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'SEMI-WEEKLY rrrr VOL XXIV, NO. 81. $1. PER YEAR. REIDSVILLE, N. C, DEC. 15, 1911. ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS DSVILLE REV DANVILLE SUFFERS A OVER HUNDRED Prominent Man Kills Wife - m an M m a 1 And then suicides. Riv. D. P. Tate's Trial Has Been In Progress TWs Week. Case Went to the Jury Tuesday Afternoon. Looks Like a Mistrial. " Danville. Dec. 14. One of, the jmoat thrilling fires In a decade threatened Danville's best business block tonight, destroying three large three-story brick structures occupied by merchant: and required the ut most efforts ot the entire department lor ovre two hours to control. . The damage is estimated at $150,000, prac tically covered by insurance. Various other properties and stocks of goods are damaged by smoke and yater, but the chief destruction was confined to the Bcatwright Brothers printing and stationery establishment, the Virginia Hardware Co's. three story store, the Main Street Restau rant and the Waddill Printing Com pany. Other threatened properties were saved by intelligent work. Early this (Thursday) .morning Hen ry Day, proprietor of the Waddill -wrlntinK olant. who had been caught under the dbrit under the store, was rescued by a band of frantic workers who braved falling walls and worked manfully to extricate him. guided by hU groans. One its is fractured and he. has a painful wound on the head. When dragged out and rushed to a' hospital he. was soaked by the streams of wa'er' which had been played upon him 4. Tom Allen, fireman, was rescued but 'slightly .Injured, ..and another fireman, sustained minor hurts. Dual Homicide. In an humble home on a suburban street the bodies fif .Mrs. Fannie New Pinnix and her husband, Wm. G Pinnix, .today lie dead as a re sult of a dual honiicdie at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, committed by the husband. Pinnix. who is a form er employe of the freight department of ti.e Southern Railway and a mem ber of a prominent North Carolina family, left letters and memoranda 6b.0v.iug that he had planned the tiagedy as long ago as Thanksgiving kuy. ' ' "'" The husband was in poor health au. bad been drinking recently. Yes Uiuay afternoon while his son was lying down in an adjoining room and husband and wife were together, Pin nix, without warning, fired upon, the unsuspecting wife twice in quick succession, one ball entering the right temple.the other the cheek. She c ollapsed in a dying condition, just as the son rushed in. , At that moment the father turned the weapon upon himself and sent a bullet through his rlgh' temple, the ball emerging at the left side of his head. Ha died a: 8 o'clock without regaining con sciousness. Two hours befone the tragedy Pinnix had turned over to his son to be delivered to a freind a package of letters and papers, impressing their Importance upon the boy. Most of thee letters were written to "Mrs. Martha New Pinnix" and couched in terms of endearment. They are signed "A." One of Pinnix's letters Identifies the anonymous writer as "A. Bridges," formerly an insurance solicitor here, now of Richmond, Va. While clean in verbiage, these letters I 00 There is nothing: very wonderful why we are do ing: the laundry work for most of the young men of the city. They know taeir colors are laundered in an ab solute perfect manner. . It takes particular skilMo do this and we have that talent. If you want real color satisfaction in laun work send your next bundle to us. HENRY HUBBARD. Agent Phone FIRE LOSS OF THOUSAND DOLLARS soow an intimacy which impelled Pin r.ix to his homicidal act. The slain woman Is a daughter of W. W. New, formerly wealthy and prctflinent socially here. Pinnix is a son of Colonel Pinnix, deceased, of Yanceyville. N. C. Both families are prominently connected here. Two children, a son, . W. G., Jr., 18 years old, and a daughter, Polly, aged 12, are orphaned. Minister On Trial. In the Corporation court the case against the Rev. D. P. Tate went to the Jury. If the Jurymen do not reach a verdict by 10 o'clock today, and It appears they will not, the presiding Judgee will order a mis tral. The cases against Tate grew out of certain deals while he was engage in tha Insurance and real estate business in Danville last March. Tate left the city about that time, was ar rested In Knoxvllle, Tenn., and carried to Danville for trial. He has been under a bond of $3,000 since the preliminary hearing soon after reaching there, Tate's arrest and subsequent ar raignment on the charge of fraud caused quite a sensation in Danville and in other places where he was known. He was formerly a Metho dist minister somewhere in Western North Carolina. Of course, in all the cases against him' he denied any In tent to defraud, and claimed that all his deals were consummated in the best of faith on his part. He was a witness in his own behalf. When brought from Knoxvllle Tate explained his conduct in the follow ing manner: He stated that on a number of deals he could not make his collec tions and that his debts were press ing him.' He said that ho went to Spray just previous to his leaving Danville for Tennessee, to see if he could interest a friend in his busi ness auid sell him a half interest in the rentaL and real estate business at Danville, thinking that If he. could do so he could get enough money to meet his obligations. As he could not do so, he then went to Thomas ville, where he owned some stock in a furniture establishment, to see if he could sell this stock, asserting that if he could he could have got ten enough money to meet the obli gations that were pressing and that he then thought he could pull through 'all rfght. He could not sell the stock, and this left him in almost a nervous breakdown. His wife and several friends, he said, wrote him bo stay out of town until he could got enough money to pay his debts, for if he came back he would be sent id Jail. ''; "I then went to Knoxville where I got a position in half an hour after arriving," he said. "I did not change my name, and went to the postofflce daily to ask for mail. I employed Judge Shaw, of Greensboro, to come to Danville and see how much money it would take to straighten up all my obligations. I told him the exact sit uation, and while he was looking In to this I was arrested." Mr. Tate claimed that all of his deals were made dn the best of faith tnat ne wa9 doing the best he could. There will be an entertainment and box party at Bethany High School on Saturday night, Dec. 16, at 6:30. Public is cordially invited. When you have a bilious attack give Chamberlain's Tablets a trial. They are excellent. For sale by all dealers. . 26. THE NATION'S NEWS Items Taken From a Great Many Sources. Condensed News Items Concerning Matters of interest Occuring Sine Our Last Issue. Newt ' of the World at Large. The condition of Senator Root, of New; York, is serious and the doc tors fear blood poisoning. A local option election was held at Culpepper, . Va., Tuesday, and result ed 'n favor of the "drys" by a ma jority of 52. Arch Tyree, of Bu en a Vista, Va., aged 20 years, was shot and instant ly killed at Glasgow, Va., by Andrew Pugh, of Baltimore. L. T. Charles Lanthcaule, the fa mous aviator, was instantly killed near Etampes, Prance, Wednesday when his monoplane fell 1,500 feet. There was recently filed in the office of the register of deeds of Wake county a deed of trust for $1,500,000 for the purchase of rolling stock by tha Southern Railway. Figures from the Census . depart ment show that 32,213,000 acres of winter wheat have been sown In this country this year, and 2,436,000 acres of rye. Last year the figures were 32.648,000 and 2,415,000, respectively. Orders to all Taft leaders insisting upon ironclad Taft instructions being given by the State conventions to del egates to the National Republican convention have been framed. In this way Taft men plan to prevent a stampede in the convention and hope to cause instruction of enough dele gates to insure the renomi nation of the President. Mrs. George Stone, of Warrenton, Va., who was arrested by detectives on special Christmas shopping duty, at a Washington department '-'.'store, on a charge of theft, was entirely exonerated in the 'police court there when the assistant district attorney refused to file any information against her, Mrs. Stone left im mediately for her home. The Lorimer investigation is still dragging its weary length at Wash ington. Almost every subject under heaven has been dragged into It somehow in the course of the prob ing. The latest happened the other day when a casual remark of a wit ness precipitated a lengthy debate on the burning issue of, how many drinks make a drunk? Postmaster General Hitchcock has suspended until January 1 the postal regulation forbidding the transmis sion through the mails of the matter bearing upon the address side ' Red Cross Christmas seals, or other charity stamps. The suspension was caused by protests from business men and bankers, through the Red Cross, that Important business mil had been delayed with serious consequences. From now until January Christmas seals may be placed anywhere on letters, i The numerous robberies that have occurred in the city of Wilmington recently occurring to the tune of six or eight each night have caused the police to consider the matter of securing bloodhounds and also add a force of negro detectives, it being the general belief that negroes are responsible for most of the robberies. The citizens are getting very much alarmed over the frequency of the robberies and the council will be urged to do something to round up the criminals, - Secretary Abraham Cook, of the ; Southern Car Company, High Point, ! says that this month his company will begin to deliver some of the large 50-foot, combination baggage cars which are to be used on interna ban roads. The cars made by the High Point company are very at tractive and substantially made. The convict force of Forsyth coun ty will; be divided into four ssquads and work will begin immediately on four of the county's roads. The highways will be built part macadam and part sand-clay, according to the conditions cf the particular locality. A series of mass-meetings are to be held in the principal cities of the United States this winter, to protest against the action of Russia in refus ing to admit into her territory Jews who are citizens of the United States. There is a treaty between the two nations that provides that the citi zens of each, shall travel freely in the territory of the other, provided they do not break the laws of the country they are visiting. Russia has for years systematically violated ftato-'tfoaty as- fa? aa Juwa ara oei. cerned, and a strong effort will be made to have the present Congress abrogate the treaty, unless Russia gives satisfactory guarantees that our Hebrew citizens will be treated fairly hereafter. A BIG PENSION BILL Sherwood's Measure Passes With a Whoop. Will Add Seventy-Five Million DOl lars to the Pension Bill If the 400,000 Eligible Veterans Tak'j Advantage of the Increase. Washington. D. C, Dec. 14. The Sherwood service pension bill, which would add upwards of $40,000,000 to the government's annual expendi tures by granting increased pensions to Civil and Mexican war veterans on the basis of length of service, waa passed by the House despite the determined opposition of many Dem ocratic leaders. Secretary of the Interior iFisher had estimated that the bill would add $73,000,000 to the pension roll if the 400.000 veterans eligible take advantage of la creased wage. r Eight Republicans voted with the 84 Democrats against the bill. Speaker Clark voted with the major ity of his party for the bill and Dem ocratic Leader Underwood, and Fitz gerald, of New York, chairman of the appropriations committee, voted against it.' i .' The bill now goes to the Senate where there Is a disposition to pass some form of amended service pen sion legislation. Senate leaders, how ever, will proceed slowly in the con sideration of this legislation., and many House Democrats voted for the measure in the belief that the Sen ate would not pass it. The Sherwoo bill would estbalish the following basis of pensions: For service for ninety days to six months, $15 per month; from six to nine months, $20 per month; from nine months to one year, $25 per month; more than one year, $3Q per month. Mrs. MaYy 'tfeV Harrtso on 'died Sat-i urday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wash Irvin, and her remains were buried Monday in the Went worth cemetery. Mrs. Harrison was 78 years of asc and had been in de clining health for some time. The end, therefore, was not unexpected. The death was peaceful, the de ceasd having been a consistent Christian from her girlhood. She is survived by her husband and several children, Mrs. Lewis, a daughter, re siding in Reidsvllle. The other chil dren are: Mrs. M. E. Evans, of Kan sas; J. T." Harris-on, California; Mrs. M. A. Irvin, Stone ville; Mrs. Wilna Meador, Danville; Mrs. Sudie Lewis, Danville; C. T. Harrison, Tennessee; Mrs. Lucy McAlister, Tennessee; Jessie Harrison, Tennessee; F, M. Harrison, Reidsville, and Mrs. Hat tie Sampson, of California. It Is sad of Mrs. Harrison that her chef delight was in administering to the sick and needy, going wherever and whenever her services were need ed to comfort and cheer the distressed.- The Sulzer joint resolution for the termination of the treaty of 1832 be tween the United States and Russia, because of the latter's discrimination against Jewish American citizens, passed the House Wednesday night three! hundred to. one. The State board of public build ings and grounds have decided upon the site for the location of the mon ument to be erected in Capital Square, Raleigh, by Colonel Ashley Home, of Clayton, to the women of the Confederacy, at a cost of from $10,000 to $12,000. ..With.. the passing of another . day without the discovery of any more live men In Cross Mountain. Tenn.. mine, hope for the rescue of the 50 odd men still unaccounted for reach ed its lowest ebb. So far 37 bodies have been brought out of the mine and several more have been located. The annual meeting of the North Carolina division of the National Farmers' Union is in session at Wil son. One of the most interesttlng features of the convention will be the annual reports showing the re markable growth of the organization during the past twelve months. During the year Just closed 14.000 new members were enrolled in this State. Senator Cummins, of Iowa, in a speech Wednesday urged speedy ac tion on his bill providing for a re vidv by the 'Supreme Court of the United States of the decree of the United States Circuit court for the Southern district of New York, ap proving the reorganization ; of - the American Tobacco Company, lie said that "the welfare of the people, the of Congress imperatively require that thla decree shall be reviewed by the Supreme Court, in order to know whether this decrree is all that the anti-rust law will do for the people." i CHICAGO IS CHOSEN Republican Convention to Be There Next June. Bitterness is Conspicuous by its Ab sence at the Two Sessions of the National Executive Committee Held In Washington. Woj.hirftou. Lfce. 14. With little trice of friction thv Republican Na tional Vommittee mei here Tuesday end formulated the preliminary plans for thi campaign of 1912. The pro gram iireei upu was carried out sx pHUiousiy in two fhert sessions ag gregating barely more than two Ijours. . Chicago was chcjei: as the con vention city ami !!( call was issued for the assembling of delegates on Tuesday. June IS. to nominate candi dates for President and Vice-President. Acting . Chairman John F. Hill, former Governor of Maine, was unanimously elected chairman of the committee after the acceptance of the lefcignatioa of Postmaster Gener al Frank li. LUchcock, which went iuto effect on April 1, 1909. Wil liam Haj wtrd, or Nebraska, was alec ted secretary to serve until the new national committee Is organized in Chicago in dime. Tito committee adhered to the convention call of 1908 and the pri mary que itton. which had been the sole disturbing topic before the com mittee, who left it as it was four yeai ago. The champions of Presi dential preference, primaries and State-wide primaries for the selection of delegates to the convention In States where primary laws are not operative, were defeated. They were led by Senator Borah, of Idaho, who contented himself with a minority re port from the sub-committee on call, of which he was chairman, and with a brief speech to the committee. Ttes meeting wn unique in two re. tpetus. There , was. a complete ab sence of bitterness and the proceed ings were conducted with open doors. YOUNG COUPLE MURDERED. Two Masked Men Commit a TerrlbJei Crime in Cleveland County. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, a young cou ple residing at Fallston, near Shel by, Cleveland county, were murdered by two masked men Tuesday night, after which the home was robbed of about forty dollars. The crime was one of the most horrible that has ever been committed in North Caro lina, ' Mr. Dixon was summoned from his home to his barn shortly after dark. Upon his arrival there he was seized by the two masked men, who cut his throat and otherwise abused him unmercifully. Death followed In 'a short time. - "' 1 ' From the bam the men went to the home, cut Mrs. Ditfon's throat and left her for dead. A colored man passing the home heard the waraan's pitiful appeal for help. He rushed In to the house and found Mrs. Dixon lying on the floor with blood flowing from the throat. The negro ran out gave the alarnf Before dying Mrs. Dixon gave a description of the men. It is reported that certain parties had an old grudge against Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, and that these are sus pected of being guilty. Two negroes have been arrested who were unable to account for their whereabouts at the time the crime was committed. Mr, P. II. Williamson asserted Tuesday in, a very positive manner that the weather forty years ago was a counterpart of the balmy, spring like days we have been having the past week. When asked how he re membered about it well, he : re plied by saying that Tuesday wa3 his 40th wedding anniversary and that for tliis reason he remembered very distinctly about the weather. What is the saying about "Blessed be the bride the sun shines on"? We know of no couple who have lived more happily together or who have enjoyed so much sunshine in their home as have our esteemed friends. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson. . Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder mado from Royal G rape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE ASKING FOR PARDON A Case Similar to That of Edgar Striplings. T. B. Whitson, Who Killed a Man In, This State Forty Years Ago, WHc) Escaped From Penitentiary, May Be Pardoned. ' Lieutenant Governor Newlani is making a special effort to Induce Governor Kltchin to grant a pardon for T. B. Whitson, who thirty years ago was charged with the murder of a man naaned Kitburg, was later con victed, and is now serving sentence under remarkable circumstances. The Lieutenant-Governor and Mrs. Whit son and Mrs. Nelson, daughter of the convicted man, were in Raleigh this week to see Governor Kltchin. T. B. Whitson and his brother, Will Whitson were convicted of the mur der and sentenced to be hanged and Governor Carr commuted to life im prisonment. Two years later T. B. Whitson escaped and fled the State and Will Whitson was pardoned after three years' service. T. B. Whitson was located In Kentucky when he escaped and prospered, leading an exemplary life and raising an inter esting family. He became superinten dent of a Sunday School. The story of how Whitson came to be brought back to North Carolina is not so different from the undoing 0 Stripling, Danville's chief of police, the early part of this year, and his being taken back to Georgia, where he Is serving a long term In the penitentiary, except that a church row out in Kentucky proved the un doing of the North Carolina fugitive after he had for years been a faith ful worker in that very church. It reads like fiction, even unto one of George Barr McCutcheon's exaggera ted experiences in a faraway country. His life in Kentucky and the cause of hbj, bed ngt given away are anything but discreditable to him, and-plctwres largely a petty soul of another man bent on revenge. Although it may have been right that the escaped murderer should be brought back to serve his sentence for the crime he committed, at least all the manhood is not gone from him, nor has his h'jart forsaken him. In his Kentucky home he was an ardent church worker and was super intendent of the Sunday school of the town. But along came a row in that church and it divided Into two fac tions. It seems there was a senti ment among a large part of the mem bership that the preacher was crazy and therefore should be retired from the pastorate. But Whitson, the lead er of one of the factions, did not share this sentiment and stood by the preacher, Like all family and church rows, it became one of the worst rows in the history of that county, finally, the preacher was sent to an asylum. In that State there eems to be some sort of an arrangement by which if a citizen will agree to take care of a person committed to an asylum and1 will give bond that he does no violence, the person com mitted may be taken out and given to the care of the person giving such (bond. Thus Whitson went to the asylum and gave bond for the preach er and he was released. This eo incensed the leader of the other faction that he determined to get even with his fellow churchman, and he wrote to the authorities in North Carolina and gave them infor mation as to Whitson's whereabouts, which led up to his arrest and his being taken back to serve the sen tence imposed -'upon him many year he-top-." Acting upon that information the North .Carolina authorities wired to- have Whiisou arrested and he was taken to the penitentiary at Ral eigh last March S.- It was Governor Newland who prosecuted Whitson as solicitor when he was convicted many years ago. Now he is seeking the pardon and county authorities and the people generally are represented to be urg ing the pardon, which may be grant ed at any time now. Mr. David G. Flack is critically ill at his home near town.
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