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COLUMBUS, N. C, TH iJSSDAY, dcTOBER 31, 1907.
NO. 27.
glllFBS PERISH IN ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE
: a
oi Fatalities in the Stricken CalaMan Villages Bun as Higli as
Six Hundred-Over a Thousand Injured.
fillers 51 -ottered and Prisoners in Jail Maddened by Fear-Bestial ion at Fer-razzan-Tirt
in Ruins-People Naked and Hungry-At Least 300
Bead Under Fallen Houses-Survivors Fled From Their
Beds When Aroused by Earthquake,
WHISKEY CAUSED TRAGED
31 &
shock
Calafc
peepl
ami
' Ron ie Italy. Earthquake shocks
-ifb were felt throughout the coun
ty fcave caused widespread disaster
reat loss of life. The severest
3 v.ere experienced in Sicily and
ria, where the panic stricken
are now camping. in the open,
diimase was done at Reggio
Messina, where houses were
wrecked. Two walls of the cathedral
at Gerace collapsed. Buildings fell
at Sinopoli, burying nine persons.
Braneaieone is almost entirely in
ruins. One village was absolutely
ruined.
The misery of the people is in?
creas! d I y torrential rains. The Gov
ernment is sending aid.
The correspondent of The Sun suc
ceed) d in reaching Ferrazzano on
horse'us the day after the disaster.
He found the town a mass of ruins,
there being scarcely a single house
-!;;ii(i;nr. The roads, or rather mule
i racks. leading to the place have
been blotted out by landslides or car-
ried away by the floods.
Each ."lined house has been con
verted into s, tomb, occupied by the
dead and the living. A majority of
rh'.' survivors have fled. Those re
maining are hoping against hope
that tiey will be able to rescue bur
ied relatives.
The inhabitants are semi-nude,
most cf them wearing the night
clothes they had on when the earth
quake came. They are drenched
through and through, having no shel
ter from the steadily falling rain.
Mute desperation and terror are de
picted in their faces, and many of
them weep ellently.
A majority of the injured inhabi
tants are sheltered in military tents.
The doctors are kept busy attending
them. A long row of bodies is await
ing identification ahd burial in half
dug graves, which are flooded.
The torrential rain increases the
desolation and renders the work 6t
rescue difficult. The scenes witnessed
are heart rending.
The latest reports from the affected
districts place the number of dead at
over 600 and the injured at 1000.
The troops are doing their utmost to
diminish the sufferings of the people.
They work steadily, unmindful of fa
tigue, burying the dead, rescuing the
living, distributing food and clothing
and providing shelter.
Minister Lacava is going the rounds
of the villages dispensing help. Car
dinal Portanova, Archbishop of Reg
gio di Calabria, and the Bishops are
distributing the Pope's first contribu
tion of $10,000. It i3 likely that the
King will visit Calabria.
Among the terrifying scenes during
the quakes was the panic of prisoners
In the jail at Catanzaro. They muti
nied at the first shock and screamed
and pounded on the doors and were
quieted with great difficulty.
Brother of Saloon Keeper, a Block
ader, Under the Influence of
Liquor, Kills His Mother and Then
Cuts His Own Throat.
TFadesboro. N. C, Speeial. As a
result of a protracted spree and a
drunken debauch Mr. Elis Hightower,
a middle-aged man who lives in the
southern part of this county, right
near the South Carolina line, shot
and instantly killed his mother wilhf
a pistol Friday night. It seems that
Mr. Hightower was at his home on
his front porch in a semi-conscious
condition from the influence of whis
key when his mother approached him
to get him to go in the house, and he
suddenly drew his pistol and shot her
through the heart. When the pistol
fired Mrs. Hightower said, ' ' Son you
have killed me," and expired immediately.
Saturday morning, after realizing
what he had done, Mr. Hightower cut
his own throat and died about 10
o'clock. Mr. Hitrhtower had a remi-
' A.
tation of being a noted,blockader and
dealer in illicit liquor.
Ho was a brother to Mr. F. M.
Hightower, who is in the saloon busi
ness in Wadesboro, and who has
made arrangements to go to Wilmin-
tcn and run a saloon after the first
of next January.
1BI1G
President Names Last Thurs
day in November
CHARACTER THE GOAL SOUGHT
Democracy Must Use the Ten Talents
Entrusted It and Pray for the Spir
it of Highteousnes? and Justice in
virirh Lies Hops of Nation's Perpetuity.
THE MARKETS
Prevailing Prices of Cotton,
Grain and Produce
RATE CASE COMPROMISED?
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FINANCIAL SITUATION IN SYNOPSIS.
"I.
Wednesday. Corner in copper securities engineered in New York
City by the F. Augustus Keinze interests collapses and stocks slump
heavily!
dross & Kleeberg, brokers, forced to suspend.
Otto Heinze & Co., brokers, unable to settle with other New York
Stock Exchange firms.
Thursday. After conference of bankers at home of Charles W.
Morse, P. Augustus Heinze retires as president of Mercantile National
Ban!;.
State Savings Eank, oi Butte, Mont., a Heinze institution, closes
! its doors.
Friday. On demand of the Clearing House Association the entire
f directorate of the Mercantile National Bank; of which P. Augustus
, Heinze. Charles W. Morse and E. R. Thomas gained control last Jan
1 nary, resigns. Mercantile Bank requires aid in clearing debit balance
of $754,000.
Stocks reached lowest point of the year.
Saturday. Charles W. Morse resigns as director and trustee of
i fourteen banks and financial institutions, among them the National
I Bank of North America.
Sunday. Bankers held all day conferences and Scth M. Milliken
5?. rhosen nre&irlent of Mercantile Bank.
Monday. O. F. Thomas resigns as president cT ths Consolidated
National Bank. ,
William R. Montgomery succeeds E. B. Thomas as president of
the Hamilton Bank.
The National Bp.nk of Commerce notifies the Clearing House that
it will cease to redeem checks for ,the Knickerbocker Trust Company,
stud Charles T. Barney retires as president of the Knickerbocker Trust
Company.
Tuesday. The Knickerbocker Trust Company forced to suspend
payment following a run by depositors and after $3, 000, 000 is with
drawn. .
Marcus Mayer & Co., stock brokers, with liabilities of ?6,000,
000, forced to suspend.
George E. Cortelyou, Secretary of the Treasury, goes to New
York City to take charge of financial situation.
Wednesday. Depositors start a run on the $80,00 0,000 Trust
Company of America and withdraw $S, 000, 000.
Vvcstinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, with liabil
ities cf $100,000,000, forced into hands of receiver.
Pittsburg Stock Exchange suspends trading operations.
Thuredav. With stock market demoralized, Mr. J. P. Morgan
and associates save situation by sending $27,000,000 to be put out as
call loans.
Twelfth Yard Bank, Hamilton and Empire City Savings Banks
suspend payments to protect depositors.
Friday United States hJxcnange ianK, oi xiiiriem, ourvugu
Bank, of Brooklyn, and Union Trust Company, of Providence, R. I.,
clcde doors. , lt , , ,
Eight banks and trust companies in Manhattan and BrooKlyn
suspended payment. The Clearing House decided to issue loan certifi
cates which will be used in the settlement of bankers' balances. Re
assuring statements as to the financial situation were issued by lead
ing business n-.en and Government alucials. The savings bank presi
dents decided to require sixty days' notice from depositors for the
withdrawal of funds. Confidence being restored, President Roosevelt
nTfifi2l rpnssurances. WO cause ior lurtnor iuaia. vv uuic
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j country prosperous and good times will continue.
Governor Glenn Returns to Raleigh,
and It Is Positively Announced on
the Authority of Person Com
pletely Informed in the Matter
That the Dispute Between the
State of North Carolina and the
Southern-Railway Is To Be Settled
By ths Legislature, Governor
Glenn Having No Authority to
, Gnaagfc ja Rate of 21-4 Cents.
A special from Raleigh, N. C, to
the Charlotte Observer of Monday,
says :
It can be safely said on the au
thority of a completely informed
person that the passenger rate ques
tion in dispute between the State of
North Carolina and the Southern
Railway since last spring will be
settled The final arrangement may
be made by the Legislature, which
fixed the rate at 2 1-4 cent
Governor Glenn has no power to
ehange that rate himself. The re
ports made by the Southern show
the average a mile paid by passen
gers to be 2.41 cents.
It has been known for some days
by those on the inside that a settle
ment was in sight. It is now known
positively, though details are as yet
incomplete.
Governor Glenn may make recom
mendations to the Legislature,
is most probable.
This
NEW COLLEGE, $55,CCO,O0O.
MIIL SLAYS FIANCE AND SELF.
Broken Engagement Causes Tragedy
Which Shocks Shainokin, Pa.
Shamokin, Pa. This city is
wrought up as rarely ever before by
the murder of William Klinger, a
member of one of the leading families
of Locust Gap, by Miss Lucy Dough
ton, who was eighteen years old and
a leader of the High School sopho
more class, and who killed herself
with the same revolver vwith which
she slew young Klinger.
In an examination of Kiinger's ef
fects the authorities found a letter,
which they regard as the key to the
tragedy," It was in Miss Doughton's
handwriting, and read as follows:
"Will, I know you would rather I
would not. write, but I must know
what you are going to do. I want you
to marry me, but I know you would
prefer to serve time in Sunbury. The
suspense is torturing. I hate you
now as much as I loved you."
Klinger went to the young woman's
home and found her walking in the
yard. They talked with each othejr
a. while, when angry words followed
by two pistol shots were heard. The
young woman and her fonner sweet
heart were found dead within a few
?eet of each other, each with a bullet
wound in the head.
Up to three months ago Klinger, j aga of admission is between six and
who was twenty-three years old, had j ten years, and of discharge from the
Beouest of R. N. Carson to Orphan
Girls Girard as Pattern.
Philadelphia. It was announced
that the will of R. N. Carson, of this
city, who died suddenly in a theatre
here last week, provides for a ?5,
000,000 college for orphan girls, pat
terned after Girard College, in thi3
city, which is exclusively for boys.
The bequest becomes effective after
the death of the widow, Mrs. Frances
Carson. The institution will be lo
cated at riourtown, just over the city
line, in Montgomery County.
The will is almost identical with
that of Stephen
the largest college
world. Like Mr. Girard's will. Mr.
Carson's bequest provides tbat the
institution shall not be controlled by
any religious denomination and that
no religious services shall be held in
the institution that are peculiar or
exclusive to any church.
The college will be open to all poor
white girls both of whose parents are
dead. In the matter of admission
preference is to be given equally to
girls born in Philadelphia or in Mont
gomery County. After that admis
sions are to be to those born in Penn
sylvania, and. lastly, to those born
r elsewhere in the United States. The
Gas Tank Explodes, 4 Injured and 3
Missing. ,
Chattanooga, Special. Four work
ing men were injured by burns and
two or three are reported missing as
a result of an explosion followed by
fire in the plant of the Chattanooga
Gas company, shortly before 3
o'clock. The explosion s said to have
been caused by the dropping of a
lighted match over an open jet of a
tank in the purifying department.
The injured are: B. A. Broder, Dan
Hemmill and Henry Hemmill and an
unknown negro.
Birmingham
Telegraphers Return to
Work.
Birmingham, Ala., .Special. It was
announced that a majority of the
telegraphers who have been on strike
since August 11th will resume work
Monday. Thev will go back on both
SWuS the Western Union and Postal under
ge of Its kind in the j practically the same conditions tnej
were working under wnen caiieu oat.
paid the girl attentions with the view
of matrimony. After their engage
aaeet he ceased calling on her.
college at eighteen, or earlier if the
trustees deem it for the best interest
of the girls,
Washington, V C, Special.--President
Roosevelt Saturday issued his
Thanksgiving pn;e amadou, through
the Secretary oil State, darning the
last Thursday in November, the
twenty-eighth.
The proclamation follows:
' Once again the, season of the year
has come when, in accordance 'with
the custom of .our forefathers for
generations past, the President ap
points a day as the especial occasion
for all our people to give praise and
thanksgiving to od.
"During the past year we have
been free from famine, from pesti
lence, from war, We are at peace
with all the rest of mankind. Our
natural resources are at least as great
as those of any other nation. We be
lieve that in ability to develop and
take advantage of these resources the
average man of this nation stands at
least as high as the average man of
any other . Nowhere else in the
world is there sueh an opportunity
for a fre people to develop to the
fullest extent al its powers of body,
of mind, and ojC that which stands
above both body and mind char
acter. ''Mueh has been given us from on
high and much; wili rightly be ex
pected of us in return. Into our care
the ten talents have been entrusted ;
end we are to be pardoned neither if
we squander and waste, nor if wo
hide them in a 4apkin; for they must
be fruitful in our hands. Ever
throughout the iges, at all times and
among all peoples, prosperity has
been fraught with danger, and it be
hooves us to beseech the Gijr of ail
things that we nlay not fall into lova
of ease and luxury; that we may not
forget our duty to God and to our
neighbor.
"A great Democracy like ours, a
Democracy based upon the principles
of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated
only if in the feeai't of the ordinary
citizen there dwells a keen sense of
righteousness and justice. We should
earnestly pray that this spirit of
righteousness eM justice may grow
ever greater in tbe-hearts of all of us,
and that our spuls may be inclined
evermore both toward the virtues
that tell for gentleness and tender
ness, for loving Jcindness and forbear
ance one with another, and toward
those no less necessary virtues that
make our manliness and rugged hardi
hood for without these qualities
neither nation nor individual can rise
to the level of greatness.
"Now, therefore, I, Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States, do set apart Thursday, the
23th day of November, as a day of
general Thanksgiving and Prayer,
and on that day I recommend that
the people shall cease from their
daily work, an 4 in their home or in
their churches f meet devoutly to
thank Almighty for the many and
great blessings hey have received in
the past, and to pray that they may
be given strength so to order their
lives as to deserve a continuation of
these blessings in the future.
"In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United $tates to be affixed.
(Seal.)
"Done at the city of Washington
the twenty-fifth day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred an seven and of 4he In
dependence of the United States the
one hundred anii thirty-second.
(Signed)
"Tfeeodore Roosevelt."
"By the President:
"Eiihu Root, Secretary c State.
General Cotton Market.
Atlanta, steady 10 5-8
Galveston, quiet 1112
New Orleans, steady 10 7-8
Savannah, easy
Charleston, steady 10 5-S
Wilmington, steady 10 3-4
Norfolk, steady 10 3-4
Baltimore, nominal .11 1-4
New York, steady.. . . .....11.10
Boston, quiet .i.ll.lt
Philadelphia, steady . 11.35
Houston, quiet H
Augusta, quiet and steady 113-i
Memphis, quiet 111-8
Little Rock, quiet 10 5-S
Charlotte, N. C, Cotton Market.
These figures represent the prices
paid to wagons:
Good middling 101-2
Strict middling 10 3-3
Middling ...... '. 101-4
Charlotte, N. C, Produce Market
Hens per head 35
Chickens spring 20
Ducks 25
Eggs .... 22
Butter 15
Rvp 0
AVJ C
Coin SS
Cotton seed 30
Oats Feed 00
Baltimore Produce Market.
Baltimore, Oct. 29. Flour dull, in
changed. Wheat, very quiet; spot
contract 1031-4 to 1031-2; Southern
by sample 98: Corn quiet and easier;
spot mixed 67 3-4 ; No. 2 white 67 3-4.
Oats easier; No. 2 mixed 55 to
55 1-2. Rye easy ; No. 2 Western do
mestic 97 asked.
Butter firm, unchanged; fancy imi
tation 24 to 25; do creamery 30 to
31; do ladle 22 to 23; store packed
18 to 20.
Eggs steady, unchanged, 25 to 20.
Cheese firm, unchanged ; large 16 3-8 ;
flats 16 3-8; small 16 5-8.
Sugar unchanged; coarse granu
lated $5.10; fine granulated $5.10.
Naval Stores.
Savannah, Ga., Oct. 29 Spirits
turpentine steady 511-4;. sab -XU;
receipts 961; shipments 170.
Rotin firm, sales 2,720; receipts 3,
630 : shipments 335 : stock 89,842.
Quote: ABC $3.90; E $3.95; F.
$4; G $4.05; H. $4.15; I $4.40; K
-4.80; M $5.05 N $5.45; W G $5.85;
W. W. $5.95.
IN FEEDING BIRDS
Some birds fatten easily and will
become too fat for the best results
as breeders where other birds in the
same mating will keep in only good
breeding condition. Such birds
should be fed separate; so that they
may be kept in proper flesh. Many
male birds must be fed apart from
the females because of their disposi
tion to allow the females to have it
all, with the result that they soon
lose flesh and are not -in the best
breeding condition. As the male bird
is half of the pen he must be kept
in good condition throughout the sea
son, so that there may be no loss of
quality in his chicks. Farmers Home
Journal.
FEMININE SNAPSHOTS.
A duck of a girl can make a
out of any man.
A brother is a home-made
that never flatters.
A kiss by any other name
n't rhyme with bliss.
The world is the shop where i
get our manners manicured.
Popularity is largely a matter
getting the right press agent.
The girl who smokes cigarettes
not the one who figures in a
lor's pipe dreams if he knows tL
The lamp of learning can't light l
a cottage like the candle of
ment.
The dollarless man is still a na
lionaire if he hath not been robbed
his dreams.
Experience is life's queer
dise that we buy with gray hair
shattered illusions.
She that stints her heart to
her brain will sooner or later die
soul starvation.
The jealous wife shouldn't try
lay the ghost of her husband's
love. No man remembers any
that long.
After all, a mother's love may
keep a man awake at night,
is the one love that sits up with
when the other loves have gone
various ways.
A woman presiding at a club
ing, no matter how handsome she
does not appeal to a man like
fluffy little creature who cooks on the
chafing dish. New York Herald.
WHITE WALL PAPER.
All-white watered paper fee-
has proved to be the relief sought h?,
women of fastidious taste from the
the over-flowered cretonne papers that
became so exceedingly tiresome to
the eye and nerves, says "Vogte. -Th
effect of a room of which toe
are papered is white and
with cretonnes of a choice character,
is charming.
Trains on the Scottish Highlands
have been occasionally stopped by the
force of the wii.d.
IfrmEPIlOIIES
EfflliW-vv in tSie Country
Are a Necessity
in the Country
Home.
The farther you are removed
from town to railroad station, the
more the telephone will save m
.time and horse flesh. No man has
a right to compel one of the family
to lie in agony tor hours while be
drives to town for the doctor. Tel
ephone and save half the suffering.
Our Free Book tells how to or
ganize, build and operate tele
phone lines and systems.
Instruments sold on thirty days'
trial to responsible parties.
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Texas Banks Consolidate.
Houston, Tex., Special The Plant
ers & Mechanics' National Bank,
capitalized at $500,000, and, accord
ing to the last statement, issued in
Augusta, carried deposits of $1,000,
000, has been absorbed by the Union
Bank & Trust Company. The consoli
dated bank will continue as a State
bank. The cause of the liquidation
To Inquire Into Seirare of Toba-cco.
Washington, Special. The British
embassy has been charged by its gov
ernment to inquire into the action of
the Federal authorities in seizing 7,
500 cases of cigarettes at Norfolk in
tended for shipment to the Britisn
American Tobacco Company. The
British embassy reopened for busi
ness in Washington aftr being lo
cated at Intervale, N. H., all sum
mer. Mr. Watson, one of the secre-
of the Planters & Mechanics' Bank, J taries, is in charge, pending the ar
it was said, was the extended illness rival of Ambassador Bryce, who w
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