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VOL XIII.
COLUMBUS, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1907.
NO. 2.
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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.
Tar Heel Notes.
There was another negro shooting
scrape in Statesville Tuesday night
and as a result Tom Ferguson a hack
lriver is dangerously wounded.
Charters are granted the Clarkton
Planning Mill Company, Capital stock
$25,000, 0. L. Clark principal stock
bolder. Another charter is granted
the High Point Machine Company,
eapitai stock $250,000. which is 10
iak, over the High Point Machine
Works and the Dixie Motor Company
E. W. YanBrunt and H. A. Meagraw
i High Point being the chief stock
holders. The company will make
numbers of articles, including bicycles
The King Whiskey Distilling Com
pany, Salisbury, has changed its name
to the H. J. Summers Company.
A charter is granted the Mon treat
Concrete and Building Company, to
make blocks, brick and tiles, capital
-tock. $50,000; Fleming Ramseur, of
Shelby and others stockholders. An
other charter is granted to the Newton
Purdle Lumber Company, Elizabeth
town, .f40.000; F. A. Aldington, of
Wake and other stockholders.
The county superintendent samp
son informs the State Superintend
ent of Public Instruction that con
trails have been let tor seven new
public schools and that four local tax
elections in school districts will he
held in a few days and that a favor
able result is sure. When the board
meets next Monday three more peti
tions for such elections will be pre-,
seined. ' A first-class county high
school is to be established at Salem
burg, and besides this more rural
schools are to be built.
B. C. Beckwith of the State board
of internal improvements sold the
State arsenal in the corner of capital
square by order of the Legislature for
$155. The building is 90 years old.
The penitentiary authorities an-
nonce that John Bailey, a mulatto,
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aged 22, sentenced form Mecklenburg
last December for 25 years for mur
der, escaped from the convict camp
near Godwin. A reward of $25 and
all necessary expenses is offered.
A new company of the national
guard has been organized at Shelby
to take the place of the one disband
ed last week for failure to appear
for inspection. It seems that the fail
ure to appear is owing to some local
trouble. In a few days the new com
pany will be mustered in and will
take the old place in the regiment.
State Superintendent Joyner. is no
tified by Superintendent Giles of Mc
Dowell that local tax elections ware
carried in two school districts in that
county and that another is pending
with good prospects.
The agricultural department is
making very complete arrangements
for i is summer series of county insti
tutes for farmers. These will cover
more than two-thirds of the State,
and very qreat care is to be taken
in making up a strong corps of field
workers to conduct them. The de
partment is very mneh gratified by the
fact that from year to year interest
ln and attendance at these institutes
has increased. The work of arrange
in":; is entrusted to State Veterin
arian Butler.
Two lives were lost on the Seaboard
Line at Norlina, Engineer N. S.
KfTerson drove his fast freight train
! i thbound into the tender and some
,vars shifting engine in the yards a
HKarter of .a mile the other side of
station. The engineer arid his
fireman B. F. Johnson were instanly
killed and their engine utterly
1 Si ranee to say the engineer and
i on the shifter were, unhurt.
George Fox Kills Fred Muse.
Spencer, Special. Fred Muse, Col
ered, was shot and killed here early
'Thursday morning by George Fox, a
llow laborer at the Southern Rail
V,'V cinder pit on the Spencer yards,
I learned that Fox, who. worked
on (he nigM 'shift went to sleep on
'" 'y and that Muse attempted To
Undi
and
r his nose. This enraged Fox
a quarrel followed, which was
re i
Qewed at intervals daring the night.
TAR HEEL CROP BULLETIN
Condition of North Carolina Crops
for the Past Week as Given Ont by
the Department Conditions for
Week Ending Monday, April 29th.
The weather has been much more
favorable, the temperature for the
State averaged about normal, and
while there was considerable rain, the
sunshine was about normal. The tem
perature rose from the beginning of
the week to the 26th, which was the
wannest day, and then fell somewhat.
The highest temperature was 86 de
grees on the 26th in Madison county,
and the lowest was 32 degrees m
Burke county. Light frost was re
ported in only two places on the 25th.
The rainfall was considerably above
normal and most of the rain fell on
the 23rd and 27th. On the 23rd se
vere thunderstorms accompanied by
high winds were general: hail oc
curred in some localities, but only
slight damage was done. Southwest
of Chalybeate Springs at 4 p. m. of
the 23rd a destructive tornado oo
cured damaarinsr considerable timber
and some buildings. Pine trees 36
inches in diameter at the stump were
broken off in great quantities. The
precipitation on the 27th consisted ?f
light showers. A. H. Thiessen, Sec
tion Director.
Must Connect at Selma.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided in effect that the
railroad commissioners of North
Carolina can compel a railroad com
pany operating in that State to so
adjust its schedule as to accommo
date passengers on other lines from
any particular part of the State. The
opinion was delivered by Justice
White in the case of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company vs.
the corporation commission of North
Carolina. The case arose out of an
order issued by the commissioners di
recting the railroad company to
make connection at Selma at 2 :25 p.
m. with a train on another line run
ning from the eastern part of the
State, with the object of accommo
dating passengers whose destination
was Raleigh. The railroad company
resisted the order on the ground that
it could not be complied with without
fcputting on a special train which
it i - mi"
wouia mvoive exira expense. rnis,
it was contended, amounted to taking
property without due process of law.
The commission justified its course on
the ground that compliance with the
order was necessary to acommodate
a large part of the public. The Su
preme 0rttrt of North Carolina held
against the railroad company, and its
decision was affirmed by the action
of the Superme Court of the United
States on the ground that the order
of the commission does not affect the
rates but is a proper act of State
regulation..
A Tragic Sunday Event.
Statesville N. C, Special Sunday
afternoon about 3 o'clock on the Ca
tawba river, near Lookout Shoals, and
near the Iredell-Alexander line, a
boat containing two young women, a
girl and two young men overturned.
The young: women, one a daughter of
Mr. David J. Fullbright, of this
county, the other the daughter of Mr.
Jacob Goble, of Alexander, were
drowned. The others escaped.
Tar Eeel Topics.
Governor Glenn consents to an ex
chance of courts by which Judge
Peebles will hold Chatham court May
6th, Anson. 13th. Moore 20th, Scot
land June 3d. Anson 11th; Judge
Council to hold Ca'tawba May 6th,
Mitchell 20th and Wilkes June 17th.
Charters are granted the Paola
Cotton Mills, at Statesville, capital
stock $150,000, to spin and weave, C.
L. Postom and others stockholders;
the Henderson Atheletic Association,
to operate a baseball park, etc., $10,
000; the Riverside Telephone Com
pany, at Ramseur, $20,000 ; the Way
nesville Skating Rink Companv, at
Murphy, $10,000; The State author
izes the WhitGjville Lumber Company
to increase its capital stock from
$S0,000 to $160,000.
A Raleigh special to the Charlotte
Observer says: Chairman Russ, of
the Worth Bajley statue commission
has sent a second invitation to Lieu
tenant Blue and Bernadou of the
navy, to be here May 20th at the
Bagley unveiling end also one to Ad
miral Robley D. Evans. Chairman
Russ in his letter to Vjp, latter term
ed him the best known officer in the
navy. There have been some intima
tions that marines and sailors will
be sent here for this ceremony, but
this is not definite or "official.
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American Officer Takes Hand
in Affairs
OF SOUTH AMERICAN PROVINCE
Commander cf United States Gunboat
Marietta at Puerto Cortez Orders
Arrest of Chief of Police and Pat
rolman, Nicaraguan Officers and
Soldiers Following Brutal Assault
on Negro.
Puerto Cortez. V General"' Davis,
colored, was brutally assaulted at Pu
erto Cortez, April 27, by Niearagaun
soldiers, and may die.
Commander Fullam, of the United
States gunboat Marietta, ordered the
arrest of Niearauan officers and sol
diers and if th man dies they will
be tried for murder. Fullam lias as
sumed charge. Davis is not an officer.
His name is ''General" and his home
is at Boyce Station, Louisiana.
Commander Fullam 's orders were
sharp, and decisive. "Arrest the chief
of police, and the policemen engaged
in the assault, put them in irons, and
send them aboard ship. Arrest the
Nicaraugan officers and men engaged?
in the assault and hold them for or
ders. ' '
It was thought possible that an at
tempt would he made to release the
soldiers and police captured by the
bluejackets, so men were landed from
the Paducah to occupy Laguna and
additional men were landed from the
Marietta.
The Parucah moved to a position
fronting the Nicaraguan euarteis
while the Marietta covered the u.ir
tels in the port.
Captain Fullam, finding that the
civil authorities were incapable oi
maintaining order, that; the govern
ment of Tegucigalpa was a mere pro
visional agreement of certain leaders
and that so far gave no evidence of
stability, decided to ignore the au
thorities and recognize the only or
ganized and disciplined force here un
der General Estrada, commanding the
Nicaraguan forces who had in . the
meantime returned from an outing.
The Nieffraugan officers" and men
arrested were delivered by Captain
Fullam 's orders to General Estrada,
who was advised that they would be
held responsible. Notice was served
upon the Honduran and Nicharaugan
authorities that reparation would be
demanded and punishment must be in
fiicted on all of the perpetrators of
the outrage.
Hotel Carr-olina Burned,
Durham, N. C, Special The
Carr-olina, Durham's principal
hotel, was entirely destroy
destroyed by fire of unknown ori
gin which was discovered in one of
the rooms in the north wing at 11:15
o'clock Thursday night. There were
between 50 and 75 guests in the hotel
and all escaped without injury so far
as can be ascertained, though nearly
all of them lost their personal effects.
For a time the entire block was
threatened and assistance was asked
of the Raleigh department, but the
local firemen mastered the situation
before this aid could arrive. The ho
tel was the nroaertv of Col. Julian S.
Carr and was under the management 1
r n r Ail s-i i rri 1 M1 '
or mr, Ajpnonso lodo. ue loss win
reach $100,000 and the amount of in
surance is not known at this time. The
hotel is located near the union de
pot in the centre of the town. It is
authoritivciy stated that no one was
injured though there wore several
narrow escapes. The hotel was erect
cd in 1893 at a cost of .$.r)0,000. It
was insured for $40,000. The cause
of the fire cannot be learned.
Third Planting of Cottcn in Louisiana
New Orleans, Special. A third
planting of cotton will be necessary
in Lincoln parish, Louisiana, on ac
count of the unseasonable weather.
Overflows caused by heavy rains are
the cause of the latest disaster to ,he
crop. The f aimers' one ray of hope
in the situation is that the wet weath
er has in seme measure drowned out
the boll we vil.
Walls of Dam Give Way.
San Antonio, Tex., Special. A
special from Chinhuahua, Mex., says:
Without an instant's warning the
great walls of the Chivuscar dam gave
way engulfing nearly 40 men under
the enormous weight of masonry and
water, between 15 and 20 of whom
are dead, 13 injured and others un
accounted for. Some of the injured
will die. The disaster is only the last
of a large number which have recently
claimed nearly 200 victims in this
State, and mostly in the neighbor
hood of Chihuahua.
BODY OF Ii 1! FOUND
His Dead Body Discovered By
His father
ASSUREDLY HE WAS MURDERED
Theory Advance That Child Was
Murdered and Placed Where Found
as the Marsh Had Been Burned Off
and Cleared Four Weeks Ago, and
Child's Clothing tJore no Evidence
of Fire.
Dover, Del., Special. The body of
little Horace Marvin, who disappear
ed from the farm of his father at
Kitts Hammock, near here, March A,,
was found Saturday afternoon in a
marsh in a fair state of preservation.
The spot where the body w'as found is
about a half mile, east of the farm
house toward the Dele .ware river. Kitts
Hammock is betweefi seven and eight
miles from here and is without com
munication with any place. From in
formation brought fey a horseman it
is learned that the clothes on the child
were the same as lie wore on the day
Ihe disappeared. The body was found
lying face downward.
Dr. Marvin at themoment the body
was found was nof ready to say
whether the body )f his child was
placed where it wasfound or whether
he believes the child wandered into
the marsh and lost his life. The
marsh was frozen over the day the
boy disappeared. .
There is a theory that the child
was murdered and ms body placed in
the marsh as the long grass where
the body was found was burned and
cleared four weeks? ago. It is said
the body lay uncle a pile of grass
and that the elothiiig showed no evi
dence of having ben touched by
fire.
Huliter Discovers Body.
The body was foupd by Ollie Pleas
anton, a neighbor, ivho was gunning
for ducks on the .marsh. B had
the body borne to the house and cov
ered with a sheet i. Pleasanton has
figured in the case tunce Horace was
lost, having first reported that he had
seen the two stranjje men who ap
peared there enquiring about the top
ography of the country three days be
fore the disappearance.
When Ollie Pleasanton came upon
the child's body lie? found the cloth
ing intact. His tiny woolen reefer
was buttoned up securely about the
body and not an article of clothing
which he had on wjon he disappear
ed Was missing. His knit cap was
pulled over his lace and his mittens
were on his hands.
Dr. Marvin says he searched over
the same marsh nearly every day
since the disappearance and with de
tectives burned the grass of the place
four weeks ago bull saw no signs of
the body.
The theory that Hie child has- been
recently placed where he was found
is supported by the fact that Dr. Mar
vin as well as detectives who stood on
the spot when they' burned the tall
sage grass from it. Further than
this the marsh his been trampled
over time and agaih within the past
week by the neighbors and no sign
of the child was seen.
Dr. Marvin went! on a run to the )
place described b Pleasanton and
gently picked up the little form, pull
ing his cap from he face to make
sure that it was hi boy. Being sat
isfied that it wras son, the doctor
wrapped the remains in a sheet and
carried them to tip house, where he
notified the family.
Met With Foul Play.
Dr. Marvin is convinced that his
son met with foul play. Shortly af
er the body was found he said:
"Though I am unable to examine
Horace closely urtil the coroner ar
rives, I am certain, die was murdered,
his body brought ack and left ly
ing in the marsh to give the impres
sion that he wandered out there and
died. The clothing showed no signs
of being burned, as would undoubt
edly been the case ..had the body lain
there when the fire swept over the
marsh. ' '
Four Small Children Cremated.
West Branch, Mich., Special. Four
small children were; burned to death
in the home of Martin Camobell,
eight miles from here. Mr. and Mrs.
Campbell had gone to a dance a mile
away from their home, leaving their J
six little ones locked in the house.
They left a big fire in the stove and
in some manner this ignited the
house, which was destroyed. ' Thel
children were awakened by the,-
flames and the two oldest, aged 8 and
10 years, managed to escape. The
four smaller ones perished.
Gil PM
News of Interest Gathered From All
Parts of the Country Paragraphs
of More or Less Importance
What tne World 'M Doing.
Serious trouble in Ecuador is ex
pected, v
Ex-Governor Montague is ill in
Norfolk.
Dissolution of Russian Parliament
is threatened.
Miners are still entombed near
Jamestown, Pa.
Disgusting conditions exist in Rus
sian bake shops.
Military government is established
in Montenegro.
Woman's Home Mission Board
meets at Houston, Tex.
The Bond robbery at New York
grows in magnitude.
Twenty-eight miners are cut off by
flood in Belgium.
Inland Waterways Commission
meets in Washington.
Japanese visitors are expected t-i
reach Seattle this week.
Secretary Taft holds a political
conference in Cincinnati.
Lack of funds may interfere with
Peary's north pole plans.
Washington officials are uninform
ed regarding mob in Guatemala city.
End of contest for control of Tam
many Hall is announced at New York
Unusual kind of government at Te
gucigalpa results in fresh fighting.
Receiving bribes is charged against
certain municipal officers in London.
Vanderbilt's Chancellor addresses
Council on Medical Education at Chi-
cago.
Mrs. James C. Frazier, a prominent
West Virginia woman, died in Indi
ana. A Cyelone in Texas caused a loss
of at least eight lives and great dam
age.
Rev. J. D. Simmons was stricken
with apoplexy in -a hotel at BuekTran
non, W. Va.
Secretary Taft speaks in Cincin
nati, with the Panama Canal for a
subject.
Mrs. H. L. Williams shot and per
haps fatally wounded her husbaud in
Danville.
Various municipal officials in Lon
don are being tried on charge of pet
ty grafting.
Two men were killed .and 100 per
sons had a thrilling escape in a Wa
bash wreck.
The new Inland Waterways Com
mission held its first business meeting
and organized.
President of Panama to be absent
for long while, radical changes n
Cabinet resulting.
Taft followers are to issue a state
ment to the effect that he is only aft
er the Presidency.
Several persons have been killed
and many wounded during tt3 politi
cal campaign in Ecuador.
A system of 15-day Presidents gov
erning by turns reopened the revolu
tion in Honduras for a time.
Secretary Taft in an address at
Dayton, Ohio, praised the Young
Men's Christian Association.
Each person in the United States,
according to a Government report,
eats 76 pounds of sugar a year.
A rich Pittsburg widow married a
man 10 years younger than she, who
had been her instructor at a skating
rink.
The volcano on the Island of
Stromboll is again in eruption and
several persons may have been en
gulfed in lava.
The decision that the meat packers
had accepted rebates was upheld by
the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals in St. Paul.
The District Attorney conducting
the case against the alleged "Black
hand" at .Wilkes-Barre says the or
ganization is no myth.
A savage attack by a Socialist del
egate on the Russian Government and
Army came near precipitating the
dissolution of the Dour,a.
Franz Endrukaty shot Martha Ko
rals dead and then tried to kill him
self in Philadelphia because the girl
had refused to marry him.
A coroner's jury in Macon, Ga.,
brought in a verdict of justiable hom
icide in the case of a man who . killed
his sister's alleged betrayer.
The Supreme Court ruled that a
State railroad commission may en
force changes in railroad schedules, m
deciding North Carolina case.
There is a possibility that Com
mander Peary may not be able to
make his proposed new d2sh to the
North Pole for lack of funds.
A letter alleged to have been writ
ten by Miss Elizabeth Loving is said
to clear Theodore Estes of the charge
upon which her father, Judge Loving
shot him.
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Death f Tows in the Wake of
Tire Damp
BODIES OF THREE RECOVERED
Four Other Men Entombed, Believ
ed Dead and Four Severely Burn
ed Disaster Occurred at Whipple
Mines in Leap Cresk District of
West Virginia, in Shaft 450 Feet
Deep.
Charleston, W. Va., Special. Three
men were killed, four were severely
burned and four ethers are entombed
and probably dead as a result of a
mine explosion at the Whipple Mines
in the Leap Creek district Wednes
day afternoon. The three dead men
whose bodies have been recovered arer
Hudson Bergess, motorman.
Erastus Wiley, sprinkler.
Ira Kelley, driver.
The men missinr; who arc suppos
ed to he dead are :
Robert Armstrong, Raleigli Tucker,
Charles Bergess and WHliam Wilton,
a negro.
Four injured men, who were taken
to the State Miners' Hospital at Me
Kendree were: Henry Milton, white,
a stable boss, and three unknown
white men.
The mine where the explosion oc
curred is a shaft 450 feet deep. It has
two openings and belongs to fhe Dix
son interests, who also own the Stu
art Mine, where an explosion oeeiir
red last January, that killed S6 men.
The explosion Wednesday after
noon occurred at about 3:30 o'clock
in the main return heading, about
1,200 feet from the foot of the shaft.
Many Women Hurt in Fire.
Chicago, Special. More than 100
persons were penned in a burning
building at 255 Wabash avenue, and
narrowly escaped with their lives.
Fully half of these persons were in
jured in the panic to escape, but none
is expected to die. Many of those
who were only slightly hurt made off
in the confusion without assistance,
Several received their injuries while
assisting women from the building.
The building is a four-story structure,
the first floor of which was occupied
by the Story & Clark Piano Company
and the second floo:- by the Lotus
Lunch Club The two upper floors
were unoccupied. The injured were
either patrons or employes of the
lunch club. The inside of the build
ins: was burned out, causing a loss of
$50,000.
Capt. Bason Dead.
Charlotte, N. C, . Special. Capl.
George F. Bason, well and favorably
known throughout this section died
at his home in Gastonia Wednesday
at 11 o'clock. At the time of nis
death and for a number of years
Capt. Bason has been counsel for the
Southern Railway. He was 63 years
of age, served with bravery and dis
tinction in the Confederate army, was
a man of deep learning and great
popularity.
By Telegraph.
The Italian bark Orienta is ashore
and her crew is missing.
Atlantic City was "dry" and many
visitors were disgusted.
Stuyvesant Fish says the trouble
with Wall street is dyspepsia.
The Census Bureau qrill give Nash
ville her dues in the matter of popu
lation. Mayor MeCellan, of New York, has
made peace with Tammany.
NewTs of the signing- of a peace
compact between Salvador and Niea
raugua was received in Yv'ashington.
Name Camels After Roosevelt.
Washington, Special. W. W. Hew
ell and E. S. Truesdr.Ie, of Broome
county, New York, who have recently
been traveling in Europe and Africa
and elsewhere, were among the Presi
dent's visitors. They told the Presi
dent that he was the be.-.tdvnown man
in the world and that in E.uypt they
fcr.nd at least 10,000 camels named
Commission Rejects Report.
Richmond, Va., Special. In an
opinion handed down Wednesday
the State corporation commission dis
disapproved and rejected the report
of a New York consulting actu
ary to -the State insurance commis
sioner, at whose instance an investi
gation of the Life Insurance Com
pany of Virinia was conducted. The
commission has ordered ihat the re
Rortte of ihe heariiv before the com
mission shall be kept as the only
true statement of the condition o
the affairs of the company to date.