A :ro I'M- 1 milt VOL. XXI, NO. 95 w ' .jJL!J ' .' gg? fSTlEFF'Sii Latest Wonder THE 8 JuHt think. a wee little grand piano only 5 ft 'ong! A wee little grand piano, bo small it requires only a little more space than an upright, yet contains all the tonal beauties and the perfect ac tion of the large grand and a wonderful volume. Small enough for the small est parlor; to e enough for the largest piano. Costs little more than an upright piano, and within buyer. Manufacturer of the Artistic 8tiT. Shaw and Stieff Self-Playing Pianos. - Southern Wareroomi 5 West Trade St, Charlotte.N.C C. H. WILMOTH MAM AUE.IV. Reliability Good, honest reliable drug sell ing is what we stand for. When we say a drug is pare for? of strength, the acme of drug quality, you can detend upon it, It's re liable. Not only is this true of drags, but of every other article we sell. We stand back of every ar ticle ready to refund your money if you are. not entirely satisfied. Our guarantee mean absolute protection to you. Can't we have your trade this year! Fetzer & Tucker The Dependable Druggists. A Big Stock of and Stoves We do Plumbing of all kinds. Martin & White, Pfumbing, Roofing, Stoves. DR. J. W. McGEHEE Office same as formerly occupied t y Wn.iams & MeGehee, in Bank 01 KeiU ville building. 'Phong Q, Residence Phone 601 Ex-Kay and Massage Treatment, ' DR. S. G. JETT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON." Office, second floor, Lambeth build'g Residence opposite Episcopal church, ai Mrs. Denny's. Phone 4. China Store Greensboio. I L H $1.00 PER YEAR. Fight to Rnish- For Open Shop Manufacturers' President Declares the UH.-. Label Is of No Advantage and Is Net Wanted Oidiculed Report That Union Has $400,000 With Which to Make Fight' New York, Jan. 18. The open shop and a fight to the finish was the action decided upon by the Hat Manufactur ers' association at a meeting held here to discuss the situation growing out of the strike of hatters which began on Friday. Ail effect of the strike, accord ing to the manufacturers, will be a rise in the price of hats, as the trouble oc curred in the busy season. , President Samuel Mundheim. of the Hat Manufacturers' association, made the announcement after the meeting that the manufacturers had declared for the open shop and were prepared to fight to a finish. He said the num ber of strikers was between 15,00) and 20,000, but that there were many non union hatters out of employment, and that eventually the places of the strik ers would be filled. "The manufacturers feel that they have not been treated fairly," he said. "The strikers should have given us otlce, according to their agreement, and the action should have been taken by a vote of the union." Mr. Mundheim, in discussing the dis continuance of the union label by the manufacturers, which precipitated the strike, said: "The label is of no advantage to the manufacturers, and, indeed, Is not wanted. Very few people who Iny bats notice whether the label Is in it or not." ' The manufacturers' president ridi culed the report that the union had $400,000 with which to make the fight He said, however, that thev Hatters' union was one of the strongest labor organizations in the eountry. Manufacturers Isssue Statement. A statement was issued by the man ufacturers containing parts of the working agreement entered into with the union. This was done, the state ment contended. In order to set at rest any' misunderstanding regarding the attitude of the Hat Manufactur ers' association. The agreement in ef fect waa that there should be no stop page of work until a final decision of arbitrators had been rendered anu that the union label should not be removed until due notice is given the manu facturers. "The United Hatters of North America,'' the statement concludes, "flagrantly violated the foregoing ar ticle by withdrawing the men and re fusing the use of the union label to the Geyer Hat company, one of our mem bers, without notice. Upon their re fusal to restore the label and the men to the Geyer Hat company the Hat Manufacturers' association, by a unan imous vote, directed all their mem bers to discontinue the use of the un ion label in all their factories. The order was not intended to change any other existing condition or agreement with scale of wages between the man ufacturers and their employes." TEETH IN HIS STOMACH Operation Needed to Relieve Victim of Odd Accident. Stamford, Conn., Jan. 18. Robert Dun lap, a street car conductor, slipped while bowling and swallowed a plate containing three false teeth. They were front teeth, and they almost strangled him as they passed into his stomach. Since then they have given him no apparent trouble and he Is able to get about as usual. The surgeons say his condition is serious, however, and an operation probably will follow. MAINE S0CKSF0R PRESIDENT Will Tread African Jungles Shod In Aroostook's Best Boston, Jan. 18. When Theodore Roosevelt starts on his African Jour ney he will take with him a pair of the warmest of Maine hose Aroostook county knit socks.. They were made from yarn carded and spun In an Aroostook county mill, and one of the two women who worked on tho knitting is blind, , : Penny Collections Not Wanted. New York, Jan. 18.-At the several services at St. Henry's Catholic church. Eaycnne, the pastor, the Rev. Peter E. Reilly, notified his congrega tion that he doesn't want any more donations of pennies on Sundays. lie said that every Sunday there are be tween 900 and 1000 pennies placed in the plate, and that much trouble is caused by his having to count the pen nies and, roll them in paper for the bank. V . :,' :r ' Refuses $3500 For Prize Cat. " Boston, Jan. 18. Miss Ava Pollard, f Elizabeth, N. J., refused an offer of 3500 for her Persian cat, Miss Mid, hich received championship honors at the Boston cat show. Miss Foliard said that the cat is not for sale. Lena Wocojcrechowonska Weds, tieadine. Pa.. Jan. lS.'-'-A marriage Hopnim war eranted here to Malcklli Sokotonoskiwi. and Miss Lena Woco- Jcrechowonska. ' It Doi The Biislnend. ' Mr.- E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton, Maine, says f Buck leu s Arnica Salve? "It does the business: I have used it fo ; i ilea apd it cured the, Used it tor ch p td haras end it cured them. Ap ril o ii to in oi tore and it healed it wit t vl leaving a sear behind. 25c. at W, Alien's and Fetzer & Tucker's drug stores. For headache P MUee' Anil -Pain Ua Second Horror n Mattel Mine. : Agala. the earth trembled and that unknown substance in which there is more deadly energy and destruction to the atom than in many tons ow dy namite, let go Its awful engines of dis aster in the mines of the Lick Branch colliery, near Blueflelds, W. Vs., and snuffed out at least 100 lives. It was in these same mines where two weeks ago fifty miners were killed by a simi lar explosion. Up to that time this col liery was regarded as a model mine. The explosion was in a different part of the mine from that of two weeks ago. Since that catastrophe the mine had been Inspected by gov ernment officials and by the most ex perienced mine men in the region, and all. It is said, expressed the opinion that the mine waa safe. Pastor-Murderer Commits 8ulclde. Rev. John H. Carmlchael, pastor of three Methodist churches In and near Adair, Mich., confessed slayer of Gideon Browning, a neighbor, whom he slew with a hatchet and cremated in Rattle Run church, committed suicide in the toiletroom of Miss Miranda Hughes' boardlngbouse at Carthage, 111., by cut ting his throat with a pocketknife. The preacher left a letter to the sheriff of Adair, Mich., giving details of the murder, dismembering and In cineration of Browning, and ascribing the act to self-defense and moral cow ardice because of the hypnotic influ ence that Browning, an Illiterate car penter, held over him. Some of the letter creates the impression be was of unsound mind. Will Settle Venezuelan Disputes. After years of patient waiting on the part of the United States there is a prospect for the settlement by a meth od satisfactory to this country of the disputed claims with Venezuela, the refusal of which government to arbi trate them resulting last spring In the breaking of friendly relations between the two countries. The state department announced that William I. Buchanan, the special commissioner who has been in Vene zuela for several weeks negotiating regarding these cases, had reported that be had reached the basis of an agreement for their settlement and that a protocol to that effect was now being drawn up for signature. T. Jenkins Halns Acquitted. After reviewing the evidence for twenty-two hours and taking fifteen ballots before all were agreed, the jury in the trial of Thornton Jenkins Halns, at Flushing, N. Y., found the prisoner not guilty as a principal with bis brothc, Captain Peter C. Halns, Jr.. in the killing or William E. Ann Is. For the second time In his life Thorn ton Halns has been found not guilty of the charge of murder, be having been acquitted of murder in shooting a companion named Edward A. Han nlgan in an open boat in Hampton Roads seventeen years ago. Dived Under Ice to Save Drowning Boy Albert Brown, a youth of Port Re public, near Atlantic City, N. J., a mainland town, dived under the Ice of the millpond there and saved the life of Tillman Hewitt, an eight-year-old boy, who had broken through while sliding. Brown carried the boy to the shore, where both were pulled out Port Republic citizens will report the brave act to the Carnegie medal com mission. ..-,-s, ..,:,.,, i,--. Mrs. Eddy Donates $500 to Hospital. Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the head of the Christian Science movement, ap proves of hospitals. The officials of the Newten hospital, near where her new home in Boston is situated, were surprised by the receipt of a $500 check from Mrs. Eddy to aid them in paying a 19,000 debt The news of the gift created a mild sensation. Beaten to Death By a Machine. While he was working at a machine In the Penn Carpet Cleaning works, at 1127 East Columbia avenue, Phila delphia, the clothing of George Gar ber caught in a carpet beating ma chine, and before any help could reach him or the power be shut off his body was literally beaten to pieces. Banker Gets Three Years. T. S. Anderson, former president of the defunct Davles County, Bank and Trust company, at Owensbcm. Ky., was found guilty of swear'ng falsely to a statement of the -bank's condition and was sentenced to three, years In the penitentiary. Mother and Three Children Burned. The wife of Arthur. Cary, a negro, living near Neenah, Westmoreland county, a., and her three-small chil dren were burned to death in their home, The mother was ill at the time and was unable to leave the house. Prohibition Law Upheld. Judge Thomas G. Jones, of the Unit ed States court for the middle district of 'Alabama, in an elaborate opinion held the Carmlchael prohibition act, under which this state is operating, to be constitutional. Fired Jail to Escape; Two Dead. In, an attempt to escape frcm jail prisoners at Ttllar, near Little Rock, Ark., set fire to the structure Oeor?e Lacey and Lassie Collins were inciner ated in the flames- Military Academy Burned. Fire practically destroyed the Peeks kill, N. Y., Military academy here, en tailing a loss of $75,000. The 150 stu dents in the place escaped In safety and had tlmeJ.gL.Bavg .thelrjboojia, , The healing, soothing, refreshing action of Hollister'e Rocky Mountain Tea cleanses and regulates the bowels, tones and purifies . the stomach, in cress 38 nerve force. Makes yon well -keeps vou well. Tea or Tablets, 35 enta.-Gardner Drug Co.". e V: REIDSVILLE, Ni C, JAN. 19, in. . - t '' . otate ian Resist Tobacco Trust ; To say that the State of North Caro lina cannot alone "resist the tobacco trust is nonsense. If I thought so I would be ashamed to tell it and I would leave the State, and never come back here any more. ; Lakt fall some of our campaign orators made the statement that . the Dan vile, i Va. warehouses would give &X),0C0 for North Carolina to make anti trust laws and drive the American Tobacco Co. from its borders. I cannot see what the Danville ware houses want with any more trust unless they can use what they already have to better advantage. It is related that a tobacco from - somewhere in Virginia J several years ago carried a load of to bacco to Danville and actually had to sell his wagon body td get money to pay his ferryage back across the river so he could go home; . I don't know how he got across the river to get to Danville with his tobacco unions his wife gave him some eggs when he left borne to pay his ferryage with. If North Carolina ever succeeds in getting an anti-trust law and the tobac co trust takes refuge in Danville, Va., and if any North Carolina farmer wants to load his tobacco ou his wagon and follow the trust to Danville he has a perfect right to do so.! Sallieand the children can give him eggs enough to pay his way back hrtme and he can keep his wagon body, ut if he will take his eggs to a blind titer and get drunk and get in the lock-up and never come back he would bo doing North Carolina and Sullio and the cJiiMi on a Liver. I remember reading not Very long ago about a poor lady f lit was reduced to such circumstances she had. 'to sell her furniture. She sent a nice sofa worth $20 or to an auction house. There came along a man, if he deserves to be called by that name, lie saw the sofa and wanted it and wanted to buy it as cheap as he could regardless of the rights of others; and to accomplish it, he took an old dusty earpet and threw it on the sofa to make it look as old and dirty as possible, and when tho sofa was sold he bought it for $5, and if he had let it alone it would have brought four or five times that amount. The man went home bragging to his wife about what a bargain he got. The poor lady went home crying. : In the eyes of the world the lady- TA& only a poor wretch at best; the man, he was called a shrewd business man. It would not do to interfere with his methods; if you did it might injure trade. I do not say that the trust throws dust on tobacco in order to buy it cheap, but the princi ple it practices is identically the same. It buys up, intimidates and drives out competition. Human nature, when it is under the control of a deadened con science, wants all it can get for as little in return as possible, regardless of the suffering it entails on innocent people. Avarice, when it once gets hold of men, knows no pity knows no law but greed and if such people can get a lot of their tumblebugs elected to the Stale Legislatures they are as happy as they want to be. That U all they want. They can go on robbing the farmers, and Mr. Duke, the chief conspirator of them all, can build hanging gardens for his wife that will surpass in splendour anything that Babylon ever saw. If North Carolina could get the right kind of an anti trust law and get rid of its human hyenas or strip them of their j power, (I do not mean the gentlemsnj who buy for the trust, I mean the con spirators themselves), the Reidsville tobacco mwket and others would put on new life and in the course of a few years those who now oppose the anti trust legislation will wonder why the people were so stupid as to tolerate the trust methods as long as they did. All great reforms have been opposed by croakers. When the six per cent, interest law was made by the Legisla ture in 1895 that kind of people said it would drive all the money to Virginia. If I am not mistaken the published statements of the "two R .idsville banks show that they have about a half mil lion dollars loaned out. Tha does not look like all the money has been driven to Virginia." When railroads were first being built the same class of people said it would injure the horse business and that there would be no sale for horses, but it is a well known fact that more railroads there are built the higher the price and the greater the demand there is for horses. Wlien tho first train was run by telegraph the passengers got off; they said they were not going to be butchered up in any such way. If those people are living now and are 'that way inclined they will curse any railroad that they have to travel on that docs not run its trains by telegraph. ' If the people interested in the to bacco warehouse business still persist in opposing anti-trust legislation by the State sooner or later they will have to take the consequences. In some of the old school books, I do not now remember which one, there is arstory of a lark that 'built its unt In a wheat field close to a farmer's house. One morn ng after the wheat was ripe, when the old lark was about to leave for the day,"she said to her little larks: "Children, this wheat is ripe enougli to cut, and today while I am gone I want you to lislcn and see what you hear the 19C9 farmer say." After the old ..lark 'was gone the farmer called his son and said: "John, our wheat is ripe enough to cut. Go today and ask all your uncles, cou sins and kin people to come tomorrow and help us cut it." That night when the old lark got back to her nest the young larks in great alarm told her what they had heard the farmer say. The old lark said to her children : "My children, you need not be alarmed; we have not got to move yet." The next morning when the old lark left home she told her children to again listen and hear what the farmer said. After the old lark was gone the farmer called his son and said: "John, your uncles and cousins and kin people did not come to help us cut Our wheat. Today you go and ask all of our neighbors to come and help us." That night when the old lark go, t back to her nest her children in great alarm told her what they had heard the farmer say. The old Luk said: "My children, you need not be uneasy; we have not got to go yet," The next morning when the old lark left her nest she said to her children: "My 'children, be verys very careful to hear what the farmer savs todav." As . - i soon as the old lark was gone tine farmer i called his son and said: "John, our neighbors and kin people did not come to help us cut our wheat, Today you get all the reapers together and in good shape and tomorrow we will cut it our selves." That night when the old lark got back to her children they told her what they heard the farmer say. The old lark said to her children: "My children, we have got to leave now. Tomorrow morning very early we will find us a new home. Whenever the farmer says he is going to do his work himself and not depend upon his neigh bors and kin people to do it for him it will be done." The tobacco farmers have called upon the Republican party to helo them cut down the trust and it has not come yet. They called upon tha Democratic party to help them cut down the trust and it has not como yet. Now they say John, get your tobacco all together and we will put it in! the storage warehouse and cut the old thing down ourselves. I am not in the secrets of the Protec tive Association, but I believe it will use extraordinary efforts next summer to awake the farmers from their Rip Van Winkle sleep. W. II. Schoolmbld. ' ROOSEVELT SNUBBED He Is Not Wanted to Dedicate Monu ment on Lincoln Farm. Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 18. President Roosevelt has been given the cut di rect by the executive committee of the Lincoln Farm, in LaRue county, of this state, when the dedication of the Lincoln monument there was post poned from Feb. 12 until next May. resident Roosevelt was to have made the dedication speech. Instead President Elect Taft who will lay the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial hall In May. will be asked to officiate at the dedication of the monument. The possibility of the weather being unfavorable on Feb. 12 was given aB the e.tcuse for the committee's action. News of the snub to the presiden' came in a telegram from Robert J Collier chairman of the committee, to Governor Willson, saying that at a meeting In New York the committor had decided to postpone the dedica tion. Automobiles Go Up in Smoke. Boston, Jan. 18. A puff of flame shot up from the rear of the most ex tensive automobile storage and repalt plant in the city, located near Park square, and half an hour later over 348 automobiles, valued at $750,000, were a mass of tangled steel and iron. The fire spread to the old train shed of the Park Square railroad station, formerly used as a terminal of the Providence division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and destroyed the bicycle track and a large pavilion used for exhibition pur poses. The damage to the building will bring the total loss to above $800,000. """ There were six garages," including several used chiefly for repairs, in the big storage station. All the large sight-Seeing automobiles in the city, numbering upwards of a doen, were burned. A majority of the owners were but partly Insured. Says She's a Slave; Asks For Divorce. New York. Jan. 18. Mrs. W. Edward Strong, in filing her suit for divorce, makes the plea that she if a slave and is being held in Involuntary servi tude. In violation of. the thirteenth amendment to the constitution. he has raised a brand new point, in di vorce history, and if It should be up held will furnish another basis for separation. Boy Acquitted of Murder. Norfolk. Va., Jan. 18. Luther An drews, fourteen years old, was acquit ted in the Norfolk county circuit court on .the charge of murdering Elixabeth K. Merrick, aged eleven years. He ac cldentally shot her with a shotgun that he supposed was unloaded. " General George Von Schack Dead. New York, Jan. 18. -General George -Voa-Stihack,. United. States- armyra, tired, died suddenly at his home here. He was 82 years old. Makes rich, red blood, restful sleeo. builds strong h althy tissue steady nerves, perfects digestion and assim lation. Keeps you well and happy. Hoi lister's-Rocky Mountain -Tea or Tablets, 85 cents: Gardner Drug Cov ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. Fires Hotel to Draw Attention When Fire Brigade of Hotel Volun- teers Reached His Room He Said He Only Wanted to Attract Attention and Cause a Little Excitement, and When Blaze Cot Too Far He Doused It With Water. New York, Jan. 18. The housekeep er of the Astor house was passing through the corridor on the third floor, when she saw smoke trickling through a crevice of the partly opened transom over room No. 3S1. She banged vio lently on the door, which was locked on the inside, and, getting no reply, ran to the oflice and told the clerk the hotel was on fire. An alarm was instantly sounded, summoning ail the employes who com prise the fire brigade, and in ten min utes the volunteers were manning a line of hose. They were about to break open the door of room 331, when the guest who occupied it shouted that everything was all right and there was no need to worry. He opened the door and quietly remarked that be had put the fire out. "You see, I wanted to attact atten tion and cause a little excitement," he said, "so I set fire to jhe lace cur tains, In the hope that somebody con nected with the hotel would know that I was here. I put a match to the cur tain, and it certainly did blaze fiercely; but when it had got too far I just doused It with a pail of water." The occupant of room No. 331 was Thomas Brehony, thirty-four years old, who said be was a lawyer from Phila delphia. He came to New York a week ago, and had been registering dally at the Astor house, where most of his time was Bpent in the cafe. He was well dressed and spent money freely. Assistant Manager Underwood said Brehony appeared to be worrying over something, and, ever since he arrived there he had been drinking heavily. To the policeman who arrested Bre hony he said he came from Avoca. Pa., but Mr. Underwood denied this. An ambulance surgeon pronounced Bre hony Insane and took him to the psy chopathic ward at Bellevue. TOO MUCH MONEY, NOW Increase In Bank Deposits Biggest In History. New York, Jan. 18. Despite the heavy shipments of gold, the national bank surplus Saturday showed an in crease of $2,618,725. This is the more surprising In view of the fact that loans increased $32,074,900, an extra ordinarily large gain, while the deposit account showed an Increase of $46, 109,900, the largest ever recorded in the hostory of the clearing house. The New York banks now hold deposits ag gregating $1,404,459,700, while their outstanding loans are $1.320. 110, GOO. Money is literally a drug upon the market 21 KILLED; 40 INJURED Trains Rushing For 8ame Siding Col lide With Terrific Force. Denver, Colo., Jan. 18. Flying down grade at terrific speed to make a sid ing, a passenger train on the Denver & Rio Grande crashed into a freight train which was niBhing for the same point, leaving twenty-one dead and forty injured, many of whom will die. The passenger train was making for a siding, where it expected to meet the freight, and the freight was trying to beat It to the spot. The result was a head-on collision, in which fifteen persons in the day coach and chair car were mangled almost beyond recogni tion. A Higher Health level- "I have reached a higher health level since I began using Dr. King's New Life Pi 11b," writea Jocok Springer, of West Franklin, Main. "They keepmy stomach, liver and bowels working just right." If these pills dissapoint you on trial, money will be refunded at W. S. Allen's and fetzer & Tucker's drug stores. 25c. The imp rtance of a reliable Watch is racoguized by every man or woman who wears them, and I have been look ng about for the very best among Watches and I am sure yon will make no mistake in buying the Bockford I have others, of course, the Elgm, the Waltham and quite a number of others, but the Kockford is built to keep time ami last. They are made in both ladies and gents sizes. Come In and look at my stock and save some of your hard earned dollars by getting the best. Costs no more than other good watches. .'.- i ';.;':".;".-';-''."''. -;- .-. . " . I also have a fine stock of Jewelry, bucli as Chains, Fobs, Cuff But tons, Signet and Stone Set Rings, Silver lhimbles, : Neck ChainH, Lock ets, etc., and don't forget the quality of everything is guaranteed and prices are right. 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