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ibe folk jtmnta peh$. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year In Advance, VOL XIII. COUMBUb, N. C, THlfXSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1907. NO. 35. inutKLWUCIMUL.IN ALL THINGS, TF. . ' . I INUK I n LAKULIiNA ArfAIRS i i The News of Old North State Gathered and Put in Condensed Form. BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION. Get PATRIARCHAL KiNG IS DEAD Baptisms and Conversions Far Ex ceed Those of Last Tear Report on the Orphanage Read by Mr. Hobgood, and Appeals Made By Rev. Burton Craig and Rev. M. L. Kesler. Wilmington, Special. The conven tion met at 9 o'clock, Prof. J. B. C'ar lyle in the chair. After devotional exercises and the reading of the minutes, the commit tees of the convention were named by the president. H. H. Hulten is on t lie Sunday school committee. . E. Bomar, on foreign mission commit tee; S. F. Conrad, on home mission committee; L. R. Pruett is one of the vice presidents of the convention j Livingstone Johnson submitted the report of the board of missions and Sunday schools. During; the past year 3,229 conver sions were reported; 2,372 baptisms, and 1,345 additions to church by letter. The total amount reported raised by missionaries is $55,088.01. During this year 155 more baptisms are reported than last year; 330 more conversions; and $2,104.26 more mon ey has been raised by missionaries. The report of the treasurer showed that during the year just closed, $36, 315.54 has been received for State missions; $35,094.91 for foreign mis sions, and $17,429.85 for home mis sions. The report of the orphanage was read by F. Pj Hobgood and Rev. Bur ton Craig addressed the convention on the interests of the institution, as did Rev. M. L. Kesler, "manager of the orphanage. The orphanage at Thomasville is the largest in the State and one of the largest in the South. Reports showed the health of the children to lie good and every interest of the orphanage to be pros perous. The work of the superinten dent and of Rev. Archibald Johnson, editor of Charity and Children, were highly commended. This excellent paper has made "a fine showing and , w & AUen North Carolina Bay; Teachers Programmes. Raleigh, Special. Copies of the programme for North Carolina Da in the public schools has been for warded to the country school teachers by the county superintendents of edu cation. - The subject for the day's exercises this year will be "Tho Scotch-Irish Settlements,", and the book, with the programme included, contains some very interesting matter to Charlotte and Mecklenburg people. In his preface to the book sent out, Superintendent Joyner says: Following the chronological order of the State's history, the subject of the North Carolina Day program mes have been as follows In 1901, the First Anglo-Saxon Settlement in America : m 1902. The Albemarle Sec tion; in 1903, The Lower Cape Fear Section ; in 1904, the Palmico Section ; in 1905, the Upper Cape Fear Sec tion. In 1906 it was deemed advis able to turn aside from the adopted plan of chronological study to devote the day to the study of the life, char acter and splendid service of Dr. Charles D. Melver. We return this year to the plan adopted, selecting "The Scotch-Irish Settlements in North Carolina" as the subject. In succeeding years the history of other sections of the State will be studied somewhat in the order of their settle ment and development, "until the en tire period of the State's history shall have been, covered. The book this- year treats of the following subjects, all of great inter est to people living in Charlotte and Meeklenburg. "Origin or the Scotch-Irish," by C. H. Mebane. "Counties Settled in Part by the Scotch-Irish," by C. H. Mebane. ''The Scotch-Irish in Orange," by Frank Nash. "The Regulators," by E. C. Brooks. "Capture of Charlotte bv Cornwal lace," by M. S. C. Noble. ; "Battle of King's Mountain," by mm i em By Kentucky Night Riders i 2 L A VERITABLE REIGN OF TERROR Band of Five Hundred "Night Riders," Masked and Heavily Armed, Shoot Up and Fire Ken tucky Town. 1 has a balance of $2,000 on hand. Mr Kesler pleaded strongly for funds with which to equip the orphanage with every needed improvement. The infirmary-is now in course of erection, the Baptist women having contribute ed $3,000 for the purpose. There are 305 children now in the orphanage. The report on education was read nad will be fully discussed at a special hour Thursday. The report showed there are now 73 ministerial students &i Wake Forest College, 53 of these getting aid from the convention. The report on education will re ceive full discussion at a future hour during the convention. Rev. J. R. Sampey addressed the convention in The above chapters are followed by a number of papers on various men of the. period who played an import ant part in the making of history of those times. Venerable" Monarch of the Swedei Passed Away Sunday Morning Horrible Outrages Committed nrronntteo by His Family ana Household. Stockholm, By Cable. Oscar II; King of Sweden, died at 9:10 o'clock Sunday morning. The death of ven erable monarch occurred in the royal apartment of the palace, wThere, sur rounded by the members "of his fam ily, including the aged Queen Sophia I and the Crow n Prince. Oscar Gus- J tava, and high ministers of State, the j inevitable end had been awaited, while outside the palace great crowds stood with bowed heads and tearful eyes long after the announcement came of the death of their loved sov ereign. When the flag on the palace was dipped to half-mast there was moan of anguish fvom the assembled multitude and many of them cried : "Our dear old King is dead." , The following official bulletin wa. posted after the King's death: "The strength of the King continu ed to decrease throughout the night and the state of unconsciousness bs- came more marked. His Majesty passed quietly away at 9:10 a. m. " The succession to the throne o I Sweden now passes to Oscar Gus-4 tave Adolphe, Duke of Vremland, th 1 J j. j? (1,. Tj. XT A -i OlUfSt SOU VL UiC ltXLV XVillj;. . 'it i il . ! C'J.i.. C... 1 meeting oi ine council ol otuie "i dav afternoon, the new King took thw oath of allegiance under the title, c! Gustavo V and adopted the mott'f "With the people for the father land." The Princess then took thi oath of allegiance and the new mpuJ arch accented the homase of thl State officials. The last hours of the expiring mon arch were passed in unconsciousness and up to the end he gave no sign o recognizing those about lum. ih. Queen was grief stricken because h could not bid her farewell. Believing that death would not oc- cur until morning, the members of the royal family and the cabinet ministers withdrew and the physi cians left their patient in the hanil of the nurse soon after midnight. Within an hour or two the doctors were called again to the sick room and administered further stimulants, Ibut at 5:15 the gentlemen oi tlie King's court were aroused and or dered to appear at once in the bed chamber. The Premier and Foreign Minister and the highest court offi cials, together with all members of the King's family, assembled there and remained at Lis side until the end came. THE WORKINGS OF CONGRESS. of a Hopkinsville, Ky., Special. Five hundred "night riders," masked and heavily armed, marched into Hop kinsville early Saturday and destroy ed property valued at over $200,000, while citizens, ih terror of their lives, feared even to open their windows. The police, fire depart ment, telephone and telegraph offices, and even the raiiroad stations, were in pessession of? a wild mob, shoot ing right and left, flames from burn ing buildings meanwhile lighting up the city and the surrounding coun try until it seemed that the whole town was ablaze. Windows in tjhe front of business houses and banks on the maiu street of the city were shot out and the entire front of one newspaper, which hacl been especially severe in its condemnations f the raids of the rV night riders, ": and which, was own ed by the mayor of the city, was de molished ; Brakeaan Shot. Only two men Were injured, one of them being Lindsay Mitchell, a tobacco buyer, ' who was severely beaten with switches and clubs, and the other a brakeman, who was shot in theba;ek while trving to move his train from the path of the flames. rne raia -oi . 'ft ' 4s t- nA "r the ni2ht rulers Work of Board of Agriculture. Raleigh, Special. The State board of agriculture continued its sessions Thursday. State Horticulturalist Hutt is acting as secretary in the ab sence of T. K. Bruncr. Mr. Hutt made his report as horticulturist and it was a very satisfactory one indeed. All the reports so far made are very complete, though of course volumi- the interest of Louisville Theological : nous. The illness of Secretary Bru Seminary. There are now about three hundred students in the seminary, 28 of these being North Carolinians. A collection was taken for the benefit of the 20 students who receive aid from this convention while pursuing their seminary course. The collection amounted to $1,900. Important interests of the denomina tion will claim the attention at the afternoon and night sessions. North State Briefs. $ Releigh, Special. Among the new charters are the following: Elastic Leather Garter Company, Greensboro, capital, $100,000; M. W Thompson, Lee H. Battle, W Cochran, incorporators. E. ner has somewhat hampered the im migration work. The board has adopted a resolution of thanks to him for his 21 years of faithful service and expressing regret at his illness. It is said he will probably be out at the end of this month. - The report by State Chemist Kilgor referred to work at the test farm and also to the pure food department work done, particularly that by Ceburn D. Har ris in exposing the frauds in starch sold to cotton mills. The board of agriculture is asked by J. F. Murphy of Asheville, to establish a test farm in Buneombe county. It is the pur .pose of the board eventually to have test farms in each of the ten con gressional districts. There are now farms in five of these. Death List About 400. Monougah, W. Va., Sp:cial. But 53 bodies had. been recovered form mines Nos. 6 and 8, of the Fair mont Coal Company, when darkness closed over, the little town of Mono ngah Sundty night. Fifty-six hours had elapsed since the awful explo sion and a majority of the bodies brought to the surface were in a ter rible condition, necessitating almost immediate burial. ' It is now believed that the number of dead will not be over 400. A thorough investigation was made by the company and it was discovered that many miners believed to have been entombed had escaped because they had not gone to work Friday, after Thursday's holiday. Farmers ' Quickstep Teiepnone Company, of King, Stokes county j capital, $25,000; J. E. Wilson, J. E. Smith, C. H. Lunsford, W. R. Kiger, incorporators. A charter is granted the Holladay Studio Company, at Durham, Wal ker Holladay and others stockhold er capital stock $15,000, to do pho tographic work. Another charter is to the M. W. McKethen Company, at Supply, Brunswick county. Insurance Commissioner Young says this has been a very good year for the formation of home insurance companies and fraternal Organiza tions. The Jefferson Standard Life at Raleigh, and the .Scottish Fire, at Fayetteville, have been chartered; also thirteen fraternal and assess ment companies. A charter is granted the Elastic Leather Garter Company to make gar ters, suspenders and all sorts of elas tic wearing apparel, the place of bus iness . being at Greensboro, the amount of capital stock $100,000. W. M. Thompson and Lee H. Battle be ing the chief stockholders. Work of Game Warden. Nutbush, Special. Game Warden W. C. Ellington was up in this town ship looking after the violators of the game law, and arrested C. D. Emerson, of New Egypt, N. J., for hunting on Sunday, and also war ranted him for hunting without li cense. Costs and fines amounted to thirty-four dollars. Failure of Big Missouri Bank. Kansas City, Special. The Nation al Bank of Comerce the largest finan cial institution in Missouri, failed to open its doors Friday morning. The bank statement - published in answer to Comptroller Ridgeley's call, shows that the deposits last August, when the previous call was made were twenty-five millions and now are sixteen millions. Gets Some Certificates. - High Point, Special. The Commer cial National Bank of this city has been allotted $67,000 of the 3 per cent certificates issued under -the re cent order of the Secretary of the ; Treasurey and approved bv the President. The mercial was thereupon, made a Unit ed States depositary and received $50,000 deposit of government funds Chicago' Gets Convention. Washington, Special Chicago was selected as the place and June 16tli, 1908, the time for the meeting of the next Republican national convention This decision by the Republican nat ional committee followed a-long and Vmrd-foiurht contest between the ad- I vocates of Chicago and those of Kan sas City, Denver, Colo., coming m at the end with a formal duc noi im portant effort to secure the conven tion. Te ballot showed 31 vote for rwm. 18 for Kansas City and four for Denver, the vote being made un animous after the result was nounced. bank, has just returned from a trip to New York and Washington on this errand. caught the country unawares, as foT some time thoj depredations result ing from the fobacco war had been of a minor nature and it was generr ally thought that m the "dark dis trict"' at least the worst was over. The property destroyed was as fol lows : W. H. Tandy, independent tobacco warehouse building, owned by J. H. Latham. B. M. Wotoldridge, association warehouse. Tandy and Farleigh, buyers' ware house. In addition, : the entire glass front of The Hopkinsville Kentuckian, Mayor Meacham's paper, was de stroyed, while i windows inthe front of the Commercial Banking and Savings Company, the First National, the Planters' J Trust Company- and the Bank of Hppkinsville, were punc tured with bullet holes. A number of other business houses and residences bear the marks of bullets and it is considered remarkable that no one was killed. The insurance is believed to be about $60.000i Militia Cbase Raiders. As soon as he "night raiders" left town a posses' of about 15, headed by Major Bassett, of the local militia, and Deutv Srierrjf Cravens, entered buggies and followed the trail. As soon as the posse could get near enoueh thev otjened fire on the fleeing mob and the pursued returned the shots. It' is believed none of the "Night raiders " was hit. Governors Respond. s Washington Special. President Roosevelt ha received replies from most of the governors whom he rc- fintlv invited! to confer with him next May, irdm the 13th to the 15th. on the conservation of the natural re sources of the country and all of them are joining in with interest in . A "It the Droeramme. Tne conterence win be a suecess. Proceedings is Both Houses Routine Nature Only. After a. 10-minute session the House of Representatives adjourned until Monday. During the brief ses sion Representative M. R. Smith, of Missouri, called the attention of the House to the omission of his name from the list of members voting for John Sharp Williams, Democratic candidate for the speakership and tho clerk was instructed to make the ocr rection. Representative Rhinock, of Ken tucky, and Delegate John K. Kalani anaole, of Hawii, were sworn in as members of the House. The House adopted a resolution in response to the message received on Tuesday from the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma. The resolution was as follows: "The House of Representatives acknowledges the greeting of the State of Oklahoma and requests the Speaker to send her good wishes for her future progress and greatness." The resolution Avas received by the House with applause. On motion of Mr. Payne (New York), the Houso at 12:10 adjourn ed until Monday at noon. Senator Frye Honored. The Senate elected William P. Frye, of Maine, its president pro tern, an office occupied by him con tinuously since February 7th, 189G, except .during periods he has served as president of the Senate. Senator Frye was nominated by Senator Allison for this honor. Be fore a vote was taken, Senator Cul- Lbersou offered an amendment to the resolution by substituting the name of Senator Daniel, of Virginia, for that of Mr. Frye. This, action was generally considered as a delicate compliment ori the part of the re cently designated leader of the mi nority in the Senate to the only other Senator who had been spoken of prominently in connection with the j isimyrity leadership. Senator Daniel aiose with dignity and said the suggestion of this great honor was so sudden he hardly knew how to respond to it. With a glance around the Senate and with a faint smile, he said that if elected he would serve, but added that if he should not be elected he would not feel very badly about his defeat. v The amendment was voted down. Committees This Week. There is excellent authoritv for stating that it is not likely that Speaker Cannon will anounce any of tho more important committees of the House before the latter part of this week. There are more than one hund red new representatives in Sixtieth Congress and the Speaker finds" it necessary to get acquainted with a good many of them. There are in tho neighborhood of a dozen appli cants for every prospective committee flssiorimpnt.. nnri tho oaro npnpasnn' ! be exercised bv the Sneaker requires that he be familiar with the at his command before- he building the committee stiuctm-es. is possible that the committees rules and on miieage, ami two three others, will be appoiaieel in the week, though it is imclerstaoif the Speaker v.iii not rush the tion of these or of even the least portant. The exception in the case of committee on banking and eorreuew' was made in deference to fhumtfl conditions. Senate Decs Nothing: The. Senate was in session for an hour and a half adjourning at lz'Mb o'clock until Monday. Senator William P. Frye, of MaKoe was elected president pro tem of the Senate, Senator Daniel, of Yirsrmla being given a complimentary vcte fbr that honor by his Democratic col leagues. The resolutions of Senator Clay and Senator Culberson calling on tl Secretary of the Treasury for infor mation concerning the recent bond issues by the government were allow ed to go over until Monday Most of . the session was afcen ap the introductions of biHs Federal Trcp: te GoU- isay ii3 L; Washirto:1-, pe:hl. Ge?iriai Oli ver, acting scerctery of varr .tad geu- '. ate holding, to sou I Fcd bui U take oral Bcii thii them reives U) erai troops t j oiuviuv of stafl cdinos no decisive action un'.ii mora- co.ptf hensive reports an rec'ch:eL Orkx have been issued to General Fu:astqp co .) have troop-i pre : s t hm t .not it o Into at Esau rar. pared fp; rr.ov: the mi a ini-: rt ONLY THEN. "Does your husband snore sleep, madam?" ."Well, doctor, I have never him snoring at any other time,' timore American. TELEPHOHESf thf 't Are a Necessity ft 1 ikn W ill mo bw Home, The farther you are r from town to railroad station, more the telephone will save time and horse flesh. 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