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VOL. IV. 6NO.
STATE EDITION.
GUEENSBOKO. N. C, WEDNESDAY, . OCTOBER 14, 1908
STATE EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SHAM BATTLE OF OLD GUILFORD COURT
HOUSE YESTERDA Y RESULTS IN A DRA W
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GHIGAbO
BLANKS
DETROIT IN THE
FOURTHCQNTEST
Cubs Have Now Three Games to
Their Csedlt As Compared
With Tigers One.
MINER BROWN CLEARLY
OUTPiTCHES SUMMERS
Only Once, That During the Fourth In
ning, Did Detroit Come Near to Scor
ing, and Then Brown Hauled Himself
Out of a Tight Place.
lVlroit, Mich.;-' Oct. 13. Chicago
crept one ga me closer to the world's
baseball championship today by defeat
ing Detroit. -3 to 0. Chicago lias now
won three games of the series as com
pared with I lie one annexed by Detroit
at Chicago yesterday.
"Kddie" .Summers, Detroit, and "Min
or" Brown, the premier pitcher of the
Chicago got t wo men on bases in the first
the latter had all the better of the argu
ment, although Summer pitched excel
lent hall in all but the third inning.
Chicago got two men onhases in the (tirst
and one in the second without the sit
uation, however, growing precarious. In
the third, niter Slieckard and Kvcrs, as
a result of the sprightly efforts of
Cmighlin and Schaefcr, had lieen retired,
Summers wavered ever so little, .And
Schiilte was presented with standing
room on the initial hag. The Chicago
right fielder- concluded to try out
.Schmidt's throwing arm."-. Said arm was
tried and found wanting. Schmidt's un
successful throw to second was the first
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DEMOCRATS USED THE
ANTITRUST LAW AGAINST
LABOR WZATIONS
Attorney-General Bonaparte Re
plies Further to Democratic
Craving for Information.
REPUBLICANS' R EAL WORK
Washington. D. C, Oct. 13.-Attorney -(ieneval
lioiiaparte has replied to a sec
ond letter from Joseplius Daniel chair
man of the press bureau of the Demo
cratic national committee -at Chicago, in
which he complains that in the attorney-general's
answer to the Hr-st in
quiry as to trust prosecutions ho had not
differentiated between the prosecutions
nude? the Slierinan antitrust law and
those under other lows.
Answering the inquiry specifically, the
I states that under the
Sherman anti-trust law passed in IWKVi
there have been sixty-nve proceeuiiiK
in all, fifty-six undef Kepublican and
nine under Democratic administrations,
forty-six since -Mr. Roosevelt became
President in September, 1001, and nine
teen during the preceding years.
Among th prosecutions of the Demo
cratic administration, the attorney-general
say, is included resistance to the
petition of Kuuene V. Dobs for a writ
of habeas corpus. H is also asserted
that, five out-of nine proceedings under
Democratic- rule were directed against
labor organisations and their leaders
am! that under Republican rule there
have been In all three such proceedings
out of fifty-six.
LAWBURE BONO CASE
BEFORE SUPREME COURT
ATLANTIC TRUST COMPANY PRE
SENTS CASE AGAINST CITY IN
IMPROVEMENT DISPUTE.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 13. A peti
tion for a writ of certiorari in the case
of the Atlantic Trust Company vs. the
Town of Laurinburg, N. C, involving
responsibility by the Trust company on
a bond given in connection with public
Improvements In the town, was today
presented to the Supreme Court of the
United States by counsel for the Trust
company.
The case was decided against that
company by the federal courts of North
Carolina arid it seeks to obtain a review
of the proceedings by the Supreme
Court. '
GEORGIA'S NEW GOVERNOR
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JOSEPH M. BROWN,
Georgia Democrat, Who Wins Guberna-.-
torial Race Over Independent
Candidate.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY'S
ANNUAL REPORT CALLS
FOR INCREASE IN RATES
Present Conditions Unfair and
Fact Should Be Recognized
With Better Times.
RETRENCHMENTS TOLD OF
Richmond, Va., Oct. 13, At the an
nual meeting of the stockholders of the
Southern Railway Cohipany held here
today, H. C. Fahnstockj.W.. W. Kinley,
E. H. Gary and ;. diaries Steele .were
elected directors of ' the third class to
serve for a term of three years.
The annual report of the directors of
the Southern railway, in diseussing busi
ness conditions during the' year, reviews
its campaign of retrenchment along all
lines and says of the total decrease of
$3,213,823 in operating expenses, al
most 50 per cent, was in transportation
expenses. .-'':
There were substantial economies in
maintenance charges although none at
the expense of conservative upkeep of
the property. The road-bed has been
materially strengthened and . obsolete
equipment replaced. The book value of
all equipment on July 30 last, was $1,
628,794 above its capital value after $10,
013.520 had been written off for depre
ciation. The report says the average level of
rates now in effect should .be reasonably
advanced, ''and it is hoped that when
general business has somewhat revived
it will be generally recognized that ex
isting conditions ere unfair, and that a
railroad is entitled to the same consid
eration of equal justice at the hands of
the business public which the business
public has so clamorously, demanded
from the railroads." ..
Hudspeth Sees Bryan Elected.
New York, Oct. 3. Vice-Chairman
Hudspeth, of the Democratic national
committee, made-public a list of states
in which he said Mr. Bryan would re
ceive the electoral vote. They are as
follows: The solid south, 10(1: Nebras
ka, 8; Indiana, 15; Ohio. 23; West Vir
ginia. 7; Nevada, 3; New York, 39. To
tal, 201.'. Necessary to a choice, 242.
The vice-chairman put Wisconsin in
the doubtful column and said that New
Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Illinois were still debatable, with New
Jersey and Connecticut favorable to the
Democratic party.
DEMOCRATIC SPEAKERS
SET FROST AT
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A SMALL CROWD OF REPUBLICANS
AND DEMOCRATS OUT TO
HEAR VISITORS.
Benson, N. C, Oct. 13. Hon. Walter
Murphy, elector at large, And George L.
Peterson, candidate for the. Senate In
the Fifteenth Senatorial district, spoke
here today to a crowd of fifty by actual
count; twenty-five Republicans' and the
balance Democrats and boys not old
enough to vote. They had made a great
effort to get a crowd, but failed, so it
can be seen how Democracy takea in old
Johnston, county, November 3, will be
the beginning of the end of it.
SUFFWICETTEAir
HALTS IN
TOOK I BEETS
Parliament . Completely Hemmed
In by Crowd That Scuttles
With the Police.
ONE WOMAN BREAKS
INTO HOUSE OF COMMONS
She Gets in While Cigarette Smoking
Bill is Under Discussion, But Is
Evicted and All Women Now Are to
Be Barred From the Building.
London, Oct. 13. The climax of the
suffragette campaign was reached to
night when an enormous mob hemmed
in parliament and stopped traflic in all
streets leading to Westminster. For
more than three hours the crowds scuf
fled good-naturedly with the police, in
terfered with theater-goers, broke win
dows and disorganized things generally
in the center of London.
The heroine of the day was Mrs.
Traveres S. Symons, formerly secretary
to James Keir Hardie, the Socialist and
Independence member of parliament,
who reached the door of the House of
Commons by strategy. The House was
solemnly debating a bill to prevent cmi
dren from cigarette smoking, when the
woman dashed past the doorkeeper to a
position in front of the Speaker's chair
and shouted shrilly: "Leave off dis
cussing children and talk about wom
en." Three otlicials seized Mrs. Symons
and carried her out bodily. She was
then led to the outer door and dismissed.
As a result of the coup an order was
issued that hereafter women should not
Je admitted, to the building on any pre
text whatever and in the future the his
toric grille will not screen- feminine
spectators.
The appeal issued by the suffragettes
a few days ago for 60,000 persons to
help them "rush" parliament at 7.30 this
evening was the most successful stsoke
yet. Not less than twice that number
responded to the call, and nine-tenths of
these were young people. There were
also a few hundred unemployed and
their sympathsizers.
All the mounted police in London and
suburbs liad been 'mobilized at this cen
ter. The whole police force, together
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WILL INVADE DURHAM
IN LARNUMBERS
Democrats Seem to Think It Ad
visable to Look After
Durham.
OTHER DURHAM NEWS
Durham, X. C, Oct. 13. Hon. Wal
ter '"'Murphy, of Salisbury, elector at
large on the Democratic ticket, spoke
at the courthouse tonight. Tins speech
by Mr. Murphy was but the beginning
of a series of Democratic seeches to be
delivered hern between now and tho
niL'ht before the battle of the ballots
at the polls, when W. W, Kitehin will
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noia lortn. mo Acaucmy -musm "a
ing been secured for that occasion.
I'recedin!.' Kitehin will be (iovcrnor
Glenn, who is now scheduled to appear
here on October 20. He niay comu a
dav later, this not having been fully de
ciiied. He will also speak in the Acad
emy of Music. Another of the great
seakers to come here before the day of
election will be Hon. Clmrles M. IS ted -man,
of Greensboro. In the interest of
the Democratic ticket Mr. Stedman will
speak at the courthouse on the night of
October 21, this being Wednesday ol
next week. -I. W. Glidewell will speak
at Rougemont on the evening of Octo
ber 20, and the fact that this speaker
is to be in that section is being well
advertised.
In addition to those already named
to speak here there will be others, one
of whom will be 'Hon. W. A. Self. He
is announced to speak hero some time
during the week beginning October 20,
tho exact date not having been decided
upon, as yet. '
From now until the election there will
he one endless round of speakers to visit
Durham in the interest of. the Democrat
i ticket. ...
The case 'of K. (. Hlevins against the
Erwin Cottofl Mill Company, was the
only case taken up in the Superior Court
today. -This consumed all of the time
and the trial was one filled with inter-
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; ; V, S. SENATOR JAMES B. M'CREARY, ;
Who Delivered an Address at Opening of Peace Congress on "Possibilities of
Pan-Americ on Union."
THAW MUST REMAIN
IN MATTEAIHAN TILL
T SETTLES CASE
Right to a Trial by Jury Must Be
Decided Upon by Court of
Appeals.
ATTORNEY ASKS DISCHARGE
White Plains, X. Y., Oct. 12. Harry
K. Thaw will have to remain in the state
hospital for the criminal insanse at Mut
teawan, X. Y., until the Court of Ap
peals shall decide whether he is entitled
to a hearing before a jury to determine
the question of his sanity. ;
Justice Mills of the Supreme Court
refused a week or two ago to grant the
application for Thaw's counsel for a jury
trial on the sanity question and decided
to hear the case 'Himself. ' The hearing
was fixed for today. When Thaw was
brought into, court his mother and sev
eral relatives were present; ,
The prisoner's counsel again moved for
a jury trial and wh?n this -was denied,
asked, that Thaw be discharged front
custody on the ground that the jury in
the last trial for murder, did not liuil
him insane. This also, was denied.
Thaw's counsel th"n declared that they
had appealed to the New York state
court of appeals from the decision re
fusing a jury trial, and that until the
higher court" had given a decision they
would submit evidence on the question
of Thaw's sanity. -. ,
Justice Mills said there was no other
alternative than for Thaw to lie re
turned to Matteawan asylum and he was
ordered returned to that institution.
District-Attorney Jerome, of New
York, wlio withdrew from .the case when
Justice Mills refused to transfer it to
Xe York, did not appear in court to
day.. .
As soon .s the judge had ordered Thaw
sent back to Matteawan an order citing
him to appear in Pittsburg forthwith
and give testimony in the United States
court in the bankruptcy proceeding
brought against him there was served
upon the prisoner, It chuld not be learn
ed what action will be taken in this mat
ter today.
An order committing Thaw to Mat
teawan asylum was signed by Justice
Mills this afternoon, and he was taken
back to that institution. Dr. Baker,
acting , superintendent of the asylum,
said he would produce Thaw in Pittsburg
if he were served with an order to that
effect. "..,'';
FAYETTEVILLE HOTEL
HAS NEW MANAGER
Fayetteville, X. ('., Oct. 13. M. Mc
Matthews has assumed charge of . the
Hotel jKaytte at this place, effective
at once. Mr. Matthews is known
throughout the state as an excellent
hotel man. His many friendu in the
state will be glad to know of his a
snming management oi.this popular hos
telry. Charles Caghv the 'former mana
ger, will remain as'.M-'JlttrtthewV' is
siitan. Mr. Cair'V u" S? 4
friends in Fayetteville, who will be glad
to learn that ho will remain with tueui.
TILL COME
TO CENTENNIAL TODAY
MlLSinpORSDAT
Banks. Factories and Schools Will
Close Down Other Items
of Interest.
THE TOWN WILL BE DESERTED
High Point, NYC.. Oct. 13 All the
banks of the cily will close Wednesday
on account- of the Greensboro Centennial.
The schools w ill close Thursday for the
same purpose, and many of tne factories
will close down 'Wednesday afternoon
for the rest of the week, to let their
employes see the -sight at . Greensboro.
It.' looks -like the Centennial and Home
Coining Week in Guilford will complete
ly ; 'paralyze" business in this neck of
the Woods for several days. Hut High
Point is .not objecting to that to any
great extent- the people are glad to
help their neighbor out and at the same
time get a little recreation.
Miss Clara I Cox i-t the secretary and
treasurer of the civic league, organized
here last week. TIjtc was a very en
thusiastic meeting 'Saturday afternoon
at, the Manufacturers' Club, presided
over by Mrs. S. I., Davis, the president.
Kvery one who is interested in the wel
fare of the city is urged to become a
member, the dues being not less , than
VI cents n year.
The Christian .Crusader.' holding forth
here in a large tent oil (South Main
street, are holding nightly meetings to
which large crowds go, especially.-' 'on
Sundays.' They, seem to be doing good
work and have the good will and re-
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DIVORCED 16 YEARS
OLD PAIR REMARRY
DURING PERIOD BOTH HUSBAND
AND WIFE HAD MARRIED
SECOND TIME.
: New York, Oct. 13. After sixteen
years ot divorced separation, during
which each has remarried and each has
been bereft through death, an aged Ger
man couple, who were married In th4ir
fatherland forty years ago, procured to
day a marriage license in order to at
once reenter, for their declining years,
the ties they had legally set aside so
long ago.
Conrad : Knubert's second wife died
here not long ago and; having heard
that his former wife's husband had also
died in Germany, he wrote the partner
pf his young years asking her to come
to New York and marry him again.
She cabled her reply that she was
-liming, and on the next steamer- She
reached here yesterday.
Ideal Weather
for Th ird Day
of Centenn ial
Lieutenant-Governor Winston, Gov
ernor Ansell, M. V. Richards, Major
W.A.Graham and Others Speak at
Opening of Good Roads Con
i gress Thousands View Mili
tary Parade by Infantry,
C aval ry Artillery, and
N ation a 1 Guard.
1? T H K W K A T H K R had been especially manufactured to. fit tho occasion,
it could not have been better than that of yesterday. The precedent was es
tablished Sunday.. the opening day for the Centennial, and has been main
tained for the .succeeding days, The daytime is warm and the nights not too
cool for comfort, there being just sufficient crispness in the air to make exercise
agreeable.
Yesterday, Military Day, was fittingly observed. T'nited States troops and
state niiliiia gave a parade along the streets and then entrained for the
battlegrounds, where they fought again the battle of Guilford Courthouse.
Many "thousands of people witnessed the strife between the contending forces,
and opinion was divided as to the results, each side claiming a victory. Follow
ing historic precedent, the umpires decided that the battle was a draw and that
each of the opposing commands was entitled to withdraw from the Held of
action with all the honors of war.
In the afternoon, the Good Roads Congress assembled. A number of ad
dresses were delivered, including an address of welcome by Acting-Governor
Winston, and a response thereto by Governor Ansel, of Soul h Carolina. This
movement has attracted a wide spread interest, and the proceedings of tins
week will ,be undoubtedly watched with great attention by-those who believe
in the policy of making and maintaining good roads.
A military reception and dance was given last night at Xeese's hall in
honor of the city's guests and particularly of those who participated in the
military exercises of yesterday. The best social element of the city took part
in the reception and other functions and the event was one of the most suc
cessful ever held in Greensboro.
This is Pythian Day and the knights of that order give a parade in which
many hundreds are expected to participate. The line of march is printed else
where in these columns. A second session of the Good Roads Congress will be
held and a number of papers on pertinent subjects read.. A second session of
the Peace Congress is also on the program for today.
' The crowds are pouring into the city and this is expected to be the record
day '.for attendance at' the Centennial. Early estimates do not appear to have,
been exaggerated, and it is more than probable that today and tonight will
witness a larger gathering than has eve r been seen in Greensboro.
THOUSANDS SEE
SHAM BATTLE ON
HISTORIC FIELD
Knvly yesterday morning Centennial
visitors turned their faces toward Guil
ford Hattleground to witness the re
production of the battle of Guilford
Courthouse, scheduled to take place at
11.30 o'clock. By that time an immense'
crowd,- probably twenty or fwenty-livti
thousand people, hail gathered on the
historii! battlefield.
The battle was reproduced on the field
of the original ' struggle that; engaged
the forces of Greene and t'oruwallis, the
result being practically the same as that,
of April I."-. 1781.
Tim opposing forces yesterday were
represented by infantry, cavalry and
artillery of the regular service, and the
North Carolina 'National-Guard.' and' af
ter a hot engagement of an hour and a
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TO PROTECT MERCHANTS
WHILE REFUSING TO SET ASIDE
JUDGE PARDEE'S ORDER U, S.
COURT TAKES ACTION.
Atlanta. I'll., vci. l.l. iiinie lemsing
to set. aside United States Judge Pardee's
supersedeas of Judc Speer's ruling in
the Georgia freight rate ease, the United
State Circuit Court of Appeals today is
sued an order requiring the defendant
railroad companies to give bond in the
sum of $100,000 each to repay the com
plaining merchants the advance in rates
should this advance ultimately be proved
unlawful.
The court set the hearing on the su
persedeas for November 11 at New Or
leans. : Pierce Dunn. ,
Thomasvillo, N. C, Oct. 13 The Rev.
W. H. McNairy, pastor of the Reformed
church, officiated at the marriage of
William T. Pierce to Juss Mamie L.
Dunn, both of High Point, Sunday after
noon at the residence of Robert Alex
ander in the' western part of the city.
ROADS CONGRESS
OPENED AT GRAND
OPERA YESTERDAY
The .Good-- Roads Congress of the
Southern State, held in connection with
the Greensboro Centennial, was called
to 'Order yesterday afternoon at the
Grand opera house, l.icut.-Cov, Francis
l!. Winston-presiding,--
.((wing-t a large part. of tho visitor
being detained at tin- Itattlegroiind, not
u large number of delegates were eiuoll
ed at tin' lirst session.
I'lie Uev. Melton Clark, pastor of the
first Presbyterian church, ollercd the
opening prayer..,'
In lii address of welcome. Lieutenant -Governor
W inston spoke of the close re
lations between' -North and South Car
oliua. saying that Governor Ansel was
not the tirst South ( aioluia governor
on whom North Carolina hail called' for
aid. About 1812 North Carolina called
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YARMOUTH LOSES PART
IN TM ESTATE
DIV0RJCE COURT ISSUES ORDER
EXTINGUISHING HIS RIGHTS TO
HEIRESS' FORTUNE.
London. Oct. 12. By an order of tho
divorce court issued this afternoon, all
the rights and interests of the Earl of
Yarmouth under the financial settlement
made prior to the Earl's marriage . to
Miss Alice Cornelia Thaw in Pittsburg
on April 27, 1003, are extinguished.
According to counsel the financial set
tlement amounted to $600,000. This sum
was settled upon Miss Thaw for life.
If she died before the Earl, the sum of
$300,000 was to pass to him. The set
tlement also gave the earl an income;
of $50,000 a year from the day of the .
weddrftg. The earl made no opposition
to the. court's order. ,
- 'The marriage of the Earl of Yarmouth
and Miss Thaw was annulled in Loudoe)
on February Q of last veab
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