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-Li i 1 Three Cents the Copy, INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. ' Subscription Price, $1.00 pCr Year in Advance. r VOL XI. COLUMBUS, N. C, TH URSDAY, APKIL 5, 1906. NO. 19. G, 1 PERKINS ARRESTED . - - I SEWS RECORD IMMIGRANT RUSH I ENTOMBED MINERS SAVED 111 ' I I I l : I BITS C h Xiied With Grand Larceny of $48,- GOO of Insurance Funds. HONEY FORCAMPAIGN PURFOSES I'dVlllfl' Vice-President of the eiv York l.ilV Now J. P. aw No Wrong in the Contribution -l onnsM Makes" j Statement i tn, aot Client i Paroled. it- N w York City. George W. Perkins, v ih.T vice-president of the New York j.iu- Insurance Company and a partner in !ie firm of J. P. Morgan & -Co., was . ivsieti on a warrant charging him v h J he commission of a felony i;;ind l:irceny ia the first degree. lie v.-s -pared the 'ordeal of heiug ar ivuucd before the magistrate who is -.1 !ha warrant, the 'usual procedure, Part II. of the Sn- ; was taken td !t.i Court before Justice Ureenbaum ...i ;i writ of habeas corpus which had i. tM ii prepared before the arrest was .nu'.ia'. ami released in the custody of ii. i counsel, Lewis L. Delafield, with- hriug compelled tolput up ?ai!. 'flic i'and larceny eharuo is the al-!..--!l theft of $48,702.50 contributed by M . iVrkius. for the New York Life In-j-iMtnii (Company, to the Republican i.ni.i! campaign fund iu 1004. Ac; ru:,!;'!-' to a statement made in court ;h, :.i;r President John A. McCall, of j!: Ni'w York Life, authorized the pay li i iii of the money, aud the other inem-..-v- of the Finance Committee of that -..i - ii 'ration approved of the payment t" Mr. Perkins, who had advanced the n ..'ir, lb Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer i ; ;;. campaign committee. .lofing the arrest it I'ecame ;.M.wn for the first time thai Mr. Per k us had given to Mr. Jerome much in- i.rmatidn concerning the eircum-;:iiit-es regardiug the politAal contri i ::iin. and that he had been instru liii'iii.tl in placing before the District Attorney account books and checks of :iit New York Life Company bearing mi the payments. It was in answer to h request from. Mr. Jerome that Mr. lvrkins vouchsafed this information. In his answer to the District Attor tiy Mr. Perkins wrote before his ar- vt-si that the question of the legality ol these political contributions came to liiai as a surprise, it never having oe-i'-w -red to him that their propriety would be questioned, as he believed tin y wert for the, benefit df the com i::ay. He added that he derived no l'("onal advantage from the trausac t'oii;' that he had no intent other than io serve the interests of the company, -aud. he said,, "It is not my intention to dispute or to deny civil liability to ac ioant to the company for these rijon .'-" '! ' " ''.'''' Or. the depositions of Darwin P. Kinsslev. vice-president of the New V. rk Life, and Edmund D. Randolph. treasurer, is based the warrant for Mr. Perkins' arrest, in Which he is i juired with having committed "'grand .::! eny in its first degree'' on Decent ! 30. 1001. the date on which the : a;pany's check was drawn to repay i iin for his disbursements' to Mr. Bliss. SIX MEN MURDERED Bodies ' Found in.au Old House From Xi-hich Others Escaped. Minneapolis.' Six murdered Buigar 'tus were fouird in ah old house at No. i').", Tenth avenue. South, and the po ;ice ai'o uncertain 'ow or when the in nrders were committed, although the "vidence obtained indicates that the iiii u were killed in . ajiuarrel among ".vyeive Bulgarians whoThad rented the nouse. Robbery was uo. ; the cause of u II the . nitu'ders, as a grert deal f money was found on the bodies. The jxiliee also scouJ: tho idea of any secret -uk'ty with motives of revenge. Tour of ihe bodies, horribly cut and ! ished with knives, .were found in a mom ot (he second floor, whil in the liar were two others with their iii-oats cut. Near the bodies were otmd " . large -Louie knives and u hatchet.- Two,' the D'uiitris, were evi dently faihe. , ajjd, so ;. , Most of Aha vicn were comparatively young ana were smootliTaced." i he elder Dlmitri said to have oeeim Chicago priest. The ..alionallty- cZ. the men) was o Hrmined. by theRev. Mr.: Boskowicjs, l astor of a Greek cbuvch, who read the 'etters iound in the rouse. He found among the papers a discharge from the -Turkish 'army belonging to Agne Ka rofil. $UKKV00 JOHNSTOWN FIRE. ! ''I.--:-- i' ve Rusfuess Blocks in the Pennsyl vania City Are Destroyed. . -To'mxibwnrPa. Fire destroyed near f .51,000,000 worth of property in the "'ix'.ss part of this city. The fire Whirled' about' midnight in the five-story ' 'irk buNding of the Swank Hardware ''oiupany, at Main and Bedford streets, J'l was not under control till daylight, following are 'the principal losses: Swauk Hardware Company $200,000, iufurnucc .$120,000; tenants In the same ''"illing $20,000, insurance $10,000; I-ouik A. Gels, home . and busiuess Place, toss $30,000, insurance .?20,000: Io;n)ai Company, morniug newspaper. pU)0, insurance ?ir,000; Henderson 'fnrniture Company $70,000, insurance ),0fl0; Fisher & Co., 80,000, iusnr :ite ?20.000; George Wild $50,000, in soiance fjartial: Bernard Nees, hard ware, 12,000, insurance $6000; other rp".ints in the Wild Building $S000. i);ir(ly insured. . "'' . I'ive of the most prominent business ockx of the city , were laid in ruins. the fire for a time threatened to Wuse the total destruction of the busi es district. VASIIINGTON. Resolutions designed to correct ibuses in public printing were adopted n the House. President Roosevelt told the Keep Commission there was too much red .ape in the executive departments. Unanimous report will be made by the House Judiciary Committee that Congress cannot control corporations, md that life insurance is not com mence. Representative Payne, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, defl aitelv announced that . Congress will not undertake to revise the tariff. Secretary Taft explained to the .Sen ate Committee in Military Affairs the payment by the Government of Gen eral "Wood's traveling expenses while on his recent trip from and to Manila. By unanimous vote the House Com mittee on Judiciary agreed that insur ance cannot be regarded as interstate commerce, and decided to make a re oort i:o the House to that eftet. The House, with only one d?ssencing rote, refused to cut cut an appropria- ion of $1100 for Mrs. Roosevelt's so cial secretary. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. There is no place in the Philippines mitable for the location of the dry dock Dewey, which is being towed from the United States. The harbors at Manila itnd-Subig Bay are said to be too shal low.. The city government of Manila in vites proposals for the purchase of a lease for a fashionable hotel. The city has no good hostelry at present. The steamer Urmstoh Grange has reached Guam with the Commercial Company's cable, which is to be laid between Guam and Japan. Accompanied by a party of army of ficers Major-General Wood left Manila to locate the spot at San Jacinto where Major John Alexander Logan was killed, and to erect a monument Jto his memory. In seven months of 190u, ending Jan uary 1, 1906. the United States shipped to Guam goods to the value of f 403. DOMESTIC. Counterfeit $10 bills of the buffalo fype have been scattered broadcast at Fort Worth, Texas. , A fire, which started in the Frank Thornton Drygpods . Company's stores, Fayettevllle, N. C, in the centre of the city, destroyed eleven buildings. The loss is estimated at $300,000. After killing his wife and shooting Elizabeth Schmal, a servant, through the arm, H. K. Garraway, a farmer aear Hot Springs, Ark., killed himself. Attorney-General Hadley, of Mis souri,' upon an intimation that John D. Rockefeller would meet him in private in New York City, and answer ques tions, declined. , Herman Reckling, of West Hazleton, Pa., tied a stick of dynamite about his neck and struck it with a hammer. Reckling's head was torn into shreds. Following the suicide of Miss Ford, at Hartford, Ky., because she was ac cused of theft, it was learned that she was innocent, and criminal suits may follow. Because she would not marry him in opposition to her parents' wishes. Roy Shanks killed Grace Zellner, at Mans-: lipid. Ohio, and then committed suicide. Seven of the jurors who found six voting men guilty of participation in the recent riots at Springfield. Ohio, when negro quarters were burned, have asked Judge Miller iiol to inflict a greater fine than $1 each (and costs. They contributed their feies toward paying these. j Judge Bordman, at Tampa, Fla.. sen tenced George H. Stephens, formerly a professor in Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa., to a term of two years ia the penitentiary for counterfeiting. -Andrew Hamilton produced a vouch er for $75,000, signed by Cornelius N. Bliss, received from the New York Life for campaign purposes. ... The Ohio Senate by a vote of 13 to 12 defeated the Pollock bill to legalize pool-selling at Ohio race-tracks: Charged with the murder of his mother. Jani?V D00I37 is in jail at Dan ville, Va. ; - " V FOREIGN. The Ministry of War, at Barcelona, Spain, is organizing four strong flying columns for the suppression of agita tion by the Carlists. :; . Emperor William of Germany has suddenly: abandoned his intended trips to the Medtterranean and to Madrid. The-' Rjussian Emperor received a Tieputatiqn of peasants and 'promised severe measures in case of a renewal af agrarian disorders i he made no ref erence to a division of lands among them. . .Workmen r.t Moscow have decided that it would not bo advisable to make an effort for a general strike .before Easter. " -' ' The Liberals in the British Parliah tnent are at work on a measure which Is expected to provide a form of home rule for Ireland; the bill, it Is believed, will be introduced at the next session Df Parliament. j: j The Swedish Parliament has decided to maintain unchanged the present luty on wheat. - - At the very gates of St. Petersburg peasants cutting trees in the forest put tonight guards sent to suppress them. Many earthquake shocks have oc curred in the Island of Ustica, Italy, destroying all the houses and creating Wholesale Prices Qaoled ia New York MILK. " The Milk Exchange, price quality is 3ci per quart. ( ' BUTTER. Creamery Western, extra. $ 'Firsts. , State dairy tubs, firsts.... Imitation creamery Factory, thirds to firsts.... CHKQSE. State, full creair. fancy Small.... .. Part skims, good to prime tor' standard -27 m 27 24 & 2f i 21 (i? 24 17 (Si - 20 13 16 13r mi 8 (fx 9i (Si 7 . 3 . 4 10 & 20 18 (a, 19 (d. 15Vi 14 & 15 I art skims, common Full skims CGG9. Jersey Fancy . .' State and Perm. Western Firsts ' 8EASS AND Beans Marrow, choice. Medium, choice,: .. . . 'Pea, choice. ... lied kidney, choice. . . . White kidney . ....... Yellow eye. ... Black turtle soup.. . Lima, Cal -. PEAS. , . . 3 07. ... 10 05 60 2 1 2 1 2 70 Oil 72 i . 1 3 20 55 ( 1 00 (oJ 3 45 (w 3 20 ...J kkuits and nrcrtniES fuesh. Apples, Baldw in, per lbl. .. 4 25 (? 5 25 Greenine, per bbl ...... 3 50 G 00 Ben Davh. per bbl 4 50 ( 5 50 Northern Spv, per bbl. . . 4 25 01 00 Cranberries ....20 00 32S 00 Mra wherrifts. ner at. ,. . .iv fw .U ' 3 1-'- 'X , ; LIVE POULTr.T. Fowl?:, per lb C"' Chickens, per lb.... Roo.-ter. per lb... 0 Turkeys, per lb.. .. 10 Ducks, per pair.... ...... 60 tieese, per pair. ... 1 25 (dl Pigeons, per pair 30 (?' DRESSED POOI.TBT. 15 1 1 , 1173 im 18 85 75 35 l uriieys, per u io Chickeiis. Phila., per lb.... 16 Capons, per lb.... ........ 13 Fowls, per lb.... 1 - . 11 Ducklings, per lb 20 Squabs, per dozen... - 1 50 HOPS. 19 10 lb 14 Of. 22 0 0 State, 1905, prime t choice Common to fair Pacific Coast, 1905, choice.. Good to prime.... ...... II 1i 8 13 12 9 r S5 82 M: 72W 70 5 g II AT and straw Hay prime, per 100 lb..... No. 1, per 100 lb No. 2, per 100 lb 80 70 Co CO (a Clover mixed, per 100 lb. Straw, long rye 05 VEGETABLES. Potatoes, Eastern, per bag. 1 75 2 00 Mate, per bag.... 1 w Sweets, per basket 60 Tomatoes, per carrier...... 1 50 Egg plant, per box 1 50 Squash, per. box.. ....... 1 CO 1 85 1 12 (d 5 00 3 00 2 oaV Peas, per basket ........... Peppers, per carrier........ Lettuce, per basket... ..... Cabbage?, per crate..!.,.... String beans, per basket.,. Onions, Orange Co., per bag Conn., white, per bbl Carrots, per 100 bunches.. Beets, per 100 bunches..... Cauliflower, per basket Brussels sprouts, per qt... . Spinach, per bbl... ... .... Turnips, per bbl l'arsbip!. per bbl 1 00 1 00 50 2 00 1 50 75 2 00 2 00 3 00 1 50 10 ; 65 5 00 2 00 1 50 ( 2 62 4 50 'l 25- 6 00 4 00 (& 6 00 2 50 (3: 20 JX) 80 fi 1 25 Of. 2 50 1 25 4 00 (dj 4 00 Of, 4 00 6. 5 00 1 00 Watercress,' per 100 bu'ehes 1 50 Kale, per bbl 1 00 Okta, per carrier.. Parslej-, per 100 bunches... Shallots, per 100 bunches... Horseradish, per 100 lb.... Leeks, per 100 bunches.... Scaliions, per basket...... Oyster plants, 100 bunc-he?. CRAIX. ETC. Flour Winter patents..... - Spring patents Wheat, No. I N. Duluth... No. 2 red.... Corn, No. 2 white. No. 2 yellow.. .......... Oats, mixed Oipped white... Lrd, city. .. . I , LIVE STOCK. Beeye?, city dressed Calyes, city dressed ' Country dressed Sheep, per 100 lb..: Lariibs. per 100 lb ......... . Ho5, live, per 10!) lb Country dressed, per lb.. 2 00 2 00 1 00 2 00 3 00 Of 5 00 (Si 8 00 3 90 4 25 95 Wi 52 52 36 30U O - - (a? (' 0 6 8 (a) 8 00 (of 5 12 11 50 00 (? 7 12ifi 50 7 00 9 WEIGHT OF EGGS REGULATED. Two Ounces Apiece Fixed as Standard. by Iowa Legislature. ' Des Moines, Iowa, Hen' in Iowa are hereafter expected to lay' their eggs in uniform weight of two ounces each. for the Legislature. has jnst passed a uew Weights and Measures law which includes this imoortant Iowa product. It provides that the standard weight of one dozen eggs shall .be twenty-four ounces, and' permits merchants to sell them by weight should they desire and the purchaser be willing to accept this method. No means of compromise Is suggested in case twelve eggs over weigh the standard fixed. ' The new law gives standard weight to seventy articles, some of which never before had official weight in Iowa.' These are beets, alfalfa,' pea nuts and canary seed. RAISIN COMBINE A FAILURE. California Concern Closes and Growers Accept What Packers Will Give. Fresno. Cal. The last of 2500 checks was mailed to raisin growers and the California Raisin Growers'. Company a bier co-oDerative organization, is ft thing of the past. About 100 clerks were discharged, the extensive offices nre beincr closed ud. and hereafter only a cashier will represent the $5,000,000 concern that promised so much a year ago foe the raisin industry of Calif or- nia. ' . ;'. Raisin growers will now sell their crops individually, tne pooling scneme having failed. Packers can now regu late nrices. as mo.t growers must ac cept what they offer. The price of rais ins is now three to four cents a pound. and large acreages have been sold' at this figure for the coming season. Seven fciners Land V,S83 at New York in One Day, OYER HALF ARE YOUNG GIRLS New Mxtrit For tlte t-'utur Aineriran . Kace Teutonic, Fram Liverpool, Brined a Rig Batch of Kos?-CheAlid CoIlcrnM-lTho SIhvh Pie jnniinate ISO Fortus;net For SoutU and Wtt. .New York City .Statisticians and forecasters of the Immigration Bureau, found all their calculations upset when ll.CSI aliens, turning their faces smil ing with hce and courage toward the land of the free and thrifty, uazed for the first time upon the Statue of I.ib erty. ( In seven ships there sailed Into port the largest number of immigrants, so far as there is any record, that ever Iaiidcd within twenty-four hours at New York or on these shores. The hu man stream clogged the great man handling machine of inspectors, regis tration clerks, surgeons. Avatchmen. boards of special inquiry, discharge 'clerks baggage men. railroad officials t and money exchange clerks on Ellis 'Island. The 'staff toiled early and late, but as the capacity of the bureau i only .r000 a day, half of the newcomers had to be held in the ships to be discharged next day. Of the entire 11,3S3 ouly about one per cent, are Russian refugees. Of the others' about 000 are Irish, and r mostly rosy-cheeked young colleens. They are mostly a fine, healthy, vig orous lot of peasantry. The new immi gration law. which has a provisiou sub jecting the steamship companies to, a line of 500 for every immigrant they land here who is unfit physically, has rendered them careful. - Of the Teutonic's 1017 steerage pas sengers more than one-half were from flreland. Only ahalf dozen in the en- tiro number were more than forty years of age. More than 400 of the Irish contingent were under the Der- , sonai guidance of Colonel Robert Mul rponey. of Limerick, and his lieutenant- colonels, Dennis Quill, of Kil-Garvin, County Kerry, and John F. Quinn, of Cork City, who, by unanimous consent, I were constituted leaders. pearly a dozen couples were wed just before they embarked on the tender to board the Teutonic at Cork Harbor. About the same number had been mar ried within a month. As the result of association in the ship no less than a score of marriages are scheduled to take place within the next month. Among these s ill be that Of the "Colonel" and his sweetheart. Altnosi half of the entire number of immigrants aire young girls wito are seeking employment as servants. Preparations have already been made by. cable ;.d ices fcr their reception by various societier. It is likely that most of them will remain in New York for a week or, more, while the women who are interested in their welfare secure places for them out of town. Indeed, most of the immigrants, both men and women, arc hound westward and will simply pass through the city. Agents and societies are doing all, in their power to" divert the current of im migration from rew York and turn it westward and southward. There was a long stream of Russian refugees, including patriarchs with curly beards, women and children. young, men iu caps and top boots, and girls with handkerchiefs for head gear. pounug over the - Ellis Island ferry. The v Russians mostly came on the Rhciu frem Bremen and the Graf Waldersee from Hamburg. The Brooklyn, of the Frank -Zotti Steamship Company, brought 750 im migrants, for the most part Portuguese from the Azores. They are generally discharged at New Bedford, but this marks the beginning of a new era. and Portuguese immigrants will hereafter be landed here in numbers. Tiie!issengers from the Milano and the Cretic are bound mostly for West ern Pennsylvania and Ohio to work in the .mines and on the railroads. At . Ellis Island the strange, unex pected swelling tide, of humanity from the Old urond is Interpreted to me an index of theabundant prosperity" of this country at present, and the open winter has enabled the friends of the immigrants to arrange for the early coming of their cousins. , Classified by ships and roughly by nationalities the immigrant arrival was as follows: . Citta di Milano. 12DS Italians: Ten- tonic, 1017 English and Irish: Rhein, 2300 Germans. Swedes and Hungar ians: Graf Waldersee, 2537 Germans. Russians and Hungarians: Cretic, 2100 Irish. English and Germans, and Pisa, 12ST. Italians", and Brooklyn, formerly an army transport, 750 Portuguese. This one day's arrival of immigrants is as large as the population, according to the 1900 census, of each of these cities: Morristown. N. J.; Peeksklll. N. Y.; Saratoga Springs, Rutland. Vt.; Augusta, Me.; Ansonia. Conn.: Cairo, 111.: Batou Rouge, La.: Charlestown, W. Va.: Corning, N. Y.; Chillicothe, O.; Denuison. Tex.; Fort Smith; Ark., and Glens Falls. N. Y. -- entrictln Iinmfrrarion. Washington, D. C. -Senator Dilling ham submitted the report of the Com mittee on Imniieratiou ou his hill amending the immigration laws. , The head tax on incoming aliens is increased from $2 to $5. ana steam ships are subject to. fines of $100 for bringing to the United States any per- sou preventec" from entering by reason of afflictions of mind or body. 1 . - - Thirteen Rescued After Twenty Davs in a French Colliery.- APPEARED AS FROM A GRAVE Llrins on liarlr, Stay, Oat aiul Mom flesh, TJiey Make Their Way to an Open Shaft and Surprise Salvage Men Owe Their I.iTes to the Conrage of One Man. ' " ! " ' Lens, France. Thirteen miners who were entombed in the Courrieres mine at the time of the great fire disaster there on March 10 have been taken alive from their underground prison by a searching party which was en gaged in exploring the mine. The men had lived for twenty days shut off from the light and almost de prived of air. ! With : one exception they were all well when reached by the iescuers, although they could not have lived much longer. - " The rescued men 'were taken from Shaft No. 2. As the searching party was engaged in this shaft noises were, heard. The explorers called out and there were answers to their shouts. They began digging hurriedly in-the lirection from which the answers came and finally reached the fourteen men, who were quickly taken to the ground above. When they were cut off from escape by the explosion and fire which fol lowed, the miners took refuge in a stable used for the mules employed in the mines. They had subsisted for lays on the lunches of their dead com rades, which had been taken down an the day of the disaster. When this food had been exhausted, they resorted to eating wheat and oats, which were kept in the stable for the mules. Water was also found, and in 'ihis manner the entombed miners" man iged to sustain their lives. , j One of the rescued miners was a boy )f fourteen who had endured the hard ships to which all had been subjected with all the courage manifested by hi seniors. j Nemy, who was the most lucid of the aimers who eseaped, described their imprisonment, as follows: "After the explosion, I groped my pay about, stumbling over bodies and seeking refuge from the gases, I 'ound some comrades sheltered in a remote niche. We ate earth and bark Tor eight days and then these provis ons gave out. We continued to grope imong the bodies seeking for an out let from our prison, but were forced back time and time again. We found some hay which we ate and two days afterwards we found a dead horse which we cut up and ate with the hay met bark. We suffered most from want jf water. Finally we became desper ite anl separated into three parties md communicated with each other by houts. At last we feit a draft of fresh air which finally guided us to an Dpening. A.nother rescued man. Lefebvre. when asked. if he had slept, replied: "We never closed our eyes. Eometimes we iozed, but Nemy, who took command, vvould not permit -us to sleep." The rescued men are being kept in semi-darkness. Doctor Loutiers. who s iu charge of the patients, says that he men are suffering from ptomaine poisoning, from eating the decomposing horse flesh. i The :;arty originally numbered twen y men, of whom six disappeared dur ing the gropings iu the d..rkness. The Courrieres disaster was one of the worst in the history of mining. It accurred on March 10. An explosion of fire damp set the mine ablaze. The exact number of deaths has been esti mated at about 1200. ACCUSED OF $3, 000 ROBBERY. J. A. Tarney, Note Teller of the Bank of North America, Arresteil. ; 1 ' New York City. Joseph A. Turney, for many years a note teller In the National Bank of North America, has been arrested charged wit'i robbing the br.nk of $34,CK). The orHcers of the institution allege that turney has been appropriating moneys to hisr own vse Itr five or six years and carinc the thefts by false entries in hi books Turney is about fifty years old, and has been employed by the hank for thirty-three years, entering its -service as an xice nor. specu.ation iu jaii Street caused his downfall. NEW BATTLESHIP A FLYER. New Jersey Exceeds Requirements on Standardization Trip. Rockland, Me. The standardization trip of the new battleship New Jersey, built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, of Quincy, Mass.. was very successful. The. contract requirement of nineteen knots an hour was exceed ed, a maximum speetl at the rate of 19.4S knots per hour being attained. The mean of the five runs' at top speed was 19.02 knots. The trial was held on the Owl's Head-measured mile conrsei The New Jersey is a first-class battle ship, of 14,000 tons, and is 435 feet long on the water line. Coachman "Kills Footmau. Cornelius N. Bliss coachman. David Burhans, ager fifty, murdered Thos. ilegarty. the footman, aged thirty, and killed himself ih the private stable of ii's employer, in New York City. The ntirderer was jealous because the iilisscs were taking up automobiling and Hegarty was in training to be their chauffeur. , Items of Interest From Many Parts of the State MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS Happenings of More or Less Import ance Told in Paragraphs The Cot ton Markets. Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent the prices paid to wagons Good middling. ... Strict middling.. .. Midding. . .. . . .. . ......11 n .... ..10 7-8 10 7-5 . ..9 to 10 1-4 Good middling, tinged Stains General Cotton Market. Galveston, firm .11 1-4 New Orleans, easy. . . Mobile, easy. ... . . . . Savannah, steady. . Charleston, lirm .... . Wilmington, steady.. Baltimore, nominal . . . New York quiet . . Boston, quiet .... Philadelphia, quiet . . Houston, steady Augusta, firm. . . . . Memphis, steady .... St. Louis, steady .... Louisville, firm . 11 1-3 ......11 IS ... ..11 1-16 . .11 ... ..11 3-8 11 1-2 . ..11.70 ......11.70 ......1155 . ....11 1-4 . ....111-4 ... . ,11 1-4 .. ....II 3-8 . ....111-2 rormnlating Plans. Durham, Special: The recently ap pointed directors of( the North Caro lina Farmers' Protective Association met in Hotel Carrolina for the pur pose of perfecting plans and carry ing out the ideas recently expressed at the State convention of this or ganization regarding the solicitation of stock and building of. storage houses and erecting tobacco facto ries. Each of the directors, J. A. Long, Roxboro; D. L. Allen, Gran villeVPB. Neal, Rockingham ;G. G. Moore, Person, and John L. Bailey! Elm City, was present; Col. J. S. Cunningham, President of the asso ciation; J. 0. W. Gracerly, Rockj . Mount, also in attendance " on ""the meeting. One amtter discussed was . the fixing of salaries of officers, and the idea seems to be that the salaries shall be fixed according to the mem bership of the association. Organ izers will be sent into all of the to bacco growing counties of the State, the intention of the directors being to have an organizer for each tobac co county. . , Drowned in Tub. Hlkin, Special The little three- year-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Transou, who live at the shoe factory, was accidentally drowned. The mother was busy preparing the even ing meal and the little fellow was playing on the porch. When she call ed him and got no response she com menced a search. Going to the spring near by, then to the creek, and return ing again to the house he was found to have fallen headforemost into s tub of water. Dr. Reece was called immediately and did everything pos sible to restore life but it was impos sible. Compulsory Education Law. Ashevilie. Special. A vigorous fight will be made this year to pass a compulsory education law for this city under the act. of the last Assem bly providing that a . vote may be taken on the measure, and also on th matter of an appropriation of $30,: 000 for additional school buildings A measure of "this nature has manj advocates here, and they will make a strong and systematic campaign tc have their desires brought about at the polls some time after July 1st. " Tar Heel Notes. , Governor Glenn is to speak in iocky Mount at the Masonic Opera Herase on the fifth of April, the oc casion to.be the presentation of as oil portrait, of Mr. R. H. Ricks tc Corinthian Lodge No. 230 ( A..F. and A. M. A delightful program has been arranged. ... -' - North Carolina again comes to the s front with an industryWiat adds tc the : d iversity. and wider exchange of labevr interests. This time' the fact lies in a charter granted to the O. W, Slane Glas Co., at StatesriJJc,; for the wholesale handling of plate glass md their home manufacture into mirrors, and the general utilization" .of the by-prodncts. The -new; com pany is authorized with $50,000 cap ital -stiek, of ' which there has' been subscribed $20,000. - - V'; A Charlotte is planniug-' to have the greatest 20th of May celebration in its history. - . i . VI- ' If " Ik k : I V 1 3 1' 1. j 1 1 'y i .-! 1 , v .1 . Vi U'l I- ... ;. - X V -' -- - 1 !
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