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tbihjtt mihrm Slew. WEATHER Probably showers today; Friday fair and warmer; light variable winds. The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. ITI. NO. 193 LAST EDITION GEEENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1908 LAST EDITION PRICE ITVE CENTS 11 till E AT G. F. G. CLOSES WITH A RECITAL Despite Rain of the Morning Rep resentative Audience Assembled. GREENSBORO GIRL GETS HIGHEST HONOR Bliss Myrtle Ham, of This City, Leads Graduating Class Concert By Depart ment of Music Brings the Exercises To a Close. Yesterday morning, despite the fact that it rained steadily for an hour or so, a large and representative audience assembled in the college auditorium for the purpose of attending the graduating exercises of the class of 1008. seven teen young ladies received their di plomas, of whom Miss Myrtle Hum, of this eity, graduated with the highest honors. Mrs. Sallie Southall Gotten, of Pitt county, a graduate of the class of '(13, delivered the address to the graduates and Mrs. Laura Crump Patrick, of Dan ville, Va., the only surviving member of the class of '48, presented them with their Bibles. Dr. Detwiler, pastor of the West Mar ket Street Methodist church, opened the exercises with a short prayer, and then the president, Mrs. Lucy Robertson, pre sented Miss Mabel Augusta Evans, whose thesis, "The Work of the United States Life-Saving , Service, showed much research and care. Miss Annie Laurie Anderson next read her thesis, which was on the sub- continued on page Eight.) FINOS PARESIS CURE; GEM DISEASE YIELDS USDfiJM0CULflTiON A Massllon. Ohio. Physician Dis covers Bacillus That Para lyzes Motion. USES A SERUM TREATMENT Massilon, Ohio, May 20-In the lab oratory of the Massiion State hospital. Dr. John D. O'Brien today reiterated the statement made by him beforo the American Medico-Psychologlea! Associ ation's convention at Cincinnati, that he had discovered the germ of paresis, which is n partial paralysis affecting motion but not sensation, and that the disease is curable. Ho summed up the result of his experiments in these two declarations: "That paresis undoubtedly is a germ disease and that the- germ has been dis covered ; that while in the experimental stage, sufRewnt tests have been made to show that paresis is curable, and that he has specific cases to point to as definite results. ' Dr. O'Brien gives the specific cases of a newspaper man of Washington, who was treated for paresis, cured and again is at work; a civil engineer of promi nence in Nashville, Tenn., who is cured and at work, besides a number of per sons in Ohio, who were brought to the hospital with severe forms of the dis ease and cured. Others who are now at the hospital still under treatment are showing .marked progress toward recov ery. . Acting on the theory that the disease was similar to that of tuberculosis or diphtheria that a germ might be found which would yield to serum treatment Dr. O'Brien began his experiments by taking serum from the spinal columns of living patients. With this he treated dogs, rabbits and rats with results which proved to him that the animals inoculated doveloped paresis. In turn ha used the treatment of human pa tients. Dr. O'Brien was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1003. Tie has passed four and a half years at Masisijon State hospital hi hos pital and laboratory work. ' "1 know," said Dr. O'Brien, "that it is a bold statement to make that the germ of paresis has been discovered. We feel that from the work done we have found the bacillus. We have cured pa tients, are helping many now, and exi peot to go forward ' with the work." Dr. O'Brien has confined his work to living subjects; no pathological investi gation has been done on post-mortem subjects. He now. has germs in "cul tures." ,-' ' '." .- Maj. R. L. McWhorter Is Dead. Athens, Ga, May 20. Maj. Robert Ligon McWhorter, aged eighty-nine years, died suddenly " this morning at two o'clock ' at the home of bis son, J. V. McWhorter, of VVoodville. Major McWhorter is survived by his widow and two sons, Judge Hamilton McWhor ter and J. V. McWhorter,. He was a member of the House of Representatives and Senate from Greene county, for more than thirty years. He was Speak er o( the House one term. CDMM IT PRESBYTERIANS PLAN WORK FOR BROTHERHOODS Wednesday's Session Take; Up Largely With Speeches-- eed for Prayer, for Bible Sfar? , Brotherhoods and 3 ,n 's Sunday School Among Discussed. Last night the first convention of the MenV Brotherhood of the Southern Pres byterian church came to an end, and to day the general assembly of the south ern branch of that church will convene in annual session in the First Presby terian church. The exercise last night was composed of addresses by Dr. Henry Lewis Smith, president of Davidson College, and Fletcher S. Brocknian, a missionaiW' in China. The theme of last night's meet ing was a continuation of the diseusSon Tuesday night the state of unrest and the great "upheaval that is threatening in all the countries of the world. Dr. Smith was presented by President Eaton, who referred to him as a native of Greensboro, whose boyhood was spent hero, and who is a leader of men wher ever he may lie found. Dr. Smith gave as the subject of his discourse "The South in Transition and the Call This State of Affairs Makes to the Christian Church." He began his address by saying that all work of the church, whether at home or in foreign fields, has the same object in view, that of subjugation to Christ. He discussed the decadence of the country church since the rush of the people to the cities and pointed out the danger that might result if this rural population is not properly dealt with in the towns, cities and tenement villages. Ho also referred Girl Tries Suicide in Cell In Effort to Escape Prison Faced a Three-Year Term, After Conviction for Shooting Lawyer. New York, Mav 20. Jennie Blunt, who was to ha;e gone to Auburn prison j for three years yesterday, for shooting j Charles M. Sanford, the rich Brooklyn j lawyer, probably will succumb to tho i effects of gas, inhaled in her cell in tho I Raymond street jail in an attempt to j kili herself. Though the young woman went into . violent hysterics and finally fell faint-1 ing when sentenced in tho Brooklyn j county court, she seemed comparative ly cheerful at the time Matron Mc cormick passed her cell toward morn- I ing. About six o clock, however, the ma tron noticed the odor, of gas, and, on investigating, found her ward uncon scious, but still gripping between her teeth a rubber gas tube connected with tho jet in the cell. Dr. Morgenthaler partially revived her, and had her removed to the Brook lyn hospital, where her chance for re covery is considered slender. ; Thero will be an investigation to learn how sho secured the tube through which she in haled the gas. Miss Blunt acctised Sanford of aban doning l.er after a long association, visited him in his office in the Garfield building, Brooklyn, February 20, and shot hiin. The lawyer recovered after a cntiiat Alness of many weeks, -though he still carried the bullet in his head. Sh-j would have been taken to tho peni tentiary jctdeiday but for the violent ABEL, SHOT BY BOYD OE ABEL'S DYING REQUEST WAS THAT BOYD BE NOT PR0SE ;y '- CUTED. Asheville, N. C, May 20. Former Chief of Police Henry Abel, of Waynes ville, died last night at one o'clock, the result of injuries inflicted Saturday night by David L. Boyd, Haywood county's representative in the legisla ture. Boyd shot Abel through the lungs during a street fight. Abel's dying re quest was that Boyd bo not prosecuted. Missouri Bankers Meet. Joplin, Mo,, May 20. One thousand Missouri bankers held the eighteenth an nual convention of their state assouia tion today. Col. .1. D. Powers, of Louis ville, president of the American Bank era' Association, reviewed the "general Danung interests." t Jr. Nationals Defeat Eugene. The Little Nationals defeated the Eu gens street baseball team yesterday by score of 8 to 7. The gam was played i me Dan neia in ceuar sreet. , Wo r k of Work in Topics to the transition period in the Orient and said that as great transition is go ing on in the south. "With the completion of the Panama canal the south will be made the com mercial and industrial center of the world. Foreign immigrants willllock to this country to be Americanized and ! converted by our churches." The speak- I er went on to say that intermittent growth seems to be" the law of develop ment. The most careless studnet of na ture cannot fail to see these long periods of rest burst forth into revolutions old customs, old landmarks are wiped out and new and modern things take their place. These are the turning points in the history of nations. Dr. Smith spoke of the passing of the old southern neighborhoods, the old homesteads that have given place to tenement villages, the old agricultural pursuits that have been tost to manufae- turiug industries, the old rural churches and the academies from which came thr ministers. "What shall we do to resu-t-eitate the count ry eliur-h, or what 'shall take its place? What shall we do with our tenement villages? Our educational system is chancing lie fore our eyes." Dr. Smith said that he had no criti cism to make of the great educational awakening. He only warns against the (Continued on Page Five.) JENNIE BLUNT, Whose Attempt to Die By Inhaling Gas Probably Will Be Successful. stale ('t excitement into which her sen lence threw her. Mie has been heard to declare repeatedly that she would kill herself bclore she would serve a prison erm. ' ! " ". ?' SOUTH CAROLINA SENDS ITS DELEGATES FOR BRYAN Resolutions Instructing for the Nebraskan AdoDted by an Over whelming Vote Warm Fight in State. Columbia, S. C, May 20. The South Carolina state Democratic convention today instructed the state's delegates to the national convention fqr the nomina tion of William J. Bryan for the presi dency. .' For the past few months a hot fight has been waged in this state by the newspapers for and against Bryan's can-' didacy, the Columbia State being the foremost in advocacy of the Nebraskan, while the News and Courier, of Charles ton, has led the opposition. There was slight trace of this contest, however, in the convention . today, the resolution instructing delegates for Bryan being passed by an almost overwhelming ma jority. -. , The convention met today at noon and organized by the election of Hon. M; L Smith,' of Camden, a former speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives,' as permanent .; chair man. . The committees on platform and reso lutions and constitution were then ap pointed, being directed to report at the evening Bqssion. The convention then, PUTT, ON STAND, DENIES STORIES OF MAE Aged Senator Appears in Own Be half. in the Sensational Divorce Case. SO FEEBLE HE HAS TO BE CARRIED TO COURTROOM Categorically Makes Answer to Every Charge Made by Woman in the Case, Denying Her Statements at Every Turn Marriage Certificate False. : New York, May 20. I'hv.-ocally so feeble that practically he had to be car ried in and out of the courtroom. United States Senator 'Thomas C. Piatt was at times n spirited witness ..today' when he appeared to 'testify- in his own be half in Mae C. Wood's suit for absolute divorce from him. His denial of all the 'charges brought by Miss Wood in her suit was emphatic. While the defendant was in the court room much of the day, Miss Wood, the plaintiff, did not attend the trial today. The presentation of the case for the de fense was marked by a sharp attack on the authenticity of the marriage cer tificate which Miss Wood offered in evi- deuce to support her contention of a ' matrimonial contract with" the. senator. This was followed bv'aii effort-to show that a letter, in which Senator I'latt is alleged to have admitted bis-marriagc-to Miss Wood, was written over his signature on a blank sheet of' paper, to which he previously allixcd bis autograph on requests of two women applicants for it -while he was 'stopping at the Arlington hotel in this city in 1900. ... Senator rintt himself in his - testi mony categorically ilenied that he ever married or promised to marry the plain tiff, repudiated the signature purporting to be bis on the marriage certificate and the genuineness of several letters which Miss Wood, testified came to her from him. . .' . -' - Justice O'Oornian announced that the trial imit conclude with toiiH'rrow's session. The wni.':."f ii i.T -'V ' Vni - nearly" ttev-entv-l'tve. year.-; rilil. 's wife died -in 1001. lie first : ji'e Mi" Woo'l . in. 100 1. "Do you rivi f:tl -e. king her in 't he month of . I'.M'I. al the Oriental hotel, to becmiie-'voiir" wif"!-' 'I never aki(V!ii'r. It's lV.l-e.'' "Did you, on ; No-. emlier ,.' 1IK11 aM; her to marry y":i ''" , "I did not," replied the senator.-: The senator denied emphatically ' tj'iai he had given Miss Wood n 'photogivp!! of himself, on which he had writte;i "To my dear wife.-' Mr. Le Barbicr. Miss Wood's counsel. asked Senator 'Plat t if h ever addre-:-:':! Miss Wood in endearing terms. Piatt said: "I may have' foolishly done so some times." '"Did you call her Katyt" "I called her Catty in my letters. I liked her very much." "Did you ever give the plaintiff a wedding ring?'' "I never gave the plaintiff a wedding ring in my life." The lawyer handed the senator the alleged marriage certificate, and the sen ator said he never saw the paper be fore. A number of letters alleged to hive been written by the senator to Miss Wood were read' -mid he denied that he had written any of them. The senator declared positively that he hud never' maintained improper rcla tions with the plaintilf. The senator said lie could not remeni lier whether ho kept the engagement to take dinner with Miss Wood on Novem ber !, but, was certain 'Ming, Wood did' not slay with him in the suite that night, lie could nut recall whether his secretary (Mr. Howe) was nt the hotel on the night of November 0, 1 !tol, n r (Continued on Page Two.) after passing (lie resolution inu for Brvau, 'adjourned, to instruet meet at S.;i(i p. m. The principal business of the evening session was the election of delegates at large und tho formal ratification of the resolution of instruction for Bryan. The election of delegates resulted as follows: At large. Senators B. R. Tillman and F. B. (iary, Willkt Joues and II. H. Watkins. Alternates at large, W, F. Stevenson, R. F. Smith, T. 11. Crews and John F. Grace, District Delegates. First district: T. R. Waring and F. Z. .Tulian Carroll; alternates, A. E. McCoy and Dr. W. A. Kirby. ." Second district: J. E. Harley and L. J. Williams; alternates, Neils Cliristen sen, Jr. Third district: Kenneth Baker and .T. C. Stribbling; alternates, Henry C. Till man and Col.a D, Mann. Fourth district: B. F. Townsend and .Continued on Page Two.) WOOD Made First Speech I &&vs, ''tis 4 " 1 I mfjr - if Jl Pil! - - J "' b&tei? , ml 1 5 ' j,.'" ill f . Photo copyright, by Harris-Ewing. " SENATOR ROBERT L. TAYtOR, Fiddling Orator from Tennessee, Who Made His Maiden Speech in the Senate .. i '..'-.'.'' .'.- Tues day. BLiSHERS DECLARE FOREST RESERVES & RElHEPOLPTSRIIFf Annuel Meeting of Southern As sociation Comes to an '':"-':. '' End. MEET NEXT IN BIRMINGHAM Charlotte, X. C, May 20. The annual meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association came to an end this evening with the annual banuuet at the Hotel Sehvyn. Birmingham,' Ala., was chosen i as the next place of meeting, a ml the following ollicers Were elected Cor the ensuing year: President, .7. T. Caldwell t '! iserver t vice-president', C'ol iilioiles, Birmingham';. News; treasurer, Met or M. Hanson, Charlotte Rufus NT. secret ary-Montgdm- i-ry . Advertiser;' executive committee, A Brown. Louisville Courier-Journal j.l. C. 'Hemphill.'. Charleston News and iCouric r; V. V. llinmnn, .laeksonville I Timcs-l'iiion: C. B. -lohnson, Knoxvilie (Sentinel: Iv. M. 1'oster. Nashville Ban ner: I'', f.. Seelev, Atlanta (Georgian. Birmingham, Ala., was chosen as the next meetiiig ilace over Rome, (ia.. Au igusta, Oa.. nnd tirei nslioro, N. C., which extc'ided invitations. . . - ; At t he mi rning session resolut ions i were adopted instnieiiiig the secretary i to wire Spe iker ( aiinou demanding the I passai'e of the wood pulii and print paper ibill, a:id at the afternoon session reso lutions were ailoptei! putting tile associa tion on recird a-- favoring the; Appala chian hud V.'liiie inount-vn forest reserve bill.- , -' Cltr.rter Issued. .marched through the principal streets lialeitfh, '. '... May 20. The Souther- of Salisbury yesterday afternoon bear land Mercantile ''Company,' of . Souther-1 ing banners with insi-rtpt ion favorable, land? Ashe, county', is: chartered 'Wit h . to prohibition and; singing prohibition' 2").()(Mi capital nuthorizid and Sri.Of'O ; soul's. . The children mrrciied ; 'through 'iiliscribeil for general mercantile lu'isl--ithe saloon distric t, and Were then mar ness by (i. M. Honnelly. .J. B. Souther- ,shalled on Jlain street, beiween (Vunc;i land end others, of . Southerland an l and Inniss, where they sang for ten Mountain City, Tenn. - invnittes or more. TUT E FOREST TODAY PERMISSION GRANTED STUDENTS TO AGAIN ENTER INTERCOLLE GIATE FOOTBALL FIELD. Wake Forest, X. C, May 20. natious closed this afternoon this early hour great crowds tors are pouring in on every bo present at commencement Exami and at of yisi train to exercises beginning tomorrow. A largo crowd of appreciative hearers were present'---tonight and enjoyed the open concert given by the Glee Club and Orchestra in honor of the visitors. The program was received with hearty applause, en core after encore coming from tho ap preciative audience. Wake Forest College will again enter the intercollegiate football field to do battle on the faseinatin? gridiron, so said the executive board 'of the truntoes in session here this afternoon. A peti tion drawn up and signed bv the stu dey body, asking for intercollegiate football, was presented to the trustees, Who unanimously decided in favor of it, and the students are highly elated over the long desired reinstatement. in Senate Tuesday HITHER I! ffiES IPPESLTISEITEII CflLSIEMT'SCSSE Marj'Ianci Senator Urges Vote on His Resolution for Court of Inquiry. PLEA FOR ACTION REFUSED Washington, May 20. Senator Rayner again today made an appeal to the Senate for a vole on a resolution "au thorizing and requesting" the President to appoint a court of inquiry to inves tigate charges against Col. William F. Stewart, Coast artillery, stationed at Fort Grant, Ariz. , Mr. Rayner declared his belief that the committee on military affair would not report his resolution during the present session of Congress and asked tuat -a niomnca l-esoiutiou tie lial pre pared be acted upon by the Senate with out, the intervention of the committee. Objection being made, ibe further con sideration' of the resolution - was post poned. The omnibus public, buildings bill was passed by the Senate (oday. It carries appropriations agirrcj'.iting about $33,. 000.000. ' A bill to prevent the desecration of the flag of the United States -was passed. The- conference report- on the fortifica tions appropriation bill vaa adopted and partial agreement.' on the. sundry civil bill-. wan reported by conferees and ap proved by the Senale. Salisbury Children Parade. Salisbury, N. ('., May 20. l.'nder the direction of the leaders of the proliihi iiou liirht liere ii band of 150 children SOUTHERN TI'EATHiGAL IT: MANAGERS FROM ALL SECTIONS DISCUSS PLANS FOR GETTIKG ATTRACTIONS '. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 20. Thirty theatrical managers fro mall parts of the south, members of the. Southern Theater Managers' Association, met hero today to .discuss ijucst ions of in terest to that; body. The eoiientioti .today discussed the securing of the Inst grade.. of. attrac tions for the south, arrangement of pas senger rates, etc. . ' . . v .Jake Wells, of Richmond, is the pres ident, and Harry L. t'ardoza. of Atlanta, secretary of the association. Thirty five applications for membership, rep resenting over ity theaters in the south, were made today. Bank Reports Called For. Raleigh. . C, May 20. An order is issued by the North Carolina corporation commission for reports of the condition of state, private and savings banks do ing business in the stato at the close of business May 11. LILLEY CHARGES NOT WARRANTED, DECLARES HOUSE Special Investigating Committee's Findings Adopted by the House as Whole. WILLIAMS DENOUNCES LILLEY AS A TRAITOR Declares That He Should Be Expelled From House Committee DecWe That He Was Used by Lake Torpedo boat Company. Washington, May 20. The conclusion nf the special committee which has been investigating the charges of Representa tive l.illey, of Connecticut, that members of the Dome had been improperly in lluenced in connection with submarine torpedoboat legislation, that Mr. Lilley laid violated his obligations as a mem ber and had acted in bad faith with ths committee in contempt of the House, were sustained today by the House by a vote of 2-"7 to 82. Kive hours of tha session were devoted to the case, four f which were consumed in reading the report. J he 'Connecticut members joined' iit voting against the resolution bv which the Ifou.se adopted the conclusions of the committee as its own. Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, de nounced Mr, Lilley as being guilty of treason, for which he said he should tie expelled. He presumed that the rea sons the committee did not carry its report to a recommendation to that end was because Mr. Lilley was at his home -ill and unable trr be present to defend himself in such a proceeding. It was a noticeable fact that the five members' of tho committee, Messrs. Boutell. Olmsted. " Stevens, Broussard and Howard, sat together throughout the entire proceedings, and that none of them submitted any " remarks in con nect ion Avith the report. The partial conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill occasioned a lively debate. It was adopted, and the con ferees will continue their efforts to ar rive at a complete agreement. That Mr, Lilley was not warranted in bringing his charges is the conclusion reached by the special committee, In an exhaustive report submitted to tho House, Chairman Boutell and his col leagues review the testimony brought out before the committee in hearings ex tending over several weeks, and declare with entire unanimity that no member of the House and no representatives of the press have been induced by officers (Continued on Page Two.) SENATE PASSES THE PUBLIC BUILDING BILL uwe mnn Any Old Amendment Tacked On and Adopted. Including One for Paris Embassy. $70,000 FOK WILMINGTON. N. C. Washington, I. C, May 20. The Sen ate today considered und passed tin omnibus public'.. building bill, inserting not only the numerous amendments suggested by the Senate committee on public buildings and grounds, but also a. tew pro nosed on luc nuor ui inc otu- ate individual senators. ' As carries a total of about $:io,000, whieli Vt;.0i0,0iHl is for continu- IMH!, in'; contracts. .... , :..,:. I IH laiiiei ! I i H.nwuo ivi iirwi builiiuiL's added by the Senate iucludei the following: . Miami. 11a., $175,000;" Abbeville, 3. C, 1,(101); Dycrsburg. Tenn., $50,000. An increase of $70,000 was made in behalf of the proposed building at Wil mington, N. C, bringing the limit up to s.'r.i'.otv. The Senate amendment providing fol a new olliee building for the depart ment of state and justice to be used jointly was retained, the ultimate cost of which is limited to 2,500,1100, and it is hinted that if this item is not re tained tho bill may be allowed to fail. 111' Hlllt-llUIIlt'llli II I '111 .Jllk ItiLXAIlC WXWU,- (KM) for the purchase ot an embassy building in Paris, to be used as an of- 41. . a... I wnu:.t...,.m uluri uj a anmni.yA tiW mv t mill I cnini;iiv , ..i.-v. . m kv., uvv fianaim. riit1ioi-nn nf TeVflR! Clatf-' of Georgia, and Overman, of North Cr lln. nniwiuml t.tin Paris nnnrortriA.t.mn. - "rr""". v.... ..lr..t... , A noint. of nnl r -flsainst the amendment lioing held by the Vice-President not to be in order, Mr. Culberson moved to te-. duce the amount for the Paris building from $400,000' to $200,000, but the mo tion was defeated by a vote of 37 to 18.' Broward Leads for Senate. Tallahassee. Fla., May 20. Returns from yesterday's DcnAcratie primary election received here tonight show that Governor Broward has a deoided lead for United States senator over the otbec three candidates, ''
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