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special. Tlie State board
; i r and considered va
The fact that 45,000
I i-liaps three-quarters
n acres of swamp land, of
board has control, are to
!H.,i as an experiment, and in
;m object lesson to the entire
,1 ; of the State, is of much
not only in North Carolina
the other coast States. The
lso lias approved the plan for
, lored normal school build
Klizabeth City. The cost will
100. The board devoted much
the apportionment of funds
row country high school. The
i lature appropriated $45,000
plied in the way of State aid
rh institutions. Eighty-one
tie;
- j more than the approprin-
N'oi less than $250 was set
any full school. State Super
Joyner expressed his very
' no thst within ten months
act was passed by the leg
applications had been made
i lie whole -amount appropri
i fact, even more and that
f the 97 counties, this being
r cent, of the whole number,
npplied for all and even more
their proportionate share an.l
- cured all the hisrh
Ii were established. Thee eoun
Wake Forsvth and Robeson, get
schools each.
COMMISSIONERS ABE INDICTED
Orand Jury of Gaston County Re
turns a Bill Against the Fit Mem
bers of the County Board Relative
to a New Court House.
Gstonia, Special. The grand jury
has returned a bill of indictments
against the board of county commis
sioners charging them with failure to
comply with the recommendation of
the grand jury made at the Septem
ber term of court, that a new court
house be built. It is understood that
the case will be called for trial at the
next term of superior court. The
board is composed of Mr. A. R. An
ders, of Gastonia; Dr. 0. G. Falls,
of King's Mountain; Mr. N. B. Ken-
ancK, ot Cnerryville ; Mr. John F.
R. K.
Davenport of Mount Holly.
uh HynejuiMt
Value of Our Manufactures is
Beyond Comprehension
applied and these get 15d Leper, of Belmont, and Mr.
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Lumber Mills Affected.
ilmington. Special. On account
1 e general financial stringency
h and its consequent depressing
r upon the trade, it is announced
that practically all the lumber
- in this section of eastern North
ua m
S. A. L. Train Kills Alvin Hineycutt.
Wadesboro, Special. Westbound
Seaboard Air Line passenger train at
10 o'clock Thursday morning crash
ed into a covered wagon at Concord
crossing near this place, and instantly
killed Mr. Alvin Honeycutt, driver of
the wagon, end se.riousl injuring his
wife. Immediately after the accident
the dead man was taken to Polkton
schools j raid Mrs. Honeycutt was later carried
to Charlotte where she was placed in
a hospital. The 15-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Honeycutt was also an
occupant of the wagon, but was un
injured. He was left in charge of his
father's remains at Polkton. It is
supposed that Mr. Honeycutt failed
to see the oncoming train on account
of the wagon cover. The engine had
just rounded a curve and it was im
possible to stop. The wagon was torn
into splinters, but the two mules were
th; ,r plants will be shut down entire
ly r that a reduction in the wage
sr, will go into effect after the end
nf 1 present week. The Cape Fear
L her Company, the largest mill of
it kind in this territory, posted no
ii( - that effective Monday all wages
r,i ': salaries from the general man
aci c down will be reduced 25 per
eei
to
this being the onlv alternative
tutting down altogether on ac"
of unsettled conditions. The
:ig forces in the country have
iven a similar reduction and
mmber o men cut down -to meet
curtailed product of the mills,
'ar reductions in the "wage
of mills at Whiteville, in Pen
eounty, "and at Newbern and
sboro aTe understood to be ef-
e Monday, while many of the
ier plants throughout the east
action of the State have closed
: altogether. On account of the
iation in business North all high
e lumber has dropped down and
has declined below a point of
Late News
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ave either given notiee that ; uninjured. Mr. and Mrs. Honeycutt
had been visiting relatives in Chester
field country, South Carolina, and
were returning to their home in Stan
ley county, this State. Mr. Honey
cutt was a prosperous and much
liked farmer. It is thought that Mrs.
Honevcutt's injuries will not prove
fatal."
Law breakers Arrested. -
lisbury, Special. Game Warden
luirch has been after the Rowan
hunters and has bagged five boys
1 n who have been violating the
laws. Three of these were fined
he expects more before leaving
untv It it his purpose to ap
" some watchful man "unbe
i" to the public and put a
"i'im upon the job by paying him
1 every conviction. Birds have
plentiful on the market recently
it is believed that they were
. like "dry" towns liquor, in
the law and prohibition.
Want Time Extended.
Ashevillc, Special. Some of the sa
loon keepers f Asheviile don't want
to go out of business on January 1st,
under the vote of the people on Oc
tober Sth, and it is understood that
they will apply to the board of alder
men and county commissioners next
week for an extention of time, hcy
desire to continue in business until
April 1, 1908. alleging that they can
not dispose of their goods prior to
that time. It is understood that for
mal application will be made for an
extension. The saloon men, it is
said, have employed counsel and will
seek to have the authorities grant
them more time. Prohibition carried
in Asheviile in October by more than
800 majority, and it is probable that
the prohibitionists will bitterly op
pose any extension.
Killed by Falling Tree.
Reidsville, Special Mr. J. F. Ward
o former section master of the Dan
ville & Western railway met a fright-
Ilfui death Thursday morning about 9
o'clock, while engaged in cuinng
down a large tree for use as limber
at Martin's sawmill, near Stokesland.
The tragedy occurred in the woods
near the saw plant, and Mr. Ward
wuf, caught under the main body of
the-tree and crushed to death in an
instant.
Ida.
)bbar Guilty of Embezzlement.
inesvilie, Fla., Special. After
crating 16 hours in the ease of
v ip against J. N. Strobbar, for
lileed embezzlement of $7,500 of
' aboard Air Line railroad funds,
;'i'.v rendered a verdict of guilty,
a hard-fought trial in everal
s in Canada, Georgia and Flor-
$I5,0C0,CG0,GC0, EXPERTS SAY
Chief Carson Makes This Estimate in
the Annual Report of His Bureau,
Which Was Made Public Sunday.
1vashine:ton. Soeeinl Tcif f
lions of dollars represnt the -value of
tne annual production of manufac
tures in the United States. After care-
im estimates were made by experts,
Col. John M. Carson, chief of the bu
reau ot manufactures, was nhle to
make this statement in the aanual re
port of the operations of his bureau,
maae public Kundav. The fibres do
not represent finished products entire
ly, but include products in various
stages ot progress. Last year the ag
gregate value of domestic merchan-
aisc exported was $1,854,000,000, an
increase ot nearly $136,000,000 over
tho preceding year, In this classifica
tion "manufactures ready for eon
sumption" are credited with $430,
000,000 and these figures are general
ly accepted as the extent ofLthe ex
ports of manufactures. The report
of the bureau, whoever, groups tbL
classification with those of "food 1
stufts partly or wholly manufactur
ed," and "manufactures for further
uso in manufacturing," the aggregate
exports of whieh last year were $606,
000,000 and this amount added to
"manufactures ready for consump
tion " make the aggregate value of
manufactures exported in the year
ended June 30, $1,036,000,000 or more
than 58 per cent, of the entire exports
for that year. Special significance is
attached to the increase of nearly
0,000,000 m the exports of com
pleted manufactures, in view of the
fact that the exports of cotton cloths
declined more than $21,000,000, this
loss being entirely in the cotton trade
with China. The populah feeling
aroused in that country growing out
of alleged outrages against Chinese
residents in the United States is as
signed as a contributor; cause for
this decline.
Cotton Seed Products.
The cotton seed product exports for
the year were upwards of $40,500,
000, an increase of $9,500,000 over
1906. In commenting on these figures
the report saysT
j "Aside from its intrinsic value the
relatively new industry has an eco
nomic value and importance to the
country, the beneficial results of
which are especially felt in the sev
eral States in which cotton in indig
enerous, and in which the cotton seed
industry is naturally located." The
rmecess attending investigation by ex
perts sent abroad has led to the adop
tion of the policy of speculizfng inves
tigation of trade conditions in for
eign markets.
One of the obstacles to the enlarge
ment of export trade is the uncertain
ty of transit between places of pro
duction and the seaboard. Merchants
in the Orient especially complain that
calculation cannot be made as to
when goods ordered in the United
States will be delivered, and in conse
quence orders go to Euroneau houses
that should come to those of this
country. The bureau has been in cor
respondence with managers of rail
way and ocean steamship companies
with a view to securing more reliable
and rapid transit for merchandise de
stined to foreign countries.
Demands made by business men for
the extension of the parcels-post to
foreign countries is discussed. It is
claimed that this extension would
open markets now closed to American
bus iness men for lack of transporta
tion facilities, but which are open to
-their competitors Avho have advant
ages of the percels-post system.
WASHINGTON.
President Roosevelt has forbidden
federal officeholders to promote the
third term boom.
Plesident Roo3evelt received the
new Turkish Minister to the United
States, Mehmed AH Bey, the presenta
tion being made by Secretary Root.
A decision was reached at the War
Dejstartment to graduate the first class
at uie West Point Military Academy
some time between February 1 and
1&. A shortage of officers in the
army is the reason given for the ad
vanes tn the graduation.
The President sent Secretary Taft
a hurry call to return home for a
conference in view of the ra.pid de
velopment of the third -term boom.
Eight thousand men is the estimate
placed by the Navy Department upon
the number of discharges of employes
which the departure; of the Atlantic
fleet will make necessary in the east
coast navy yards.
It was reported In Washington that
the Government armory at Spring
field, Mass., is likely to be transferred
to Hock Island, 111.
The United States Government will
asg'ime the cost of labor and service,
about $20,000 a month, in aiding San
Francisco to combat the bubonic
pi..ue.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
Major-General Wood will retain
command of the Philippines Division
until February 1, then he will be
given six months' leae of absence to
aliow him to return home leisurely.
Major-General Weston, will succeed
him,
The Cuban census shows about 2,
000, $00 inhabitants. Havana has
2dj&00 population.
Senor Alfredo Zayas opposed early
elections in Cuba and upheld the
American provisional government in
an interview in Havana.
Americans in the Philippines agree
with Mr. Taft's "forward" policy.
The new railway bridge over the
Pasig R4ver, near Fort McKinley, fell,
injuring three Americans and twenty
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Govenor Deneen has submitted a
10,000-word message to the Illinois
Legislature.
Moncure D. Conway, the well
known American author, died sud
denly in Paris.
Professor Charles Eliot Norton cel
ebrated his eightieth
Cambridge, Mas3.
Senator Foraker reports that his
interview with the President was de
lightfully agreeable.
Thomas Taggart declared that
William J. Bryan will be the Presi
dential nominee of the Democrats.
Denman Thompson, of "The Old
Homestead" fame, has returned to
West Swanzey, N. H., and has opened
His home for the winter.
Admiral Sir Francis Leopold Mc
Clintock, retired, an Elder Brother
0 Trinity House, died in London. Ho
was eighty-eight years old.
President Woodrow Wilson, of
Princeton, wants to stop action
against the trusts and to proceed
against the men that compose the
trusts.
Accounts of Grover Cleveland's
condition vary, but a personal friend
in Princeton, N. J., says that the for
mer President is as well as most men
of his years
As president of the National Civil
Service Reform League, Joseph H.
Choate is the successor of George
William Curtis, Carl Schurz and Dan
iel C. Gilman.
Rev. Harvey Des Brown, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Kenosha,
Wis., announces his conversion to so
cialism and his retirement from the
Baptist ministry.
Former Governor James E. Camp
bell, of Ohio, who is a member of the
State Tax Commission, says he is a
receptive candidate for United States
Senator to succeed J. B. Foraker,
ZEWSY GLEANINUS.
China is said to be on the verge of
a revolution.
President Fallieres will visit the
Emperor of Russia next year.
Maine leads in various phases of
grange progress and development.
Emperor William declared in Lon-
birthday at Ldon that world peace is his steadfast -
aim.
Admiral Sir John Fisher said that
the British Navy had never been bo
strong as it Is now.
The first subway t ain v. an under
the East River, half way tbs. ough the
tunnel to Brooklyn.
France will lend $30,000,000 to
Morocco in consideration of changes
in the Algerian frontier.
There is a marked falling off in in
dustrial orders in Paris from the Uni
ted States and Germany.
The Japanese Foreign Office is con
sidering a plan to stop all movements
to the United Sptes and Canada.
Leading railway and industrial cor
porations of America report a record
breaking number of new sharehold-
er8
The destroyer Mobawk, of the
British Navy, in an official trial de
veloped a speed of forty land miles
an hour.
D. 5. Imboden suggested a system
Senator Thomas Wins right.
Montgomery, La., Special. In the
Senato Friday Senator Thomas won
his fight to kill entirely the bill to
prevent sale of liquors, to clubs.
An effort was made to have the oody
hold over to next week in-order to
give time to prevent and adverse re
port. By a close vote the Senate vu
cd to adjourn.
Kills Father in Defense of Mother.
New York, Special. In defense of
his mother, Peter Lindermeier, aged
17 years, grappled with his father,
Frederick, and during the scu3Ie the
elder man was shot and killed. Young
Lindermeier had seen his mothei
knocked down and fired upon when he
interfered and he was attempting to
of State clearing houses to create a
new currency to aid farmers to move
the crops.
Excavation on the Panama Canal
for October amounted to 1,868,72
cubic yards, surpassing all previous
monthly records.
A committee of 100 of the Ameri
can Health League met in New Ha
ven to urge the Government to estab
lish a national health bureau.
To copy Gettysburg ideas Into a
proposed military park on the Plains
of Abraham, Quebec, Sir Frederick
Borden and General Lake will visit
the Pennsylvania battlefield.
take the revolver from his father
Filipinos; the damage is estimated at whcn the weapon was discharged. The
1100,000
The Hawaiian Realty Maturity
Company, an alleged " get-rich-quick"
oonern, has been declared insolvent.
The liabilities are placed at $0,000.
The depositors are mostly natives.
James K. Taylor, Supervising
Architect of the Treasury Depart
ment, arrived at San Juan, Porto
Rico, on the revenue cutter Algon
quin and has been conferring with the
Federal officers who will occupy the
projected Federal buildings with re
gard to the plans which Mr. Taylor
has brought with him. All ere high
ly satisfied with thiein.
Governor Maeoon issued a decree
annointing an agricultural advisory
commission of thirteen members to
draft laws to relieve the agricultura"
depression -in Cuba
boy surrendered himself.
Armed Men Guard Virgin Gold.
Seattle, W.sh., Special. One mil
lion, two hundred thousand dollars
worth of gold is.no w lying at Summit,
on Thompson Pass, just back of Val-
dez, on its way from Fairbanks, Alas
ka, to Seattle. Several armed guards
are watching the gold d.y and night.
Of this amount $450,000 is in dut
and the rest in bricks. It is the larg
est shipment ever sent out over the
trail from Fairbanks to Valdez.
"The 1)one-shaking," says the
"Christian Advocate" of New York,
that Bishop Moore got in springless
DOMESTIC. Peking carts on the Chinese roads
The president, vice-president and prompted him to send out two Ameri
can top-buggies to the presiding eld
Scotland County Man Loses Life in
a Cotton Gin.
J-'imWton, Special. There was a
' accident at the cotton gin of
h Butler in Howellsville
M- 12 miles from here, late
';(hiy afternoon in which Mr.
s Kinlaw about.. 65 years old,
While engaged in load
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His
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caught bv a screw in the
id before the engine could
UCtn teiribly mangled.
Statue of Nathaniel Jacobi.
Winston-Salem, Special. Nearly
all of the Odd Fellows in the State
are taking great interest in the pro
posed statue to Miv Nathaniel Jaco
bi, founder of thej)dd Fellows' Or
phanage arGoldsboro. . The , i Wfaai
movement' was started JJJJ-y
and the local lodge has received much
"commendation of their efforts to
ke?p the memory of this .-good man
aHve. Judging from the interest
which the various lodges are taking
in L matter, it will be only a short
time before the statue is erected.
New Masonic Temple.
Shelbyville, Special. The new Ma
sonic Temple, at this place, is very
near completion, and will soon be
ready for Masonic purposes. It stands
on the west side of Court Square, and
presents an imposing appearance.
When entirely completed and furnish
ed it will be one of the finest Ma
sonic building in the State.
treasurer of ihe Title Guarantee and
Trust Company, o Portland, Ore
were arrested, charged with having
accepted deposits knowing that the
bank was insolvent.
Delegates from: fifteen Atlantic
Coast States organized at Philadel
phia the Atlantic Deeper Waterways
Association, with? Congressman J.
Hampton Moore, q'f Philadelphia,-as
president.
It became known? that a company of
which C. T. Barnfcy was president,
and in which Harry Payne Whitney
is interested, borrowed a million of
the Knickerbocker Trust, of New
York Citv. of which $500,000 has
been paid.
The money famine continued m
spite of the Washington plan to issue
bonds and certificates.
The Ohio League of Republican
Clubs indorsed Senator Foraker for
re-election and afc a candidate for
President. Mr. Yorys. manager of
the Taft campaign, immediately is
sued a challenge fjr a primary.
Attorney-General Bonaparte,. in an
address at Providence, made an at
tack on subsidized newspapers.
Storm Bull, professor of steam en
gineering in the University of Wis
consin since 18 84, died of cancer of
the stomach. He was a nephew of
Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian vio
linist.
A receiver was 'appointed at Bos
ton for the Enterprise-Transportation
Company, of Worcester, Mass., run
ning a line of steamers between rrov
m . 1 mi J. 2
ers of anan-nai-quan ana liemsin.
The natives stare at the modest char
iot as if it was a ninety horsepower
Mercedes cr Panhard. An old man
darin said to Mr. Brown, of Tientsin l
'It is a foreign toy. The ancient is
best."
Boston Fashion Note.
A local tailor has made a hit with
a large number of customers by in
serting a secret pocket in the coats
of married men who trade with him.
As he broadly advertises the new
trick, it is for the purpose of enab
ling married men to hide their change
from their curious wives. Already he
T'rne more help. Boston Record.
TELEPHONES!
Are a Necessity
in the Country
Home.
The farther you are removed!
trom town to railroad station, the
more the telephone will save in
time and horse flesh. No man has
a right to compel one of the family
to ne in agony lor nours wmie ne
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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, Distiller Indicted.
Danville, Special. The Federal
grand jury, which has been investigat
ing for the past ten days the frauds
on the government returned three in
dictments Friday afternoon against
G. W. Richardson, large distiller
of Henry county, charging him with
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NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES.
Ppwilt ot k vears experience m tire
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We will
prese
also send
pproval.
if you send
one nickel
Twa Hundred Thousand oairs now in actual use. Over
idence, Fall Kiver, isewpon ana ew $wn)y.fjve Thoosand pairs sold last year.
York. I M. a0nmvruim m u! in all sizes. It is Uvelv and easy riding, very durable and lined inside
Thomas Dugan and Edward Yeazon with a special quaUty of rubber, which i never yJJlZ!SI!
were arrested at Gpffeyville, Kan., on ?.Z!Z7' r ,rnTn ortwk inr whole season. Thevweiirh no more thai
a charge of passing old Georgia Stat ordinal the ructure resume
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FOREIGN.
German bankers decided to refuse
any loan to Japan
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,
the British Premier, will go abroad
at once for rest, and there are rumors
that he may retire from the leade
ship of the Liberal party.
The treason of Ensign Ullmo in
revealing French fortification plans
to Germany was fgjly estabiisneu
An article published in the Paris
Temps favors the extension of Preneh
aid to America by shipments of goia;
the establishment of a central bank
is again urged.
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we will allow a easn uiscouu. oi sjjw v "7. "Sr
wttt.t. HASH WITH OKUKK ana enclose mis auveuib.mrai
plated brass nana
tmnctnre closers to
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be used in case of intentional knife cuts or heavy gashes). Tires to be returned
reason tney ore not wisaciurr g aamuauw; tt
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oSJsTS tui-whaeU. saddles, pedaU. pert, and repair and
COASTERBRAKES9 evervihing in the Kcyde line are solctby ua at half the usual
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