North Carolina Newspapers

Wm AO Three Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. VOL XI. COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1905; NO. 25. J? " LJJ BARTLETT TO LEAD ay State Democrats field a Noisy Convention DELEGATE WAS HOWLED DOWN Was Determined to Read Sub-Plat form Which He Said Was Written by W. J. Bryan Municipal Owner ship Endorsed. Boston, Mass., Special. Gen. Char lies. Bartlett of Boston was nomi- 'aated hy the Massachusetts Demo- crecy ior governor. Tnere were no contests for any of the places on the I ticket. The remainder of the ticket f nominated was: Lieutenant governor, Henry M. Whitney, Brcoldine ; secre tary of state, Henry B. Little, New buryport; treasurer and receiver gen eral, Daniel J. Doherty, Westfield; auditor, P. J. Ashe, North Adams; at torney general, John T. Leahy, Bos ton. v ' Up to the time that James E. Cot ter of Hyde Park arose to place be fore the convention the name of Gen. Barltlett as the Gubernatorial candi date, it Avas believed that there would be a contest. Former Mavor John H. II. McNamee of Cambridge had announced- that he would " make a struggle for the honor of leadinir the patty in the comin? campaign. To the surprise of the convention, however, Air. .McNamee did not make anv con tent but seconded Gen. Bartlett's nom ination. The platform adopted declares for a revision of the tariff .and the free ad mission pi r coal, iron, lumber, hides, wood pulp and other materials: it commends the ' ' diplomatic conrage and sagacity " of President Roosevelt m aiding to end the war in the far east;' calls for State supervision of insurance companies and recommends municipal ownership of public utih- Nearly 10,000 Perished. Victoria, B. C, Special The steam er Tartar which arrived last week from the Orient, brought news from Shanghai that the loss of life among the natives of the islands at the mouth of the Yangtse river as a result of the typhoon at the beginning of Sep tember was tremendous. The North China Daily News, of Shanghai, says: "To the east of Tabagming, two is lands, one called Yawoshwa, the other Shihiousha, distant about twenty miles from Woosubf, have suffered much from the typhoon, nearly all the inhabitants having been swept away. The islands have only been in habited for a short time, comparative ly speaking, as they are of recent for mation and are not much above high water mark. The Shanghai papers say . that the damage to the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan by the typhoon will necessitates the expenditure of $100, 000 for repairs. " During the storm the steamer Peechili, formerly the Rio Grande- du Sol, foundered near the month of Yangtse. Her crew of 54 were saved v by the German steanie Albega. , . ' Pay $2,500,000 for Mexico Mines. Mexico City.-- Special Messrs. Sch ully, Perry and Newell, American capitalists, have just acquired for the sum of $2,500,000 a group of mining claims situated in the State of Duran go. The. first payment, $1,400,000, has been placed with the National Bank of Mexico, and the balance .will be paid periodically. This is the most important transaction- that has been made in mining claims -for several years. . . Lord Inverclyde Dead. Wemyss Bay, Scotland, By Cable. Lord Inverclyde, chairman of the Cu naixFSteamsMpCompariyi "3ie.d" Sun day? at Castle Wemyss 'hist residence i: ere 'aged 44. HeMiad beeVill foftf month : with pleuro-pneumonia. ; - Lord Inverclyde 's broth, James . Cleland Burns, succeeds to the title. - Negro Mob Lynches Negro. Baiubridge, Ga., Special. News has . just reached Bainbridge of jhe lynch ing of a negro eight miles ; west of here," by a mob of his own race The negro had criminally assaulted a ne gro girl and had attempted to assault another, who cut him in the 1 breast. He wastarrssted by Deputies yeyantl Mutkerson,5 who were bringing niftHo1 ainbndge, when they were stopped a mob of negroes, who said they must have the negro. They got him and force'd tlie deputies to go away on another road. The negro was strung UP to a tree and. riddled with bullets, ftone of the mob were apprehended. AREY MUST PAY FULL PENALTY Salisbury DistillerWill Spend Three Months in Rowan Jail and En riches the Government' Coffers. - Greensboro, Special.The October term of the United States Court promises to be unusually interesting if not sensational. - The charge of Judge Boyd was comprehensive and clear. There is a large crowd. The cases against the Federal officeholders constitute the chief topic of interest and have attracted quite a number who are here in the capacity of wit nesses and attorneys. It is understood that these cases will be called for trif 1 later, in the week. Only two cases of interest were be- i fore the court that of D, L. Arey, of Salisbury, who was convicted at the June Charlotte term and appeared here and voluntarily surrendered himself. He left in custody of a de puty marshal for Salisbury, where he enters upon his three months' im prisonment in the county jail of Row an. Arey also brought with him and is ready to pay $22,000, the amount of the judgment against him. He will also pay a fine of $200 and costs, amounting to something over $1600, agregating $24,000, which sum the United States gets from this one de fendant. Following the disposition of , this case was the trial of one W. B. Lu cas, from Montgomery county, charg ed with operating unlawfully a branch distillery. . After very earnest argu ment by, his attorney, Bradshaw, and the district attorney and the charge of the Judge, the, aforesaid defendant concluded that he did not care to fol low Mr. Arey and failed to answer when , called to hear the response of guilty from his jury. He is pursued by an instanter capias, but the chances are that he will not consume the further attention of the court at this term. State W. C. T. U. Raleigh, Special. The twenty-third Annual convention of the W. C. T. U. of North Carolina ended Wednesday afternoon, and is pronounced the best ever held. Mrs. Laura Winston, of Morganton, . was elected president; Miss Elizabeth March, of Winston, vice-president; Miss N. Otre Johnson, of High Point, corresponding secre tary; Mrs. Mary E.' WT White, of Guilford College, recording secretary; Mrs. MaryE. Cartland, of Greensboro, treasurer. The following heads of di visions were chosen : Evangelistic, Mrs. Mary E. Cartland; prisons, Mrs. I. C. Blair and Mrs. Strickland; almshouses, Miss Lucy Davis; Sab bath observance, Mrs. P. D. Hackney; systematic giving, Mrs. F. E. Rose ; mothers' meetings and purity, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner; temperance litera ture. Mrs.. Fetzer; scientific temper ance, Mrs. Battis; press work, Miss Allie Winningham; antinarcotics, Mrs. Millis: medal contests, Mrs Hary Nicholson; organization, Miss Notre Johnson; health and heredi ty, Mrs. Mary Hobbs; peace and arbi tration, Mrs. Mary E. W. Davis. The place of next yearns meeting will be selected by the executive committee during the winter. Delegates were elected to the National Convention to be held at Los Angeles, California, October 27, as folows: Mrs. M. J- Branner, Waynesville ; Mrs. Shore Kernes ville; Miss Marsh, of Winston, and Mrs. Battle, of Raleigh. Contract Awarded. Spencer, Special.The board of aldermen of Spencer have awarded a $35,000 contract for sewers, street improvements and sidewalks to Mr. C. Marklev. of Roanoke, Va., whose bid was a competitive one for the muni cmal improvements in Spencer. The work on the sewers will be begun at A Jacksonville special says : Mr. L. S. Covington, of Rockingham has or ganized a bank here with paid up cap ital of $10,000. the business people of the community being largely interest ed" in the, new enterprise. ,; JVlr. J.;w. Burton was elected president ; ex- .Sherifir Hafgett, vice-president; the cashier's position being left open for the present. The bank will open for the necessarv fix- UUtUUVUU .-.w-. 1 tures and supplies can-be obtained. : At'a'meetingCof the; tobacco board of trade at Roekv Mount a committee was appointed to issue a circular to the ffect that while tne ourmng oi the Davis and! Formers' warehouses was a serious loss to the proprietors this fire did hot affect the marketing of tobacco here to any extent, as there is abundant, pf floor space tor all to bacco coming to this markets ; :; Mrs. J. A. - Dunn- having left her husband's home in Richmond county, and gone to Charlotte, bringing their children, Mr. JDunn followed, secured .rf f fcotwms. Porous from Judge Peebles and ftook the-children- back i home with him. TEXTILE HEWS OF INTEREST Hotes of Sonthern Cotton Mills and Other Manufacturing Enterprises. Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Further important developments of the water power properties will be undertaken by the Roanoke Rapids Power Co., of that city, in connection with plans for adding other manufacturing indus tries to those two established to have a capital with 50,000 spindles, and it has about closed a contract ensur ing the location of a large paper and pulp mill. The Roanoke Rapids Power Col developed 5,000 horse-pow er in lyj, and has increased its stock to $500,000 for the purpose of building a mill to be equipped . and furnish ing power to manufactories, and plans to further utilize its water-power to tho fullest extent. It is contemplat ed to construct a concrete dam" en tirely across the Roanoke river and build an electric plant to transmit the power by electricity ,the cost of this worK to amount to about $41KJ,UUU. The company's engineers are now at work on the plans and estimates. H. C. Cooper is general manager. Spartanburg, S. C. The Beaumont Mfg. Co. ' will build the new but will at first install 4000 spindles mill for a capacity of 5184 spindles, and power for the full capacity, con struction work to begin immediately under the supervision of Jr E. Sirrine of Greenville, S. C. He has been en gaged as the engineer in charge of the improvements. This will be Beaumont Mill No. 3, its product to be white and colored carpet warps, twines rope, wicking and other specialties; output proposed, 5,000 pounds daily. , About 100 operatives will be employed in the mill. Beaumont Mills No. land No. 2 will be the yarn mills, with a total of 9,838 spindles; No. 3 is the weave mill, having 9,792 spindles and 252 40-ineh Draper looms. D. L. Jennings is treasurer of the company. Asheville, N. C. A meeting of the stockholders of the Elk Mountain Cotton Mills Co. was held last week to consider adding a bleachery to the company 's plant. An affirmative de cision was made and the capital stock of the corporation will be increased from $150,000 to $200,000 in order to provide the required funds. A site has been obtained, and the construc tion work is expected to begin jn the near future. There are 84 looms in the mill and their product is damask, bedspreads, etc., all of wheh is now shipped to Lowell, Mass., for bleach ing. Electricity is the motive power of the mill, and a steam engine is kept ready for use f emergencies arise or if water is to be pumped in time of fire. Charlotte, N. C The Magnolia Mill, which is located on South Gra ham street, is one of the most success ful of the many manufacturing en terprises of this city. This mill wat instituted some seven years ago, and since its beginning has always paid handsome dividends. Time and again, the equipment has been increased to meet the demands of the trade. The business of the plant has reached such proportions that Mr. A. C. Summer ' ville, "the proprietor of the company has decided to add 2000 spindles to the present equipment of 40,000, thus making the total number of machines available 6,000 devoted exclusively to the manufacture of hosiery yarns Workmen are now engaged in the con struction of additional quarters, and as soon as the new machinery arrives which will be within the next few weeks; the operation of the complete equipment will be begun. The new plant will be nnisnea oy tne miacue of November. The -Magnolia mill is capitalized at $40,000. Textiles Notes. Over $250,000 has been subscribed for the new cotton mill which is to be built at La Grange, Ga. r The Fayetteville Mill Co. of Fay etteville, Tenn.,: has been incorporated with ; capital stock of $110,000, for manufacturing cotton goods, by Messrs. H. K. Holman, A. M. Mc Laughlin, J. H. Rees, J. H. Harms md C. T. Harms. Talladega, Ala. The new machin ery of the Chinnabee - Cotton Mills will consist of 1,500 spindles and tho necessary preparatory .y machinery. About: $20,000 will be the cost. of the additional equipment. The company has been operating 3,500 . ring spindles and manufacturing yarns. m It is locat ed at Talladega, Ala. - , v ; Messrs L. W. Brown and Charles C. Vaughn of Winston, N. C., and Albert M. Brown of St. Louis, Mo., have in corporated the Pioneer Manufactur ing Co. with capital, stock of -$25,000 for textile manufacturing. NORTH STATE NEWS Occurences , of Interest in Various Parts of the State. -. v. Charlotte Cotton Morket. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Good middling:. ...... .. ....9.90 totrict middling . . ...... .... 9.90 Middling. ..... i ... ....... . .9.90 Middling.. ..9.75 General Cotton Market. . Houston, steady, middling. . . .10 3-16 Augusta, steady, middling: . . 10 Memphis, steady, middling . .10 3-16 bt. Louis, quiet, middling:. . . . . .10 Louisville, firm, middling. .... .10 T Industrial Progress. tin acordance with the long estab lished habit of the State Department of ; Agriculture, Imigration and Sta tistics, and annual bulletin has just been issued from the press which pre sents a list of the cotton, woolen and silk mills of the State, of miscellan eous establishments, by counties, in cluding . fertilizer factories and oil mills, furniture, sash, door and blind, brooms, cotton gins, saw and lumber chairs, plows, brick and tile, baskets, and crates, ice wagons and buggies, dairies, coffins, overalls and pants, bags shuttles, terra-cotta pipes, ma chine shop and foundry, mattresses, harness and , various others ; and a registry of improved cattle, hogs, hor se sheep and poultry. It has been difficult to obtain a complete list, and dpubtless this one as presented is not perfect. Year by year the depart ment has sought tox make the list more and more complete, but some owners and manugers of the manu facturing plants are averse to or very slow in, giving the information asked for They fail to recognize that the bulletin, going to many thousand read ers, in! the "State and sought for by many enquirers from without the State, is offering free -an excellent medium of advertising their business. Attempted Suicide. Wilmington, Special. -J. O. Vaugh an, 45 years old, a traveling sales man for a spool cotton company in New York, attempted suicide at his hotel here by cutting his throat with a razor. He was found by one of the hotel attaches about 11 o'clock in a hallway, blood streaming from three ugly wounds in his throat. The act was evidently that of a madman, as half a dozen men weer required to hold him on the bed until the hospital ambulance came. If he can be quiet ed his wounds will "probably not be fatal. Vaughan has a family at Nor cross, Ga., and was well known in the South. New Hotel Tor Halifax. Halifax, Special. Dr. H. B. Furgu 5on has cleared the site for the new brick hotel, on the lot where the old Southern was burned some years ago. The hotel is badly needed and it will be a decided improvement. North" State News. An accident occurred on the "A. & N. C. road late Tuesday evening in which Conductor Bigford of a work train, got a sprained ankle, and a laborer was slightly hurt. The ac cident was the result of a log train running into the rear end of a work train. Ten or twelve log trucks were piled up, but were cleared away in time enough to let the No. 2 pass Wed nesday morning. The blame for the accident has not been placed yet. New Bern Journal. While running in front of his train at Apex to open a switch, Mr. Sidney Young, a Seaboard Air Line flagman stumbled and fell, and was run over by the freight train and very serious ly injured. A charter is granted the bank of Jones County at Trenton, capital stock $42,500. Thosmas D. Warren and others stockholders, to do .i com mercial and savings bank busines. Dewev's Appeal Refused. A-special from Raleigh - says: The State supreme court, Chiet Justice Walter Clarke and Associate Justice Hoke dissenting:, handecT down an op inion denying motion of counsel for. a new trial for. Thomas W. Dewey, defaulting cashier the Merchants' and Farmers' bank ot New Bern. Dewey was recently sentenced to six imnrisonment in tho State pen itentiary. The motion for new trial was based upon tne raiiure oi tne rn-ftciKnf? iudsre to reduce his entire charge to writing, Dewey was charg A 'fft embezzlement of about $130.- f 000 belonging to the bank. , NEW INDUSTRY FOR SOUTH V High Point is to Have an Organ Fac tory . High Point, N. C, Special.The latest acquisition to Hight Point's di versity of manufacturing interests is factory to manufacture organs. The gentleman promoting the enter prise met with some of the business men and the required capital stock as raised in a few minutes. The pro moter is a man of experience in i the manufacture of organs and other mus ical instruments. It is learned that the capital stock wil be $25,00 to be gin with. High Point can handle the product of such an industry as well as tnat oi any other wood working plant, and as it is on a new line the people here will take a great interest m its development. Deputy Sheriff Bound Over. Dunn, Special. The anti-liquor and blind tiger movement in this communi ty has not in the least abated it is determined to suppress the Honor evil in all of its various forms. The tem perance forces in this vicinity are working with an unconquerable perse verance and good results are follow- lg. The Federal authorities have made this place headquarters appar ently for some time. .They destroyed one blockade or moonshine distillery outfit this week in Banner township, about four miles from Benson. The ,work was done by J. P. H. Adams and A. F. Suries. The operatives were not arrested but it is almost certain that they will be as their identity is established. L. M. Ryals, the deputy sheriff of Johnston, and who resides at Benson, was bound over to the Fed eral court under a bond of $200 for selling without license. Laying the Track. Durham. Sneeial. The Durham and Southern will be running "trains into Durham, before the holidays are over, according to a statement made by Captain R. I. Cheatham, general man ager of the road. Captain Cheatham has - just returned from a trip oyer the road. He said the work was pro gressing rapidly. The road bed has been sraded and large forces of hands are now working in laying the track. This road runs from here: to Apex and will connect at Apex with the main line of the Seaboard and with the Cape Fear and Northern. The freight depot for this road will be. it is said, next to the court houses This proper ty has been purchased for that pur pose, but as yet there is.no work on building. The road will enter Dur ham from East Durham over the right of way of the Seaboard and the South ern roads. There is talk tnat ior thenresent the freight depot of the Seaboard road will be used by the new road. Child's Sad Death. Warrenton, Special. The circum stances causing the death of the 9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bagg, of Hawtree, are very sad. The child was on top of a wagon load of seed cotton with its father Monday evening, when by a sudden jerk of the horses he was thrown to the ground and one wheel passed over his body, mashing it so badly that he nev er regained consciousness and died during the night. The little hoy was an exceedingly bright child for his ago and his sudden taking away from his loved one was a great shock. Dixon Gets $1,500 Damages. Asheville, Special In the Superior court the case of Anderson Dixon, ad ministrator, vs. the Southern Railway was decided ,the plaintiff being award ed $1,500 damages for the death of Hezekiah Dixon, who was run over and kiled by a freight train near Black Mountain some time ago. Two More Expelled. Raleigh, Special Two more Soph mores at the Agricultural, and Me chanical Colege here have been dis missed for hazing, making four since the term began. The two now dis missed were implicated in the first, hazing as well as in the hazing of last week. : . Incorporations. The Middle Creek; Lumber Com pany," of Franklin, Macon county with $100,000 authorized and $25,000 sub scribed , capital stock was chartered. The incorporators are: W. C. Smith, Nathala ; R. F. Branner, Otto ; and F. S. Johnson, Franklin. The People's Supply Company of Wilmington, with $100,000 authorized and $4,000 paid in capital stock, was chartered. The object of the concern is to conduct a general mercantide business. The incorporators are: W.' Cooper and L. E. McClellan, all of Wilmington. COTTON CROP REPORT Recent Enormous Consumption of the Southern Mills REPORT ISSUED FOR A FULL YEAR Pirst Census Bureau Bulletin On the v Subject Shows An Aggregate of 14, 456s994 Bales, of Which 61 Per Cent. Consumed At Home, Leaving ' a Surplus of 9 Per Cent. Washington, Special.The census Bureau issued a bulletin showing the production and distribution of the cot ton of the United States 1 available between September 1, 1904, and Sep tember 1, 1905, to be 14,455,994 bales. Of this 61 per cent, was exported, 30 per cent, was used in domestic con- -sumption, leaving a surplus of nine per cent. The domestic consumption includes 36,776 bales destroyed by fire. " ne exportation amounted to 8, 834,929 bales, the domestic consump tion 4,315,756 and the surplus 1,305, 309., Of the total 13,693,279 bales were included in the crop of 1904 and the remainder in that of 1905. Of the quantity consumed in the United States, 2,138,829 bales were used in Northern and 2,140,151 in Soutrehn mills. BANNER EXPORT YEAR. In addition to the totals given 124, 469 bales of foreign cotton were im norted into the TTnitPfT St.ntps dnrino' j. o the year. The exportation for the year covered exceeded that of any previous 12 months by 1,144,452 bales and they exceeded the average for the past ten years by 2,313,94S bales. New Orleans, with a total of 2,463,421 bales, held first rank as an exporting point, but was close pressed by Gal veston with 2,388,318 bales. Savan nah, Ga., with 1,290,989 bales held third place. The value of the -total export was $404,209,293. The export of raw cotton was dis tributed in bales as follows : To United Kingdom, 4,043,999 ; Belgium, 161,151 ; France, 857,103; Germany, 2,115,672 ; Italy, 536,929 ; Russia, 125, 463; Spain, 289,688; other European countries, 172,112 ; ; Japan, 324,668 ; British North America, 125,407 ; Mexi co, 73,276; all other countries 9461; . SOUTH'S HUNGRY SPINDLES. " The total number of . producing spindles in the United States is re ported at 24,077,524 of which 8,211, 734 were in the South and 15,865,790 in the North. Notwithstanding the great difference in the number of spindles of the two sections the con sumption of cotton is practically the same. The annual consumption of cotton per- spindle in the Northern mills is 67 pounds, compared with 124 pounds in' the South. The difference in the per spindle consumption indi cates that the Northern mills are spinning yarns of very much greater fineness than those turned out by the Southern mills. The large output of the Southern mills this season has been mainly of heavy fabrics to sup ply a greatly increased demand from China and the Orient. The report shows that in 25 years the production of the United States has increased from 5,755,359 to 13, 693,279 bales, and that the, total .con- : sumption of cotton in this, country has increased from 1,671,383 to 4,378, 928 bales. Within the last five years the cotton-consuming establishments of the Southern States have increased -their consumption from 1,483,711 to" 2,140,151 bales. . During these five years the Northern cotton-consuming establishments have actually decreas- t ed their consumption by 16,955 bales, explained by these mills being en gaged during this period in replacing old machinery by more modern. ; v Collision on Pennsylvania. -Millersville, " Pa., Special. Three men were killed, one anan was injured J and a cardload of race horses were either kiled or so badly hurt that they had to be shot as the result of a col lision at the junction of the Lykens Valley branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, a quarter mile south of this place Monday. Pat Crowe's Confession. Butte, Mont., Special. Pat Crowe, . hasadmitted that he was -in umana six weeks ago and engaged in a pistol duel with the police, during which an officer was shot. He says the police fireu 16 shots at'him before he replied and that he ODeuod fire to save his -own life. He said his sole object int coming here was to surrender believ ing that he had better give himself up at a aistance irom uume, bu iua- 1- i J l Vn in yieldmgytoextraditioh he -might; make f terms favorable to himself with ;the . Nebraska authorities. ; ' " " '