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rSts 0 Cents the Copy. ffiEQNALTHTNG3 Subscription Pri. no pa, v. ; VOL XIII. COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1907. NO 26. NORTH CAROLINA AST AIRS ; (Sews of Old North State Gathered and Put vvnwuit.u HMHMHMHHHHMH1 tfUl Tour the State. !L director of the N- Pal 119 ; xiu r UUl nmuuiB vjuiiricati bona1 , from Cincinnati W 3 -wnnaintinj? himself L lift 11 on 4-'. j u H lu Wilmington tn the i left for an IT H ' itinerary of the the business men 11.1 iL - State. spc.r ruies on me ques- Li KlO llliui'r H 1 ..fumont lmnrnvumunf on o e otPVVflVS as a solution oi tna Irailway generally recognized that now he rauroau - L, tt the ports. Mr. Fox was euest of Capt. Earl I. Brown in . ripro for an insnpot ion th? (rovfrnraent improvements al 1 lu 8 : iit;i : . j to a large delegation of South- Aft DU?""5 men icwiviuu iium ta assurances Gt tneir nearty sup- i XT- TT rt HI I"" IHUVCjUIWIMn JlAi. A' J.v Will ak at Asheville, October 18th; barlotte 21st; Salisbury 22d, High Bint 23d. CJreensboro 24th, "JVinston a Raleigh 28th. Durham 2Mh, jfcforo 30th, Wilson 31st,Fayette- Kovember 1st returning to YU- for a waterways convention mm it i props'ed to hold here the for the puipose oi receiving fcaeerti?l action upon the part ofjf Cforth Carolina toward secuiinar the Improvement. . John Charles McNeill Has Passed Away. Cbrlotte, Special. John Chas. Mc Neill,, post and raconteur, whose con tribution? in verse and prose to the Charlotte Observer and one of the leading magazines have attracted na- Itiona! attention, died Thursday after won at his ancestral home in Scot- J j Ind county, aged 33. He was a! iter of arts of Wake Forest col-1 and for some time professor of Knsh in Mercer university. He I hi published one volume of verse Ifer. the title "Sones. Merrv and and a second, " Under the Per- on Tree," was in preparation. 10,5 President Roosevelt person- jly presented him with the Patter- memorial cup for the most gifted lerarv work oi the year. He came Hi a distinguished line of Scotch an- lstrv. i Killed by 'a Train. Greensboro. Special. Stephen pice a white lad en route to this city from his homo at Rpvolntinn fpll from the Madison train some dis tance from Greensboro. Whether the boy was killed bv the fall or met path under the Mount Airy train inicb came aloit a few minutes la ter and ran over the bodv is noL Known, but mangled. It was brought to this city and prenared ft sent to StonevilJe for interment. Clothes Caught Fire. Winston-Salem. Rnpinl Miss Ulariah Xrol? QY 1V4I11 At " "p-u can. j i aim va. Bar N in front of the fire place at the IWir.f- of a rplativi nrlicn Viot- flrpssi T 11 V 1.A 1-1 M. Vi A W - w ipited. Her clothes and hair w-ere Wrned off hpfu'o acictiiiia orinxrpil l)od" Tl-nt: i.liorol anrl cVia iW&t .Kteen minntps. ' ' ' '.II IV VI un.u Cen. Carr Reelected. Ha! R f . ... wrr was tpp pr-rpri ns rhp i-fpneral Hl5:-in rip riT rtf iho Vnrtti Carolina of United Confederate Vet a most enthusiastic meet hat organization held in the hambcr. Jfof Orphanage Officers Resign. -Satesviiie, Special. Rev. R. W. v,1 who has been superintendent jjtm' institution since it was founde Pgbteen years ago, and Rev. A. fMer Caldwell, financial agent, ir rocitrnafiona n fVi rr- ats of tko r rv u "cr.n. - iu(, uaiiuui vyipuaua iiuuic taetrntr rvf fha mawnfc Primal; I and ti . v 1 Ille VPClOmotlftno mnvn aiiiantad dieted on Charges of Assault. laj Special. Walter Cope- l) Tji fj VUVi ovu WHIWif I John TU.lmont Mason Bsdimm and hhodes, of Hamilton, were each tton v ne grana jury oi bou n county for felonious and ma rlls assaults. Andrew Wooiing- of rj" " Jacason Woolmgham, bote fctiv Gvy' Pa?e county were Jne 'A ' (rlaillsleJ nar Bluemont, on tlr A fhey are rwpectively, fa- . r n t v. uu v u cxi pies is sen- auu trouble arose over Was rfrdrew Woolingrham, wa Carlisle's kAneAirnM mm m U"ViA6lUU Vim MooreBville New Bank. Mooresville, Special The board of directors of the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank met Tuesday night and Mr. A. W. Colson was elected as cashier, Mr. E. W. Brawley having been elected president at a previous meeting. The question of a location for the bank building was brought before the board and it was decided to purchase the corner lot belonging to Mr. J. C. McLean where the red front store now stands. The bank will move the wooden structure on the corner and will erect a handsome and commodious structure for their banking house. Enthusiastic Temperance Move on at Salisbury. Salisbury, Special The anti-saloon league's meting is pronounced by those attending it as the most en thusiastic temperance move yet pro jected in this town. The attendance was placed at two hundred and a roll call developed three hundred mem bers of the asociation. The question election was then taken up with the decision to hold it about the 1st of February Big Transfer Sheds. Spencer, Special.- Within a few Jays the Southern Railway Company will open a mammoth transfer shed, the largest in the world, at Spencer with five miles of trackage and other facilities for handling 500 cars o ireigni per aay. ine sneas, wnicn i i i mi are being removed from Salisbury to Spencer as a matter of economy to the Southern, will be in charge of Mr. Ed. Marsh, and Snpt. J. W. Wassum, of the Spencer terminals. Christian Conference. Elon College, Special. Dr. J. O. Atkinson with Rev. J. W. Wellons, as co-pastor, has just been unanimously called to the pastorate of the local church in this place, for the next year. Dr. Atkinson was for several years a professor in Elon College, and i3 now editor of the Southern Christian Sun, the organ of the Southern Christian Convention, whose editorial office is located at the college. Dr. Atkinson is easily one of the most able pulpit orators in the South. Handsome Asheville Residence Near ly Goes Up in Flames. Asheville, Special. The handsome residence of Dr. Lambertson had a narrow escape from destruction by fire Friday morning about 1 o'clock. The residence is unoceupied for the time being while the interior is be ing remodeled, and Friday workmen placed fires in the grates. Some live coals, it is presumed, rolled out on the floor and started the blaze. Realty Company Organized. Fayetteville, Special. The .Fay etteville Insurance & Realty Co. has been organized capital $100,000 with L. A. Williamson, T. G. McAllister and W. D. McNeill incorporators. Messrs. Williamson and McNeill are prominent manufacturers of the. city, and Mr. McAllister is a leading busi ness man of Randolph county, who will make his home here. New Railroad Agent. Mt. Airy, Special. Mr. Claude Shelton, who has held a position with the Southern Railroad at Durham some time, has been apointed agent at this place. Mr. M. Ellis, the agent here, was forced to resign on account of ill health. Shelton is familiar with the work at this place. Derailment of Entire Train. Pensacola, Fla., Special. By the breaking of a flange on a wheel of the baggage car of the first section of five special trains bringing Florida troops to Pensacola for the encamp ment at ike army fortifications, the entire train was derailed about 140 miles east of Pensacola on the Louis ville & Nashville Railroad. No one was killed, and only a few "of the men were injured. The track was iern up and the other trains had to be detotrred. ROOSEVELT PRAISED AS PEACE CONFERENCE ENDS Homage Paid to Illustrious Presi dent of the United States." HAGUE WORK TO BE CONTINUED the Greatest Significance of the In ternational Conference Was the Assembly of Representatives From the World to Stop Warfare. The Hague. The Hall of. Knights presented an imposing spectacle at the closing session of the Internation al Peace Conference. The boxes spe cially erected for the occasion were crowded to overflowing with Cabinet Ministers, diplomats and other states men and their wives in attractive cos tumes. The president, M. Nelidoff, Russia, made a long speech, saying notwithstanding the assiduous work of the delegates the Conference had lasted longer than expected. The efforts to establish an Interna tional High Court of Justice and obli gatory arbitration were the result of theoretical combinations, which failed because there were practically insur mountable difficulties in their way. But, instead, the International Prize Court would be one of the lasting monuments of the Conference, and, once applied, it indirectly would pre vent the greater extension of war. But the greatest significance of th present Conference was the assem bling of representatives of the whole world. The presence of the Latin American delegations had increased the reciprocal knowledge between the countries of the European and Ameri can continents. "At one of our recent sittings thanks were expressed to the august initiator of the two conferences, His Majesty the Emperor of Russia. The conference, I hope, will to-day render homage to the President of the United States, who first proposed the meeting of the second conference. The Argentine delegation insisted that to maintain the principle of equality of the States a greeting should be sent to King Alphonso of Spain, as well as to President Roose velt, both of whom insured the invi tation sent to Argentine to participate In the conference. The suggestloa was applauded warmiy, as was a speech of Senor Triana, Colombia, who said: "Let us give expression to the deep est gratitude to the sovereign who convened us; to the august Queen, dispenser of the hospitality which has been accorded to us, and to the illus trious President of the United States. " He expressed thanks to President Nelidoff in the name of Japan, which "up to the end of the last century had given history a rare example of pro found and uninterrupted peace dur ing 300 years, a country which has placed the blessings of undisturbed peaco above the troubled and tran sient glories of war." There was unanimous acclamation of President Roosevelt for his initia tive in convoking the conference, and in a new manifestation in favor of continuing the Peace Conference and the further development of the prin ciple of a world understanding to reg ulate international relations, the dele gates reiterated their approval of President Roosevelt-s course of ac tion. FATAL ENGLISH TRAIN SMASH. Cars Run Off the Track at Sharp Curve Near Shrewsbury. Shrewsbury, England. A London and Northwestern passenger train bound from Scotland and the north of England to Bristol ran oS! the track near here. Sixteen -persons, ten of them passengers, were killed and many were injured. Among the dead are the engineer, fireman, train hands and postal clerks. The road curves sharply near Shrewsbury, and there is a standing order not to run faster than ten miles an hour at that point. Disregard of the order probably caused the acci dent. The engine and all the cars, except the last one, left the rails and buried the passengers in a tangled mass of wreckage. Doctors and salvage crews soon reached the scene, and after some hours the last body had been taken out and the wounded were all cared for. SHOOTS HIS MOTHER DEAD. Boy of Seventeen Says Burglar Pushed Her in Front of His Gnu. Kansas City. George Smiley, aged seventeen years, shot and killed his mother, Mrs. Lizzie Scholfer, in their home. Mrs. Scholfer had been separ ated from her second husband, and mother and son lived alone. The boy told the police he had been awakened by the screams of his mother, who grappled with a burglar, that the burglar was attempting to escape when Mrs. Scholfer ordered Smiley to shoot, and as he fired the burglar pushed the woman in front of him. , A search of the place showed no sign of a burglar. , Child Labor Denounced. Child labor was denounced In a resolution adopted by the House of Bishops of the Episcopal General Convention," rn Richmond, Va. RUIN SPREAD FAR AND I WIDE BY EXPLOSION r Piant of Du Pont Powder Com pany Blows Up at Fontanel, Ind. SHOCK WAS FELT 200 MILES three States Tremble to the Dctona tion of a Giant Magazine's Crash -Victims Burned to Crisp Over 600 Injured. Fontanet, Ind. Upward of fifty persons were killed, the majority be ing blown to pieces; 600 persons out of a total population of 1000 were in jured, and every building in this town was razed in a series of explo sions in the Du Pont Powder Plant, which culminated in the blowing up of the magazine, containing 40,000 barrels of blasting powder. The force of this crowning blast was so terrific that the earth trembled and buildings were blown down four miles distant. A school house in Coal Bluff, two miles away, was thrown over and smashed. The teacher and forty pupils were burled in the wreck. A passenger train, traveling forty miles an hour on the line o the Big Four Railroad, four mileB distant, was al most thrown from the tracks. Every window in the train was shattered. Reports from other points show that there was widespread terror of an earthquake. The last and greatest explosion was heard at points fifty miles from here, and it appears that the greater part of v the State and large sections of Ohio and Illinois were shaken. In Terre Haute, twen ty miles as the crow flies, windows were shattered and ceilings were shaken down. In Crawfordsville, thirty-five miles away, walls were cracked and in one large building of recent construction the tiled floor sank more than an inch. Great dam age was done fifteen miles distant in Brazil. There was a general flight from the houses, in the belief of an earthquake, until at the end of a min nte there came the distinct, roar of the explosion. In many places the explo sion was taken as thutoder. Nothing remains of this town to mark it for what it was. Even the sidewalks have been obliterated. Not a tree stands for two miles around. Hedges, stone ditches,; wire fences, all have gone. There are great fissures in the earth, as if one of the giants of the ancients had turned a tremendous furrow. Here and there are great holes like dents in the ground, and over all the field of deso lation is strewn the wreckage of homes. Doors, rafters, window frames, bricks, mortar, all are scat tered flat, with not a foot of wall protruding anywhere, .nd with this wreckage of bare walls and floors are strewn the furnishings? of 400 fam ilies. Pianos, beds, tables, chairs, pictures, clocks, are scattered on all sides, not an article intact, all broken and cast with a direction as if a mysterious hand had brushed over the town and blotted it but. There were four explosions. To the devotion of the townsfolk to the men caught in the mills was due the heavy loss of life and the appalling list of injured. With fire spreading rapidly and threatening the magazine, not a man, woman or child, deserted the town. Instead, all gathered around the plant ready to sacrifice their lives to rescue those dead and dying in the wreck of the mills, and J:he work was in progress, injured men being carried out by the score, when the magazine blew up. , It was said by survivors that there was a flash, and then it seemed there was a moment's suspense, followed by a crash that struck every person within a radius of a mile either dying or senseless. Those who es caped death bled from ears, noses and mouths, and the ear drums of scores were shattered. Farmers were the first to invade the stricken area. They found the surviving hundreds beginning to regain their senses. All communication by telegraph and tele phone was cut off, but fortunately the train which so narrowly escaped dis aster carried the news to the station, from which it was telephoned to Terre Haute and Brazil. Relief trains were dispatched within an hour from those cities, and as quickly as the injured were picked up they were carried on stretchers to the trains. Four specials bore them to Terre Haute. The hospitals there were un able to accommodate all, and two schools were impressed as temporary hospitals. WALKER'S STEALINGS REPAID. Baptist Convention, Reimbursed, Prays For the Absconder. Putnam, Conn. At the Connecti cut Baptist convention the stealings of William -F. Walker, of New Bri tain, the former treasurer of the con vention, who disappeared early last winter, with more than $55,000 of the convention's funds and also with $665,000 belonging to the Savings Bank of New Britain, were discussed. Walker has never been found. It was reported that the entire loss f tha invention has been made T Offered for Walker, good. A nmrar vfi 9 nfrPrPfl TDT VV 31Kcr. i. r v,Q TYirvat rrnminnnt Yt lXJ VT 3 UU Jm VAiv w Av Baptists in the State. Maine Sardines Scarce. Among the features In canned goods was a scarcity of sardine, fish at packing points. ; TAFE MAKES STATEMENT At a Banquet in Manila the Secretary Says His Visit Two Years 'Hence Will Probably Be as a Private Citi zenAudience Not Struck With His Personal Remarks. Manila, By Cable. At a banquet given in his honor in this city Sec retary of War William H. Taft made a most significant satement. He was referring to the fact that he had already visited the Philippine Islands three times, and in expressing his in tention to come here again he said: "I hope another two years to visit Manila again, but then I probably will come as a private citizen." The significance of Mr. Taft's re mark in relation to the chance of his nomination for the presidency next year did not seem to strike his audi ence. The Secretary's speech was re ceived with much enthusiasm by the representatives of the Filipinos pres ent when he declared the government was anxious and ready to help the business prosperity of the islands. Secretary Taft opened his address by declaring that the future prosper ity of the Philippine Islands depend ed primarily on the Filipinos them selves. They must make progress as a nation before they could obtain the benefits realized by other nations and it was the duty of business men and others contemplating investment in the Philippines to help the natives better their condition. It was with the most intense satisfaction that he came to the islands today and found .them quieter than ever before in their history. He was glad the Assembly had been established and hoped it would take over some of the responsibility of government. He said to capitalists and others looking for franchises and concessions that another power had arisen in the land and that hereafter they must come to the Assembly with their requests He had no doubt the Assembly would carefully consider all questions affecting the welfare o the islands. That it would not only look out for the interests of the people but would welcome with lib erality the investment of foreign cap italso absolutely necessary to the development of the Philippines. The .existence of the Assembly would strengthen the hand of the govern ment and the government was anx ious and ready to help the business prosperity of the islands in which the people themselves were quite as much interested as the merchants. This was the beginning of a period of prosperity, the speaker asserted, and he trusted that under it every body would be happy and content ed. Th Secretary declared that he was not ashamed of anything in the is lands and urged the Americans here to make every effort to bring the Filipino people to a realization of theor wonderful opportunities. He hand been to the Philippines three times already and he hoped in anoth er two years to visit the islands again, but then he probably would come as a private citizen Mr Taft's speech was greeted at the close with cheers This afternoon Secretary Taft laid the corner stone of the first perma nent school house built in Manila un- CENT BELOW any other DO MOT or on anv hind of terms, logaes illustrating hievcles. old natterns I mmm ntiejEB ana wonaerxui new oners maae possiDie dv seiung irom raciory direct to rider with no middlemen's profits. WE SHtP ON APPROVAL without a cent deposit, Pay the Freight and allow lO Days Free Trial and make other liberal terms which no other house in the world will do. 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That the last day was one of unabated activity on his part is certain, but what the result was, was not known at 6 o'clock as no messenger leaving the camp after the close of the dayrs sport had reached the telegraph sta tion. The weather was excellent as it has been throughout the week and the party started out in the early morning in high spirits and in antici pation of a fine day with which to close the fortnight of sport. . The President will reach Mr. Shield's home during the forenoon and will meet a number of Mr. Shields' friends at dinner. A special train will take the President and his party to Vicksburg starting from this point at 10 o'clock Monday. After a stay of four hours at Vicksburg the Presi dent will board the Pennsylvania Railroad train which carried him from Washington to Keokuk and re turn to Washington aboard it H i i - To Go To New York. Atlanta, Ga., Special. 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