fulk M LM Three Cants the Copy. INDEPENDENCE IN ALL THINGS. Subscription Price, $1.00 Per Year in Advance. VOL XIII. COLUMBUS, N. C, THURSDAY APRIL 2, 1908. NO. 48. tr i mm I NORTH CAROLINA Af PAIRS ? The News of Old North Stale (lathered and Pur in Condensed Moore Fmit Escapes. Southern Pines, Special. The fruit men of Moore count' have been wit nessing a strenuous period. Friday night one of the most tempestuous storms in a long time wound up with a blizzard of snow and ice, and oh Saturday morning the thermometer registered 24, with the fruit blossoms encased in globes of ice. The fright was big enough to cut with a knife, -Li - L.il. 1 J us (.'veryuouv uirew up uuin nanus tmA conceded the comnlete destruc- tion of all fruit. Orchards had been out in the fullest blossom for several days ,and everywhere hopes had been entertained of a bumper crop. Fol io wing the snow and ice of Friday night came another freeze Saturday niffht, to finish what the first night naa none, uw wuniu ocucu. lumi.y I of the orchard men say the frost has done no more than to thin out the blossoms, leaving prospects of a rea sonably fair, if not a good crop. Tax Lsvy Is Unconstitutional. Asheville, Special. Judge Fred agent for the Home Brewing Com Moore, or' the State Superior Court pany,.-being the assignee.. The assets bench, rendered his decision in the and liabilities are not large and the matter of t tie Southern Railway Com panv against the commissioners and. tax collector holding that of Buncombe county, the special tax of Id cents on the 100 worth of property for i- . i v,:j.-. . i -i o i for interest on bonds and sink- ' cents ing fund was unconstitutional and invalid, and continued the injunc tion restraining the tax collector ftota collecting from the Southern this tax, in in; to $4,800. Practicalv the was raised bv complaiiiTiT, - i? itt- . - . r i.i ..i. Paper Box Companv, ot W mston- ani counsel relative to Mecklenburg county on account of the county lev ing a 10 cent road tax, 15 cent bond ta:t, and 25 cent convict tax and no .11 tax to correspond. A Davidson Home Burned. Lexington, Special. News reached town of the destruction by fire of ii:' tenlence ot Dr. J. E. Cat hell, oi Tyro, this county, in which about $4, 000 worth of property was consumed and not a thins: saved except a canary bird. The insurance carried amounts has received telegraphic reports from to $2,250. The origin of the tire is, all the. leading trucking centres a unknown. The popular physician round Wilmington and eastern North was out on a professional call and Carolina ano. finds that little if any his family and servants were away, damage, was done-'by the"re.cent snow it being about midnight when the fire fall and consequent cold ., weather in occurred. Together with the 8-room this vicinity. On account of reduced house, all the doctor's instruments, acreage most growers have been able accounts, medicines, his diploma, li- to straiv their berry plants and they eense, etc., were destroyed, as were are well- protected until gathering 1.100 pounds of pork and lard from six hogs. The loss is exeeedinsrlv i heavy on the doctor. At present he 1 making his home with a neigubor, Mr. Baxter Leonard. - . k i v-omn un xne uoorstep. : Charlotte, Special. Mr. and Mrs. Henr ' Reese, it ought to be easy W. G. Russell, residents of Hickory to identify and capture Staley as he Grove township, this county, found a was shot , twice. Several people saw crude miniature coffin on their front him at Sanford the evening of the porth when they awoke, and in it a day on which the shooting occurred, letter demanding money. The. letter United T tates Mrshajr Dockery says was adorned with a skull, crossbones that moonshining is certainly increas and a blackhand. The county author- ing in this district and that the moon ities have two neighboring youths shiners are becoming bolder and more under suspicion, and will arrest them, esparate. Not so much is going on They refuse to divulge the names of now as in the winter, but more than the suspects, but they believe the af- at this time last year. Durham and fair to hnvp hpen thp nrank of irres- Johnson are the worst counties in the ponsible youths, and that is the view held by the community. : ! Mills May Shut Down. Dallas. Special The stockholders of the Monarch held a metine- on Tuesday at which the capital stock of the mill was increased $13,000. It is rumored that the three cotton mills now in operation in this town will soon shut down for two months. New Charters. Raleierh. Special. New charters as follows were issued Friday: f i ituesouiu x-ejjsi-iuiu, uLupaiiy, with capital of $5,000 ; W. B. Blalock, George Britts and George Stanback, incorporators. Scott Librarv Comnanv. Asheville. capital $25,000: C. H. Bobbs, J. F. Young and Henry B. Stevens, incor porators. Salisbury Gets a Good Price For Its $100,000 Bond Issue. Salisbury, Special. At ' a special meeting of th hoard of aldermen bids tl 12 . . AAA v 3 - neie openea ior ine ivu,uuv uona ib- sue passed at a public election last i all. Several bids were tendered and ff j.. - : j a: ;L. XT T Harris & Co., of New York, was ac- cepted. The agreement under which the sale is made provides that the purchaser shall pay all legal expenses, printing, lithographing, transfer a. Vi.- n; nf Salisbury without any exchange char jw-rf WHVI UV 11 T vu w ' ges the sum of $101,600. Form. Benton's Slayer to Hang, Fayetteville, Special. Sam Mur chison, alias Melvin, will pay with his life for the murder of James H. Benton, which crime, he committed on Sunday afternoon, February 23d, last. In Superior Court he was found guilty of murder in the first degree after a triat exteax$in over two' cfays. The jury rendered , its verdict pr. thirty-five minutes after retiring to the jury room. The accused showed .con- siderable nervousness when brought duck into xne court .room to receive the verdict ?bit after it w:as; rendered he sank back into his seat without evidence of emotion. - Salobri Keeper Makes 'Assignment. Wilmino'trn-i ' Sronial .T "R .T tjandlin, the saloon keeper whose ii cense was recently revoked by the board of aldermen effective April 1st because of irregularities in the man ner of his conducting his place, made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors, Joseph J. Littig, Jr., local failure is of no commereinal impor tance. Charters Granted. Raleigh, Special. A charter is frill .-I I .1.1 T t-1 "l r,i niJ.ili 11 ... i, ..t 111 a . 111 . , . i , . , . . , . puny 8i oausDury, wnicn win aeai in real estate, build notrses and factories, etc., capital stock $130,000, the stock holders being Thomas P. Johnson, J. S. McCubbins and T. H. Vanderford. A w i . . .-.Ii -rl . ninAfi 4.. l- ' r . -1 lino Saiem, $25,000, the stockholders be ii'g W. B. Hemingway and others, all from Norfolk. A commission is issued to Willey C. Rodman, of Washington, D. C. as major of the Second Regiment, vice Sellers, resigned. . . - Truck in the East Utotf injured by Cold Weather. iVilmington, Special.The Truck ers' Journal of this ':cftvsavs " that ;it time comes State News in fcrief. ' ' I The United States Department 6f ! Justice offers $100 reward for the capture of Jim Staley, the. negro cV,;n. .v, oiw natv MorAnl district for rnohhiningv while Rcjbe-' son leads in retailing.. At the office of the State Labor Commisioner it is learned that there ?s s?me increase of work in the State. S sai tnat tne sawmill people mak? more complaints about the panic than perhaps any other class. saying it is the real thing, and has hit them hard and caused a big drop in prices. A charter is granted the Leaksville Light, Power and Milling Company, to furnish electric power, etc., the amount of the capital stock being $40,000 and E. B. King the chief stockholder. ' I The State Superintendent of Pub j lie Instruction has issued a very well prepared and illustrated pamphlet i with designs for public school houses this taking the place of one which was issued some years ago. There is talk of a fine new hotel at Lakevrew, with Western capital at the back of the scheme. The lans are not worked out yet, but ? Representative of the investors has i Deeii looking over the ground and ap pears wsse with Lakeview as a . . , summer and winter lp(snrt i U1 1- L The nmbefr f T0 '?"PT? Court. hb"u2B" "iSS ! .3MJ SS2fi2S I on an overage for the past four years I The number of volumes in the State library is 41,000, and counting books which the TTnited States sends the gain' is something like 1,000 a year H IH Ml MINE Fire Follows Explosion Deep in Coal Shaft RESCUERS LOSE THEIR LIVES In a Desperate Effort to Reach the Bodies of 18 Victims and Possible Survivors of Explosion, Probably 50 Rcscurers Met a Similar Fate by a Second Explosion in the Hanna Mines of the Union Pacific Coal Company. - V Cheyenne, Wyo., Special Between i65 and 70 men, it developed Sunday, lost their lives in two explosions in coal mine No. 1 of the Union Pacific (Coal Company at Hanna. The explo sions were caused by gases and coal dust, and each was followed by fire. The first explosion occurred at 3 o'clock, killing 18 miners, including a 'superintendent and three bosses. The second explosion occurred at 10 :30 o 'clock at night, snuffing out tho lives of from 40 to 50 rescurers, including State Mine Inspector D. M. Elie. The wildest excitement prevailed in Hanna and at the mine, where hun dreds of persons arc congregated, in cluding widows, children and other relatives of the victims. Men and women are running about wringing their hands and cryirv, while many litle children, separated from their mothers, are sobbing with fear. When the second explosion occur red, additional appeals were tele graphed to all surrounding towns for assistance. One train is rushing west fr6m Omahfv, carrying officers of the Union Pacific Railroad and of the Union Pacific Coal company. The regular force of men employ ed at mines Nos. 2 and 3 were pressed into rescue work, which is extremelv difficult. , The bodies of four of the 18 men who lost their lives in the first ex plosion, were found Sunday night, but owing to; the increasing; volumes of gas, which threatened to explode at anyiomenti no-effort was made remove invm io rne- suriuce. 'At 3 o'clock the fire reached the gas, and a terrific explosion followed. In: a few minutes many men volun teered to enter the mine to rescue any possible survivor. Fumes and fire hindered the. rescurers but they made some progress. After a long strug gle, the volunteers got well into the mine.- Those on the surface had be gan to expect results from the intre- nid daring of the rescurers. but at 10:30 o'clock the camp was startled by a second explosion that partly shut off the shatt ot the mine and most likely killed the volunteers. The vietims arc all below the tenth level and it is probable that flames ;nave consumed the corpses. Bomb Thrown in New York. New York, Special. Saturday as the police were dispersing a crowd ot 10,000 idle people who were holding a socialistic meeting without a permit, a bomb was thrown with telling el feet. The bomb was intended for the police, who with rough firmness had Tiroke uo a meeting ot 1U,UUU unem ployed. It exploded prematurely in ihf Wands of the assassin, horribly wounding him, killing his.-CQmpanion injuring slightly four policemen and iviwui0 in thp around a score of those who were massed in the vicin .ity. ' To Try Banker Montgomery. New York, ' Special. William R. Montgomerv, former president ot the Hamilton National Bank, who was indicted on two counts' charging the over-certification of checks, will be placed on trial before .Justice Dowlirjg in tho Supreme Court. Mont gomery has entered "a' plea of not guilty 'of the indictment. : 1 Germany Accepts Hill. Berlin, By CableEmperor Wil liam, having been fully advised as to the attitude , of President Roosevelt and the feeling of the American public in regard to the alleged re fusal of His Majesty to receive Dr. Pavid Jayne Hill as American am bassador to Germnay, in succession to Charlemagne Tower, has with drawn all the expressions of dis approval he recently .sent to Presi dent Roosevelt and would be pleased to receive Dr. Hill as American am bassador. Guilty of Embezzlement. Macon, Ga., Special. The jury in the case of former Cashier C. M. Orr, of the failed Exchange Bank, charged with embezzling funds of the bank, after being out about three and one-half hours, returned a ver dict of guilty. Judge U. V. Whipple sentenced the defendant to , seven years in the penitenitary. A motion for a new trial was made. m RESIDENT ROOSEVELT SEiS SPECIAL MESSAGE ; . Urges Cong: rss to Enact Legis lation D imed Essential. PR0H!BIT10k OF CHILD LABOR The Conntrv's Interest Demnnda ? Tariff and bnrrency Changes, an Anti-Trust Act and an Em ployers' Liability Bill. Washington, D. C President ttoosevelt transmitted to Congress iis promised special message urging eertain legislation which he deems assential to the country's best inter asts at this time. The message is marked by a suav- ty of expression which may be jermed unique in communications of .his sort from. Mr. Roosevelt. After the vigorous excoriation of Jome weeks ago, members could Hardly believe it possible that all trace of the big stick could be so :arefully concealed. A large part of the message Is riven to the Civic Federation's bill, Introduced in the House by Mr. Hep- turn, to modify the Sherman anti trust act, and the President points Jut what changes he deems desirable md necessary. Give railroads the right, under :ertain limitations, to make traffic tgreements, he urges, and change the aw as to receiverships. Alter the provisions that render illegal combinations of labor men md farmers and recognize strikes as egal. But nothing should be done, de Mares the President, to legalize either a blacklist or a boycott that would be illegal at common law. The message then says: "The ques tion of financial legislation is now receiving such attention in both Mouses that we have a right to ex pect action before the close of the session. It is urgently necessary that mere should be such action. More over, action should be taken to es ".ablish postal savings banks. These ?cstal savings banks are imDerative y needed for the benefit of the wage workers and men of small means and Bjl be a valuable adjunct to our whole financial system. "The time has come when we should prenare for a revision of the tariff. This should be, and indeed must be, preceded by careful investi gation." President Roosevelt then suggests that a proper committee be delegated to gather the facts necessary for tariff revision at the next session of Congress. He then continues: "I am of the opinion, however, that one change in the tariff could with advantage be made forthwith. Our forests need every protection and Dne method of protecting them would be to put upon the free list wood pulp, with a corresponding reduc tion upon paper made from wood pulp, when they come from any country that dees not put an export iuty upon them." Other recommendations by the President are: Prohibition of child labor through jut the nation. Re-enactment, of an employers' liability bill, drawn to conform to the recent decision of the Supreme Court. Modification of the law affecting Injunctions in labor disputes. Creation of a permanent water ways commission. How Message Was Received. Washington. D. C. The special nessage from'the President was close ly followed in both branches of Con gress. In the House the declaration that the time had come for a re vision of the tariff elicited handclap ping on the part of Democratic mem bers. Democratic approval also was iven by way of pounding desks to the suggestion that Congress could with advantage forthwith remove the tariff on wood pulp, with a corre sponding reduction upon paper made from wood pulp. The Republicans waited and confined the applause to the message as a whole. In the Senate the message was re ceived without comment of any kind. Discussion of the message turns chiefly on the question whether Con gress will carry out any considerable part of its recommendations. Th9 general impression is that an employ ers' liability law will be passed, that an investigation of tariff schedules will be ordered, and that the Aldrich currency bill will be put through: but that it is very doubtful if Con gress will go any further at. this ses sion. It is pretty generally conceded that the bill to modify the Sherman law cannot get through, and that no anti-injunction legislation is likely. AMBASSADOR HILL REFUSED. Minister to the Netherlands Simply Unwelcome to German Emperor. Washington, D. C. Emperor Will iam, at Berlin, announced that he would not permit the present Ameri can Minister to the Netherlands, Dr. David Jayne Hill, to come to his court as Ambassador from the United States. He gave no reason, but sev eral were advanced for him, one be ing that the action was due to some thing Dr. Hill did or left undone when Prince Henry of Prussia visited Washington sixyears ago, another that the Kaiser had unfavorable re ports of the diplomat's official achievements at The Hague. ! CONGRESSMAN SHOT NEGRO IN STREET CAR Heflin, of Alabama, Asked Him to Stop Drinking, WHITE MAN HIT IN FOOT Representative Arrested and Released on Bail Had Advocated "Jim , Crow" Cars For Washington Had Permit to Carry Arms. Washington, D. C Representa tive James T. Heflin, of Alabama, who recently advocated a "Jim Crow" law for street car service in the District of Columbia, shot a negro on a Penn sylvania avenue car. The negro had insulted him. The bullet hit the man, Lewis Luro by, just above the right ear. It did not penetrate his skull. The negro is now in the hospital, and Congress man Heflin was arrested and charged with assault to kill. Later ho was released on $5000 bail. Heflin fired two shots. The first failed to reacb the negro and struck Thomas McCreary, acnother passenger, in the foot. McCreary is a trainer in the employ of August Belmont, and is in Washington in charge of the Bel mont string at the Bennings track. The shooting occured shortly after 7 p. m., as the car reached the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street, bound for Capitol Hill. Con gressman Heflin, accompanied by Congressman "Edwin J. Ellerbe, of South Carolina, had boarded the car at Twelfth street and Pennsylvania avenue, Mr. Heflin being on his way to deliver a temperance lecture at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church. He observed two negro passengers, one of whom was Lewis Lumby, who was in the act of taking a drink from a bottle of whisky. There were a number of other passengers, includ ing several women. Mr. Heflin re monstrated with Lumby and asked him to stop, drinking, saying: "Don't take that drink, there are ladies here, and it is not right. It is against the law for you to do this thing in a street car, and I hope you will put that bottle away." The other negro, who was sober, attempted to take the bottle away from his friend, but failed. Lumby became offended at Mr. Heflin's re monstrances and applied vile epithets to him. As the car reached Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue Heflin and Lumby were engaged in a struggle. Mr Heflin, who is a large, powerful man, succeeded in throwing Lumby off the car as it came to a stop. Most of the occupants of the car hastily alighted, including Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCreary. The negro fell to the ground on be ing pushed off the car. He rose and, it is said, began cursing Mr. Heflin again, and made a motion for his hip pocket as if to draw a weapon, where upon Mr. Heflin fired at him through the car window, missing the negro and hitting Thomas McCreary, who was about twenty feet from the car. Mr. Heflin fired again, one of the shots striking Lumby in the head above the ear. Lumby ran a short distance and fell. Mr. McCreary's wound is not se rious, and after treatment at a hospi. tal he returned to his apartments. Mr. Heflin says that since he intro duced the "Jim Crow" measure he has received many letters of a threat ening character, and obtained per mission from the police authorities to go armed. Mr. Heflin represents the Fifth Alabama District, in which the Tus kegee Institute, of which Booker T. Washington is at the head, is located. ALDRICH BILL TASSED. Senate at Washington, D. C, Gives It a Majority of 42 to 16. Washington, D. C. By a vote of 42 to 16 the Aldrich Currency bill passed the Senate. Five Republicans voted against it Borah, Bourne, Brown, Heyburn and La Follette. Three Democrats Johnston, Owen and, Teller voted for the bill. As passed, the bill bears small resem blance to its original shape when it first was subjected to the fire of amendments. The most important amendments adopted were those increasing the cash reserves of banks, the joint work of Nelson and Johnston, and provid ing penalties for false reports made by officers of banks as to circulation of emergency currency. This last was offered by La Follette. and was adopted only after a sharp fight. SENATOR FRANCHOT DIES. New Yorker Had Gone to Montreal to Undergo an Operation. Montreal. State Senator S. P. Franchot, of New York, who was op erated upon here for paralysis, after showing encouraging symptoms, suf fered a relapse during the night and died. He was conscious just before the end and recognized his relatives. Albany, m Y. The Senate ad journed out of respect for the mem ory of Senator Franchot, after adopt- I ing a resolution that the Senate shall attend the funeral in a body. The Assembly also adjourned. Stanislaus P. Franchot represented the Forty-seventh Senatorial District, composed of Niagara and Orleans counties. He was born in Morris. Otsego County, on January 30, 1851. PURCHASE OF TWO CROPS BAY END TOBACCO I Trust Said to Have Agreed With Society of En.uityt $14,000,000 PAID FOR PRODUCT Take 190C Crop at Sixteen and t.puO? vjpop at Jiiigntcen cents, on Agreement That No Tobacco Will Be Grown in 1908. Cincinnati, Ohio. The American Tobacco Company has surrendered to the Kentucky white hurley tobacco planters, associated as the American Society of Equity, which has been waging a strenuous war upon th trust for more than a year." It is.satd in an unofficial report of the settle ment of the controversy between the planters and the trust that the trust'" has bought the pocied crops of 1905 and 1907 at prices far above thosei dictated by the buying corporation at the time of the split between them, and the planters. The total amount to be paid for the tobacco that the as sociation has in warehouses and which it was holding, refusing to sell at the prices offered, is $14,000,000'. The prices to be paid for the 190 crop is sixteen cents a pound, and for the next year's output eighteen cents. In the settlement the planters decided not to raise a crop this year. The report, which comes from members of jthe Planters' Society and has not yet been fully, verified by the other side, is discredited by many conversant with the situation because of the fact that the White Burley Board of Control has heretofore asked only fifteen cents a pound for both the crop of 1906. and 1907. The higher prices are explained by the agreement to carry Qiit the "no crop for 190S" idea as part of the consid eration to the American Tobacco Company. The agreement as report ed only affects the White Burley dis tricts, and has no relation to the dark tobacco districts in which most of the night riding outrages have taken place. The light or burley tobacco district covers fifty-five counties in Ken tucky, several in Ohio and two or three in West Virginia. The region in Kentucky is in the northern and central part of the State. This dis trict is the only place in the world where this class of tobacco is grown. The weed is used in the manufacture of the finer grades of both chewing and smoking tobacco. The dark to bacco district embraces fourteen counties in Western Kentucky and several in Tennessee. The product of this, district is nearly all taken for export. Night Riding Continues. Hopkinsville, Ky. Night rider, t the number of twenty-five or thirty, invaded Golden Pond, Trigg County dragged Thomas Weaver, a negro in the employ of the tobacco associa tion, from his bed, and carrying him to the road, commanded him to run. When he failed to obey the night rid ers began firing at him. Two balls penetrated the body, and he was found, later in a dying coaditiou. No cause for the crime is known. ....,.. . . . . Judge Will Not Offer Reward. Carlisle, Ky. Judge McNeal, coun ty judge of this county, refused to of fer a reward for the arrest -and con viction of any of the nighi: riders who shot and killed Harlan Hedges, an in dependent tobacco farmer living near Carlisle. He said that he wllJ not do so unless sanctioned by a meeting ot the fiscal court now in ses3ioii. Ask Federal Md Ag&nst "Riders " Lexington, Ky. The failure on the part of the State authbrlties to -run" down: pierpetrators .-of outrages com mitted , by ' night riders" culminated in. a direct appeal to President Roose velt for Federal interference In KeU tuekj in the form of a petition pre pared ' by leading- men ef Lexington and Central Kentucky. The petition ers, are aware that the President can take, no action unless the Governor so requests, but they say it is their purpose by this mean's to bring the two Executives together, in the met ter. i ' ; y . '.; ; - LABOR INJUNCTION PERMANENT. Appeal Decided Against Buck Stovo and Range Company Boycott. Washington, D. C. The temporary injunction recently issued against the American Federation of Labor - by: Justice Gould, of the District Su preme Court in favor of the Buck Stove and Range Company was made perpetual, by Chief Justice Clabaugh. The injunction effectually restrains the American Federation of; Labor from in any manner Interfering with the business of the Buck Stove ami Range Company. The costs of the proceeding were taxed to the Federation of Labor. REFUGEES AT HAITI. German Cruiser Bremen Takes For eigners Away . Port An Prince, Haiti. The city is tranquil. The German eruiser Bre men will sail to take on board the refugees In the consulates at Port de Paix and Saint Marc and convey them to Kingston. Septimus Marius, Judge of the Supreme Court, is still .in ref uge at the French Legation here. WW