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SEM1-WEEICLY XII TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR. REIDSVILLE, N. C, TUEDAY, JUNE 9, 1914. ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. PROF HAKES BACK IN I : Mr H. A. Hayes, formerly superin tendent of public instruction of Rock ingham county, and later Superintend ent of the Methodist Children's Home in Winston-Salem, arrived in the Utter city Friday night in the custody of Chief of Police Thomas, and he will answer to charges of having embezzled the sum of $1,685 from the Children's Home a little over a year ago. The " Winston Journal says: Chief Thomas left Chicago Thursday morning at 10 o'loek, earlier than he nai anticipated, coming hack to the city via Columbus, Ohio. Mx. Hayes was taken to the city po lice station and following & confer ence with "his Bon, Mr. Hal Haynes, was later taken to the county jail where he will remain until the pre liminary hearing in the Municipal court. Just when this hearing will be held has not yet been determined and it will probably not be held until Mr. Hayes has had time to make hU ar rangements. Mr. Hayes immediately began try ing to get Into communication with members of his family on his arrival here which was soon accomplished, one of his sons and his wife having ar rived the day before and his other son arriving on the late train last night. Mr. Hayes when seen by a Journal representative last night had, very lit tle to say in regard to the case, stat ing that he had not had time to con sider the matter thoroughly as yet but that later he would make a state ment if it was deemed advisable. He stated, however, that until the charges as preferred in the warrant are made more specific in the evidence introduced that he cannot say any- 'thing. "Have you employed counsel?" Mr, Hayes was asked. "No," was the reply. "I have not yet employed counsel and I do not know that I will. In case I employ counsel, I will be guided by their advice and if not, then I will decide for myself as to te best policy to pursue during the progress of the case." "There is one thing, however, that I do wish to state;" said Mr, Hayes, "and that is that Chief Thomas is a gentleman." He said that with emphasis on the word gentleman, declaring that while Mr. Thomas has due regard for his du ties as an officer that he is also cour teous and considerate at all times. Mr. Hayes Is glad to get back to Winston-Salem. He has been engaged in selling school books since leaving ,i -- it the city under the name of Mr. A. II. Hamilton, having headquarters at St. Louis, and being vice-president of tho company handling the school books. While nothing .was done last night Joking to the securing of bond, for 1 he defendant, it is not unlikely that efforts will be made to secure bond, although Mr. Hayes said nothing of it : last night. ' - Thp rnae will have to hp hroiiirht nn WINSTON first in the Municipal court, as the!not was-declared warrant was sworn out in this ,, Althoueh the citv court does not have! Jurisdiction. It will probably be set for one day next week, as soon as Mr. Hayes has had time to make his ar rangements in the city. Mr. Hayes was arrested at a hotel in Chicago. Chief Thomas having had in formation that he was in that city at & certain hotel and he immediately wrote the Chicago authorities giving necessary information as well as h cut of Mr. Hayes. The Chicago officials went, to the hotel and found that A. H. -IfeiriUoit wa8-reKit6red.aheren4 soon came down to get a letter in the:ments win engage -her attention. Mrs. clerk's (Office for-him and the officers followed him upstairs and took him in charge. He was then held for the Win- .stonSaleni authorities. . Mr. Hayes has changed Very I'.ttle since leaving this city. He is cultur ed and polished in his manner as much as ever. A man of much personal charm, he is always interesting in conversation. His prominence as well as the semi-public institution which he repre sented will make the case one of in- terest not only to the people here hut j fined. Judge Campbell says he in .throughout the State, , tends to break up blockading and re- The history of the case 1s familiar j tailing in Carroll county or fill the. to most people here. Persistent tu-? Ja''s- mors of the alleged embezzlement were Plans for a more active national current in the 'city for a long time prior i campaign .against the cigarette were to the report on the matter made by the executive board of the institulon; in wnicii the alleged embezzlement was made public by that body in a public statement issued to the State press. At that time, Mr. Haj-es was dared by his relatives and friends to be mSlne. lie was placea in .marge of experts in Richmond and was later jsented during the conference showed' The witnesses examined were Hat tie placed in a private sanitarium at Mor-jthat hi certain communities the ha-iMacklin Farham, at whose house the ganton, he finally disappearing from national society with the slogan, "Savean died; Lula Macklin, her daughter; there and not being heard of again, reached a maximum of 90 per cent, j Dillard Macklin, a son; Arthur Bould until his recent arrest in Chicago among boys In graded schools. in. Cossie Adams, Alfred Law, Will THE NEWS SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE Mount Lassen, a peak in California, has been in eruption. Five persons were prostrated by heat in Cleveland, O., Sunday. The appeal in Harry Thaw's case has reached the Supreme Court. Tire weather man holds out little comfort; no present indications of con sequenital rains, says he. Fair and hot. Public hearings have been started before the House labor committee In support of bills introduced by Pro gressives for federal employment agen- cies. It has been reported that enemies of President Poincare, of France, have formed a plot to involve him and his wife in such a plot as to compel him to resign. A violent eruption occurred Friday on the Dutch Island of Sanguir, 140 miles directly South of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Official reports do not mention loss of life, but register the destruction of 100 houses. ' Madame Sarah Bernhardt, at the age of 70, will sail for New York City on October 10 to begin a professional tour of the world during which she will visit Ave continents. She will spend 15 weeks In the United States. Ex-Governor It. B. Glenn, who has been doing missianry work In Virginia for the Cause of prohibition, says the Old Dominion will go dry on Septem ber 22 by a majority of from 20,000 to 30,000. Mr. Glenn has recently deliv ered fifteen prohibition speeches .in Virginia in the principal cities and towns. The Increase of cigarette smoking in the United States in recent years is significant, In 1900 two billion six hundred thousand cigarettes were made .n this country. The figures for the last seven years are as follows: Ii907, 5,292,171,000; 1908, 5,793,846.000; 1909, 6,811,498,000; 1910, 8,612,566,000 ; 1911, 9,919,018,000; 1912, 13,233,802, 000; 1913, 15,812,092,000. Trachoma is widely prevalent in West Virginia and In Southwestern Virginia. Inspections were made by public health service officers in 23 counties in West Virginia when 20,848 persons, mostly school children, were examined, among whom 340 cases of trachoma were found. Of the 7,801 persons examined in 10 counties in Virginia,, 108 had the disease. '- The ancient and historic church at Breadsall, Eng., dating back to Nor man times, and containing many price less relics, was destroyed by fire one night the past week. Suffragettes are suspected, as explosions similar to those caused by the bombs usually em ployed by the arson squad preceded the fire. A short time ago a suffra gette meeting In the Village of Bread- cnll vcaa hrnVnn tin Yv the hnvo nnA t !,. ',. , v ,,. is generally supposed that the women burned the church In revenge. . The Washington, party, as the Pro gressive party in Pennsylvania is known, last week laid Its campaign plans and adopted its declaration of principles, The platform declares that the "paramount Issue in Pennsylvania today is Penrose and Penroism." That the party stands for protection and that the tariff is a matter of business The party re- jnewea us auegiance 10 l neoaore Roosevelt. Local option, with the ('ouny m a unit and woman sunragei are favored. It was announced at Paintsville, Ky., that Mrs. John C. Mayo, widow of the Kentucky capitalist who died recently in New York, would be elected director in all the big business companies in which her husband was interested, and will carry out his plans, with w.'hi'ch she Is familiar. According to her plans given out, colleges and churches will be endowed, new ones will be Ma executrix oi ner nusoann s. es- tate -without bond. As a' result of the recent term of court In Hillsville, Va., several promi- inent citizens of Carroll county were convicted of retailing and two of them were sent to jail for thirty days. Those receiving jail sentences were W. A. Hawks and Esquire Golding. Several were heavliy fined. Where there were two or more convictions jail sentences were Imposed, while those charged in only one case were completed at the conference the past jweek. at Lake Mohonk, N. Y of the5cene of the shooting. . Anti-Cigarette League of America j This w as the first annual conference : of the organization, which has grow:n j from a small band of reformers into a de-jnatinal society with the slogan, "Save ! the boys and preserve their health, ed- 'ucanofi' 'and emc'ieucy" Statistics pre'-lj..' ON DARKEY CAME RESULT OF SHOCK. EXCITEMENT; EXERTION "We find that the probable cause of death was heart failure, due to shocks, excitement and ex ertion. Upon examination of the body we are f the opinion that the bullet wound was not the cause of death, as it was only a skin wound." J. S. WELLS, Foreman." The coroner's inquest has therefore vindicated Mr. Kearns R. Thompson of being the cause of Charlie Hurt's death. An autopsy was held and Dr. M. P. Cummings made an Incision at the point in the negro's shcuder where a bullet had struck and found that the ball did not do any considera ble damage. Hurt's death followed . an exciting chase officers and citizens had made in an effort to re-arrest him after he had made an escape from the town hall, where he was held on the charge of abduction. During the chase Chief Walker Williams became exhausted and he deputized Mr. Kearns R. Thompson to go and take the negro, who by this time had reached a point in the vicinity of Harden Davis' resi dence The dead negro was arrested just about noon Friday on a warrant Issued a few minute's previously by Solicitor Wrenn, of the Recorder's court on the charge of abduction. The warrant was sworn out at the request fo Alfred Neal, who claimed that Hurt Induced his daughter, aged 13 years, to leave her home three years ago, and that she had never returned. Hurt had been iu Reidsvllle from time sine; he worked here three years ago with the crew of laborors who put in the sew er 'pipes. It is said that the girl went from Reidsvile to Norfolk Afte Solicitor Wrenn had turned the warrant over to assistant Chief of Po lice D. L. Turpin he passed Chief Walker Williams on the street, and stated to the Chief that he had issued the warrant and from what he had heard of the negro he suggested says Chief WMlliams, that he had better give Officer Turpin any assistance he might need in making the arrest. Chief Wil liams went into Michell's restaurant to get lunch in order that he would save time of going to dinner, and soon saw Officer Turpin pass with Hurt in custody. Both officers and the prisoner were: soon at the police office where Alfred Neal later joined them. Chief Wii - liams thought it best to ask the Re- corder about the amount of a bond which he should require,, and while he had the receiver in his hand he heard Neal exclaim, "Ketch him, boss. He's jumped out of the window." Chief , easily have caused tneir ueatn. ine Williams : soon' " regained Ills feet : demeanor : of young . Mr. Thompson after falling on the steps, and followed "! throughout the trying ordeal has been the fleeing negro w ho had dashed out c ommented on time and again. He by the city water and light plant. He appeared to be a very courageous kept in sight Of the fleeing darkey ;young man, accepting the duty impos until he dodged down the ravine onj'l upon him by an officer, and no the West sile of North Scales street, !(ne regretted more than he the neces and Chief Williams had fired his pistol -sity for firing a shot in tho discharge to frighten hiin. Later he got a view j Of his duty. of the darkey climbing the hill near 1 If the average citizen of Itetdsville South Main street, and again fired off .had been asked to point out in the city his pistol. Hurrying after the negro 'he young man who was possessed of he came upon R. W. Gunn, Cossie the most exemplary habits, the ouiet Adams, Alfred Law and Willie Murphy 't nature, and the mat amiable char- , 4. . 4 4. . .. , : - made an effort to do so, returning and reporting that the negro had said he would kill some one before he would ! taken. ' ' The Chief of Police then asked Mr Kerns R. Thompson to help arn-r-t him, and young Mr. Thompson said lje could not do so without some menns of protecting himself, whereupn the hausted officer handed him his pistol and told him he had deputized Lin: ifTlionipson'Uto-maktuthe-arrest. The brick . and the knife with whi. '.: Hurt had threatened Mr, Thonip.sdii were exhibited at the preliminary, hearing: Hurt, when he had made his escape from the police office, leaped out of a North . window, the one directly oyer Fels' stall, which is in the s-',:ri story of the city market house.. Officer Turpin ' soon saw !'.. direction in which the negro ha 1 fled and he thought he would make an effort to turn up the stream at the, Wv.r of Mr. D. L. Blackburn's home and come in the direction of the .whits pu1' lic school, and so the officer made down ' Morehead street towards Om stream, but w;as told by a party .'that the negro was North of that joint Mr. Ttirpin heard the pistol shot 1j or 20 minutes before he arrived at the Coroner S. G. Jett convened a jury for an inquest at the town hall at o'clock Friday night; and heard 'i ' evidence in the case. The jury 'was', composed of Messrs. J. II. Rascoe, S. H. Ware. Scott Fillman. J. S. Wells. L Saudi and II. 5!' William 1 TO HIS DEATH AS Murphy. J. A. Gunn, Jr., and R. V. Gunn, who took part in the chase, and Chief Williams and Assistant D . L. Turpin. . None of the witnesses was present when Mr. Thompson shot except It. W. Gunn. He said that he saw Dil larc1 Macklin push Hurt from his dor which Hurt had started to enter, and ' that Hurt started in the direction of Mr. Thompson with brick and knife In hand, when Mr. Thompson fired. Bouldln, Adams, Law, Murphy and the two Gunna all told how the negro threatened to kill them if they put their hands on him, and some of them stated that they could easily have ta ken him had it not been for the fear that they would have been killed. J. A. Gunn, Jr., said that during the pur suit the negro fell several times, ap parently greatly exhausted, and that he would have had no trouble in ar resting him but for the warning that the negro's statement and the view of the knife gave. Chief Williams corroborated the oth er witnesses as to his deputiizng Mr. Thompson to go and take the man, and he said that Mr. Thompson told him, after hearing from the others the negro's threats, that he could not go without authority and some means of protecting himself. Mr. Thompson used the officer's pistol when Hurt starred towards him from the porch, and, the wound was in the shoulder, The porch was two or three feet high, which caused the coroner's jury to express a desire for an examination of the wound.. The jury repaired to the Sands' undertaking establishment, where the body had been prepared for burial,1 and it was soon ascertained that the bullet did not enter, but made only a flesh wound. The pistol used was a 32-calibre. The autopsy revealed that death was not due to the pistol Wound at all, There was no evidence to connect Mr. Thompson with the death and even before the autopsy was held, thi who heard the evidence were never satisfied that It was a bullet from Mr. Thompson's revolver that caused the death. Chief Williams had fired two or three times, and Officer Turpin had fired once. Mr. Thompson fired twice, the first shot being In the rear of the yard, after which the negro ran to the front door of the Parham I home, and was confronted at the door iby Dillard Macklin, who pushed him hack out of the door. Hurt was a big, stout negro, weign ing about 200 pounds. In an encounter with any of the young men, who were attempting to help arrest him he could ter. many would have selected Kf. TmnWnt n. the embodiment of; these virtues. Ills friends are glad hat he has heen vindicated of the suspicion of having caused the negro's ; death, even under circumstances that 'would have been entirely justifiable. 1 . : . - - J Governor Blease, of South Carolina,! has reported to the United States Sen-' ate that he had not spent a cent . or j received any: contributions up to date .for his candidacy for the Senate. .; The j I'X2overhurviun'Uiercd ilieull proin.4 ises to the people: , "I here-1 by pledge that I will not give, nor 'spend money, or use intoxieatiris li-i quors for the purX)se of obtaining or! influencing voters. I hereby pledge myself to abide, the results of such , primary and support, the nominees of the party. State arid national, and I declare that I am a' Democrat and that I am not, nor will . I become the candi date nf jinv f:n-tinn f Hi f-r nri v:i t el v nr puuuciy suggested; oiner man inereg ular Democratic iioiinnft An urgent deficiency appropriation of $425(r,00 for the parcel' post service has been asked of Con Kress by Post master General Burleson,'- ' He .' 'V'ahts $390,000 for wagon service mid $35,000 for idemnity for articles lost. President Wilson spoke Thursday j at the unveiling of Sir Moses Ezekiel's j monument to the Southern dead in j Arlington cetiH t'Ty. ' i Suffragettes for. the first time Sun j (i'AV inv'idaA Puttrili:. V'h 11 r,lu nnH nf. ' tempted to harangue congregations. 'In London. ' "yhg'?vtew VtiK t'Diiii. nf Apfiala haw upheld the court of impeachment in removing Governor Sulzer. The primary returns in Florida in dicate the renomination of United States Senator Fletcher. NEWS OF THE OLD NORTH STATE The State Board of Agriculture has appropriated $15,000 for a North Caro lina exhibit at the Panama Exposition The nomination of a Democratic candidate for Congress in the Tenth district was further complicated by the announcement of Geo. S. Powell, a prominent real estate man of Ashe vllle, that he1 would be a candidate for the nomination in the second pr'mary. The orchards in the Mount Airy section, particularly the apple trees, show more blight than ever before and the fruit growers are alarmed at the progress it is making. They attribute it to the extreme dry weather which has prevailed for the past ninth. Last Saturday afternoon the cere mony of the laying of the corner-stone of the new building of the Oak I'idge Institute was held at Oak Ridge, and many interesting speeches were made .in connection with the occasion. Last week work was begun by the masons on the brick work preparatory to the erection of the large bdllding. Under the law governing the elec tion of Senators and Representatives, E. R. Preston, of Charlotte, who op posed Congressman Webb in' the pri maries last month is liable to a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment, or both for failure to file his campaign ex pense within 15 days after the primary election. The Bundry civil bill reported to the House from the Appropriations committee carries the following North Carolina items: For postofflce rental, Charlotte, $6,060; for continuing pub lic building. Gastonla, $5,000; : for completing building, Greenville, $9, 000; completing Hendersonvllle, 129, W; Hicno'y, JlO.OOu, and Mon $5, 000, and for continuing Rocky Mount $27,000. The receipts for the internal revenue department for the Eastern Carolina district for the month of May have just been announced. The sum of $425,578.58 was collected last month, as against $402,423.21 for April, the preceding month. The amount recelv. ed in May, 1913, was $448,600.16. The great difference there is due to the fact that the entire State of South Carolina was attached to he district of Eastern North Carolina at that time. The resignation of Finlay William son as postmaster at Burlington has been tendered to the Postmaster Gen eral and accepted, effective June 15th; Congressman Stedman has announced that he will recommend a successor not later than the 15th. Many believe that O. F. Crowson, editor of the Rurlington News, will be named. Mr. Williamson resigned because, he said, he could not give the proper time to the office without neglecting his pri vate business. Liberal provision for All Souls' church, the privately maintained place or worship of the late George W. Van derbilt, has been made by Mrs. Van dorbilt, according to an announcement made by the pastor, the Rev, D. R. Swope, at the regular meeting of the ongregation. Several members of the choir, who at first refused to work without the customary salary, have recosidered and will give their services to the church, and enough other sin gers have volunteered to fill tho piaces of those who refused to sing. The progress made in the tobacco crop of this year in North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina, as well as in Kentucky, Tennessee; Ohio and Indiana, is somewhat discouraging at the present ime. The Richmnd and Danville correspondents give a somewhat pessimistic report in this week's Western Tobacco Journal un der the head of crop reports. In other Slates referred to there has :.been no rain for three weeks, the groun.-. be coming hard and baked, and prevent ing the preparation of 'the ground for the- transplanting of tobarco plants, of which there is a plenty, but they are becoming overgrown and stocky. Rural telephones are beginning to! play just as important, if not. a more' important, part than either rural free delivery or parcel post, in putting the farmer on an economic equality with the city business man, A generation ago the average farmer was isolated. Today he is no more isolated than his neighbors in. the city. The day lias passed forever when the farmer la boriously 'loads his crops oh wagons and takes them to the county seat and then either sells, them or nofS at prices which may or may not be be low normal. Today the farmer with a telephone uses the wires to two or three towns before deciding where he will market his wares, and often makes the actual sales over the wires before he even starts to load his wagons. '. ''.. , .';'' :'- : ".'. .;. '" Servitor Gore has completed 'hi 4 poi; of the delegates to tho Baltimore con vention on the Panama Canal tolls ex enibtlon LroVLsloft.v lie fleaM Tf6!ii 856 delegates; 711 are for repeal; 111 opposed to it. and 34 non-committal, Thirty-five North Carolinians' ask for repeal, one against it, and one non committal. . : Ik AGAIN E Another crisis In the Mexican diffi culty faces the Washington govern ment, a situation fraught with perils for mediation and with possibilities that may precipitate actual warfare between the United States and Mexico. General lluerta has brought about the new crisis by ordering his gun boats to blockade the port of Tamplco and to seize a cargo of ammunition en. route there for the Mexican constitu tionalists. The shipment is aboard the steamer Antilla from New York, flying the Cuban flag. Huerta has not tlfled the owers of the intent to block ade the port and that he proposes to seize the cargo consigned to the belig erents against his sovereignty as con traband of war. That the blockade decree will be car ried out was verified Sunday by Rear Admiral Badger in & report to the navy department from Vera Cruz, announcing that the Mexican gunboats Seargosa and Bravo, which left Puerto Mexico Saturday night had passed Vera Cruz and were steaming toward Tamplco. What the American warships will do when Huerta's ships attempt to seize the Antilla when she arrives at TamDi- co Wednesday no official in Washing ton would say. Fearing an attack on Tampito by the Federal gunboats. Constitutional ists are rushing the work of fortifying the mouth of the river. Heavy guns already have been placed. The river channel will be blocked if considered necessary."-. Tamplco once more threatens the peace of the United States and Mexi co. Fearful that events niav trar.snire there possibly within the next few hours of a nature that would ba cer tain to disrupt mediation negotiations many principals in the conference at Niagara Falls are filled with ftpprehen slon. The anxiety Its provoked because of the situation In which the United States has been placed by General Huerta's determination to bottle tip the port of Tampico in order to stop the landing of munitions of war for use of the Constitutionalists from the Cuban ship.en route from New lcrk The Washington government, it la understood, feels it must prevent at all hazards the exercise of a blockade by a government -that is not recog nized as possessing the right to per form such an act under international law. .. .' ; . '"-. .. . The American commissioners gave the mediators all the information they possessed and the three diplomats dis cussed it with the Mexican delegates, The envoys continued In consultation for some time after the Mexican dele gates departed. All particulars to the conference looked grave. One went so far as to say that "it looks black" Information has been received in Washington that the American schoon er Sunshine, from Galveston, had landed ammunition at Tamplco for the Mexican Constitutionalisst without In terference on the part of the United States or the Huerta government. State and navy department decline to verify the report, but from other sources it was learned that the pre sence of the Sunshine off Tamplco with arms aboard had been known to the Washington government for several days. In view of the fact that there had been considerable apprehensloa regarding the attitude, the United' States might take toward the landing of ammunition at this Mexican port, the delivery of the munitions without interference was regarded with sig nificance. - .Vith the. Cuban.. steamer. Antilla en . route to Tampico with arms consigned to Carranza's forces there has been much speculation as to what the Uni ted States would do if the Huerta gov ernment should attempt a blockade of the port. Admiral Badger has been ordered to keep watch upon Huerta gunboats at Puerto Mexico and Alva LOOK SERIOUS Still without any intimation of what' General Carranza's answer would be on the question of Constitutionalist representation at Niagara Falls, Ont. the South American mediators and, the American and Me-xican delegates have been spending some time work ing out details of the general peaco plan. Tho American delegates are famil iarizing themselves with data Wash ington is sending 'about individuals mentioned for the new provisional gov-, ernment. .'..'. All principals are anxious to hear some definite word about, the Consti tutionalists for there can bo no definite developments until their in tftitiwns are known. 1 1 The general attitude in regard to the expected reply from General Car ranza is a mixture of doubt and hope. In some quarters there was moro (Continued From Page 1.)