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INDEPENDENCE
VOL XII.
COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, APKIL 25, 1907.
NO. 52.
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 Got-
ton Markets.
TQnr Burned to Death.
Caroleen, Special. At 11 o'clock
Wednesday , night a large - two-story
dwelling: house at Henrietta caught
fire from the closet below, and before
the family or neighbors awoke to
make the discovery the flames had ad
vanced too' far to save the building
5r any of its contents. The most
dreadful feature of the disaster was
the loss of two little children sleeping
ap stairs who were burned to death
apd their bodies can scarcely be rec
anized. Two sons of Mrs. McDade,
who occupied the house, were so seri
ously burned by their efforts to make
their escape that it is not thought that
they can live. Also old Mr. McDadre
was badly burned and may net recov
2T. ; Details would pronounce this the
saddest calamity in the history of the
town. The two young men of the Mc
Dade family: died from the horrible
burns received. The young men were
IS and 20 years of age respectively,
and nearly gave their lives to save
from the flames the two little children
ired 4 ami (i. Mrs. McDade may yet
die as a fifth victim.
Mail Robber Captured.
"Wilmington, Special. The mystery
Concerning the disappearance of a
package containing $10,000 in curren
cy, in transit by mail from the Atlan
tic National Bank, of this city to the
Chemical National Bank, of Now
York, was cleared up by the arrest
at tiie instance of postoffice inspec
tors of Edward A. Nelson, 27 years
of age, employed in the railway mail
4 service. The confession and arrest
of young Nelson was accomplished by
Col. S. T. Hooton, chief of the post
office inspection service at Baltimore
Postofnee Inspector Win. J. Maxwell,
of Baltimore, and District Inspector
S. H. Buck. Nelson had recently re
signed from the service to engage in
the confectionary business en one of
the most prominent corners in the city
and accompanied by his wife, to whom
he was married 15 months ago, and
by his mother, he had gone to New
York. The robbery was accomplished
by Nelson by slitting the mail pouch
that contained the package and he
had hidden most of the money under
his dwelling. Bond was given in the
sum of $5,000.00, his wife and mother
raising that amount on property they
owned. All the money was recover
ed. New Railway Company.
Winston-Salem, Special. The El
kin and Alleghany Railway Company
Which was chartered by the recent
Legislature with a capital stock of
$125,000 with the privilege of increas
ing it to $3,000,000 was permanently
organized at Elkin. The meeting at
which the organization was effected
was a large and enthusiastic one, con
sisting of men from Alleghany coun
ty, Elkin and vicinity and a number
of other stockholders from Winston
Salem and other places. The first
business was the election of a board
of directors which consisted of the
following named: Messrs. H. G. Chat
ham, 11. A. Doughton, A. G. Click, f.
T. Roth, A. M. Smith, E. F. McNair,
& M. Chatham, C. L. Smoot, A. H.
Eller, H. E. Frich, Choate, C. M.
Smith, E. F. Fields, J. F. Hendren,
and W. J. Boyles.
Studying Labor Corditicns.
Winston-Salem, Special. Mr. D.
. Tompkins, of Charlotte and Mrs.
T. Ellen Foster, jjf Washington, the
pecial commissioner for the Depart
ment of Justice, appointed by Presi
nt Roosevelt to make a report c.u
labor conditions of women and chil-!'-'ejn
through' the country, spent a
ile in the city enroute to Wilkes
tnty, where Mrs. Foster will study
e conditions in the rural sections.
Cotton Mill for Hendersonville.
A special from Spartanburg, S. C,
to the Charlotte Observer of Friday
A number of representative
Business men of Hendersonville, N. C.
Thursday in the city inspecting
uayton Cotton Mill, of which A.
' Calvert' is president, with the view
01
ing a cotton mill in Hender
sonville c;;miiar t0 the Drayton Mill.
J, ttpany is being organized in Hen
Jniiile with a -capital stock of
W00,000. The majority of the stock
ls aid, has been taken by the peo
P e of Hendersonville, while the re
mainder win raised outside.
TAR HEEL CROP BULLETIN
Conditions for the Past Week as He
ported by the Department.
The weather and Crop Bureau of
the Department of Agriculture issues
the following bulletin of conditions
for the week ending Monday, April
15 th.
The weather was generally partly
cloudy to cloudy during the first half
of the week, and clear the latter
half. The temperature averaged
much below normal, varying from 7
degrees below normal on the coast to
17 degrees in the western district.
The minimum temperature fell near
ly to the freezing point every day in
the central district, while in the west
ern district temperatures below freez
ing were frequent. Frost from light
to killing occurred all over the State
nearly every morning, ice formed in
many places, and considerable damage
was done in every district. The high
est temperature was 72 degrees on
the 11th in Robeson county, and the
lowest Avas 22 degrees on the 11th in
Haywood county. The rainfall for
the State averaging about one-half
inch below normal, being heaviest in
the eastern district and lightest in
the western d'.strict. 1 Snow flurries
were reported in all districts. A. H.
Thiessen, Section Director.
Will Move to Statesville.
Asheviile, Special Preparations
are making at the internal revenue
offices for the formal transfer of the
office to Statesville. Collector Brown
has selected Monday, April 22 as the
probable date for moving the office
and, if that day is finally infinitely
decided upon, the several offices in
the Federal building now ocupied by
Collector Brown and his force of cYjp
uties and clerks will be vacated by
the middle of the week of April 22.
It is probable that litle time will be
lost in removing the office. It is
practically certain that all the pres
ent employes of the office, with the
exception of C. B. Moore, will accom
pany Collector Brown to Statesville.
Mr. Moore has been named as the
stamp deputy for Asheviile and he
will consequently stay. There is
much packing in progress in the rev
enue department and these prepara
tions will continue until all records
are collected and made " ready for
transfer. '
Capital Stock $5,000,000.
Charlotte, Special. The directors
of the Mechanics' Perpetual Building
and Loan Association are planning to
secure an amendment to their charter
authorizing an increase of capital
from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. The
association now has outstanding more
than 19,000 shares of stock, "which
represents a capital of $1,900,000.
Hence the need of an amendment
charter. At a meeting of the direc
tors one. night last week, $58,000 of
loans Avere approved. Within the
next two weeks more than $40,000
will be distributed in loans. Never
before was the association in a more
prosperous condition. Its business is
steadily growing and the future is
big with promise. The Mechanics'
Perpetual Building and Loan Asso
ciation ranks all other associations f
its kind in the South and is one of the
very largest in the land.
Planing Mill Burned.
Charlotte, Special. A fire which
for a time threatened to sweep a large
portion of the residence section be
ginning near the center of the city
started in the planing mill of Asbury
& Finger at six o'clock Saturday even
ing. The flames were fanned by a
high wind and only the timely work
of the firemen saved perhaps severa
lmnd:ed houses from destruction
The mill and large lumber vards are a
total loss. The plant represented a
bout ten thousand dollars. The big
building of the Armour Packing Com
J pany was barely saved. Albert H
Lentz. of Mt. Holly, while working
near the engine at his brick yard, was
fatally scalded Saturday morning.
Steam and hot water from a burst
pipe were hurled over his body while
he ley insid) a Availed up space under
the water tank. The body of the un
fortunate man was almost cocked in
hot water and steam. His life is des
paired of.
Tom Walker Hanged.
Fayettevilte, Special. Tom Walk
er, the negro who murdered Chief of
Police Chanson and Officer Lockamy
and wounded Officer Buckingham,
was hangedl in the county jail. ; For
an hour previous to noon, the time
set for the execution, and before the
official witnesses were admitted to
the jail, services were held with the
condemned man in the hospital ward,
where Walker has been confined since
his attempt at self-destruction. There
were five ministers with him, besides
the keepers and newspaper men.
WRECK OH li'J SIM
Lives and Property Lost In a
Railway Accident
TWO DEAD; SEVERAL INJURED
Fast Passenger Crashes Into Freight
Train With Dead Engine on Rear,
Smashing Both and Demolishing
Several Cars Wrecker Strikes
Them and Practically Whole Train
Piled Into Ditch.
Birmingham, Ala., Special. As a
result of a double wreck on the
Southern Railway a short distance
east of Woodlawn, a suburb of Bir
mingham, early Sunday, two men are
dead and a number injured.
The dead:
Cal. B. Harris, fireman on the
wrecker.
Tom Beverly, brakeman on wrecker
The injured are James Wages, Am
lanta, engineer, skull fractured, head
hurt and face scratched; S. H. Hill,
engineer, internal injuries; Thomas
Powell, engineer, bruises on body;.
white flagman, shoulder dislocated;
two postal clerks, slightly injured;
white passenger, knee cut.
The unusual character of the wreck
makes it surprising that the casual
ties were not more. A freight train
with a dead engine on the rear, waf
coming toward Birmingham. The
operator, it is said, allowed No. 3
the fast passenger, to enter the block
and it crashed into the dead engine,
samshing them both and demolishing
several cars. Three cars of the
freight train were thrown across the
eastbound track, almost at the instant
that the Southern wrecker en route
to Heflin, Ala., passed. The wrecker
struck them and practically the whole
train piled into the ditch. Two wpn
were caught under the engine.
The baggage and' mail cars of the
passenger train were torn up and the
three demolished engines with the
debris strewn about presented a grue
some picture.
Great Fire in Manila.
Manila, By Cable. Fire destroyed!
1,100 houses and parts of the Dis
tricts of Singalong, Paco and Bam
bang, in Manila. The American set
tlements at Ermita and Malate es
caped through the hard work of the
firemen, assisted by soldiers and cit
izens. The flames, fanned by a heavy
gale, swept an area of 100 acres
:lean, within two hours, and destroA'
ed the homes of 100 residents and 1,
000 natives. The native refugees are
now sheltered in the schools and
other public buildings many are camp
ing in open spaces. The damage is
conservatively estimated at $200,000
in gold. No causalties are reported.
, The officials of the health depart
ment do not agree with the estimate
of the damage given above which was
made by policemen and firemen.
They assert that 269 houses were de
stroyed and 1,500 natives rendered
homeless. Their estimate of the fin
ancial loss is the same as that of the
other municipal department. It is
thought that the figures given by the
health officers are nearer correct.
The districts of Singalong, Paco
and Banbang, lie to the east of the
walled city of Manila and just behind
the residential distruction of Malate
and Emrita, which face the bay. Near
ly hll of the native houses in the fire
swept district are nopa huts of com
paratively small value.
Founder of W. C. T. U. Dead.
Dunkirk, N. Y., Special. Mrs Esth
er McNeil, the founder of the Wo
man's Christian Temperance Union,
and first president of the organiza
tion, died at her home in Fredonia.
She was born at Carlisle, N. Y., 94
years ago, and, was widely known
throughout the United States as a
temperance worker.
Three Injured at Carpet Plant.
Philadelphia, Special. Three per
sons, twt women and a man, were ser
iously injured as the result of an ex
plosion of a gas retort at the plant
of John and James Dobson, carpet
manufacturers, in the southwestern
part of the city. The explosion fol
lowed a slight fire and threw 4,000
I o .
employes at work in the mills into a
panic. Many young women fainted,
but all the employes were gotten out
safely with the exception of the three
who were badly burned. They are
Mary Cavanaugh, Annie McKirk and
George Shaw.
FARM IMMIGRANTS WELCOME
Planters May Bring Agriculturists to
United States by Entering Into
Agreement to Make Them Share
Partners.
Washington Special. The depart
ment of commence and labor has made
a decision tht laborers can he
brought in froi foreign countries if
they are to be share tenants, such as
are commonly engaged throughout the
Southern Statef. Hon. Leroy Percy
of Greenville, Hiss., made the sug
gestion to the department and it was
adopted. J
Heretofore the (Apartment of com
merce and laborj has made no distinc
tion between wajge workers brought to
the United Stafes and agriculturists
coming over fifjm foreign countries.
Under the terms of the agreement
proposed" by Mil Percy and approved
hy the department of commerce and
tabor, planters -can bring agricultur
ists to the United States by entering
in to an agreement giving the immi
grant opportunity through an option
to become a share partner with his
employer. Thi differentiates him
from the wage xvorkers who has been
brought over byfactory operators and
against whom tie labor contract law
was passed.
Mr. Percy submitted his form o
agreement to Commissioner of Immi
gration SargenL who in turn submit
ted it to the solicitor for the depart
ment of commerce and labor. Both
affinals prounouhceed it eminently
worthy and acceptable from every
standpoint. Commissioner Sargent
said that in the! South Carolina case
the ruling of th$ department was ad
verse to the mi1 owners because the
oroof showed tbat they had brought
labor from foreign countries with a
view to lower in wares.
Lost In Breakers.
Wilmington, Special. W. C. Lyn
ley, of PowdCr Springs, IGa., and
Lloyd Andrews, 'mi Seven Springs, N.
C.,. both youngf men employed here
several months jas industrial insur
ance solicitors; ifire believed to have
been sWpt out tfo sea and drowned hi
a fifteen foot launch which was found
stranded on the: beach near . Middle
Sound, twelve ryiles below Wilming
ton. With a party of friends they
were at the sound for an ovster roast?
and rowed out iif the sound tc gun foi
marsh hens. They were seen to ap-
proach the inlet by their companions
on shore and aie believed to have
been caught in t)e strong current and
carried out wher their boat was cap
sized by the breakers. The body of
neither has heeis found though mosl
diligent search feas been made.
First Statf High School.
Raleigh. Special. The State board
of education is'i preparing the rules
and regulations ifor the government
of the rural of country high schools
which are to receive State aid under
the new law. Wake county gets the
first of these, thef county board having
purchased it. Tis school is at Cary
and was bought, prom the trustees at
a merely nominal figure.- The public
school there is be merged into it
and this will gijl a faculty of about
seven. Students will go to it from
schools all over he country.
May Be K Lynching. J
Greensboro, Special. Special offi
cer W. F. Tontason of Davidson
county arrived here at midnight
bringing with hia Cornelius Gant, a
negro of that eunty, charged with
an attempt at r&pc on Mrs.. Swice
good, wife of onj of the best known
farmers of the bounty.
The Oift of Tongues.
Racfori, Special. A woman minis
ter from Wilmington is here holding
a holiness rneetirg. She. professes to
speak the "Unknown Tongue" ancJ
since the meeting! lias been in progress
several of the followers have been
blessed with the same gift. They claim
that they themselves don't know of
wdiat they speak ut there is an inter
preter who can tell then.
Past aHundred.
Greonville, S racial. Louise Mc
Gowan, the oldesl colored man here,
died Frfday nighst. He was known
to be more than pi hundred years old
and claimed that !the records showed
that he was 11G. jHe was a good man
and was esteemed! by both white and
colored people. ,(Jle was a mininster
in the Primitive Baptist church and
preached as long ap his strength would
permit him to mem his appointments.
Municipal Elections.
Charlotte, Special. In the primary
held here TuesdaT, Mayor McNinch
was unanimously f re-nominated, hav
ing no opposition, j For aldermen and
school eommissiorjfers the candidates
af the Business Men's Municipal
League were" all efjected over the can
didates of the Citizen's Democratic
League. Good orcfer and good feeling
characterized the Jeontest.
Salisbury, Special. In Tuesday's
municipal priniaryMayor Boydm was
re-nominated by .f- majority of ISO.
The fight here. has. been rather bitter.
CARNEGIE ON PEACE MEETING
Eeply to Letter From President Con
taining Suggestions Which Mr.
Carnegie Quotes as "Objections"
and Proceeds to Answer.
New York, Special. Mr. Andrew
Carnegie, who is president of the
peace congress, gaVe out a statement
as to the results of the congress just
closeci. Although not so designated
by Mr. Carnegie, the statement con
stitutes a reply to some of the sug
gestions contained in the letter which
President Roosevelt addressed to the
congress on its opening day. Mr.
Carnegie quotes these" statements as
'objections" and proceeds to answer
them as follows:
"Our peace conference has brought
three objections clearly before us.
"First, Nations cannot submit all
questions to arbitration.
"Answer, Six of them have recent
ly done so by treaty Denmark and
the Netherlands, Chile and Argen
tina, Norway and Sweden.
"Second, Justice is higher than
peace.
"Answer, The first principle of nat
ural justice forbid; men to be judges
when they are parties to the issue.
All law rests upon this throughout
the civilized world. Were a judge
known to sit upon a case in which he
was secretly interested he would be
dishonored and expelled from his
high office. If any individual refus
ed to submit his dispute with a neigh
bor to disinterested parties (arbitra
tors or judges), and insisted upon be
ing his own judge he would violate
the first principle of justice. If he
resorted to force in defense of his
right to judge, he would be dishonor
ed as a breaker of the law. Thus
peace with justice is secured through
arbitration, either by court of by trib
unal, never by one of the parties sit
ting as juige in his own cause.
"Third, it is neither peace nor jus
tice, but righteousness that shall
exalt the nation.
"Answer, Righteousness is simply
doing what is right. What Is just is
always right; what is unjust is .al
ways wrong. It being the first princi
ple of justice that men shall not be
judges in their own cause to" refuse
to submit to judge or arbitrator is un
just, hence not right, for the essence
of righteousness is justice. There-'
fore men who place justice or rignt-
eousness above peace practically pro
claim as it appears to me, that they
will commit injustice and discard
righteousness by constituting them
selves sole judges of their own cause
in violation of laAv, justice and right.
"Civilized man has reached the
conclusion that he meets the claims of
justice and of right only by "uphold
ing the present reign of law. Our
pressing duty is to extend its benign
ant rekm to combinations of men call
ed nations. What is right for each
individual must be right for the na
tion. This union of law "and justice,
ensuring peace and good will among
men through disinterested tribunals,
is the 'righteousness which exalteth
a nation." The demand that inter
ested parties shall sit in judgment is
the Avickedness that degrades a ua
tion." By Wire and Cable.
The Thaw trial ended with the dis
agreement and discharge of the jury.
A great rubber trust is planned at
Providence, R. I.
A furious blizzard is swweping over
the copper country in Micigan and
over, Northen Wisconsin.
Advices from Shanghai are to the
effect that the famine horors in China
are growing worse, and that the dath
rate from starvation is 5,000 daily.
A demand 'om the Government
for the expulsion of Socialist mem
bers stirred up the Douma, and some
startling speeches were made.
Lieut.-Gen. Robert McGregor Stew
art has resigned as Governor of Ber
muda. Fatal Cutting Scrape Between Negro
Women.
Spartanburg, Special. Annie Wil
son, a negro woman, was lodged in
jail here for cutting the throat of
Florence Clifton, another negro wo
man, at Inman Sunday afternoon.
The crime is a horrible one and
though the Clifton woman was alive
there is no chance for her recovery.
Placed Under $700 Bends.
Marksville, La, Special Charged
with manslaughter for their alleged
carelessness in allowing the negro
Charley Strauss, to be lynched, Dep-
ty Sheriffs J. E. Keegan and J. J.
Salmon were brought here under ar
rest and placed under $700 bond each.
Strauss was hanged to a tree in the
woods near Eola, La., where a crowd
of masked men met the deputies as
the latter were escorting the negro to
jail.
deny mt wmmm
Railways Deny Charges Made
By Southern Shippers
DECLARE RATES REASONABLE
Postponement to Saturday Allowed on
Motion of Complainants to Allow
Time for Serving of. Fapers Forc
ing the Introduction of Minutes of
1905 Conference.
Washington, Special Rates on cot
ton goods from Southern points to
the Pacific coast. China and Japan,
was again the subject of hearing be
fore the inter-state commerce com
mission. E. J. Southall, representing
the complainants, made a formal mo
tion for a postponement of the hear
ing until he could serve defendant
railroad and steamship companies
with a subpeona duces tecum to com
pel the production of the minutes of
the conference held in 1905 which re
sulted in the alleged agreement to
raise rates. The defendant compan
ies finally agreed to produce these
minutes and the hearing wa3 continu
ed. Mr. Southall said to the commis
sion that he intended to show by tha
minutes of these conferences that
they were participated in by railroad
men notwithstanding the denial of
this during the earlier testimony.
The railroad representatives replied
that the minutes would not show the
presence of railroad men at confer
ence and claimed further that to
agreement was entered into by them
regarding the rates in question. It is
claimed that if an agreement was
reached between the steamship lines
it is beyond the jurisdiction of the inter-state
commerce commission.
Secretary Ayers of the China and
Japan Trading 4 Company, explained
the exact method of purchases, price
of goods and rates paid for shipment
both from New York to the Orient
via the Suez canal and from the Pa
cific coast.
The defense rested their case" after
the testimony of Lincoln Green
through traffic manager of the South
ern Railroad. Mr. Green told the
commission that the rate complained
of was fixed on an exceedingly low
basis because of water competition
and that it had been reduced from
$1.85 per one hundred pounds to San
Francisco to $1.15. present rate. The
commission took the case under ad
visement. An Island Town Destroyed.
Manila, By Cable. The town of II
oiio, Island of Panay, was totally de
stroyed by fire Friday morning, with
the result that 20,000 persons are
homeless. As this dispatch is filed
the conflagation is still raging, and
owing to the heavy wind blowing it is
beyond control. The civil and mili
tary authorities are (Joing everything
possible to check the flames and assist
the sufferers. No estimate has beoa
made of the amount of damage done
and no details of the fire -aro obtain
able, owing to communication with
Iloilo being seriously affected. Uoilo
is the capital of the Island of Paney,
located on the east coast. The port,
which is the second in importance in
the Philippines, next to Manila, is
the centre of the sugar import trade.
Stolen Express Money Recovered.
St. Paul, Minn., Special The $25,
000 stolen at the Union depot Tuesday
night, was recovered by the police.
John Gundprson, the suspected rob
ber, who was arrested on Wednesday,
told the police where he had hidlen
the money. One package containing
$10,000 was found under a piece of
dirt in Jackson street, and two other
packages containing $15,000 were
found under the platform at the Great
Northern hcps.
75,000 Deaths in a Single Week Frca
Plague in India.
Simia, Ind'a, By Cable. There
were 75,000 deaths from the plague in
India during the week ending April
13. Seventy thorsand of these occur
red in Bengal, the United 'provinces
and the Punjab. The epidemic began
in the Punjab in Oetober, 1897, since
when nearly a million and a half
deaths have occurred.
Preacher Held for Unlawfully Marry
ing Couple.
Rochester, Special. Rev. W. 3
Coffey, pastor of an African church at
Olean, was arrested on the charge of
unlawfully marrying Arthur Jones,
colored, and Dora Hitchcock, white.
Coffey was held for the grand jury in
the sum of $500. Fred Hitchcock, she
father of the girl, and Arthur Jones
to whom she was married were mar
ried, were arrested and arraigned.
They pleaded not guilty to disorderly
acts. A jury trial will be given them.