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fjg Cents the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price. $1.00 Pcr-Ycar in Advanca. f VOL XII. COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1906. NO. 12. II OF SIX I l uii I " . f (Vienna- - Lrhrred in Their Beds SET 10 DESOLATED HOME l.yerly. His Wife and Two Vhild- Mudered as They Slept in Their Lc by Unknown Hands., Beyer- Negress Arrested for the Crime. IpellshcrO. IN. OJJfC'Iill. V'ric ii.t ij.ost horrible trage- i Le history ,.ml!i(y occurred. of near Row-Bar- Jum-lier.. about 40 miles from V rill Ul via v ixivixnii. j-' 4 " ftu 1- 1 3 O j-k j 1 j'aw-wl - vt lilt . n jhm''si or persons entered the of Ike Lyerly, a well known "Mil" 113 uvilljuiHJ ii i. killing Mr. Lyerly, ' his', wife. wi ot'Jh' youngest children and v wounuing the third. o parents and the thre? children akcp in the front room on the floor, there being two elder iitovi iTr:in? nt stairs, who )1 n v - - I. C M. ' ijiiiiiule.-fpd and were awakened ie moI;e from below. The girls mled foe stairs to awaken their h- and mother. On reaching; their tli y beheld their father and ler. and three youngest children : on the bed, their heads were ied and their faces badly dis- e'tl. . . .- ; U two older daughters, Mary and ie. aged' IS and 1G -respectively, ki?ed io carry the dead bodies i the house and extinguish the V. Then they ran to the near- t'isrhhor, W.-B. Barbers, and told ,tvvv of the awful tragedy. There nil fitHi-p?" nf flip law nt lliii . U. VI. Mulliken. train "dispatch- p duly at that hour, was no i tied :jTir?;ptiy wired the news to the ff al ISullbburv, who started at .to- the scene with bloodhounds a nosse of armed men. Blood Is were rdso sent "from Winston- la io. a?sis in the pursuit of the . Lyerly was a highly respected u and well connected and it is ceivable that any one should anything against him or his fain- in'? neiiio men and a negro wo--Oor-jc Krwin, Jack Dillingham Mitche'l (iraham anl his wife been an-psled and , put in jail dishury on suspicion of compli- in the eusp. iiemc;;t is intense in the neigh M ;ind there is talk of lynehingr cvirrinals are caught. Charged With -the Crime. arlotte, Special. Sheriff Julian w;hi comity brought to this city ;'! keeping, JNeal liiliespie. nis Mm (Jillesuie. Jack Dillingham wife, (ieorgo Ervin and Henrv colored, charged with ''the1' mur- '. rsaac Lyerly. his wife and iiHdreu near Barber's Junction. v;;s nothing to indicate a lynch- 't 'Salisbury, but the Sheriff pit best to move the prisoners. kroner rs jury fastened the crime all the prisoners. Nsgroes Made Threats. ' ''M.itt -L. Webb, a white man nad worked witli Neaso Gilles " large mulatto, about 4U years reported that he had heard the the following language: uan Lyerly can cut that wheat uasli it but he will never eat JTfr the money for it." s lecalled somethinjr that Mr. J. eily, a son be a former Avife, eard his father sav. Nease Gil- who is a saw mill band for hu Dellinger, moved into one Isaac Lyerly 's cabins last fall. is son and step-son 'agreed to Ro much land, if they took the A section of wheat was laid r he (ji)lespies sowed part of this, hr,g that they eould get plenty .at eood waires did not soav tdii-e lot. g to contract, worried Mr. Lver- ; jic k spoke to Nease and was, in i-ursed. lunallv, howeve, the r was settled by Mr. Dillinger, w mill owner, agreeing to pay '"u lor Gillespie. Nothing ws heard of the -wheat until tlnjf- a?o, when it had been cut Lyerly who Was Drerjariiiir to H thrashfwl r"hiy Nease Gillesnie wpnf dmvii l-loverly 's house and asked him he was going to do with the t. "Why, I am going to thrash it and use it," said Mr. Lverlv. You will not," declared Nease. Hot words followed and Mr. 'Lyerly ordered the negro out of the yard. It was here Gillespie told v his landlord that he would kill him or die in the attempt If he used the wheat without giving him a share of it. It was after this that Nease told Mr. Webb that Mr. Lyerly might cut the wheat, but he would never eat or sell it. Gillespie had been very" in solent' to Mr. Lyerly. , The crowd which gathered at the Lyerly home heard of this threat of Gillespie and went to his home to arrest him. The negro had gone to his work, a mile or more away, but his wife became frightened and ran to the home of Mr. Dick Files;, a farmer, and begged him to protect her, saying that she would be hanged for killing the Lyeiiys when she had nothing to do with it. Said Gillespie Knew of the Crime. "I don't know nothing about it, but my husband does," saida Gilles pie s wife. " Near the home of Gillespie was a f reshly burnt spot, where a straw bed and other things had been tired since daylight. Those who graveled in the charred place found pieces of cloth ing, and a spoonful of scortched blood. Some paces from the house a bloody shirt, which had been boiled, and was still wet, was discovered in a weed patch. These bits of evi dence, when put together, make an interesting and convincing story. Gillespie's wife was. hysterical and wild. She talked two ways, but the officers. believe that she gave her hus band away to Miv Tiles. Gillespie is described as a fussy negro. One of the ladies told the officers of a conversation that their father had with Dillingham, one of his hands. He had been after Dillingham for being trifling when the negro told him that he was going to leave and go to work at the saw mill. Mr. Lyerly answered: 4 ' Yes, if you go there and work xfire days right straight along I will set you tip." This seemed to rile Dillingham, for he told some one that, except for the reason that he lived on the old man's place, he would have given him a eursins". ' Friday Mrs. Lverlv had trouble with Dillingham's wife, who was tak en to task for leaving dirtv water in a. wash tub, which had been loan ed to her. The negress became mad and abusive. Those who were looking for mo tives thought that Jack Dillingham and his wife should be arrested. Attack On Rowan Jail Salisbury, N. ('., Special. On Sat urday night, just before midnight, desperate attack by a leaderless mob was made upon the jail here with the pu.Vpose 'of dealing summary pun ishment to the alleged murderers of the Barbers Junction family. The officers allowed two committees of the lynchers to go through' the jail and see for themselves that the prisoners had been removed to Charlotte. Then the mob dispersed. New Directors Elected. Elizabeth City, Special The stock holders of. the Elizabeth City Cotton Mill met here and elected a board of directors for the ensuing year, con sisting of C. H. Robinson, J. B. Flora. D. M. Jones, Dr. O. McMullan, G. M. Scott, D. B. Bradford and P. II. Wil liams. . P. II. Williams was elected president, G. M. Scott, vice-president and James G. Gregory secretary and treasurer. A G per cent dividend wa declared. The mill is in a flourishing condition. The Struggle to be Clean. At Christmas time a settlement worker asked . an East Side. , mother what she would like tor a present.'A bath-tub," was the quick reply. "My baby is getting too big for the dish pan." This, declares one of the visitors of the Charities Department in the New York Sun, is not an isolated case. "It is not only the dish-pan that is brought into requisition as a wash bowl, but the sauce-pan, .the potato kettle and the bread-tin. : ' "I always remonstrate with the mothers when this sort of thing comes to -my notice, but it' is a deli cate matter, for one must be careful not to stifle any ambition to be clean. "Frequently we furnish the mothers in the tenements in the poorest sec tions where there are no stationary bath-tubs with portable bath-tubs, and their delight in such instances is more than worth the sum invested." NOT SURPRISED. "They say " said Mrs. Oldcastle, "that there Is a lnot on tthe Higgle son's escutcheon." . "Well" replied her hostess, as she flung her rope of pearls over the fcabk of a chair,. 'T atn't surprised. I've always told Jcsiah that I'd rather have brand new things in the house than any of the old stuff they, get in these Italian castles'-Ohkago . Re- Items of Interest from Many Parts of the State MINOR MATTERS OF STATE NEWS - - m - ' . . " v- Happenings of More or Less Import ance Told in Paragraphs The Cot ton Markets. Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent the i)ris paid to wagons;. 3ood middling .... 11 3n Strict middling. . .. .... ......11.35 Middling .... ..... .. 11.35 ood middling, tinged. ..... . .11 Stains.... ' .... . . Q to in - - - ' : - T-i " " " General Cotton Market. GfalvestOn, steady .,..11 1-16 New Orlenas, quiet and easy. .11 1-8 Mobile, steady. ... Savannah, steady Wilmington, firm Norfolk, steady... Baltimore, nominal .". . .10 :m . .10 3-4 . .10 3-4 "IX 1 3 alX 1"3 . .10.80 .......... ie.so New York, steady. ........ Boston, quiet. . Philadelphia, steady. .11.05 Houston, steady.... .... ....11 Augusta, steady 11 1-3 Memphis, quiet. 10 7-8 St. Louis, steady ..10 15-1G Loisville, firm. . . . 11 1-8 State's Cotton Crop Below Last Year. Charlotte Observer. . Secretary Thomas B. Parker, of the North Carolina Cotton Growers' Association, has now secured pretty nearly all the reports of the cotton growing counties of the State and of these The Observer correspondent has made quite a study. It may be stated, on the strength of these re ports, that, it looks something Jike the crop will be about 75 or SO per cent, of that of last year. The wet June did-a great deal of damage. Cotton has had a hard time this year, between the drought, the un usual cold in May with widespread frosts and the great rains, which in many sections continued dav after dav - and which caused a great growth of weeds n the east where the rainfall has been greatest- and in some other sections of the Stale here and there towards the west, he central belt faring better than the other parts. The increase in the labor troubles, due principally to the exodus of ne gro field hands to factories and rail ways, has become more grave, and there is a story of complaint from every county reporting as to this mat ter. Cotton dealers, with few ex ceptions, say they regard the crop as much below last year. Some of them, it is true, say they get good reports. The wet June prevented the proper development of the ta proots the main root of the plant, and thus affected the latter vitally. The outlook there! fore is not good. In fact, it -is not what it seemed to be ten days or two weeks ago. S The Luthernan Synod. Dallas, Special. The meeting of the general united synod of the Lutheran church here has been large ly attended by prominent ministers and laymen of the church from all points of the country. The synod has taken advanced ground oif all ques tions concerning the welfare of the church. The subject of missions re ceived a large share of attention, as also the matter of the orphanage. The publishing . report was heard on Thursday. Every department of the church's work is reported as in a flourishing condition. On Thursday night fraternal delegates from othei churches were heard. News Items. V The State charters the Asheboro Grocery Company, wholesale and re tail, ".with $50,000 capital of which amount $10,000 is subscribed by II. T. Caviness, C. T. Loflin, Asheboro, and T. J. Finch, of Wheatmore. Brazilian insurgents in the State of Mat to Grosse captured the capital and murdered the Governor. M. Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, a noted French authority on Russian affairs, declares an actual revolution is in progress inN Russia, which may take years to accomplish its aims. A marshaL of nobility of Kherson, Russia, declares his belief that the situation there is drifting into a calamitous uprising against land owners. Admiral Rojestvensky was "acquit-; ted of charges in coneetion with' the surrender of the Russian fleet to the Japanese, but four other officers were ienteneed to death. The last six months 8G,867 persons emigrated from Russia to Siberia. FARM EHS MEETING A SUCCESS .' .! The State Parmers Convention at Raleigh Was a Big Success. Mr. C. C. Moore, president of the North Carolina division of the South ern Cotton Association, gives thefol fowing account of the third annual convention of the North Carolina farmers, held at Raleigh last week: The convention was in session three days, with three sessions per day. During this time there were meetings of The .North Carolina Tobacco Asso ciation, the North Carolina Division of the Southern Cotton Association, the North Carolina Dairvmen's Asso ciation, and under the excellent man agement of Mrs. F. L. Stevens, the farmers' wives who attended the con vention held five sessions, which were full of instruction and benefit. At the general sessions of the con vention from start to "finish the chair- maji had a supply of speakers who handled tHeir subjects in such a way as to win the applause and apprecia tion of the convention. The different subjects covered almost the entire question of agriculture. . Governor R. B. Glenn was the first speaker. He was followed by Hon. S. L. Patterson, commisioner of agri culture. Col. J. Bryan Grimes of Pitt county" spoke, on "Agriculture in North Carolina for the Past Ten Years." Mr. A. C. Green of Wake county delivered au interesting ' ad dress in "What the Cow Has Done For Me." Mr. A. L. French, of Rockingham county, handled the ques tion of "Beef Raising" Avith intelli gence and demonstrated to the satis faction of the farmers that beef rais ing in North Carolina is not only possible but very profitable. Mr. R. W. Scott, of Albemarle county, with his characteristic plainness handled the subject of corn growing to the sat. isfacticn of the convention. Mr. R H. Gower of Johnson county, showed ana aemonsrraiea mat dairying can be made profitable on the 'average farm. The woman's department was per haps the most interesting of the whole convention. Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll gave a lecture on home nursing and care of the sick that was full of val uable information. Miss Mae Cord, of Canada, addressed the convention. The Woman's Department elected officers for the ensuing year as fol lows: President, Mrs. J." L. Stevens, Raleigh : Vice Presidents, "Mrs. C. N. Allen, Mrs. J. N. Bowles: Secretary treasurer, Mrs. W. Grimes. Execu tive Committee, Mrs. R. S. Tucker, Mrs. M. M. McLeod. Miss Viola Bid die, Mrs. W.'P. Wilson. The Dairymen's Department of the convention elected R. H. Gower of Johns-ton county president and Prof. J. C. Kendall, secretary. The exhibits of butter by various darymen were in spected and prizes awarded. The sweep stake prize was awarded to Mr. R. W. Scott of Alamance county. Tobacco Growers Session. t There was a session of the tobacco farmers presided over " by President John S. Cunningham. Col. J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State, was one of the principal speakers. He made a special appeal for organization on the part of the tobacco farmers, de claring that up to the present time this class of farmers have shown themselves incapable of perfecting an organization. He urged that the to bacco farmers present return to their homes and urge the necessity of or ganization and co-operation upon their neighbors. He said the only successful tobacco farmers' organiza tion in the State -is in Pitt county where he has money invested" in the co-operative organization that has for three years yielded him thirty and forty per cent, profit. North State Breveties. United States District Attorney Skinner has brought suit in the Unit ed States District court at Wilming ton for $4,500 against the Atlanttic Coast Line for penalties for failure to provide safety appliances for trains and thus violating the law made which requires such, appliances. Charters are granted th Montgom ery Construction Companv. Hieb Point, to erect ell kinds of buildings, capital sWk $100,000, W. O. Mont gomery and others stockholders; the Zion Ministerial Brotherhood and Re lief Company, CCharlotte,, no capital stock, T. H. Lomax and others incor porators; the Piedmont Marble and Granite Company, Lexington. $10,000. Zeb Deaton and others stockholders; the Opie Oduni Company, St. Paul's Robeson county, to manufacture lum ber. $6,000; the Greensboro Elks Lodge' Company, $50,000, David Drevfus and others stockholders, - DREYFUS VINDICATED BY FRENCH NATION Devil's Island Martyr Declared Innocent and Rank Restored. , TO BE MADE A GENERAL Accused Officer Gould Not Have Ob tained Secret Mobilization Pa pers For Delivery to Germany pid Not Write Bordereau. Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been completely vindicated by France. The Supreme Court of the Repub lic announced its decision annulling the conviction of Dreyfus by the court-martial at Rennes in 1899. To wipe every stain from Dreyfus' reputation and to emphasize its con demnation of the false evidence that was tried against him the court or ders that he need not stand trial again. It declares there is no reason for another trial because Dreyfus committed no offense. In conclusion the court noted the fact that. Dreyfus had waived "pecu niary indemnity for all he suffered during twelve years. The court ordered its decision to be transcribed on the records of the Rennes court-martial and to be pub lished in the official journal and five newspapers to be chosen by the Procurator-General and, at the Govern ment's expense, in fifty newspapers here and in the provinces to be named by Dreyfus. ' The former captain, after being falsely convicted of treason, publicly degraded and imprisoned on Devil's Island, is restored to the army by the decision itself. He will return to his country's ser vice with the rank of Brigadier-General, Premier Sairien assured the Chamber of Deputies, and the court's decision will be posted in every com mune in France Neither Dreyfus nor his wife was in court when the decision was, ren dered. In an interview afterward Dreyfus said: "This has been a long and terrible ordeal. I began to feel as if it would never end. It is clear that the decis ion reslores me to my old place in the army, but I am not aware of the intentions 01 the Government con cerning my advancement in rank. "I have nothing to say against my accusers. Being again an officer ! am obliged to obey the army regula tions of silence. ' "I am inexpressibly thankful to all who have assisted in the mainten iince of truth." The Ministers held a1 protracted special session at the Elysee Palace under President Fallieres. The Gov ernment's course in carrying out the court's decision was determined. Two bills were drawn. By them Dreyfus will be nominated a major, with early promotion to a lieutenant-colo nelship. Had he served his country continuously he would be a lieuten ant-colonel of artillery now. Dreyfus' name will be entered on the list for the Legion of Honor, but he will not be nominated to that dis tinction directly Picquart, whose sense of justice secured the quashing of the Rennes court-martial's verdict, will be made a brigadier-general immediately. In its decision the Supreme Court holds that these new facts have been established before it First That the document from General Mercier's secret papers pre sented at the Rennes court-martial, "in which the initial "D" was substi tuted for "P," was a falsification es tablishing a strong presumption of Dreyfus' innocence. Second That another document from the secret papers in which Drey fus was falsely shown to have given to Germany the plans for the railway mobilization of French troops never reached the War Department; there fore Dreyfus could not have secured possession of it. Third That the Rennes court martial failed to hear essential testi mony calculated to establish the fact that Dreyfus was innocent. "These facts' says the court's de cision, "without seeking for any fur ther grounds, are of a nature to es tablish the innocence of the accused. Therefore it is only necessary to ex amine whether the verdict of the Rennes court-martial shall be an nulled without a retrial or be fol lowed by another trial by- a court martial." , After a long review of the docu ment in the case known as the bor dereau,? the decision states that It was written by Major Count Ester hazy, and that the accusations con necting Dreyfus with the bordereau r.e3t only on hypothesis and conject ure. "The accusation against Dreyfus," continues the decision, "whether based on the handwriting or the text of the bordereau,- was wholly un jus tifiable and without motive. More over, Dreyfus having a large fortune, one seeks in vain, for any reason for his committing such a great crime. "The court therefore holds that, as all the accusations against the accused, fall to the ground, there is rio necessity for a new trial, and con sequently the judgment, in condem nation is annulled as unwarranted by the evidence' Cluef Events, in. Case Which Nearly Disrupted -France. The "Drey ?s Case" has excited France to the verge of revolution" several times, it has overthrown min isteries, it has ' excited anti-Semitic? fanaticism a&d-p revoked insane glor ification of the French Army. The dates of its chief events during twelve years are: . v - . . Dreyfus arrested ... October 14, 1894 Found guilty ;by a secret court-mar-; v tial. ..... . .December' 19, 1891 Publicly degraded and sent to Devil's Island under life sentence.'. January: 5, 1895 Mathew Dreyfus charges Colonel Es terhazy with having written; the bordereau. . ...November it', 1897 Esterhazy acquitted bys secret court martial. . . . v January 11, 189S Zola publishes "J'ac6use" letter. . . January 13, 1898 Zola fined and sentenced to prison . February 23, 1898 Court of Cassation quashes Zola's . sentence . . . . .. . .April 2, 1898 Cavaignac, War Minister, produces documents to prove Dreyfus guilt . .July 7, 1898 Zola condemned again. July 16, 1898 Colonel Henry arrested, confesses forging chief of Cavaignac's docu ments; commits suicide. . August 31, 1898' ' War Minister Cavaignac resigns . . September 4, 1898 French commission decides against revision ... .September 26, 1898 Brisson Ministry resigns: Court of Cassation reports in favor of re vision. ..... . .October 25 1898 Dupuy Ministry takes office. . October 31, 189S Court of Cassation stops prosecution . of Picquart. . . .December 9, 1898 Court of Cassation orders second court-martial.. ....June 3, 1895. Dupuy Ministry having been defeat ed, Waldeck-Rousseau forms new ministry -..Tune 22, 1899 Dreyfus leaves Devil's Island for France.... July 13, 1899 Second court-martial opens at Rennes . .... . . . August 7, 1899 Attempt to kill Labori fails. . August 14, 1899 Dreyfus sentenced to ten years' im-' prisonment in a fortress. . September 10, 1899 President .Loubet Issues pardon.. September 19, 1899 Dreyfus set at liberty.. September 20, 1899 Supreme Court fully vindicates Drey fus .......July 12, 1906 MOB MURDERS WIFE BEATER. Indiana Man's Neighbors Capture and . v Kill Him Before He Gets Sober. , Indianapolis, Ind. Oliver Bryant. ' a coal miner, of Venderberg Countjr drank to excess, went home and gave -his wife a beating. y A mob was organized at night, and while Bryant was sleeping off the effects of liquor they broke into hfs house, took him out and beat him so terribly that he died next day. The mob is said to have been led . by A. J. Gleich, a prominent farmer and fruit grower. He was arrested, charged with murder. . Harry Linn- ' viler a. blacksmith, is also-under ar rest on a similar charge and war rants are out for a number of others. SIDED WITH MUTINEERS. Czar's Soldiers Bayonetted Officer Who Gave Command to Fire. St. Petersburg, Russia. Addi tional details of the mutiny of the Seventh Cavalry at Tamboy shows that both the infantry and the Cos sacks sent to subdue the mutineers refused to fire on them the infantry bayonetting the officer who gave the command;- Only a detachment ' of dragoons, who, it is said, had been plied with liquor, attacked the mu tineers. The officers of the Seventh fired on their 'own men. The number of killed of wounded has not been es-. tablished. , i DEWEY' AT OLONGAPO. Dry Dock Reaches Philippine Waters After Long Voyage. Manila. The dry dock 'Dewey ar rived at Olongapo. The trip from Singapore was uneventful. . The arrival of the dry dock Dewey in Philippine waters' marks the suc cessful completion of the biggest tow ing feat ever undertaken in ocean navigation. The .giant dry dock passed out of the Virginia Capes at 10.40 o'clock on the night of Decem ber 29 last. Russian Admiral' Shot. Vice-Admiral Chouknin was shot by a sailor at Sebastopol;- the sur geons hold out no hope of recovery; the assassin escaped; general condi tions in Russia seem to be growing worse. jKentucky Murderer Confesses.' At the trial of ex-Judge Hargis in" Bejattyville, Ky., Curtis Jett testified that he had killed J. BMarcum, but did not stick to his recent confes: Ion implicating Hargis. s. Coffee Rates Favor New York. Steamers . between South America. . and the United States announce that the rate from Rio de Janeiro and ' Santos to New Orleans will be forty cents a sack on coffee, while the raten to New York from the same ports wilt be thirty-five cants a sack. . : 1 Labor Men in Campaign. Federation of Labor officers an nounced that an active opposition, would be begun to Congressmen who had voted against lanor Interests. Public Money Stolen. Armed men in St. Petersburg, Rus sia, shot two employes of the Admir- alty and stole a bag containing $12, 500. v j v! i A I 4 . - V P :)
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