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f v. The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. WEATHER Fair today in east; local showers in west portion; light south winds. . j. STATE, EDITION VOL. m. NO. 205 GREENSBOEO, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST U, 1908 STATE EDITION. PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 . t DESPONDENT AND I TAKES HIS LIFE j. L. Culberson, of High Point Commits Suicide In His Home. WIFE AND CHILDREN FIND HIM LYING DEAD Had Beta Drinking and Had Spoken Be fore of Taking His Life Was a Fol lower of Teachings of Ingersoll Cre ates Quite a Stir. High Point, N. C., Aug. 13 Sitting .r 11 1. : in. x. : - c On tlio nea in m roum, wiui ins mm ily in hearing, J. L. Culberson this af ternoon at five o'clock shot and instant lv killed himself, the bullet taking ef feet in his heart. In a few moments the wife and two little children stood in the presence of death, the little ones tugging at the mother's apron while the parent had screamed hysterically, and four little uneasy eyes shifted and seemed to understand it all. This afternoon young Culberson was tinder the influence of liquor, but not drunk, as circumstances show. He went to his home in Newton street about 4.30 o'clock while the members of his household were away. , (ioing into the sitting room of the house, he pulled off hi top shirt and sat across the bed with a thivty-Uyo caliber pistol in his right hand. He" took deliberate aim at his heart and pulled the trigger. Neighbors heard the report of the gun and told his wife, who was in a nearby store. She ran to the house and search ed every room where she would likely find her husband, but going into the sit ting room she found her husband dead, (Continued on Page two.) ' . .;.' TUFT US SEVERAL CONFERENCES WITH THE IEIDEBSJFJIS PARTY Tells Newspaper Men No One Was Taken Down and Spank ed Yesterday. WEST VIRGINIA MATTER Hot Swings, Va., Aug. 12. "Every thing was as harmonious as possible and no one was laid across my knee and spanked." This was Judge Taft's genial remark tonight in concluding a detailed account of his all-day conference with Frank H. Hitchcock, Republican national chairman, and Arthur I. Vorys, his chief of staff. Chairman Hitchcock announced after the first conference, which continued for three hours, that it would be stated in a formal and official manner that Mr. Taft would make no speeches outside the City of Cincinnati during campaign. It was also officially announced that Mr. Taft would continue the policy he had already adopted and followed of not mixing in local political contentions in any state or of taking any part what ever in behalf of any candidate for nom ination for a state office. This an nouncement is intended as an answer first, to the demand that Mr. Taft de cide the merits of the contestants in the West Virginia split and second, that he express a preference for or against Governor Hughes in the New York state gubernatorial situation. Taking up the narrative of the day's work, Mr. Taft said: "We went over the situation in every state where it is recognized a vigorous campaign must be made. Particular at tention was given to Maine and Ver mont, not because of any doubt as to the situation in these states, but be cause the election" there is held earlier than in other states." Between the two conferences which he held with Mr. Taft, Mr. Hitchcock, who arrived here this morning, was closeted with Senators Elkins and Scott and Mr. i Swisher, nominee for governor, all of West Virginia. Mr. Hitchcock listened to the situation as presented, but he gave no indication of any action on his part, except to promise that should the matter of the split ticket' in that state be presented in a proper way to the na tional committee, that body following ' long established precedents naturally would be. required to determined to which faction was the regular Repub lican and state organization. Senator Elkins after the conference announced (that letter would be addressed to the national committee couched in the prop er language to bring before that body the question upon which a ruling was desired. - . ' MILWAUKEE IS CHOSEN . FOR NEXT PYTHIAN MEETING Boston, Mass., Aug18. The Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, voted today thatt he next convention will be Jbeld in Milwaukee, which had been already se lected by' the supremeassembly. of the uniform rank of the order. The formal vote today stood: Milwaukee, 87; Rich mond, Va., 23 ; Colorado Springs, 22, and UmWbm IalajL 6fi. , v DISAPPOINTED VENEZUELAN IS TRYING TO OUST PRESIDEN TCAS TR O Believes That Large Sum of Money Can Be Raised in This Country for Starting Revolution in Souths American Republic and Js Erf gaged in Work. . Washington, D. C, Aug. 13. Senor Don August F. Pulido, for fifteen years a representative of the Venezuelan gov ernment in Washington, who was sud denly recalled to Venezuela by President Castro last spring, is in New York planning with a number of other Vene zuelans and some Americans, a revolu tion ins his country, which is expected to result in the downfall of Castro. H has been learned from an unques tionable source that Pulido had been seen in New York by a member of the dfplomatic corps, one of the attaches of a Central American legation. The fact that he, with other Venezuelans, is planning Mie revolution was also con firmed.. Whether Pulido plans to take an armed force from America or merely arms or merely money with which to carry on the revolt against the Castro government are details that have not yet been made clear. Pulido is himself the nephew of One of the richest men "in Venezuela, and it is expected that, in the junta which has formed in New York and in Venezuela to carry into ef fect the revolution . .are. many men of prominence in the South American country-' Castro's treatment 'of the Americans who have been interested in the Ber mudese Asphalt Company and other companies in Venezuela, leads readily to the belief that it will not be difficult to raise a large sum for the overthrow of Castro. Besides revenge, certain inter ested parties would probably be granted IN CHARGE OF EMBASSY NOW t -ft? hi' L MUNDJI BEY, Who Has Taken Formal Charge of the Turkish Legation at Washington. COMMERCIALSEGRETARIES EFFECT AN OHGANfZATION Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 13. -At to day's session of the convention of the commercial secretaries of the south a permanent organization was perfected to be known as the Southern Commercial Secretaries Association. W. B. Royster, of Chattanooga, was elected president. Vice-presidents were chosen from all the southern states represented at the meet ing. Edward L. Quarles, of Petersburg, was elected secretary. Atlanta was se lected as the place for holding the next annual meeting. DE IN REPUBLICAN CLUBS CLUBS AT SIIER CITY AND MpUNT GILEAD COMPOSED LARGELY 6F NEW RECRUITS. Xews of the formation of Republican clubs Is constantly being received in this city. About a week, ago a club with eeventy-eight members was organi.eil at Siler City. It is said that Ave years ago thero were not exceeding five white Republicans voters at that place.' Ojie o the latest clubs to be organized it at Mount Gilead, in Montgomery coun ty, where it is reported that a club of forty 'members was organized a. day or o ago. Of these forty thirty-eight pave formerly affiliated with the Democratic prty.. the right y the new government to re gain their itnerests and again control the asphalt company for which Castro ousted them. Senor Pulido was, for many years, one of the best known diplomats in Wash ington, where he was a member of the Metropolitan Club and a general favorite in society. The L'nited States has broken off dip lomatic relations with Venezuela. This being the case, it remains to be seen whether this government will take steps to prevent Pulido and hi3 friends from completing their plans for the revolu tion in Venezuela. OFFICERS DESTROY MOONSHINE PLANTS IN CHATHAM COUNTY Deputy Collectors W. G. Pool and C. M. Babbitt returned to the city yes terday from Chatham county, where they have been engaged in pursuing the wily moonshiner. They did not suc ceed in effecting any arrests, but they found and destroyed a distillery of forty gallons capacity, wti1i a complete outfit for making liquor and about 500 gallons of beer. About a week earlier they destroyed two distilleries in the same locality. Good Roads Congress May Be Organized. A meeting of the directors of the chamber of commerce will be held to day at noon. A resolution looking to the establishment of a good roads con gress to be held in (Jrecnsboro will come up for consideration. DISCIPLE OF THE HOLY ROLLERS ATTACKS MAN WHO ISJRYINC BAND Exciting Scene In Corridor of the New Bedford Avenue Police Court TWO HELD FOR CONTEMPT Xew York, Aug. 12. There was an ex citing scene in the corridor of the New Bedford Avenue police court in Brooklyn today, when Howard Dunwiddic, a dis ciple of the Holy Rollers, a Strang re ligious sect, attacked Magistrate Higgin botham, before whom twenty-five men and seven women, members of the order, had been arraigned charged with disor derly conduct. Dunwiddic demanded a private talk with the magistrate and when the lat ter refused to oblige him, Dunwiddic, ac cording to many witnesses, struck the magistrate on the neck. Magistrate Higginbotham retaliated by striking Dunwiddie on the jaw. The Holy Roller feel in a heap. He rose and trieu to flee, but was captured by a policeman and dragged into the courtroom. Magis trate Higginbotham held the prisoner in $1,500 bail. When the Holy Rollers were arraigned, Miss Elizabeth' Robinson, high priestess ot the older, was accused by the masis trate of having circulated a report in the courtroom that he attempted to hug and kiss her while she was holding a private audience with him in his cham bers. Two reporters, who were in the room at the time, testified to the con trary, and Magistrate Hiirginbotham oe ma tided that the prinsoner explain her statement. On advice of her lawyer, Miss Robinson refused to comply, so the magistrate held her in $5,000 bail on a charge of contempt of court and $1, 500 bail on a charge of conducting a dis orderly house. STRIKEBREAKERS AND UN ION MEN C L A S H IN M ANITOBA Pickets Ask Man to Cease Working, and When He Refuses an Altercation Ensues. Winnipeg,' Man., 'Aug. 12. The first clash between strikebreakers and Union pickets occurred this evening, when a picket approached a strikebreaker, al leged to be from Chicago, and asked him to cease working. An altercation fol lowed and the strikebreaker drew a knife with ti five-inch blade. The picket at once summoned assistance from his com rades and they disarmed the man. ' Frank Rounemous, of Kansas City, president of the carmen's union, the chief organization of the carmen, is expected here tomorrow. The Japanese contingent at Calgary has been increased by fifteen more men. They are employed princi pally in doing the necessary boil wash GOVERNOR TAYLOR MAY RETURN TO KENTUCKY SOON Frlev jay That November Elec- .on He Will Return For : Trial. . .; CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY IN THE GOEBEL MURDER Has Been in Indiana For Long While. Taylor When Shown Message Says He Knows Nothing About It Willson Dis cusses the Matter. Louisville, Ky., Aug. 1.1. -The Evening rost says: "It is announced .today on the author ity of a close friend of former Gov.. VV. S. Taylor, that Mr. Taylor immediately after the November election will return to Kentucky from Indianapolis, for trial on the charge of complicity in Hie (ioeuel murder. It is also considered probable that the case, upon change of venue, will be transferred to Louisville. ' Mr. Taylor has always stated his will ingness to return to Kentucky and stand trial provided that he could secure a fair trial and would be granted bail. During his canvass for governor, A. E. Willson stated that Mr. Taylor would certainly return to Kentucky for trial if he (Willson) was jplected and that Mr. Taylor would be given a fair trial. Information from Frankfort is that Governor Willson has decided not to bring this matter up pending the cam paign. He is determined not to make the Goebel case a political issue, and will take no steps until the election is over. Immediately after the election, however, he will notify Mr. Taylor that the time has come to face trial and dispose, in one way or other, of the other charge against Taylor. TAYLOR SAYS HE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE STORY Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 13. Wm. S. Tavlor, when shown 1 the dispatch from Louisville this afternoon regarding his probable return to Kentucky for trial after the election, said: "I don't know anything about it. That's all I have to say and that's all t want to be reported as saying. And it is the truth. I do not known anything about it." Prospectors From the West. V H. D. Taber and wife, of Richmond, Ind., and C. W. Voak and wife, of Ra cine, Wis., arrived in the city yesterday, and will make investigations with a view to locating in this section. Death of Young Chid. Estelle Miller, the ten-months-old daughter of R. A. Miller, of 711 Dillard street, died yesterday. The funeral will be conducted from the residence this af ternoon at three o'clock. Robert H. Diees left last night for Charleston, S. C, and will be gone two weeks. - ..;'.-'-- IS FOUND NOT GUILTY JUSTICE DISMISSES WARRANT CHARGING HER WITH JUMP ING BOARD BILL. New York, Aug. 13. Mrs. Louise A. Collier, wife of Willie Collier, the com edian, was discharged from custody to day and the charge against her of de frauding an Atlantic City hotel of a $42 board bill was dismissed by Justice Markley in Jersey City. Mrs. Collier was arrested yesterday when she ar rived from Atlantic City.. She showed the justice today board bills paid in advance as late as August 4, and stated that she had notified the hotel proprie tor of her intention to leave and had fiaid ell bills presented to her before caving. ' ing. A movement was nut on foot in the east today to make Sir Thomas Shaughnesaey sole arbitrator between the mni ana ine company, iuuen satis faction is expressed over this new aspect Of affairs bv the mihlin. but the utrikvi-a say tliat while they are willing to meet nir lnomai, the ma King or bun sole arbitrator is out of the question. Sunday-School Outing. The Sunday school of the First Baptist church of White Oak will take an outing to Lindley park Saturday. After re turning to the church the Baraca. and Phelathea classes will serve ice cream and cake. . BRYAN RECEIVES MAN IT HONS FROM ADMIRERS Requested to Visit Many Places and Make One of His Cam paign Speeches. EXPECTS SOLID VOTE OF SOUTHERN STATES Readville, Mass., . Wants Great Com moner on August as Invited to Ala bama to Speak In Montgomery Next Wednesday Other Matters. Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 13. In vitations to visit the various parts of the country and deliver speeches today came thick and fast'' oii W.v.J. Bryan. California's request for a visit again was pressed upon him by Charles Edelmnn, of San Francisco, with the result that the Democratic candidate is giving the matter serious consideration. Readville, Mass., wants him there on August 25, to witness the trotting derby, the first event of the kind it is said ever to occur in the United States. As Mr. Bryan on that day will be in Indianap olis, he was compelled to decline. Through Henry C. Clayton and Rep resentative Walker, Montgomery, Ala., expressed its desire for his presence on August 19. Mr. Bryan expressed a de sire to go south. He said that he al ways had been cordially received there and was greatly indebted to the south ern people for their uniform support and kindness, but that the campaign was too young at this time, for him to make any definite announcement as to his en gagements on tlnt date. He hoped that after a conference with the national committee he might he able to go to Montgomery and possibly some other points in the southern states in response to numerous, invitations. "I am glad to say," : Mr. Bryan re marked, "that all these invitations as sure me that I will receive the electoral vote of not only Alabama, but of all other southern states." An incident of the day was the pre sentation to Mr. Bryan by severad hun dred farmers from Otoe county, Nebras ka, of a "big stick" gourd, grown in the state. It is about five feet in length and easily might be taken for the orig-1 inal, if there ever was one, which has been so ; generally caricatured. It bore seems probable, ljate tonight the search the inscription, "Billy's Bis Stick,") era believe thev have Robertson sur nainted in large . black letters. Mr.; , . . . . . Brvan. although expressing his thanks ro"nded ,n a !Test npar ?"mele, , two for' the aift. Hecliired that, if elected to ; and a half miles from Robersonville. the presidency the "big stick" would not be wielded, rather relying on Lis abili ty to lead people through their love than to control them through their fears. Disposes of Correspondence. Notwithstanding a great number of vwitors came opt to Fairview, Mr. Brv:i found lime to dispose of con siderable correspondence and make good progress with the speeches he intends to deliver at- Indianapolis and else where. Isaac Rees, of Tennessee, recent ly appointed a member of the flanancial committee by Chairman Mack, who was in attendance at the notification meet ing, talked with Mr. Bryan this morn ing. He left later to confer with the national committee in regard to the col lection of campaign contributions in the Southern Mississippi valley. Mr. Rees wears a button bearing a picture of Mr. Brvan, and over the picture are the words, "I gave my dollar," and below "Did you?'' Before leaving he declared that the sou in was wiiu ine west in tna simrt. of the Democratic platform. "I'nless we can have a return to the rule of the people." he declared, "we must suffer from the rule of the mammon." Mr. Rees said he was very much in terested in the matter of campaign con tributions and Would spend all bis time until election day in collecting small contributions from as large number of people as possible. "I want Mr. Bryan to go, into the White House with no ob ligation except to masses," he said. : Chairman Clayton Talks. Chairman Clayton upon leaving the Bryan home today expressed himself in a statement given nut for publication as having been delighted with the large, (Continued on Page Two.) WIFE OF MINER FATALLY SHOT THE ONLY ACT OF VIOLENCE RE PORTED FROM THE ALABAMA COAL MINES. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 12. The only. New York, Aug. 12. Louise Allen act of violence reported today in con-) Collier, wife of William Collier, the ac- .itt. ti,. .si,. j ,1. '' i.-Jtor, was arrested at the Pennsylvania neetion with the strike of the miners tmil, in Jeriej, citv ,ate today as was the shooting into a nonunion min-jghe WHg alighting from an Atlantic City er's house last night at M&rgaret mines, j train accompanied by a maid and two in St. Clair county. The miner's wife I diminutive dogs. was fatally injured and another woman in the house sustained slight injuries. Bloodhounds were put on the trail of the shooters, but according to the lat est reports no arrests have been made. The military is still 'augmented, as .the guard is being extended to various out lying mines. A DEMOCRATIC LEADER & j' IV WW. 1 REPRESENTATIVE LLOYD, Chairman of the Democratic Congres sional Campaign Committee. POSSE SCOURS SWAMPS KILLED EllOHlAilO 400 Citizens in Crowd Now After Robert Robertson in Mar tin County. MAY HAVE HIM SURROUNDED Raleigh, N. C, Aug. 12. A telephone - . ... ... ... messaga trom Kotiersonvme tonight savs: Sheriff Corbin, of Martin county, and Chief of Police. Pulley, of Tarboro, with armed posses and at least four hundred citizens, are scouring the country to night in search of Robert Robertson, a negro, who today shot and killed Charles Whichard, a merchant, of this place. If the negro is caught a lynching SECRETARY KU YKENDALL DISCUSSES PLANS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT Greensboro and Guilford County Spend Over Million a Year For Foreign Food Products Pleads For Agricultural Education and Good Roads. ... J.. R. Kuykendall, secretary of the Greensboro chamber of commerce, was scheduled to deliver an address, on "the I relations of chambers of commerce to (rural development" at the meeting of the ; secretaries being held in: Chattanooga, He was unable to attend the meeting, but ho prepared a paper which was read by W. H. Royster, secretary of the Chattanooga chamber of commerce. . Mr. Kuykendall discusses topics of in terest to people of this section. After showing that 4.R24 carloads of farm products, valued at $1.12S.O80, were im ported into Oreensboro during the year 1!)07, he discusses the production and consumption of wheat in (iuilford county: ' "In 1!H)7 (iuilford count v. North Cam. lina. consumed 48S.IUII bushels of wheat j nno Vm.bpl.' .,,,1 in.m.rtJl f mm .-. ilpr ..'. ouMi u....,. . i... ...u:..i. ,. &iait?n tiii,itu uiisiii mm huh u paid the sum of $21.4.-. 1 for wheat, one .... . . j ..,-v : o the most staple products , wiucn in 1007 made an average of 27 1-2 bushels FOR DEFRAUDING HOTEL TRIES TO GIVE $5,000 WORTH OF JEWELS FOR BOND OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. The charge against Mrs. Collier is that of attemptlnar to defraud the Grand Atlantic hotel, of Atlantic City, out of $42.60. After vainly attempting to have her jewels, worth $5,000, accept ed as security , for her appearance in court tomorrow, Mrs. Collier furnished bail in the sum of (500. , KILLS DAUGHTER AND SON. THEN E H. J. Dufty. of Los Angeles. Crazed by Fanaticism From a Revival. ALSO ATTEMPTED TO KILL DIVORCED WIFE Horrible Crimes Committed by Crazed Father Had Bought Cemetery Lot and Purchased Coffin for Himself Used Axe for the Work. Los Angles. Cel.. Aug. 13. Driven in sane by religious mania, H. .7. Dufty, sixty years old. today attacked and killed his son and daughter with an axe and t'lien cut bis own throat with a razor, inflicting fatal injuries. The tragedy occurred in the extreme north western part of the city. Dufty lived at the home of his Ron, Fred Dufty. He had 'been-: on the verge of violent in sanity, it is said, for weeks as a result of religious enthusiasm. Last night he attended a religious meeting and work ed himself into a frenzy. When he arose this morning he was suddenly seized with a desire to kill. Seizing a sharp blnded axe he stealthily entered the bedroom of his son, while the latter lay asleep. He, crept close to the side of the bed and raising the axe aloft brought it down with terrific force across t'he neck of the son. The blow was delivered with such tremendous force that the head of the victim was severed completely from the body. With a maniacal shout Duftv rushed from the house and down the street waving his bloody weapon. Reaching the house at 451 Northwest Lake avenue, where his wife and daughter resided, he opened the front door and entered. Mrs. Ada Lacom, the daughter, with her mother was in a rear room. Proceeding cautions- lit 4 4k;! 1-1.. in 4IV,A n,,t,.aA,. nnan tli. V - l" "' mo connecting doors. Mrs. Lacom stood with her back to him. Without a word of warning he. swung the axe high in the air and cleft his daughter's skull Her whole head was crushed in trom the blow. : Mrs. Dufty fled through a rear door, closely pursued by the maniac striking at her with an axe. The woman suc ceeded in eluding him, but not before she had received a severe gash on the I elbow from the axe, swung by Dufty Mrs. Duffy's cries finally attracted the attention of neighbors, who came (Continued on Page Two.) per acre by six of the leading farmers i of the county, who observed modern i methods and gave the same attention ito their laviii that a banker or suc cessful merchant -would give his busi ness. "There is hot a city of any size in the southern states which docs not im port butter from Illinois and other northern states ill enormous quantities. I know of one retail merchant in Dur ham, X. C. who lias imported an aver age of 1.000 pounds 'of .butler a month. for the past three years. Think what the souths' butter bill must be! .We pos sess the natural resources, and should be seller instead of buyers, of all kinds of dairy as well as faun products." In discussing the need for agricultural education Mr. Kuykendall savs: "Kvervthing but agriculture is tnueht in the rural s-hools, but . when our youii(r : ,men and and young w.oineii complete the '""""K u n, m,uc, . , i.rcseno rschool system, good as it is, thev natural- ly seek those occupations for which thev have been best fitted, in which agricul ture has no part. J he log house with no carpets on the Honrs, the mule, plow, mud roads, the drudgery of rural farm life and the - obscurity to which t bey are too frequent ly subjected by reason of impassable mud roads do not create or inspire a de sire for rural life. "Two things which in mv opinion. stand preeminently above all others are necessary in the south. lhe souths progress will be largely measured in tho future bv the steps it takes in agricul tural education, and in the construction of good roads. The one is as necessary as the other. How-can our cities go on building up and becoming great meccas for manufacturers, when the only source trom which the necessary help can be obtained is by robbing our farms and depopulating our rural sections? How can our rural sections sustain our rapid ly growing oities it we continue to edu cate the farmers' boys and girls for only such work as can be obtained In a bank, office or factory? If we persist in robbing the farms to supply labor for the industrial .upbuilding of the south, we should return to the farm men who will take their place so that .(Continued on Fagt TwoJ, ATTEMPTS SUIC
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