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Sailf The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. WEATHER Partly cloudy today and Wednesday; local showers in westeen nortion. ; 9 VOL. in. NO. 25G STATE EDITION GliEENSBORO, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1908 STATE EDITION. PRICE FIVE CENTS 'J ism khs. He got ext and It's adc ted let cal ard Mr. nets tell hat !ar :ust tha of all hey , if laid as ons ind .sar !or , i ot een ave eed be the ro; In uly end ave dU tent nt ilm, i ol m em dais OR THE PEOPLE blltlcal and Financial Conditions Show Improvement in All Directions. A) OF REVOLUTIONARY TENDENCIES IN SIGHT pited States Receiver of Customs for the Island Republic Forwards Intcr- testing Keport umng J) acts ana r lg- iires as to Affairs and Prospects. IVashington, D. C, Aug 3. Important ovulation concerning the political a mi itiicuii ITUIlUII.e'll" "i i" uuJUlillwill rfm'c is contained in a let! or, under date I.June !a, winch has. born received ny i. Clarence E. Kdwards, chief of the peau ot insular, allairs. ol file war ie- ttnient, from V. r.. nullum, united s receiver 01 customs ci oamo lungo. lie belief is expressed 1 in the letter ft '!Oi tdin intiiitrillMtinn ilf President (ocres, tlie Dominican , 'Republic will Br upon a new em and that the last wige -of -formidable revolutionary fen- llcics in the republic, will have been Hon raged effectually. in immense improvement is shown in I linanciiil condition 'of. the republic. income for the present tiscal year, !i liegan on me or ..ini.v, is es 'ed at $3,048,300. the largest in the ii-v of the renublie. Receiver Ful- Iti sivs that, "after .deduct ins $1,200,- u be paid ill monthly installments iuiUiOO for interest account and . ition of the new Dominican Uoiid . the remainder available for Cov .et,. expenditures will exceed the federal income of but four years - 'il-sing political conditions in the '.,', 1,'eceiver Pullinni says: ill. llamon uaeen.s, vno is just (Continued on Page Five.) 'ill F: n 11 SPEECHES TD 15! THE I fiLMif Irs. Taft Hears Him Rehearsing and Gets a Laugh Out of the Effort. EARNS FROM RIVAL BRYAN Hot Springs. Va.,' Aug. 3. Candidate iiia emwented tn make several yt Bpeeches into talking machines for f production. As the process of .making phonograph record is . somewhat, dif (rent from making a campaign .speech iom the back of u parlor platform or rm a front porch, Mr, Taft today "lund Mrs. Tuft laughing at him as he last doing n bit of rehearsing for the Iul records. Several experimental talks were made id reproduced with varying degrees success. The speeches which a sin c record will 'hold, average about three . .j 1 ...a.1l. ... l,irlli Tlia ffinien i HlUlllt'u nuiuB in ...... discussed for repititiou in this way rr)b not as yet been deciiled upon. An sample of what the machine can io, U candidate was treated to the repro Lotion of a record mado by W. J. rvan. Air. Taft today fixed August 21 as date fjir th rally of Virginia Re liiblicaiis here. He will make a. politi il address from the porch of the club nuse adjacent to the hotel, . .The dates ere fixed litter an interview with i jniii ....... ......... AVith tho Homestead eomtortaoiy n-idi tlm lemil fraternity of Vir- linia and their families, and with a (Continued on Pag" Two.) 1 SAN OM 0 gURHAM RECTOR ON HIS WA Y SA(JX. fiKUM tLUKUfJl. will Fill His Pulpit Next Sunday Morning New Pasor a for the Bull City. . Durham,- N. C, Aug. 3. A postal ard w'as received here tbday from the Rev. S. S. Bost, rector of, St. Philip's Juirco, wno was men on the St. uw i'neo river when tho card was written, Icing on his way home from Kurope. Ho ent to London with the North Carolina tarty of churchmen to attend the Lam- itrt ana iau-.dTiKiicnu congress. Alter ihe church meeting he wont on a -trip ver several countries and returned bv U-ay of Montreal.. , Tis postal was writ- ten me iHuor pan, 01 iubi wvck unu no fas expected to land at JMontreat on 'Saturday. Ho will come direct tMhe v r. i . ......1 ' 11.. . i. Atate, spenuiug n purv 01 tne weex in be western portion, ana h. will taea HUGE CROPS PREDICTED INSURING PROSPERITY IN INDUSTRIES OF COUNTRY Publishers of Agricultural Pa t pers Furnish First Accurate Report of Conditions in the United States. Eye-Opener to the Manufactur ers and Business Men Who Seek Information Upon Which to Base Operations. Chicago, Til., Aug. 3. -Nature and the American fanner are after another rec ord. Crops this year throughout, the country are bigger and better than ever. Even the backward spring and Hoods in Hoinu districts seem to hvo caused no farreaehing damage. - The first; accurate and comprehensive report on the agricultural situation is supplied through Lord & Thomas, who have just bad an exhaustive outline of crop conditions from practically every publisher of farm papers in the Viutcd States, for the benelit of manufactur ers who look lor reliable information on the country's condition in advance of the actual measuring of crops alter harvest is fully completed. Reports from many states are genu inn eyeopeners, showing prosperity in fact, unusually .abundant wealth - whero tho average individual Would hardly have expected it, and the total crop showing is so decidedly favorable that, while only a few of the. earlier products have been harvested, one would have to ho decidedly pessimal w. to sea anything but the most eneuur-. aging conditions in every locality. Not forgetting that the basis of wealth and the real determining lactor of business are the amount, and value .ot the land products, it is easy to con clude that anything other than iv thor oughly comfortable business situation will be entirely the result of the. pub lic mind. , Era of Prosperity Promised. These are some of - tho excerpts made from the letters received by Lord, i Thomas: Authorities in Kansas agree that the state has before it the biggest crop f WITNESS IN THE GOULD CASE 1 MISS BESSIE DE V0E, An Actress, Who Will Be Called Upon To Testify In Behalf of Mrs. Ben Teal. return hero, preaching his first sermon next Sunday morning. Tho Sunday schools in West Durham hold exercises yesterday for the tlrst time fn several weeks. The schools were closcd upon tho advice of fho health-ollieer, JJr. N. Al. Johnson, .who advised the closing of these schools on account of the prevalence of diphtheria. While there were a largo number of cases in that section only one case re sulted fatally. ... Newspaper For Durham. Next Saturday 11 new paper will is sue in Durham. This will be a weekly ' , . (Continued on Page Two.) ri.Tfc'-.- i if. . '-, x, ' HEAVY CROPS EXPECTED Report from all parts of the -try indicate heavy crops- thisv t. Spring and winter who' octter than iir-1907. Largest turn crop e harvested is expected. Cotton crop greater than last year. 1'otato crops in all states are large..., Apples, peaches and grapes indi cate 25 to 100 per cent, larger yield. all kinds in the history of the country. Arthur Cnpcr, puiilisher ot the Mis souri .Valley. Fanner, at Tnpeka, Kan., and allied publications, reports, a. wheat, acreage of 7.000.000; corn, 'Ii,!l30,00l acres, and states flint the largest crop in the history of the state is assured. He says the heads of wheat have tilled out, well, and that that already threshed has turned out much belter than he ex pected. , The total state average is around fif teen bushels. The recent hot weather in Kansas has put corn in as fine a condi tion as was ever known. Hay and al falfa unusually abundant. Fruit had just the right amount of rain. This report .is fully indorsed by tho Farmers' Advocate, ot Topeka. It states that the threshing reports show the western section of the state to have produved eighteen to twenty-two bush els per aero of wheat of good quality, which is unusual for Western Kansas. Kit stern Kansas yields twentv to -tvvon- ty-five busliels: ir acre, Some reports cut this avcraee. The Advocate, like . . I 1:1... wi-e. reports that the condition of corn I was never bet ter. I Renry Wallace, the Towa agricultural ! aut hority, editor of Wallace's Farmer, of )es Afoinca, writes: "Fanners have harvested a most ex- cellent crop of clover and timothy hay. Pastures never have been better, and I now that the rains 'have ceased and tin1 I grass becomes less washv, live stock i should gain in llesli rapidly. Wu may expect an average crop of (Continued on Page Two.) umm fruit Some of Them Are Declared to Be Reasonable. Others Ordered Modified. REDUCES CRATES PER CAR Washington, f). C, 'Aug. !. In an opinion rendered by I oininissioner I'roitty, the interstate ..commerce coin mission today found Che all rail rate on oranges and : pineapples from--points in Florida to the Florida base points are not unreasonable, but the carload rates on such ..articles from the base points to the northeastern cities are unrea sonable. Certain maximum rates were established and ordered to be put in force by September I") next. The rail water rates on their coniniodites between such points were not found unreasonable, and the commission decided to estab lish cnrload rates by rail mid waler. The commission- held that the rales on oranges from the Florida base points to territory norib of the Ohio river ought, not to be higher on an average than from f'aliforiiiii I oxii ill tldnt.inutiAii tuiiitl . leil said tliat the establishment of a blanket I 1 conferences at the Manhat tan ho , . ,., , . - . .. ... .... , tel.- however, as the olbcc rooms will not rate to that t en, tory is not. M, tied. u' tljuv i,,tl)1 ,.u ,Veek. Jhe present rail and water rales on vegetables from Florida base points to the northeastern cities be excessive and lower were 011111 to niaximiim rates were established and ordered to be put 111 lorce. Whether lower carload rates should be established upon vegetables to eastern "markets was left unsettled. The present iiny-quatity all-rail rates upon vegetables are reasonable, excepting to Boston and the vegetables rates from Florida to points north of the Ohio river were found reasonable. Tlc commission decided that the mini mum carloads that were established for the transportation of strawberries from Starke and Lawtey, Florida, .to New York City, and to other through points at present Inking the New York rate, should be reduced trom 200 crates per car to 175 crates per car, and the rato should not exceed $1.80 per crate, in cluding refrigeration. The relrigeration charges on fruits and vegetables from Florida to North-, crn markets were not to be excessive. I This decision was rendered in the case of tho Florida Fruit and Vegetables I Shippers .Protective. Association against the Atlantic Coast lane. Clyde Liner Chippewa Floated. New York. Aug. !l.--The Clyde steamer Chippewa, Captain Macbeth, which went ashore on Montuuk Point, dune 24, while on a voyage from .Jack sonville and Charleston for Huston, lias been llonted by wreckers and was brought to New York today for repairs. YOUNG WOMAN IS FATALLY SHOT Of A JILTED LOVER Miss Mary Ball, of Wilkes County. Will Probably Die of Injuries. D. F. THARPE WHO DID SHOOTING IS IN JAIL Young Woman, While Returning From Church, is Shot By Man She Refused to Marry Her Condition Critical Yes terday Evening. Winston-Salem, X. C, Aug. .1. Mary Rail, one . of . the niost j m;-s. upular ' young '.women of Wilkes county, was shot and, it is thought,. 'fatally' wounded at Dimette, that ..county, Sunday n ight about nine o'clock while returning trom church. The men who fired the shot, is 1), F. 'riiarpe. whose prollereil atten tions to Miss .Hall had been declined. A telegram this evening says her .condi tion is critical,, arid death 'is expected. ; Front Win accounts that reached here" it seems that 'I'harpe . has freiuentlv tried, to persuade .iiss Rail ; to jnari'v him and that she h is 'repeatedly -.refused to do so. Last night Miss Ralls "broth-' er,. having beard that Tha roe had nm,fe " lnav . V'!"1"' kl" ti inreiit. inat, lie tlllliluwi 'aiiri iiinKi-m. I ,4, . j. t. .1 -i .....v..-.. -tih. nun i nit liiin luiini'f i nit it ir i went, with his sister to church to IH'O- lec.r. ner. .- iiiey attended services at Macedonia and . returned homo safely until the young liidy.put her foot, on -die top step of her hoarding'. house., when Tharpe shot her, the bullet taking ell'cct about an inch above her heart. '. Tha rpn then fired again, but Miss F.all managed to knock his revolver: before falling tu the ground. Her brother then caught Tharpe "and prevented further lirine. Miss Hall is n dmishtcr of ,f. A. Mull r .,1.1 ..'.. .1 ...... ..j . ' u. i win viii m-iai -. veteran.- an:l omi I of. Surry county's most respected eiti-j 7.en. Tharpn is the son of Ifenrv! 'I'l - e ir:n.: .1 ... - ! inuiii-, in uiiMsooro, ana Has alwavs borne a good reputation .heretofore, with the exception of (Setting drunk oc caslonalhv All the parties concerned are among the first people of Wilkes count v. Tharpe, it is understood, will plead insanity.-. . Tho afTair created intense ex citement throughout the ' enmity,-; and feeling wu high against the perpetrator of the crime. From last reports -Miss Halls lifo is despaired of by the physicians. It was slated this,' morning that, her life was hanging by n bare thread. Tharpe was arrested and placed in custody, and his preliminary- hearing set for this morn 111b .before. .Magistrates.. Kdwards and Mewellyn, but the result, of the trial was not learned.. It is thought that, the trial will be postponed until the extent of the young lady's iniurics can bo aa- tained. .: Iharpn is represented bv .1. F. Tfeu dreu, of Klkin. IIo is in jail at Wilken-boro. DUNCAN AND HITCHCOCK MAKE PLANS FOR STRONG CAMPAIGN IN THE SOUTH Organization Will Be Perfected in Every One of the Southern States and Strong Inroads Will Be Made in Demo cratic Representation in the House. New York, Aug. I. F.11 stern bend-1 quarters of the Kepuhlienn national! ronnnittoa in the Metropolitan Life ; Imildintf lower were formnllv opened ati noon todav bv Frank H. llilclleock, the I lnailai;er for Taft and .Sherman.. Mr.; i Kitchi'Ock continued to hold his tioliti-1 Anion'' thoso w'ho conferred with 1 Chairman Frank If. Hitchcock, of tho Kcnuii lean conimitteo toilav were r,. v.. i lliincaii, a member of the national coni- mitte from North Carolina. Mr. Dun- can, who is ino southern nieniner 01 the executive committee, discussed with Mr. Hitchcock plans for waging Lenoir, N. C Aug. 3.- Sunday after noon at Warrior, a few mill's north of Lenoir, 11 man by the name of Waddell shot and wounded another man by lin name of Harvey Austin. Waddell, it is reported, had been drinking all day and shot at another man during I lie day, and Austin' attempted to ipiict him, This infuriated Waddell, and later be wetit to Austin's house and enllcd him out, and told him he was going to shoot him and reached for his pistol, whereupon the latter took hold of the man to keep him from getting the weapon. In the scuffle that followed. Austin .was, shot through the leg. Waddell fled and has not been caught. Austin's wound is not considered dangerous, and at this time he is resting very comfortably. He Is Accused by "' HENRY COLE, Charged With Beating and Tarring F. E. Bliss, Jr., as Sketched at the Hearing Last Week. . . ... ... -. vigorous campaigns in in the south. At sonic I litcheock will call a several, stales early day .Mr. conference of southern llepublican leaders. The next, xatheriiif; of this chara.cter is expected to etnluace tlie J',iilaiut states also, I'he New Finland conference- probablv will he held in I lost 011 some tune next week. In having the conference in Hos. ton Mr. Hitchcock is following out the policy cshihlishcf! at the conlerenccs Colorado Spni.gs and Chicigo, having tin nicctings at a point near tin collier of the region represented by the leaders called toget her. I lie southern conference- will not be held until after September 1, and it, w ill be at Atlanta or some cit v 111 Jennessce, possihlv Nashville. It was announced todav that an or- gnniation would b( eHeeted in everv no ajiprehension as to t he 11t1tc01ne.nl one (if the southern states, and althoughtthe case, as "the half has not, yet, been no predictions were made that the He publicans would capture the electoral votes of any of those states, it was said that inroads would be made in the Dem ocratic rcprosenfation in the House from the south. Mr. Duncan is strongly of the opinion that a number of congres sional districts which are now Demo cratic win be turned to the Kepiiblican column. To a large degree he will have charge of the work in (hat territory. Representative McKinley, of Illinois, tho new chairman of the llepublican congressional committee, will come to New York sometime next week to talk with Mr. Hitchcock about the coopera tion that will be arranged between the congressional and national llepublican committees. , ' Fred Upliaiii, of Chicago, assistant treasurer ot the nntb.nal committee, who will have his office at the Chicago hendipiav! is, p'livid here today to talk with Mr. Hitchcock -ami will remain here until Mindav in oide" to consult with Mr. Sheldon, the treasurer. the Tar Victim TDIPT iriUiim'j iuii j uiuiiiiui ATTORWEY WILL PROBE TIE TUl INCIDENT Rigid Invesligation Into All Phases of the Affair to Be Con ducted. BLISS IS KEEPING SILENT ..-.Washington, lleciuise ot the J). C, Aucust 3. which air ot mvsleiv the heating and lairing of V. , , . , ,10 Wish, Jr., at. 1.11 1 Kenyon si reet . the Iistrict attornev's iiiee w .11 nuke a rigid iiivestiiiat ion. llistricl Attorney (liven mm vs he intends to .question- ivoin - ..'1 . -ii.... -11.. ...1.:.. .... ...1....... en iiieons 111 .inn. .11,11 1 iiiiimiii, iinni. 1 husband and two friends set upon the I young contractor in the basement, ol the 1 .Mart liiiison home In the meantime Hliss 'maintains a dis creet silence. He declares that he leels told." -."Inquiries have failed to loi-ale Mrs. Charles Marthiiison at l:t 1 7 Kenyon street, northwest. Her husband will make no statements in addition to those already made public. Put the question "Is Mrs. Marthiiison the real woman in the ease?" is receiv ing attention in police circles. It is rumored that Itliss, who declares he has a sensation to spring at the trial iir.il: radius of five miles at the confluence of who says he was engaged to the worn- ithe northeast, Shelter river and Shaken an he went to call upon that night, did creek, ix miles east of Purgaw, N. C, in not no to see Mrs, Marlhiilsoii. TheUi tine farminu settlement konwn as woninii is now said to have been 11 ward of one of the men in the case. DROWNING ACCIDENT VICTIMS BODIES ARE RECOVERED Chautauqua. N. Y" Aug. 3. The bod ies of Miss Klsie Green, of Savannah, flu., and Porter B. Parish, of Memphis. Tenn., who were drowned while boating on taike Chautauqua Saturday night, were recovered today. TO BE TRIED FOR GRIME HE DID 24 1EI1RS AGO Dr. James D. Puryear, for a Long Time In the Asylum. Is Arraigned. SOLICITOR JONES FULLER IN COURT FOR FIRST TIME Twenty-Four Years Ago Dr. Puryear Killed Negro Thought to Be Insane and Placed In Asylum, But Later Es capes. . , Oxford. X. C.U Aug. 3. Crnnville coun ty Superior Court convened this morn ing at . eleven o'clock with , -Judge' E. B. Jones presiding, and: Solicitor Jones Ful ler acting as prosecuting attorney for the t ate, this being the first appearance of Solicitor Jones Fuller in the Granville court. Some little interest, is -manifested us to his procedure of business, though apparently everything is run- ning. smoothly. - A else Mmt conies up at this term, and of w hich considerable . speculation sur rounds as to. its termination, is the alleged coiniiiitlal of a murder of a ne- ' gro in the northern part of the county twenty-four years ago hy Dr. JsitncB I). I'uryenr.- At the time of the crime the alleged perpetrator, Dr. l'uryear, was considered by the court of unsound minii anil lodged in the insane asylum at Ral eiidi. After u period of lime he was either released or makes his escape from the home of the insane, and after years of wanderings in the 'mountains of West ern North Carolina., for some reason or other, returns to his native county near the place where the crime wbk com mitted, although he remained unmolested for a. period of years. . Through some hard feelings that are (Continued on Page Two.) OFFICERS DF REGIMENT DENY CHARGES MADE Will Get Affidavits From Chaplain and OHiccrs to Prove Falsity. MAY MAKE PAPER RETRACT Ealeigh, X. C, Aug. 3. An editorial statement in the North Carolina Chris tian Advocate,, of (ireensboro, to the ef fect, that an "eye-witness" informs the edit oiv that the First regiment encamp ment; nt Morehcad two weeks ago was ''one grand debauch," including the trip home, has stirred the resentment of the stall' officers and men. and Col. .1. T. (larclner. id Shelby, who was in charge, is wiih the cooperation of the stall of licers. seeking to toree a retraction on the iart of 'Hie Advocate as well as to as certain the identity of the "eye-witness." In concluding the., attack on the en campment . the editoral said: "Now is it not time for the people to have some thing to say about the spending of their good inonev once a vear for nothing but atlordiniv an opportunity for an annual coiisiinipl 1011 ot booze on the part of military companies? So far as drill practice is concerned, the whole. thinir is a piel uresipie farce." One movement... for refuting what the ollicers pronounce a slander on the of ficers and men of the regiment is the se curing 01 statements from -prominent 1 denving the charges: The chaplain of the company, the llov. Mr. Minter, is aid to hiivc given a Hlntetnent denying j the charges from 1111 intimate knowledge t he camp inc., .uioi.uer mai eui, ' . ,'. , ,i....j ln - 1; fumi ljrl.is Malliiiokiwlt, rec tor of Sl. Peters Kpiscopnl chuaJh, Char- 1. i ell tc. FORTY FAMILIES DRIVEN FROM HOME BY FRESHET CROPS DAMAGED AND RIVER RE PORTED STILL RISING DAM AGE $100,000. Wilmington, N. C, Aug. 3. Within a Holly Shelter, between thirty and forty families have been driven from their homes and thousands of dollars damago to crops and live stock is reported to have been wrought by high water, conse intent upon frshests in those streams. jhTe water is still rising and suffering it said to oe in sight unless present con ditions abate. Estimates of the dam age are as high as $100,000. All pre vious records of freshets have boe broken.
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