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' . v ; ' : , v . I. V f:. rmiUSHED TWICE A WEEKTUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. , 7. ; r -- r IeToUHl to thm ProtctioA of Home And the Interest of the County. SINGLE COPY 8 CENTS. $1.60 A YEAR IN ADVANCK. A VOL. XXXL GASTONIA, N. C. TUESDAY, BIARCH 22, 1010. NO. ' ' .-!. . : , ,, ..' , : r ;.' the :.," ;Af,,v V';; V''-.. f C ?: ; 4 J 'J i Z OVER GASTON COUNTY. " v McAdenville Matters. Correfcpondnece of The Gazette, McADENVILLE, March 81.- Mr, P. P. Skidmore. of Marlon,, epent ome: time -here last-week vUftlnj relivei. Mr., and Mr. I. P. Mabry were Oartonia TiaUora Friday after noon. Mr. Robert R. Ray has gone north for a few days on business. While way Mr. Ray will visit Rhll adelpbla, New York and other cities Miss Julia Chandler, of Qastonia, spent, Sunday with relatives here. Miss Mamie Ray spent last week in Gastonla as the guest of her sister, . Mrs. L. N. Glenn, who accompan led her home and will spend several days here as the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Ray. Mr. T. J. Hunt Is in the City Hospital at Gastonla for a few days treatment Miss Jettie Walker, the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Walker, of Cooleemee, is spending several days here with her grandmother, Mrs. J J. Johnson. Miss Catherine Ray was a Gastonla visitor Saturday. Rev. J. H. Vippperman, until recent ly pastor of the Baptist church here, has moved his family to High Point, where he has accepted the pastorate of a church. Mr. H. J. Wilkerson spent Sunday with friends in Gas tonla. Messrs. A. C. Kelly and L. W. Jenkins were Gastonla visitors Sunday. Mrs. M. R. Wright 'spent Saturday and Sunday in Kings Moun tain as the guest of ' her daughter, Mrs. C. F. Howe. Mr. Puett Bolick, of Denver, spent Sunday here with Mr. J. W. Rumfelt and family. Miss Lacie Wright and brother, Mr. Sam Wright,' spent Saturday and Sunday In Charlotte as the guests of Mrs and Mrs. J. M. McClellan. Lowell Iiocals. Correspondence of The Gazette. LOWELL, March 21. The infant of - Mr. and Mrs. James Stewart died Thursday and was buried at Mount Holly Friday. Mr. It. A. Myers, of Charlotte, was in town Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Grissom, of Bar tow. Fla., are visiting Mrs. Joe Featherston. Mr. Grissom has been away from this county 28 years. Sheriff T. E. Shuford, of Dallas, was In town Thursday. Attorney George P. Pell, of Winston-Salem, was a business visitor here Friday. Messrs. Ewart Huffstetler and G. P. McLaughen, of Gastonla, were in town Thursday. Mr. Isaac Wright, of Clinton, visited his cousin, Mr. P P. Murphy, last week. Mr. Wesley St roup has been Indisposed for sev- eral weeks. Mrs. Eliza Smith is vis iting her son, Mr. Amos Smith, in Charlotte this week. Misses Kate Robinson and Mary Cox were Gasto nla shoppe'rs Saturday. Miss Nina Patrick and Miss Mabel Leonhardt visited Mr 8. D. P. Stowe in Belmont Saturday night. Mr. Will Baldwin and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Campo Friday night. Mrs. Amos Smith, of Charlotte, visited relatives here Saturday. Mr. P. P. Murphy spent the week-end with rel atives in Greensboro. Mrs. John Steele and children, of Monroe, are visiting Mrs. Frank Robinson. Mr. James Savage and family moved here from Gastonla last week. Mr. John Boyd, of Mayesworth, was in town Sunday. The orchestra will give an entertainment in the academy next Saturday night. We hope to have a full house. Leaves the New York Life. The following item about one of Gastonia's best-known citizens ap peared in The Charlotte Observer and will be read with interest by his hosts of friends in Gastonla and the county: "Mr. T. M. Fayssoux or Gastonla, better known among his friends as "Dick" Fayssoux. has re signed his position with the New York Life Insurance Company to ac cept a contract after April 1 with the Reliance Life Insurance Compa ny of Pittsburg, Pa., hi position be ing that of general agent for por tions of North and South Carolina. Mr. Fayssoux has always been re garded as one of the most successful Insurance men in this section of the State, He has been with the New York Life about 14 years. His head quarters will be at Room No. 40, Realty building, la this city. Mr. W. L, Wilholte is supervisor of agencies for North and South Carolina. - Sobsetibe tor TWOatetfa., -., fl SPEAKER CANNON LOSES. Is Deposed from Former. Position of Power and Prestige on Rules Com. mlUee at Close of Long and Bitter Fight Insurgent Republicans and Democrats Joined Hands to Ac complish This End Congress Hs (Most Stirring Scenes in Its History. Saturday, March 19th, was one of the most remarkable days in the his- tory of the House of Representatives of the National Congress, the scenes enacted then and there not having a parallel in the history of our country the stormy days preceding the civil war not excepted We give below some extracts from the accounts as given by the Assocla- cA iPreas disDatches appearing in Sunday morning's papers: Joseph Guerney Cannon, of Dan ville, 111., is still Speaker or the House of Representatives, but he lost today the ancient prestige and wea pon of the office when the allied Re publican insurgents and Democrats took from him not only the cfcalr manship of, but even membership in, the all-powerful committee on rules, the chief asset in his stock of power, Amid scenes of wildest disorder, for the like of which one must go back to the exciting days Just prior to the civil war perhaps even those might not duplicate it the veteran Speaker, almost 74 years old, stood erect and defiant, his head "bloodied but unbowed." Artd at the end when a big Texan Democrat accept ed the Speaker's daring challenge and introduced a resolution to fling him out of the Speakership, the Re publicans, regulars and insurgents, with few exceptions, rallied with al most unbroken front, and gave him a vote which almost offset the "repu diation of Cannonlsm." This is what happened: By a vote of 191 to 155, the Re publican insurgents voting solidly with the Democrats, the House adopt ed the resolution of Representative Norris, (Republican, of Nebraska,) requiring a reorganization of the rules committee, Increasing Its mem bership from five to ten, and declar ing the Speaker Ineligible to mem bership therein. TO RETAIN SPEAKERSHIP. By the curiously identical vote of 191 to 155 but with a decidedly different personel of alignment the House defeated a resolution of Rep reaentative Burleson, of Texas, de claring the Speakership vacant and ordering an immediate election of a successor to Mr. Cannon. Here is the Norrle resolution, which was adopted: There shall be a committee on rules, elected by the House (hitherto the committee of Ave, like all other House committees, has been appoint ed by the Speaker,) consisting often members, six of whom shall be mem bers of the majority party and four of whom -shall be members of the mi nority party. The Speaker shall not be a member of the committee, and the committee shall elect its own chairman from its Own members. "Resolved further. That within ten days after the adoption of this resolution there shall be an election of this committee, and Immediately upon its election the present commit tee on rules shall be dissolved." Here is the resolution of Repre sentative Burleson, which was de feated : '"Resolved, That the office of Speaker of the House of Representa tives is hereby .declared to be vacant and the House of Representatives shall at once proceed to the election of a Speaker." N CAUCUSES CALLED. Caucuses will be called immedi ately by both parties to select re spectively the six Republicans and four Democrats,' who are to consti tute the new committee on rules. The old committee consisted of Sneaker Cannon as chairman, and Messrs. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; Smith, of Iowa, Republicans; and Minority Leader Clark, of Missouri, and John P. Fitzgerald, of New York, Democrats. . . Republican Leader Payne said to night that recent events" were "too recent" for his party to have decided definitely upon the date of its caucus. Republican "Whip" Dwlght thought ft would be early next week. Minor ity Leader Clark thought the Demo cratic caucus would meet Tuesday or Wednesday night. The fact is that all parties to the long and bitter fight were too thor- (Contfnaed on page t.) I GASTONIA INTERESTED! Our Town Directly on the Line' of New Proposed Highway Between Asheville and Charlotte -r-Some Facts About Big Good Roads Meet ing at Hendersonvllle. On Wednesday, March 30th, there will be held at Hendersonvllle a good roads convention which has in immediate prospect the construction of three important lines of highways in North Carolina, one of which is the Charlotte-Ashevllle route. Gas tonla and Gaston county is directly Interested in this movement because this proposed route is through the county. Gaston ought to be repre sented at this convention by all means. State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt, who Is secretary of the North Caro lina Good Roads Association, has is sued a special bulletin concerning this matter in which be gives the fol lowing interesting information: "To illustrate the interest that counties and townships are taking in these highways, I wish to quote from a letter received from the chairman of the highway commission of Cleve land county. One township, No. 6, In this county, which contains the city of Shelby, has issued $100,000 of bonds for building improv ed dodas within that township. The chairman states: 'We are now working the roads in No. 6 township, Cleveland county, and will build 9 to 10 miles across this township, which will leave 12 miles In the county to be built. I have taken up the. mat ter with men living along the line and they have promised to give me work and money, and I believe that the county will build the remaining 12 miles, making 22 miles of the Charlotte-Knoxville highway in our county.' SPIRIT THAT IS NECESSARY "This is the spirit that all the counties should have in regard to the construction of these roads within the next twelve months. No county or township should become discour aged on account of the number of miles of road that Is necessary for them to construct, nor should their enthusiasm be dampened by the pres ent bad condition of their roads. which may seem to indicate to them that it is an impossible feat to con struct the system of roads advocat ed. I am confident that we can build this system of roads and that we will build them." The highway division of the North Carolina geological and economic survey will do Its utmost to make a complete survey of the highways proposed, and draw up plans and specifications for their construction showing their location and grade; how to surface them, and what materials to use. Some of the roads may be macadamized, others will be surfaced with sand-clay, and still others with gravel. LOCATION OF THESE ROADS. "The exact location of these roads cannot be known definitely until the survey has been made, although it is known approximately. As thus far worked out there will be of the Charlotte-Knoxville road approxi mately 10 miles of the road in Meck lenburg county; 20 miles in Gaston county, the road passing through Gastonla and Bessemer City; 22 miles in Cleveland county, the road passing through Shelby; 30 miles in Rutherford county, passing through Rutherfordton and Hickory Nut Gap; 6 miles across the extreme northeast Jog of Henderson county; and 15 miles in Buncombe county, via Falrview to Asheville. From Asheville to the Tennessee line there are two routes available one across Madison county, following near the French Broad river via Marshall and Hot Springs, which would make about 24 miles of road In the county; and the other through . Haywood county, following down the pigeon river, which would make about 30 miles of the road in 'this county; both roads, however, would lead to Newport, -Ten. There would be about 20 miles of the road in Coke county as far as Newport." From Newport to Knoxville the road would be via Selverville and would be about 60 miles in length. "Of the Greenville, S. C-Asheville highway there will be 11 miles in Greenville county. 6. C, 20 miles in Henderson county, via Hendersons villa; and about 14 miles in Bun combe county."' Charlotte people are making a strenuona effort to hare Improve ments made on-Vance Park. MORRISON PAYS PENALTY. Respited Three Times Robeson Coun ty Negro Goes to Electric Chair, First Victim of New Mode of Exe cution A Grim Scene In State Prison at Raleigh. Walter Morrison, the . Robeson county negro sentenced to death for an assault on a Croatan Indian wo man, thrice respited by the Governor because there was unexpected delay in installing the electric chair, went to his death Friday morning at 10:- 18, being the first victim of legal electrocution in North Carolina. As described by the writers in the dally press the scene was a grim and pa thetic one. The scene was witnessed by twenty-three citizens of the State besides the prison officials. As he was led from the death cell to the execution room Morrlsen pleaded piteously for mercy but made no resistance whatever. He had been hysterical for a day or so previous and had almost collapsed physically. Father Price, a Catholic priest, was with him at the end. Just seven minutes after Electric ian Davis, inventor of the electric chair, turned the current- on MorrI son was pronounced dead by the priBon physicians and his body was delivered to State authorities for use in one of the medical schools, no rel atlve claiming it. In the execution eighteen hundred volts of electricity were shot through Morrison, a smaller current of 200 volts being used between times. The engine of death worked perfectly and there was not a single hitch In the operation. On the night before Mor rison had confessed his guilt to Father Price. His record as a crim inal was a long one. The crime, for which his life was taken was com mitted on the very day on which he was released from the Robeson coun ty chain gang after having served a five-year sentence for a lesser crime. He had also done time for other of fences. He was 36 years old and a large and powerful man physically. The electric chair was substituted for hanging as the legal mode of ex ecuting criminals in this State by the last Generel Assembly. It was in stalled by E. F. Davis, State electric ian of New Tork and inventor of the chair, at a cost of $1650. ELECTION TO BE HELD. Cftizens of Clover Will Vote on Bond Issue for New School Buildings Two New Business Buildings Personal and Social Items. Correspondence of The Gfazette. CLOVER, S. C, March 18. At a mass meeting of the citizens of Clo ver, called by the school trustees on last Friday night, it was decided to call an election on the. .Issuance of bends for the erection of a new and up-to-date school building. The date for the election has not yet been set. Rev. H. J. Mills assisted Rev. Alex Martin in a meeting last week in Rock Hill. The firm of CHnton & Capps has been dissolved by mutual consent. Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Press ly, with their little daughter, Elsie, are expected home the first of next week after a four weeks stay in Bal timore, whither they went for the benefit of their little daughter. We are glad to report that Elsie has been greatly benefitted and will re turn home well. Mr. Sam M. Grist, of Yorkville, spent yesterday in Clover. Surveyor John L. Stacy, of this place, began the survey of school district No. 37, Kings Mountain township, this morning for the pur pose of record in the clerk's office of York county. The foundation of Mr. T. M. Campbell's new store building on the east side of Main street is being laid by Capt. W. I. Brlson. Mr. W. B. Stroup tjas bro ken dirt for the erection of a two- story brick building on the lot just south of his present place of busi ness. Mr. M. L. Smith made a fly ing trip to Baltimore last week on business, returning home Sunday. Edwin A. Herndon, managing ed itor of the Lynchburg News, and one of the most capable newspaper men of the State, was killed late Wed nesday afternoon by a fall from a horse which he was riding.' He was formerly of The Charlotte Observer staff. . John Pox. who killed Stephen Wat. son t Wadesboro In the spring of 1909, and who was sent to the State prison, and later escaped has been captured. - TERSE TOPICS OF THE TIMES. The North Carolina Dental Socie ty will meet at Wrightsvllle Beach July 13-16. Representative Webb is entering a strong protest against the French tariff on cotton seed oil. An eight-year-old boy by the name of Settlemeyer, was run over and killed by a train near Rock Hill Sun day. Two Greensboro youths, Willie Busle and Henry Jones have been ar rested in Lynchburg on a charge of being runaways. The little town of Granite Falls, situated on the C. & N.-W. Railway shiDs annually. $25,000 worth of chickens and eggs. J. A. Mathias, of Wadesboro, as saulted his son-in-law, John Wil liams, yesterday with a shot gun, but did not inflict any serious injury. For the murder of Sheriff W. V Flanigan at Draper in October 19 OS W. P. Samuels was Saturday sentenc ed to 18 years in prison at Danville, Va. It is stated that Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, will probably spend the summer resting in one of the quiet suburbs of Lon don, England. A special note of interest to Meth odists in general, is the news that nearly one-half of the $300,000 for a National church in the city of Wash ington, has been subscribed. At Khartoum, Egypt, Wednesday President Roosevelt addressed 200 students at the American Mission. He was given a great ovation by large numbers of Egyptian natives. Rev. Gerard Ballly, a missionary of the Christian Missionary Alliance and agent for the American Bible Society, was assaulted by a mob of Catholics in Caracas, Venezeula, the 18th, but escaped uninjured. R. L. Bame, of Mooresville, was arrested Saturday on the charge of burning a store house at Granite Quarry in which he was doing bust ness, for the purpose of collecting the insurance on his goods. Near Pelham Wednesday after noon Martin Hewey, of Schoolneld, Va., and H. Wiles, of Greensboro, were run over by a Southern train Hewey died from his injuries but Wiles will recover. The men went to sleep on the railroad track. Ella Martin, a negro woman living near Greensboro, was burned to death Saturday. The woman went out to gather some salad, and struck match to some dry grass- Her clothing caught from the flames and becoming much alarmed ranfor the house, but was so badly burned be fore reaching it that she lived only a few minutes. Bruce Harris, formerly a resident of "Durham and a brakeman between Durham and Lynchburg, was shot and killed by a police officer in Bir mingham, Ala., last Tuesday night while resisting arrest. Harris' case was a rather remarkable one. He married a beautiful and attractive woman but, because of her fondness for the company of other men and his Jealousy, they could not get along and separated. Last Septem ber he saw her with another man at a carnival in Lynchburg and, in a fit of Jealous rage, shot and killed her. He made good his escape, went to Birmingham, changed his name and had, it is said, been living a most exemplary life there. He was finally found out, however, and when three officers went to his boarding house to arrest him he re sisted, a' struggle ensued and he was shot dead. Play Thursday Night. "A Case of Suspension" and "A Regular Fix," combined in one play, will be presented Thursday night of this week at the auditorium of the Central graded school under the auspices of the Woman's Betterment Association. An admission fee of 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children will be charged. The ladles hope to have a large audience. The receipts go to the association's fund for Improving the school grounds. . Mr. Carl Finger, of Stanley, candidate for treasurer, is in Gasto nla today shaking hands with tils many friends. Mr. and Mrs. - p. A. Counts, formerly of Bessemer City but now residing la Washington, art in town today am roato to Bessemer City and South Carolina to TisiL : Personals and Locals. 'Miss Mamie Atken left yester day for Charlotte on a visit to friends , Mr. Bob Rankin has moved front the Davis block to a residence on East Franklin avenue. Mr. J. I. Green Is able to be out agalng after having been confined for several days to the City Hospital. Mr. P. T. Heath, of Atlanta, was a business visitor in Gastonla yester day. Mrs. W. B. Pickard, of Char lotte, Is the guest of her sister, Mr. R. C. Williams. Rev. J. Frank Armstrong, of Bessemer City, was a business visi tor in Gastonla yesterday afternoon Mr. C. A. Eury, of Kings Moun tain, was a Gastonia visitor yester day. Mr. John Hanna, of Columbia, S. C is visiting at Mr. David Wal ker's at Pleasant EUdge. When will you decide to part with the old tin cans and other rub bish on your place? April 6th will be a good time. Mr. Steve Hengeveld, a promin ent young business man of Waycrosa. Ga., spent Sunday in Gastonla with friends. Mrs. J. P. Saunders left thin morning for Duke, on a visit of sev eral weeks to her son, Mr. Frank Saunders. Mr. Raymond H. Beatty and family have returned from Easley, 6. C, and are making their home on Bast Second avenue. Delay In receiving some Bteel structure work has temporarily stopped work on the new court House and things are unusually qui et on the premises. On Sunday night at West End Methodist church Mr. J. H. Separk delivered an excellent and stirring; address on the laymen's movement to a large and appreciative audience. Miss Anna Chreltzberg, of Mon roe, arrived in liastonia last inura- day and is the guest of her sister. Mrs. L. L. Hardin, at her home on East Third avenue. - Sunday's Charlotte Observer carried a cut showing Kings Moun tain's handsome new graded school building, recently erected at a cost of $20,000. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Wylie return ed yesterday from Rock Hill, S. C.. where they spent several days wrta Mrs. Wylle's sisters, Mrs. Will Stults and Mrs. W. G. Reid. Miss Mary Whitesides, of Gas tonla, is visiting her sister, Mrs. G. W. Hanna at the A. R. P. Manse. Miss Whitesides has an excellent so prano voice and will sing a solo to morrow morning at the Fisst A. R. P. church. Charlotte News. 19th. Miss Edith Brandt expects to leave this week for McMinnvllle. Tenn., to resume her studies at tha Southern School of Photography. Miss Brandt, whose home is in Wis consin, has for the past several months held a position with Green's studio. Rev. J. C. Harmon, pastor of the West End and Franklin Avenue) Methodist churches has secured Rer. W. O. Goode, of North Charlotte, to assist him in a series of evangelistic services which will begin some time) in April. The exact date will be an nounced later. Mr. J. Anderson Robinson and wife came in Sunday from Spartan burg county to visit their friends. They formerly lived in the Olney section and left here twenty-flvv years ago. This Is the first time Mrs. Robinson bas visited her peo ple in fifteen years. -Mrs. W. H. Reddish, Mrs. J. J. Beach, Mrs. W. J. Clifford and Mrs. Sanders leave today for Oxford to represent the Gastonla Baptist- J churches at the annual meeting In Oxford this week of the Womaa Missionary Union, which is an aux iliary of the Baptist State con ten v tion. While in Texas Miss MamJe Bays visited Rev. H. L. Atkins and ; family, at Bandera. Writing of tb visit she says; "I was glad to sad Wm very much Improved. ' Wails- , still frail, be Is able to be up and di rect the work of his little farm. Hs is doing much for tha Master throngs his example of patience and the ex hibition ia other ways of the traav Christian spirit which he possesses. He welcomes no, gladly every letter , from bis brethren in sis boms Css- ' ferenca. K. C Christian Advocate " -
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