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I NORTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS
The News of Old North Slate Gathered and Pur
I in Condensed Form.
State Farmers Union in April
Charlotte, Special. The North
Carolintr'dirision of the Farmers'
Educational and Co-Operative Union
of America will i be organized in
Charlotte on April 1st and 2d. Mr.
G. W. Fant, State organizer, who has
been in the city several days perfect
ing plans for the big meeting, has is
sued a call to all of the county un
ions to name delegates for the big
convention. Mr. C. W. Barrett, of
Georgia, national president of the or
ganization, will be present and make
an address. The basis of representa
tion will be one delegate to every 100
members or majority fraction and
one delegate at large from each coun
ty. This means that Charlotte will
have the pleasure of entertaining a
vast host of farmers on this occas
ion. The union in North Carolina has
grown very rapidly during the past
few months, some of the counties hav
ing little less than 1,000 members.
Union county is 810 strong and
Mecklenburg has 500. There are
5.500 members of the union in North
Carolina, 50 more than the number
required for forming a State organi
zation. Mr. Fant has also extended
an invitation, to all State officers of
the Farmers' Alliance to attend the
meeting1 next month. It is likely that
the two organizations will be merged.
The place of meeting has not yet
been decided upon.
Grenesboro Bank Liquidates.
Greensboro, Special. The officers
of the City National Bank has de
cided to place the institution in vol
untary liquidation, owing to the con
1i nued financial depression and in
ability to collect outstanding notes.
National Examiner Hull will take
charge of the bank Saturday. Nego
tiations are in progress with one of
the strongest banks iu Greensboro to
take over the collateral of the bank
and assume the payment of all de
posits, and this will be done as soon
as the consent of the stockholders and
the Comptroller of the Currency is
secured. Every depositor will be paid
in full. The 'bank has $255,058 in
deposits and $405,663 in bills receiv
able. The City National is an old in
stitution and has been an important
factor in the business life of Greens
boro. Many of the city's most prom
inent business men are connected
with it. The directors are: W. S.
Thompson, president; W. C. Bain, C.
H. Dorsett, J. A. Hoskins, M. W.
Thompson, J. Van Lindley, Lee H.
Battle and G. A. Grimsley.
No Location Decided On.
Hickory, Speeial. The committee
consisting of Rev. Dr. G. H. Detwiler,
of Greensboro ; J. A. Glenn, Charlotte ;
Rev. N. R. Richardson, of Hickory;
Rev. Frank Siler, of Charlotte; J. L.
Nelson, of Lenoir; S. L. Rodgers, of
Raleigh, and C. H. Ireland, of Greens
boro, appointed by the Western
North Carolina Conference to select a
suitable place on which to build an
orphanage, met here last Thursday.
The committee, which convened at
2:30 o'clock p. m., at the Methodist
church, adjourned for some future
date for a final decision. The sub
committee, consisting of J. L. Nelson,
J. A. Glenn and G. F. Ivey, on prop
erties and subscription was containu
ed and instructed to visit the various
sites as soon as practicable. Hick
ory. Lincolnton and Rutherfordton
are all making vigorous efforts to se
cure the location of the orphanage.
Winston's New Drag Firm.
Winstnn-Ralem. Soecial. The
ar-
iicles of incorporation of the Winston
Drug Company were forwarded to the
Secretary of State at Raleigh Thurs
day morning. The incorporators are
Messrs. J. P. Lawson, T. L. Farrow,
Jr., and L. E. Fishet. The object
of the concern is to manufacture,
drugs and sell at wholesale.
Dr. Kilgo at Winston-Salem.
Winston-Salem, Special. Governor
R. B. Glenn and Dr. J. C. Kilgore,
president of Trinity College, have ac
cepted invitations to address the For
syth County Teachers' Association
here Saturday. The faculty of the
graded school the Salem Academy
and Salem Boys' School have been
invited to hear these two distinguish
ed speakers. Dr. Kilgore will go from
here to Walkertown, where, he will
preach on Sunday morning occupying
the pulpit of Love's M. E. church.
Train Bobbery.
Elizabeth City, Special. The first
news of a train robbery which oc
curred February 17, reached here
Thursday when Special Detective
Stevens arrived in the city. As the
tnrougn treight train of the Norfolk
& Southern was passing Northwest,
"Va,, four men got aboard and con
cealed themselves somewhere under
the cars. When the tl'ain was speed
ing along at a rapidrate through the
woods, the men broke into one of the
box cars and threw out everything
that they thought would be useful to
them. After throwing out about all
they could conveniently handle they
jumped off and went back and gather
ed up the plunder from the side of
the tracks and carried it away. The
robbery was not discovered until the
train reached Norfolk, when the prop
er authorities were notified. For
special reasons the affair was not giv
en to the public. Special Detective
Stevens, assisted by Hugh Rob
erts, was engaged to take charge
of the case. Since then the detectives
have been busy following up different
clues and now have four men under
arrest whom they think arc the guilty
parties.
A Tragedy Near Wilson.
Wilson, Special. Wednesday night
at his home a few miles from Wilson
Cad Page, a white farmer, was shot
and killed by his 15-year-old son,
Ernest. The elder Page had been
drinking for two days and was abus
ing his wife and threatening to kill
her, advancing witfi a pistol in pne
hand and a knife in the other. His
son, seeing this, picked up a shot
gun and fired, killing his father. The
coroner's inquest is now being held.
Young Page did not attempt to escape
and will doubtless be justified by the
jury. Will Lewis, the white farmer
who, while drunk last week knocked
his wife in the head with an axe, kill
her, Clied in jail here. Heart fail
ure caused his death.
A Contractor Charged With Con
tempt. Aslieville, Special. Judge Pritch
ard will hear an interesting matter
here Wednesday when J. D. Elliott, of
Hickory, is cited to appear and show
cause why he should not be attached
for contempt of court for interfering
with the management of the Seaboard
Air Line, now under control of re
ceivers. It is said that Mr. Elliott
had a contract for building the
freight terminals of the S. A. L. at
Jacksonville; that the company owed
him about $83,000 and that after the
road went into the hands of a receiv
er it was agreed that he should have
$12,500 to complete the contract. It
is alleged that he now claims posses
sion of the property and refuses to
deliver it into the custody of the re
ceivers. Mid-Year Mission Meeting.
Salisbury, Special. The Executive
Committee of the Foreign Mission
Board of the Western North Carolina
Conference met in Salisbury and ar
ranged for a mid-year meeting in the
interest of missions to be held at
Marion, in Western North Carolina,
April 7th to 9th. Rev. W. R. Ware,
of Gastonia, is president of the. board
and Rev. J. E. Gay, of Lincolnton, is
treasurer. A strong program is bsing
arranged for the occasion when it is
expected that one of the returned
missionary secretaries and a number
of other able speakers will be present.
The cause of missions has advanced
rapidly in the conference during the
past year.
Chief Police Elected.
Fayetteville, Special. Mr. John
McD. Monaghan, who was appointed
acting chief of police following the
murder of Chief Benton on the 23d
ult., has been elected permanently to
the position by the board of alder
men. Mr. Monagjian is a very cour
ageous man of high character, and
will doubtless prove an acceptable
( head to the police department.
Hunting Season Closed.
Raleigh, Special State Game War
den John R. Upchurch stated that
the game season, under the general
law, had closed, and he desired to call
special attention to sections 3480 and
3431 of the Revisal making it a mis
demeanor to hunt on the lands of an
other without consent of owner and
written permission, and be said that
he will pay special attention to this
law and prosecute all persons ascer
tained to have violated these sections.
He asks that information of the in
fractions of the law be reported to
him.
FUNERAL OF BURNED CHILDREN
Mutterings Against the Janitor
Could Be Heard ou Every Bide, The
Grief-Crazed Parents Forgetting
that the Janitor Himself Walked
Behind a Hearse Containing Three
of His Loved Ones.
Cleveland, O., Special Rollins
wood Friday eame to a full fealifea
tion of her woe. Slowly and solemn
ly the processions of death began to
wend their way toward the ceme
teries, bearing the battered and
charred remains of some of the hun
dred and aixty-seven children whose
lives were snuffed out in Wednesday
morning's catastrophe iii the Lake
view school. From 9 o'clock in the
morning until dusk there was no
cessation in the funeral corteges.
Those who had no dead to mourn as
a personal loss stood in the streets
with bared heads as the grim proces
sions passed. There was scarcely a
dry eye in Collinwood. One of the
sad funerals was that of the three
children of Janitor Hirter, held joint
ly with the services for three other
little ones.
Talk Against Janitor.
Mutterings against the janitor
could be heard about the village as
grief-crazed parents sought an ob
ject upon which to wreak vengeance,
forgetting as they did that Hirter
himself was walking with bowed head
and broken-hearted behind the biers
of three of his loved ones. A de ail
of police was placed about the Hir
ter home when the hour of the fun-
eral ame. Fully five hundred per
sons had gathered, but when the cof
fins were carried to the doorway the
crowd spread and opened the way
for them without protest or expres
sion of hostility.
Altogether there were 50 burials
Friday and Saturday the grewsome
task was repeated. Sunday will
ness the last of the individual burials
and on Monday the remains of . all
those who are yet unidentified will be
laid to rest with one funeral. There
are 23 of these bundles of flesh that
await claimants.
Stories of Herioism.
Testimony describing the mad rush
to death of the school children was
given Friday at the continued session
of the coroner's inquest. Stories of
heroism on the part of the women
teachers were recited. F. P. Whit
ney, superintendent of the Collinwood
schools, stated his belief to be that
no fire department could have done
any effective work after the fire had
started. Two of the teachers told of
their unavailing attempts to open
one of the double doors at the rear
which they said was locked. The in
quest also developed the fact that, af
ter the first crush at the door, it
was beyond human possibility to aid
or save those whom the tongues of
fire were devouring ' in the charnei
house. The inquest will be resumed
Monday.
In a statement Chief Wallace, of
the Cleveland fire department, after
an examination of the ruins, of the
Collinwood school, said it was his op
inion that the loss of life would not
have been so great had there been
no partitions at the sides of the storm
doors at the rear entrance. Two feet
eight inches had been taken off either
side of the hall for the partitions.
His examination developed that the
doors opened outward. Chief Wallace
doubtless will be a witness before the
coroner.
Cleveland Learns Lesson.
Drastic steps were taken by the
Cleveland school board to place all
the Cleveland educational buildings
in a condition that will preclude any
loss of life from fires. Basements
will be fireproof, wooden stairways
replaced by iron and spiral fires es
capes enclosed in towers installed.
Inner doors in vestibules also will be
removed.
Another Priest Threatened.
' Providence, R. li Special.The
paa that overtook Father Leo Hein
richs, of Denver, threatens Rev. J.
H. Beland, pastor of Notre Dame
T7! rfVift1i. hnrch of Central
JlOilU vy" -.
pniin TeftflTs have come to him con
taininc a notification that he will be
txii of thfi altar. His friends ap
n.iiivvi a"
pealed to the authorities when .tney
learned oi nis danger.
Big Horse Show in Texas.
Fort Worth, Tex., Special Entnei
have closed for the horse show ex
hibits at the National Feeders' and
Breeders' Show, which will open next
wnasdav in the great coliseum
erected at a cost of $250,000. There
are fifty-four different classes in tli
horse show lists and $3,000 will b
nr.AaA in tiremiums. A prize lis
aggregating $20,000 is offered on th
Uve stock whieh will be on exhibit
Governor Campbell will preside at th
opening of the show J Wednesday
morning and wiu aiv
r
Judge Pritchard Appoints Re
ceivers for S. C Funds
STIRS UP LIVELY RESENTMENT
Judge Pritchard at Asneville Ap
pointed Three Permanent Receiv
ers for the $800,000 South Carolina
xriBjwnsary runa and Ordered It
Turned Over to These Men.
Asheville, N. C, SpeciaL After
hearing lengthy arguments on the
motion of the Wilson Distilling Com
pany and the Fleischmann Company
for the appointment of a receiver in
the South Carolina dispensary mat
ter Federal Judge J. C. Pritchard
decided to make permanent the ap
pointment of temporary receivers and
named Judge Joseph A. McCullough,
C. K. Henderson and B. F. Arthur as
permanent receivers for the trust
fund of $800,000 and directing that
the fund be turned over to the re
ceivers upon demand.
In a memoranda Judge Pritchard
referred to the fact that two of the
dispensary commissioners, W. J.
Murray and John McSween, appoint
ed as temporary receivers, had re
fused to accept and that Commission
er Avery Patton had not made reply
to the notice of appointment, while
Comissioners Henderson and Arthur
had accepted; he said that these
gentlemen were appointed upon the
theory that the court was anxious to
adopt the instruments provided by
the State in this instance for the ad
ministration of the trust fund in their
hands, but that inasmuch as a ma-
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wit-Ljority of the commission had either
declined or refused to indicate a our-
pose to serve the court had decided
to appoint Messrs. McCullough, Hen
derson and Arthur permanent receiv
ers for all the fupds and property in
the hands of the defendants consti
tuting the $jUr cummion. The
court said that it regretted exceeding
ly that any of these defendants
should have declined to accept the
appointments, feeling as it does that
their acceptance would have been in
harmony with the State under which
they . were appointed.
In the order appointing permanent
receivers creditors oi the dispensary
are restrained from prosecuting or
attempting to prosecute suits in
courts other than the court that has
taken jurisdiction without first hav
ing had is sanction.
The regularly constituted dispen
sary commission, which is practically
put out of commission by the ap
pointment of receivers, is restrained
from interferring in any way with the
receivers or the property or funds of
the dispensary. Notices will be
promptly served on the banks and
trust companies having this trust
found on deposit, commanding them
to turn 'the fund over to the receiv
ers upon demand.
Will the Orders Be Obeyed?
There is some speculation as to
whether or not the majority of the
dispensary commission and the
banks and trust companies will re
fuse to obey the orders of the court.
It was indicated by Mr. Rountree, of
counsel for the commission that it
would refuse to obey. Mr. Rountree
said that in making such a state-
ment he meant no disrespect to the
court, saying that the commission
could refuse to obey and that the
matter could be taken up. He said
that presumably the court would
hold the commissioners in contempt
and made some suggestions as to the
most convenient place to hear the
contempt proceedings.
Attorney General Lyon Talks.
Attorney General Lyon was great
ly displeased with Judge Pritchard 's
action. In ' an interview he said
among other things:
"Judge Pritchard 's order will most
certainly be disregarded by me if it
undertakes to in any wise restrain or
direct me in this or any other pro
ceedings I may deem it advisable to
institute. ' '
Lyon's Statement Resented.
Asheville, N. C., Special. The re
marks of Attorney General Lyon
caused considerable comment here.
There will be an effort made to have
Judge Pritchard attaeh Mr. Lyon
for contempt of court.
He Will Save the State.
Columbia, S. C-, Special. When
Attorney General Lyon was shown
the press dispatches as to the threat
ened attempt to have him attached
.for contempt on account of the stric
tures of Judge Pritchard, contained
in the interview given out by him in
Augusta, Ga., he said
"It is not surprising that these
harpies (referring to the liquor law-
yers) should wish to have me at
tached for contempt. This wail is
probably caused, not from any disre
gard which may have been shown the
learned judge, but more probably
from the prospect of being kept for
a long while from plundering and
feasting upon the revenues of South
Carolina. The attorneys' fees and
eosts of the various satellites of the
court may possibly be '$50,000, or
more. It is, therefore, not hard to
understand the cause of the wail, nor
their unseemly haste to have the
court take action with the manifest
purpose of circumvent ing 'the Gover
nor when he advised the Legislature
to act and protect the revenues and
antonomy of the State.
I repeat again that I will use
every lawful means to save the State
from the- possibility of such plunder
ing and will proceed in the courts of
the State to cheekmate the liquor
houses tlsat have fed upon the State
whenever it may be proper to do so.
any orders of the United States Cir
cuit Court to the contrary notwith
standing." The Suit Over Virginia's Debt.
Washington, Special. The big suit
between the States of Virginia and
West Virginia over the claim of th
former that the latter should share
the latter's $33,000,000 debt advanc
ed one stage when attorneys foi
West Virginia presented to the Su
preme Court argument for limitatior
of the powers of the master whouc
the court proposes to appoint to take
testimony in the suit. Virginia want
the master given a wide field.
Senator Depew Praises Hughes.
Washington, Special. In a speed
on currency legislation Friday after
noon Senator Depew endeavored t
show that Wall Street was not th
den of iniquity that it has been paint
ed of late. He charged that "hastj
and ill-considered legislation in man)
States had much to do with the receni
panic." Incidentally he warml
praised Governor Hughes for his vet
of the two-cent fare bill, and favorec
the Aldrich bill.
Bis at Columbia, N. x.
Norfolk, Va., Speeial. A special
to The Virginian Pilot says Columbia
N. C, was visited by a disastrous fir
Thursday, destroying the heart of th
business section. The fire originate
in the large store of Davis Bros., gen
eral merchadise, the Hotel Scupper
nong catching fire and spreading t
other business houses. No estimat
of the damage or as to the numbci
of losers, could be secured, all com
munication being cut off.
Only a few years ago no respectable
restaurant allowed a MAN to smoke
in the main dining room, recalls th
New York Journal. Whenever women
were at table men were supposed to
get along without blowing smoke
into one another's faces. But that
idea went out some time back. Of
late years, to eat in the public res
taurants means to absorb with your
dinner part of the various kinds ot
tobacco that modern men may hap
pen to be blowing into the faces of
the modern women with them.
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Wall Street markets stay be
numbed. British administrations are charged
with selling titles.
The merger of Mexican railroad
Is said to be practically perfected.
The next President will probably
have the appointment of four new
Supreme Court Justices.
Comptroller Metz issued a report
that $102,834,327 is due New York
City in uncollected taxes.
Baron Takahira, the new Japanese
Ambassador, said war with the Uni
ted States would be a crime.
The great diamond company of De
Beera has taken fright at the disas
trous fall in the price of gems.
Plans are being prepared for mak
ing Vladivostok. Siberia, a first pi a qb
fortress at a cost of $6,000,000.
Peter Cooper Hewitt, of New TTorkr
will build a big dirigible balloon as a
fighting machine for the Government
A bill which will wipe out' 30,009
licenses in Great Britain was intro
duced by the Chancellor of the Ex
chequer. E. R. Thomas' creditors in New
York City were worried on learning
that his debts are nearly $5,000,000
instead of the $2,700,000 they had
supposed.
There was much comment over the
announcement of the declaration of
an extra dividend of $75 a share on
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com
pany stock.
Varnum Lincoln, of Andover,
Mass., has left by will $5000, the an
nual Income of which is to be distrib
uted fn cash prizes to the best spell
ers at a spelling bee.
The Appellate Division of the New
York Supreme Court decided that a
tenant who stays in a cold flat cannot
collect damages from the landlord,
but that the tenant may legally break
his lease and move.
It should be remembered that the)
naval strength of Britain is not only
Its war vessels, asserts the New York
American, but the great swarm ot
swift and very large steamers of the
merchant marine built to carry bat
teries and calculated to transport
troops. In that respect the United
States is notably deficient.
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