Constantinople,
made public at the Turkish embassy,
The message was transmitted to the
Imperial ministry of War at Constan
Unople by the commander of the Tur
kish troops from Tobruk, Tripoli,
under date of December 22. The
report follow:
"We have attacked the fortified
post of the. enemy. Notwtthitand
ing the fire from the warships and
fort batteries, we entered the fort
and the garrison has been annihilat
ed. Ammunition, provisions, war ma
terial and a qutck-flrln ggun have
been carried Into our camp.
'In Ita forward "-march, one of our
wing cut off the retreat of the en
,emy, who fled toward the coast. Dur
ing the retreat the enemy loat half
their number. Th battle lasted all
day and night.
"Anions; the killed were, three off!
cera of the enemy..' Our losses were
seven killed and a lew wounded. The
Cheikh Meri, who, with his Ave sons,
came at the bead of bla tribe, Is
among the dead. '
"The courage of our officers and
soldiers Is exemplary. Lieutenant
Meojlb Bey wa th first to enter
the fort He destroyed the quick
firing guns and carried away one
into our camp." '
T0FIX FORM OF GOVERNMENT
Chlna'i
Future In th Hand of Na
tlonaf Convention
Shanghai. The veace conference
delns; . held, ben rJwa the repre
sentative of the Pehln ' government
and th revolutionary party agreed
that the form of government to be
ultimately adopted for China should
be decided by a national convention,
whose determination should be bind
ing on both parties. It also wa
agreed that pending the decision of
the national convention, the Manchu
government waa neither tt accept nor
to attempt to obtain foreign loans.
Another a"reement reached is that
all Manchu troops In the provinces of
Shan Si, Shen- Si, Huh Pen, Nganhwel
and Klangsu shall evacuate , their
present positions and withdraw from
them, to a distance of 100 li (about
37 miles) within Ave days, beginning
from December 31. The republican
troops meanwhile shall neither ad
vance nor occupy the places evacuat
ed pending special arrangements to
be reached by mutual agreement The
Manchu troops are not to advance
nor 'to attack the position at Shan
tung held by the republicans, nor
shall the republican troops advance
upon nor capture new places.
It is understood the national con
vention to be called is to Include
those delegates at present in confer
ence at Nanking, who have elected
Dt. Sun Tat Sen president of the
republic and other to be' elected.
JTang Shao Yl ,recelved a telegram
from Pekin saying that Tuan Fang,
formerly director general of the Hu
kang railroad and ex-viceroy of the
province of Chi U, bad arrived in
the capital disguised aa a coolie.
Arretted for Forgery.
Npehvllle, Tenn. E. Kline, a Hun
garian, who represented himself aa
James Stewart of New York, was ar
rested here on a charge of forgery,
and will be taken back to 8cranton,
Pa., to face hla accusers. Kline came
to Nashville last Saturday and an
nounced that he was Jamea Stewart,
a New York contractor of the Arm of
Jamea Stewart A Co., and intended
to beautify' auburban aectlona about
thla city, an engage in an extensive
ale of villa site.
'; )'- "
Rlcheeon' Condition Prvnt Trial.
Boston. The physical and mental
condition of the Rev. C. V. RIcheson
1 so unfavorable that hi trial, on
January 15, the date set, will be an
absolute impossibility in th opinion
of hla counsel. "Perhaps his wounds
may be in a favorable condition,"
says a atatement from hla lawyer,
..w hie general and mental condi
tion ia far from favorable, and I be-
iiv an early attempt tt put him o-
trial at ao early a date would eauae
a collapse which would ueiay
trial indefinitely."
the
ifabor Unions Prosecuted
Kansas City. In what they believ
ed to be the Art prosecution Insti
tuted by the government under the
Sherman anti trust law against a la
bor union, three of flclala of railway
unions, whose men are on strike on
the Harriroan line were ordered to
appear in the Federal court at Dan
ville, 111., on January 1. The officials
are: M. F. Ryan, general president
of the Railway Car Men of Amerioa:
J. A. Franklin, International presi
dent of the Brotherhood of Boilermakers-
A. K'.nzman, vice rodent.
TURKS
NEGRO LYNCHED BY MOB
Polio Ar Unabls to Find Any Clew
and It'a Improbable Any Arretta
Will B Mad.
Baltimore, Md. King Davie, a ne
gro, aged 25 yean, who shot and
killed Frederick A. Schwab (white)
at Fairfield, waa taken from tha lock
up at Brooklyn, a auburb of Balti
more, and shot to death by a small
moo.
Davia, who waa also known by tha
nam of Johnson, waa dragged, to a
pot about 200 yard from th sta
tion and ahot through th lunga four
times. Hla body waa not discovered
until several hours later by a passer
by. who notified the police. No all-
night guard la kept at the prison,
and the authorities had no knowledge
of the affair until the finding of the
body waa reported. Chief Irwin at
once started an investigation, but has
unearthed no clue. ,
The avenging band, thought to
have not exoeeded eight or ten in
number, formed quietly. They effect
ed an entrance Into the lock-up with
out attracting the attention of those
living nearby, and went to Davia'
cell where they found the negro
asleep. Hubert Chase, another ne
gro, who was held as a witness In
the ' Schwab case, was not molested.
Chase said Davin fought desperately
and shrieked for mercy, but bis
cries were quickly silenced by blow
on the head, which stretched him un
conscious. He wa then dragged
away to his death.
No noise or outcries were heard by
the neighbors, except the shots, and
no attention was paid to these, as
they were thought to have been fired
by Christmas merrymakers.
Between the prison and the scene
of the lynching, the grass was tram
pled down, and a trail of blood. In
dicating that Davis was badly beat
en before he was taken out.
RUSSIANS KILLING PERSIANS
BOO Men, Women and Children Mur
dered at Peeht Par!.
London. A massacre bas been
going on in Resht, according to offi
cial Persian telegrams received in
London. These, state that 500 Per
slans were killed by the Russians,
many of them women and children.
The people, it I said, bsv been ex
horted not to fight and not to give
the slightest provocation, but the
massacre still continues.
Resht Is the capital of the province
of Ghilan and bas 40,000 inhabitanta
The government house has been bom
barded and many government offi
cial and police killed. Many private
house have been demolished.
According to dispatches, the (Rus
sians killed four unarmed Mohame-
dans in the Armenian quarter of Ta
briz during the fighting In that city.
"The people of Persia," say one
dispatch, "are stupefied , at the attl
tude of Russia, especially as these
outrages bave followed Immediately
on the acceptance by Persia of the
second Russian ultimatum, and when
Persia haa shown every desire and
disposition-to conciliate Russia and
establish friendly relations."
Aviator Injured by Fall.
Mllledgevllle, Ga. Stanley James,
an aviator, who was scheduled to give
exhibition Aights here, fell from a
height of about sixty feet and was
painfully though not seriously injured.
The accident was witnessed by but
few, as it happened at the Treanor
race track, across the river. Just as
the aviator bad risen In his aeroplane
to come over to the city to give an
exhibition. The Injured man waa hur
riedly taken to the Baldwin hotel,
where he received medical attention.
James ia from Washington, D. C and
waa headed for Tampa, Fla., giving
exhibitions at various placea en route.
He waa to have gone from here to
riiMln. Hla accident and failure to
make flights disappointed a large
crowd. The Titcomb machine was
completely demolished.
Reyes Cheerful In Prison.
Mexico City. Hi first night in the
military prison here did not appear
to denress Gen. Bernardo Reyea very
much. He alept IB the room of the
sub-director of the Santiago prison,
and waa granted all that waa neces
sary for his comfort
. General Roys Surrender. :
Llnarnes, N. L.; Mex. With "none
of his arrogance left. General Bernar
do Reyes, once considered the great
est of his country' military men, is
huddled In a chair in the little room
that serves as the headquarters of
the town's email garrison, and admits
hla defeat , Riding alone In Linares
the gray-haired rebel voluntarily sur
rendered to Lieutenant Plaoldo Rod
ringue, commander of twenty-five hi
rales, the sole military guard In thla
city.
Japan JrYsnts Chinese Republic '
Toklo. A conference of member
of the Japanese cabinet. at wblcn
many of the older atatesmes,-including
Prince Katsura, the ex-premlet,
were invited to assist Was held here.
The strictest secrecy bas been main
tained Teaard'ng the aiibjcct of dis
mission, but it la believed that the
latest developmenta of the altuatton
In China were tinder consideration. It
! iir.derstood. that the conference
reached the conclusion that the adop
tion cf a republican government byj
H.'nt v. inc. j
PERSIA DOOMED
TO RUSSIAN RULE
LAST VESTIGE OF INDEPEND
ENCE WILL BE DESTROYED
BY THE CZAR.
VENGEANCE IS THREATENED
Great Britain I AoJIng a Russia's
Accomplice and Englishman
. Feel Outraged.
London. The Russian government
haa decided to auppre disorder at
Tabrls and other disturbed Persian
towns. The dislocation of the tele
graph lines makes it impossible 'to
get a reliable narrative of the out
breaks. Yet it cannot be doubted
that a situation of the gravest com
plexity haa arisen.
Aa reports of Russian progress in
Persia and stories of the lndlscrlml
nate killing of natlvea In Tabrii and
Resht, "and of the destruction of Per
sla's constitutional government under
Russian menaces continue to reach
England, the people are becoming in
creasingly disquieted at the British
government's complicity, which the
foreign secretary, Sir Edward Gray,
thinks is a matter of policy and com
pelled by the Anglo-Russian agree
ment St. Petersburg. A semiofficial
statement Issued says that the Rus
sian government, in view of "acts of
foolhardy aggression committed
against the Russian force and insti
tutions in Tabriz, Resht and Ensell,
sometimes followed by brutal torture
of the wounded and base outrage
against the dead," has decided that
the severest punishment of the guilty
Is merited, and Russian commanders,
In conjunction with Russian consuls,
are instructed to adopt the most strin
gent measures.
Teheran. It is understood that the
regent and cabinet desire the appoint
ment of the American, F. E. Cairns,
the principal assistant of Mr. Sinister,
as the new treasurer general of Per
sia. It Is more likely, however, that
M. Mornard, the Belgian ex-director of
customs in Persia, who some months
ago made himself prominent by his
hostility to Mr. Shuster, will receive
the jHisltituv. . v . .
FEDERAL COURTS SCORED
Governor Baldwin of Connecticut Say
Superior Court Meldl.
Buffalo, N. Y. Control of state au
thorities by Inferior United States
court ha developed to such an ex
tent that the people are becoming
Impatient declared Gov. Simeon E.
Baldwin of Connecticut at the open
ing of the twenty-seventh annual
meeting of the American Historical
Association and the eighth annual
meeting of the American Political
Science Association In joint session
here. If some of the recent courtde-
olsions are not disaffirmed, Governor
Baldwin said, the judlcllal power of
the United States apparently will ex
tend to any Justifiable controversy
arising In any state although pertain
Ing to mere matters of local concern,
Governor Baldwin also found a real
danger in the recent utterance of a
president that he was for a constitu
tlon when it conserved the people's
right, but not when it perpetrated
the people' wrong.
"The danger," he said, "ia that a
chief magistrate by some stretch of
hla executive or military authority
may come to play the part of a die
tator. It la only a remote possibility
but the science which we profess
warns us that great powers are apt
sometimes to be used and that our
fathers were right when they declar
ed that eternal vigilance was the
price of liberty."
147 Live Loat; Nobody Guilty.
New York. The atate failed in Its
effort to Ax the blame for the Are
horror of March 25, 1911, in which
147 employee of the Triangle Waist
company lost their Hves.v A verdiet
of "not guilty" was returned; by the
Jury In the case of Isaac Harris and
Max Blanck, proprietors or tne iac-
tory, " who were lnaictea m connec
tion with the holocaust ,6ne hys
terical man cried: "Not guilty, Not
guilty? Murder! Murder! Murder!"
Killed In Hotel Lobby.
Rome. Ga. Dougla H. Harria wa
shot and instantly killed in the lob
by of the; Cherokee hotel by Uriah
L. Starnea, traveling aalesman for a
local marble factory. "Starnea claim
ed that Harria wrecked bis family,
and after giving himself op to the
nearest policeman, said that ha was
the happiest man alive,-and assured
bystanders that if bis victim was not
dead he would go back and make a
good job. Harris was 25 years old
and unmarried. Hla father now lives
in Pensacola, Fla. .
Killed Family; Hanged Himself.
Benton, -Ark. Despondent accord
ing to a note found, Jamea Grant a
prosperous farmer and merchant
clubbed hla wife. Ave children and
step-son to death, and then hanged
himself. Grants body waa round
suspended to a rafter in a barn,, and
those of the woman and children
about the farm dwelling, their skulls
crushed. The not explained- that,
"owing to deep despair, and that I
see nothing for me cr my children,
who I believe would be better o!t in
heaven, I 'commit thla act.".
PLOTS EXTENDED ABROAD
Iron Workers Activities Only Formed
Technical Bad for Criee
C rotted Plotting.
Indianapolis, Ind. During th last
three weeks Information haa been un
earthed which glvea to th dynamite
conspiracy case an international
scope and a much wider, deeper
meaning in the United, States than
heretofore it bas had, according to
Information obtained.
One detail of the new Information .
la certain large commercial organiza
tions hot affiliated with the National
Erectors' association made contribu
tions of thousands of dollars toward
the execution of dynamite plots orig
inating in the International Associa
tion of Brfdge and Srtuctural Iron
workers.
These contributions were not to be
made aa coming from any Arm or cor-"
poratlon, but were given aa personal
contributions from certain individu
als whose names are in the handa
of the National Erectors' association
and of the Federal authorities.
It la believed that If the Federal
authorities take the time to go into
every angle of the Investigation that
the work of the grand jury will not'
have been completed before the aunt
mer daya are here.
It now develop that the actual dy
namiting laid at th door of the Iron
worker' union formed but th tech
nical basis, for commercial and labor
organisations to indulge in crossed
and criss-crossed plotting, scheming
and Intrigue and blackmail.
The thread connecting all these
plots and counterplots Is very frail,
even severed In places, thus making
the task of obtaining sufficient legal
evidence with which to connect them
all an almost hopeless one for the
government
COTTON MILLS TO CLOSE
160,000 Workers in English. Cotton
Mills Face Lockout
Manchester, England.-NothIng has
happened to warrant the hope that
the lock-out of 160,000 cotton worker
In Lancashire can be averted. The
weavers in . the Halene mill at Ao
crlngton went on strike December 20
because of the employment of non-'
union labor. Two days later the com
mittee of the Lancashire Cotton Spin
ners' and Manufacturers' association
decided to lock out the workers in all
the mills belonging to the federation 1
as a . protest against an attempt of
trade unionists to force weavers to
join the ranks.. .
Meanwhile the original cause or tne
dispute the refusal of a man and
his wife to join the union at Accrlng
ton is likely to be. removed.
"Tralt-rous." Cries Rooseelt.
New York,-rClose on the heela of
one great peace meeting, which waa
broken up by disturbers opposed to
the ratification of President Taft'a
proposed treaties with England and
France, disagreements have arisen
over what is being planned as one of
the greatest peace dinners the coun
try has ever seen. Former President
Roosevelt replied to an invitation to
attend the function with a letter de
clarlng that his sentiments were
wholly at, variance with those to be
expressed at the affair and censuring "
it as "traitorous."
Shuster Has Quit.
London. The proclamation of mar
tial law at Teheran following the dis
missal of W. Morgan Shuster by the.
Persian cabinet and the fragmentary
reports received as to a bloody maa
sacre by Russian soldiers at Resht
are causing serious apprehension.
Teheran. The cabinet notified W.
Morgan Shuster, the American treas
urer general of Persia, of his dismis
sal from that office, This follows the
decision of the national council and
the ministry to snbmlt to the de :
manda in the Ruealbn nltUnatum.
An Old Soldjer Robbed.
Montgomery. Ala; While en route
to hi home in Nashville front Beau
vnir. Miss., where, he had attended
hi brother' funeral Joseph Meyer,
a veteran of two wars, who atatea
that he is 100 years sind alx roontha
old, waa robbed of his overcoat aa he
slept on a train coming Into Mont
gomery. ; The coat contained hla
truinnnrtatlon. .He waa in . a pitla-.
ble plight until the city commlaalon
furnished him a ticaet
Christian Science Gee in Panama
Washington. President Taft aefr
tied the vexed questions of allowing ,
the practice of Christian Science or
other non-medical methods of healing ,
the sick in the Panama canal cone.
The executive order made, several "
month ago which, member of the
ChrUtlan Science church feared would
prohibit their method of healing, wa
modified so that there can be no
doubt as to the lawfulnesa of such
practice. The order aa modified goea
into effect at once,
Pope Keep Count Bon! Married.
Rome, Italy The Vatican haa .de ¬
clined to grant Count Bonl d Caatek ,
lane an annulment of hts. marriage
with Anna Gould, who ia, now the
duchess of Talleyrand and Sagon.
Conntess de Castellane rwaa granted
a divorce from her husband and given
the custody of their three children
November 14, 1906. About a year ago
Count Bonl applied to th Vatican for
annullment of tht marriage. Th
duchess of Talleyrand did not oppos
th count