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The News - Record. Published Weekly MARSHALL, NORTH CAROLINA. J Returned vacationer seem glad to get back. Laundries and soda fountains are do ing a booming business. A little summer now and then Is rel ished by the fattest men. No diamonds will be mined after 1923. Again we should worry. Toung men who take young women canoeing should hug the shore exclu lvely. But you can often find some perfect ly good men on the shady side of the street. Strained relations again exist be tween the girl who tans and her chum who freckles. Chicago alienists pronounce love a form of insanity. Every one of them married, no doubt These are terrible days for the man who has contracted with himself to color a calabash pipe. It requires a stronger constitution to endure a vacation of one day than a vacation of two weeks. It is a real mean husband who will command his wife to do a thing that he knows she wants to do. We have pity for the man who has St Vitus' dance, but none for the man who has tango or turkey trot It is whispered in piscatorial cir cles that the fish have decided to boy cott any angler who does not use san itary bait "Man is a machine," says an expert In the bureau of chemistry. Well, we know some machines that can't be made to work. Women are wearing the beehive type of hat and there is no telling what kind of bees they harbor in those thought receptacles. ' By doing the daylight turkey trot in restaurants and playing bridge on the lawn society maouges to keep from dying of ennui. The deaf man has at lease one ad vantage. He does not have to listen to the latest popular songs as played by neighbor's phonograph. Mother will want to know when she gets back what father had been doing the night he put the geranium out of doors and watered the cat One can tell how modest a bathing suit Is when one sees a young woman in an evening gown and marks the ex tent southward of her sunburn. Mother-in-law Jokes are a drug on the market, but the man who tried to blow up mother-in-law's home with a bomb seems to 'have gone the limit ' Some of the highest notes trilled by a grand opera prima donna are hardly worth the money when It is possible to hear a wood song from a bird's throat for nothing. Medicine is a progressive science. It Is now only 2,500 years since Hippo crates' time and a cure for whooping cough is believed to be In sight At least the specialists of Paris hope so. Most of us who are more fortunately situated like to tell ourselves that the gentlemen who dig the ditches and stoke the furnaces at 98 in the shade get used to it and do not mind the heat ' ' ' When we have . policewomen will they 'demand new styles every season? Now that nagging has been defined as "brain itch," it will not be necessary to explain the itch a person who is nagged has to swat the nagger. ' Johnny would like to have an in vestigation of the "Invisible govern ment" which mysteriously finds . out when he has been breaking the domes tic rules. 1 ' A Cornell university scientist ad vises men and women to marry and live longer. Plenty of people who have tried the experiment would be glad of a short life. . An ostrich escaped from a circus in an English town and was captured aft er a chase through the streets. Fine chance for a motorcycle cop to show just what he could do. ' - Crop experts figure that the wheat crop this year Will be 744,000,000 bush els. Others experts say that times, will be hard, which shows all that soma ex perts know about prosperity. , As it" Is estjmated hy some enthu siastic eaters, watermelon is almost as anesthetic as corn oh the' cob."'". ' 1 1 A man arrested for playing the piano has been put to performing on "the. in strument in jail. ' Who's being punf- ishod?, :'.'.;' V . -: . Nearly everybody Is willing to con-, cede that the1 earth revolves around thra sun, but when the astronomers in sist that the sun is farther from the earth in summer than .in winter they .rursue a perspiring populace too far! NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA Latest News of General Interest That Has Been Collected From Many ' Towns and Counties. Raleigh. Wake county defeated the proposition for a 11,000,000 good roads bond Issue at least 5 to 1. Only one precinct in Raleigh voted for it, The vote was very light. Washington. E. L. Auman, whose nomination as postmaster at 'Ashe boro has been opposed, was here seek ing to learn the character of the charges filed against him. He was accompanied by J. A. Spence. Winston-Salem The Southern Fur niture Manufacturers Association held Its quarterly meeting here recently. Three states, North Carolina, Vir ginia and Georgia were represented. The 20 or 'more manufacturers here were optimistic. Snow Hill. The bond election for good roads held in Snow Hill, Olds and Ormonda townships, Greene county, carried in all three townships by an overwhelming majority. The vote in Snow Hill was 116 for and 55 against High Point. Two cases against Joe Welborn for retailing were tried In municipal court recently. In one he was found not guilty, but in the other was convicted and fined $25 and the costs. He was also put under a $50 bond for future good behavior. Raleigh. The county superintend ents of schools in the Northeastern District Association will assemble in Manteo in the near future many ad dresses from well known superintend ends and educators of Eastern Caro lina has been arranged. Kinston. "Duck" Lassiter, a negro man, is to face trial here under the white slave laws for the adbductlon of Annie Bowlen, a 20-year-old girl of his race, who has totally disappeared. Moses Bowlen, father of the missing girl, told the sheriff here that Lassl-' tor stole the, girl from her home near LaG range. Statesville. The Iredell County Teachers' Institute opened recently at the Statesville graaed school build ing with about 125 teacucrs from all parts of the county in attendance. The institute is being conducted by Prof. J. H. Mclver, superintendent of the city schools of Wadesboro and Miss Hud glns of Marlon. King. Rights-of-way have been se cured looking to building an Interur ban electric-car line from here to Vade Mecum Springs and from there to Stuart. Va. One of the promoters, W. D. Wilcox, a Northern capitalist, was in this section last week in inter est qf the project. The proposed Ijne would open some fine county. Durham. There Is a movement on foot in Durham to make Investigation of the great Increase of the fire, in surance premiums on dwelling and tenant houses out of the fire district. Property owners say that since the city of Durham was placed on a first-class fire insurance rate the pre miums on tenant house Insurance have Increased instead of decreased. Ashevllle. For the purpose of de vising ways and means for Increas ing Interest among the farmers in more scientific methods of " farming and to consider better methods of marketing farm products, the Ashe vllle board of trade has announced that It will hold a series of meetings within the very near future, to which all of the farmers of .Buncombe county will be Invited. Washington. Congressional expen diture of $20,000,000 in the immedi ate (future to complete the inland waterway between Boston, Mass., and Beaufort, N. C, was ' recommend ed to the house by the war depart ment. The plan contemplates a con struction of a 12-foot canal, with la ter Improvement to a sea level canal 25 feet wide. - i Raleigh. The highest -bid received by the city commission of Raleigh for the old municipal and market build ing on Fayetteville street was $90,675 made bf Cary K. Durfey, executor of the Tucker estate. There was only one other bid,' that being by Daniel and Frank Allen for $80,500. This was carrying sout their pledge to see that the property-brought the mini mum $80,000 in making their sale of (he new site for a market house to the city commission some weeks ago. Salisbury. Sheriff J. H. ' McKinile made a settlement with the Rowan county commissioners for taxes for 1912. The settlement of the sheriff was the .most complete, ever - made, and the officer was highly commended for his successful work in collecting taxes. ' . , . '- s , Elisabeth City. Surgeon H. R. Car ter of the national bureau of health, and Mr. Booker, private secretary to Dr. W. S. Rankin," of Raleigh", are In the city to study the malarial condi tions of this section. Doctor Rodman of Washington is also accompanying Dr. Carter 1n his investigations. :, Caroleen. Prospects point to the largest corn crop, in Rutherford this year that has ever been gathered. Special mention should be made of the rcfmarkable success of young John Snvirt 'in raising corn on "a two-acre tract la the eastern prt of Caroleen Washington. Dr. J. C. Rodman, of this city, has been detailed by the surgeon-general of the publio health servlce.tp accompany Dr. H. R, Car ter, senior surgeon of the " public health, on his itinerary through East ern North Carolina in tne latter's work of the prevention and cure of malari? in this section of the stat HII DELIVERED flOTE PRESIDENT WIL60N'8 MESSAGE TO HUERTA HAS BEEN . PRESENTED. CONTENTS NOT MADE PUBLIC Llnd Admits That He Has Held Con. ferences With Mexican Min ister Gamboa. ' Mexico City. President Wilson's message to President Huerta is now in the possession of the government, which may be expected to reject it or to return some answer shortly. Foreign Minister Gamboa, In the two conferences he has had - with John Lind, came to the conclusion, with the consent of President Huerta,' .that the simplest way to an end was to ac cept the document for President Huer ta and his cabinet, and study it It would appear now that, as the message has been in the possession of the Huerta government sometime, and no action concerning it has yet been announced, the government is not disposed summarily to rejBct it. It is argued by those who have been watching the efforts of President Wil son to effect a settlement of Mexico's difficulties that the longer Mexico de lays her answer, up to a reasonable time, the more reason there is for hope that President Huerta 1b dispos ed ' to give friendly consideration to the document. The government remains silent re garding the entire matter, but Mr. Lind, with the consent of Senor Gam boa, admitted for the first time to American newspaper correspondents that he had held conferences with the Mexican minister of foreign affairs. While neither of the principals will admit the fact information has been obtained that the object of Mr. Lind's visit to Senor Gamboa was tt deliver President Wilson's note. As an indl cation of the determination of Mr. Lind to so conduct himself that he cannot be criticized for talking too much in unofficial quarters, be refus ed to grant an interview to a group of well-known politicians, including a number of members of the chamber of deputies. The group belongs to what is known as the reform element, and were close supporters of the late President Madero. Mr. Lind- told them that- until his official mission was fulfilled, he did not desire to dis cuss Mexican politics with other per sons than officials. REFUSES CALL FOR PRAYERS Their Efficacy In Case of Drouth Is Doubted by the Chief Executive. Kansas City. Prayers for rain were asked for in Kansas and Missouri by citizens and clergymen who believe that spasmodic prayers are not suffi cient to end the drought which has beset the southwest In Kansas hun dreds of persons wrote to Governor Hodges, asking him to issue a proc lamation calling for a day of public prayer. 'The governor declined. . -'' "I believe in the efficacy of prayer," said the governor, "but not In the case of flood or drouth." At Springfield, Mo., Rev. J. E. Mc Donald, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal church, announced public services. would be held to offer pray ers for rain. y - ' 5 The letters to Governor Hodges were from all parts of the' state. Some urged the governor to ask that every resident attend church Sunday, and that every one make a prayer of his own. i Others urged that the procla mation simply ask each citizen to of fer a prayer at his home or at church. t Destruction by Electrical Storms. Winnipeg, Man. The worst' electri cal storm in years '.accompanied by a sixty-mile gale, swept across Mani toba f groin Brandon to the eastern boundary. Hundreds 'of thousands of dollars damage was done. The -harvest had just begun and damage to the grain, cannot - be estimated.1-? At Milwaukee, Wis., buildings were struck by lightning when the severest electrical storm of the yeaf ; swept over the eastern portion of Wiscon sin. ' The loss win reach thousands of dollars. Oshkosh , reported 27 houses' struck by lightnig." : 1 - Cincinnati; Loses Taft as Citizen. Cincinantl.-That CinCinant has lost former President William H. Taft as its most promineqt citizen, was made known through the report of an hum ble collector of taxes. inthe ward in which Mr. Taft formerly Resided. The assessor , reported that he had never received a report from Mc Taft as to his taxation. The board of review, the official taxing body, took up the matter with Mr. Taft at his summer home at Point-au-Pie, Canada, and Mr. Taft replied that he is now a citizen of New Haven, Conn. I 1,200 Persons Killed In Fighting.. - Canton, China. Twelve hundred were killed in fighting in Canton. Pil lage is in progress everywhere. Half of the government troops have Joined the rebels and altogether they have looted the : principal goldsmiths and silversmiths' stores. Local officials and army officers are powerless owing to dissensions among themselves. An attack on the forengn concessions at Shameen is believed by foreign resi dents to be in contemplation and the Indian native troops stationed were reinforced from Hong Kong, i 0 HAS 1 WILSON'S PEACE ';: --- s. John Lind, whom President Wilson has sent to Mexico as his personal representative and whom President Huerta announced he would not recog nize, is a former governor of Minnesota and served as congressman from that state.. ,' ...-.. WANTS MOM AT ONCE MONEY TO MOVE THE CROPS TO , BE PLACED AT ONCE IN , , THE BANKS. Government Ready to Begin Making Deposits In the South- ,y ern Banks. ' Washington. Treasury department officials practically decided to begin within a short time in placing 'with banks in the cotton states, their pro portion of the additional $50,000,000 government deposits for-crop moving purposes. The need for these depos-j its in the Southern states was outlined by the bankers from that section at the recent conferences .with officials of the department , , . . ' -'' - v.' It was stated at the department that the cotton crop movement already had begun and that the need for the money was urgent . Representatives- from several Florida cities . told the depart ment that unless the money could be placed within the next few weeks it would be practically valueless to them. , '.'.- . '.'., A consideration that was most po tent in deciding the department was that the South would return the money in time for its use in the other sec tions. -V- 4 It , was Indicated that the cotton planters would be through with mon ey during September and .that it could be returned to the treasury depart ment not later than the middle of November. No final decision- has as yet been reached ori the proportion of the deposits that are to be made! in tne respective sections, duu i was made clear that at least half would be placed in the South. .. -' Say O'Neal Lacks : Power. ' Washington. A telegram was sent to Democratic leaders in Alabama by Senator Overman, acting chairman of the senate judiciary committee, advis ing them that Governor O'Neal, Jn the ooinion of the Democratic law yers In' the senate, had no power now to appoint a successor to tne late Senator Joseph F. Johnston. The added that a majority of the lawyer, senators, held the 1 governor could call a special election at once, but qualified this by adding that there was' much difference of opinion.' ry ' Father and Son Shot to Death. ; Trenton, Tenn. Hon. WV F. Coul ter," one of the most prominent law yers in west Tennessee, and his son, Harry Coulter, also a prominent law yer of this section, were : shot to death at the depot here by J. A. Al ford, a prominent citlgen of Ruther ford. Alford got off the northbound M. & C. train as it came in and with out a Word shot W. F. Coulter three times with an automatic. 32-taliber platol and theni .turnlnjr, shot-Harry Coulter twice. After Harry Coulter had fallen Alford shot him again.. ENVOY TO MEXICO a . , r- JAPAN WON'T RECEIVE DIAZ PRESIDENT HUERTA'S ENVOY IS BARRED BY MIKADO OF JAPAN. 1 The Japanese Government Refuses to Receive Felix Diaz as an' Official. . Tokio, Japan. The Japanese gov ernment intimated to the Mexican government that it would not receive Gen, Felix Dlaa s special envoy to Japan to express the thanks of Mex ico for Japanese participation in the Mexican centennial. It declared that it would receive General Diaa only as a private Individual, ' , , The Diaz party left Seattle' for Van couver, whence they planned to sail for Japan. t '- , ' Gen. Felix Dial 'was appointed spe cial envoy to Japan on July 17 and left Mexlcb City two days later. He Intended to proceed to Japan by way of Los Angeles and Vancouver. In Los Angeles he was met by a' hostile dem onstration from opponents of ! ; the present provisional , government : of Mexico and was kept there for . sev eral, days In caasequence of the re ceipt of length dispatches from Mex ico &tyy.A.AlP-X ; ' ,Jt was. announced on August 2" by the Japanese legation in Mexico City that the emperor of Japan would be absent from the imperial, palace, for severer weeks. ; ';.-- ; - ,. ; "Vancouver: B. C After reading the dispatch front Tokio, General Diaz said ha would go to Japan anyhow, regard less of the Japanese government's at titude toward his mission. No Government Money for Speculation Washington. Banks which; borrow or loan money tor speculative purpos es will be denied any portion of the $50,000,000 of government funds about to be deposited in national banks to assist in moving the crops, and the entire amount wilL go to institutions that earnestly strive to meet the cur rency demands of the agricultural sec tions.'. This policy of the treasury de partment was announced when Acting Comptroller of the 'Currency Kane, in connection with a call for' the condi tion of national banks ' . ' . T Kansas Hottest State In U. S, t.' Kansas City .-r-Reports from the va rious government weather stations showed that average temperatures in Kansas were higher than on any pre vious year. : In Missouri and Oklaho ma the maximum temperature of the season was equalled. For nie' suc cessive days temperatures in Kansas have averaged 1 higher than' 100 de grees. This has been, the most se vere hot weather period in Kansas In 27 years and at Topeka . Extreme humidity and hot winds added to the discomfort in Kansas. GOVERIIOR SULZER- rnnrv inppiiniipn ui ii; 1 1 mil yiuiiLu MR8. SULZEft MADE EFFORT TO ' SAVE HER HUSBAND BY SAY t INQ SHE WA8 RESPONSIBLE. VIOLATIONS OF LAW CHARGED Question Arises as. to Whether, Gov ernor Must Vacate Office Pending' v - Final, Settlement. i AAAAAAAAAAA AAA A A Only Seven Other Governors " A A nave racea impeacnrnsni. . A :'- - .' ' A A New York. In. all the United A A Ctata. Anlv iAVAn Athnf VAtfAfn. A A ors have faced impeachment pro- A Jeeedlngs. These men and the A' results that followed were: A A Charles Robinson, Kansas, 1862, A A acquitted. ,s . A A Harrison Reed, Florida, 1868, A A charges dropped. ' A ' William W. Holden, North Car- A A olina, 1870, removed. .' A A Powell Clayton, Arkansas, 1871, A A charges dropped. A A 1 David Butler, Nebraska, 1871, A A removed. A A Henry C. Warmoth, Louisiana, A A 1872, term expired and, proceed- A. A ings dropped. . . '.: A. A , Albert Ames, Mississippi, 187 u, A A resigned. ' ' A. a ".: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Albany, N. Y, William Sulzer oC New York state," was impeached by the assembly. This action raised a vital question, as to whether, under the constitution, the governor must vacate oflea nendlng final adjudica tion of tho Impeachment issue by the senate ar.d the court of appeals,1 sit ting jointly as a trial court. - ... Lons articles of Impeachment, em bracing the findings of the Fawley in vestigating committee in substance, lav ran riv fnr nresentation in the desk of Democratic Leader Levy hours be fore the organization trusted Us im peachment resolution to a rou can. With tlio adoption of this resolution and the creation of a committee head ed by Mr. Levy to prepare the arti cles a recess was taken. - Mr. Levy nnd hia associates went through the formality of retiring to reappear with in an hour and pent the articles to the sneaker's desk with a 'resolution that they asked be adopted. A roll call showed the adoption of the articles of Impeachment. A com mit! wan annotated to acquaint the senate with the assembly's findings. It was exolalned to the assembly oy - the mainritv leaders that with the pre sentation to the senate of the articles of impeachment William Sulzer woufd automatically .. cease to, be governor and Martin H. Glvnn. lieutenant gov ernor,, would 'assume his1 office. Mr. Sulzer's lawyers, however, . entertain a different view. . "! After the adoption of the articles . of impeachm.ent.the assembly quickly : passed a ' resolution appointing nine mnnnarnrfl to conduct the impeachment t proceeding on behalf jof the lower house.. ' . "' : - ..,. ArtiriAii of imoeachment against Governor Sulzer, as passed ;, by the state assembly, make, a document of over 4,000 words.' .. . " ' Thnv .haree the governor with vio lating penal laws ot the state, not only in connection with tne nimg oi an iui-v nil incorrect account of his campaign expenses and diverting cam paign contributions to tne pnrcnase of stocks, but also in connection with -hi. oiioffoit fforts to nrevent witnesses from testifying before the Frawley ln-t vestlgating committee, ho is aiso nnnrvnn wiiii niLmuiiiuR w auwaBr late the stock market 'by attacks on thtt ATrhanee. " ? ' ' Two Men Injured by Train. u' Martattn' Oa' Mitt -. Latimer and crnmuft Rpnaon were badly . injured. the two horses they were driving Were killed and the carriage was demolish- ed, when struck by a southbound w. . ft A, train at ft crossing mree miies north of this city. aLJimer , had an ', hmUn Tht two were returning from a reunion of Philip's Legion, held", at Kenensaw, and had driven upon -th4 track unaware of the swif tiy ap- proachmg freight train. - . $20,000,006 Requested for Waterway. ; .Washlngton.-Congressional.jexpend-1 iture of twenty .million dollars in the. rraAt future to complete, the in land waterway between Boston, Mass, and Beauford, N, c., was recommeuu- , to the house by the war aepan- rrha'nlnn -nntemnlates-a on- t uieuu v structldn of a 12-foot canal, writh la'; improvement to sea levei cauai tt M. Former Chief Engineer ' Boxby, in making his report to the - house, urged federal purcnase 01 111 Chesapeake and Delaware canal be tween Chesapeake and Delaware bays. Herr Bebel la Dead. ,r....ih aoit--AiiriiRt Ferdinand i.u ivu, " " - - , Bebel, German Socialist leader died here, aged 73. August Bebel probably was the best known of , the modern Socialist leaders. He Joined tne uer mn uhnr movement in 1862, and con tinued to struggle for the working Classes until his deatn. we was a mem ber of the imperial parliament aimosi. continuously from Its formation in 1871. Not long after the first . sessioa u- aontunoart to two year's inj- 11H 13 ' " " prisonment for high treason and nine months lor ies birjbblb.
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