North Carolina Newspapers

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 I n;:!. cu r... 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. ! ....... ....... . ' i 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 . - 9 , . - ' . - - ; . . . . 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 . I I f-t ..1:1111 wviii II.- iiiiiiii r- i ii iti . f . ,.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. T