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r, 8 till WEATHER Fair today and Thursday, varmer 'today; fresh north east winds. The News A paper for all the people and for the people all the time. Read it and keep posted. VOL. IV. NO. 12 STATE EDITION. GBEENSBOBO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1908 STATE EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS y "si. YWT BUSINESS MEN OF THE NATIOK ARE TflR TAFT v Attempt to Organize Bryan Busi ness Men's Clubs Proves a Boomerang. T NEELE STREETER, WELLKNOWNHERE KILLED INGAFFNEY THE THIRD CRUSADE. LAWYERS SLAIN BY NIGHT RIDERS HELD LAST WIGHT flliraCGESS PROMINENT DURHAM MEET NG DEMOCRATS HAVE THEIR HOPES RUDELY SHATTERED Nathan Straus, Who Attempted to Ral ly Commercial Leaders of the Nation in Behalf of Nebraskan, Finds They Are Almost Solidly for Republican. Xew York, Oct. 20, During the early part of the campaign ' the Democrats were saying that the business interests ' o. the country '.. did-.' not really care whether Bryan or Taft was elected. Be cause of the apathy which marks the early stages of every presidential cam paign the Democrats finally -.almost con vinced themselves that this argument van true. Nathan Straus, on behalf of the Dem ocratic national committor-, went so far as to start the oriianization of a busi ness men's Bryan and Kern League, and sent, out showers of letters to business men all over the. country ''calling on them to rally to the support of the Xcbras kan. it has developed in the last week or two that many of his replies wero distinctly hostile to Bryan, and although Mr. Straits still speaks enthusiastically about the-progress of his work, it has not been possible to get any definite information concerning the personnel of any Bryan business men's clubs, and the statements of Mr. Straus' nre all that have appeared as evidence of their ex istence. This mistaken argument by the Dcm ; : (Continued on Page Five.) POST OFFICE MATTER DISTORTED BY DEMOCRATIC PAPERS 'N . ; ' By Unintentional Error Clerk In Ofllce Sells Newspapers Error Soon Discovered. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING The following letter and affidavits furnished by Edwin A. Nichols, of Smithfield, give correct, version of the Benson postoffiee affair. :" Editor Industrial News: Again an other Democratic lie is nailed; again another Democratic "issue" dies "a'bor in' ". The Benson postoftice affair, term ed by the "Old Reliable" as one of tho great issues of the present campaign, u shown up in its nothingness. According to the Democratic version, the postmaster at Benson was serious ly accused of the offense of withhold ing mail matter, whit happened to be Democratic literature, from the patrons of the office. According to the story, the patrons of the office, specifically one Lucien Xorris, of the town of Benson, were intensely agitated and indignant over the matter. Mr. Xorris' "indigna tion" can be seen in the affidavit pub lished herewith. The whole story, pit iable in its littleness, can be best under stood in the reading of the affidavits of the persons most concerned. The true story of the affair is as fol lows: Some days ago a negro woman called at the office to buy some old ' papers, of which all postofflces have more or less a quantity on hand, and (Continued on Page Three.) CIVIC LEADERS TO V1SITJBREENSB0R0 MEMBERS NATIONAL FEDERATION COMING THIS WEEK TO INSPECT CIVIC WORK HERE. A committe of the National Civlo As sociation will " Tiifc Greensboro Thurs day for the purpose of observing the work done in this city along the lines of civio improvement. The party is com posed of Mrs. Joseph M. McCormick, of Chicago, president of the women's de partment of the National Civio Federa tion; Miss Ada Sweet, of New York, assistant secretary, accompanied by Mrs. W. T. Harris, of Danville, Va., and Mrs. B. Frank Mebane, of Spray. The party ia expected to arrive Wed nesday evening. Thursday morning they will be driven out into the mill suburbs. .Thursday "ftrnoon ' addresses will be made by Mri. ; McCormick and others. While in the city these visitors will be guests of tha State Normal and Indus trial College wd the Bettterment Aeso feUtion. - " Taken From Hotel In Walnut Log. Tenn.. by Masked Band and Slain. TROUBLE OVER AN ACT REGULATING FISHING Murdered Men Several Yean Ago Pur chased Lake Which They Have Pre served as a Fishing Place, and 111 Feeling Grew Out of Oction. Union City, Tenn., Oct. 20 Col. It. Z. Taylor, aged sixty years,, and C'apt. Quintet! liankin, both prominent attor neys of Trenton, Tenn., worn taken from Ward's hotel, at :. Walnut Log, Tenn., fifteen ' miles from here, last night by masked "night riders" and murdered. Captain Rankin's body was found this morning riddled with bullets and hang ing front a .tree a mile from the hotel. Efforts to locate the body of Colonel Taylor have been futile thus far, but it is believed that ho was also killed. Sheriff Eastwood and a posse of arm ed men left Union City this morning for the scene of the murder, and if they meet any of the night riders it is ex pected that a pitched battle will bo fought. Sheriff Haynes, of Lake county, is also on the way to the scene with a posse from Tiptonville. The trouble which resulted in the death of Captain Rankin and the prob able murder of Colonel Taylor, was caused by tho passage of an act by tho legislature regulating fishing in Reel loot. Lake, a snort distance from Wal nut Log. A "night rider" disturbance over the same matter occurred over a year ago. (Continued on Page Two.) STATE SUPREME COURT ill CONSIDER NOVEL QUESTION Of SLANDER Highest Tribunal Is to Decide Whether a Man Can Slander His Wife. CASE COMES UP TUESDAY Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 20. The question of whether a man can slander his wife Is to be argued in the Supreme Court on Tuesday of next week, the case being State vs. Winston Fulton, from Guil ford county. Assistant Attorney-General Hayden Clement is now preparing the brief for die state. Airs, 'Fulton was accused by her husband of intimacy with Dr. Mock, a prominent physician who practiced in the family. He was indicted for slander and the court below held that there could be no slander' as between husband and wife. The state appealed to the Supreme Court, there being no precedent for court guidance in such a matter.- Both Fulton and Mock were active Masons and one phase of the case was extensively investigated by the Xorth Carolina Grand Lodge of Masons last January. About the same time the extra ses sion of the legislature spent quite a while discussing the question of a spe cial act designed to have a bearing on the pending fight. Action in the Supreme Court is await ed, with widespread interest. CENTENNIAL MANAGERS AND FAIR DIRECTORS COMMITTEE APPOINTED FOR PUR POSE OF ADJUSTING CERTAIN FINANCIAL MATTERS. A committee consisting of L. J. Brandt, Ceasar Cone and J. I. Foust has been appointed by the Centennial board of managers to confer with the directors of the Central Carolina Fair Association 'regarding certain financial matters now pending. . The committee had not met with the association directors up to last night, but it is probable that a meeting will tie held today. Yesterday was very quiet at compared with the busy times of last -week and almost all of the Signs of the bustle and activity then prevailing have disap peared.. But the celebration left a good impression and the business men of the city generally express- the opinion that the resultant benefit will be of a perma nent eharacter. , Meets Death While ' at Work 1p Large Electrical Plant In SouU ilectrlcal Plan! Carolina City. INTERMENT THURSDAY AFTERNOON A xVILLE Son of W. B. Streeter, Superintendent of Children's Home Society, With Head quarters Here Received 3,390 Volts of Deadly Current Gaffney, S. C, Oct. 20. Xeele K. Streeter, who is well known in Greens boro, was killed here this morning while painting 11 switchboard in the engine room of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company. The brush came in contact with a live "terminal," causing 2,300 volts of elec tricity to pass through his system. The young man Iked about five minutes only after the accident. Physicians were summoned and everything possible was done for him, but the deadly current had done its work too well. An eye witness of the accident said that just after being shocked the young man seemed to recover momentarily. Dr. Pittman said that the heart was probably weak. , Young Streeter had been in Gaffney about two months, 'but during that time made many friends, to whom his sad death was a deep shock. He formerly worked at GTeenslxiro and Ashcville, and it is understood that he has relatives in Ashcville. The body was turned over to Shuford & Temaster, undertakers, who have received instruction to em balm the body preparatory to being shipped to his home. Relatives are ex pected here tonight upon the arrival of Xo. 40 on the Southern. The first news of the fatal accident to young Streeter came in a telegram to J. E. Latham, being afterward confirm ed by a message to W. L, Brewer and again by one to the office of the Chil drens Home Society, of which the father of the young man is the superintendent. The telegram to Mr. Brewer stated that the body would be taken to Asheville and that interment will be held in the afternoon of tomorrow. Neele K. Streeter was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Streeter, formerly of Detroit, Mich., but more recently of Greensboro. The parents were in Ashe ville at the tithe of the accident, having been there for some days, stopping at the Battery Park hotel. It was said last night that the last time Mrs. Sreeter saw her son was in Charlotte about a month ago, she having visited him there at his place of employment as an elec trical engineer. - ; ;' Early last spring young Streeter se cured employment with a Charlotte con tracting firm, after completing a line of work at Proximity. From Charlotte he went to Gaffney. He was a native of Michigan and came here with his parents several years since, making many friends by his bright and courteous manner. He was only twenty-two years old at the time of his death. WRIGHT BITTERLY SCORES BRYAN IN NEW YORK Former Democrat Condemns Nebraskan in No Uncertain Terms for His Attacks Upon the President. Xew York, Oct. Iff Seldom has Wil liam Jennings Bryan been so severely ar raigned during the present campaign as he was here touight by Gen. Luke E. Wright, secretary of war, who addressed a large mass meeting at Terrace Gar den. :: General Wright was greeted with en thusiastic cheering when he appeared and RACING RESULTS AT YADKIN VALLEY FAIR TRACK RECORD LOWERED YES TERDAY BY GEORGIA HORSE. GOOD ATTENDANCE. Salisbury, N. C, Oct. 20. Racing was a distinct feature of the Yadkin aVlley Fair,' which opened here today, when many fast horses were seen on the turf. Pento, owned by G. Styles, of Rome, Ga., reduced the track record to 2.14-14 in the first heat. The result of today's races folio is -, 2.15 stake pace,; purse $600: Pento won; Nancy Bee, second. : Best time, 2.14 1-4. ' - 2.25 trot, purse $300: Bravo won; Honest Jim V., second. Best time, 2.23 1-4. Bravo is owned by E. H. Dem erit, of New York. 2.16 trot, purse, $300: Kstenarv won; Guy Rector, second. Best time, 2.17 1-4. Estenary is owned by 8. E. barring, of Richmond. TAFT SWEEPS ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA MAKING MANY SPEECHES EN ROUTE Western Maryland, Too, Shares in Reception to the Candidate. Enthusiasm Marks the Day Throughout Talks on Labor, and Roasts Bryan's Guaranty Pian. Parkersburg, W. Va., Oct. 20 Taft Day in West Virginia has been the Re publican political event of the year in this state. Judge Taft traversed its en tire length today from ,Martinsubrg to Parkersburg, and wherever he stopped he was the feature of a demonstration, pecial trains were run $0 many of the towns in which the candidate spoke. Western Maryland also had its share of the candidate, who stopped in a num ber of the smaller towns along the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and was given a rousing welcome in Cumberland, where he addicted a large audience. The Cumberland speech was the most ex tended effort of Judge Taft during the dav. He discussed practically all of the issues of the campaign The Parkersburg meeting tonight, .! however, furnished all of the spectacular ) features belonging to a political rally. There was a parade, with many march ing clubs in line, representing political organizations from a number of nearby towns. ;..-' - Judge Taft's speeches were ;" 'snappy his speech was repeatedly interrupted by cheering and applause. The speaker condemned -Mr. ' Bryan in shnrp terms for the hitter's refer ence in a recent speech to President Roosevelt "as the hired man." General Wright said that such statements "tickled the groundlings, but made the judicious grvo." By training and education a Democrat. General Wright bolted the first mimina-j tion of Mr. Bryan in 189(1. Tonight he reiterated his opposition to nun and came out emphatically for the election of Mr. Taft. He asserted that even the most friendly judge must admit that in th elevation of William Jennings Bryan the people are making a most "hazardous experiment," and predicts that in the election of Mr. Taft all the great interests of the country will be assured of u square deal and will re sume their inarch of progress. He said he regarded tho fundamental issue to be, which of the two men, Taft or Bryan, is best fitted for the presiden tial office and will most efficiently serve (the people there. Tho omission in tne Democratic, party platform to declare for a tariff for rev enue only, Secretary Wright said, was not accidental, but was intended to pre sent a plank upon which 'Democratic freo traders and protectionists alike could stand. ' Secretary Wright argued that whatever differences there may be in mere nomenclature in the two tariff planks, the majority in both parties de mand tariff revision, and that in such revision the principles of protection will be more or less recognized, The secretary ridiculed the feature of the tariff plnak in Mr. Bryan's plat form which proposes to put on the free list trust-controlled manufactures. He declared that it reminded him of the .(Continued on Fag Two., and he showed the same inclination to criticize Mr. Bryan's political dectrines as in previous addresses. The enthus- iasm of his Clarksburg audience, led the : canmuuie 10 remarK: : i am suretnac li ; are alive to the imnortanoe of the elee- i tions no November 3, and they will make West Virginia as Republican' as she has always been.'' Just before the train reached Clarks burg, it flacked up at the big Philips Nieottin Mill, where were gathered sev eral madr tindred employes. On a banner 1 of a large sh,et of tin were the ' words: -e have six hundred votes for j you, Taft." j At Rowlesliitre. the candidate made 1 I the shortest labor speech he has vet ; attempted. "Just as ho was about' to j begin, a voice cried out: "Tell us about ! the injunctions" "That's iust what I want to Hlk 1 about,", was the quick response.. "They say that I am unfair to labor. I deny it, 1 handed down the decisions in rail road cases which laid dow nlho princi ples on which the trades unions are based and which made them lawful and prosperous." At - Cumberland,, in discussing Bryan's proposition to curtail the -products of the trusts to 0 per cent, of their out put, the judge remarked on the lack of detail the Nebraskan has furnished t o show how such a scheme coul cd out. ..... be work- "To furnish the details," he said does not occur to an active, fanciful mind that is engaged in preparing fur a ca in- patgn and not tor rctorms. .gain re-- fening to Bryan ill this speech he nv ! marked, to the , -.evident relish of his; auditors: Some men are good for talk and criticism and oratory, and some are fi"0 fo1' d(,'"g things.'' '"I cannot escape tho deliberate judg ment.." he said todav, "that Providence thrust those people (the Filipinos) on 1 us as a great wealthy nation, able to bear the carry it, burden, generous .onmiu'h fo, altruistic enough to bVlicvo i Hint, (ho ,lnin ,.f ! ll I Im r,1 that we can ask. " "But Mr. Brvan has consistently fought us at ever yturii. lie has ininle the burden that we have had to hour out there doubly heavy. My his course he lengthened the war from twelve to eighteen months and many a poor fel low has offered up his life or his limb, simply because there gentlemen were de termined that our policy in those in lands should not he a success. And now he savs that we have come over to his view in respect to the treatment of the islands " ' ' ' here, tonight, both in theaters. In his' first speech he dealt with the questions of the campaign, as he has done in his recent speeches, '..making no additions increto. ins Beconu enorr was oner nnu pertained entirely to the labor issue. ine la-u special ion nere auer - i no i nn the Isthmian canal during the fiscal meetings for Cincinnati, whore it will ar-iVeir 1010, the estimntes prepared by the rive at eight o'clock in the morning, ; oomiiiissioii are a proved by the war de and where Mr. Taft will spend the day1 partiuent. 1 in rest. The current vear'a appropriation ag- ,..,? ' . ; jgrcgates .".OOO'lKlO .$1.5U0,(KM) of which Skylight for Arcade. ;was for the purchase of three vessels A skylight i being built on the roof !for the coniinission's use. The 1010 es- of the entrance to the Benbow Arcade, work beginning yesterday. ThTs wilr afford a greater ligt to the occupants of the ground floor' and Increase the the vale of the rental property. 4 AUSTRIAN POLICE f Servian People Much Aroused Over Attack Upon Special Agent to Belgrade. Belgrade, Servia, Oct. 20. General Vukotics, an official of the Montenegran government, who left Ccttinje three days ago for this city on a special mis sion to Cervian government, arrived here today after an extraordinary expe rience at Agram. "On my arrival at Agram gendarme entered :my car," he said, "dragged me out, and took me to the prefecture of police. I was 'then searched, and mv iitirse,: papers, in fact evervthinsr I had. was taken from mo. Mv' bit raise' also wa completely ransacked. 1 gave the gendarmie officers my name and ex- plained my status as a special envoy 10 K11,g I etcr. 1 showed also the pass port and safe conduct given me at the Austro-IIungarian legation at Ccttinje, nut ail to no avail. : remitted to send telegram to Baron Von Aehornthal. the Austro-Hungariaii minister of for eign affairs, complaining; of the treat ment accorded me. After considerable delay, an order arriv ed from Vienna in M T BEAT structing the police to release me and The injuries consist of a out on upper this was done. lip and over the left eye, with abrasions "I was detained at the police station ! of each check caused by coming in vio for seven hours, and as I lost my train lent, cont act with the ground, connection my journey was delayed al- Mr- Thomas, who is about sixty years togc-t her for fourteen hours." 'old nnd lives with his two sisters in This noi'llrrnnoA liia qrnii,t avntv, a 'tlropnp fii met . WHS on Ilia u-nv liomn nmt l,;, 1 rr. f,,iinT tiwl: . A,iarU.ii,mra.i.iTi atromhiimr to cross ihi atnxt. naaaat ani i)P pnople are greatly cxciled. A great crowd of students gathered in front of the General's hotel 'this after- noun, and when the general entered his earringo to drive to the palace tho students unharnessed the horses and dragged the vehicle through the streets themselves. The mob shouted it. approval of King Peter', nnd Austria, Prince Nicholas and cursed Held for Sweetheart's Murder. Medina, (V, Oct. 20. Cuy Kusor, held ! f"r 'the murder of One -l.ee, his sweet- nenrr. .on tno roan near wa.tswonn on the. night of October S, was bound over to 1 110 PTaiKl lury.on 11 ChilfL'C Ot lirst j degree murder by Justice, Van Deuscn . ! todaV. i! CONGRESS WILL BE ASKED TO I " irrr tuic JBBDftDBTlTtnM PV THE COMMISSION. f Washington, D. C, Oct. 20. Congress ;;. ,0 nsked to make an appropriation 0f $;r,,ooo.000 for carrying on the work ; timates make provision for about seven months work on the three locks at Gatun. The work on the great spill way there is to begin the coming De - cembex. Republicans Held a Tremendous Rally Last Night In the Bull City. SPEECHES BY COX AND SETTLE AROUSE CROWD Republicans Highly Pleased With the Big Demonstration and Think They Will Surely Carry the Country in tha Election Next Month. V,, V Durham, X. C, October 20. Tha largest and apparently the most enthusiastic political rally, without re gard to party, that has been held here this campaign, took place last night, more than two thousand people assem bled at the Academy of Music to hear the distinguished Republican speakers "who were there. The meeting hud icon extensively ad vertised throughout the city and county and tho result, was shown in the biar crowd of representative people that as- semDlcoi. J. Elwood Cox, the Republican nomi nee for governor.; 'Thomas Settle, candi date for elector at large, and G; S. Brad shaw and R. D. 'louglas, two well known lawyers of Greensboro, d'd tha speaking. All of the speakers were warmly greeted, but Mr. Cox and Mr. Settle rece'vod special applause from the crowd. Mr. Cox made a short speech, mostly1 on business lines, showing the necessity for a conservative business government) in the state as well as in tho nation, and stating his opinions on various pub lit! questions. Mr. Settle made a magnificent speech and discussed fully the issues of the campaign. His speech abounded in witty thrusts at Democratic leaders and policies which brought shouts of ap proval from the audience. All of the speakers acrpritttvf them selves well, and it is thought here that (Continued on Page' Tws.) STRUCK BY AUTO; BADLY HURT Car Driven by E. A, Brown Acci dentally Runs Down and In jures C. F. Thomss. While crossing Greene street between Gaston and Bellineade last evening at (1.30, C. V. Thomas, a printer, v.as struck and painfully but not seriously injured, by -'an autocar driven by K. A. Brown. He was taken at once to St. Loo's hos pital in an; ambulance-summoned -by Mr. Brown, who sent for Dr. J. P. Turner. ion the opposite side, of a wagon backed up in front of a fertilizing warehouse. The horse and wagon took up the greater ; part of the street and before reaching the spot Mr. Brown, as stated last night, mew the Horn on his ear as a warning, 'He also had the lights burning. The left j 'wheel, of the car -struck Mr. Thomas, ; showing (hat he did not hear the alarm sent to him from the car. It is said that several men were standing in. a po sition whore the' could see the ear ap proaching and have ample time to give the needed .warning, but that this was not done. . the injured man was reported last night as resting easily and not suffering from any internal hurts. He has not been in good health recently and gener ally uses a cane in walking. CHICAGO BEATS DETROIT BY A SCOREJDF-7 TO I LATEST CONTEST TAKES PLACE BEFORE BIG CROWD AT TERRE HAUTE, IND Tene Haute, Tnd., Oct. 20. Before large crowd today the Chicago National League baseball club defeated the De troit American League team, 7 to 1, at Central League park. . Before the game an elegant silver service was given to Pitcher Mordecai Brown, of the Chica team, by the citizens of Terre Haute, his home city. Tyrus Cobb, of Detroit, carried off the batting honors with four singles in four times up. Score: i R.H.E. !Detroit .. .... 000100000 I 9 8, Chicago ... ..11 1 10300 " 7 12 1 1 Batteries: Mullin, Wilets and Thomas Brown, Overall and. Marbhall, ' OT it
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