VOL XIII.
COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1907.
NO. 16.
Engtend Building Largest War
Vessel Ever Planned
UNITED STATES TO BETTER THAT
Washington Naval Circles Excited
Over Report That Keel is .bout
to be Laid Down New Skip to Be
of No Less Than 30,000 Tons Dis
placement, and Design is Believed
to Include Many Novelties, Includ
ing Assembling of Three Gnns in
Each Turret.
Washington, Special. Naval cir
cles are agitated over a report which
readies Washiijpton that the British
admiralty is about to lay down the
keel for g-iant ship that will be 50
per cent greater in tonnage than the
redoubtable "Dreadnought." It i
difficult to secure any information
respecting the plans for this ship, an.!
it is said that the British govern
ment s ngian proceeding, as it did in
the ease of the Dreadnought, to build
the vessel behind closed gates. Even
tually, of course, the man character
istics of war vessels built under thee
conditions become known, but the
British government feels that it Is
amply repaid for the trouble it tak,cs
to build the ship secretly, by the
fart that the British navy is thereb
kept at least two years ahead of
any other navy in point of design,
a most valuable consideration in
these days, when a battleship is fre
quently obsolete in the course of five
years alter going into commission.
It is understood that the new sh'p
is to be of no less than 30,000 ton?
displacement, against 20,000 tons of
the Dreadnought, but aside from the
mere matter of superior size, the de
sia is believed to include many nov-L
elties some based on the experience
of the Dreadnought. Such a one, for
instance, is understood to be the con
templated assembling . of three guns
in each turret, so that if the new shih
is equalled with the six turrets, she
will carry no less than 18 guns in
her main battery. The calibre of the
guns, however, will, it is believed, re
main at 12 inches, the present stand
ard.
The report of the British plan has
caused some of the bolder designers
to proceed to greater length and' to
propose the laying down of a battle
ship of 40.000 tons displacement,
placing the American navy clearly in
the lead. Naval designers are be
lieved to be willing to undertake the
construction of such a ship. It would
cost no less than $20)00,000, but in
view of the predaminanco it woind
give to America as a naval power it
is argued by the advocates of the
proposition that sjuch a ship would
be an economical investment by tend
ing to ensure peace.
100 Additional Union Mechanics Join
Building Trades Strike.
Washington, Special. Acting on
orders from the executive officers of
their unions 100 more union mechan
ics joined the building trades strike
here Saturday. According to the la
bor leaders every building under con
traction, where non-union mechanics
ere employed, is now tied up and
'tefcly 300 men have quit work. The
plovers' association eliams that
t&at it has been able to fill the places
f a ! the strikers Avith the exception
f bricklayers. The union men do
dare that the strike wiil be extended
net Monday.
lumber Company to Build Railro&J.
Mount Sterling, Ky., Special.
Clearfield Lumber Company, of Clear
field, Pa., closed a deal for 30,000
acres 0f yalnut, oak and poplar tim
Jjj lands in Morgan county for $100.-""0-
It is announced that the com
pany will extend a line of railroad
t miles up Rush branch and will
?pend $1,000,000 in approvements.
Officers Raid Connterfieter's Ben.
ITnionJton;fPa., Special. In a raid
'WWeA emintprreitev ' rlen n.
w : F. 9
fi'tjm, several men were arrested
C number nf mnnlrls P'ifnwl
aii a big quantity of spurious coin
found concealed about the place. The
tten were all foreigners. It is claim
that the plant has been in opera
ion several- weeks, as the neighbor
Jee non a still hunt for the eounter
t money. The authorities have
0, a Still hunt fn rthe eniinto-.
ejters for SOme time and believe ail
lIr-plicated have been captured. I
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PdbLlC HIGH bCttOOL FUNDS
New High School Law Going Into
Force in the Several Counties.
Raleigh, Special. The State board
of education has appropriated about
$22,000 of the $45,000 set apart by the
last Legislature for high -schools in
the various counties under the new
system, now being inaugurated. The
law gives $500 to a county with the
one representative, $750 to one with
two and $1,000 to one with three. Trw
apportionment is made by the board
of the counties which have complied
with the law and the requirement-?.
The following counites each get an
allowance for one school: Alamance;
Anderson, Beaufort, Currituck, Du
lin, Durham, Granville, Jackson, Mc
Dowell, Onslow, Person, Richmond,
Scotland, Sampson, Surry, Swain, Un
ion, Wilkes, Yadkin. The following
get allowances for two schools: Cho
wan, Cabarrus, Catwba, Cleveland,
Caldwell, Davie, Guilford, Harnett.
Lincoln, Macon, Martin, Nash, Pender
Pitt, Transylvania, Vance, Warren,
Washington, Wilson. The following
get three schools: Cumberland, For
syth, Rockingham, Rowan and Gas
ton. The counties of Robeson and
Wake gets four each. Wake gets the
largest allowance, $1,000. There were
no applications from Mecklenburg
and New Hanover.
The State board of education grant
27 five-year certificates in various
sections of the State and within the
next few davs will grant certificates
to the teachers in the new high
schools.
A Timber Road.
Raleigh, Special. In an interview
with Mr. William Moncure, so wcU
known in railway circles and partic
ularly for the last xfew years as a
builder of roads, he said that Henry
E. Liehford, of Raleigh; John G.
Shaw of Rockingham; D. E. Mclver
hand C. L. Chisholm of Sanford; him-
J self and others are now arranging t
Duild tne riiaden & .Northern Kail way
from Stedman on the Atlantic Coast
Line a distance of 20 miles. He says
that it is to be a road to get at timber
and that it will reach what is perhaps
the finest body of standing pines now
in North Carolina- about 200,000,000
feet of which this company ownes
50,000,000. Much of it iJong-leaf
and considerable of it is short-leaf.
The road is to be 20 miles long and
work will be in progress within GO
days from this date. The road Aviil
be, standard guage and will handle
passengers.
Pinned Beneath Locomotive.
New York, Special. Pinned be
neath a locomotive, Charles S. Hud
lev, a brakeman on the New York
New Haven & Hartford Railroad suf
fered the amputation of a leg before
he could be extricated from under
the engine, which had run over him
in the railroad yards in the Brorfx.
The operation was performed by an
ambulance surgeon without the use of
anaesthetics and frequently Hudley
gave suggestions to the surgeons dur
ing the operation. It is said he may
recover.
Big Canning Output.
Mount Airy, Special. Some 25.
hands are now busy at the Mount
Airy Canning Factory, putting up
canned tomatoes. It is learned that
at least 50,000 cans of tomatoes will
be put up this season by this company
This is a large out put for the first
year, and serves to show what can be
acompanied by the people of any
North Carolina town if they but ex
ert themselves a little.
Bitten By a Spider.
Greenville, Special. Bitten by a
large blaek spider early Friday morn
ing Tilden Batson a laundryman of
this city, was stricken terribly ill.
Two physicians were summoned be
fore the man got relief from his suf
ferings. A New Industry.
Greensboro, Special The Acme
Match Company, with authorized cap
ital of $100,000 and $20,000 subscrib
ed has been chartered to manufacture
matches here. A site for the factory
has been selected near the city limits
and work will begin within 30 dayu
The incorporators are all from Winston-Salem
and are J. Palmer, presi
dent; Gus Palmer, vice president; L.
A. Wade, secretary-treasurer.
Four Killed by Train.
Allenhurst, N. J., Special. Four
persons employes of the Norwood
House, were instantly killed when
their carriage was run down by a
Pennsylvania passenger flyer known
as the Banker's Special, at the Cor
lies Ave. crossing here. There were
Thomas Edwards, a driver and Loret
ta Gray, Jennie McDonald and Han
nah Murphy, waitresses. The Cor
lies crossing is just' south of the local
station of the New York & Long
Branch Railroad, and the station
PKtform was crowded ith summer
visitors, who witnessed the accideni.
1 IMi OUT
Telegraphers in Chicago Walk
Out By Hundreds
BUSINESS SERIOUSLY CRIPPLED
Resolution Adopted in Meeting of
Strikers That Every Operator in
the City Holding a Card Shall be
Called Out Postal Men Demand 25
Per Cent Increase, 8-Hotir Day and
Recognition of Union With Ulti
mate Aim of Aiding Western Union
Strikers.
Chicago, 111., Special. The 500 op
erators of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany struck Friday night at 6 o'clock.
This, with the 1,100 men. out from
the offices of the Western Union
throughout the city, makes 1,600 men
now on strike in Chicago.
At a meeting of the operators held
in the afternoon a resolution was
Cinanimously passed declaring - that
every operator in the city having, a
anion card should be called qjrt. 4
A short time after the meeting had
dissolved demands were presented to
the officials of the Postal company
asking for an increase of 25 per
cent in wages, an 8-hour day and
recognition of the union. If these
were not passed upon the strike was
to follow. It was the general feeling
among the operators that the .e
mands could not be granted at once
and the move was evidently intended
to bring about the strike at the pres
ent time in order to aid the West
ern Union men if the demands were
not granted. Under the working oi
the order all the operators working
for brokers and commission houses
will be called out in the morning and
business generally will be badly
handicapped
It was said by some cf the opeiSKi
tors who Avere present in the meeting
that the intention of the union wd.i
to cripple the telegraph failitites of
Chicago in every direction, and to do
it so completely that public senti
ment would be brought to bear heavi
ly on, the two telegraph companies,
and in this manner force a settlement
between them and the operators.
The strike at the Chicago office q.
the Postal company was attended by
no sign of disorder. When a tvhistle
was blown, the operators rose from
their keys with a cheer and walked
out.. There was. not the slightest
evidence of ill-feeling on either side.
The men after reaching the street
gave repeated cheers and then dis
persed. The strike throughout the day has
been marked by absence of trouble
of any kind. Chief of Police Ship
py informed the leaders in the after
noon that he would not allow any
picketing or violence, and he was in
formed that none was intended, and
that every effort would be made to
keep the men peaceable.
The sreneral situation throughout
the West became more serious as
the day lengthened.
When the strike of the Postal em
ployes, Chicago is left with about 35
commercial telegraphers, who are eu
deavoring to transmit the business of
both telegraph companies, whereas
under normal conditions fnlt 1.500
men are necessary to do the work in
Chicago.
Other Western Union offices which
became involved in the trouble to
gether with the number of men who
quit work are:
Salt Lake City, 3G; Helena, 40;
Kansas City, 330; Dallas, 105; Fort
Worth, Tex., 40; Colorado Springs,
10; Denver, 83; New Orleans, 60,
Dr. J. r. Ensor Dead.
Columbia, S. C, Special. Dr. J.
F. Ensor, for the past ten years post
master at Columbia, superintendent
of the State Hospital for the Insane
during reconstruction, former chief
surveyor of the port of Charleston
and for several years deputy collec
tor of internal revenue, died at his
home here Friday afternoon in his
72I year. He was a native of Mary
land and served six years in the Fed
eral army .in the war between the
States as surgeon. He came here iu
1S6S and served as medical purvey
or for the Freedman's bureau in this
State.
Pour Dead; Three Badly Hurt.
Dalton, Ga., Specal. Four persons
are dead and three seriously injured
as the result of a head-on collision be
tween a southbound local frighnd
an extra freight train on the Westeja
r ' AtknHo Railroad. ojUhlnile north
5
cfcjftnile north I j)n
"PSrapl
xxii.ii-w
of this place at 5 o'
afternoon.
TELEGRAPHERS? STRIKE GROWS
Officers of Telegraphers' Union Are
Planning to Carry Strike to All
Parts of United States and Canada
Some 4,000 Men Are Now Out in
60 Cities From Ohio to California
Chicago, Spccia. With some 4,-
000 telegraphers fn strike in about
50 cities from Ohi to California, and
i tl .Ol L.-.uii-.
enequraged by ther success in hamp
ering telegraph facilities of both coin
mereial telegraph companies in Chic
ago, where all but leased wire men
are out, officers )f the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union are planning to
carry the strike to all parts of the
United States and Canada.
Instructions wejpe telegraphed by
National Secretary. Russell to union
telegraphers in New York and other
cities, where thetr are still at work,'
to "save their money and await or- men and the press operators are pre
ders." fl paring to join in the walkout, and'1
A telegram was: sent to rresiaenc
Small, of the Telegraphers' Union
wno is in an j? raneisco, urging mm
to take the first train to Chicago to
I 1 L Pi IV A J, A 2. i.1
look airer we smiapon as it is ine an-
uouuceu mieuuuu -oj. uie men w w i
gineer the strike Tf-om Chicago.
The telegraph companies are pre-
paring to meet tH issue and dec! are
mat rney win ngns to a nnisn. inev
. -a . , jP i ,
declare thev havebeen temporizing
with the union m months and that
they will hold no further negotiations
with the representatives of the men
on strike. Cots have been installed
in the buildings ot both companies
in Chicago for thes accommodation of
strike-breakers ani other prepara
tions for a biter sruggle are making.
Cities Affected by Strike.
According to information received
in Chicago - Saturday -night th e points I
already affected Sutside ot Chicago
and the total of stokers are:
Chicago Western Union l,lo3;
Postal, 500. I
Houstou Western Union, 30 ; Post-
al, .
Kansas City Western Union, 330 ;
Postal, 70. it.
Topeka Western Union, 8; Posf-
al, 5.
Oklahoma City'- Western Union,
10: Postal. 10. 1
Pueblo Westen Union, S; Postal,
New Orleans festern Union, 100;
Postal. GO. l
Nashville Western Union,
Postal, . I -
Memphis Western Union, 60 ;
Postal, 50.
Dallas Western! Union, 105 ; Post-
al, 40.
Meridian West
n Union, 10 ;
Postal,.
Jackson, Miss -Western Union, 1?
Postal, r
Minneapolis Western Union, 30 :
Postal, .
Milwaukee Western Union, o0
Postal, 15. jr
St. Louis Western Union, 300
Postal, ioo: i ,
Helena, Mont. Western Union, 40;
Postal, .
Colorado Springf Western Union,
10: Postal, .
Denver Western Union, 75; Post
tal, : j
Fort Worthj Te. Western Union
40: Postal,. v
El Paso Western Union, 35; Post,
al, . 1 1 '
St. Paul Western Union, 100:
Postal, . I
Los Angeles Western Union, 50;
Postal, .
Fargo Western lUnion, 10; Postal
Omaha Western! Union, 60; Post
al, 25. I '
Sioux City-Western Union, 25
Postal, .
Knoxville -western Union, '55
Postal, . J
Birmingham Wf stern Union, 35
Postal, 65. I!
Jackson, Miss. IVestern Union,
Postal, 5.
Augusta Western Union, ; Post
al, 2o. m
1 'We are filling yacancies as rapidlv
as possible," said f. P. Cook, general
superintendent of ike Western TJniofi
and we are in better position than mi
expected to be. We will not deal
with any representatives of the strik
ers, as this compaiy only treats with
its own employes. $hen the men qui!
' ' y
with them are at all end. There will
be no union recognition. ' '
"Will you let president tfompc
of the American Federation Of La-
T. i i J nu;
" T. nh ir r i ,
offer his services tf Mr. Cook WSUi
nnr. s o'.iui lie culilc tu wuxwaKu a.ii'
asked. ,1
; We will not, was the emphatK
answer. ,
, m , Z W rnliS
Postal Telegraph Company in ChlC-
ago,
rnwl Vio nnmnonv was mahiio
his company was makllia
r j c
2TeSS than he had antlel-
oaiu
better progress than he had antici-
-A A
"A number of nr employes hav
already returned fo work," he de
clared and others have signified then
of returning."
mal Secretary Russell, of thf
graphers' Umcn. said:
We are highly pleased with tin-
situation, and no matter what sod
of assertions the telegraph office re
may make, the fact remains, thej
are not doing any business. Th.rt.
have a few chiefs and inexperienced
telegraphers at work but as far a
the company's being able to handle
the public business is concerned. rc
are merely trying to mislead the pub-
0 We know for an actual fact it
ieaS ere. are not 50 operator
wno are working for the commerckO
companies, where under normal con
ditions the number amounts to 1.55(4
We are in this fight to stay, and y
must have recognition, or our unfon
mignt as well go out of business."
The developments Sunday in, th
great strike of the telegraphers wer?
not such as to warrant ontimism
Practicallv all union commercial onor-
ators are now out, and all the lare
cities are crippled. The sneeial -vi
tne tie up will -likely be complete.
Nothing seems to point to any settle-
ment
Martin Knapp Wedg Neme
Maynard Gardner.
jsiew York, Special. Martin A
Kniapp, chairman of the inter-State
. . , ,r XT .
commerce commission and Mrs. Nel-
UX1S' ri
10 Maynard Gardner, daughter of the
late George L. Maynard, of Syracnse,
were married at the Hrtpl Mnnlmtttn
hn this city in the presence of a few
family friends bv Bishop Edward C.
Andrews, of the Methodist Church.
Bomb Labratory in School.
Moscow, By Cable. The police
searched the imperial technical school
nd discovered the central revolution
, , . .
ir' mooraioy lor manutacturii
pombs ot a new pattern and tremen-
lous explosive powder, regular suo-
jlies of which were being shipped to
various interior points. The poliee
teized a number of bombs, GOO time
'use appliances, and some forbidden
iterature and arrested twenty maie
iud female students of the school.
Georgia Capitalist Dead in Hotel.
Atlanta Ga., Special. Halcombe
Bacon, of Albany, Ga., aged 35, capi
talist and prominent business man,
was found dead at the Arasron Hote-
here and on a table at his bedside,
were bottles partly filled, labelled
chloral "hydrate, bromide and bromi-
a
Appearances indicate that hu
had been dead many hours. The 're
sult of the inquest has no been an
nounced.
Western Union Operators Strike
Los Angeles, Cal., Special. Follow
ing the refusal of the Western Union
Telegraph Co., officers to reinstate
a discharged operator, nearly 70
members of Los Angeles local Com
mercial Telegraphers of America
walked out of the operating depart
ment at 5:30 o'clock Thursday after
noon At 6:30 o clock there were five
men working at the keys, while a
block away more than 50 operators
were holding a meeting to decide on
future action.
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Johnny Evers has missed only
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Jim McGuire has signed a contract
to manage the Eoston Americans
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Jim Defehanty is h6w praying frrst' 1
base lor the Washingtons. He is a
good build for the position.
"Kid" Elberfeia, the Yankee short
stop, was suspended -when the locals
lost two games to Cleveland.
Whitey Alperman is scooping up
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most-daily, showing that as a ground
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er, is something of a hitter. He is
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share of pinch hits.
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George Browne is the fastest man on'
the bases in the garhe. The New
York Americans think the same of
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the Browns of Niles and the Cleve
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latest averages. He had circumnavi
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