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VOLUME XI. JLETOIR, 3ST. C, APRIL (i, 1909. NO. 44
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Last of Convict Lease System.
Atlanta. Ga., April 1. At sun
rise today Georgia shook off the
last rag of her convict lease system.
From one end of the State to the
other hundreds of human beings
were led fromithe cavernous depths
of mines, from the sweaty heat of
choking kilus, from the whirring
damp atmosphere of fatories out
into God's sunlight, from the con
trol of harsh and almost brutal
taskmasters into the serviee of the
State.
Georgia has no State penetentia
ry. For years her convicts have
been sold into the mines, into the
brick kilns, into the factories,
where private greed sometimes de
manded and collected its last ounce
of human flesh and its final drop of
human blood. But the State de
cided to abolish this traffic in white
as well as Mack slaves, so instead
of-selling it's 1,600 prisoners it
Will work them on the public
roads.
The change went into effect at
daylight this morning when the
convicts were returned to the coun
ties in which their crimes had been
committed. Most of the unfortu
nates are blacks of a low order of
intelligence, sentenced for every
conceivable crime.
Though shackled and ironed, the
convicts greeted the change with
shouts of joy and weird hymns of
thanksgiving. Negro preachers
were at most of the stockades and
led the blacks in their impromptu
praise service. Special trains were
waiting and the prisoners were
transferred as rapidly as possible
to their new quarters.
Strangely enough, some of the
convicts cried at leaving scenes
which had been part of the daily
life of soraeof them for many years.
The new system, if is believed,
will not only improve the health of
the convicts but will assure Georgia
the linest turnpikes in the South.
Catholic Priest Bankrupt.
Cleveland, (., March 81. Rev.
Father William McMahon filed a
petition in voluntary bankruptcy
before Judge Taylor in the Tinted
States District Court late today,
gjving his liabilities at 1,500. 000
and assets at 75,000.
His insolvency is stated to have
grown out of the failure of the
Fidelity Funding Company, of
New York, which was promoted
by P. J. Kieran. Kev. Father
McMahon is said to have been a
director of the company and en
dorsed many of its notes.
From information gathered to
day in circles familiar with the af
fairs of the Fidedity Funding Com
pany and r. J. Kieran, it was
learned that the direct liability of
Rev. Father McMahon through the
failure of the Fidelity Funding
Company, as appeared on the face
of the accounts, was only about
20,000.
Boston Promoter in Trouble.
Boston, Mass., March 31.
W. D. Owen, otherwise known as
W. W. Fowler, who according to
dispatches received here last night
is being held by the police of Aug
usta, Ga., for the lioston authori
ties, is charged with having been
implicated in a Mexican plantation
development company in which a
great many New England stock
holders host their investments. In
connection with the promotion of
this company, iis chief promoter,
G. E. Borgea, is serving a long
term in the State prison . Owen
has been sought by the Boston
authorities for some time. A police
inspector will leave at once for the
Sooth to bring Owen to this city.
i In Germany a mixture of tar and
Iron slag is used for paving.
Negroes Call on Mr. Taft.
Washington, April 1 A delega
tion of negroes from Mississippi,
comprising bankers, business men,
lawyers and educators, called at
the White House today to tender
to President Taft whatever assist
ance they could render in helping
him to work out the policies out
lined by him in his iuaugural ad
dress. The visit had to do solelv
with the so-called negro problem
in the South.
In his address to the President
the chairman of the delegation
said:
"Like you, we do not believe
that any satisfactory and lasting
results can be reached without the
cooperation of the represenatives of
the more than ten million negroes
who are tho bone of contention;
like you, we do not believe that
any satisfactory and lasting results
can be 'obtained without the ap
proval and cooperation of the dom
inant class, the whites in our sec
tion, and any policy that makes
for peace between us, that means
to bring us more closely together
so far as the public good is con
cerned and the general uplift of
our section, and in that uplift the
uplift of the nation as well, is much
desired by us, and our presence
here is to assure you that the ue
grocs of Mississippi will do their
part in bringing about the desired
ends, and hope not to so conduct
ourselves at times as to embarress
your well begun administration."
500 Students Go on Strike.
New York, March 31. More
than 500 pupils at Manhattan Col
lege are on strike today. The
boarding students have pickets out
stopping the day students, who
number 350, as they approach the
college.
Many of the boarding pupils are
packing up preparatory to leav
ing. The trouble was caused by the
dismissal of one of the students, an
athlete. The students declare they
will not re enter until Nugent is
re-elected .
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After Money; Woman Shot.
Washington, Indiana, March 30
A woman was shot last night as
she picked up a decoy prapared
after Hanker N. (). Read had re
ceived a letter demanding that he
deposit 30,000 at a designated
spot- A man accompanying the
woman escaped unhurt. The wo.
man was peppered with bird shot.
The woman, liesmirched i with
blood, was taken to jail, where she
was identified as Miss Zella Clark.
She has been employed as a domes,
tic.
Read is president of the First
National Bank of this city. The
letter lie received demanded that
he place the money in a box to bo
left at the cast gate of a school
building at i p. in. He was given
instructions to leave the box and
run for his life. Upon receiving
the threatening communication,
Mr. Read laid the matter befor the
police and at the appointed hour
officers were secreted in neighbor
ing houses. The bank president
made his way to the gate, placed
the box and ran as indicated. A
few minutes later the man and wo
man 'in the case appeared at the
gate, the woman running to the
box and picking it up.
Some one fired from the school
building, the woman gave a cry of
pain and fell to the pavement. Her
companion escaped.
Including every day in the cal
endar the exports of manufactures
of the United States averages more
than 2,000,000 a day for the en
tire year.
Strikes Himself With An Axe.
Fayetteville, W. Va. March 31
Harry Gibson, a prominent young
man of this place, struck himself,
it is alleged, on the head with an
axe early today. Gibson then
made his way to his room, where
he requested a companion to kill
him. He was taken to a hospital
where it was stated his condition
is serious. Gibson is a studeut at
Staunton, Ya., and is home on a
vacation with a student friend.
It is alleged a girl frieud of Gib
son's attended a dance last night
with another young man.
'If going with another young
man was the only cause he had for
trying to kill himself, then we say,
what a pity he did not succeed.
Says Cuba Will Join the States.
The Raleigh Time.
Washington, April 1 "Is Cuba
coming into the United States!"'
asked Senator Carlos Garcia Yalez
the new minister from Cuba, who
arrived in Washington last night.
Eventually, yes," he replied,
"but with a different language
and a different people; it will take
some time to bring that about,
although it is the commercial and
political salvation of my country."
Senor Garcia continued:
"I feel most kindly .toward the
United States because I owe my
education and my point of view to
it.
'I am an American Cuban,"
said Minister Garcia Yalez. "My
education and ideas are American
My, purpose is to foster the rela
tions between this country and my
country. We owe a great deal to
the United States and remember
all that has been done for us."
Three Negroes Slain in Fight.
Elizabeth City, N. C, April 2.
One of the bloodiest brawls that
has ever been known in this sec
tion occurred last night at Colum
bia, Tyrrel county, in which three
negroes were killed and one terrib
ly wounded. The trouble, it is re
ported, arose over two negroes
from this city calling on Columbia
damsels, which was resented. The
two Columbia negroes laid in am
bush across a bridge ami when the
Elizabeth City negroes passed lired
into them. The visitors were evi
dently well supplied with guns and
razors and a bloody Wattle follow
ed. Nothing was known of the
trouble until this morning when a
white man passing heard some one
say, "Don't cut me any more."
Upon investigation the dead ne
groes with blood Mowing, and
razors and guns were found on the
ground where they presented a
horrible spectacle.
The surviving combatant is ter
ribly cut up and wounded aud has
small chance of recovering.
Being carried home he died withj
in four hours.
Murdered in The Philippine Is
lands. Manila, March 31. Dr. Wil
liam Jones, the noted anthropolo
gist of the Field Museum of Nat
ural History, at Chicago, has been
murdered in the Isalella Province.
It is supposed to have been the
work of wild tribesmen.
Dr. Jones had been in the Phil
ippines two years investigating
tbe wild tribes on the islands. For
severel months he had been study
ing the Ihongots living among
them in the hills.
The government is now prepar
ing to send a party to the scene to
investigate the murder.
Jones -"Well, you and I won't
be neighbors much longer. I'm
going to live in a better locality."
Smith "So am I."
Jones "What are you going
to move too!"
Smith "Ncf I'm going to stay
here."-
The Trained Nurse.
In days past iwoman's ministra
tions to the body that by sickness
or accident found requirement for
the soothing attention of her hands
were confined to the Sisters of
Mercy. The blessed record they
have made is writ in but one book
and that book is not opened to the
human eye. Then, with the rack
of war and the reign of pest K-nce
came the Red Cross evangels, but j
the institution of this later age is ,
the trained nurse. She is the pro i
duct of an advanced science and an i
enlightened age. Where, but a j
short time ago the trained nurse
was a luxury, she is now a necessity.
The first half dozen trained nurses
in Charlotte had but little work to
do. Their mission was not under-
stood. People preferred to be I
waited on by the house servant or!
the neighbors anil were contented!
with the dropping in once in a j
while by the doctor, or by a couple !
of colabjrating doctors, should the
case become serious. The trained
nurse, however, was not slow to
spring into popularity. It soon be
came realized that in sickness more
depends upon proper nursing than
medicine. Patients began leaving
hospitals and telling how the train
ed nurse had saved their lives.
More people began going to hospi
tals, more hospitals were built to
accommodate them aud more train
ed nurses were graduated to care
for them. A dozen years ago,
there were less than twenty-five
trained nurses in Charlotte. There
are one hundred and fifty possibly
more at the present time. Their
services are not confined to the
hospitals, but their ministrations
are to be had in every private home
that applies for them. The won
der is that this sphere of useful
ness for woman so long remained
undiscovered. The trained nurse
is one of the greatest blessings of
the age we live in. In the home
the greatest dauger to the patient
is over-care. Too often, in the de
sire to please him, he gets what he
wants and it often occurs that one
indiscretion in the matter of diet
is sufficient to counteract all the
previous good work of the physic
ian. In the hands of the trained
nurse the patient gets what he
needs, not what he wants. Then,
between the visits of the doctor,
there is the record of his tempera
ture, like an open book, a very
important chart in the course of
every illness. The trained nurse
is the doctor's lnst ally and the
patient's best friend. Man is
always calling down blessings upon
her. and in some cases calls down a
blessings upon himself by marry
ing her. But when one gets mar
ried another steps in to take her
place, so, fortunately for suffering
humanity, the supply is in no dan
ger of becoming exhausted.
"The News takes pleasure in pub
lishing and endorsing the above
from the Charlotte Chronicle."
Struck By Train.
Macon, Ga., April 1 Mrs. Im
ogene Compton, of Athens, Ga.,
while crossing the railroad trestle
to make a train for her home this
afternoon, was struck by the Mac
on-Athens local on the Central of
Georgia and instantly killed. Her
body was horribly mangled and
hurled to the ground, 100 feet be
low. The woman's 10-year-old
son, Clarence, was with her and
escaped injury by prostrating him
self beside the rail on the end of
the crossties.
A Three Headed Calf.
Charlotte Obser ver.
Roanoke, Va., April 1. When
J. W. Wade, of Graham, Va., en
tered his cow barn this morning,
he found a three headed calf, that
had been born last night. The
calf is healthy and grips the moth
er's teats with first one mouth and
then the other.
Superior
Superior in fact
More of these in use in Caldwell
than all others combined. This
enables us to carry repairs. This
is an item for a purchaser. Drops
corn as wanted, without change
of plate or gears. These are
going out daily. SEE US NOW!
'tosh
Home-Made
Shoes, home-made Axe Handles, home-made Chairs
suggest a lack of finish, yet durability; a shortage of
polish, yet long life. Our homo-made Harness, made
by experts with improved machinery, from home
tanned Leather, have iwth the finish and long life.
"PEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!"
PRICE CLINE HARNESS & TANNING CO.
CORN PLANTERS
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Rival Gordon Plows
Cnll and Sea Them
R. H. SP AINHOUR & CO.
City Official Short.
Baltimsre, March .51. Exami
nation of the books of tho office of
city register tonight shows a short
age of more than $57,000 in the
funds of that office.
Will F. Dewns, stock clerk in
the office named, is under arrest,
after having been twice released on
bail. His first bail was fixed at
$5,000 and later doubled. He was
arrested late tonight after the mag
nitude of the shortage was dis
covered. Effective on Entire Line.
Richmond, March 31 .The
Southern Railway Company an
nounces that when the advanced
passenger fares are put into effect
on its Virginia lines, the entire
system of mileage books in use on
its lines in the States of North Car
olina,! Sooth Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee will be ex
tended to Virginia.
Corn Drill
as well as name.
RIOHT KINDi
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Eight Hundred Mile Dog Race.
Seattle, Wash.. April 1.
Sporting men of the northwest are
talking about the S00 mile dog
race, which will le run from Fair
banks to Nome, Alaska, this
month. This event is the feature
of the sporting year in that section
of the country. Thousands of dol
lars exchange hands annually on
the results. Last year the race
was 400 miles, bnt the committee
in charge deemed it advisable to
lengthen the distance, and this
spring an 800 mile course will test
the prowess of the caaine contest
ants.
The race will be held under the
auspices of tho Nome Kennel Club,
and is a selling event. The win
ning team receives a $10,000 cash
prize, and $5,000 will be disbursed
among the other entrants, accord
ing to their position at the finish.
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