INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS.
VOL. VIII.
COLUMBUS, iN. C, THURSDAY JANUARY 29, 1903
NO. 42.
ROBBERY OF A BANK
I A Sharp flgto m a North Carolina
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lOvVfl nun Jiiui viuii5
PROFESSIONALS DRIVEN
AWAY.
Vau't Torn Open By Explosives, But
Only a Small Amount of Honey
Secured.
Charlotte, N. C, Observer, 26th.
t 2 o'clock Monday morning an in-
.cff canal effcit . "vss. made- to
Tank ot Advance at Mocksv
rob the
lie. Ex-
pert -cracksmen biok open the vault
and stole some loose metal cjurrency,
but were interrupted before tey had
time to open Vu time lock safe inside
tile Villi It.
At about 2 o'clock Mr. T. J Byerlv,
tfio cashier of the bank, who rooms
in if buiRrihg close to the bank, heard
two explosions, which he thought
(on:.j tvf.m the bank. H aroused the
vk o president of the bank, Mr. James
n'nirp. Jr.; and riming themselves
with shot-guns and pistols tpe two
young men started at once for the
bank. When they came close to the
building they saw that the door was
open. As Byerly started to enter a
man inside fired on him with a Win:
Chester rifle. Byerly and AlcGuire
both returned the fire and a
Eusilade-
ensii'd?. The cashier and vice-president
fired ten shots and the vjrould-be
rubbers, answered them almost shot
for shot. No one was struck.
When the firing was over it was
found that the cracksmen had fled.
A hurried examination of the bank
shoved tLat.no damage was done be
yond ruining the vault, which has a
massive steel door one and a half inch
es thick. This had been tornH off by
tiki -2l venneJ MrByerly ITsbited
over the 'phone this morning that
there was every indication, that sev
eral professional robbers were en
gaged in the attempted robbery.
The whole town of Mocksvllle was
aroused by the occurrence and efforts
ve're made to surround the place and
prevent the robbers ironi esoaping. As
The Observer goos to press the cash
ler and the other officers of the bank
are trying to get a special train to
bring bloodhounds into Mocksvllle in
order that the dogs may get on the
trail of the cracksmen before St gets
too cold '
Sunday Memorial Sarvic
Washington, Special The House
of Representatives inaugurated the
experiment of holding memorial ser-.
vices for deceased members upon the
Sabbath. It will be followed hereaf
ter during this session and probably
will become the general practice in
the 'House in the future. Heretofore,
except on very rare occasions, the
House has broken in upon its legis
lative work on Friday or Saturday to
listen "to eulogies 4 on deceased mem
bers, but the time has seldom been
propitious and latterly the practice
has been meeting with growing disfa
vor. On account of the pressure of
public business at this session
t was
decided to hold the memorial session
on Sunday, and during the course of
these eulogies today several members
took occasion to voice their commen'
dption' of the innovation and jto ex
press their opinion that it would be
followed in the' future. At the session
Vast Sunday, tribute was paid to the
life and public services of th late
Representatives Russell, of. Connecti
cut, and Sheppard and DeGraffenreid.
of Texas, each of whom died during
the congressional recess. The attend
ance in the galleries was quite large
and there was a numerous assemblage
of the friends of the deceased mem
bers on the floor. The following mem
'bers paid tribute to the memory of
Mr. Russell: Messrs. Brandege, .of
Connecticut: Caoron. of Rhode Island;
Sperry, of Connecticut; Hill, of Con
necticut; Payne, of New York; Mc
Clellan of New York; Dalzell, of Penn
sylvania: Grosvenor, of Ohio and Mc-
Call, of Massachusetts. Those I who
eulogized Mr, Sheppard were: Messrs.
Henry, of Texas; Brantley, of Geor'
gia; Ball; of Texas; Ranflell, of Texas;
Burleson, of Texas, and Feeley, 6f Illi
nois. Those who eulogized Mr. De
Graffenreid were: Messrs. Russell, of
Texas ; Stephens, of Texas, and Kle
berg, of Texas.
Crew Rescued.
Port Arthur. Tex..- Rnecial. 4-The
steamer City of Everett has arrived
here, having on board Captain B. F..
Clinton and six men whom the Ever
ett T.- picked up from the water-logged
schooner Otis, on January 21. The
Otis had encountered a heavy, gale
and rapidly filled despite the work of
the pumps. The Otis was from Scran
ton, Miss., carrying: a carsro'of lumber
THE LEGISLATURE
What Our State Legislative Body is
' Doing. :
The following bills were introduced
Saturday:
' .Daniels, of Vance:' To 'pay Miss El
len Daniels and Miss Fassett for .build
ings removed on leased farm land: in
Northampton.
Anderson: To incorporate the Hiar
dassi Railway Company and id allow
citizens of Clary to subscribe for capi
tal stock in bonds.
Stephenson: To prohibit sale and
manufacture of liquor. in naxtain limits
of Iredell. :
Self: To give electric light and pow
er companies rights of condemnation
now conferred on railway and tele
graph companies.
Freeman: To prevent sale of liquor
near Middle Fork church.
Daniel, of Vance: To. prevent hunt
ing without consent of land owner. '
Sugg:- To incorporate town of Bell
Haven. .
King: To amend constitution in re
gard to public school fund.
Thompson. Toiix time o holding
Onslow courts.
Moody: To amend aw oM899.. com
pelling butchers to keep registration.
ITzzell: To exempt Jacolf Williams,
of Wayne, from tax to peddl?.
Harrington: To establish school dis
tricts on line, between Moore and Hai
nett.
Doughton: To amend the public
school law. ' . -
Quickii; For relief of sheriffs and
tax collectors.
Fuller: To require examinations of
persons teaching music in in..;;itution
to be examined by the State board, ap
pointed for that purpose.
Graham: Relating to cancellation of
mortgagee and deeds in trust.
Bills passed final reading nc follows:
I o incorporate Bank of Alexander..
To amend charter of Southee:i Stater
Trust Company.
To incorporate Spring Hope Banking
To authorize commsionci s of Hyde
to levy special tax.
To extend the tims for levying spe
cial tax in Brunswick.
To authorize commissioners of Hyde
to levy special tax.
To authorize county of Graham to
issuo bonds.
To allow Waynesville to iz.ms bons.
To appoint justices of the po ice in
C dumbus.
The bill to prohibit the sals and
traffic in cannon crackers more thaii
three inches long, toy pistol?, - air and
spring uns., coming up for considera
tion. Mr. Blount strongly ooiosed the
in' - odiction of spina--? and air gun?. Ik-,
c.i.l iot believe in all the prohibition
laws. He had been-a boy hiuisLlf and
to say that boys should not have the
pnvilege of using pop gun??, air, and
Vows r,nd, arrows, spring guns, wa
extremely selfish' in those whjs- boy
hood baa passed. Col. Davidson re
lated several instances of serious dai;
agc in Asheville caused by-shor from
air guns in the hand of carljss boys,
saying no more mischievous or deadly
weapon was in existence than these
noiseless &ir rifles. He explained tn st
bows and arrows, bean shooters,, etc.,
would not come under the description
of fire arms. Mr. Graham made a plea
for-the boys so far as the air and
spring gun features were concerried,
and Mr. Offerman followed suit in an
earnest objection to the spring and
air gun features of the bill.
Mr. Bowman heartily advocated the
bill, saying it would save the State
$200,000 a year and many lives. An
other excellent feature he thought was
by prohibiting the use of toy pistols,
etc., the boys would be discouraged
from imbibing the instincts of desper
adoes and the morai effect of toy pis
tols was It, every way bad. Mr. Mc
Lean, of Scotland." caid when he firs!
'introduced the bill applying to car.non
crackers and toy pistols, a wave of
laughter went round. He was glad to
see now that everybody was standing
by "it. He did not like having his bill
embarrassed by the air gun amend
ment. Mr. Drewry supported the can
non cracker-toy pistol sections, saying
its adoption would save many lives and
a great deal of property which was de
stroyed by fire. Mr. Bullard opposed
th e bill, saCying that if boys were not
allowed cannon crackers they; would
bore holes In trees, and chuck them
full of powder .. or dynamite and get
their noi3e in that way. Mr. Hall said
the whole business was wrong. He
was for the boys. The bill with amend
ments was re-ref erred to ttfe commit
tee on judiciary- - " ;
The following Ml 1a were passed:
To extend limits of stock law in
Pitt. X. - A-' 3
To prevent public drunkenness in
Madison.
To incorporate the Savings "Loan and
Trust Company.
" To allow surplus jail fund tsx of
Sampson to" be applied to genci a:
county purposes.
To validate election of juattscs of tne
peace of Alleghany. ,
- To change the naUe of th3 Eastern
Insurance Company of America.
To substltu:e e;e.?tr:c lights for gns
in the hall of the House. j
To amend T'i-3 Cede relet! to re
building and repairing wate- mills, p
To -appoint. a sewerage.' ..-Motor ..and
electric light commission for Nevbern.
To draw exemption from jury duty
privilege -from 'members ci Xewbern
Rough aiul Ready Fire, COminy. ex
cept they Hxtend a certain number and
percentage of fires. a - ;
To amend charter of city of Aslie
ville. . - " " 'y- :
Requesting Senators and Represen
tatives in Congress, to obtain apj-rO-priation
for claming out'Shallutte rv
er in Brunswick county. - X
Relating to rny of witnesses in
Montgamery and Gaston,
For relief of Mist; Donan OsLorr.e.
To amen cnaitor of town of Beau
fort.' :
5enate Prhceedings. '
PETITIONS PRESENTED.
London: -Citizens of Yadkin for the
London bill. Basley: Citizens of Un
ion if or the Lou Ion bill. . Marshall; -against
the making and sal of liquor
near; New Bethel . Baptist j h':Mv in
Surry county. Hicks of Duplin : Citi
zen:) of Duplin for London bill. Mar
shall: Citi.eus for graded school at
Westfield. London: Citizens of Chat
ham jfor th? London bill. Reinlmrdt:
Citizens of Lincoln for'the London
bill. Pharr: Cilizohs rf Mekltnburs
tjt the T-.ou Ion fiill. Hunter: Citizens
of Warren for temperate " : -:
! BH LS INTRODUCED
Marshall: To ''establish graded
schools at W-sr;rtel. in Surry county.
Webb To aru.vd S-jtiv-i rme 6 Nor.
rJs: To prcta-Mlandlords against un
lawful abandonment tenam. Blow:
To change tim of holding court m the
third jadicUl district. Aaron To au
thorize Mt. Olitre'to vole on o md Issue
ior schools. -V
.Lieutenant C"e'nor , Turner an
nounced as-the Senate Tf.m bers of the
joint Codo co'-.mir.ii n'rorumlt'. Sen
ators Vanii, Ho - dj-.n atii! Ncrris, ;
Leave cr aosn-p was grnnipd Sen
ator Marshall -dndefinitXion account
of his motner's illness. Leave of ab
sence was also granted to Secators
Woodara, Mitchell, Bellamy andDur
ham until Tuesday. I
THE CALENDAR TAKEN TIP.
House bill: Ta regulate fishing in
Pamlico and Tar river. Mr. Mann of
fered an amendment prohibiting cei
tain nets. The bill then passed.
Senate bill to make drunkenness a
misdemeanor and imposing a fine ; of
$10 for the first offense of being drunk
in public was taken up. It was report
ed without prejudice by the proposi
tion and grievance committee arid -I on
motion of Mr. Henderson was refer
red to the judiciary committee.
House bill: To amend the charter of
Asheville. A Senate substitute was
adopted and sent to the House for con
currence. House bill: To appoint Frank T.
Carr a commissioner for Greene coun
ty, passed.
Hous'3 bill:. To extend the time ; to
compromise, commute and settle ths
State debt to 1905, passed third read
ing. " s.
Senate bill: To amend charter 345
laws of 1901, regarding protecting .ish
in Henderson, passed third reading.
Senate bill: To protect game birds in
Lincoln county. . : ,
Senate bill: To prohibit hunting
without permission of land owner in
Robeson, passed.
Senate bill: To amend charter 142,
laws of 1889. Mr. Brown explained
that thisvonly allowed lumber men to
have a ; irivate mark for lun? her S or
boards which they float "down the
stream as they now have with logs.
The bill passed second reading and
went over on objection until Monday.
House bill:- To prohibit the manu
facture, sale and shipment of liquor
In Scotland county, amended by the
pommittee so as to go into effect in
April was taken up. Mr. Burton said
he had no objection to the bill but he
thought the clause "all laws and parts
of laws in conflict with this act" might
repeal the State revenue act.
At 11:50 the Senate went over to th
House ! to ballot for Senator and at
12:25 resumed consideration of the ,
Scotland county bill. Mr. Henderson
said these clauses repealing, "all laws
to conflict with this act" meant noth
ing because, of course, an act repeals
,what is in conflict with it He moved1
to strike out that section. Mr. London
hoped that this section would not be
stricken from the bill. Mr. Henderson
said these clauses made unnecessary
expense in printing and accomplished
nothing. Mr. London then gave a
thrust at the Rowan Senator, by ob
serving that this expense was much
less than a bill to appoint one justice
of the peace in Rowan county. Since
this was a House bill Mr. Henderson
withdrew his amendment and the bill
passed . - r ;'; " ; :;:
The ! man, who always wants the
most for his money should never pro
pose to a woman who jars the scales
at less than 200 pounds. Chicago
News. ' , - . '
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL
Industrial fliicellany.
Citizens of Bradford county, Florida,
are agitating for the erection of a. mill
for the manufacture of spooh .-.cotton
from the Sea Island fiber. This move-
ment has led to the suggestion that
Valdosta, Ga., already the largest in
land long staple cotton market in the
world, might enter upon a like under-
taking. Commenting upon this, the
New York Commercial says;: i .
"The Starve region is a rich one ag
riculturally, but its resources are lar
gely undeveloped. There has ibeenN com
paratively little immigration from! the
North and West into that section, but
-i
the people are entering, practically
and ambitious. And it would not,
therefore be such a very strange
thing if the cotton-growers j of Starke
should be the first in the Sea Island
belt to manufacture their product in
factories contiguous to the plantations.
They may yet I demonstrate1 to the
spinners of New England ( and the
United. Kingdom that the Cracker can
do all that the Yankee and! the Scot
can and perhaps do it- a little bit bet
ter." ' -j . - - : ! , .
Arrangements have been completed
for the establishment of the jqtton fac
tory proposed at Orange, Texas. The
(Orange Cotton Mills Co. has been or
ganized, with capital stock ! of $400,
000, to build, the plant. Its equipment
will be 10,000 spindles and 240 looms,
with space remaining for installation
of 5,000 spindles and 120 lqcims. addi
tional. H. C. Cooke of Houston, Texas,
Is engineer in charge of construction,
and will at once begin work. Contracts
for the machinery have been placed.
Adolph Suck of Boston, Mass., is the
architect. . ,0. ' R. Scholars jnas."- been
elected president; R. E. McFarland
first vice-president; E. E. McFarland,
treasurer, and A. M. Hatcher (of Hous
ton), secretary. (This is also the plant
recently, announced as to be. located
through the' efforts of Messrs. A. M.
Hatsher & Co. of Houston.) ,
Work is progressing steadily on the
extensive water-power improvements
of the Dan River Power & Manufactur
ing Co. at Danville, Va. Construction
of the $300,000 dam and power-house is
being pushed forward steadily,! and ex
cavation for the mill buildings begun
during the past week. This company
expects to begin in the earl spring
the erection of the first .mill,! which
will be followed by the second plant.
There have been no material changes
in the original plans as announced in
the Manufacturers' Record of Septem
ber 25, 1902. That is, there will! be two
mills of 40,000 spindles and 1,200 looms
each,-costing about $1,700,000 J. W.
Bishop Company, Providence apd Bos
ton, is the construction contractor.
Messrs. -Lockwood, Greene & j Co., of
Boston are architects-engineers in
charge. f i
A meeting of the directors of the
Highland Park Manufacturing jCo.. of
Charlotte, N. C. was held during the
week. A dispatch states that it was
decided by the board to erect ak addi
tonal mill to have 1,000 looms and cost
$450,000. This will be , the company's
third mill, as it operates-13,500 spinf
dies and 1,260 looms in a plant a Char
lotte and 7,500 " ring spindles and 780 1
looms in a plant at Rock Hill S. Cl
Ginghams is the product of both mills
It has not bee,n decided whether thej
new mill will be located at Chkrlotte
or Rock Hill. Further details will prob
ably be announced next week..
Gluck Mills, reported last week as
incorporated at Anderson, S. C, has
effected temporary organisation
Messrs. R. S. Hill (promoter of the en
terprise), Joseph N. Brown, N. B. Sul
livan, R. E. Ligon and J. R. Vahdiver
were elected directors. Four more di-f
rectors will be chosen later onj Over
$265,000 has been subscribed at Ander
son to the authorized capital of $500,
000. The company contemplates using
steam-power and manufacturing fines
goos. Possibly a steam plant j large
enough to operate 25,000 spindles and
750 looms will be needed. "i. !
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In his report for January 9 j Col.
Henry G. Hester, secretary of the New;
Orleans Cotton Exchange,! shows that!
he amount of cotton brought i into
sight during 131 days of the present
season was 7,160,002 bales, an increase
over the same period last year of 38,-1
674 bales; the exports were 3,773,087;
bales, a decrease of 77,045; takings by
Northern spinners, 1,131,698 bales, a
decrease of 31,584; by Southern ispin-
ners 886,515, an increase of 94,19
Textie Notes. ' , -' - . ' ;
Madison Spinning Co. of Huntsville
Ala;, has changed its title to Madison j
Manuaf cturing Co. and increased capi
tal stock from $100,000 to $300,000. It
is rumored that this action will be fol
lowed by the erection of an additional
mill and a cloth printing plant. Com
pany's present plant has: 5,000 Jmule
spindles, manufacturing hosiery yarns.
I FOR ISTHMIAN CANAL
Ten Million Dollars is Necessary For
Beraninp the Work
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THE TREATY IN EXECUTIVE SESSION
Injunction rf Secrecv Nof Yftt
nioveu, dui dome oi me terms
Made Public. " -
Washington, SpecialThe treaty
between the United - States and. the
government of Colombia, which was'
signed Friday by Secretary Hay and
Dr. Herran. a3 the representative oi
the two ron n tries was tra.n ami tied tr
the committee on foreign relations.
The treaty was read in executive ses
sion, but the injunction of secrecy was
not removed. By the terms of the
treaty the United States agrees, to
nyike a cash payment of $10,000,000
and after the expiration of nine years
to pay a rental of $250,000 per year
for the strip of land to be used ,for
the canal and for canal purposes, the
provision on this point being that the
first leases shall be for 190 years, and
renewable thereafter in terms of 100
The strip is to be six kilometers or
about six miles in . width, and over
this territory the United States is
given police and sanitary jurisdiction,
although it is explicitly specified that
Colombia does not surrender sovef
eignty over it The United States is
to have the privilege, of free importa
tion of vessels and materials to be
used in the canal. It was given the
right -to improve, use and protect har
bors at both the Atlantic and Pacific
exclusive to the United States and no
taxes or rentals are to be charged in
addition to the gross sums of $10,000,
000 cash and a fee of $250,000 an
nually. The foreign relations com
mittee will meet tomorrow to consider
the treaty.
Friday's meeting of the cabinet was
one of the most important held in sev
eral weeks. All of the members of
the cabinet wrere present, Secretary
Hay leaving his home for the first
time in several days', to attend the
meeting. He presented a draft of the
canal treaty signed last evening. The
treaty is identical with that drawn by
this' government several months ; ago,
and at that time submitted to the
Colombian government, with the sin
gle exception of 'the amount of annuity-
to be paid Colombia for the
right of way of the canal.- This gov
ernment proposed an annuity of $100,
000. while Colombia demanded $650,
000. The Colombian government's de
mand was based, it is stated, upon the
ascertained returns from the Panama
Company in port dues which the Co
lombian government did not desire to
have reduced. During the several
months of negotiations, Colombia
agreed to all points in the treaty
proposed by the United States with
the exception of the annuity. That
has been the point of difference for
many weeks and at one time It threat
ened to break off negotiations entire
ly. Secretary Hay communicated di
rectly with the Colombian govern
ment, intimating that some agreement
must be reached soon, as the United
States desired to enter upon the con
struction of the canal, if it were to
ho rmctrnntol 1 iv tho Ponama Tvnfi
and for several davs active efforts
have been making to secure an agree
ment, "l3ut not until yesterday were
ernment then, through Mh. Herran,
viaigr uc auaii ur;ic, XLzZlX
to , accept an 'annuity of 250,000.
All other points than this one of
money compensation remained as they
stood in the original draft of the
treaty and are completely satisfactory
to thf TTnltorl Rffltoa irnvornmofif T'li
United States will have control of the
canal as required by the Spooner act,
this having been attained by the adop-
'-' ia w. jisu. iui a rcaoc ui ivv j cell B,
renewable at the pleasure of the
United States, and Colombia having
xne matters oi ponce ana juoiciai
control are settled by a . scheme of
joint action, akhough It especially is
assured that no citizen of the United
States will be tried by any other than
his f own courts. Control of the wa
ters of the ports of Colon and Pana
ma is vested in th United States- just
ts far as may be necessary for the
complete operation of the canal, and
ifis assured that our extra territorial
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. ,.v,uu.Kr M.iuiua
to the canal. All port dues on ves
sels passing the canal are to go to the
United States by way of an offset for
the annuity payments. The President,
and cabinet are confident that the
treaty will be ratified.
ana umber to Havana.
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